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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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07STATE159362 | SUDAN - SECRETARY TO CONVENE A MINISTERIAL ON THE [...] This is an action request, please see paras. 6-9. Responses are appreciated by Tuesday, November 27 at the latest. 2. (SBU) The United States is deeply concerned that the deadlock between the ruling-National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) over thor [...] | 2007-11-21 21:57:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO UN SU PREL PHUM PGOV IGAD IT |
07STATE163871 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2 - 4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a pre-license check on license 05-050075198 for the export of various firearms and rifle magazines to Italy. Post is requested [...] | 2007-12-05 20:37:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC IT KOMC |
07STATE166406 | DEMARCHE REQUEST - MISSING AMCIT ROBERT LEVINSON [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 8. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (S) The United States has reason to believe Iranian security services may have targeted and detained private investigator and retired FBI Special Agent Bob Levinson on March 8, 2007, during a t [...] | 2007-12-13 03:27:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | AS CA CASC CH EU EZ FR GM IN IR IT JA JO KDEM |
07STATE2284 | ADDITIONAL IRAN DESIGNATIONS UNDER E.O. 13382 [...] (SBU) This is an action request, please see paragraph 2. OBJECTIVES ---------- 2. (SBU) Washington requests that addressees provide courtesy pre-notification OOB, Tuesday, January 9 (local time) to host government officials that the United States will designate two additional entities a [...] | 2007-01-09 00:29:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PREL KNNP KN PARM FR GE IT UK |
07STATE63229 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: ENCOURAGE SUPPORT FOR COUNCIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Department requests Embassies encourage host governments to support UN Security Council action to establish the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. In New York, Belgium, Italy, Peru, and Slovakia have been generally supportive of the P-3's call for Council action, via a Chapter VI [...] | 2007-05-09 21:04:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC LE SY IT BE PE LO PREL PTER CF GH SF |
07TALLINN203 | ESTONIA QUIETLY DISAPPOINTED IN ITALY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-27 14:32:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER AF IT EN |
07TELAVIV2522 | EMBASSY TEL AVIV CONTACTS GOI TO REQUEST URGENT [...] (SBU) DCM Luis Moreno conveyed reftel request for assistance to Alon Ushpiz, head of the Foreign Ministry's Bureau of Coordination. (Ushpiz is equivalent of Deputy Director General to Foreign Ministry Director General Aaron Abramovich.) Following internal GOI discussion, Ushpiz informed DCM [...] | 2007-08-21 04:27:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PHSA MOPS EWWT SMIG LY TS IS IT |
07THEHAGUE1322 | NETHERLANDS/MFO: DUBIOUS ABOUT ADDITIONAL [...] (SBU) On July 10, Poloff discussed reftel with Roger van Laak, Senior Policy Advisor at the Dutch MFA's Department of Middle East and North African Affairs, thanking the Dutch for their prior contributions to the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO). In response to reftel points regarding a [...] | 2007-07-10 13:54:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMFO PREL XT IS IT JA EG NL |
07THEHAGUE526 | NETHERLANDS: FOREIGN MINISTER VERHAGEN CONDEMNS [...] (SBU) On March 21 during a press conference in Kabul, Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen condemned the release of Taliban prisoners in exchange for Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo. Verhagen said governments should not accommodate hostage-takers, and added that the Dutch governmen [...] | 2007-03-23 10:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PTER AF IT NL |
07TRIPOLI949 | SLOW PROGRESS ON ITALY-LIBYA COLONIAL COMPENSATION TREATY A [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-07 16:31:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EINV ETRD LY IT |
07USEUBRUSSELS1502 | EU TELLS PRESIDENT ISAIAS HE IS KEY TO STABILITY [...] (C/NF) Summary: European Commissioner Louis Michel met May 4 with Eritrean President Isaias to stress Eritrea's role in promoting regional peace and stability. Michel delivered a harder message during a separate one-on-one meeting in which he expressed EU displeasure with Eritrean violations o [...] | 2007-05-07 05:08:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV EUN EAID BE FR IT NL UK |
07USNATO186 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: RELEASE OF TALIBAN PRISONERS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Anticipating reftel A, Ambassador Nuland, during the March 21 North Atlantic Council meeting, joined the UK in criticizing the evident Taliban-for-hostage exchange in the release of kidnapped Italian journalist Mastrogiacomo. She also raised the issue separately with SYG de Hoo [...] | 2007-03-22 14:28:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREF PTER PREL AF IT |
07USUNNEWYORK174 | UNSC/IRAN: ITALIAN PR ASKS FOR EARLY OPPORTUNITY [...] (C) Italian Permanent Representative Marcello Spatafora called on Ambassador Wolff on the evening of Friday March 2, to stake an Italian role in negotiations on the follow-up Iran resolution. Spatafora said that he was acting on instructions from PM Prodi, and had made the same request to UK [...] | 2007-03-02 23:29:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IR IT |
07USUNNEWYORK779 | INDIAN UNSC REFORM GAMBIT: LOTS OF SOUND AND FURY, [...] (C) Summary. The last few meetings of the 61st UNGA session of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on UNSC reform, held between September 11-14, featured much more controversy than usual in the fourteen-year history of the working group. After President of the General Assembly (PGA) Khalifa [...] | 2007-09-21 16:04:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KUNR IN JA PK IT |
07USUNNEWYORK860 | UN HOST COUNTRY COMMITTEE MEETING OCTOBER 5, 2007 [...] (U) The 19-member UN Committee on Relations with the Host Country held its 234th meeting on October 5, 2007. USUN Counselor for Host Country Affairs represented the United States. Over a dozen non-Committee Member States participated as observers. There were no requests for specific items [...] | 2007-10-12 19:14:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP UNAUS IT SU IV |
07VIENNA774 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: RELEASE OF TALIBAN PRISONERS [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel demarche to Peter Launsky, the Austrian MFA's point person in the case of Bert Nussbaumer, the Austrian hostage in Iraq. Charge stressed that we -- and many coalition countries -- were very upset about the resolution of the Italian hostage case. We see the deal w [...] | 2007-03-26 15:30:00 | Embassy Vienna | SECRET | PREF PTER AF IT AU |
07ZAGREB1018 | LITTLE IMPACT ON CROATIA-MONTENEGRO RELATIONS FROM [...] (SBU) Discussing the 4 November arrest of Montenegrin Navy Captain Ilija Brcic, Montenegrin First Counselor Vesna Nikcevic told PolOff that she expects Brcic will eventually be extradited to Croatia where he will face a new trial following his 1993 conviction in absentia. Nikcevic claimed the [...] | 2007-11-19 14:29:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR HR MW IT WAR CRIMES |
07ZAGREB167 | PRESIDENTIAL SPARRING IN THE PRESS OVER ANNUAL [...] (SBU) In a sharply worded statement February 12, Croatian President Mesic expressed "unpleasant surprise" at Italian President Napolitano's remarks at the annual February 10 Italian commemoration of ugly WWII-era massacres of Italians by Yugoslav anti-fascist Partisans. The Croatian press in [...] | 2007-02-14 14:54:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IT HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
08ANKARA349 | TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP: January 2008 [...] Turkey carried out air strikes against PKK terrorist positions in northern Iraq on January 15. Turkish General Staff (TGS) announced that over 60 targets were hit. Counter-terrorism operations within Southeast Turkey against PKK terrorists continued during month. TGS reported that 36 terrori [...] | 2008-02-25 08:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PREL IZ IT UK MK QA GR TU |
