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09USUNNEWYORK140 | GEORGIA: SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS UNOMIG MANDATE [...] The Security Council unanimously adopted an extension of the UNOMIG mandate until June 15, 2009 in a short meeting on February 13, 2009 (Res. 1866, see reftel for resolution text). Prior to the adoption, the Council held brief consultations and agreed that the resolution would be a presidenti [...] | 2009-02-14 00:51:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK142 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: In a February 12 introductory meeting with Afghanistan PermRep Zahir Tanin, Ambassador Rice emphasized U.S. commitment to Afghanistan and its desire to work in the mutual interests of both countries. She noted that the Administration,s top-to-bottom review of its Afghanistan poli [...] | 2009-02-17 14:01:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC AF |
09USUNNEWYORK144 | AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS NIGERIAN PERMANENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a February 12 initial call on Nigerian Permanent Representative to the UN Uche Joy Ogwu, Ambassador Rice pressed Ogwu on the need for Nigeria to expeditiously complete its preparations for deployment of a battalion to AMISOM in Somalia. Ogwu referred to difficulties in lo [...] | 2009-02-17 15:19:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC UNGA NI |
09USUNNEWYORK147 | MISSION CLEARANCE FOR AMISOM 607 NEGOTIATIONS [...] Mission clearance is granted for Tanaz Khambatta, Christina Sanford, Chris Tringale, Jimmy Salvino and Mike Skardon to visit New York on February 18 in order to begin technical negotiations with the UN on a 607 agreement for the African Union Mission to Somalia. 2. USUN POC is John Senior ( [...] | 2009-02-17 23:57:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA KPKO UNSC SO |
09USUNNEWYORK148 | (C) RWANDAN MISSION UNCOOPERATIVE ON FDLR NAME [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-17 23:59:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC POLS |
09USUNNEWYORK151 | UNAMID CONSULTATIONS PRIOR TO ICC DECISION [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 15. 2. (SBU) Summary: In a February 17 briefing to the Security Council on UNAMID, U/SYG Le Roy emphasized that adequately equipping troops already on the ground in Darfur should become a priority. Le Roy also briefed the Council on the agr [...] | 2009-02-18 21:28:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO PHUM UNSC SU |
09USUNNEWYORK153 | JAPANESE-HOSTED BREAKFAST CONSIDERS MANDATE OF [...] (SBU) Action request in paragraph 3. 2. (C) On February 18 the Japanese PermRep Yukio Takasu in his capacity as President of the UN Security Council for February hosted a breakfast to discuss Afghanistan, including the status of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). [...] | 2009-02-18 23:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF UNSC MARR |
09USUNNEWYORK154 | LIBERIA SANCTIONS: UN EXPERT PANEL LAUNCHES NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The recently-reappointed Liberia Panel of Experts (POE) presented to the 1521 Liberia Sanctions Committee on February 13 a plan of attack for monitoring implementation of the Liberia sanctions measures, with a focus on assembling information on designated individuals and entitie [...] | 2009-02-18 23:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC UNSC PREL PGOV LI |
09USUNNEWYORK156 | UN: IRAQ ELECTIONS "WENT VERY WELL" [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 13, DPA officials briefed USUN and UKUN on the UN's assessment of elections in Iraq, as well as on UNAMI-related issues. In general, the UN believes the elections went very well, despite initial concerns regarding the lower turnout. DPA is finalizing the UNAMI report [...] | 2009-02-19 00:01:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC IZ |
09USUNNEWYORK158 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an introductory meeting on February 17, Ambassador Rice and Italian Ambassador Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata discussed Security Council Reform, Italy's 2009 G-8 chairmanship, climate change and human rights. On Security Council Reform, Ambassador Terzi hoped that the upcoming inf [...] | 2009-02-19 22:41:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC IT |
09USUNNEWYORK159 | UNSC MONTHLY MIDDLE EAST MEETING: SUPPORTIVE OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During the monthly Security Council meeting on the Middle East, Robert Serry, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and the Secretary General's Personal Representative to the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, briefed the Council on the situation in Gaza and t [...] | 2009-02-19 22:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS LE SY |
09USUNNEWYORK162 | UNSC IRAN SANCTIONS COMMITTEE MOVING ON MONCHEGORSK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cyprus has submitted a report to the Iran Sanctions Committee detailing the results of a more complete inspection of the M/V Monchegorsk, a Cypriot-flagged vessel found transferring Iranian arms-related materiel in violation of Security Council sanctions on Iran. The letter says [...] | 2009-02-19 23:47:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM IR UNSC MNUC ETTC KNNP |
09USUNNEWYORK163 | GAMBARI BRIEFS AMBASSADOR RICE ON BURMA AND THE [...] (C) Summary: During a February 18 meeting with Ambassador Rice, Special Advisor Gambari outlined the main challenges to progress in Burma, including a fundamental division of the international community on the issue. He reviewed his goals for his recent visit and added that for different reas [...] | 2009-02-20 01:15:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM |
09USUNNEWYORK164 | DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: USG HOLMES BRIEFS ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, John Holmes, briefed the Security Council on the current humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on February 17 following his visit to the country. He described a new dynamic created by recent coopera [...] | 2009-02-20 13:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL PHUM KPKO UNSC CG RW |
09USUNNEWYORK166 | RUSSIA RAISES 1267 SANCTIONS-RELATED HUMANITARIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-22 18:12:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PREL UNSC POL RU |
09USUNNEWYORK167 | BIH ACTION REQUEST: PERMREP SEEKS U.S. HELP TO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. In a brief introductory call with Ambassador Rice, incoming Bosnia and Herzegovina PermRep Ivan Barbalic said his immediate focus is on preparing his mission to take on the extra workload that will come with Bosnia's likely Security Council membership in 2010-20 [...] | 2009-02-22 18:15:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC BK |
09USUNNEWYORK168 | MADAGASCAR PERMREP'S CALL ON AMBASSADOR RICE [...] (C) Ambassador Zina Andrianarivelo-Razafy of Madagascar paid an introductory call on Ambassador Rice on February 19. He offered no details on the ongoing political crisis in Madagascar but expressed a general hope that parties to the dispute could reach a compromise solution that "respected le [...] | 2009-02-23 15:29:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC MA |
09USUNNEWYORK169 | MISSION CLEARANCE FOR SUDAN CENSUS MEETING [...] Mission clearance is granted for the following officers to visit New York on February 25 in order to attend a meeting of the UN Statistical Commission on the Sudan census and hold related consultations: a. Marti Alane Flacks, desk officer, Africa Bureau, Sudan Programs Group b. Andrea Karen [...] | 2009-02-24 18:53:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA UNSC SU |
09USUNNEWYORK18 | GEORGIA/RUSSIA: GERMANS PROMOTE REVISED UNOMIG [...] (C) SUMMARY. The German Mission to the UN is advocating a beefed-up mandate for the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) when the current mandate expires on February 15, 2009. Germany hopes Security Council members will corner Russia into agreeing to extend authorization for a military ob [...] | 2009-01-12 23:21:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK180 | SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE [...] (C) Summary: At its February 20 meeting, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Management Committee discussed the future STL Prosecutor's request for a change in the terms of his employment, to the equivalent compensation of a judge, to compensate for a decrease in his net earnings when he mo [...] | 2009-02-27 01:42:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PTER LE SY |
09USUNNEWYORK182 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH U/SYG [...] (C) SUMMARY. U/SYG for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe told Ambassador Rice during a February 23 introductory meeting, that he was trying to change the culture of the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) from one of "writing talking points for internal meetings" to solving problems through goo [...] | 2009-02-27 02:07:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC IO |
09USUNNEWYORK185 | 1267 COMMITTEE LAUNCHES WORK ON MAJOR NEW TASKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Security Council's 1267 Committee (al-Qaeda/Taliban Sanctions) has recently begun two workload-intensive tasks mandated in resolution 1822 (2008) to address deficiencies in the fairness and clarity of the Committee's procedures. The first task directed the Committee to compl [...] | 2009-02-27 10:35:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK186 | IRAN SANCTIONS COMMITTEE WRITES TO CYPRUS, LOOKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The chair of the UN Security Council's Iran Sanctions Committee (Japanese UN Perm Rep Takasu) has delivered to the Cypriot Perm Rep a letter from the Iran Sanctions Committee about the M/V Monchegorsk, a Cypriot-flagged vessel that was transferring Iranian arms-related materiel i [...] | 2009-02-27 10:36:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM IR UNSC MNUC ETTC KNNP |
09USUNNEWYORK19 | UNSC: COUNCIL SUPPORTS SYG TRAVEL TO REGION; URGES [...] (SBU) Summary: In closed-door consultations with the Security Council on January 13, the Secretary-General briefed the Council on the goals of his upcoming trip to the region. He stressed it was time for the violence to stop and called for a durable cease-fire and the implementation of UNSCR [...] | 2009-01-13 21:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KWBG KPAL UNSC IS EG TU |
09USUNNEWYORK191 | JAPAN WANTS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION IF DPRK [...] (S) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) SUMMARY. Ambassador Rice shared U.S. concerns regarding a potential DPRK missile launch with Japanese PermRep Takasu on February 26, and asked for Japan's support in publicly calling any launch a violation of SCR 1718. Takasu st [...] | 2009-02-27 18:00:00 | USUN New York | SECRET | PGOV PREL UNSC PINR KN XB SU XA |
09USUNNEWYORK193 | THE SECURITY COUNCIL'S QUARTERLY DEBATE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 26, the Security Council held its quarterly debate on UNAMI and Iraq, with the participation of SRSG Staffan de Mistura and Iraqi PR Bayati. De Mistura reprised the major themes taken from the recent UN report on UNAMI/Iraq: successful Iraqi-led elections, increas [...] | 2009-02-27 18:38:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IZ UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK196 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH U/SYG [...] (C) SUMMARY. U/SYG for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe told Ambassador Rice during a February 23 introductory meeting, that he was trying to change the culture of the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) from one of "writing talking points for internal meetings" to solving problems through goo [...] | 2009-02-27 23:42:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC IO |
09USUNNEWYORK197 | DPRK: RUSSIA AND JAPAN CONSIDER MISSILE LAUNCH [...] (C) In separate meetings with Ambassador Wolff, Russian Deputy Perm Rep Dolgov and Japanese Perm Rep Takasu offered different approaches to responding to a possible Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) missile launch. Dolgov said that Moscow had sought to discourage the DPRK from this [...] | 2009-02-27 23:56:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN |
09USUNNEWYORK199 | U/SYG HOLMES BRIEFS THE SECURITY COUNCIL ON HIS [...] (SBU) Summary: U/SYG for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes briefed the Security Council February 27 on the situation in northern Sri Lanka and his recent visit there. He said civilians in the LTTE-controlled area are in "very great danger" and there are strong anecdotal reports that they are b [...] | 2009-02-28 00:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC PHUM PREF CE |
09USUNNEWYORK2 | MISSION CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR THOMAS A. WUCHTE, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-02 19:16:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC OTRA PARM PGOV PREL PTER UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK200 | UN PEACEKEEPING: AMBASSADOR RICE ADDRESSES C-34 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN Special Committee for Peacekeeping Operations (C-34) opened its annual session with a general debate on February 23-24. Ambassador Rice addressed the C-34 on February 24, delivering a message that the U.S. is ready to consider fresh peacekeeping approaches in cooperation [...] | 2009-02-28 00:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PHUM PREL |
09USUNNEWYORK202 | AMBASSADOR RICE AND UN DPKO USG LE ROY DISCUSS [...] (C) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY: UN Peacekeeping USG Le Roy told Ambassador Rice on February 26 that India planned to withdraw its troops from MONUC. He asked for U.S. assistance in encouraging DRC President Kabila to support Indian troops, to help ave [...] | 2009-03-03 01:22:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM UNSC CG IN SU XA AF |
09USUNNEWYORK203 | DEPARTING SOUTH AFRICAN PR KUMALO AND RICE DISCUSS [...] (SBU) During Ambassador Rice's introductory meeting with South African PermRep Dumisani Kumalo on February 25, Kumalo said the Human Rights Council would "die" without U.S. participation. 2. (SBU) Ambassador Rice said bilateral relations had not gone as well as hoped and the U.S. wanted to [...] | 2009-03-03 01:26:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM UNSC SF |
09USUNNEWYORK206 | GREEK FOREIGN MINISTER BRIEFS AMBASSADOR RICE ON [...] SUMMARY. (C) Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis told Ambassador Rice and Ambassador Wolff on February 26, that her current priorities as Chairperson-in-Office of the OSCE were to find a consensus approach for engaging on Russia's proposals for a new European security architecture and to get [...] | 2009-03-04 22:08:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OSCE UNSC RS GG TU CY GR |
09USUNNEWYORK207 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH IRAQI [...] (C) During a March 4 introductory meeting, Iraqi PR Hamid al-Bayati told Ambassador Rice that Iraq was eager for a "long-term strategic relationship with the U.S." He expressed his willingness to serve as an intermediary with the UN,s group of Arab Ambassadors, and also offered to help assist [...] | 2009-03-04 22:08:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC IZ KU |
09USUNNEWYORK208 | KOSOVO: PRESIDENT SEJDIU MEETS AMBASSADOR RICE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The President of Kosovo, Fatmir Sejdiu, asked Ambassador Rice on March 2 to help Kosovo obtain recognition from additional states, particularly from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Pakistan and OIC members; and to help ensure that like-minded states, including non-European states, s [...] | 2009-03-04 22:37:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ICJ UNSC SR KV |
09USUNNEWYORK209 | UN BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON GUINEA-BISSAU [...] (SBU) At the request of Burkina Faso, the UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA) briefed the Security Council on March 3 on the events surrounding the assassinations of Guinea-Bissau President Joao Vieira and Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Tagme Na Wai. DPA Deputy Director for Africa J [...] | 2009-03-04 22:40:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM UNSC PU SG XY |
09USUNNEWYORK212 | SUDAN SANCTIONS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS EXPERT PANEL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Sudan Sanctions Committee reviewed recent setbacks confronting the Sudan Panel of Experts (POE) that have resulted in the Panel being unable to travel to Sudan. According to the POE, Sudan remains unwilling to grant appropriate visas to all POE members and the UN Departmen [...] | 2009-03-04 23:15:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC ETTC SU PGOV |
09USUNNEWYORK218 | OSCE: CHAIRWOMAN-IN-OFFICE BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL [...] SUMMARY. Greek Foreign Minister and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Dora Bakoyannis, briefed the UN Security Council on February 27 on Greece's priorities for the OSCE. She called for a continued OSCE presence in Georgia as well as border security and policing projects in Central Asia and Afghanis [...] | 2009-03-05 22:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC OSCE |
09USUNNEWYORK219 | AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH SAUDI ARABIAN PERM REP [...] (C) Summary: During their introductory meeting on March 3, Ambassador Rice and Saudi PermRep Khalid Al-Nafisee discussed Saudi Arabia's progress on the Interfaith Dialogue, the Lebanon Tribunal and Gaza, recognition of Kosovo, and relations with Iraq and Iran. Al-Nafisee was keen to emphasiz [...] | 2009-03-05 22:30:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC XF ZP |
09USUNNEWYORK221 | 2009 MEETING OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE [...] Summary: The Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization ("Charter Committee"),a sub-Committee of the General Assembly Legal Committee, held its annual meeting at UN Headquarters February 16-20, 23-25. The Committee focused [...] | 2009-03-09 14:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNGA UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK223 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) During a March 5 introductory meeting, Zimbabwe PermRep Chidyausiku told Ambassador Rice Zimbabwe wants to engage with the U.S. He noted the dramatic decline in health, education, infrastructure and quality of life in Zimbabwe and asked for the U.S. to lift its sanctions. Chidyausiku ex [...] | 2009-03-09 16:15:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC ZI ZU |
09USUNNEWYORK229 | HIGHLIGHTS OF 1267 MONITORING TEAM'S ANNUAL REPORT [...] (U) SUMMARY: The 1267 Monitoring Team, a UN-mandated group charged with documenting and reporting on the implementation of the UN sanctions on Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, has issued its ninth annual report containing recommendations to improve the efficacy and fairness of this sanctions regime. T [...] | 2009-03-10 00:30:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK230 | UNGA: UNSC REFORM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The informal plenary of the General Assembly met March 4 and 5 to begin the substantive phase of intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council expansion. 80 delegations spoke during the day and a half discussion on "categories of membership." A core group of states suppo [...] | 2009-03-10 00:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC GE JA BR IN |
09USUNNEWYORK236 | 1267: INDIA EAGER TO MOVE ON PAKISTAN-RELATED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The UN Mission of India shared with USUN a list of individuals whom India intends to propose for designation to the 1267 Committee (al-Qaeda/Taliban sanctions). These individuals are reportedly linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group and the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. [...] | 2009-03-10 23:14:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK238 | COUNCIL DISCUSSES SUDAN SANCTIONS COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 10, Austrian Perm Rep Thomas Mayr-Harting, Chair of the Sudan Sanctions Committee (1591 Committee),briefed the Council on the activities of the Sudan Sanctions committee over the past ninety days, and highlighted the inability of the Panel of Experts (POE) to travel t [...] | 2009-03-11 00:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC ETTC SU PGOV |
09USUNNEWYORK243 | IRAN COMMITTEE LETTERS DELIVERED (WITH DIFFICULTY) [...] (C) SUMMARY: The UN Security Council's Iran Sanctions Committee has approved letters to Iran and Syria regarding the transfer of arms-related materiel on the Cypriot-flagged ship Monchegorsk. The letters state clearly that this transfer was in violation of Security Council resolution 1747 an [...] | 2009-03-11 09:58:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM IR UNSC MNUC ETTC KNNP |
09USUNNEWYORK244 | COUNCIL REVIEWS IRAN SANCTIONS COMMITTEE PROGRESS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 10, the chair of the Iran Sanctions Committee updated the UN Security Council on the Committee's activities over the last ninety days, including its actions to respond to the discovery of arms-related materiel being shipped from Iran to Syria in violation of UNSCR 1747 [...] | 2009-03-11 09:58:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM IR UNSC MNUC ETTC KNNP |
09USUNNEWYORK248 | UNSC: UNSCR 1701 QUARTERLY CONSULTATIONS AFTER [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 10, UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams and DPKO Director for Asia and the Middle East Division Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber briefed the Security Council in consultations on the Secretary-General's UNSCR 1701 quarterly report. Both emphasized that the most [...] | 2009-03-11 21:08:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC KPAL KPKO IS LE SY |
09USUNNEWYORK251 | SRSG FALL BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON CAR [...] Summary: On March 10, the Council was briefed on recent developments in the Central African Republic (CAR) by SRSG Fall, along with Belgium Perm Rep Grauls, who chairs the Central African Republic (CAR) configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission. CAR Perm Rep Poukre-Kono also addressed t [...] | 2009-03-12 17:00:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO PREF PREL UNSC CD CT SU |
09USUNNEWYORK254 | DRC SANCTIONS COMMITTEE HEARS CONCERNS OF NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 11, the newly-appointed Group of Experts (GOE) briefed the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Sanctions Committee on its plan for monitoring implementation of the DRC sanctions measures. The GOE highlighted its concern over regional non-cooperation with the sancti [...] | 2009-03-13 13:38:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC AF ETTC KPKO |
09USUNNEWYORK257 | GEORGIA: PERMREP SEEKS US VIEWS ON FUTURE OF UNOMIG [...] (C) Summary. Georgian Permrep Alexander Lomaia told Ambassador DiCarlo on March 12 that Georgia would like to see the UN presence in Georgia/Abkhazia continue. It should include a peacekeeping force to patrol a demilitarized zone, an executive policing component, and a concrete mechanism for [...] | 2009-03-13 18:59:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC UNOMIG RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK26 | UN/1267 SANCTIONS:AUSTRIANS PLAN CAUTIOUS START TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Experts responsible for managing Austria's chairmanship of the 1267 al-Qaeda/Taliban Sanctions Committee plan to focus the committee on outstanding tasks leftover from 2008 and not immediately introduce any new initiatives. Noting Austria's role as a "defender of human rights," the [...] | 2009-01-15 23:15:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK266 | GEORGIA ACTION REQUEST: SRSG VERBEKE NON-PAPER ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. The UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) has circulated a Non-Paper to the U.S. and other key stakeholders, which outlines basic principles for a security regime for Abkhazia, Georgia. The Non-Paper also outlines elements of a future UN role in Geo [...] | 2009-03-16 22:19:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNOMIG UNSC RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK267 | DRC: MOVING ON SECOND BATCH OF FDLR DESIGNATIONS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. (SBU) USUN met, at the request of its counterparts, with the UK, French, Belgian Missions to the UN on March 7 to discuss designating a second batch of FDLR names from the list of 19 names that the Rwandans had submitted in May 2008 to t [...] | 2009-03-16 22:19:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL UNSC AF ETTC KPKO MARR |
09USUNNEWYORK278 | AMBASSADOR RICE AND UNMIL SRSG LOJ DISCUSS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Ellen Margrethe Loj told Ambassador Rice she believed at least 8,000 troops should remain in Liberia through the 2011 election. Loj cautioned that the French and UK might attempt to [...] | 2009-03-18 23:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC LI XY |
09USUNNEWYORK28 | UN SANCTIONS IN CRISIS? ACADEMICS SAY YES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A team of academics has proposed a new international process to address what they consider to be unprecedented challenges to the legitimacy and effectiveness of UN sanctions. The threats that these academics highlighted to USUN included questions about the legitimacy of sancti [...] | 2009-01-16 20:14:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETTC EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK282 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S INITIAL MEETING WITH LIBYAN PR [...] (C) Ambassador Rice met March 18 with Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalgham, the Permanent Representative of Libya to the United Nations and President of the United Nations Security Council for the month of March. Shalgham informed Ambassador Rice that Colonel Qadafi plans to visit New York the week [...] | 2009-03-19 11:30:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AU LY PREF UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK283 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH [...] Summary: Ambassador Rice met with Francis Deng, the UN's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide on March 16 to discuss current activities of his office and priorities for the future. Deng explained his efforts to engage three important constituencies on the work of his office in order [...] | 2009-03-19 13:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK284 | UN BRIEFING NOTE ON FIELD OPERATIONS [...] On March 16, 2009, Security Council President Dabbashi (Libya) transmitted the following Briefing Note to the Security Council on UN field operations covering the period of March 4-10, 2009. Africa --Burundi (BINUB): Despite continued efforts within the framework of the Joint Verification [...] | 2009-03-19 15:50:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC MOPS KPKO |
09USUNNEWYORK286 | SOMALIA/1267: UN OFFICIAL OFFERS INSIGHT INTO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nick Pyle, Special Adviser to Special Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG) for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, discussed a sanctions delisting request and political developments in Somalia with USUN on March 17. He described President Sharif as tolerating, but not embra [...] | 2009-03-19 19:51:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC KPKO SO MARR ETTC |
09USUNNEWYORK289 | UNGA: UNSC REFORM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The informal plenary of the General Assembly met March 16 and 17 for intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council expansion focusing on the question of the veto. 74 delegations spoke during the day-and a-half discussion with most stating their general aversion to the vet [...] | 2009-03-19 20:43:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC GE JA BR IN |