08ASTANA2165 | KAZAKHSTANI DELEGATION STUDIES ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS OF [...] SUMMARY: In an effort to improve Kazakhstan's ability to protect victims of trafficking in persons, INL sent a Kazakhstani interagency delegation to Rome to study the work of the Italian government and Italian NGOs. The delegation -- representatives of the Ministries of Justice, Internal Affa [...] | 2008-11-03 08:56:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM SNAR KCRM IT KZ |
08ATHENS1517 | GREECE/RUSSIA: KEEPING THE GOG ON THE RIGHT TRACK [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-05 12:13:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PGOV ENRG RS IR NATO PREL CY IT TU OSCE GR |
08ATHENS1668 | GREECE/TURKEY TALKS ON ILLEGAL MIGRANTS: LITTLE [...] (SBU) A Greek delegation visited Ankara in mid-November for the third round of discussions aimed at improving implementation of the protocol the two countries signed in 2001 on re-admission of illegal migrants. Over the last two years, the number of migrants using Greece's Aegean islands as a [...] | 2008-12-12 13:23:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM PTER TU IZ SO AF IT GR |
08BEIJING1210 | TIBET: MFA ORGANIZES TIGHTLY CONTROLLED TRIP TO [...] (C) With less than 24-hours notice to participating Embassies, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, together with the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) Government, organized an overnight trip to Lhasa March 28 to 29. Fifteen Beijing-based diplomats, including PolOff, participated. Diplomats we [...] | 2008-03-31 13:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF NP IN JA BR GM CA IT |
08BELGRADE106 | VETTING FOR COESPU COURSE [...] The following candidates from Serbia are presented as nominees for COESPU COURSE that will take place in Vicenza, Italy. Attached is the list of officers who have been selected to receive training at the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units in Vicenza. Several will attend mid-level [...] | 2008-01-29 07:48:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS KCRM PREL IT SR |
08BELGRADE114 | VETTING FOR COESPU COURSE [...] The following candidates from Serbia are presented as nominees who have been selected to receive training at the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units in Vicenza, Italy. Several will attend mid-level training beginning March 3, 2008. The others will begin the high-level training on [...] | 2008-01-30 07:46:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS KCRM PREL IT SR |
08BERLIN1604 | GERMANY/AFGHANISTAN: NOVEMBER 26-27 MEETING OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. At a November 26-27 conference in Berlin, ISAF RC-North Chiefs of Defense and representatives from SHAPE and JFC Brunssum discussed a wide range of issues, including the insurgent threat along the border with RC-West, the requirements for a larger RC-North QRF and support for nex [...] | 2008-12-01 16:58:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR GM NO SW FI IT AF |
08BERLIN839 | GERMANS WILL ENGAGE JAPAN ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO [...] (C) Post discussed Ref (A) points June 25 with Chancellery and Foreign Office officials. POL M/C raised the matter with Chancellery National Security Advisor Christoph Heusgen and Security Policy Director Geza von Geyr on the margins of their June 25 meeting with Secretary Rice. They suppor [...] | 2008-06-26 16:52:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SMIL MARR MOPS NATO AF AS CA GM IT FR |
08BRASILIA5 | A/S SHANNON'S MEETING WITH ITALIAN AMBASSADOR TO [...] (C) Summary. Michele Varensise, Italian Ambassador to Brazil, told WHA A/S Thomas Shannon on December 13 that Brazil is the centerpiece of Italy's South American strategy. Italy sees Brazil playing an increasingly larger role in maintaining stability, economic growth, and integration. He p [...] | 2008-01-03 11:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD IT BR XM XR VE UNSC |
08CAIRO2043 | EGYPT NAMES PROBABLE COEPSU PARTICIPANTS FOR [...] The Italian Embassy informed us August 26 that they received a dipnote from the Egyptian MFA confirming that the Egyptian Ministry of Interior "agrees in principle" to send 10 officers to the COEPSU course beginning September 22, and listing the officers' names. Italian Emboff told us August [...] | 2008-09-16 15:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS IT EG |
08CAIRO2079 | ARAB LEAGUE WORKING WITH AFRICAN UNION TO ADDRESS [...] (C) Summary: According to senior officials at the Arab League and African Union, the two bodies are working closely to address key issues in Sudan, Somalia and Mauritania. AL SYG Amr Moussa and AU SYG Jean Ping head an Arab Ministerial committee on Darfur, and AU Peace and Security Commission [...] | 2008-09-22 15:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU SO MR IT QA EG |
08CAIRO667 | MFA RESPONSE TO EXTENSION OF MFO DG LAROCCO [...] (U) On April 1 we received a fax signed by Ambassador Mohamed Mustafa Kamal, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs for International Legal, Treaty and Counterterrorism Affairs, confirming the GOE's agreement to the extension of MFO Director-General James LaRocco's term until June 30, 2009. [...] | 2008-04-01 15:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMFO IS IT EG |
08CARACAS332 | ITALIAN AMBASSADOR ON MADURO, CHAVEZ MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Italian Ambassador to Venezuela Luigi Maccotta briefed the Ambassador March 6 on the Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema's February 29 visit to Venezuela. The visit comes shortly after a settlement agreement was reached between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) [...] | 2008-03-10 17:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EPET IT VE |
08ISTANBUL540 | IRANIAN AND AFGHAN REFUGEES IN TURKEY: A SNAPSHOT [...] (C) Summary: We met October 8-10 with UNHCR, provincial, municipal, and police officials, an NGO, and Iranian Baha'i families in Van province in southeast Turkey, to look at conditions facing Iranian refugees. Van hosts between 1700 and 2100 registered refugees, mostly Iranian and Afghan. So [...] | 2008-10-23 05:17:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PGOV PINS PREL IT TU |
08KATHMANDU500 | NEPAL WOULD PARTICIPATE IN UNAMID-RELATED TRAINING [...] (SBU) The Government of Nepal (GON) is unlikely to accept the reftel invitation for trainers of formed police units (FPU) assigned to the United Nations - African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) to participate in a course sponsored by the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (COESP [...] | 2008-05-02 10:16:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS KTIA IT NP |
08KATHMANDU872 | NEPAL PROVISIONALLY ACCEPTS INVITATION TO [...] (SBU) The Government of Nepal (GON) has accepted an invitation to participate in training at the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (COESPU) in Italy as soon as September 2008, provided that the United States or Italy covers travel and medical expenses. Sabina Shrestha, the Hono [...] | 2008-08-01 09:04:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS IT NP |
08KUWAIT1012 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR CODEL CAPUANO (SEPTEMBER [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and grants country clearance for CODEL Capuano to travel to post September 27-30, 2008. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; you must apply for Iraq clearance through Embassy Baghdad. 3. Visit Officer: An Embassy visit officer and a driver/expedi [...] | 2008-09-28 03:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AF IT RO KU COUNTRY CLEARANCE |
08KUWAIT1078 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR STAFFDEL TERRY/MALLARD [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and grants country clearance for Staffdel Terry/Mallard to travel to post November 2-4, 2008. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; you must apply for Iraq clearance through Embassy Baghdad. 3. Visit Officer: An Embassy visit officer and a driver/ [...] | 2008-10-26 10:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN IT KU QA AE COUNTRY CLEARANCE |
08KUWAIT853 | WELCOME CODEL ROSS (AUGUST 1-5, 2008) [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes CODEL ROSS to travel to post on August 2-3, 2008. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; you must apply for Iraq clearance through Embassy Baghdad. 3. Visit Officer: An Embassy visit officer and a driver/expeditor will meet and assist you at the a [...] | 2008-07-30 07:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN IZ KU EI IT GE |
08LAPAZ1018 | EVO'S MAY DAY DECREES AND REMARKS [...] (U) Summary: Speaking to a relatively small crowd of a few thousand on May 1, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced the state would "take immediate control" of Italian-owned telecommunications company Entel and three foreign-owned hydrocarbon companies (septel). Morales tried to soften the [...] | 2008-05-02 20:34:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ECON EINV EPET IT BL |
08LONDON1710 | CODEL HASTINGS - JUNE 27 - JULY 8, 2008 [...] Embassy London is pleased to grant country clearance to CODEL Hastings to visit London June 27-28, 2008. 2. Visit Officer will be Jim Donegan who can be reached at work 44-20-7894-0114, fax 44-20-7894-0117, home 44-20-7259-6066, mobile phone 44-7801-670-694. If calling from within the UK r [...] | 2008-06-26 15:08:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AU FR GM IT JP KZ PK UK |
08LONDON2600 | IRAN: UK CURRENT POSTURE -- FCO FORMAL AND INFORMAL VIEWS [...] (S) Please see Department information request at paragraph4. 2. (S/NF) Summary: Foreign and Commonwealth Office working contacts told London Iran Watcher (Poloff) October 14 that: -- Foreign Secretary Miliband pressed his Chinese counterpart to have China re-engage in the P5 1, with little resul [...] | 2008-10-14 19:04:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | CJAN PINS PREL PTER GE FR IT IR UK |
08MILAN15 | AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: [...] (SBU) Alitalia cuts at Milan's Malpensa go into full force as of April 1, 2008. Flight reductions of over 25 percent of Malpensa's traffic and more than one third of its intercontinental routes will have an immediate, significant impact on the region's economy starting with job cuts of at le [...] | 2008-02-01 17:39:00 | Consulate Milan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ELAB ETRD IT KPRV |
08MILAN68 | ITALY'S EDISON: IRANIAN GAS NOW, NUCLEAR POWER [...] (C) Edison CEO Quadrino told the Consul General that Europe will need to increase natural gas imports dramatically to meet increased demand and counter predicted supply shortages through 2020. New nuclear energy production is the long-term answer, but cannot realistically be brought online s [...] | 2008-04-18 11:10:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET IT IR |
08MILAN69 | ITALY'S EDISON: IRANIAN GAS NOW, NUCLEAR POWER [...] (C) Edison CEO Quadrino told the Consul General that Europe will need to increase natural gas imports dramatically to meet increased demand and counter predicted supply shortages through 2020. New nuclear energy production is the long-term answer, but cannot realistically be brought online s [...] | 2008-04-18 11:10:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET IT IR |
08MILAN73 | ITALY: PRIORITIES FOR PROBABLE DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (C) Ignazio La Russa is the most likely candidate for Minister of Defense in Berlusconi's government. If given this portfolio, he said he would work to quickly increase MOD's budget, increase Carabinieri police patrols for domestic security, and try to establish military summer camps for Ita [...] | 2008-04-23 08:29:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TBIO MARR MCAP IT |
08MILAN83 | NORTHERN ITALY ELECTION RESULTS [...] (C) Berlusconi's People of Liberty (PdL) and Northern League (LN) coalition won every region in Northern Italy (excluding the autonomous regions of Val D'Aosta and Trentino-Alto Adige which elect local parties). The Northern League virtually doubled its vote share in the North, largely at the [...] | 2008-04-24 15:43:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IT |
08NAPLES36 | ORGANIZED CRIME IN ITALY I: THE POLITICAL DIMENSION [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: This is the first of a three-part series; this message offers some background on organized crime in Southern Italy and examines its political dimensions. Organized crime is one of Southern Italy's greatest challenges to economic growth and political stability, [...] | 2008-06-04 15:34:00 | Consulate Naples | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRM ECON SNAR KCOR IT |
08NAPLES37 | ORGANIZED CRIME IN ITALY II: HOW ORGANIZED CRIME DISTORTS [...] (U) Summary: This is the second of a three-part series; this message examines the economic dimension of organized crime in Southern Italy. According to a recent study, organized crime is the biggest individual segment of the Italian economy, accounting for seven percent of GDP. Wherever it occurs, [...] | 2008-06-06 10:50:00 | Consulate Naples | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KCRM SENV SNAR EFIN PGOV KCOR IT |
08NAPLES38 | ORGANIZED CRIME III: CONFRONTING ORGANIZED CRIME IN [...] (C) Summary: This is the third of a three-part series (see reftels A-B for parts I and II); this message offers views on how to combat organized crime in Italy. The USG has a significant stake in the fight against organized crime in Italy. The Italian crime syndicates help support terrorist groups [...] | 2008-06-06 17:20:00 | Consulate Naples | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRM ECON SNAR KCOR IT |
08NAPLES48 | VENEZUELAN CONSULATE PROMOTES CHAVEZ BRAND OF SOCIALISM [...] (C) Venezuela appears to be using its long-dormant Consulate General in Naples as a platform for spreading propaganda on behalf of the Chavez brand of socialism. After leaving the Consul General position vacant for over a year, reflecting Venezuela's apparently minimal interests in southern I [...] | 2008-06-18 08:58:00 | Consulate Naples | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR IT VE |
08NAPLES79 | SOUTHERN ITALY'S GROWING ENERGY SECTOR [...] Summary: While Italy continues to import up to 90 percent of its energy needs, increasing production in southern Italy has the potential to slightly reduce the country's dependence on oil and gas from Russia and North Africa. Ironically, the growing production in the South has not prevented [...] | 2008-10-31 15:59:00 | Consulate Naples | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON TRGY BEXP KGHG SENV IT RS |
08NAPLES9 | SICILIAN GOVERNOR RESIGNS [...] (U) Following his January 18 conviction for assisting mafia figures (reftel),Sicilian Regional President Salvatore Cuffaro finally resigned from office January 26 in the wake of protests. After the conviction, Cuffaro had originally said he would not resign, and would appeal the verdict and [...] | 2008-01-29 07:47:00 | Consulate Naples | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRM KCOR IT |
08NAPLES96 | CAN CALABRIA BE SAVED? [...] (SBU) Summary: If it were not part of Italy, Calabria would be a failed state. The 'Ndrangheta organized crime syndicate controls vast portions of its territory and economy, and accounts for at least three percent of Italy's GDP (probably much more) through drug trafficking, extortion and usury. La [...] | 2008-12-02 15:02:00 | Consulate Naples | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL BEXP SENV SOCI KCRM KCOR IT |
08NAPLES97 | NAPLES TOURISM SECTOR HARD HIT [...] The tourism industry in the city of Naples and the surrounding area has been hard hit in 2008, according to official figures and ConGen contacts. Data compiled by the Provincial Tourism Board show a 13 percent drop in the total number of visitors in 2008, and a decline of 18 percent in the n [...] | 2008-12-02 16:15:00 | Consulate Naples | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON IT |
08OSLO246 | ITALY, TURKEY INVITED TO AHLC [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-30 07:11:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | EU IT PA PGOV PREL NO |
08PANAMA520 | PANAMA: RESETTLEMENT OF CUBAN MIGRANTS PROTECTED [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. --------------------------------------------- ----- Panama Inquires Into "Exceptional" Nature of Cases --------------------------------------------- ----- 2. (C) The degree to which it could be demonstrated that the Cuban migrants protec [...] | 2008-06-24 19:37:00 | Embassy Panama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL SMIG CU IT PM |