09USUNNEWYORK291 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH SRSG KAI EIDE [...] (C) Summary: In a March 19 meeting with Ambassador Rice, SRSG and head of UNAMA Kai Eide emphasized the importance of building the capacity of the government and people of Afghanistan. Eide said few countries with active programs in Afghanistan have a national perspective. Instead, they are [...] | 2009-03-20 19:57:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK292 | SRSG OULD ABDALLAH BRIEFS AMB. RICE ON SOMALIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, told Amb. Rice on March 18 that the Council should adopt a "new paradigm" for Somalia, discussed "disappearances" of ethnic Somali youths from the U.S. and UK, and urged tangible support to [...] | 2009-03-20 20:35:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER KPKO UNSC SO |
09USUNNEWYORK296 | CHARGE DINGER CONSULTS WITH UN ON BURMA [...] (SBU) Summary. U.S. Charge to Rangoon Larry Dinger met with UN Special Advisor Gambari and representatives from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),UN Development Program (UNDP) and the Open Society Institute (OSI) during h [...] | 2009-03-23 18:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNSC BM |
09USUNNEWYORK297 | UNMIL HEAD SAYS LIBERIAN PEACE IS FRAGILE; FRANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: SRSG Loj told the Security Council on March 19 that UNMIL would complete its second drawdown by March 31, reducing troop levels to 10,200. Loj described the numerous external and internal threats facing Liberia. Ambassador Rice strongly supported UNMIL, its plan for troop leve [...] | 2009-03-23 18:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL UNSC LI XY |
09USUNNEWYORK298 | SRSG EIDE BRIEFS THE SECURITY COUNCIL ON [...] (U) Summary: On March 20, SRSG Kai Eide updated the Security Council on latest developments in Afghanistan and implementation of UNAMA,s mandate. In contrast to the uniformly somber report on Afghanistan issued by the Secretary-General a week earlier, Eide began by detailing recent improvemen [...] | 2009-03-23 18:56:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AF UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK299 | SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Special Tribunal for Lebanon Management Committee met March 20 and agreed to a one-time increase in the base salary of judges. The Management Committee also discussed and solicited more information on a request by the President of the Tribunal for appointment of the Vice P [...] | 2009-03-23 22:02:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER UNSC LE |
09USUNNEWYORK301 | NEW PROCESS ON UN SANCTIONS SET TO LAUNCH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 20, the Canadian Mission to the UN convened diplomats, academics and UN Secretariat personnel to discuss a new process to address challenges facing UN sanctions. Although not an official UN endeavor, this process will lead to the establishment in the coming weeks of in [...] | 2009-03-23 22:36:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK303 | SOMALIA IN THE SECURITY COUNCIL: "BACK FROM THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Security Council Members largely sidestepped the much-discussed issue of a UNPKO and instead pledged support for Somalia's new unity government in a March 20 Council debate on Somalia. Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Ould-Abdallah and Somali Transitional Fe [...] | 2009-03-24 19:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPKO UNSC ER SO |
09USUNNEWYORK304 | OFAC BRIEFS AU COMMISSIONER ON SANCTIONS, CRITERIA [...] (SBU) Summary: A team of representatives from the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) provided a technical briefing to African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security Ramtane Lamamra about OFAC's role in administering and enforcing economic sanctions. Lamamr [...] | 2009-03-24 21:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC PGOV ETTC |
09USUNNEWYORK305 | MONCHEGORSK: IRAN/SYRIA REBUFF SANCTIONS COMMITTEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iran and Syria effectively rebuffed a request from the UN Security Council's Iran Sanctions Committee for information regarding a vessel found carrying Iranian arms to Syria in violation of UN sanctions. Syria answered with an anti-Israel screed that implicitly acknowledged its [...] | 2009-03-24 21:36:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM IR UNSC MNUC ETTC KNNP |
09USUNNEWYORK306 | (C) ICC’S OCAMPO ON SUDAN: GO AFTER BASHIR’S MONEY [...] (C) International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told Ambassadors Rice and Wolff on March 20 that Sudanese President Bashir needed to be isolated. Ocampo suggested if Bashir's stash of money were disclosed (he put the figure at possibly $9 billion),it would change Sudanese public opi [...] | 2009-03-24 22:17:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC PHUM SU XW |
09USUNNEWYORK321 | SOMALIA: SANCTIONS COMMITTEE DISCUSSES PROGRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 24, the UN Security Council's Somalia Sanctions Committee discussed with the new Monitoring Group (MG) recent changes to the MG's mandate to monitor sanctions in Somalia, including tasks assigned to implement a new targeted sanctions regime authorized by UNSCR 1844. The [...] | 2009-03-27 14:10:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC MARR KPKO ETTC SO |
09USUNNEWYORK324 | U/SYG HOLMES BRIEFS MEMBERS OF THE SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 26, U/SYG for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes briefed members of the Security Council on the situation in northern Sri Lanka. He said the situation there was worsening and civilian casualties remained "tragically and unacceptably high." The "informal interactive disc [...] | 2009-03-27 19:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV CE MOPS PREF PHUM UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK325 | UNSC REFORM: CHINA NOT READY FOR P-5 MINISTERIAL [...] (C) UK Deputy Perm Rep Pierce hosted a P-5 meeting to discuss whether a statement could be released following the planned P-5 Foreign Ministers' discussion in London on Security Council expansion. She asked if other P-5 members could agree with the idea of issuing a statement on the subject [...] | 2009-03-27 21:47:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC CH FR UK RS IT |
09USUNNEWYORK326 | UN REVISES GEORGIA PROPOSAL, WANTS USG REACTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. David Harland, chief of the UN Department of Peacekeeping (DPKO) Europe Office, passed to dpolcouns on March 26 a paper entitled "NON-PAPER: Elements for a Security Regime and UN Role." The paper is a revised version of the nonpaper reported reftel. This dra [...] | 2009-03-27 21:58:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNOMIG UNSC RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK328 | UNSC: MIDDLE EAST OPEN DEBATE HIGHLIGHTS LACK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 25, the Security Council held its first Open Debate on the Middle East in 2009. In addition to a briefing by the Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs covering recent events, which he termed a "situation of impasse and uncertainty," all 15 Council members spoke [...] | 2009-03-27 22:26:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC KWBG KPAL IS PA LE SY EG IR |
09USUNNEWYORK341 | AMBASSADOR RICE OFFERS LIBERIAN PRESIDENT SIRLEAF [...] (SBU) On March 31 Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf called to thank Ambassador Rice for her expression of support for the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) during Security Council consultations held on March 19 (see refs. A and B). President Sirleaf volunteered that an exit for UNMIL must e [...] | 2009-03-31 23:41:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC LI XY |
09USUNNEWYORK342 | UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL HOLMES BRIEFS THE SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 26, U/SYG Holmes briefed the Security Council on the results of the recently-completed joint UN and Government of Sudan (GoS) assessment of humanitarian gaps in Darfur. Holmes told the Council that the assessment revealed the extent of the gaps in humanitarian services [...] | 2009-04-01 13:34:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AF EAID PHUM PREF PREL SU UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK343 | COTE D,IVOIRE SANCTIONS COMMITTEE ADDRESSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Cote d,Ivoire Sanctions Committee reviewed recent reports from UNOCI about the political situation, access of the political opposition to local media and UN efforts to enforce the arms embargo. The Committee also considered an alleged sanctions violation involving Charles Bl [...] | 2009-04-01 17:00:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC PGOV IV |
09USUNNEWYORK344 | AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS JAPAN'S AMBASSADOR TO IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Rice on March 31 met with Akio Shirota, Japan's Ambassador to Iran, to hear Japan's assessment of U.S. outreach to Iran and Shirota's analysis of Iran's internal political situation. Shirota said President Obama's Nowruz message to the Iranians on March 19 gave Irania [...] | 2009-04-02 00:49:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR JA UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK345 | UNGA: UNSC REFORM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The informal plenary of the General Assembly met March 24 and March 31 for intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council expansion focusing on regional representation. 68 delegations spoke during the day-and-a-half discussion with most focusing on Article 23(1) of the UN [...] | 2009-04-02 00:52:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC GE JA BR IN |
09USUNNEWYORK348 | UNMIL TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT MISSION ON TRACK FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UN DPKO officials on March 31 said a technical assessment mission would evaluate progress in Liberia in light of set benchmarks. Getting an effective police force was key, and ensuring legitimate elections in 2011 would be a reasonable use of UNMIL, according to DPKO. DPKO warn [...] | 2009-04-03 12:00:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC LI XY |
09USUNNEWYORK355 | DPRK: SECURITY COUNCIL, KEY PLAYERS RESPOND TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 5 bilateral meeting, Amb. Rice told Japanese Perm Rep Takasu that in response to the recent Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) missile launch the United States will seek a Security Council resolution that includes real consequences for the DPRK's actions. She [...] | 2009-04-06 17:21:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN |
09USUNNEWYORK359 | UN SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PEACEKEEPING CONCLUDES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The United Nations Special Committee for Peacekeeping Operations (C-34) concluded its annual session on March 20 by adopting a consensus report on schedule for the first time since 2006. The report contains specific language regarding the protection of civilians and broadly as [...] | 2009-04-07 18:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC PHUM PREL |
09USUNNEWYORK36 | GAMBARI BRIEFS AMBASSADOR DICARLO ON BURMA [...] (C) In a 20 January meeting, Special Advisor Ibrahim Gambari told Ambassador DiCarlo that Secretary-General Ban is considering travel to Burma after the ASEAN Summit. Gambari said he is being sent to Burma 31 January - 3 February to "get everybody's bottom line and to see what, if anything, is [...] | 2009-01-22 00:41:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNSC BM |
09USUNNEWYORK362 | RUSSIANS PROPOSE MINISTERIAL-LEVEL COUNCIL MEETING [...] (U) This contains an action request; see paragraph 4. 2. (C) Russian PermRep Churkin told Ambassador Rice on April 6 that Russia would like to hold a ministerial-level Security Council meeting on the Middle East during its Council presidency in May. Churkin said Russian FM Lavrov will be in [...] | 2009-04-07 23:40:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC RU |
09USUNNEWYORK364 | UN PREVIEWS SOMALIA PEACEKEEPING REPORT [...] (U) This is a guidance request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) Raisedon Zenenga, head of the Africa Division of the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO),told USUN on March 31 that DPKO, the Department of Political Affairs (DPA),and the Department of Field Support (DFS) had agre [...] | 2009-04-07 23:46:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR MOPS UNSC SO |
09USUNNEWYORK366 | UGANDA MAY TAKE LEAD ON COUP PRST [...] (C) Summary. USUN delivered reftel demarche to the missions of Libya, Uganda, Burkina Faso, and the African Union (AU). Uganda expressed interest in taking the lead in drafting a Council statement on recent coups in Africa, and is currently reaching out to the Libyans and the Burkinabe to ga [...] | 2009-04-08 10:07:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC XA UV LY UG |
09USUNNEWYORK368 | SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON REGISTRAR RESIGNS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-08 17:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER AORC AMGT UNSC LE |
09USUNNEWYORK369 | ERITREA IN THE UNSC: NO CONSENSUS FOR ACTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a brief Security Council session on April 7, Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe described developments in the ongoing border dispute between Eritrea and Djibouti. Council members voiced unanimous support for the Secretary-General's good offices efforts bu [...] | 2009-04-08 21:16:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS UNSC ER DJ |
09USUNNEWYORK377 | UN POLITICAL HEAD BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UN Political Affairs U/SYG Pascoe told the Security Council on April 7 that the international community must help push for a consensual outcome to the crisis in Madagascar. Ambassador DiCarlo said the power transfer was a coup, called for free, fair, and transparent elections w [...] | 2009-04-09 18:00:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC MA ZU |
09USUNNEWYORK379 | AMB. RICE MEETS NORWEGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 8 meeting with Ambassador Rice, Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Store discussed U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and his hope to work closely with the U.S. on the Human Rights Council. He also pushed for greater strategic coordination of development assistance and offered [...] | 2009-04-10 01:14:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC NATO AF NO |
09USUNNEWYORK380 | AMB. RICE MEETS AU PERM REP [...] (C) In an April 9 courtesy call, Amb. Rice discussed a range of security and political issues with Amb. Lila Ratsifandrihamanana, Permanent Observer of the African Union to the UN. Amb. Rice advised against the planned May visit of a high-level AU delegation to Washington and New York to disc [...] | 2009-04-10 01:17:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC SO SU |
09USUNNEWYORK381 | UN ASKS FOR U.S. HELP TO AVERT INDIA'S TROOP [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: DPKO U/SYG Le Roy and MONUC SRSG Doss have separately approached Ambassador DiCarlo to request U.S. assistance in pressuring both the DRC and India to reach an accommodation that would keep India from withdrawing i [...] | 2009-04-10 01:20:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC IN CG |
09USUNNEWYORK382 | DPRK: RICE MEETS WITH JAPANESE STATE SECRETARY ON [...] (C) Ambassador Rice met with Ito Shintaro, the Japanese State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Yukio Takasu, Japan's Permanent Representative to the UN, April 9 to discuss the status of the Security Council's reaction to the DPRK's missile launch. Ito shared the Japanese government's view [...] | 2009-04-10 01:46:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREF PREL UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK383 | UNOGBIS AT THE UN: SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO MOVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNOGBIS SRSG Joseph Mutaboba told the Security Council on April 8 that swift implementation of Security Sector Reform (SSR),economic recovery, a comprehensive approach to drug trafficking, and timely national elections were all essential elements in Guinea-Bissau's democratic [...] | 2009-04-10 01:54:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC PU XY |
09USUNNEWYORK384 | GEORGIA: USUN DELIVERS USG PRELIMINARY RESPONSE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Per Ref A instructions, Deputy PolCouns and Poloff shared the USG preliminary response to the UN Non-Paper on the future UN presence in Georgia (Ref B) with DPKO Director for Europe and Latin America, David Harland. Harland acknowledged U.S. views on the dimensions of the propose [...] | 2009-04-10 12:41:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC UNOMIG RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK385 | GEORGIA: EUSR PIERRE MOREL BRIEFS USUN ON GENEVA [...] (C) SUMMARY. EUSR for Georgia Pierre Morel told Ambassador DiCarlo on April 3 he thought the UN needed a "substantial" mandate in Abkhazia, with symmetrical security zones on both sides of the administrative boundary of Abkhazia. Morel thought Georgia SRSG Verbeke would complete his report by [...] | 2009-04-10 13:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC UNOMIG RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK388 | UNGA: UNSC REFORM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The informal plenary of the General Assembly met April 7 and 8 for intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council expansion focusing on the size of an enlarged Council and the Council's working methods. 81 delegations spoke with growing agreement across the three major blo [...] | 2009-04-11 15:40:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC JA BR |
09USUNNEWYORK393 | AMBASSADOR RICE SPEAKS WITH SECRETARY-GENERAL ON [...] (C) Ambassador Rice spoke with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon via telephone on April 10 to urge the appointment of a special envoy for Sri Lanka given the growing risks to civilians caught between the government of Sri Lanka's (GSL) military forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LT [...] | 2009-04-13 23:02:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | CE EAID PHUM PREF PREL UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK401 | DPRK: 1718 COMMITTEE REVIEWS DESIGNATION PROPOSALS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 15, the DPRK Sanctions Committee considered the Security Council's request that the Committee "adjust" sanctions measures through the designation of goods and entities in response to the DPRK's recent missile launch. Turkish Perm Rep Ilkin noted that the Council requested [...] | 2009-04-16 14:37:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN |
09USUNNEWYORK403 | SECURITY COUNCIL BRIEFINGS ON IRAQ/KUWAIT, DFI/IAMB [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 16, the Security Council received two Iraq-related briefings. The first briefing, by high-level coordinator for Kuwaiti missing persons/archives Gennady Tarasov, focused on the lack of real progress on this issue over the past year. Tarasov asked for an additional 15 [...] | 2009-04-17 00:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC IZ KU |
09USUNNEWYORK407 | DPRK: U.S. EXPERTS MAKE CASE FOR SANCTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 20, visiting U.S. experts briefed the DPRK Sanctions Committee on the U.S. proposal to designate new entities and goods for sanctions. The experts made a detailed and compelling case for why the U.S.-proposed items met the designation criteria in UNSCR 1718 and were an a [...] | 2009-04-21 15:10:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN |
09USUNNEWYORK408 | UN/DPA BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON FIJI SITUATION [...] (C) UN Undersecretary for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe briefed the Security Council on April 20 on the deteriorating democratic situation in Fiji. He began by reminding members that the Security Council had issued a press statement in December 2006 after the coup in Fiji, urging a restoration [...] | 2009-04-21 23:18:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM UNSC FJ |
09USUNNEWYORK409 | UNSC REFORM: P-3 DISCUSS FRENCH-UK INTERMEDIATE [...] (C) Summary: The UK and France formally raised with the United States their "intermediate option" initiative for Security Council expansion in an April 16 meeting of P-3 Perm Reps and IO Assistant Secretary-equivalents. Ambassador Rice emphasized the Administration's preference to articulate [...] | 2009-04-21 23:35:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC GE JA BR IN |
09USUNNEWYORK41 | UNSC: SECRETARY-GENERAL BRIEFS COUNCIL; COUNCIL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Secretary-General briefed the Security Council January 21 on his recent trip to the Middle East during the Council's monthly meeting on the Middle East. Both he and Council members welcomed the unilateral cease-fires and the Israeli withdrawal but stressed the need to imple [...] | 2009-01-22 23:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER UNSC KWBG KPAL IS LY EG AU |
09USUNNEWYORK411 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH EU HIGH REP JAVIER [...] (C) SUMMARY. EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana told Ambassador Rice on April 16 he thought Tehran would respond publicly to the April 8 P5 1 offer on engagement before entering into a discussion with the P5 1 about the possibility and modalities of a m [...] | 2009-04-22 19:01:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC EUN |
09USUNNEWYORK417 | UN/CYPRUS: TURKISH PERMREP OFFERS TO ADVANCE DATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Turkish Permrep Baki Ilkin has proposed advancing the date of the adoption of a rollover of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) to the end of May in order to avoid having the adoption fall during Turkey's June Security Council presidency. Ilkin told Ambassa [...] | 2009-04-23 14:40:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNFICYP UNSC CY TU |
09USUNNEWYORK421 | UNSC: RUSSIANS MOVING FORWARD WITH PLANS FOR [...] (C) Ambassadors Rice and Wolff met bilaterally with Russian Perm Rep Churkin and Deputy Perm Rep Dolgov on April 23. Ambassador Churkin confirmed that his government plans to send out invitations April 24 to its proposed May 11 Council ministerial meeting on the Middle East. He said only U [...] | 2009-04-23 22:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KWBG KPAL IS RS |
09USUNNEWYORK422 | DPRK: CHINA YIELDS ON U.S. SANCTIONS PROPOSALS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese Perm Rep Zhang told Amb. Rice on April 23 that China could support U.S. proposals in the DPRK Sanctions Committee to update a technical annex of banned goods and to designate three high-value entities. He said this decision, which he portrayed a major concession from Chin [...] | 2009-04-23 22:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN |
09USUNNEWYORK423 | GEORGIA: AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH GEORGIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Georgian Foreign Minister Vashadze outlined for Ambassadors Rice and DiCarlo the elements Georgia would like to see in a new UN mandate. He acknowledged that the eventual mandate would be something less robust that the Georgian proposed elements, but suggested that it was import [...] | 2009-04-23 22:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC UNOMIG RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK425 | AMB. RICE TALKS AFRICA WITH FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Rice discussed a range of African issues with Bruno Joubert, French President Sarkozy's chief diplomatic advisor on Africa, in a meeting on April 16. Joubert said that the international community should continue to support Qatar-brokered peace talks on Darfur for a few [...] | 2009-04-23 22:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER UNSC KPKO SO SU ER DJ |
09USUNNEWYORK426 | DPRK: RUSSIA/CHINA PRESSED ON DESIGNATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate phone calls on April 21, Amb. Rice told her Chinese and Russian counterparts that the United States expected the DPRK Sanctions Committee to approve a "serious, credible" package of new designations by the April 24 deadline requested by the Security Council. Russian Pe [...] | 2009-04-24 00:18:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN |
09USUNNEWYORK429 | VIEWS FROM SWISS AMBASSADOR TO IRAN [...] (C) Summary. Swiss Ambassador to Iran, Livia Leu, shared with Ambassador Wolff her views on the fate of two U.S. citizens in Iran, Iran's position in the UN, its upcoming elections in June, and her assessment on how best to approach the issue of rapprochement. Leu judged that Iran's position [...] | 2009-04-24 15:22:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR UNSC SZ |
09USUNNEWYORK43 | U/SYG LE ROY DISCUSSES ICC INDICTMENT WITH P-3 [...] (C) Summary: U/SYG Le Roy met with UK-France-U.S. (P-3) ambassadors on January 21 to discuss the International Criminal Court's (ICC) pending decision to issue an arrest warrant against Sudanese President Bashir. The P-3 ambassadors confirmed that their countries' positions on Article 16 ha [...] | 2009-01-23 21:34:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PHUM SU FR UK |
09USUNNEWYORK432 | UNGA: UNSC REFORM: INTERGOVERNMENTAL NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The informal plenary of the General Assembly met on April 20 for intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council expansion focusing on the relationship between the Security Council (SC) and the General Assembly (GA). This meeting, during which 52 delegations spoke, marked t [...] | 2009-04-24 20:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC GE JA BR IN |
09USUNNEWYORK433 | UNSC MIDDLE EAST CONSULTATIONS: FRUSTRATED BY LACK [...] (C) Summary: Lynn Pascoe, Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs, on April 20 briefed Council members on the situation in the Middle East in a public session before the Council moved to closed consultations. Pascoe focused most of his presentation on the situation in Gaza, and noted pa [...] | 2009-04-24 22:32:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KWBG KPAL IS PA LE SY EG IR |
09USUNNEWYORK434 | UNSC DISCUSSES WESTERN SAHARA AND RENEWAL OF [...] (C) Summary: The Security Council on April 22 held closed consultations on the question of Western Sahara and the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). Edmond Mulet, the Assistant Secretary-General of the Department of Peacekeepin [...] | 2009-04-24 23:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL WI MO UNSC XI |
09USUNNEWYORK435 | GEORGIA: QUAD AMBASSADORS DELIVER NON-PAPER TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Permreps/Deputy Permreps of the United States, France, Germany and the United Kingdom (Quad) delivered Ref A non-paper to U/SYG for Peacekeeping Operations Alain Le Roy and SRSG for Georgia Johan Verbeke on April 24. The Ambassadors argued for robust and ambitious recommendation [...] | 2009-04-27 14:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNOMIG UNSC GG |
09USUNNEWYORK436 | CYPRUS: AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH PERMREP [...] (C) SUMMARY. Cyprus Permrep Minas Hadjimichael urged Ambassador Rice to use U.S. leverage with Turkey to get Ankara to give Turkish Cypriot leader Talat negotiating room to reach a Cyprus settlement. Hadjimichael said he also hoped Turkey as UNSC President would agree to move the adoption of [...] | 2009-04-27 22:10:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETTC UNSC CY |
09USUNNEWYORK437 | AMB. RICE'S LUNCH WITH THE UN SENIOR AFRICANS GROUP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ibrahim Gambari, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General, welcomed Amb. Rice as guest of honor at the annual lunch of the UN Senior Africans Group on April 16. Gambari invited Amb. Rice to take advantage of the resources of the group, which brings ambassadors from African missi [...] | 2009-04-27 22:58:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNSC XA |
09USUNNEWYORK440 | AMB. RICE MEETS WITH ITALIAN MFA'S SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Summary - In an April 28 meeting between Ambassador Rice and the Italian MFA's Secretary General Ambassador Giampiero Massolo, Ambassador Rice expressed her condolences for the recent earthquake devastation in Abruzzo, and agreed with Ambassador Massolo's request for continued and close [...] | 2009-04-29 19:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC KUNR US IT UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK441 | DPRK SANCTIONS COMMITTEE DESIGNATES GOODS, ENTITIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The DPRK Sanctions Committee ("1718 Committee") agreed on April 24 to designate explicitly three high-value entities to be subject to targeted sanctions and to update a technical list of items to be banned from transfer to/from the DPRK. By completing this task, the Committee suc [...] | 2009-04-29 21:35:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN |
09USUNNEWYORK443 | SOMALIA: NEW YORK STATE OF PLAY ON 1863 RENEWAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In P3 consultations on April 29, the UK said that it intends to circulate its draft resolution on Somalia (ref) to the full Council by May 6 and that it plans to schedule a vote for May 22 in order to allow the Fifth Committee four days to consider AMISOM support before the end [...] | 2009-04-30 14:30:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM MARR KPKO UNSC SO |
09USUNNEWYORK447 | SUDAN SANCTIONS COMMITTEE MEETS UNAMID HEAD [...] SUMMARY: Roldophe Adada, Joint AU/UN Special Representative for Darfur, told the Sudan Sanctions Committee that UNAMID considers the Committee's work to be important in light of the widespread availability of arms in Darfur. He said UNAMID would offer full support to visits by the Sudan Pane [...] | 2009-05-01 15:53:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC ETTC SU PGOV |
09USUNNEWYORK452 | SOMALIA/UN: P3 FAVOR CONTINUED ASSESSED SUPPORT TO [...] (SBU) 1. The UK convened a second round of P3 negotiations on their draft Somalia resolution on May 1. As at the previous meeting, poloff did not offer substantive suggestions, but asked the UK and France to be patient with USG decisionmaking and to preserve flexibility in the text in prepara [...] | 2009-05-04 20:36:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR KPKO UNSC SO |
09USUNNEWYORK453 | CYPRUS: SPECIAL ADVISOR DOWNER BRIEFS THE SECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The SYG's Special Advisor for Cyprus, Alexander Downer, told the Security Council on April 30 he is "cautiously optimistic" about the current negotiations over reunification of the island. The two leaders had made "steady progress" since talks began in September 2008, but the [...] | 2009-05-04 23:28:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNFICYP UNSC CY |
09USUNNEWYORK454 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH SOUTH AFRICAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ambassador Rice met with newly appointed South African PermRep Baso Sangqu on April 23. Sangqu hoped to forge greater cooperation on peace and security issues in Africa. He suggested a holistic approach to the crisis in Somalia, which needed to address the root causes of confli [...] | 2009-05-04 23:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC SF SO ZI XA ZU |
09USUNNEWYORK455 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S INITIAL WORKING MEETING WITH THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ambassador Rice on April 23 met with the entire African Union (AU) as part of her pledge to conduct regular meetings with the African Group. The discussion encompassed U.S. priorities, peace and security in Africa, socio-economic issues, UN reform, non-proliferation, and the AU [...] | 2009-05-05 09:29:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC XA |
09USUNNEWYORK463 | UNSC UNANIMOUSLY EXTENDS MINURSO FOR ANOTHER YEAR [...] The Security Council on April 30 unanimously adopted Resolution 1871 to extend the mandate of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) until April 30, 2010. Ambassador Rice gave the first explanation of vote (EOV),reiterating U.S. support for Personal Envoy Chris Ross a [...] | 2009-05-07 00:52:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS UNSC MO AG WI |
09USUNNEWYORK474 | 1267: ITALY REQUESTS U.S. INFO ON TERRORISM [...] (SBU) This is an action request -- please see para 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Italian UN mission has requested updated information from the United States about five individuals whom Italy proposed for designation in the 1267 al-Qaeda/Taliban Sanctions Committee. The 1267 Committee recently sol [...] | 2009-05-08 17:44:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK475 | SOMALIA: FRANCE PROPOSES SANCTIONS FOR PIRATES [...] (U) This is an action request -- please see para 5. 2. (C//NF) SUMMARY: The French mission has shared with USUN a list of fourteen individuals linked to piracy whom France wants to designate under the newly-imposed Somalia targeted sanctions regime (UNSCR 1844). France believes these indiv [...] | 2009-05-08 20:08:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KPKO UNSC MARR AU SO |
09USUNNEWYORK479 | MISSION CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FEDERIC HOF AND [...] In response to reftel, USUN grants mission clearance to Federic Hof, Special Coordinator for Regional Affairs in the Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace and Matthew Irwin, U.S. Department of State, Lebanon Desk Officer, for Tuesday, May 12, 2009. Mr. Hof and Mr. Irwin will meet [...] | 2009-05-11 20:37:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC LE IS |
09USUNNEWYORK482 | UNSC: UN ENVOY SAYS GREAT PROGRESS ON 1559, BUT [...] (C) Summary. Terje Roed-Larsen briefed the Security Council on May 7 that significant progress had been achieved in the implementation of UNSCR 1559, particularly on the full opening of diplomatic relations between Lebanon and Syria. Despite great strides in solidifying internal stability and [...] | 2009-05-12 01:12:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL UNSC LE SY IS |
09USUNNEWYORK483 | SWEDISH POLITICAL DIRECTOR DISCUSSES UPCOMING EU [...] (SBU) Swedish Political Director Bjorn Lyrvall told Ambassador Rice on May 6 that Sweden's priority during its upcoming EU presidency would be to prepare to address EU institutional issues under the assumption that the Lisbon Treaty would be fully ratified by the end of the year. Lyrvall thou [...] | 2009-05-12 01:16:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC EUN |
09USUNNEWYORK489 | SECURITY COUNCIL AND GAZA BOARD OF INQUIRY: LIBYA [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 10. 2. (C) Summary: The Libyan delegation circulated to Council members, after the May 11 Ministerial meeting on the Middle East, a draft resolution pursuing the findings of the Gaza Board of Inquiry and scheduled an experts meeting to discu [...] | 2009-05-12 16:50:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KWBG KPAL IS LY |
09USUNNEWYORK492 | UK: MILIBAND DISCUSSES MIDDLE EAST, IRAN, AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY. U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Ambassador Rice discussed the Middle East, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka on the margins of a May 11 Security Council Ministerial on the Middle East. Miliband was pleased with U.S. support for the Middle East peace process a [...] | 2009-05-13 00:27:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC UK |
09USUNNEWYORK493 | UNSC: MIDDLE EAST MINISTERIAL STRONGLY BACKS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Security Council on May 11 convened a ministerial-level meeting to encourage Israel, the Palestinians, and the international community to move forward on their commitments toward a comprehensive peace agreement. Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, opened the meetin [...] | 2009-05-13 00:35:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL UNSC LE SY IS |
09USUNNEWYORK494 | SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS DISCUSS SRI LANKA WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 11, the UK and French Foreign Ministers hosted a meeting with like-minded Security Council members to discuss the situation in Sri Lanka. OCHA and four NGOs (Caritas, Save the Children, Oxfam and Human Rights Watch) also participated. The Austrian and Costa Rican Foreig [...] | 2009-05-13 00:38:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF CE UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK499 | DPRK SANCTIONS COMMITTEE REPORTS TO COUNCIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 13, the chair of the Security Council's Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Sanctions Committee ("1718 Committee") briefed the Council about the Committee's activities over the last ninety days. He noted its recent designation of entities and goods in response to [...] | 2009-05-13 22:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN |
09USUNNEWYORK502 | SOMALI FM MAKES URGENT PLEA FOR AID TO AMB. RICE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY: In a May 13 meeting, Somali Foreign Minister Mohammed Omaar briefed Amb. Rice on the situation in Mogadishu following fighting between Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and Islamist opposition forces of a [...] | 2009-05-14 17:44:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PTER ASEC KPKO UNSC ER SO |
09USUNNEWYORK506 | SOMALIA: UNSC BACKS UK DRAFT, DEFERS UNPKO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Security Council members welcomed the UK's draft resolution on UN support to the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) with only a few members advocating a rapid transfer to a UN peacekeeping operation (UNPKO) in Security Council consultations on May 13. In a briefing prece [...] | 2009-05-14 21:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MARR MOPS KPKO UNSC SO |
09USUNNEWYORK507 | TURKISH PR ILKIN RAISES IRAQ, CYPRUS WITH [...] (C) Summary and Action Request. Turkish PR Ilkin met with Ambassador Rice on May 13 to discuss Turkey,s Presidency of the Security Council in June. Ilkin said his Foreign Minister would like to chair the quarterly debate on Iraq/UNAMI, tentatively scheduled for June 18. Ambassador Rice said [...] | 2009-05-14 21:15:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK508 | SECURITY COUNCIL REACTS OFFICIALLY TO SITUATION IN [...] (U) The UK, France and Austria circulated a draft Security Council press statement on Sri Lanka in the evening of May 12, and formally introduced the text in Council consultations under other matters May 13. They stressed that the Security Council must react in a formal way to the situation in [...] | 2009-05-14 21:20:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC CE PHUM PREF |
09USUNNEWYORK51 | GEORGIA: UN DPKO SHARES DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. As reported Reftel, the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) favors a revised interim monitoring mission in Georgia to replace the existing UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG). DPKO shared with USUN a draft of the Secretary-General's (SYG) "observations" to be incl [...] | 2009-01-27 01:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC KPKO RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK517 | UN BRIEFING NOTE ON FIELD OPERATIONS [...] On May 11, 2009, Security Council President Churkin (Russia) transmitted the following Briefing Note to the Security Council on UN field operations covering the period of April 29-MAY 5, 2009. 2. Begin text of Briefing Note: Africa --Burundi (BINUB): On 29 April, the African Union Spec [...] | 2009-05-18 19:38:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC MOPS KPKO |
09USUNNEWYORK526 | MISSION CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR THOMAS A. WUCHTE [...] In response to refel, USUN grants mission clearance to Thomas A. Wuchte, U.S. 1540 Coordinator, Department of State, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. Mr. Wuchte will be in New York, May 27-28, 2009, for meetings with the UN Office of Disarmament Affairs as well as for a [...] | 2009-05-22 21:02:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ETTC PARM UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK527 | MISSION CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR THOMAS A. WUCHTE [...] In response to refel, USUN grants mission clearance to Thomas A. Wuchte, U.S. 1540 Coordinator, Department of State, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. Mr. Wuchte will be in New York, May 27-28, 2009, for meetings with the UN Office of Disarmament Affairs as well as for a [...] | 2009-05-22 21:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ETTC PARM UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK529 | UNSC ACHIEVES BURMA PRESS STATEMENT [...] (SBU) During consultations on May 22, the Security Council debated the U.S.-drafted press statement on Burma to reach Council consensus. Ambassador DiCarlo underlined international concern with developments around ASSK and highlighted clear member support for a timely, substantive statement f [...] | 2009-05-22 21:37:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNSC BM |
09USUNNEWYORK53 | AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH CHINESE AMBASSADOR ZHANG [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-27 19:43:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC CH |
09USUNNEWYORK530 | UNSC CONDEMNS NUCLEAR TEST; BEGINS WORK ON [...] (C) Begin Summary. The Security Council roundly condemned North Korea's nuclear test in brief consultations following a P5 plus South Korea and Japan discussion, in which all delegations but China were prepared to agree to a formal Council press statement. The P5 2 ultimately agreed to eleme [...] | 2009-05-26 00:18:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP UNSC KN |
09USUNNEWYORK532 | CYPRUS: SECURITY COUNCIL CONSULTATIONS ON UNFICYP [...] (SBU) Cyprus SRSG Taye-Brook Zerihoun told the Security Council on May 22 that the military situation in Cyprus is stable, and he reported an increase in restrictions imposed on UNFICYP's movements by Turkish forces in the north. Zerihoun noted a lack of public support for a settlement, as wel [...] | 2009-05-26 22:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNFICYP UNSC CY |
09USUNNEWYORK533 | MISSION CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR THOMAS A. WUCHTE [...] In response to refel, USUN grants mission clearance to Thomas A. Wuchte, U.S. 1540 Coordinator, Department of State, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. Mr. Wuchte will be in New York, May 27-28, 2009, for meetings with the UN Office of Disarmament Affairs as well as for a [...] | 2009-05-27 12:30:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ETTC PARM UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK538 | GEORGIA: MAY 27 UNSC CONSULTATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Georgia SRSG Johan Verbeke told the Security Council on May 27 that a credible security regime, adhered to by all sides, needs to be the core of any future UN presence in Abkhazia, Georgia. Verbeke said that the Council's call in Res. 1866 for paragraph 2(a) of the former Mosco [...] | 2009-05-28 22:16:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC UNOMIG RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK539 | SEMINAR ON INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE: THE [...] (Begin summary.) On May 19, the Slovenian Permanent Representative, Ambassador Sanja Stiglic, convened a seminar entitled "International Criminal Justice: The Role of the International Criminal Court." International Criminal Court (ICC) President Song, ICC Assembly of State Parties Presiden [...] | 2009-05-29 13:08:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KAWC UNSC XA |
09USUNNEWYORK545 | AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Rice on May 28 met with UN Secretary-General Ban ki Moon to discuss a range of subjects, including the humanitarian situation in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, particularly regarding how the UN can and should deal with the destabilizing effects of large numbers of internally d [...] | 2009-06-01 16:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF CE KN PK CF UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK546 | U.S. INAUGURATES WORKING GROUP OF THE UNSC 1540 [...] (C) Summary. The U.S. delegation on May 27 chaired the first meeting of the 1540 Committee working group on transparency and media outreach. The meeting represented the implementation of the working-group structure promoted by the USG as part of the Committee's eighth Program of Work to stre [...] | 2009-06-01 19:34:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK55 | A/SYG MULET BRIEFS COUNCIL ON DARFUR VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: On request of the United States, A/SYG Mulet provided the Security Council a detailed factual chronology of events in Darfur beginning with the January 10 movement of JEM forces into South Darfur and the ensuing aerial bombardment by the Government of Sudan. He said that, al [...] | 2009-01-29 02:17:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC SU |
09USUNNEWYORK552 | MISSION CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR S/WCI [...] Mission clearance is granted for Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, Clint Williamson, Foreign Affairs Officer Brendan Doherty, and Foreign Service Officer Todd Anderson from June 4 - 5 with Assistant Secretary General for Legal Affairs, Peter Taksoe-Jensen and Croatian Prime Minister I [...] | 2009-06-02 19:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KJUS OTRA UNSC XA AF EU |
09USUNNEWYORK553 | UNGA: UNSC REFORM: START OF SECOND ROUND OF [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: The informal plenary of the General Assembly met on May 22 and 26 for the start of the second round of intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council expansion. The two sessions, during which 51 delegations spoke, focused on the Chair's agenda for the second ro [...] | 2009-06-02 21:52:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC GE JA BR IN |
09USUNNEWYORK554 | GEORGIA: RUSSIAN MISSION REFUSES TO ENGAGE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. At a meeting of French, German, U.K., U.S., Russian and Croatian PRs/DPRs on June 2, Russian Permrep Vitaly Churkin refused to engage on a German draft resolution to extend the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG). Churkin said he had received emphatic i [...] | 2009-06-02 22:09:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC UNOMIG RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK56 | SPECIAL ADVISOR GAMBARI BRIEFS AMBASSADOR RICE ON [...] (C) Ambassador Rice spoke by phone on January 28 with the Secretary-General's Special Advisor on Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, who departs today for a trip to Burma. During the brief, friendly call, Gambari told Ambassador Rice that he is hopeful but not certain he will have meetings with senior mi [...] | 2009-01-29 02:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC BM |
09USUNNEWYORK560 | CROATIA: PRIME MINISTER SANADER DISCUSSES EU, ICTY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Prime Minister of Croatia Ivo Sanader told Ambassador Rice on June 1 he is hoping for a positive assessment of Croatia's cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) from Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz, when Brammertz reports to the Secu [...] | 2009-06-04 01:06:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC HR |
09USUNNEWYORK569 | AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH UNIFEM EXECUTIVE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador Rice met with United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Executive Director, Ines Alberdi, on Wednesday, June 3, 2009. Ms. Alberdi congratulated the U.S. on their new administration and the new possibilities it presents for gender issues. Alberdi and her staff [...] | 2009-06-05 23:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNSC SO SU |
09USUNNEWYORK57 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH FRENCH PREMREP [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Rice paid an initial call on French PermRep Ripert on January 26. Ambassador Rice reviewed her priorities and sought Ripert's views. Ripert offered his views on the state of the UN, the importance of progress on Security Council reform, engaging the Secretary General [...] | 2009-01-29 02:30:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PGOV FR |
09USUNNEWYORK570 | GEORGIA: RUSSIA INSISTS ON NEW 'POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian Permrep Churkin continued to resist substantive negotiations, on June 5, on a draft resolution to extend UNOMIG beyond June 15. Churkin insisted that Western partners needed to present a draft resolution within Moscow's preferred "political framework" before he would engag [...] | 2009-06-06 01:57:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNOMIG UNSC RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK577 | FORMER YUGOSLAVIA AND RWANDA WAR CRIMES TRIBUNALS [...] SUMMARY: The Security Council met June 5 for its biannual briefing on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). The President and Prosecutor of each tribunal made statements, as did all Council members and [...] | 2009-06-10 00:18:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ICTY PREL UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK578 | AMBASSADOR DICARLO MEETS WITH THE ICTY'S CHIEF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Serge Brammertz, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) met with Ambassador DiCarlo on June 2 prior to the ICTY's biannual briefing to the UN Security Council. Brammertz focused the discussion on Croatia's less than optimu [...] | 2009-06-10 00:18:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ICTY PREL UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK58 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S CALL ON RUSSIAN PERMREP VITALY [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a wide-ranging and warm introductory meeting, Ambassador Rice and Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin discussed U.S. and Russian priorities for the UN, including Georgia, Zimbabwe, Burma, climate change, and the crisis in the Middle East. On Georgia, Rice conveyed the U.S. prefer [...] | 2009-01-29 02:51:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC UNGA RS |
09USUNNEWYORK580 | GEORGIA: MARGINAL PROGRESS ON UNOMIG NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND GUIDANCE REQUEST. Russian Permrep Vitaly Churkin acknowledged to France, Germany, U.K., U.S., and Croatia Permreps on June 9 that Russian forces would be subject to any security regime that would serve as the basis for a revised UNOMIG mandate. Churkin also said Russia would n [...] | 2009-06-10 14:06:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC UNOMIG RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK581 | AMBASSADOR DICARLO MEETS WITH THE ICTY'S PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Ambassador DiCarlo met with Judge Patrick Robinson, the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on June 3 prior to the ICTY's biannual briefing to the UN Security Council. The ICTY's new Registrar, John Hocking and its Chef de Cabinet, Gabriell [...] | 2009-06-10 16:01:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ICTY PREL UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK582 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL COMMENDS SIERRA LEONE'S JOINT [...] (U) SUMMARY. On June 8, UNIPSIL ERSG von der Schulenburg told the Security Council that the April 2 Joint Communiqu, which calls for unity and rejects violence, was a courageous decision by Sierra Leone's leaders. He warned of youth unemployment and explained the UN's "Joint Vision" for coord [...] | 2009-06-10 22:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL UNSC XY SL |
09USUNNEWYORK583 | GEORGIA: RUSSIA AND WESTERN FRIENDS AT AN IMPASSE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Per Ref A and B instructions, USUN has maintained close unity with the Quad in negotiations over extension of the mandate of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG). At a June 10 negotiating session among Croatia, France, Germany, Russia, U.K., and U.S. Per [...] | 2009-06-11 02:43:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC UNOMIG RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK589 | AMBASSADORS DENNIS ROSS AND SUSAN RICE DISCUSS [...] (C) Ambassador Rice and Special Advisor for the Gulf and Southwest Asia Ambassador Dennis Ross on June 9 met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to explain key elements of U.S. diplomatic outreach to Iran and to hear Ban's assessment. Ambassador Ross explained that President Obama in various fora [...] | 2009-06-13 00:23:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ZP IR IS UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK591 | FM YODA: BURKINA FASO WILL ABSTAIN FROM BLOCKING A [...] (SBU) Burkinabe Foreign Minister Yoda called Ambassador Rice on June 10 to request U.S. views on the mandate renewal of the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights for Sudan. Ambassador Rice stressed the U.S. wants a robust new mandate for the Rapporteur, noting Sudan need not fear a rapporteur if [...] | 2009-06-13 00:45:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM UNSC XY UV SU |
09USUNNEWYORK592 | DPRK: COUNCIL VOTES TO IMPOSE NEW SANCTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 12, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution to condemn the May 25 nuclear test by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and impose new sanctions. All Council members delivered statements that were generally supportive of the text and condemned t [...] | 2009-06-13 02:02:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK594 | P3 MEETING WITH SPECIAL ENVOY GAMBARI ON BURMA [...] (C) UN Special Advisor on Burma Ibrahim Gambari told the P3 on June 12 that the Secretary-General is "very conflicted" regarding a potential visit to Burma. The Secretary-General continues to believe that an eventual visit would be useful, although the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi has obviously [...] | 2009-06-13 02:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BM UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK595 | GEORGIA: RUSSIAN VETO FORCES EXPIRATION OF UNOMIG [...] (C) The Russian Federation vetoed a two-week technical rollover of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) on June 15, 2009, after several attempts by the Quad to reach compromise with Russia on the terms of a substantive resolution. Per Reftel instructions, USUN had consulted [...] | 2009-06-16 02:11:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC UNOMIG RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK596 | IRAN: COUNCIL RESPONDS TO SANCTIONS BRIEFING [...] SUMMARY: On June 15, the chair of the Iran Sanctions Committee updated the UN Security Council on the Committee's activities over the previous ninety days, highlighting in particular its response to the sanctions violation involving the vessel Monchegorsk. Ambassador DiCarlo noted concern ov [...] | 2009-06-16 11:43:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM MNUC ETTC KNNP IR UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK600 | AMBASSADOR DICARLO MEETS WITH THE ICTR,S PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador DiCarlo met with Judge Dennis Byron, the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on June 3 prior to the ICTR,s biannual briefing to the UN Security Council. The ICTR,s Special Assistant to the President, Helge Zietler also attended. Br [...] | 2009-06-17 22:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK602 | DPRK: U.S./JAPAN SHARE THOUGHTS ON NEXT STEPS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Rice told Japanese Perm Rep Takasu that the United States is now focused on implementing the new sanctions imposed on the DPRK in resolution 1874. She explained that in the highly-likely event of a future DPRK provocation, Washington would prefer not to engage in a tit [...] | 2009-06-18 11:03:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK605 | KOSOVO: SRSG ZANNIER UPDATES SECURITY COUNCIL ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Kosovo SRSG Lamberto Zannier told the Security Council on June 17 that UNMIK's nearly completed reconfiguration is "timely and necessary" due to UNMIK's "limited capacity" to perform administrative functions in Kosovo. Zannier, along with Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic, n [...] | 2009-06-18 23:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM UNMIK UNSC SR KS |