08PARISFR2220 | UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL CAMPAIGN: BELGIAN AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Belgian Ambassador to UNESCO told Ambassador Oliver December 5 that Belgium does not support the candidacy of Egypt's Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, for UNESCO's next Director General (DG). The Belgian Ambassador also speculated on the possibility that Ingrid Bettancour [...] | 2008-12-08 16:58:00 | Mission UNESCO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNESCO BE IT CO |
08RABAT1169 | AL ADL WA IHSAN: MOROCCO'S ISLAMIST DISSIDENTS [...] (C) Summary: The banned Islamist religio-political organization Al Adl wal-Ihsan (Adl) (more commonly known as the Justice and Charity or Justice and Good Works Organization) may be moving toward political participation, perhaps as a legal political party. Adl spokesman Fatallah Arsalane highlighte [...] | 2008-12-18 17:26:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PTER PINR KISL IT MO |
08ROME1018 | TFGG01: ITALIANS NOT LIKELY TO BE HELPFUL ON NAC [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-11 16:30:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PARM KCFE RU GG IT |
08ROME1019 | BURMA: ITALY HESITANT ON FURTHER EU SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-11 17:10:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD BM IT |
08ROME1021 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT'S SEPTEMBER [...] (C/NF) Summary. Mr. Vice President, Silvio Berlusconi's government has worked hard over its first months in office to regain its position as our best ally in continental Europe. Your September 4-10 visit comes as the Berlusconi government reconvenes for what promises to be an important legislat [...] | 2008-08-12 14:52:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IT |
08ROME1022 | TFGG01: ITALY BACKS UNSC RESOLUTION ON GEORGIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-12 15:22:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PBTS GE IT |
08ROME1044 | ITALY SUPPORT FOR THE NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS GROUP [...] (SBU) Post delivered on August 13th ref A points to Counselor Pierfrancesco De Cerchio of the office in Italy,s Foreign Ministry's Economic Bureau, which has the lead on the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) issues, and which will represent Italy at the August 21-22 NSG Plenary in Vienna. Post als [...] | 2008-08-14 13:11:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ETTC IT KNNP PARM PREL |
08ROME1045 | TFGG01: DEBUNKING THE ITALIAN MYTH OF "BALANCE" ON [...] (C/NF) As originally predicted by post in the early days of the Berlusconi government, the GOI's close relationship with Russia could soon become a point of friction in the otherwise very close U.S.-Italy relationship. The GOI leadership, particularly FM Frattini, have gone to great lengths to insi [...] | 2008-08-14 14:04:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV GG RU IT |
08ROME1046 | AMB URGES ITALY TO PUSH FOR RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-14 14:06:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG RU IT |
08ROME1048 | BERLUSCONI'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN FIRST HUNDRED DAYS [...] (C) Defying expectations, Silvio Berlusconi used his first hundred days back in government to deliver results on election promises, though long-term solutions are still needed. The trash problem in Campania is not yet permanently solved, but the streets are cleared and troops are keeping dump [...] | 2008-08-14 14:53:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IT |
08ROME105 | ITALY UNDECIDED ON UNHRC GAZA RESOLUTION [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Italian MFA Deputy Office Director for Israel and Palestine Daniele Bosio and Human Rights Office Director Laura Carpini on January 24. Carpini said Italy was aware of the OIC-Group of Ar [...] | 2008-01-24 13:22:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL IT |
08ROME1051 | CITES/CORAL: ITALY WILL SUPPORT WORKSHOP; ASKS IF CHINA [...] (U) On August 6, Post met with Environment Ministry Nature Protection Directorate Director General Aldo Cosentino to discuss the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) proposal to convene an international workshop on corallium science, management and enforcement in Italy (ref b [...] | 2008-08-18 12:55:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV CITES KSCA ETRD IT |
08ROME1052 | ANTARCTIC TREATY: ITALY REQUESTS DIPLOMATIC NOTE CONFIRMING [...] Summary and action request. Italian Foreign Ministry officials working on Antarctic issues are pushing for the measure creating the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat (Measure 1) to be approved, which can be done without Parliamentary review. Progress has been blocked by their need for an official [...] | 2008-08-18 12:55:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY SENV AORC KSCA IT |
08ROME1053 | IAEA/CSC: ITALY WILL CONSIDER NUCLEAR LIABILITY CONVENTION [...] (SBU) Summary. Italian Government (GOI) officials have acknowledged the need to "dust off the files" on Italy's ratification of the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC),which has languished for a decade. They raised CSC ratification in a July 7 meeting with indu [...] | 2008-08-18 15:09:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY ENRG KNNP KSTC IAEA PARM SENV IT |
08ROME1067 | ITALY SUPPORTS FIFTH ROUND OF WESTERN SAHARA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-20 16:26:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PGOV PBTS MO WI IT |
08ROME1081 | GGTF01: ITALY URGES RUSSIA NOT TO RECOGNIZE SOUTH [...] (C) Marco Clemente, MFA Russia Office Director told Poloff that Italy would "under no circumstances" recognize the independence of South Ossetia or Abkhazia. Clemente added that Italy would maintain a common Euro-Atlantic position on the conflict and would continue to support the efforts of th [...] | 2008-08-25 16:05:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RU GG IT |
08ROME1087 | ITALY OPPOSES KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION, BUT IS WARY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-27 14:47:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV IT |
08ROME1092 | ITALY DEFENDS GEORGIA'S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY [...] DIBBLE [...] | 2008-08-27 16:36:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG RU IT |
08ROME1093 | ITALY SUPPORTS AFGHANISTAN'S CANDIDACY FOR IAEA [...] (C) Poloff delivered Ref B demarche to Italian MFA Disarmament and Nonproliferation Agreement Implementation Office Director Vittorio Rocco on August 27. Rocco said Italy regards Afghanistan's candidacy for the IAEA MESA Board of Governors' seat as a positive development that will encourage o [...] | 2008-08-28 13:05:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | IAEA PREL PARM KNNP MNUC IR SY IT AF |
08ROME1094 | TFGG01: ITALY WILL SUPPORT GEORGIA'S TERRITORIAL [...] (C) Poloffs delivered ref A and B demarches to MFA UN Desk Officer Leonardo Bencini and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia Office Director Marco Clemente on August 28. Poloffs urged Italy to instruct the Italian PermRep in New York to forcefully denounce Russia's recognition of South Os [...] | 2008-08-28 14:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL GG IT |
08ROME1101 | EDISON CONCERNED ABOUT AVAILABILITY OF AZERI GAS [...] (C) Summary: Representatives of Italian energy company Edison told EconOff on an August 29 meeting that they are facing a tight deadline to fully commit to investing in the Turkey-Greece-Italy (TGI) project, planned to bring gas from Azerbaijan into Europe starting around 2012 or 2013. They a [...] | 2008-09-02 07:39:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | AJ ENRG GR IR IT RS TU |
08ROME1120 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE 2008 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-05 15:53:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN IT |
08ROME1136 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: 1267 DE-LISTING REQUESTS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post presented reftel A points to Italian MFA and Treasury officials on the delisting requests of Youssef Nada and Ali Ghaleb Himmat. The GOI no longer thinks a USG public statement on Nada's case is necessary, though it continues to face pressure from his attorney to suppor [...] | 2008-09-10 15:24:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER IT |
08ROME1139 | POCS FOR MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AUTHORIZATIONS IN [...] Per reftel, the POC for marine scientific research authorizations in Italy is: Ms. Jean Preston, Environment, Science and Technology Affairs Counselor (telephone: (+39) 06 4674-2691; e-mail: prestonj@state.gov). She will be in Italy until approximately August 2010. 2. The alternate POC i [...] | 2008-09-11 07:24:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KSCA KRVC EWWT IT |
08ROME1143 | AFGHANISTAN: ITALY STILL SUPPORTIVE OF ANA [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Coordinator for Afghanistan Sergio Mercuri and MFA Political-Military Office Deputy Director Carlo Batori on September 3. Mercuri and Batori both reiterated Italian support fo [...] | 2008-09-12 08:26:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR NATO IT AF |
08ROME1163 | MFA MIDDLE EAST DG RAGAGLINI ON SYRIA AND IRAN [...] (C) Summary. During a September 16 courtesy call by Political M/C MFA DG for the Middle East Cesare Ragaglini said Syrian FM al-Moallem surprised the Italians during his September 11 visit by appearing to condition movement on delineating the Syrian-Lebanese border on prior progress on the Go [...] | 2008-09-17 14:24:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IT |
08ROME1170 | ITALY/UNAIDS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-18 15:01:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA KHIV EAID IT |
08ROME118 | ITALY: PM PRODI RESIGNS AFTER LOSING CONFIDENCE [...] (SBU) Romano Prodi submitted his resignation to President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano January 24 after losing a confidence vote in the Senate 156 to 161 earlier that evening. Napolitano accepted Prodi's resignation "with reserve" and asked Prodi to remain as caretaker PM until Napolita [...] | 2008-01-25 16:42:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV IT |
08ROME1186 | ITALY OPPOSES ABKHAZ AND SOUTH OSSETIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-23 12:42:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSCR PREL GG IT |
08ROME1191 | PROTECTING U.S. INTERESTS AS ITALY GOES NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: The Berlusconi Government tells us it is serious about re-launching the Italian nuclear energy sector. If the GOI actually follows through, there will be tens of billions of dollars in commercial contracts. Already, we see high-level lobbying by British, French and Russian governme [...] | 2008-09-24 07:32:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ENRG ETRD ETTC IT KNNP |
08ROME1192 | VELTRONI TO REMAIN CAPTAIN--FOR NOW, BUT PD IS [...] (C) Having led the Democratic Party (PD) into defeat in national and local elections this spring, Walter Veltroni is proving no more adept in opposition. Veltroni has lost much of his support within the party and has until next spring's European Parliament elections to salvage his position and [...] | 2008-09-24 08:50:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI IT |
08ROME1207 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED- PREVENTING IRANIAN ACQUISITION [...] (C) On 23 September, Post delivered reftel demarche on preventing Iranian acquisition of Italian technology for building centrifuges to Pierfrancesco De Cercio of the Italian MFA. De Cerchio was initially unaware of Iran's deceptive trade practices related to its nuclear program, particul [...] | 2008-09-26 10:40:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP TRGY PREL PARM MNUC AORC IAEA IT |
08ROME1210 | EGYPT CONFERENCE ON PANDEMIC/AVIAN FLU - HEALTH DG [...] (U) On September 4, Post delivered reftel demarche to Welfare/Health Ministry (MOH) International Affairs officer Dr. Gaetano Guglielmi, and MOH Prevention and Infectious Disease expert Dr. Maria Grazia Pompa. Post Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) office also delivered reftel points to MOH V [...] | 2008-09-26 16:38:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU AORC EAGR EAID PREL IT |
08ROME1213 | IRAQ: ITALY TO CONTRIBUTE MORE CARABINIERI TO [...] (C) Poloff delivered Reftel Demarche to Italian Political-Military Deputy Director Carlo Batori on September 19. He said he did not believe that the GOI would be prepared to announce any new commitments at the September 26 SHAPE manpower conference beyond what has already been announced (na [...] | 2008-09-29 16:32:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS NATO IT IZ |
08ROME1226 | SCENESETTER FOR PM BERLUSCONI'S OCTOBER 13 TRIP TO [...] (C/NF) Summary. Mr. President, Silvio Berlusconi's October 13 visit to Washington provides an opportunity to strengthen our close ties with a valuable ally in Europe. Since your June 11-13 visit, Berlusconi has consolidated the standing of his government in Italian public opinion through a ser [...] | 2008-10-02 15:08:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IT |
08ROME1231 | ALITALIA STILL FLIES UNDER THE ITALIAN FLAG BUT AT [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Berlusconi appears to have achieved his campaign promise to save Alitalia and keep it Italian. On September 29 the last of Alitalia's nine unions signed onto a deal for a consortium of Italian business to purchase the carrier. This signals an end to the almost two-year [...] | 2008-10-03 15:58:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON IT PGOV |
08ROME1232 | ITALY WILL ABSTAIN ON SERBIAN ICJ RESOLUTION AT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-03 17:24:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNAUS UNGA KV IT |
08ROME1237 | BLUE LANTERN CHECK ON LICENSE 050060873- C27J [...] (SBU) Post conducted reftel post-shipment check on license 050060873, concerning aircraft parts for the C-27J. The Italian Ministry of Defense confirmed that the GOI had ordered twelve C-27J aircraft, to be built by Alenia. The Italian MOD told Post it had no documentation concerning the re [...] | 2008-10-07 13:01:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC IT |
08ROME124 | AUSTRALIA GROUP: ITALY UNDECIDED ON PLENARY [...] (C) On January 11, Econoff delivered to the Italian MFA reftel points on USG opposition to a proposed informal Australia Group (AG) meeting with Russia to discuss Russian AG membership during the 2008 AG Plenary. Roberto Liotto, the MFA Office-Director level official responsible for AG issue [...] | 2008-01-28 15:49:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PARM PREL RU IT |
08ROME1242 | ALITALIA'S SPECIAL ADMINISTRATOR GIVES ASSURANCE [...] (SBU) Toward the end of negotiations to secure a purchaser or reorganization for Alitalia, Post learned that the Export-Import Bank of the United States had guaranteed a Barclay's Bank loan to Alitalia for the purchase six Boeing 777s. In an October 7 phone call, Augusto Fantozzi, Alitalia's g [...] | 2008-10-08 15:27:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAIR IT PGOV |
08ROME1251 | AFGHANISTAN: ITALY SUPPORTS ANA TROOP INCREASE BUT [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Afghanistan Envoy Sergio Mercuri and Deputy Director for Political Military Affairs Carlo Batori on September 17 and followed up with them on October 9. Batori said that the MFA had circulated our request within the GOI interagency and the initial r [...] | 2008-10-10 14:06:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
08ROME126 | INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2008 - ITALY [...] SUMMARY: While the Government of Italy (GOI) continues to court foreign investors, economic reforms or other steps to ensure a more welcoming investment climate have been modest. Recent positive developments include passage of a more efficient bankruptcy law and the incorporation of the EU T [...] | 2008-01-29 10:20:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB OPIC KTDB USTR PGOV IT |
08ROME1269 | YUSHCHENKO DISAPPOINTED BY ITALY'S TEPID SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary. During his October 8 visit to Rome, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko pressed for strong Italian support of Ukraine's MAP aspirations, EU integration and recognition of the Holodomor. Yushchenko's GOI interlocutors, President Napolitano and PM Berlusconi, told Yushchenko that [...] | 2008-10-16 10:53:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO UP RS IT |
08ROME1271 | BASING: CONCLUSION OF HOST NATION CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (C) Post notified the GOI of DOD's intent to consolidate operations in Gaeta on the NATO pier installation and return to the Italian MOD that portion of the Monte Orlando Compound allocated to U.S. Forces' use via Diplomatic Note (no. 08-00763, dated September 11) to the Italian MFA and letter [...] | 2008-10-17 07:57:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO IT |