09USUNNEWYORK608 | SRSG DE MISTURA BRIEFS THE SECURITY COUNCIL IN A [...] (U) Summary: On June 18, the Security Council held a quarterly debate on UNAMI/Iraq. Turkish FM Davutoglu chaired the meeting, which included interventions by all Council members, Iraqi PR Bayati and SRSG Staffan de Mistura in his last address before the Council. De Mistura praised the work [...] | 2009-06-20 01:28:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC IZ |
09USUNNEWYORK609 | UNGA: UNSC REFORM: SECOND ROUND OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The informal plenary of the General Assembly met on June 11 and 12 for the second meeting of the second round of intergovernmental negotiations (IGN) on Security Council reform, focusing on the three clustered issues of composition: size, categories of membership and regional r [...] | 2009-06-20 02:00:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC GE JA BR IN |
09USUNNEWYORK610 | SRSG JENCA BRIEFS THE SECURITY COUNCIL ON THE [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 19, Miroslav Jenca - SRSG for Central Asia and head of the UN,s Regional Centre for Preventative Diplomacy in Central Asia (UNRCCA) - briefed the Council on the activities of the newly constituted center. His priorities are to gain the trust of Central Asian leaders, sup [...] | 2009-06-20 02:07:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC UNRCCA |
09USUNNEWYORK612 | DPRK: U.S. PROPOSES NEW SANCTIONS DESIGNATIONS [...] (SBU) The United States proposed on June 19 a package of new sanctions designations (individuals, entities and goods) to the UN Security Council's DPRK Sanctions Committee. Resolution 1874, adopted June 12 in response to the May DPRK nuclear test, tasked the Committee with making such designat [...] | 2009-06-22 23:37:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK613 | SUDAN: COUNCIL CONSIDERS SANCTIONS COMMITTEE REPORT [...] SUMMARY: On June 19, Austrian Perm Rep Mayr-Harting, chair of the Sudan Sanctions Committee ("1591 Committee") updated the UN Security Council on the Committee's activities over the previous ninety days highlighting the Committee's informal consultations to review the Panel of Experts'(POE) m [...] | 2009-06-22 23:46:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ETTC SU UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK62 | NEW SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ATTEND FIRST [...] This is an action cable, see paragraph 5 below. 2. Summary. New members of the Security Council attended their first CTC meeting January 22. The agenda included a discussion of the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate's (CTED) reports on its visits to Niger and Kenya and on the prepar [...] | 2009-01-29 19:40:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREF PREL UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK620 | AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH CHINESE FM YANG [...] (C) Summary. During a June 24 meeting with Ambassador Rice, Yang commented on the excellent U.S.-China working relationship including at the UN and praised the smooth transition of the Obama administration. Yang agreed on the need to build positive, cooperative, comprehensive relations for t [...] | 2009-06-25 11:20:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNSC IZ KN SU |
09USUNNEWYORK625 | DPRK: POSSIBLE BURMA-SINGAPORE CONVERSATION ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Burmese mission may have recently asked the Singaporean mission whether Singapore intends to inspect the Kang Nam, a DPRK vessel suspected of carrying contraband cargo. The Burmese reportedly said they would prefer that a state other than Burma inspect the cargo. END SUMMARY. [...] | 2009-06-26 00:58:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK63 | UN UPDATE: CNDP JOINING DRC ARMY; DRC AND RWANDA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-30 00:26:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO UNSC XA CG RW UG |
09USUNNEWYORK630 | UGANDA SHOPPING FOR HELP ON SOMALIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ugandan Defense Minister Kiyonga told Ambassador DiCarlo on June 24 that Uganda still strongly favors a UNPKO for Somalia and that, in the meantime, AMISOM needs to push the envelope on services provided by a U.S. contractor in Mogadishu to allow more troops, better communication [...] | 2009-06-26 22:38:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PTER ASEC KPKO UNSC ER SO |
09USUNNEWYORK632 | UNSC CONDEMNS NUCLEAR TEST; BEGINS WORK ON [...] (C) Begin Summary. The Security Council roundly condemned North Korea's nuclear test in brief consultations following a P5 plus South Korea and Japan discussion, in which all delegations but China were prepared to agree to a formal Council press statement. The P5 2 ultimately agreed to eleme [...] | 2009-06-27 00:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN |
09USUNNEWYORK635 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL APPROVES INTEGRATED OFFICE FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UN Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNOGBIS) Special Representative Joseph Mutaboba on June 23 told the Security Council that Guinea-Bissau needed coordinated security sector reform. He also lobbied for the creation of a robust integrated UN office to replace UNOGB [...] | 2009-06-27 01:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC XY PU |
09USUNNEWYORK64 | UNSC: U/SYG HOLMES AND UNRWA CHIEF BRIEF COUNCIL [...] (SBU) Summary: Under Secretary-General Holmes and UNRWA Commissioner-General Abu Zayd briefed the Security Council January 27 on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Holmes said he was shocked by the destruction and suffering he saw in Gaza on his recent trip and highlighted both Hamas' use of [...] | 2009-01-30 00:26:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER EAID SOCI UNSC KWBG KPAL IS LY |
09USUNNEWYORK642 | SRSG EIDE MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR RICE [...] (C) SRSG Kai Eide met briefly with Ambassador Rice on June 29, in advance of his June 30 briefing to the Security Council on UNAMA/Afghanistan. Eide previewed his intervention. First, he will focus on planning for elections while also rejecting the accusation of "foreign interference." (In [...] | 2009-07-01 00:35:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC AF |
09USUNNEWYORK644 | SECURITY COUNCIL WEIGHS FUTURE OF PEACEKEEPING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Security Council members, senior Secretariat officials, and major troop contributing countries debated the future of United Nations peacekeeping operations (UNPKO) in a full-day session on June 29. UN Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Le Roy said in his open [...] | 2009-07-01 23:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC PHUM PREL |
09USUNNEWYORK647 | SECURITY COUNCIL DEBATES UNAMA/AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) Summary: On June 30, the Security Council held a quarterly debate on UNAMA/Afghanistan. SRSG Kai Eide briefed on behalf of UNAMA, Ambassador Zahir Tanin briefed for Afghanistan. In addition to interventions by Council members, eleven other countries (ISAF members and Afghanistan,s neighb [...] | 2009-07-02 00:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC AF |
09USUNNEWYORK649 | UN SECRETARIAT TELLS THE SECURITY COUNCIL TO "STAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UN DPKO U/SYG Le Roy told the Security Council on June 25 that UN troops in Liberia should not be withdrawn too quickly, and that 8,000 should remain through the 2011 national elections. He said training for the Liberian National Police needed to be brought back on track, and [...] | 2009-07-02 21:43:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC XY LI IV |
09USUNNEWYORK65 | SECURITY COUNCIL CONSIDERS FUTURE OF PEACEKEEPING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Security Council members and invited speakers considered in lengthy January 22-23 sessions the state of United Nations peacekeeping operations. Participants agreed that a decade of dramatic expansion in UN peacekeeping efforts leaves the Council overdue for a systematic stockta [...] | 2009-01-30 01:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC PHUM PREL |
09USUNNEWYORK650 | DPRK: 1718 COMMITTEE FOCUSES ON DESIGNATIONS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The DPRK Sanctions Committee ("1718 Committee") discussed key tasks to implement resolution 1874, including sanctions designations, a draft Program of Work for the Committee and the composition of a Panel of Experts to assist the Committee in monitoring and improving the impleme [...] | 2009-07-02 21:54:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETTC MCAP PGOV PHUM KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK652 | SPECIAL ENVOY OBASANJO SHARES VIEWS ON DRC, SOUTH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Obasanjo met with Ambassador Rice on June 29 and the P5 Belgium on June 30. He told Rice that neither Rwanda nor the DRC wanted to shelter former CNDP leader Nkunda. He suggested implementing greater incentives to encourage FDLR combatants [...] | 2009-07-07 02:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC RW SU GC XA |
09USUNNEWYORK654 | DPRK: COUNCIL RESPONDS TO JULY 4 MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 6, the Security Council discussed how best to respond to the July 4 launch of short- and medium-range ballistic missiles by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Most Council members supported a Japanese proposal that the Council President (currently Ugandan [...] | 2009-07-07 11:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK658 | UNGA: UNSC REFORM: P5 MEET TO DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: P5 Ambassadors met on July 2 to discuss intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform. The U.S. and Russia encouraged the P5 to coordinate on positions, but the U.S. advocated against a uniform P5 position at this time since the broader membership and not the P5 shou [...] | 2009-07-08 01:11:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC GE JA BR IN |
09USUNNEWYORK659 | 1267 BRIEFING:STATISTICAL UPDATE ON KEY TASKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The chair of the Al-Qaeda/Taliban Sanctions Committee ("1267 Committee"),Austrian Perm Rep Mayr-Harting, held an open briefing for UN Member States to discuss the Committee's activities and "enhance the transparency" of the Committee's work. He focused on two main tasks manda [...] | 2009-07-08 10:54:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK661 | DPRK:1718 COMMITTEE DESIGNATIONS STALEMATED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 7, the DPRK Sanctions Committee ("1718 Committee") continued its work to implement key tasks in Resolution 1874, including making new sanctions designations by July 12, drafting a Program of Work to guide the Committee's work, and helping to establish a Panel of Expert [...] | 2009-07-09 14:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MCAP PGOV PHUM PREL KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK666 | BAN PROVIDES READOUT ON JULY BURMA TRIP [...] (C) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spoke by telephone with Ambassador Rice on July 6 to report on his July 3-4 trip to Burma. Ban said he delivered a very strong message to Senior General Than Shwe on human rights and release of political prisoners. He said he met with representatives from [...] | 2009-07-09 23:12:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC BM |
09USUNNEWYORK670 | GAMBARI CONVENES THE NINTH BURMA GROUP OF FRIENDS [...] (SBU) Summary. On July 8, Special Advisor Gambari convened the ninth Group of Friends of Burma meeting on behalf of Secretary-General Ban. Gambari reviewed Ban's schedule of meetings during the trip as well as his brief visit to the Delta and speech to the diplomatic corps and others. Gamba [...] | 2009-07-09 23:30:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNSC BM |
09USUNNEWYORK671 | DPRK: 1718 COMMITTEE DISCUSSES DESIGNATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The DPRK Sanctions Committee ("1718 Committee") considered on July 9 moving forward with new sanctions designations in light of the fact that key delegations -- particularly, Russia and China -- were still without instructions to respond to the U.S./Japan/France/UK designation pro [...] | 2009-07-10 00:50:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK675 | GEORGIA: PERMREP LOMAIA SEEKS U.S. VIEWS ON GUAM [...] (C) SUMMARY. Georgian Permrep Lomaia sought U.S. views on the prospects for Georgia to achieve passage of a General Assembly (GA) Resolution that would keep the Georgia conflict in the minds of Member States. Lomaia told Ambassador DiCarlo on July 9 that all four GUAM states (Georgia, Ukraine [...] | 2009-07-11 00:31:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNGA UNSC GG |
09USUNNEWYORK679 | SOMALIA: UNSC ADOPTS STATEMENT SUPPORTING TFG, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 9, Security Council members adopted a UK-drafted Presidential Statement (PRST) that largely tracks a recent African Union communiqu condemning recent attacks on the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and expressing concern about Eritrea's support for extremis [...] | 2009-07-13 10:51:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MARR MOPS KPKO UNSC SO |
09USUNNEWYORK682 | UN OFFICE FOR WEST AFRICA BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL, [...] (SBU) UN Office for West Africa (UNOWA) SRSG Djinnit briefed the Security Council on July 7 on the biggest challenges facing the region, namely unconstitutional changes of government, security sector reform, and drug trafficking. He warned of the slow pace of reform in Guinea. Djinnit said UN [...] | 2009-07-13 16:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC XY |
09USUNNEWYORK684 | GEORGIA: WESTERN FRIENDS DISCUSS FUTURE OF UN WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Permreps/Deputy Permreps from the expanded Western Friends group (U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Croatia, Austria, Turkey and EU Council Secretariat) informally discussed the future of UN involvement in Georgia post-UNOMIG in a July 9 meeting with A/SYG Mulet (DPKO),A/SYG Fernan [...] | 2009-07-13 22:28:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNOMIG UNSC RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK685 | ACTION REQUEST: IDENTIFYING OPTIONS FOR RESPONDING [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 5 below. 2. (SBU) Following the Security Council's debate on Somalia July 9, Council members are now considering whether to move forward on the question of sanctioning Eritrea for undermining the Djibouti Peace Process. The Council [...] | 2009-07-14 11:01:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MARR MOPS KPKO UNSC SO ER |
09USUNNEWYORK687 | MONUC AT THE UN: "ZERO TOLERANCE" FOR SEXUAL [...] (SBU) ACTION REQUESTS: PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPHS 11 AND 12. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. MONUC SRSG Doss on July 10 told the Security Council that significant progress was being made on integrating the DRC army (FARDC) and combating the FDLR and LRA rebel groups. He warned of an ongoing humanitarian cris [...] | 2009-07-14 18:14:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC CG XA ZF RW |
09USUNNEWYORK689 | BAN BRIEFS THE UNSC ON JULY 3-4 TRAVEL TO BURMA [...] (SBU) Summary. In an open session of the Security Council on July 13, Secretary-General Ban said he was "deeply disappointed" in the regime's refusal to allow a visit with Aung Sun Suu Kyi (ASSK). However, he added that he was able to convey key recommendations, including the release of all [...] | 2009-07-14 22:28:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNSC BM |
09USUNNEWYORK69 | UNGA: UNSC REFORM: PGA BRIEFS INFORMAL PLENARY OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The President of the General Assembly (PGA) presented the results of the Open-ended Working Group's consultations on framework and modalities of Security Council expansion negotiations in an informal session of the General Assembly on January 29, in line with General Assembly D [...] | 2009-01-30 18:55:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC GE JA BR IN |
09USUNNEWYORK690 | MISSION CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR THOMAS A.WUCHTE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-14 22:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PARM PGOV PREL PTER UNSC OTRA |
09USUNNEWYORK691 | FM ZEBARI MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR WOLFF; DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: On July 14, Ambassadors Wolff and DiCarlo met with Iraqi FM Zebari to discuss the upcoming UNSCR 1859 report and Zebari,s visit to New York. The Foreign Minister noted the "clear commitment" of the U.S., as enshrined in the SOFA, to work towards removing Iraq as a pending issue be [...] | 2009-07-15 01:12:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK694 | DPRK: 1718 COMMITTEE APPROVES AMBITIOUS PROGRAM OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The DPRK Sanctions Committee has approved and submitted to the Security Council a Program of Work, as was requested from the Committee in resolution 1874. Modeled on similar documents in other sanctions regimes, the Program of Work provides for increased Committee activities wit [...] | 2009-07-16 10:53:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK695 | SUDAN/SANCTIONS: EXPERTS BRIEF ON VIOLATIONS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Sudan Panel of Experts (POE),a monitoring group charged with monitoring implementation of UN sanctions on Sudan, shared with USUN their thoughts on the changing dynamics of violence in Darfur. The POE also briefed USUN on their ongoing problems due to the lack of cooperatio [...] | 2009-07-16 10:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PGOV PREL SU UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK7 | CALLS IN NEW YORK FOR SECURITY COUNCIL TO ACT ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-06 15:08:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KWBG KPAL IS PA LE SY EG |
09USUNNEWYORK70 | GEORGIA: GROUP OF FRIENDS INFORMAL CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. At an informal meeting of Ambassadors of the Georgia Group of Friends on January 29, Russian PermRep Churkin linked Russian cooperation on an extension of the UN Mission in Georgia to an invitation from the Security Council for Abkhaz de facto authorities to par [...] | 2009-01-30 18:55:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC GG RS |
09USUNNEWYORK701 | DPRK:1718 COMMITTEE MAKES NEW SANCTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 16, the DPRK Sanctions Committee ("1718 Committee") unanimously approved a package of new sanctions designations, which included five entities, five individuals, and two technical items linked to DPRK's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The Committee acted in res [...] | 2009-07-18 00:22:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MCAP PGOV PHUM PREL KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK708 | LRA ENVOY CHISSANO'S FAREWELL AT UN: OPEN [...] (SBU) During his final briefing to the UN Security Council on July 15, Special Envoy for the LRA-affected region of the Great Lakes Joaquim Chissano suggested the international community create a line of communication for Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony. Chissano said Kony mig [...] | 2009-07-21 11:32:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC CG UG ZF SU CT |
09USUNNEWYORK709 | SOMALIA: MONITORING GROUP PROPOSES 11 TARGETS FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Somalia Sanctions Committee ("751 Committee") has received a list (see para 4) of eleven possible targets for the first round of targeted sanctions under resolution 1844. This list, which includes three Eritreans, was prepared by the UN Somalia sanctions Monitoring Group (M [...] | 2009-07-21 16:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER KPKO SO UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK71 | AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH JAPANESE AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: During a productive and cordial initial meeting with Japanese Permanent Representative Takasu, Ambassador Rice outlined U.S. priorities and conveyed the Administration's desire to deepen the bilateral relationship. Takasu said Japan shares U.S. objectives and lends its "fullest [...] | 2009-01-30 19:04:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC JA |
09USUNNEWYORK710 | P3 MEETS WITH DJIBOUTIAN PERMREP ON DJIBOUTI [...] SUMMARY: (C) In a July 20 meeting, the P3 met with Djiboutian Permanent Representative Olhaye to discuss Djibouti's draft resolution calling for sanctioning those who led the drive to invade and occupy Djiboutian territory. Olhaye dismissed the P3's proposal to use the existing Somalia Sanct [...] | 2009-07-21 21:36:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MARR MOPS KPKO UNSC ER DJ |
09USUNNEWYORK711 | AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH LIECHTENSTEIN PERMANENT [...] (U) Summary: Amb. Rice met with Liechtenstein Amb. Wenaweser on July 7 on ICC issues. They discussed the USG review of the ICC, possible future USG engagement with the ICC, the 2010 review conference, the recent AU decision not to comply with the arrest warrant for President Bashir of Sudan [...] | 2009-07-21 23:55:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KJUS KAWC UNSC SU |
09USUNNEWYORK712 | SECURITY COUNCIL CONSULTATIONS ON UNMIN/NEPAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Karin Lundgren, Representative of the Secretary-General to Nepal and head of UNMIN, briefed the Council July 20 on latest developments. As noted in the Secretary-General,s recent report on Nepal/UNMIN, Lundgren reiterated disappointment with the slow pace of the peace process [...] | 2009-07-22 00:02:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC NE |
09USUNNEWYORK713 | U/SYG PASCOE UPDATES SECURITY COUNCIL ON [...] Summary: (SBU) In July 21 consultations on the Djibouti-Eritrea border dispute, U/SYG Pascoe told the Security Council that Eritrea has failed to comply with UNSC Resolution 1862, which calls on Eritrea to recognize the dispute, accept mediation and withdraw its forces. Council members unan [...] | 2009-07-22 11:26:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MARR MOPS KPKO UNSC DJ |
09USUNNEWYORK716 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: 1540 COMMITTEE COMPREHENSIVE [...] (C) Ambassador Wolff on July 21 delivered demarche points (reftel) to Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian Deputy Permanent Representative. Dolgov said the position of the Russian mission in New York remained unchanged, i.e. Russia could not accept the addition of the G8 Global Partnership, Austral [...] | 2009-07-23 14:36:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC RU |
09USUNNEWYORK718 | DPRK: EXPERT PANEL DELAYED BY SQUABBLE OVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: A squabble over geographical representation has delayed the establishment of a seven-member UN Panel of Experts (POE) to help monitor and improve the implementation of sanctions imposed on the DPRK. Costa Rica and Mexico appear likely to block the POE's approval in the DPRK Sanct [...] | 2009-07-24 00:09:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK72 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH ISRAELI AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli Permanent Representative to the United Nations Gabriela Shalev on January 28 welcomed Ambassador Rice to her new post during their initial meeting. During the hour-long meeting, Shalev stressed Israel's commitment to the peace process while isolating Hamas and ending smug [...] | 2009-01-30 19:42:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | EG IR IS KPAL KWBG LE PAL SY UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK720 | UNOCI SRSG SAYS "NON-POLITICAL" REASONS COULD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNOCI SRSG Choi told the Security Council on July 23 that elections could be delayed for "non-political" reasons, and that Cote d'Ivoire faced "formidable obstacles" to hold them on November 29, 2009. French and Cote d'Ivoire's UN representatives exchanged words in the public po [...] | 2009-07-24 15:25:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC XY IV |
09USUNNEWYORK722 | SOMALIA: INCHING CLOSER TO SANCTIONS DESIGNATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 21, the Somalia Sanctions Monitoring Group (MG),a UN team mandated to monitor and report on compliance with the Somalia arms embargo and resolution 1844, briefed the Somalia Sanctions Committee ("751 Committee") on a proposed list of nine individuals, including three rank [...] | 2009-07-24 16:39:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SO UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK723 | SOMALI FOREIGN MINISTER OMAAR POSITIVE ON THE TFG, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-24 16:40:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MARR MOPS KPKO UNSC SO ER |
09USUNNEWYORK728 | SECURITY COUNCIL OPEN DEBATE ON PEACEBUILDING [...] SUMMARY. At a July 22 debate on peacebuilding in the immediate aftermath of conflict, 42 speakers from the Security Council, Secretariat, major troop and police contributors and major donors stressed the importance of national responsibility for peacebuilding efforts and the need for early en [...] | 2009-07-28 19:36:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KPKO |
09USUNNEWYORK73 | AMB. RICE'S CALL ON AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Ambassador Rice discussed international humanitarian law, peacekeeping and sanctions with Austrian PermRep Thomas Mayr-Harting during an introductory call on January 28. Mayr-Harting said he was eager to work with the United States, and pledged that when our positions differed, [...] | 2009-01-30 20:32:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV UNSC AU |
09USUNNEWYORK730 | SRSG ANGELO BRIEFS COUNCIL ON MINURCAT [...] Summary. On July 28, MINURCAT SRSG Angelo reported that the security and humanitarian situation in Eastern Chad and Northeastern CAR had further deteriorated, largely as a result of increased tensions between Chad and Sudan. Despite this deterioration, Angelo also pointed to positive develop [...] | 2009-07-29 17:39:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPKO PREF UNSC CD CT SU |
09USUNNEWYORK736 | UNSC: OPEN DEBATE ON THE MIDDLE EAST CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Assistant-Secretary-General for Political Affairs (A/SG) Oscar Fernandez-Taranco briefed the Security Council during its monthly meeting on the Middle East on July 27. He focused his briefing on continuing Israeli settlement activity, the humanitarian situation in Gaza, and th [...] | 2009-07-31 00:14:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KWBG KPAL KPO UNSC IS LE SY |
09USUNNEWYORK739 | SECURITY COUNCIL RENEWS UNOCI MANDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Security Council on July 30 unanimously adopted Resolution 1880, extending the mandate of the UN Operation in Cote d,Ivoire (UNOCI) until January 31, 2010. Negotiations on the French-drafted resolution were non-contentious. The resolution expresses support for the ongoing e [...] | 2009-07-31 23:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC XY IV |
09USUNNEWYORK741 | SOMALIA: SRSG OULD-ABDALLAH URGES INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On July 28, SRSG for Somalia Ould-Abdallah called for the international community to continue its support for the TFG and AMISOM, reporting that while insurgent attempts to overthrow the Somali government have failed, the security situation remains fragile. African Union Commi [...] | 2009-08-03 11:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MARR MOPS KPKO UNSC SO |