08ROME1279 | ITALY: FALL REGIONAL ELECTIONS A TEST FOR [...] (C) Two elections in the coming weeks will be the first opportunity for the electorate to speak since the center-right's resounding victory in April. Provincial elections in Trentino (October 26) could go either way, but given the center left's traditional strength in the province, a center ri [...] | 2008-10-23 07:54:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IT |
08ROME1280 | LEAHY VETTING FOR ITALIAN PARTICIPANTS IN [...] (U) In accordance with Leahy Vetting requirements, post has conducted a review of available information on the Italian Military Officers who have been selected as potential attendees at the the 4th Annual Sovereign Challenge Foreign Military AttachQ (FMA) conference 17-20 November 2008 at Hurl [...] | 2008-10-23 07:55:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PHUM IT |
08ROME1284 | ITALY SUPPORTS AFGHAN ELECTIONS, PLANS G8 [...] Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2.(SBU) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche requesting support for the 2009 and 2010 Afghan Elections to Italian MFA Special Envoy for Afghanistan Sergio Mercuri on October 21. Mercuri said that Italy has already contributed Euro 5 million [...] | 2008-10-23 16:27:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IT AF |
08ROME1286 | ITALY NONCOMMITTAL ON REQUEST TO RESETTLE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-24 10:09:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL KPAO IT |
08ROME1290 | ITALY TO VOTE YES ON UNGA DEALERTING RESOLUTION [...] (C/NF) Italian MFA Deputy Director General for Political Cooperation Filippo Formica informed the DCM on October 23 that Italy would vote in favor of the UNGA First Committee Resolution on Dealerting (Reftel). Separately, MFA Director for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Emanuele Farruggia to [...] | 2008-10-24 13:47:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM MNUC UNGA IT |
08ROME1299 | CAUTION PAYS OFF: ITALIAN BANKS UNSCATHED BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Traditional, old-fashioned business practices prevented Italy's bankers from getting into the kind of problems plaguing their counterparts in the U.S. and elsewhere. Italian banks did not engage in sub-prime lending. There was no real housing bubble here, and almost none of the " [...] | 2008-10-28 07:30:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IT |
08ROME1305 | ITALY WANTS BOTH SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO IN SEDM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-28 15:47:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MK SR IT |
08ROME1306 | BOSNIA: ITALY CONCERNED ABOUT ANTI-DAYTON RHETORIC [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Balkans Office Director Raimondo De Cardona on October 28. De Cardona noted that Italy was concerned about increasing anti-Dayton rhetoric coming from Silajdzic and Dodik and the inability of political parties to move beyond narrow political, and often [...] | 2008-10-28 15:47:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV BK EU IT |
08ROME1308 | ITALIAN ENERGY ISSUES: SPECIAL ENVOY C. BOYDEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 9 and 10, 2008, Special Envoy C. Boyden Gray visited Rome and met with key energy officials of the Italian Government and private sector. Major points of discussion revealed Italian worry about Caspian gas, namely whether the Turks will agree to let a sufficient amount [...] | 2008-10-29 07:30:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG IT RU AZ |
08ROME1315 | SUMMIT ON FINANCIAL MARKETS AND THE WORLD ECONOMY [...] Per REF A request, following are post's responses -- keyed to ref questions -- regarding Italy's posture, priorities and concerns at the Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy in Washington on November 15, 2008. Embassy Rome POC for further information is Economic Officer Nick Noye [...] | 2008-10-30 12:45:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IT |
08ROME1320 | AFRICOM COMPONENT COMMANDS: HOST NATION [...] (C) Summary: On October 14 Post completed an exchange of Diplomatic Notes with the GOI confirming Italy's willingness to host the USAFRICOM Army and Navy Component Commands at Vicenza and Naples, thereby concluding the Host Nation Notification process. However, the GOI has asked that Post del [...] | 2008-10-30 16:42:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NATO IT |
08ROME1322 | ITALIAN REQUEST TO DECLASSIFY BILATERAL [...] (U) This is an action request. See Paragraph 8. 2. (C) The GOI presented Embassy Rome with a Diplomatic Note on July 7, 2008 requesting the declassification of the 1954 Bilateral Infrastructure Agreement (BIA). As justification for the request, the note cites the length of time elapsed si [...] | 2008-10-31 09:23:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NATO IT |
08ROME1326 | ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES UNDER THE ITALIAN G8 PRESIDENCY [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff met with key Italian officials to review early ideas and plans for environmental issues under the Italian G8 Presidency, with particular reference to the G8 Environment Ministerial. Key issues discussed include: Mini [...] | 2008-11-03 07:39:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG EAID EFIN EAGR IT |
08ROME1327 | ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES UNDER THE ITALIAN G8 PRESIDENCY [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff met with key Italian officials to review early ideas and plans for environmental issues under the Italian G8 Presidency, with particular reference to the G8 Environment Ministerial. Key issues discussed include: Mini [...] | 2008-11-03 07:39:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG EAID EFIN EAGR IT |
08ROME1337 | BERLUSCONI GOVERNMENT AND IPR -- FIRST SIGNS OF LIFE [...] (C) Summary: Fabrizio Mazza, head of the Intellectual Property Office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, hopes to see the GOI form an interministerial committee to deal with IPR, particularly Internet piracy, and would also like to see discussion of Internet Piracy featured in G-8 meetings durin [...] | 2008-11-05 10:24:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD IT KIPR PGOV |
08ROME1354 | WASHINGTON WORLD ECONOMY SUMMIT - MORE ON ITALIAN [...] (C) Summary -- A top advisor to the Minister of Economics and Finance told econoffs November 5 that Italy's objectives for November 15 are modest, rooted in the realization that the Washington summit will be just the first of a multi-step process to address problems in the global financial reg [...] | 2008-11-06 17:47:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EU IT |
08ROME1358 | MEDVEDEV SECURITY PLAN GETS AN ITALIAN ROLLOUT [...] (C) A November 5 op-ed in the Italian journal Il Riformista by FM Frattini commenting on Medvedev's proposal for a new security architecture in Europe culminates a several-month-long initiative by high profile Italian officials on both sides of the political divide to support the Russian initi [...] | 2008-11-07 16:00:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO RS IT |
08ROME1359 | GOI WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, MFA Counselor Emanuele Farruggia, Director for Arms Control and Non Proliferation, confirmed to PolOff that the GOI would not be sending any official delegation to Iran's Nuclear Conference, to be held in Tehran on the 30th of November. Farruggia was not a [...] | 2008-11-07 16:15:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC IR MNUC TRGY PGOV IT |
08ROME1363 | WASHINGTON SUMMIT - ITALIAN POSITION PULLED IN [...] (C) Summary -- An advisor to Italian Economics and Finance Minister Tremonti foreshadowed a quite different Italian position on financial market reform than post has heard from other Finance Ministry and Bank of Italy officials (reftel). In particular, in a conversation November 7 we were told [...] | 2008-11-10 07:36:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EU IT |
08ROME1386 | BERLUSCONI’S COMMENTS ON MISSILE DEFENSE AND KOSOVO CREATE FIRESTORM IN ITALY [...] (C) During a press conference on the margins of the Italy-Turkey summit in Izmir on November 12, Italian PM Berlusconi said that the U.S. had "provoked" Russia by unilaterally recognizing Kosovo's independence, pressing forward on Missile Defense, and inviting Ukraine and Georgia to have a closer r [...] | 2008-11-13 19:16:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO RS IT |