09USUNNEWYORK742 | DPRK: U.S. COORDINATOR PRESSES 1874 IMPLEMENTATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 30, Ambassador Philip Goldberg, U.S. Coordinator for the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1874 briefed the Security Council's DPRK Sanctions Committee ("1718 Committee") about U.S. efforts to implement sanctions on North Korea. He urged the Commi [...] | 2009-08-04 11:29:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MCAP PGOV PHUM PREL KNNP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK743 | AU COMMISSIONER LAMAMRA STRATEGIZES ON SOMALIA, [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-04 11:29:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MARR MOPS KPKO UNSC SO ER |
09USUNNEWYORK744 | RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT DEBATE CONCLUDES: AGENDA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Responsibility to Protect populations from the four crimes of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity was endorsed unanimously by world leaders in the 2005 World Summit Outcome (A/Res/60/1). The Responsibility to Protect, more commonly called "R2P" [...] | 2009-08-04 14:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNSC UNGA KAWC KTIA |
09USUNNEWYORK748 | AMBASSADOR RICE PREPS P5 ON U.S. PLANS FOR [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Rice on August 4 briefed the P5 delegations on U.S. plans to convene a Security Council summit on nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament during the U.S. Presidency of the Council in September. Ambassador Rice listed a number of possible topics that could be [...] | 2009-08-06 02:17:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL NPT UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK749 | SECURITY COUNCIL CONSIDERS FARDC-5 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. U/SYG Le Roy told the Security Council on August 4 that all five senior FARDC officers implicated by the Council itself as involved in sexual violence had been removed from their command positions and two had also been taken into custody by DRC authorities. He said the other t [...] | 2009-08-06 02:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC CG |
09USUNNEWYORK750 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S AUGUST 5 MEETING WITH UNIFIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Rice met with UNIFIL Force Commander General Graziano on August 5 to discuss UNIFIL's needs, its mandate renewal before the Security Council, and the July 14-18 incidents in Khirbat Silim. General Graziano underscored that the real problem facing UNIFIL is the lack of [...] | 2009-08-06 02:34:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPKO KBIO UNSC IS LE |
09USUNNEWYORK753 | BAN CONVENES THE TENTH BURMA GROUP OF FRIENDS [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 5, Secretary-General Ban convened the tenth meeting of the Group of Friends of Burma to report on his meeting with Burmese Permanent Representative Swe and to seek support for a unified public message from the group on the need for Burmese authorities to respond to th [...] | 2009-08-07 18:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNSC BM |
09USUNNEWYORK759 | DPRK: COMMITTEE BLESSES PANEL OF EXPERTS SLATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 7, the DPRK Sanctions Committee ("1718 Committee") blessed a seven-person slate for the Panel of Experts (POE),a newly-established body under UNSCR 1874 charged with helping the Committee monitor and improve the implementation of sanctions on the DPRK. The Secretary-Ge [...] | 2009-08-10 23:57:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC MCAP PGOV PHUM PREL KNNP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK76 | GEORGIA PERMREP DISCUSSES UNOMIG WITH AMBASSADORS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Rice told newly arrived Georgian PermRep Lomaia that Russia was tying extension of UNOMIG's mandate to Abkhaz formal participation in a UNSC meeting under Rule 39. Participation in an Arria-format meeting might be a compromise option to preclude their formal attendance [...] | 2009-02-02 19:05:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK762 | STATE OF PLAY ON UN BURMA STATEMENT [...] (SBU) This is an action request, see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) In Security Council consultations on August 11, most Council members broadly condemned the conviction and sentencing of Aung Sun Suu Kyi (ASSK). A clear majority supported the P-3 drafted statement introduced by the U.S., with the [...] | 2009-08-12 23:41:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM |
09USUNNEWYORK764 | SECURITY COUNCIL AGAIN DEBATES THE FUTURE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: U/SYG Alain Le Roy, U/SYG Susana Malcorra and UNAMID Force Commander Agwai briefed the Security Council on August 5, during an open debate on peacekeeping convened by the UK. The two U/SYGs highlighted key themes in the Secretariat's recently issued "New Horizon" non-paper, i [...] | 2009-08-12 21:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC PHUM PREL |
09USUNNEWYORK765 | SC DEBATES WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY: SEXUAL VIOLENCE [...] Summary: The members of the Security Council, plus over two dozen other delegations, discussed the Secretary-General's report on sexual violence in armed conflict (SCR 1820) August 7, condemning such crimes and urging continued international attention to this issue. Ambassador Rice began the [...] | 2009-08-12 21:39:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KWMN UNSC CG KPKO SOCI |
09USUNNEWYORK769 | AMBASSADOR RICE DISCUSSES DISARMAMENT AND [...] (C) Summary. During a substantive introductory meeting on August 12, Ambassador Rice and Sergio Duarte, UN Undersecretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, discussed active U.S. engagement on disarmament, especially the planned summit-level UNSC meeting during September, the UN 1540 Committee, [...] | 2009-08-14 22:01:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP KACT UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK77 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Croatian PermRep Neven Jurica told Ambassador Rice during a January 29 introductory meeting, that Croatia considered the United States to be a strong ally and friend, and that he would continue his practice of closely coordinating Croatia's Security Council positions with the Un [...] | 2009-02-03 02:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC HR |
09USUNNEWYORK772 | ETHIOPIAN CHARGE EAGER TO SANCTION ERITREA; AGREES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-17 09:03:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MARR MOPS KPKO UNSC SO |
09USUNNEWYORK773 | ISRAELI MISSION VOICES CONCERN OVER [...] (U) This contains an action request (see paragraph 6). 2. (C) Daniel Carmon, the Deputy PermRep of the Israeli Mission in New York, on August 11 informed Ambassador Wolff that the representative office of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) had rej [...] | 2009-08-17 18:51:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF UNSC KPAL IS |
09USUNNEWYORK775 | DPRK: UAE REPORTS SANCTIONS VIOLATION TO 1718 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has reported to the Security Council's DPRK Sanctions Committee ("1718 Committee") a possible violation of UN sanctions imposed on North Korea. The UAE reports having stopped a vessel loaded with containers of arms being shipped from North Korea to [...] | 2009-08-17 21:45:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK778 | DPRK: AUSTRALIA "EXCITED" ABOUT OPPORTUNITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Australian mission approached USUN to discuss Australia's role in an apparent violation of UN sanctions imposed on North Korea involving an Australian-based shipping firm. The Australians noted that Canberra authorities were aware that the UAE had discovered arms apparently [...] | 2009-08-19 22:18:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK779 | AMBASSADOR CHURKIN SAYS RUSSIA BACKS U.S. NUCLEAR [...] (C) During a series of calls to Ambassador Rice on August 13, Russian Perm Rep Vitaly Churkin said that Moscow, "after some hesitation" wants to work closely and cooperatively with the United States to prepare for the U.S. planned summit on nuclear disarmament and nuclear nonproliferation in S [...] | 2009-08-20 12:45:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP PARM UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK78 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH MEXICAN PERMANENT [...] (C) Summary: In an initial January 29 meeting with Ambassador Rice, Mexican PermRep Heller said that modest Security Council reform is the most feasible option. He commented that Mexico supported Security Council resolution 1860 on the ceasefire in Gaza and highlighted the importance of the [...] | 2009-02-03 02:52:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC MX |
09USUNNEWYORK780 | DPRK: USUN BRIEFS SOUTH KOREA ON UAE-REPORTED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USUN briefed the South Korea UN mission on an apparent violation of UN sanctions on North Korea uncovered by the United Arab Emirates. USUN explained the details of the case -- namely, the UAE's discovery of arms being shipped from North Korea to Iran aboard a Bahamas-flagged v [...] | 2009-08-20 19:09:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK781 | DPRK: USUN BRIEFS SOUTH KOREA ON UAE-REPORTED [...] (C) SUMMARY: USUN briefed the South Korea UN mission on an apparent violation of UN sanctions on North Korea uncovered by the United Arab Emirates. USUN explained the details of the case -- namely, the UAE's discovery of arms being shipped from North Korea to Iran aboard a Bahamas-flagged vess [...] | 2009-08-20 19:09:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK783 | MISSION CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR S/CT COORDINATOR [...] (SBU) Mission clearance is granted for U.S. Coordinator for Counterterrorism Ambassador Daniel Benjamin and S/CT Multilateral Affairs officer Zachary Bernstein for meetings scheduled August 25 with USUN Permanent Representative Susan Rice, Acting Chair of the 1373 Committee, Croatian Deputy P [...] | 2009-08-24 21:20:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PREF PTER UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK786 | DPRK: 1718 COMMITTEE REPORTS ON ACTIVE WORK PERIOD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The acting chair of the Security Council's Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Sanctions Committee briefed the Council about the Committee's activities over the previous ninety days, emphasizing its work to implement tasks contained in resolution 1874: new sanctions des [...] | 2009-08-24 23:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK788 | UNSC: COUNCIL CALLS FOR UNIFIL RENEWAL; MAJORITY [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 20, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Mulet briefed the Security Council in consultations on UNIFIL. He highlighted the Hizballah arms cache explosion at Khirbet Selim, as he and other DPKO officials have to the Council on previous occasions (r [...] | 2009-08-24 23:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO UNSC IS LE |
09USUNNEWYORK789 | MAJOR DONORS DISCUSS AU-UN PANEL FOLLOW-UP REPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. U/SYG for Field Support Susanna Malcorra told U.S., France, Germany, Japan, and U.K. Deputy Permreps/Political Counselors (major donors) on August 21 that a forthcoming Secretary-General's report on support for African Union-United Nations (AU-UN) peacekeeping operations would [...] | 2009-08-25 19:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC AU KPKO |
09USUNNEWYORK79 | IRAN: P3 URGES CYPRUS TO PREVENT ARMS TRANSFER IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S., UK, and French representatives explained to the UN Perm Rep of Cyprus that the presence of Iranian arms-related materiel on the Cypriot-flagged vessel Monchegorsk was an apparent violation of UN sanctions on Iran (Security Council resolution 1747) and that this cargo should [...] | 2009-02-03 11:13:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM IR UNSC MNUC ETTC KNNP |
09USUNNEWYORK791 | RWANDA'S UN PERMREP ASKS FOR HELP IN ARRESTING [...] (SBU) In an introductory meeting with Ambassador Rice on August 13, new Rwandan PermRep Gasana asked for assistance in holding accountable FDLR rebel leaders who continue to support the FDLR from Europe and North America. Ambassador Rice stressed the need for Rwanda to supply solid evidence so [...] | 2009-08-25 22:27:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC ZF RW CG |
09USUNNEWYORK809 | GEORGIA: DPKO OUTLINES PLANS TO SUPPORT GENEVA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Following up on a July 13 meeting (reported Reftel),A/SYG for Peacekeeping Edmund Mulet told Deputy Permreps from the U.S., U.K., Germany, France and Croatia on August 31 that the UN would continue to support the Geneva talks and the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism ( [...] | 2009-09-01 22:30:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC KPKO RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK812 | DPRK: PANEL OF EXPERTS ALMOST UP AND RUNNING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The newly-created UN Panel of Experts (POE) for North Korea is on track to be operational by mid- to late-September, somewhat later than planned. As a result of various delays -- namely political wrangling and logistics snags -- none of the seven experts has yet arrived in New Yo [...] | 2009-09-02 16:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK814 | MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST GRANTED FOR DOJ [...] Mission clearance is granted for the individuals listed below to meet on September 3 with Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate Executive Director Mike Smith to discuss potential areas of cooperation between CTED and DOJ on counter-terrorism technical assistance and training. 2. Todd Hi [...] | 2009-09-03 15:28:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PREF PTER UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK816 | SOMALIA PIRACY: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON UN ROLE ON [...] (U) USUN Poloffs and USUN Deputy Legal Advisor delivered reftel points on June 3 to Department of Political Affairs (DPA) Somalia Chief Walid Musa Abdelkarim and UN Political Affairs Officers G. Justin Jepson and Kiyoshi Matsukawa. 2. (SBU) DPA Somalia Chief Abdelkarim was extremely [...] | 2009-09-03 22:54:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SO XA KCRM UNSC PHUM PHSA EWWT |
09USUNNEWYORK818 | 1267: SAVING THE AL-QAEDA/TALIBAN SANCTIONS REGIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bold action is needed to salvage the UN's 1267 al-Qaeda/Taliban targeted sanctions regime. This effective multilateral tool has been seriously undermined by criticisms -- and adverse European court rulings -- asserting that procedures for listing and delisting names are not adequ [...] | 2009-09-04 13:00:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL EFIN PTER KTFN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK827 | UNGA: UNSC REFORM: THIRD ROUND OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The informal plenary of the General Assembly met on September 1 and 2 for the first two of three meetings in the third round of intergovernmental negotiations (IGN) on Security Council reform. 38 delegations spoke on September 1 during the discussion on all of the five key iss [...] | 2009-09-09 22:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC GE JA BR IN |
09USUNNEWYORK828 | UNGA: UNSC REFORM: THIRD ROUND OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The informal plenary of the General Assembly met on September 3 for the third meeting of the third round of intergovernmental negotiations (IGN) on Security Council reform. 43 delegations, including all of the P-5, spoke on the intermediate model. The UK and France did not of [...] | 2009-09-09 22:28:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC GE JA BR IN |
09USUNNEWYORK83 | SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE [...] (U) Summary. On January 30, the Management Committee of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) met to discuss the run-up to the STL's March 1 commencement date, including how the opening ceremony should be conducted. Afterwards, France pulled aside the UK, US and Lebanon to discuss future re [...] | 2009-02-03 15:32:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER LE SY UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK833 | DPRK: COUNCIL REFERS LETTER TO 1718 COMMITTEEE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 9, the Security Council agreed to refer a letter recently received from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the Council's DPRK Sanctions Committee ("1718 Committee"). Ambassador Rice pointed to the letter's contents -- including its rejection of res [...] | 2009-09-14 11:55:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK834 | IRAN: UNSC MULLS SANCTIONS IMPLEMENTATION, IAEA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 9, the chair of the Iran Sanctions Committee briefed the UN Security Council on the Committee's activities over the previous ninety days, highlighting in particular a final round of letters and the publishing of an "Implementation Assistance Notice" to respond to r [...] | 2009-09-14 12:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM MNUC ETTC KNNP IR UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK838 | UNSC OPEN DEBATE ON SYG'S REPORT ON HAITI [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 9 the Security Council held an open debate on the Secretary-General's report on the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). Former President Bill Clinton, addressing the Council in his capacity as UN Special Envoy to Haiti, called for projecting a "more posi [...] | 2009-09-15 23:19:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNSC HA |
09USUNNEWYORK841 | DPRK: COUNCIL EXTENDS DEADLINE FOR PANEL REPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 14, the UN Secretariat briefed the Council on the establishment of the DPRK Panel of Experts (POE),a body mandated in UNSCR 1874 to help monitor and improve the implementation of UN sanctions imposed on North Korea. The Secretariat explained that only two POE membe [...] | 2009-09-16 15:52:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK842 | AMBASSADOR RICE’S SEPTEMBER 16 MEETING WITH [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Rice met with Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Ayalon on September 16, the day after the release of the Goldstone report on violations of human rights law and international humanitarian law during the Gaza conflict. Ayalon termed the report "outrageous" and said it gave Hamas [...] | 2009-09-17 00:45:00 | USUN New York | SECRET | PREL KPAL KWBG UNSC IS IR RS |
09USUNNEWYORK847 | TEXT OF UNSC NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AND [...] (U) On September 18, USUN asked the UN Secretariat put into blue the text of the draft resolution on nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear disarmament, to be adopted at the Security Council Summit on September 24 convened by the U.S. The full text is in paragraph 2. 2. (U) Begin text of d [...] | 2009-09-19 02:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM UNSC KNNP KSUM |
09USUNNEWYORK848 | ONE YEAR RENEWAL FOR UNIPSIL; DRUGS, YOUTH [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Security Council discussed the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL) on September 14 and on September 15 unanimously renewed UNIPSIL's mandate for an additional year. Ambassador Rice highlighted drug trafficking and youth unemployment as risks to sub-r [...] | 2009-09-21 20:36:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC XY SL |
09USUNNEWYORK849 | SECURITY COUNCIL RENEWS UNMIL; LIBERIA REQUESTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Security Council met on September 9 to discuss the renewal of the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL),and unanimously adopted UNMIL's resolution on September 15. UNMIL's Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Ellen Loj told the Council on September 9 that the Libe [...] | 2009-09-21 20:36:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC XY LI IV |
09USUNNEWYORK850 | THE SECRETARY-GENERAL'S SEPTEMBER 16 LUNCH WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a wide ranging discussion during the monthly Security Council luncheon with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, hosted by Ambassador Rice in her capacity as Security Council President, Ban updated Permreps on UN activities in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the Horn of Africa, Sudan, and [...] | 2009-09-21 20:36:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC PHUM |
09USUNNEWYORK851 | SUDAN SANCTIONS: CHAIR BRIEFS A QUIET COUNCIL [...] SUMMARY: On September 15, Austrian Perm Rep Mayr-Harting, chair of the Sudan Sanctions Committee ("1591 Committee") updated the UN Security Council on the Committee's activities over the previous ninety days, including the Committee's informal consultations with the Panel of Experts. Ambassador [...] | 2009-09-21 20:38:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PGOV PREL SU UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK853 | GEORGIA: RUSSIA SEEKS U.S. VISAS FOR ABKHAZ, S. [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. The Russian Mission to the UN has informed USUN that it plans to seek U.S. visas for Abkhaz and South Ossetian de facto authorities to visit the United Nations in October 2009 to discuss the "humanitarian situation" in the separatist entities. The Russian Missio [...] | 2009-09-23 19:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC UNGA CVIS RS GG |
09USUNNEWYORK856 | AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH PGA TREKI WHO RAISES [...] (C) On September 21, in a hastily scheduled meeting at the President of the General Assembly's (PGA) request, PGA Ali Abdussalam Treki asked Ambassador Rice, in her capacity as Security Council President for the month of September, for her views on what kind of cooperation and consultation the [...] | 2009-09-24 15:39:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK859 | CYPRUS: CHRISTOFIAS TELLS P-5 HE IS NOT OPTIMISTIC [...] (C) SUMMARY. At an annual lunch with P-5 missions to the UN, Cyprus President Demitris Christofias said he was not optimistic about the possible outcome of Cyprus reunification talks. He cited Turkish PM Erdogan as being responsible for Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat's hard position o [...] | 2009-09-28 16:16:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC UNFICYP CU CY |
09USUNNEWYORK860 | POTUS CHAIRS UNSC SUMMIT, PASSES UNANIMOUS [...] (SBU) Summary. President Obama on September 24 convened a heads-of-state summit of the UN Security Council at which resolution 1887 on nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation was adopted unanimously and with full Council co-sponsorship. In addition to the 15 Security Council members [...] | 2009-09-29 12:35:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM UNSC KNNP KSUM |
09USUNNEWYORK863 | SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS ON SITUATION IN BRAZILIAN [...] (SBU) The Security Council met in consultations on September 25 in response to a September 22 letter from the Brazilian PermRep expressing concern about threats to the inviolability of the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, in which Honduran President Zelaya has taken refuge. During consultati [...] | 2009-09-30 14:01:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC BR HO |
09USUNNEWYORK866 | PRESIDENT OBAMA'S SEPTEMBER 23 MEETING WITH TOP UN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Immediately following his address to the Open Debate of the UN General Assembly on September 23, President Obama convened an unprecedented meeting with the Heads of State and Foreign Ministers of the top contributors of troops and police to UN peacekeeping operations. President [...] | 2009-10-01 09:29:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL UNGA UNSC KPKO |
09USUNNEWYORK871 | COTE D,IVOIRE: EXPERTS DOCUMENT SANCTIONS [...] SUMMARY: The UN Group of Experts on Cote d'Ivoire, a UN team established to monitor sanctions imposed on that country, submitted a final report documenting impediments to full implementation of these measures, particularly the UN ban on the export of diamonds. While the Group found that the [...] | 2009-10-02 09:51:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ETTC UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK875 | LIBYA REQUESTS URGENT UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING [...] (SBU) On October 6, Libyan PermRep Shalgham sent a letter to the UN Security Council President (Vietnam) requesting, under Rule 2 of the Council's provisional rules of procedure, an urgent meeting of the Security Council "to discuss the Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the G [...] | 2009-10-06 23:03:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KWBG UNSC IS LY |
09USUNNEWYORK880 | UNSC DECIDES TO HANDLE LIBYAN REQUEST FOR MEETING [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The Security Council met on October 7 in closed consultations to discuss the Libyan mission's request for an urgent Council meeting on the Goldstone report. Prior to consultations, USUN had surveyed the Council and knew that there was little support for a stand alon [...] | 2009-10-08 01:32:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KWBG UNSC IS LY |
09USUNNEWYORK881 | 1267: U.S./UK BRAINSTORM OPTIONS FOR NEW RESOLUTION [...] SUMMARY: Ambassador Wolff and UK Deputy Perm Rep Parham informally discussed the challenges facing the 1267 al-Qaeda/Taliban sanctions regime and weighed the merits of the UK's proposal to establish an "independent review" panel to advise the 1267 Committee how to decide on requests from indiv [...] | 2009-10-08 09:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PREL EFIN PTER KTFN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK882 | GOLDSTONE REPORT POST-PARTUM: IT'S ONLY JUST BEGUN [...] (C) Repercussions from successful efforts in Geneva to postpone the HRC's discussion of the Goldstone report have resulted in the movement of the report to New York. While the Security Council did not accede to Libya's October 6 request for a stand-alone Council meeting on the Goldstone repo [...] | 2009-10-08 23:35:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG KPAL UNSC IS |
09USUNNEWYORK892 | SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS AND DEBATES WOMEN, PEACE, [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 5, Vietnamese Foreign Minister Khiem chaired the Security Council open debate on the Secretary-General's report on Women, Peace, and Security. At the top of the meeting, the Council adopted follow-on resolution 1889, which focuses on women's empowerment in post-confl [...] | 2009-10-12 15:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SOCI KPKO KWMN UNSC CG |
09USUNNEWYORK893 | SECRETARY CLINTON CHAIRS UNANIMOUS ADOPTION OF [...] (SBU) Summary. Secretary of State Clinton chaired the unanimous adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1888 on conflict-related sexual violence which was co-sponsored by 68 UN member states including 10 members of the Security Council. Russia, China, Libya, Uganda and Vietnam did not co- [...] | 2009-10-13 20:08:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM SOCI KPKO KWMN UNSC CG |
09USUNNEWYORK896 | GUINEA FM ASKS FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT TO LET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During Security Council consultations on the situation in Guinea held at France's request, the U.S., as President of the Council, briefed on its September 29 meeting with Guinean Foreign Minister Loua, during which he claimed that the violence on September 28 was due to protest [...] | 2009-10-13 21:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC XY GV AU |
09USUNNEWYORK90 | GEORGIA/RUSSIA: AMBASSADOR'S RICE MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian PermRep Vitaly Churkin met with Ambassador Rice and Ambassador DiCarlo on February 3 to sound out the U.S. position on an extension of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia. Churkin said Russia wanted to see a new resolution emphasize the terms of the "Medvedev-Sarkozy" agr [...] | 2009-02-04 01:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC GG RS |