08ROME1387 | ITALY/IUU FISHING: INFORMATION REQUESTED FOR PURPOSES OF [...] (SBU) Summary. In response to USG request for information pertaining to the Driftnet Moratorium Protection Act, the Government of Italy (GOI) stresses additional measures that it has taken in 2008 to combat illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing by Italian fishing vessels. Those m [...] | 2008-11-14 07:30:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS SENV ETRD ICCAT IT |
08ROME1389 | RIO-PLUS-20 CONFERENCE: EU ASKS BRAZIL TO POSTPONE UN [...] (SBU) On 3 November 2008, SCICouns delivered reftel points, regarding Brazilian and South Korean proposals to host a Sustainable Development Summit in 2012 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 1992 "Rio Earth Summit," to Italian Foreign Ministry Environment, Energy and Sustainable Developm [...] | 2008-11-14 15:32:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV AORC PREL EUN IO IT |
08ROME1406 | SCENESETTER FOR YOUR DECEMBER 3 VISIT TO ROME [...] (C) Summary. 1. (C) Summary. The political conditions in Italy are dramatically different from the conditions that existed when you last visited in July 2006. Silvio Berlusconi has returned to power after two years of a divided and ineffectual Prodi government. Berlusconi enjoys unparalleled levels [...] | 2008-11-19 10:33:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO IT |
08ROME1415 | CLIMATE CHANGE: ITALIAN GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION [...] Sensitive But Unclassified - paragraphs as marked. 2. (SBU) Summary. Since the election of the Berlusconi Government in April, 2008, and in light of Italy's 2009 G8 Presidency, the G8 Sous-Sherpa for Foreign Affairs has taken the Italian lead for the Major Economies process. The European [...] | 2008-11-20 16:13:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG IT |
08ROME1421 | ITALY WILL NOT INDEPENDENTLY CALL FOR NICARAGUAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-21 12:38:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NU IT |
08ROME1445 | ITALY REDUCES IRAN EXPORT CREDIT AND INSURANCE [...] (C) Summary: SACE, the Italian government's export credit agency and foreign investment promotion and insurance arm, has over the last 12 months substantially reduced its exposure to Iran because of uncertainty surrounding future sanctions. SACE's Chief Economist told post that this reduction [...] | 2008-11-28 13:10:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP EFIN ETRD IT IR |
08ROME1451 | CLUSTER MUNITIONS: ITALY SUPPORTS U.S. [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Director for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Emanuele Farruggia on November 28. Farruggia confirmed that the GOI intends to sign the convention but shares our interpretation of Article 21 as allowing not only for interoperability but also [...] | 2008-12-01 07:27:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM NATO MOPS PREL IT |
08ROME1464 | ITALIANS URGE U.S. TO AGREE TO WATERED-DOWN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Elena Basile, MFA OSCE Office Director, on December 2. Basile noted the U.S. position and stated that she had just received instructions to contact post to urge the U.S. to accept softer language for the ministerial declaration to avoid a stalemate with R [...] | 2008-12-03 10:59:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM RU IT |
08ROME147 | SYRIA: ITALY SUPPORTS EU DEMARCH ON SEIF'S ARREST [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-01 16:09:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PREL SY IT |
08ROME1474 | ITALY COUNTRY REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III [...] (U) This message is post's response to reftel request for updated information necessary for the President's consideration of continued suspension of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act. 2. (C) There has been no significant change in Italian relations with Cuba over the past six months. There wer [...] | 2008-12-05 07:56:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU IT |
08ROME148 | ITALY AND ISAF: NO NEW DEPLOYMENTS IN NEAR TERM, [...] (C) Summary: With the current political crisis likely to drag on for months, and a caretaker government prohibited from making significant policy changes, we see no prospect for new large-scale Italian military commitments in Afghanistan between now and the summer. However, GOI officials are [...] | 2008-02-01 16:54:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PINS PREL MOPS MARR EAID AF IT |
08ROME1484 | BERLUSCONI ADVISER SAYS PM "IRRITATED" BY UK, [...] (C/NOFORN) SUMMARY: Italian energy official Sergio Garribba told us on December 5 that PM Berlusconi is "irritated" by efforts by Britain and France to shift energy and finance issues away from the G8 and into the G20. Garribba told us that Berlusconi is concerned about these moves and sees t [...] | 2008-12-08 09:47:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG EFIN OVIP PREL PGOV IT |
08ROME1485 | PIRACY: ITALY FAVORS ROBUST APPROACH BUT MAY LACK [...] (C) Poloffs raised reftel points with Italian MFA NATO Desk Officer Andrea Romussi and UN Desk Officer Gabriela Biondi on December 4. They said Italy shared U.S. concerns over the increasing danger of piracy and the threat it posed to commerce, maritime safety and the delivery humanitarian as [...] | 2008-12-08 09:50:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER NATO IT |
08ROME1489 | ITALY PROPOSES (OVERLY?) MODEST ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE [...] (U) Summary: The economic stimulus package the GOI announced on Nov 26 is small compared to its EU neighbors', partly because it believes Italy's financial sector doesn't need much help, but primarily because the government's already high indebtedness precludes a more ambitious program. Cri [...] | 2008-12-09 12:03:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON IT |
08ROME1493 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON EU REGULATIONS ON RECOGNIZED [...] (U) Econoff delivered the demarche regarding USG concerns about proposed regulations regarding recognized organizations in article 10 of the draft third maritime safety package. There was confusion on the Italian side as to which office had competence to respond to the concerns. We were redirec [...] | 2008-12-10 11:03:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EUN EWWT IMO IT ECON |
08ROME150 | GOI NON-PAPER SETS GOAL OF ENERGY [...] (C) Summary. In late December, the GOI provided the Embassy and Department a non-paper on Italian energy/energy security policy in response to questions raised during the December 11, 2007, meeting between President Bush and Italian President Napolitano. The full text is included below. The [...] | 2008-02-04 10:17:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL RU AJ IT |
08ROME1509 | ITALY SUPPORTS PAKISTAN DONORS CONFERENCE, [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Director for South Asia Giampaolo Cutillo on December 12. Cutillo agreed that the postponement of the Pakistan donors conference was necessary to provide more time for potential donors such as Italy to come up with pledge packages. He agr [...] | 2008-12-12 16:00:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF IT PK |
08ROME1510 | Update on 2009 G8 Environment Ministerial and Related [...] (U) Summary. Italian environment and foreign affairs officials described to visiting StaffDel Williams current plans for G8 and related environmental meetings, leading up to the G8 Environment Ministerial now scheduled for April 22-24, 2009. The StaffDel expressed strong interest in Italy's [...] | 2008-12-14 02:23:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG OREP EFIN PBTS XV IT |
08ROME1514 | ITALIANS TELL DAS HALE LEBANON HAS MADE MAJOR [...] (C) Begin Summary: In a Dec. 2 meeting in Rome with NEA DAS David Hale, MFA DG for the Middle East Ragaglini said the GOI thought Lebanon had come a long way since the end of August 2006, and that UNIFIL had played a crucial role in bringing stability and calm to the south, given the politica [...] | 2008-12-15 09:10:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC LE IS SY IT |