09USUNNEWYORK910 | BURMA, BURUNDI, COLOMBIA AND UGANDA ADDRESS SC [...] (SBU) The Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict (WGCAAC) held a formal meeting chaired by Mexican Permanent Representative Claude Heller on October 12 to adopt the group's conclusions on Burma and to discuss the Secretary General's reports on children and armed conflict [...] | 2009-10-14 19:07:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SOCI UNSC BM CO BY UG |
09USUNNEWYORK911 | COTE D'IVOIRE ELECTIONS TO BE DELAYED; COUNCIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) SRSG Choi told the Security Council on October 13 that elections would be delayed for political and technical reasons, and said the priority must be approving the provisional voters list as soon as possible. Choi said the 2.7 million names [...] | 2009-10-14 19:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC XY IV LI |
09USUNNEWYORK916 | THE SECRETARY-GENERAL'S 14 OCTOBER LUNCH WITH THE [...] (SBU) This is an Action Request. Please see para 7. 2. (SBU) In the monthly UN Security Council luncheon with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the SYG discussed Guinea, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan with PermReps. The lunch was hosted by Vietnamese PermRep Le Luong Minh, in his capacity as [...] | 2009-10-15 21:08:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC PHUM PK GV AF SU |
09USUNNEWYORK92 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON BURKINA [...] (SBU) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPH 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Rice shared U.S. priorities with Burkinabe PermRep Kafando in an initial call and asked for his views on Sudan, Zimbabwe, and Cote d'Ivoire. Rice pressed for support against deferring Sudanese President Ba [...] | 2009-02-04 21:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC UV XV XA |
09USUNNEWYORK93 | AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS WITH COSTA RICAN PERMREP [...] (C) Summary: During an initial meeting with Costa Rican PermRep Urbina, Ambassador Rice outlined U.S. priorities and agreed to work with Costa Rica on important issues such as human rights. Urbina emphasized the need to increase the Council's legitimacy by updating its working methods and pr [...] | 2009-02-04 22:06:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC CS |
09USUNNEWYORK933 | U.S. MISSION GRANTS CLEARANCE FOR ROBERT MAGGI, [...] U.S. Mission grants clearance for the following individuals to attend informal consultations on Maritime Security Sector Reform in New York on Tuesday, October 27 and Wednesday, October 28, 2009, in New York: Robert Maggi (Coordinator for Counter Piracy, PM/PPA); Christina Rosati (Foreign Af [...] | 2009-10-21 18:53:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PREL UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK934 | U.S. MISSION GRANTS CLEARANCE TO CHARLENE WANG TO [...] U.S. Mission grants clearance to Charlene Wang, Multilateral Affairs Officer, IO/UNP, to attend informal consultations on East Asia and Pacific issues in New York on Thursday, October 22 and Friday, October 23, 2009. 2. U.S. Mission POC is Political Section Officer Jeffrey Reneau, 212-415 [...] | 2009-10-21 18:53:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PREL UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK936 | MOMENTUM BUILDING TO BOLSTER MONUC'S MANDATE AND STREAMLINE ITS TASKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. MONUC SRSG Doss told the Security Council on October 16 that progress continued on integrating the DRC army (FARDC),but noted that the FDLR had not been neutralized and LRA remnants were still active. In closed consultations with Council members, Doss said that LRA elements h [...] | 2009-10-22 16:24:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC CG ZXA ZF RW |
09USUNNEWYORK938 | GUINEA: UN COMMISSION OF INQUIRY DETAILS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UN Department of Political Affairs A/SYG Haile Menkerios briefed the Security Council on October 21 on the planned UN commission of inquiry (COI) into the atrocities committed in Guinea since September 28. He explained the expectations for the COI for which there was widespread [...] | 2009-10-22 17:59:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC XY GV |
09USUNNEWYORK94 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING WITH INDIAN PR NIRUPAM [...] (C) Summary: The United States is eager to ""sustain and accelerate"" recent progress in the U.S.-India bilateral relationship and wishes to enhance our cooperation in multilateral fora, especially the UN, Ambassador Rice told Indian PermRep Nirupam Sen in an initial call on February 3. Sen said In [...] | 2009-02-04 22:19:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC PHUM KDEM PARM IN PTER PK |
09USUNNEWYORK944 | ARABS REQUEST U.S. SUPPORT FOR SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Wolff met Friday October 23 with the representatives of Arab states and organizations that have joined together as a follow-up group to lobby for action on the Goldstone Report in New York. The Palestinian Permanent Observer suggested the establishment of a "monitoring [...] | 2009-10-24 00:38:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL KWBG UNSC IS LY |
09USUNNEWYORK946 | RICE MEETS WITH INDIAN MINISTER OF STATE FOR [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with Ambassador Rice on October 16, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor raised India's hope that the U.S. would continue working with India on the convention on counterterrorism. The two also discussed the Goldstone Report, Security Council refo [...] | 2009-10-26 20:09:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PHUM UNSC IN |
09USUNNEWYORK947 | TURKISH PERMREP APAKAN PAYS INTRODUCTORY CALL ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During an October 15 courtesy meeting, Turkish Permrep Ertugul Apakan invited Ambassador Rice to visit Turkey. He said a workshop/retreat on peacekeeping and peacebuilding, which Turkey was considering hosting during the summer of 2010, might be a good opportunity. Apakan thoug [...] | 2009-10-26 20:18:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC TU |
09USUNNEWYORK959 | COTE D,IVOIRE: COUNCIL REVIEWS SANCTIONS REGIME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The chair of the Security Council's Cote d'Ivoire (1572) Sanctions Committee briefed the Council on findings contained in a September 15 report of the Group of Experts on Cote d'Ivoire, as well as the Committee's activities since his last briefing on April 28, 2009. The United [...] | 2009-10-29 09:34:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL CDI ETTC PGOV UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK964 | THE 1540 COMMITTEE DEBATES IMPLEMENTATION [...] (SBU) Summary. The 1540 Committee met on October 20 and 23 to begin consultations on how to prepare a final document based on the 1540 Comprehensive Review, which took place on September 30 and October 1-2, and how to present the conclusions of substantive papers prepared by the 1540 Committe [...] | 2009-10-29 23:13:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK965 | UNSC DEBATE ON UNMIT [...] (SBU) Summary: UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General Atul Khare briefed the Security Council on the Secretary-General's interim report on the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste on UNMIT on October 23. Khare discussed the successful community elections, strengthening the rule o [...] | 2009-10-29 23:15:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC XB XV XU |
09USUNNEWYORK968 | SECURITY COUNCIL CONSULTATIONS ON USSCR 1559, [...] (SBU) UN Special Envoy for the Secretary-General for Implementation of UNSCR 1559 Terje Roed-Larsen briefed the Security Council in consultation on October 27, 2009. The positive part of his presentation centered on the restoration of full diplomatic relations between Lebanon and Syria and th [...] | 2009-10-30 17:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER UNSC LE IS SY |
09USUNNEWYORK97 | IRAN/CYPRUS: NEXT STEPS ON MONCHEGORSK [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-09 18:39:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM IR UNSC MNUC ETTC KNNP CY |
09USUNNEWYORK971 | COTE D'IVOIRE: COUNCIL RENEWS SANCTIONS REGIME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 29, the Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1893, which renewed the arms embargo, asset freeze, travel ban, and diamond embargo in Cote d'Ivoire, as well as the mandate of the Group of Experts, for an additional twelve months. Cote d'Ivoire's Perm Rep, Al [...] | 2009-10-30 23:18:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ETTC UNSC CDI |
09USUNNEWYORK977 | ALBANIA CONFIRMS STRONG RELATIONS WITH U.S.; URGES [...] (SBU) Summary. In an October 27 introductory meeting with Ambassador Rice, Albanian Permanent Representative Hoxha underscored Albania's strong relationship with the U.S. and praised the Obama administration's philosophy of greater UN engagement. Hoxha stressed that increasing the number of [...] | 2009-11-02 21:24:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC AL KO SR |
09USUNNEWYORK980 | AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS UK FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Rice on October 27 met with 14 members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament. The Parliamentarians, who represented the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour, raised Iran, the Middle East, U.S. relations with Russia, Afghanistan, and concern ove [...] | 2009-11-02 22:02:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC UK IR |
09USUNNEWYORK986 | SOMALIA 1844 DESIGNATIONS: USUN REQUESTS TO ENGAGE [...] (U) This is an action request - please see paras 6-8. 2. (C) Summary: Per Department instructions (REF A),USUN has shared with the P-3 a list of names we would consider designating under UNSCR 1844 (2008),the Somalia UN targeted sanctions regime established in November 2008. This list in [...] | 2009-11-03 22:26:00 | USUN New York | SECRET | KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SO UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK99 | PALESTINIANS PRESSING SYG TO BROADEN SCOPE OF [...] (C) Palestinian Permanent Observer Ambassador Mansour told Ambassador Wolff February 6 that he was exploring ways for the UN to investigate the conduct of the Gaza conflict. He cited as precedent UNSCR 1405 (2002) which "welcomed the initiative of the Secretary-General to develop accurate inf [...] | 2009-02-10 01:47:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC KPAL KWBG IS |
09USUNNEWYORK990 | DPRK: 1718 COMMITTEE PLEDGES SUPPORT TO PANEL OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Security Council's DPRK Sanctions Committee ("1718 Committee") met on October 30 with the newly-established Panel of Experts (POE),a team of UN contractors mandated with helping monitor and improve UN sanctions imposed on North Korea. POE members introduced themselves and [...] | 2009-11-03 23:52:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
09USUNNEWYORK999 | GUINEA-BISSAU: SECURITY COUNCIL CONCERNED WITH [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see para 15. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: UN Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNOGBIS) Representative Joseph Mutaboba on November 5 told the Security Council in an open session that there has been progress on national reconcliation, especially sinc [...] | 2009-11-06 20:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC PHUM SNAR XY PU ZA |
09VALLETTA316 | MALTA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. REVIEW OF FIRST [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-14 15:40:00 | Embassy Valletta | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC MT |
09VALLETTA497 | MALTA: DEMARCHE ON PROPOSED DPRK ENTITIES AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-16 15:05:00 | Embassy Valletta | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP EFIN PARM KN ETTC EUN UNSC MT |
09VIENNA1084 | AUSTRIA: UNSC SUMMIT INVITATION DELIVERED [...] (U) Ambassador delivered reftel invitation August 27 to Juergen Meindl, foreign policy advisor to Chancellor Faymann, who was out of town. Ambassador emphasized that President Obama's decision to hold the September 24 UNSC summit on nuclear nonproliferation reflects the high priority he places [...] | 2009-08-27 13:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM UNSC MNUC KSUM KNNP AU |
09VIENNA1127 | AUSTRIAN ATTENDANCE AT UNSC NONPROLIFERATION SUMMIT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-09 06:42:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM UNSC MNUC KSUM KNNP UN AU |
09VIENNA115 | GEORGIA/UNOMIG: AUSTRIA OPPOSES RULE 39 ABKHAZ [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-03 13:33:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL GG AU |
09VIENNA1552 | BRIMMER IN VIENNA: AUSTRIANS CLAIM TO BE WITHIN [...] (C) Summary: Austrian MFA Political Director Lehne maintained Austria's position on sanctions against Iran was "well in the mainstream of Europe." We have since gone back to Lehne and others to review reports that indicate Austria is among the EU's Iran sanctions skeptics, and to urge prepara [...] | 2009-12-07 15:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPKO IR AF AU |
09VIENNA193 | AUSTRIA OPPOSES AN ARTICLE 16 DEFERRAL WITHOUT [...] Poloff conveyed the information in ref A to Georg Diwald, MFA Deputy Director of the Department for International Organisations. Diwald told Poloff that, in consideration of Austria's commitment to the rule of law and against impunity, Austria would respect the independence of the Internationa [...] | 2009-02-20 15:21:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNSC SU XA XW AU |
09VIENNA251 | GOA CONTINUES TO OPPOSE ARTICLE 16 DEFERRAL FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-03 13:38:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL PHUM SU XA XW AU |
09VIENNA442 | AUSTRIA SUPPORTS UNSC STATEMENT ON NORTH KOREA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-13 10:44:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC NK AU |
09VIENNA705 | AUSTRIA WILL SUPPORT DRAFT RESOLUTION ON DPRK [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-12 14:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM UNSC KN AU |
09VIENNA75 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALLS AT FOREIGN MINISTRY [...] (C) In separate farewell calls on January 16 with both new Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger and long-standing MFA Secretary General Johannes Kyrle, Ambassador Girard-diCarlo reviewed the top items on the US agenda with Austria: cooperation in the UN Security Council, Iran, energy securi [...] | 2009-01-21 14:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | AU ENRG ETTC PREF PREL UNSC AF |
09VIENNA845 | AUSTRIA WORRIED ABOUT IRAN SANCTIONS DEBATE [...] (C) In an introductory call July 9, incoming Diplomatic Advisor to the Chancellor Juergen Meindl (protect) told Charge that the GoA is concerned about what it expects to be a contentious discussion in both the UNSC and the EU about further sanctions on Iran, should Tehran fail to respond to re [...] | 2009-07-10 11:05:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IR AU |
09VIENNA863 | AUSTRIA / UN 1267 (AL-QAIDA/TALIBAN) RESULTS OF USG REVIEW [...] (SBU) Post sent reftel points to -- Elisabeth Ottawa, Austria's terrorism financing coordinator and FATF representative in the Financial Markets Directorate of the Federal Ministry of Finance (MoF) -- Alfred Lejsek, Head of the MoF's Financial Markets Unit; and -- MFA International Security Co [...] | 2009-07-14 15:10:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER PREL UNSC AU |
09VILNIUS600 | LITHUANIA RECEPTIVE TO EU DESIGNATION OF NORTH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-10 14:46:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP EFIN PARM ETTC UNSC LH |
09ZAGREB191 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED: RESPONDING TO NORTH KOREA [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarches on April 7 to Vesna Vukovic, head of the MFA's UN office. She expressed her appreciation for receiving the material and said that she would forward the information to her colleagues in New York. Croatia agrees with the US determination that the launch consti [...] | 2009-04-08 10:12:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM UNSC KNNP HR |
09ZAGREB202 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING PRST ON NORTH KOREAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-14 14:40:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC NK HR |
09ZAGREB350 | CROATIA WILL SUPPORT DRAFT RESOLUTION ON DPRK [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-12 13:18:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC KN HR |
09ZAGREB37 | ZAGREB WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT - JANUARY 22, 2009 [...] (U) EMBASSY HOSTS INAUGURATION RECEPTION AT AMERICAN CORNER ZAGREB: Embassy Zagreb hosted an inauguration event January 20 at the American Corner located at a downtown Zagreb library. The reception targeted young Croatian academic, business and politicla leaders to give them the opportunity [...] | 2009-01-22 13:37:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV CVIS UNSC HR LY |
09ZAGREB62 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON REQUEST REGARDING UNOMIG [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-03 15:09:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PGOV GG HR |
09ZAGREB79 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO CROATIA ON UNSCR 1540 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-13 09:44:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC HR |
09ZAGREB80 | CROATIA PROBABLY WILL SUPPORT US REGARDING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-13 09:45:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL PHUM SU XA XW HR |
10ABUDHABI73 | UAE SUPPORTS "SHIFT" TO PRESSURE TRACK ON IRAN [...] (C) In a February 10 meeting with UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash, Ambassador presented reftel points and pressed for UAE support as the USG works with partners to develop new measures to pressure the IRIG towards cooperation with the international community. He noted t [...] | 2010-02-10 14:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC ETTC IR AE |
10ABUDHABI85 | UAE ON IRAN SANCTIONS, ENGAGEMENT WITH CHINA [...] (C) In a joint meeting with British ChargC) d'Affaires Ian Wood on February 14 at the MFA, Ambassador discussed Ref A demarche points with Assistant Minister for Political Affairs Tariq Al Haidan. Haidan considered Iran's February 11 announcement on uranium enrichment a turning point in the sa [...] | 2010-02-18 12:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM UNSC ETTC IR CH AE |
10ABUDHABI91 | CODEL HASTINGS DISCUSSES TIP, IRAN, MEPP WITH MINSTATE [...] (C) Summary. In a February 16 meeting in Abu Dhabi, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Anwar Gargash discussed human trafficking, Iran, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL). Gargash outlined the UAE's efforts to meet USG expectations on traffi [...] | 2010-02-22 04:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETTC KTIP UNSC IR AE |
10ABUDHABI97 | CODEL LOWEY WITH UAE FOREIGN MINISTER ON IRAN [...] (S/NF) Summary. In a February 17 meeting, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan (AbZ) discussed Iran with a four-member Congressional delegation led by Chairwoman Nita Lowey of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations. AbZ told the Codel the nuclear issue [...] | 2010-02-22 12:46:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ETTC UNSC IR AE |
10ACCRA121 | DEMARCHE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM DELIVERED [...] (C) On February 1, 2010, Poloff delivered the demarche on mobilizing pressure to persuade Iran's engagement on its nuclear program to Mrs. Gloria Poku, Deputy Director of the Americas Bureau at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Poloff emphasized the need to increase pressure on Iran and t [...] | 2010-02-08 10:48:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR UNSC GH |
10ADDISABABA287 | AU SUMMIT -- U.S. DELEGATION MEETS WITH AU [...] (U) January 31, 2010; 7:00 p.m.; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. Under Secretary Maria Otero Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson NSC Senior Director for African Affairs Michelle Gavin Special Envoy for Sudan Scott Gration Special Advisor on the Great Lakes Howard Wolpe [...] | 2010-02-11 11:52:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNP UNGA UNSC NI AU |
10ADDISABABA289 | USAU: AU SUMMIT IN ADDIS ABABA -- OUTCOMES [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-11 13:15:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNP UNGA UNSC NI AU |
10AMMAN310 | JORDAN: GOJ WILL SUPPORT IRAN SANCTIONS, BUT [...] (C) On February 1, the Ambassador reviewed reftel points with Chief of the Royal Court Nasser Lozi and PolChief briefed Personal Advisor to the FM and Director of MFA Policy Planning Bisher Khasawneh. Both Lozi and Khasawneh stated that the Government of Jordan would support USG and internati [...] | 2010-02-03 13:28:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC IR JO |
10AMMAN385 | TERRORISM FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION FOR UN 1267 [...] (C) EmbOffs delivered reftel demarche the week of February 7 to officials at the Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Finance, and Central Bank of Jordan. All appreciated the information, but indicated Jordan is unlikely to co-sponsor the nomination. Samer Naber, Head of the MFA's America's Depart [...] | 2010-02-11 14:37:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN UNSC JO |
10ASTANA185 | KAZAKHSTAN OPEN TO INCREASED PRESSURE ON IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge delivered reftel points on Iran's nuclear capability on February 10. In response, Deputy Foreign Minister Nurlan Yermekbayev said that Kazakhstan "regrets" Iran's rejection of the P5+1 offer and its refusal to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). K [...] | 2010-02-12 09:48:00 | Embassy Astana | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC KZ |
10ATHENS75 | (C) GREECE/IRAN: CHINA KEY TO EFFECTIVE PRESSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Ambassador delivered reftel points to Alternate FM Dimitri Droutsas January 30, stressing the U.S. commitment to diplomacy, outlining the need to begin ramping up pressure on Iran given its failure to engage constructively, and urging Greece to consider what it could do bilat [...] | 2010-02-03 16:09:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM UNSC IR CH VE GR |
10BAGHDAD118 | MFA ACCEPTS TO SEEK UNSC PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT ON [...] (C) Summary: Senior MFA advisor Mohammed al-Haj Hamoud told DCM January 13 that the GOI would accept the USG-suggested option of seeking a UNSC Presidential Statement as the best way to have WMD-related Chapter VII resolutions eventually lifted. Haj Hamoud agreed that the GOI would send a l [...] | 2010-01-18 08:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ KU |
10BAGHDAD149 | FM ZEBARI PREVIEWS JCC, REVIEWS CHAPTER VII [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi FM Hoshyar Zebari told A/DCM January 18 that he welcomed arrival of NEA A/S Feltman for the holding of the first Diplomatic Joint Coordinating Committee, set for January 24. Zebari also informed A/DCM that he had written to the President of the Security Council and the DG [...] | 2010-01-21 13:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ KU IR |
10BAGHDAD71 | PM ADVISOR CITES IMPACT OF BLACKWATER DECISION ON [...] (C) Summary: PM Advisor Sadiq Rikabi told Pol M/C January 10 that the Blackwater decision would greatly complicate efforts to settle the Saddam-era civil claims of American citizens, and telegraphed that the GOI intended to use the decision as a lever in its bargaining on the level of compen [...] | 2010-01-11 18:27:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC KJUS PREF IZ |
10BAKU79 | AZERBAIJAN GOVERNMENT COMMENTS ON MOBILIZING [...] (C) Baku Iran Affairs Officer vigorously delivered reftel talking points on February 2 to Elchin Huseynli, MFA point man on the Iranian nuclear program. Huseynli, reports directly to GOAJ Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov, and was accompanied by his deputy, Aykan Hajizada. 2. (C) Husey [...] | 2010-02-04 13:05:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC OSCE RU IR AJ |
10BAMAKO59 | MOBILIZING PRESSURE TO PERSUADE IRAN'S ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) On February 1 Charge met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Al-Maamoun Keita to highlight U.S. efforts to mobilize diplomatic engagement with Iran in 2009, underscore the lack of a meaningful Iranian response, outline U.S. view of the necessity of increasing pressure on Iran [...] | 2010-02-01 17:27:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PARM PREL UNSC |
10BEIJING148 | PRC/TERRORISM FINANCE: PRC REQUESTED TO DROP UN [...] (C) PolOff delivered ref A points concerning UN 1267 Committee listing of Abdur Rahman Makki, Azam Cheema and Mohammad Masood Azhar Alvi to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Shen Yinyin January 20. PolOff noted U.S. intention to submit additional [...] | 2010-01-20 08:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER EFIN KTFN PREL UNSC CH IN PK |
10BEIJING243 | S/P DEPUTY DIRECTOR'S MEETING WITH MFA COUNTERPART [...] (C) SUMMARY: The United States and China are both aware of the "strategic importance" of their relationship, notwithstanding recent "troubles" and "differences," said MFA Policy and Planning Department DDG Zhao Jianhua in a January 26 meeting with S/P Deputy Director Chollet. The Strategic a [...] | 2010-01-29 10:23:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON SENV CH AF PK UNSC |
10BEIJING425 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN 1267 SANCTIONS: RESULTS OF [...] (SBU) On February 23, PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Affairs Division Second Secretary Xu Zhongsheng reftel points sharing USG findings based on its completion of review of the third tranche of names circulated by the UN 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban [...] | 2010-02-23 08:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KTFN PREL UNSC EFIN CH UN |
10BEIRUT11 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HASTINGS' JANUARY 8 VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Embassy Beirut welcomes your January 8 visit as the first high-level delegation to Lebanon of 2010. As Lebanon emerges from a six-month struggle to form a new national unity government, your meetings with President Michel Sleiman, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and Foreign Min [...] | 2010-01-05 15:03:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV KDEM EAID UNSC PTER MARR PREF |
10BEIRUT123 | SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' FEBRUARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Beirut warmly welcomes your February 16-17 visit to Lebanon. As the country emerges from a six-month struggle to form a new national unity government, your meetings with President Michel Sleiman, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri will rein [...] | 2010-02-05 16:20:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC MARR MOPS PBTS KPAL EAIR |
10BEIRUT4 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MCCAIN'S JANUARY 8-9 VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Embassy Beirut welcomes your January 8-9 visit as one of the first high-level delegations to Lebanon of 2010. As Lebanon emerges from a six-month struggle to form a new national unity government, your meetings with President Michel Sleiman, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and [...] | 2010-01-05 07:27:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV KDEM EAID UNSC PTER MARR LE |
10BEIRUT42 | CODEL HASTINGS' JANUARY 8 VISIT TO LEBANON [...] (C) Summary: During a January 8 visit to Lebanon, a delegation headed by Representative Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL) met with President Michel Sleiman, Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Foreign Minister Ali el Chami. Representative Hastings reiterated Congressional support for Lebanon's democratic i [...] | 2010-01-14 10:35:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP PREL PGOV KDEM EAID UNSC PTER MARR PREF |
10BEIRUT44 | SCENESETTER FOR SEMEP GEORGE MITCHELL'S JANUARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Beirut warmly welcomes your January 19-20 visit to Lebanon. As the country emerges from a six-month struggle to form a new national unity government, your meetings with President Michel Sleiman, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, Foreign Minis [...] | 2010-01-14 14:30:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MEPP PTER PINR UNSC MARR SY IS LE |
10BEIRUT47 | PRIME MINISTER HARIRI MEETS WITH CODEL MCCAIN [...] (C) Summary: Increased U.S. military assistance to Lebanon is a priority, Prime Minister Saad Hariri told CODEL McCain on January 9. Though wary of Syrian intentions after his recent trip to Damascus, Hariri said he would work to build on positive practical steps to improve the bilateral rela [...] | 2010-01-15 13:04:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC MASS MCAP KJUS PBTS LE SY IR |
10BEIRUT50 | PRESIDENT SLEIMAN, SPEAKER BERRI AND WALID [...] (C) Summary: An urgent need for progress on regional peace was the common priority for President Michel Sleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri, and Druze leader Walid Jumblatt during their meetings with visiting CODEL McCain on January 8 and 9. Sleiman sought reassurances that U.S. military assistance [...] | 2010-01-19 07:21:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC MASS KPAL KJUS ECPS SY IR LE |
10BEIRUT66 | NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR GEN. JONES´ VISIT TO LEBANON [...] (C) SUMMARY. National Security Advisor General Jim Jones explained to President Michel Sleiman, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Commander General Jean Kahwagi January 15 the U.S. administration,s intention to pursue additional sanctions ag [...] | 2010-01-21 15:57:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MASS UNSC LE IS SY IR |
10BEIRUT89 | S/E MITCHELL RULES OUT FORCED NATURALIZATION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell affirmed to Lebanese President Michel Sleiman, Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, and Foreign Minister Ali Chami that the U.S. opposes the forced naturalization of Palestinians in Lebanon under any circumstance. During his Janua [...] | 2010-01-29 08:11:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR UNSC MEPP KPAL SY IS LE |
10BEIRUT96 | UNSCOL WILLIAMS ON UNIFIL INCIDENT, GHAJAR [...] (C) Summary: UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL) Michael Williams shared with the Ambassador on January 27 a disturbing report of a January 23 act of aggression against a UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) foot patrol in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil involving an angry crowd an [...] | 2010-01-29 16:02:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC MARR MOPS PTER PINR IS SY LE |
10BRASILIA33 | MOBILIZING PRESSURE TO PERSUADE IRAN'S ENGAGEMENT ON ITS [...] (C) ChargC) delivered the reftel demarche Jabnuary 29 to Ministry for External Relations (MRE) Under Secretary for Political Affairs Vera Machado. Machado asked if the USG and P5+1 partners were seeking additional sanctions against Iran at the present time and if the issue had been placed o [...] | 2010-01-29 20:52:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR UNSC BR |
10BRATISLAVA41 | SLOVAKS AGREE ON IMPORTANCE OF PUTTING REAL PRESSURE ON [...] (C) Charge d'affaires made reftel demarche to Slovak MFA Political Director Slobodnik on January 29. Slobodnik appreciated the U.S. points, noting that they reinforced Under Secretary Burns' recent session with EU political directors in Spain. Slobodnik said the Slovaks fully understood that [...] | 2010-01-29 14:53:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC IR LO |
10BRUSSELS137 | BELGIUM: SUPPORTING "EFFECTIVE" SANCTIONS ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-04 16:38:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR UNSC BE |
10BRUSSELS35 | EU REVISES CT, DPRK, GUINEA SANCTIONS [...] (C) On December 22 the EU Council formally revised EU counterterrorism (both UN/Al-Qaeda & Taliban and autonomous regimes),North Korea, and Guinea sanctions programs. The December revisions reflect an EU willingness to move beyond UN common denominators in the sanctions domain. Procedural [...] | 2010-01-14 05:45:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KTFN BEXP KJUS EWWT EAIR PTER UNSC EFIN |
10BUDAPEST50 | HUNGARY'S COMMENTS ON MOBILIZING PRESSURE ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-29 14:31:00 | Embassy Budapest | SECRET | PARM PREL UNSC IAEA IR HU |
10CANBERRA79 | STRONG SUPPORT FOR U.S. POSITION ON IRAN [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Australia will support efforts to increase pressure on Iran, whether through the United Nations or other channels. A policy paper has already been written outlining specific measures Australia could take. The United States can count on strong Australian support, regardless of [...] | 2010-02-02 20:59:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM PREL IR UNSC AS |
10CHISINAU64 | DEMARCHE REPLY: MOBILIZING PRESSURE TO [...] (C) Ambassador Chaudhry delivered reftel demarche to Moldovan Foreign Minister Iurie Leanca on February 2. Foreign Minister Leanca promised to tell the Prime Minister to send clear instructions to the Moldovan Customs Service that controls/sanctions on Iran be properly implemented and strict [...] | 2010-02-04 14:22:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR UNSC MD |
10COPENHAGEN64 | (C) IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM: DENMARK "FULLY [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, MFA Mideast Department Head Michael Lund Jeppesen told Acting DCM February 2 that Denmark "fully supports" sanctions against Iran, and they should be UNSC sanctions. He recalled that Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller has been clear for a long time that th [...] | 2010-02-04 11:05:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC IR DA |
10DJIBOUTI7 | DJIBOUTI: FONMIN AND CHOD ON IMPACT OF SANCTIONS ON ERITREA [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-07 16:23:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS DJ ER UNSC |
10KABUL97 | COORDINATING UN AND UK VIEWS ON AFGHAN ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Embassy has begun discussions with the GIRoA and coordination with UN and UK on policies regarding the 2010 Parliamentary elections. The UN and UK are essentially in line with U.S. views, and the UN plans to lead the dialogue with the GIRoA on a reform agenda. Some differen [...] | 2010-01-12 04:41:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UNSC AF |
10KAMPALA51 | Ugandan Response on Mobilizing Pressure on Iran [...] (C) Deputy Chief of Mission delivered reftel demarche on January 29 to Ugandan State Minister of Foreign Affairs Henry Okello Oryem. Oryem responded by saying Uganda has been firm in insisting that Iran should only use nuclear power for peaceful purposes, and indicated an openness to additional [...] | 2010-02-03 08:29:00 | Embassy Kampala | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR UNSC UG |
10KINSHASA17 | Operation Amani Leo: Old Wine in a New Bottle? [...] (C) Summary: Various MONUC officials have underscored that the overriding objective of Operation Amani Leo is civilian protection, although several, including SRSG Alan Doss, cautioned that demands for no collateral damages from a military operation were illusory. The operation, acco [...] | 2010-01-22 14:26:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UNSC MONUC MOPS PHUM PINR KPKO MARR MASS PREL CG |
10KUWAIT88 | AMBASSADOR RAISES IRANIAN NUCLEAR CONCERNS WITH [...] (C) Ambassador, during a January 31 luncheon in honor of Tony Blair at the residence of Prime Minister Shaykh Nasser Al Sabah, pulled aside Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al Sabah and raised ref A points concerning Iran's nuclear program, continuing USG concerns, and our efforts to addres [...] | 2010-02-01 11:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PGOV UNSC IR KU |
10KYIV179 | MOBILIZING PRESSURE ON IRAN REGARDING NUCLEAR [...] (C) Ambassador February 1 drew on reftel points to explain to Deputy Foreign Minister Volodymyr Khandogiy the US rationale for sharpening the choices that Iran faces by increasing pressure on Iran. Khandogiy expressed general agreement and observed that Ukraine is "very much concerned about [...] | 2010-02-01 17:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC IR UP |
10LIBREVILLE72 | GABON: HIGH-LEVEL NORTH KOREAN VISIT; REQUEST FOR [...] (SBU) Gabonese Foreign Minister Paul Toungui officially informed the Ambassador on February 8 that a high-level North Korean delegation led by Kim Yong Nam will visit Libreville during a tour of African countries at the end of February. Kim Yong Nam is the President of the Presidium of the Su [...] | 2010-02-11 13:45:00 | Embassy Libreville | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC GB |
10LIBREVILLE90 | GABON: PRESIDENT BONGO ONDIMBA TRAVELING TO NEW YORK (MARCH [...] (SBU) President Ali Bongo Ondimba will visit New York from March 6 to March 9 when Gabon assumes the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Several aides traveled to New York to advance the President's visit and Ambassador Adonia Ayebare, Africa Program Director at the Inte [...] | 2010-02-22 15:54:00 | Embassy Libreville | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV UNSC GB |
10LILONGWE57 | MALAWI: DEMARCHE RE IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] (SBU) DCM conveyed points in reftel demarche Feb. 10 to Anthony Livuza, MFA Principal Secretary and Paul Chiunguzeni, MFA Director of Political Affairs. Both appeared well briefed on the issues. 2. (C) Livuza replied that he understood that the USG had made considerable eff [...] | 2010-02-18 16:29:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR UNSC IAEA MI |
10LJUBLJANA34 | IRAN: SLOVENIA WILL SUPPORT EU CONSENSUS ON [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on February 3 to Tadej Rupel, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Middle East section. Rupel noted that the EU would likely back tougher measures if the UN Security Council did not adopt stronger sanctions against Iran. The EU does not plan to make an ear [...] | 2010-02-10 11:25:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM PREL UNSC IR SI |
10LONDON253 | IRAN: UK PLANS LOBBYING EFFORT SIMILAR TO THAT OF U.S. TO INCREASE PRESSURE ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-03 17:42:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM PREL IR UNSC |
10LUSAKA69 | ZAMBIA BACKS US ON IRAN [...] (C) MFA Assistant Director for Africa and Middle East Kimbala Meleka said he would recommend to the Foreign Minister that Zambia support the U.S./EU3 next steps on Iran per reftel. In the absence of the Foreign Minister and the Permanent Secretary, P/E Chief delivered reftel information and [...] | 2010-02-05 06:11:00 | Embassy Lusaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR UNSC ZA |
10LUXEMBOURG29 | LUXEMBOURG: PRESSURE IRAN VIA UNSC, AND TARGETED SANCTIONS [...] (C) On February 2 Ambassador Stroum and DCM discussed reftel points with Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn and Ministry of Foreign Affairs Political Director Georges Friden. Asselborn agreed that Iran had not responded to "Obama's outstretched hand." He said it was time to increase th [...] | 2010-02-05 10:08:00 | Embassy Luxembourg | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR UNSC LU |
10MADRID119 | EXTENSIVE USG ENGAGEMENT WITH SPAIN ON IRAN'S [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Post has left no stone unturned in its extensive engagement with the GOS on the USG's dual-track engagement with Iran and the importance of increasing pressure on Iran if Tehran fails to reciprocate with confidence-building measures and transparency regarding its nucl [...] | 2010-02-02 07:48:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IR TRGY SP EUN UNSC |
10MANILA241 | MOBILIZING PRESSURE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM: [...] (SBU) Political-External chief delivered Reftel demarche on Iran's nuclear program to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). The DFA was represented by Donna Rodriguez, Director of the Office of Political, Security, and Legal Matters in the international organizations bureau, and Rona Goce, [...] | 2010-02-05 08:45:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM IR UNSC RP |
10MEXICO117 | Russian FM Lavrov Visit to Mexico: Constructive and [...] (C) Summary: Senior Mexican Foreign Ministry sources characterized the brief working visit of Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov as constructive and focused on multi-lateral and regional issues, i.e., Iran, UN Security Council and Human Rights, Honduras, and Haiti. Lavrov was non-ideological, and [...] | 2010-02-19 18:58:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC PARM KGHG UNSC IAEA KNNP IR RS HA MX |
10MEXICO99 | Mexico Urges Continued Negotiation with Iran [...] Poloff met with Julian Juarez Cadenas, the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (SRE) Director General for Nuclear, Security, and Legal Issues February 8 to express the USG's concerns about Iran's perpetuation of its nuclear program and unresponsiveness to outreach on behalf of the USG, IAEA, and [...] | 2010-02-12 15:52:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MX PREL IR UNSC |
10MONROVIA134 | JUANITA NEAL QUERY: INFO RESPONSE [...] SUMMARY: Juanita Neal has long been involved in the Liberian timber industry. She held a lucrative position in the Taylor government, and currently works as an attorney and timber consultant. While there is reason to believe she has maintained ties with the timber companies that conducted lo [...] | 2010-02-01 13:21:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC LI |
10NDJAMENA23 | MINURCAT PROGRESS REPORT: EAST CHAD SECURITY [...] (SBU) SRSG Victor Angelo told the resident diplomatic and IO corps in N'Djamena January 11 that he was in the process of framing his end-of-first-year report to the SYG and UN Security Council on the performance of the MINURCAT PKO since its inception last March. The report, due in February, [...] | 2010-01-12 16:36:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF UNSC SU CD |
10OSLO61 | NORWAY OPEN TO INCREASED PRESSURE ON IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Political Director of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vegard Ellefsen, responded receptively to all of reftel talking points, delivered by U.S. Ambassador to Norway Barry White. Ellefsen said that Norway would gladly support and easily adopt stricter measures at the [...] | 2010-02-03 12:42:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR UNSC NO |
10OTTAWA156 | CANADA CALLS ON IRAN TO END ENRICHMENT PROGRAM [...] (U) Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon on February 8 issued a statement expressing concern over Iran's decision further to enrich nuclear material, and calling on Iran to "end its contempt for the international community" and to "take steps toward transparency and compliance" with the [...] | 2010-02-09 13:07:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM UNSC IR CA |
10OUAGADOUGOU68 | BURKINA FASO ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-03 15:03:00 | Embassy Ouagadougou | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR UNSC UV |
10PRAGUE58 | CZECH COMMENTS ON MOBILIZING PRESSURE TO PERSUADE [...] (SBU) We engaged Czech MFA Political Director Ivo Sramek on February 3 to outline the USG perspective on where things stand with Iran and to make the case for increasing pressure. Sramek was clear that the Czechs "absolutely agree" with the USG perspective on next steps, especially the need now [...] | 2010-02-03 16:51:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ IR PARM UNSC |
10RABAT35 | MOROCCO SEEKS 2012-13 UNSC SEAT [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-20 19:30:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC MO |
10RIYADH154 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: MOBILIZING PRESSURE TO PERSUADE [...] (C) DCM met with Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister for Bilateral Relations, Dr. Khalid Al-Jindan, on February 3 to solicit Saudi support for the U.S. strategy to mobilize pressure to persuade Iran's engagement on its nuclear program per reftel A. 2. (C) Al-Jindan noted that he had attended th [...] | 2010-02-03 14:16:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR UNSC SA |
10SANTODOMINGO55 | ENGAGING THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] (C) Pol-Econ Counselor raised the issues of Iran's reluctance to cooperate with international efforts to build confidence and transparency in its nuclear program (Ref B) and its continuing human rights violations, as well as the prospect of increased repression on/about the upcoming anniversa [...] | 2010-02-08 21:09:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PARM PREL UNSC DR IR |
10SEOUL176 | ROKG CONSIDERS NEW STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS IRANIAN [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on February 5 to Koo Hyun-mo, Director of MOFAT's Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division, highlighting U.S. diplomatic efforts to engage Iran, outlining the U.S. view of next steps, and seeking ROK cooperation to increase pressure. Director Koo said the [...] | 2010-02-05 09:22:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV PINR UNSC KS IR |
10STATE11941 | GUIDANCE: UNSC PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT ON IRAQ [...] (U) This is an action request(paras 2 and 3). 2. (U) USUN is instructed to seek Council consensus towards a UN Security Council Presidential Statement (PRST) on Iraq containing the elements outlined in the non-paper in para 3. USUN should keep Washington informed on the progress of negotiat [...] | 2010-02-05 15:48:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC IZ |
10STATE13577 | GUIDANCE: BUILDING BLOCKS FOR FEBRUARY 16 UNAMI [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-16 19:32:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC IZ |
10STATE14003 | Guidance: Middle East Consultations, February 18 [...] (SBU) This is an action request. USUN may draw from para two elements when making its intervention during Middle East consultations in the Security Council on February 18. 2. (U) Begin elements: Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you Under Secretary-General Pascoe for your briefing. Th [...] | 2010-02-17 17:33:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC IS LE KPAL |
10STATE14132 | BUILDING BLOCKS FOR FEBRUARY 18 UNSC [...] (SBU) USUN may draw from the points and questions in paragraph three for the February 18 Security Council consultations on the Western Sahara. ---------- Objective ---------- 2. The U.S. objective is to indicate support for the UN-led process. --------------- Talking Points ---- [...] | 2010-02-17 19:13:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC AG MO WI PBTS |
10STATE14324 | UN - DPRK - COMMENTS FOR UNSC READOUT BY UNDER [...] USUNNY is instructed to draw on para (2) points in addressing the planned February 18 UNSC briefing by UN Under Secretary General Pascoe regarding his recent visit to DPRK. 2. Begin Talking Points. -- It is important for the international community to maintain a unified approach on the d [...] | 2010-02-17 23:59:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KN KS |
10STATE14945 | UN - COTE D'IVOIRE - COMMENTS FOR INFORMAL [...] This is an action request. USUN is requested to draw from Para (3) points during the informal meeting on Friday, February 19, 2010 to be held under the auspices of the Chair of the committee established pursuant to resolution 1572 (2004) concerning Cote D'Ivoire. The Cote d,Ivoire Group of Ex [...] | 2010-02-19 01:46:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC IV |
10STATE15537 | UN 1267 SANCTIONS: RESULTS OF USG REVIEW OF [...] (U) This is an action request. USUN is requested to inform the UN 1267 (Al-Qaida/Taliban Sanctions) Committee of the results of the USG review of names distributed in Tranche 3 pursuant to the Committee,s review per para 25 of UNSCR 1822. USUN should inform the Committee that the USG has no [...] | 2010-02-19 22:55:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC |
10STATE15558 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL FEBRUARY 24 THEMATIC DEBATE [...] This is an action request. USUN may draw from the statement in paragraph 2 for the UN Security Council thematic debate on Drug Trafficking in West Africa on February 24. End action request. 2. Begin Statement: Thank you, Mr. President. The United States would like to thank France for [...] | 2010-02-20 00:53:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC XA XY UNCND UNIDCP SNAR |
10STATE16619 | DEPUTY STEINBERG MEETS WITH UNAMI SRSG MELKERT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Steinberg and UNAMI SRSG Ad Melkert both highlighted concern over foreign involvement in the elections and subsequent government formation. Melkert noted that he expects to work closely with the Government of Iraq (GOI) to support and advise positive government formation s [...] | 2010-02-23 20:43:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ |
10STATE16745 | MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST: US-UN IRAQ SECURITY [...] Department requests mission clearance and assistance in obtaining UN credentials for IO/UNP William Haldeman, NEA/I/PM Director Edward Stafford, NEA/I/POL Shaun Mandelkorn, DS/IP/NEA Kevin Bauer, OSD Kathleen Heesch, OSD Lauren Geetter, JCS John Hall, and JCS Thomas Moninger who will be attend [...] | 2010-02-23 22:31:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC IZ |
10STATE16781 | DRUGS AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME: [...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the UN Security Council Presidential Statement (PRST) on drugs and transnational organized crime. USUN should refer any further substantive changes on the PRST to the Department prior to joining consensus for adoption. End action request. 2. Begin [...] | 2010-02-24 00:17:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC XA XY UNCND UNIDCP SNAR |
10STATE18392 | VOTING INSTRUCTION ON WWII COMMEMORATION AND CSTO [...] (U) This is an action request: The Department authorizes USUN to join consensus and co-sponsor the UN General Assembly resolution in paragraph 2. USUN is authorized to join consensus on the UN General Assembly resolution in paragraph 3, but may not co-sponsor. The Department understands that [...] | 2010-02-26 21:24:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL RS |
10STATE2053 | USUN TALKING POINTS FOR JANUARY 12 UNSC [...] Objective: Use the briefing to support the UN,s efforts in Guinea. Express support for UNOWA,s engagement in strengthening regional approaches to combating drug trafficking. Urge UNOWA to play a stronger role in coordinating regional approaches to Security Sector Reform (SSR). 2. [...] | 2010-01-08 22:48:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL XA UNSC PHUM SNAR PU XY |
10STATE2600 | GUIDANCE FOR JANUARY 14 BRIEFING BY UNRCCA SRSG [...] (U) USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points in paragraph two for the January 14 Security Council Briefing by the United Nations Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy in Central Asia (UNRCCA) Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General(SRSG) Miroslav [...] | 2010-01-12 00:16:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC UN TX |
10STATE2607 | INSTRUCTION FOR USUN TO REQUEST UN 1267 LISTING [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3 and 4. 2. SUMMARY: The U.S. prenotified (ref A) its intention to request on December 18, 2009, that the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee add the names of Yemen-based al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and two of its leaders, Nasir al-Wah [...] | 2010-01-12 00:53:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KN KS KTFN PREL PTER SA YM UNSC |
10STATE2997 | TALKING POINTS FOR JANUARY 15 CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (U) USUN is instructed to pursue the objectives in paragraph 2 and draw from the points in paragraph 3 during the January 15 Security Council consultations on the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN). 2. (U) Objectives: -- Convey support for UNMIN -- Recognize recent discharge of some disqualifie [...] | 2010-01-12 20:25:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC NP |
10STATE3380 | TALKING POINTS FOR SOMALIA CONSULTATIONS JANUARY [...] Action Request: USUN should draw from the building blocks in paragraph 2 below in drafting the statement for the UN Security Council briefing and consultations on Somalia on January 14, 2010. End action. 2. Begin building blocks: -- Special Representative Ould-Abdallah, thank you [...] | 2010-01-13 18:06:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL PHUM PHSA |
10STATE3574 | GUIDANCE: OIL-FOR-FOOD (OFF) LETTER [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (C) USUN is instructed to advocate with Council members for the enclosed non-paper (para 3) affirming UN Security Council action to authorize payment of OFF contracts in 90 days unless the Government of Iraq provides relevant documentation that substantiate [...] | 2010-01-13 22:28:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ |
10STATE4127 | USUN TALKING POINTS FOR JANUARY 15 UNSC [...] USUN is instructed to pursue the objectives in paragraph 2 and draw from the points in paragraph 3 during the January 15 Security Council consultations on Burundi listed under &other matters8 and in conversation with the Burundian Permrep. USUN should also support a Security Council Press St [...] | 2010-01-15 00:08:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL XA BY UNSC |
10STATE413 | TALKING POINTS FOR JANUARY 6 OPEN DEBATE ON UNAMA [...] (U) USUN is instructed to pursue the objectives in paragraph 2 and draw from the points in paragraph 3 during the January 6 Security Council open debate on the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). 2. (U) Objectives: -- Highlight the results of the U.S. Afghanistan-Pakistan strat [...] | 2010-01-04 23:39:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC AF |
10STATE5266 | UNMIK - GUIDANCE FOR JANUARY 22, 2010 SECURITY [...] (U) This is an action request: USUN is instructed to draw from the points below during the UN Security Council debate on the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) scheduled for January 22, 2010. 2. (U) Begin points: Mr. President, I would like to welcome Kosovo Foreign Minister Skender Hyseni [...] | 2010-01-19 23:19:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL KV |
10STATE5792 | VOTING INSTRUCTION: UNMIN RENEWAL [...] (U) This is an action request. The Department instructs USUN to vote in favor of the UN Security Council resolution in paragraph 2 renewing the mandate of the UN Mission in Nepal, scheduled for adoption January 21. USUN should seek additional guidance from the Department if there are any sub [...] | 2010-01-21 00:34:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL NP |
10STATE7462 | UN MISSION IN SUDAN: TALKING POINTS FOR [...] This is an action request. USUN may draw from the points in paragraph 2 during consultations before the Security Council on the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) scheduled for January 26, 2010. 2. I would like to thank Under Secretary-General Le Roy for his briefing today. Sudan is now enteri [...] | 2010-01-25 21:54:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPKO UNSC SU |
10STATE7686 | Guidance: Middle East Consultations, January 27 [...] (U) This is an action request. USUN may draw from para two elements in making its intervention during Middle East consultations in the Security Council on January 27, 2010 and in answering subsequent press inquiries. 2. (SBU) Begin elements: I thank Assistant Secretary General Fernand [...] | 2010-01-26 16:25:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC IS KPAL |
10STATE7986 | USUN VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: UNSC RESOLUTION ON [...] This is an action request, please see paragraph two. 2. ACTION REQUEST: On January 28, 2010, the UN Security Council will vote to renew the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). USUN is authorized to vote in support of the resolution; full text included in paragraph three. USUN shou [...] | 2010-01-27 13:20:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPKO UNSC ET KE |
10STATE9124 | MOBILIZING PRESSURE TO PERSUADE IRAN'S [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 2-5. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) The United States, along with its partners, has made an unprecedented effort to engage Iran in an effort to diplomatically resolve the international community's concerns with Iran's nuclear program. Ira [...] | 2010-01-29 03:43:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR UNSC |
10TEGUCIGALPA113 | MOBILIZING PRESSURE TO PERSUADE IRAN'S ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered the demarche in reftel on February 1 to Minister of Foreign Affairs Mario Canahuati. Canahuati was very supportive of the U.S. position and told the Ambassador that he would inform President Porfirio Lobo of the demarche. LLORENS [...] | 2010-02-03 00:50:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL IR UNSC HO |
10TOKYO212 | MOBILIZING PRESSURE TO PERSUADE IRAN'S ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Drawing on reftel background and talking points, the Ambassador, joined by visiting EAP Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell, met February 2 with Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka to outline next steps in dealing with Iran and to seek GOJ support for increasing international pressure on I [...] | 2010-02-03 04:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC IR JA |
10TRIPOLI135 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MOBILIZING PRESSURE TO PERSUADE IRAN'S [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief delivered ref demarche to MFA Director of the International Organizations Department, Mehdi al-Mjribi, on February 10. Mjribi reiterated Libya's support of nuclear non-proliferation initiatives and said that all nations should commit to the principles expressed within the [...] | 2010-02-16 16:38:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL IR UNSC LY |
10USEUBRUSSELS212 | COMMISSION TERRORISM SANCTIONS LEGAL CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) This message contains an Action Request. Please see Paragraph 14. This message also contains a list of 26 pending court challenges to EU sanctions designations, as received from the European Commission. Please see Paragraph 13. 2. (C//NF) SUMMARY. U.S. interagency sanctions off [...] | 2010-02-24 10:46:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN ETTC EUN KTFN PINR PTER UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK1 | AMBASSADOR DICARLO MEETS WITH ICTY'S CHIEF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Serge Brammertz, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY),met with Ambassador DiCarlo December 1 prior to the ICTY's biannual briefing to the UN Security Council. Brammertz focused his discussion on recent developments with respect [...] | 2010-01-05 18:18:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ICTY PREL UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK104 | AMBASSADOR RICE MEETS NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Rice on February 22 met with Filipino Ambassador Libran Cabactulan, President-elect of the Review Conference (RevCon) of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) to be held in May, 2010. Cabactulan said he is gauging expectations of the States Part [...] | 2010-02-24 23:10:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC UNSC IR RP |
10USUNNEWYORK105 | U.S.MISSION GRANTS CLEARANCE FOR REQUEST TO ATTEND [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-25 00:43:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC IZ |
10USUNNEWYORK106 | DPRK: IMPROVING THE UN'S RESPONSE TO DPRK [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S., UK, French and Japanese missions have urged the UN Security Council's North Korea Sanctions Committee ("1718 Committee") to streamline and improve its response to reported sanctions violations. Missions have urged the chair (Turkey) to encourage vigorous Committee investiga [...] | 2010-02-25 00:44:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK107 | DPRK: SOUTH AFRICA REPORTS SANCTIONS VIOLATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: South Africa has confidentially reported to the Security Council's North Korea Sanctions Committee ("1718 Committee") a sanctions violation involving the transfer of North Korea-origin conventional arms to the Republic of Congo via China and Malaysia. According to this report, i [...] | 2010-02-25 00:48:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK111 | READOUT OF SECRETARY-GENERAL'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: The Secretary-General met with Israeli Defense Minister Barak in New York on February 24. According to a UN staff readout, UN colleagues were disappointed that Barak did not come with anything new on Gaza for the Secretary-General, who had hoped to get GOI concurrence to move ma [...] | 2010-02-26 00:09:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO KPAL KWBG UNSC IS LE IR |
10USUNNEWYORK115 | URUGUAYAN FINANCE MINISTER SAYS UN OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) Uruguayan Minister of Economy and Finance Alvaro Garcia requested a meeting with Ambassador Wolff to express Uruguay's concern about the UN's late disbursements to Uruguayan peacekeepers. Garcia said Uruguay has been contributing to UN peacekeeping operations for years, regardless of th [...] | 2010-02-26 23:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR UNSC UY |
10USUNNEWYORK22 | MEETING WITH NEW TURKISH COUNTER TERRORISM [...] SUMMARY: Turkey, the new chairman of the UN Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) hosted an informal meeting at its mission on January 14, 2010, to outline its main objectives for its 2010 chairmanship and to exchange views with other committee members on the way forward. These p [...] | 2010-01-19 14:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ETTC KTFN UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK24 | SECURITY COUNCIL DEBATES COOPERATION WITH REGIONAL [...] SUMMARY. The Security Council held a debate on cooperation between the UN and regional and sub-regional organizations on January 13, following a two day retreat hosted by the Secretary-General for the heads of some regional organizations. Participants offered their support for greater cooperat [...] | 2010-01-19 23:28:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK25 | AMBASSADOR RICE'S JANUARY 12 MEETING WITH OUTGOING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Rice met on January 12 with outgoing UNIFIL Force Commander General Graziano to thank him for his leadership and seek his candid assessment of the current situation. General Graziano emphasized that an opportunity exists to press for a permanent cease-fire given that [...] | 2010-01-19 23:37:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC IS LE |
10USUNNEWYORK26 | SOMALIA: TERRORISM THREAT OF UNSTABLE SOMALIA; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On January 14, UN Special Representative for Somalia Ould-Abdallah briefed the Security Council on the situation in Somalia. He focused on the terrorism threat posed by Somalia and urged the international community to boost financial support to both AMISOM and the TFG's securit [...] | 2010-01-20 00:36:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC PTER MARR PHUM SO |
10USUNNEWYORK27 | UN SRSG FOR SOMALIA PLEADS FOR FUNDING TO THWART [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a January 12 meeting with Ambassador Rice, UN Special Representative for Somalia Ould-Abdallah underscored Somalia's potential as a terrorist incubator, citing the presence of foreign fighters and the TFG's inability to provide security. He said that two things are needed to def [...] | 2010-01-20 10:26:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC PTER MARR PHUM SO |
10USUNNEWYORK28 | DPRK: EXPERTS INVESTIGATE SANCTIONS VIOLATIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: The Panel of Experts (POE),a team mandated in UNSCR 1874 to help monitor and improve implementation of UN sanctions on North Korea, has launched investigations into the four sanctions violations reported to the Security Council's DPRK Sanctions Committee ("1718 [...] | 2010-01-20 19:39:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK36 | DPRK: SANCTIONS COMMITTEE PRESSES ON 1874 [...] (C) The UNSC's DPRK Sanctions Committee ("1718 Committee") met on January 20 to push forward on a number of items related to implementation of UN sanctions imposed on North Korea. China opened the meeting with a lengthy statement reaffirming its support for sanctions implementation, but insis [...] | 2010-01-22 12:40:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK38 | U.S. MISSION GRANTS CLEARANCE FOR U/S THOMAS A. [...] (SBU) U.S. Mission grants clearance for Thomas A. Wuchte, U.S. 1540 Coordinator, to meet with USUN/POL and to assist visitors from the George Washington University Law School in facilitating GWU's offer of pro bono legal assistance for 1540 implementation. An additional meeting with the UN Offi [...] | 2010-01-22 17:46:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PREL ETTC PARM PGOV PTER UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK39 | COUNCIL DISCUSSES COTE D'IVOIRE ELECTIONS AND THE [...] (SBU) UN Mission in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) SRSG Choi told the Security Council in an open briefing on January 21 that challenges in implementing the "Ouagadougou IV" reunification plan could hamper the electoral process. Choi also said that the creation of a second electoral list by the Independ [...] | 2010-01-22 23:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC XY IV LI UV |
10USUNNEWYORK44 | SWITCHING USG CONTRIBUTION FROM CTITF TO UNICRI [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph three below. 2. (U) In September, 2007, the United States pledged $403k to the United Nations Implementation Task Force (CTITF): $226k towards the working group titled "Addressing Radicalization and Extremism That Lead to Terrorism", and $1 [...] | 2010-01-25 18:00:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK51 | TURKEY CHAIRS ITS FIRST UN SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (U) SUMMARY: Turkish Permrep Ertugrul Apakan chaired his first UN Security Council CTC meeting January 21. The agenda included the CTC's work program for the next six months and a thematic discussion on implementation and assessment of Security Council resolution 1624 (2005). As there ar [...] | 2010-01-29 00:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK53 | MINURCAT MANDATE RENEWAL -- CAUSE FOR CONCERN [...] This is an action request, see paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Summary: On January 25, the French mission held an informal meeting with Security Council experts and a Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) team prior to its January 26 trip to Chad to discuss the Government of Chad's (GoC) ob [...] | 2010-01-29 14:26:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO PREF UNSC CD CT SU |
10USUNNEWYORK55 | UNSC: MIDDLE EAST OPEN DEBATE -- HEAVY CRITICISM [...] (SBU) Summary: At the Security Council's January 27 Open Debate on the Middle East, Assistant Secretary-General Fernandez-Taranco noted the "worrying impasse" that persists in the region with the lack of progress on restarting negotiations and called for the Quartet to play a role. He voiced [...] | 2010-01-29 23:20:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAL KWBG UNSC IS SY LE |
10USUNNEWYORK56 | 1267 COMMITTEE FALLS BEHIND ON 1822 REVIEW OF [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-01 15:34:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL EFIN PTER KTFN UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK61 | UNGA: SC REFORM: FOURTH ROUND ENDS; CHAIR TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The informal plenary of the General Assembly met on January 19 and 20 for its second and final meeting of the fourth round of intergovernmental negotiations to discuss "areas of convergence." While the 52 delegations and one observer who spoke covered the subject of the meetin [...] | 2010-02-03 15:12:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC GE JA BR IN |
10USUNNEWYORK63 | 1267: UK SOUNDS ALARM ON TARDY REVIEW OF AL QAEDA [...] (C) SUMMARY: UK Deputy Perm Rep Parham expressed concern to Amb. Wolff about the 1267 Committee's disappointingly slow progress on its one-time review of all names on the Al Qaeda / Taliban sanctions list. Parham expressed frustration that the 1267 Committee still had 400 out of 488 names lef [...] | 2010-02-05 16:30:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL EFIN PTER KTFN UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK72 | NIGERIAN PERM REP OFFERS TO HELP ON SUDAN, IRAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Rice hosted a lunch for Nigerian PermRep Ogwu and the Nigerian Security Council team on February 1 to enlist support for U.S. priorities. PR Ogwu expressed reservations over a possible Council trip to Khartoum but committed to considering whether it could make the visi [...] | 2010-02-09 20:17:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC KPKO XY XA NI IR SU PARM |
10USUNNEWYORK76 | UNSC: DPKO BRIEFS ON RECOMMENDATIONS/CONCLUSIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and UNIFIL's Strategic Military Cell (SMC) briefed Security Council members at an informal meeting on February 5 on the key conclusions and recommendations of the Joint UNIFIL-DPKO Technical Review. The review envisions no radic [...] | 2010-02-11 19:56:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC IS LE |
10USUNNEWYORK77 | AMBASSADOR RAPP (S/SWCI) HOLDS MEETINGS IN NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Stephen Rapp (S/WCI),held meetings in New York February 1, 2 and 5 to take the pulse of the P5, Austria, and Rwanda on the possibility of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) transferring cases to Rwanda's national judicial system where an internat [...] | 2010-02-11 22:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ICTY PARM PREF PREL UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK86 | NEWLY APPOINTED SRSG ON SEXUAL VIOLENCE WALLSTROM [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-16 15:27:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SOCI KPKO KWMN UNSC CG |
10USUNNEWYORK88 | AMB RICE'S MEETING WITH BRAZILIAN PERMREP [...] Summary: During a February 8 lunch hosted by Ambassador Rice for Brazilian PermRep Viotti, the U.S. and Brazil were in agreement on priorities for and approaches to dealing with Haiti. On Sudan, Viotti said she believes there is "a measure of convergence" in the SC on what needs to be done t [...] | 2010-02-16 21:19:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IAEA BR IR HA SU |
10USUNNEWYORK9 | THE 2010 SECURITY COUNCIL: SOME INITIAL THOUGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The votes and actions of incoming Security Council members Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Gabon, Lebanon and Nigeria will be more challenging than their predecessors and will require close management on some issues. On the key priority of non-proliferation, Brazil's efforts to d [...] | 2010-01-08 17:56:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK92 | THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY CHARTER COMMITTEE WILL [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph five below. 2. (U) Summary. Last December the Sixth (legal) Committee of the General Assembly (GA) adopted resolution A/RES/64/115 titled "Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the R [...] | 2010-02-18 17:59:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK94 | PEACEKEEPING: SECURITY COUNCIL CONSIDERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. U/SYGs Le Roy and Malcorra told the Security Council in an informal briefing on February 17, that the need for strong Council unanimity of political support, the lack of adequate resources from TCCs/PCCs to match Council mandates, and the increasing complexity of modern peacekee [...] | 2010-02-20 00:46:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KPKO UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK95 | USUN AND TURKISH MISSIONS EXCHANGE VIEWS ON ISSUES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 27. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Turkish Permrep Apakan and DPR Corman and Ambassadors Wolff and DiCarlo engaged in a wide ranging discussion of issues before the Security Council at lunch on February 5. They covered Cyprus, the Horn of Africa, Iraq, the [...] | 2010-02-20 02:41:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK96 | DPRK: THAILAND PERM REP PLEDGES COOPERATION ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Thai Perm Rep Sinhaseni briefed Amb. Wolff on Thailand's actions following its December seizure of arms being shipped from North Korea in violation of UNSCR 1874. Sinhaseni explained that Thailand had reported the incident to the Security Council's North Korea Sanctions Committee [...] | 2010-02-22 18:55:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ETTC MCAP KN UNSC |
10USUNNEWYORK97 | UNSC: MONTHLY MIDDLE EAST DISCUSSION - MEMBERS [...] (SBU) Summary: UN Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs Pascoe briefed the Security Council during its monthly meeting on the Middle East on February 18. He emphasized that the two parties were seriously considering Special Envoy Mitchell's proposal to move to proximity talks and sai [...] | 2010-02-22 19:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAL KWBG UNSC IS LE SY |
10VATICAN19 | (C) VATICAN AGREES IRAN IS NOT COOPERATING WITH IAEA [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-03 15:51:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | IR PARM PREL UNSC VT |
10VIENNA119 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES AUSTRIA ON IRAN [...] (C) Summary. On Feb. 1, Amb. Eacho delivered reftel demarche to MFA Secretary General Johannes Kyrle. Kyrle, maintaining that Austria was in the European mainstream, was supportive of efforts to win enhanced sanctions in the UN Security Council (UNSC),where he said China would ultimately be [...] | 2010-02-02 06:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC IR AU |
10VILNIUS79 | LITHUANIA SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON IRAN [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST - see paragraph 4. 2. (C) Ambassador delivered reftel talking points on January 29 to MFA's Acting Foreign Minister (AFM) Rasa Jukneviciene, Vice Minister Asta Skaisgiryte, Political Director Eitvydas Bajarunas and Second Secretary Donatas Vainalavicius. The AFM expres [...] | 2010-02-03 14:05:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC LH |
10VILNIUS94 | LITHUANIA SUPPORTS U.S. REGARDING PRESSURE ON IRAN [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (C) We spoke with MFA's Head of Human Rights Division, Julius Rakitskis, and Laima Jureviciene, Head of Middle East and Africa Division on February 9th to deliver talking points (REF A). We expressed concern about the potential for demons [...] | 2010-02-10 14:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNSC IR LH |
10WARSAW67 | POLAND SUPPORTS INCREASED PRESSURE ON IRAN [...] (C) Poland is prepared to increase pressure on Tehran in a bid to thwart Iran's efforts to build an indigenous nuclear weapons capability. Stanislaw Gulinski, filling in for regular MFA Iran desk officer Piotr Kozlowski, agreed with points in reftel demarche that it was time to step up the pr [...] | 2010-02-03 10:54:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC PL IR |
10YEREVAN53 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: MOBILIZING PRESSURE TO PERSUADE [...] (C) On February 1, Ambassador Yovanovitch delivered ref demarche to Armenian Minster of Foreign Affairs Edward Nalbandian. This was Ambassador Yovanovich's second meeting in a week with Nalbandian on Iran,s nuclear program.. At the earlier January 26 meeting in anticipation of Iranian Foreig [...] | 2010-02-02 15:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC IR AM |
85LONDON6332 | EVENING STANDARD ARTICLE ON US CAPTIVES IN [...] PARAGRAPH 2 CONTAINS ARTICLE FROM THE STANDARD OF MARCH 19, 1985 ENTITLED "TORTURE ORDEAL OF KIDNAPPED US DIPLOMAT". THE ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN BY THEODORE LEVITE IN TEL AVIV. 2. BEGIN TEXT: AN AMERICAN DIPLOMAT KIDNAPPED BY LEBANESE EXTREMISTS IS BEING PARADED AROUND THE COUNTRY IN AN OPE [...] | 1985-03-19 17:52:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC LE IS XF |
88BAGHDAD4587 | IRAN-IRAQ: EVE OF GENEVA [...] CONFIDENTIAL ENTIRE TEST. 2. SUMMARY: TH... [...] | 1988-08-23 12:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IZ |
88STATE274007 | UNDERSTANDINGS RELATING TO CEASE-FIRE AND UN OBSERVERS [...] CONFIDENTIAL ENTIRE TEXT. 2. DURING AUGUST 17 MEETING (SEPTEL),UNDER SECRETARY ZAHAWI AND INTERNATIONAL-LAW EXPERT QAYSI HANDED TO AMBASSADOR AS HDAS N DRCSMENTS. INCLUDED WERE TWO UNDATED "ANNEXES," ONE ENTITLED, "UNDERSTANDINGS RELATING TO THE CEASE-FIRE," AND THE OTHER, "ARRANGE- MENT [...] | 1988-08-22 23:45:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS UNSC IZ IR |
89USUNNEWYORK3978 | TFPM02: MEETING WITH SC PRESIDENT ON PANAMA [...] (CONFIDENTIAL - ENTIRE TEXT) 2. SUMMARY. AMB PICKERING MET WITH SC PRESIDENT (COLOMBIA) DEC 20 TO ASK THAT A LETTER SETTING FORTH THE REASONS FOR U.S. ACTIONS IN PANAMA AND A COPY OF PRESIDENT BUSH'S STATEMENT BE CIRCULATED AS OFFICIAL UN DOCUMENTS. PICKERING ALSO ARGUED AGAINST PREMATU [...] | 1989-12-20 18:53:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL XK UNSC OAS PM |
90KUWAIT4818 | TFKUO1: TIGHTENING THE NOOSE ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 1990-08-25 11:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | CASC IZ KU MOPS PINS PREL SHUM SREF UNSC |
90USUNNEWYORK2143 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS RESOLUTION [...] (U) SUMMARY. THE SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTED BY A VOTE OF 14-0-0 WITH ONE MEMBER, YEMEN, NOT PARTICIPATING, A RESOLUTION (SC RES 660) CONDEMNING THE IRAQI INVASION OF KUWAIT. THE ALL-NIGHT SC SESSION, CALLED BY THE U.S. AND KUWAIT, HEARD THE KUWAITI PERMREP EXPRESS SHOCK AND "BITTERNESS" OVER [...] | 1990-08-02 17:53:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KU IZ UNSC PINS |
92USUNNEWYORK2987 | IRAQ DECIDES NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN UN BOUNDARY [...] FOR THE RECORD WE PROVIDE THE FULL TEXT OF THE IRAQI FM'S JULY 12 LETTER (S/24275, FAXED TO IO/UNP),SUMMARIZED REFTEL, IN WHICH IRAQ ANNOUNCES THAT IT WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE CURRENT SESSION OF THE UN BOUNDARY DEMARCATION COMMISSION IN NEW YORK. 2. BEGIN TEXT: LETTER DATED 12 JULY 199 [...] | 1992-07-16 01:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS UNSC KU IZ |
92USUNNEWYORK5825 | TFSOOL - UN WOULD LIKE TO CONSULT WITH US ON [...] CONFIDENTIAL: ENTIRE TEXT 2. SUMMARY: IN DECEMBER 7 MEETINGS WITH AMBASSADOR PERKINS, THE SYG AND USG GOULDING ASKED THE US TO CONSULT WITH THE UN ON TROOP CONTRIBUTIONS BEFORE MAKING FINAL DECISIONS. END SUMMARY. 3. IN SUCCESSIVE MEETINGS DECEMBER 7 BOUTROS GHALI AND USG GOULDING U [...] | 1992-12-08 21:04:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC MOPS PHUM SO |
93ALEXANDRIA24 | EGYPT-LIBYA: LIBYA REOPENS THE BORDER [...] OFFICIALS OF THE MERSA MATROUH GOVERNORATE HAVE CONFIRMED LOCAL PRESS REPORTS THAT THE SALLOUM BORDER CROSSING WAS REOPENED BY LIBYAN AUTHORITIES EARLY TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12. LIBYA HAD CLOSED ITS LAND BORDERS FOR A THREE-DAY PERIOD TO PROTEST THE U.N.-IMPOSED SANCTIONS (COMMENT: THERE [...] | 1993-01-13 13:50:00 | Consulate Alexandria | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD UNSC LY EG |
93STATE374527 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL SANCTIONS ON LIBYA [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: AS POSTS ARE AWARE, NEW SANCTIONS AGAINST LIBYA CAME INTO FORCE AT 00:01 EST ON 1 DECEMBER 1993. THESE MEASURES ARE DESIGNED TO BRING TO JUSTICE THE PERPETRATORS OF TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST PAN AM 103 AND UTA 772. UNSC RESOLUTION 883 FREEZES CERTAIN LIBYAN [...] | 1993-12-14 03:01:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC UNSC PREL ETRD LY |
95TOKYO3257 | BRUNEI FOREIGN MINISTER MOHAMED BOLKIAH'S [...] CONFIDENTIAL -- ENTIRE TEXT. 2. SUMMARY: BRUNEI FOREIGN MINISTER MOHAMED BOLKIAH VISITED JAPAN MARCH 7 - 9 IN AN OFFICIAL CAPACITY AND VACATIONED IN TOKYO THROUGH THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND. HE MET WITH THE EMPEROR, CROWN PRINCE, AND GOJ FOREIGN MINISTER KONO. WITH THE LATTER HE DISCUSSED T [...] | 1995-03-20 02:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEAN APEC NPT UNSC BX JA |
96CAIRO13851 | EL-SADIQ EL-MAHDI ON THE FUTURE OF SUDAN [...] CLASSIFIED BY DCM VINCENT BATTLE, REASON 1.5 (D). CONFIDENTIAL - ENTIRE TEXT. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. DRAWING ON REFTEL TALKING POINTS, DCM MET WITH EL-SADIQ EL-MAHDI IN CAIRO ON DECEMBER 30 TO DISCUSS HIS FUTURE PLANS, SUDANESE OPPOSITION ACTIVITIES, THE POLITICAL SITUATION INSID [...] | 1996-12-31 06:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC KISL SU EG |
97ROME5198 | ITALY: A MORE ACTIVIST POLICY TOWARD ROGUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: RECENT GOI ACTIVITY SUGGESTS ITALY IS PURSUING MORE ACTIVIST POLICIES TOWARD THE SO-CALLED "ROGUE" STATES: IRAN, IRAQ, AND LIBYA. ACCORDING TO THE MFA, ITALY HAS, IN FACT, A SINGLE, BROAD POLICY FOR THESE COUNTRIES, CENTERED UPON THE BELIEF THAT ENGAGEMENT, NOT ISOLATION, IS TH [...] | 1997-06-11 16:09:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL UNSC PTER KPRP IR IZ LY IT |
98STATE143823 | LETTER ON IRAQ FROM THE SECRETARY TO FM PRIMAKOV [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY NEA PDAS DAVID WELCH, REASON 1.5(B) 2. (C) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE FOR EMBASSY MOSCOW. SEE PARA 4. 3. (C) BACKGROUND: ON AUGUST 4, THE SECRETARY RECEIVED A LETTER FROM PRIMAKOV IN WHICH PRIMAKOV ASSERTED CATEGORICALLY THAT IRAQ HAD ELIMINATED ALL WMD AND NO LONGER RE [...] | 1998-08-07 00:55:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM UNSC IZ RU |
98USUNNEWYORK1622 | PAKISTANI NUCLEAR TEST: SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON MAY 28 THE SECURITY COUNCIL COULD NOT ISSUE A PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT "STRONGLY DEPLORING" THE MAY 28 PAKISTANI NUCLEAR TEST. DESPITE MAY 28 LATE NIGHT SECURITY COUNCIL CONSULTATIONS OF THE WHOLE, THE CHINESE SAID THEY WERE WITHOUT INSTRUCTIONS. DURING EARLIER INFORMAL CONSULT [...] | 1998-05-29 04:03:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS UNSC PARM MNUC KNNP PK IN |
98USUNNEWYORK1638 | SECOND PAKISTANI NUCLEAR TEST: UN SECURITY [...] (C) THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL MET IN EMERGENCY SESSION MAY 30 AT THE REQUEST OF JAPAN TO RESPOND TO THE SECOND SET OF PAKISTANI NUCLEAR TESTS. JAPANESE AMBASSADOR OWADA, UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM HIS GOVERNMENT, TABLED A DRAFT SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION (TEXT IN PARA 7),CO-SPONSORED BY SWEDEN [...] | 1998-05-30 21:50:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS UNSC PARM MNUC KNNP PK IN |
98USUNNEWYORK2600 | UN: COUNCIL REVIEWS SUDAN LETTER OF PROTEST [...] (C) ON AUGUST 24, COUNCIL PRESIDENT TURK (SLOVENIA) NOTED RECEIPT OF A LETTER FROM SUDANESE MINISTER FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS RORIC CONDEMNING THE AUGUST 20 DESTRUCTION OF THE EL-SHIFA PHARMACEUTICAL FACTORY BY U.S. MISSILES (REF A). AMBASSADOR BURLEIGH EXPLAINED TO COUNCIL MEMBERS THE JUSTIFICA [...] | 1998-08-24 23:03:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC SU |
99STATE51304 | LIBYA/PA103: QADHAFI LETTER [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE. 2. (C) THE LETTER WHICH QADHAFI PROVIDED TO PRESIDENT MANDELA 3/19 APPEARS TO REPRESENT PROGRESS TOWARD LIBYAN COMPLIANCE WITH UNSCR 1192. ACCORDINGLY, USUN SHOULD APPROACH THE SYG AT EARLIEST CONVENIENCE TO CONVEY THE MESSAGE IN PARA 3. APPROACH TO THE [...] | 1999-03-20 04:50:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PTER ETTC SA LY |