08ROME1528 | RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS AT ITALY'S [...] (U) This cable is classified Confidential (Releasable to Italy) for transmission purposes. Per Ref B, Post declassified and marked the recommendations as "SENSITIVE PHYSICAL SECURITY INFORMATION" prior to handing them over to appropriate personnel in the Italian government. 2. (SBU) Summ [...] | 2008-12-17 12:16:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG IT KNNP TPHY TRGY |
08ROME1530 | MOVING FORWARD ON COORDINATED NATIONAL MEASURES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The December 12 meeting in Rome of the "likeminded group" that focused on the implementation of national measures on Iran usefully brought Australia, Canada, Japan, and the Republic of Korea into the group (previously limited to France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the Unite [...] | 2008-12-17 13:06:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | KNNP ENRG ETTC PARM IR IT |
08ROME1532 | ITALIAN SUPPORT FOR SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-17 14:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER LE SY UNSC EUN IT |
08ROME1534 | ITALY SUPPORTS USG AT NSG BUT LACKS URGENCY ON IRAN [...] (C) Summary: On 11 December, ISN Acting A/S Patricia McNerney held bilateral talks with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She and Treasury DAS Daniel Glaser later met with the Ministry of Finance. These talks focused on efforts undertaken to prevent Iran's acquisition of a nuclear w [...] | 2008-12-18 14:21:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ENRG ETTC PARM IR IT |
08ROME1535 | ITALY SUPPORTS USG AT NSG BUT LACKS URGENCY ON IRAN [...] (C) Summary: On 11 December, ISN Acting A/S Patricia McNerney held bilateral talks with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She and Treasury DAS Daniel Glaser later met with the Ministry of Finance. These talks focused on efforts undertaken to prevent Iran's acquisition of a nuclear w [...] | 2008-12-18 14:55:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ENRG ETTC PARM IR IT |
08ROME1538 | ITALIAN NUCLEAR MATERIAL: SOGIN RESPONSE TO GTRI [...] (U) This cable is classified Confidential (Releasable to Italy) for transmission purposes. For the purpose of discussion with officials of the Government of Italy (GOI) and wholly-GOI-owned entities such as the Societa Gestione Impianti Nucleari (SOGIN),the inventory below may be declassifi [...] | 2008-12-19 08:50:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG IT KNNP TPHY TRGY |
08ROME1539 | ITALIAN SHERPA MASSOLO SEEKS USG VIEWS ON G8 [...] (C) Summary: Italian G8 Sherpa Giampiero Massolo told the DCM on December 15 that Italy wants to resist pressures to expand the G8 format during its 2009 Presidency. He asked whether the new U.S. Administration would favor another Major Economies leaders' Meeting (MEM) at the Summit to deal wi [...] | 2008-12-19 08:50:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EAID SENV IT |
08ROME1540 | ITALIAN SHERPA MASSOLO SEEKS USG VIEWS ON G8 [...] (C) Summary: Italian G8 Sherpa Giampiero Massolo told the DCM on December 15 that Italy wants to resist pressures to expand the G8 format during its 2009 Presidency. He asked whether the new U.S. Administration would favor another Major Economies leaders' Meeting (MEM) at the Summit to deal wi [...] | 2008-12-19 08:50:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EAID SENV OVIP OTRA IT |
08ROME1551 | G8 COMMISSIONER BERTOLASO ON SUMMIT LOGISTICS [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: G8 Summit Commissioner Guido Bertolaso, Prime Minister Berlusconi's Commissioner in charge of logistics for the July 8-10 2009 Summit at La Maddalena, told the DCM on December 19 that construction of the two hote [...] | 2008-12-22 11:03:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON OTRA OVIP ASEC AORC IT |
08ROME1552 | G8 COMMISSIONER BERTOLASO ON SUMMIT LOGISTICS [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: G8 Summit Commissioner Guido Bertolaso, Prime Minister Berlusconi's Commissioner in charge of logistics for the July 8-10 2009 Summit at La Maddalena, told the DCM on December 19 that construction of the two hote [...] | 2008-12-22 11:06:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON OTRA OVIP ASEC AORC IT |
08ROME1568 | ITALY SUPPORTS REGIONAL APPROACH TO SECURITY [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA NATO Office Director Massimo Marotti on December 17. Marotti said that Italy shares the view that a robust ISAF contribution to the Election Support Forces (ESF) is vital to the successful conduct of Presidential Elections in Afghanistan. I [...] | 2008-12-23 11:32:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
08ROME1569 | ITALIAN MIN FIN CALLS REPORTS OF BANK SEPAH RESUMING FINANCIAL [...] (C) Summary: Italian Finance Ministry officials told Post that Iranian press accounts of Italy rescinding its restrictions on the Rome branch of Bank Sepah are "propaganda" and "totally inaccurate." Instead, Italian officials say the existing controls on Bank Sepah will be maintained. Moreov [...] | 2008-12-23 15:14:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP EFIN PREL ETTC PARM IR IT |
08ROME1573 | GEN PETRAEUS DISCUSSES IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN WITH ITALIAN LEADERS [...] (C) Summary: Italy's leaders warmly welcomed the December 9-10 visit of U.S. CENTCOM Commander, Gen. David Petraeus. In his meetings with Prime Minister Berlusconi, Defense Minister La Russa, Foreign Minister Frattini, and Italy's military leadership, Petraeus stressed that the situation in Afghani [...] | 2008-12-24 10:33:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF IZ IR LE PK |
08ROME1577 | INFORMATION ON ITALY'S PLANS TO RETURN TO NUCLEAR ENERGY [...] (U) In response to Ref A questions, post provides the following information. 2. Plans to expand Italy's nuclear power program: (U) The GOI's Economic Development Minister Claudio Scajola (i.e. Italy's de-facto energy minister) announced in May 2008 that Italy planned to return to nuclea [...] | 2008-12-24 13:24:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO IT |
08ROME1580 | ANTARCTIC TREATY: ITALY APPROVES ATCM MEASURE 1, [...] On 2 December, Foreign Ministry (MFA) Counselor Francesco Capponi told SCICouns that Italy has approved Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) Measure 1, creating the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. He said that Italy has transmitted its instrument of ratification of Measure 1 through the [...] | 2008-12-29 09:43:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY SENV AORC KSCA IT |
08ROME1587 | ITALY SHARES CONCERN OVER HOSNI CANDIDACY FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 16:00:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNESCO IT |
08ROME1592 | ITALY SUPPORTIVE OF PKO IN SOMALIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-31 11:26:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPKO SO ET IT |
08ROME167 | ITALY TO HOLD ELECTIONS APRIL 13-14 [...] (SBU) President Napolitano dissolved Italy's parliament February 6, triggering new elections set by caretaker PM Prodi and his Council of Ministers for April 13-14. Prodi will remain caretaker PM until a new government is sworn in after the elections, probably in early-to-mid-May. As caretak [...] | 2008-02-06 16:06:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IT |
08ROME17 | ITALY BRIEFED ON TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR UN SENIOR [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Coordinator for Afghanistan Sergio Mercuri on January 7. Mercuri appreciated the opportunity to review the latest version of the terms of reference/job description and was pleased to find that the Senior Civilian Representative would have t [...] | 2008-01-08 13:24:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IO PREL AF NATO EU IT |
08ROME170 | ITALY: CONSIDERING FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR HARIRI [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points and dip note February 4 to MFA Levant Office Director Carlo Formosa who had just returned from a trip to Lebanon with MFA Director General for the Middle East Cesare Ragaglini. Formosa said Italy remains committed to Lebanon's stability, democracy, and econo [...] | 2008-02-07 17:38:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EFIN EINV LE SY IT |
08ROME178 | COESPU AT THE TWO-YEAR MARK: 1,000 PEACEKEEPERS [...] (SBU) Summary: Two years after its inception, the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (CoESPU) in Vicenza, Italy, is well on its way to achieving its goal of training 3,000 gendarme/carabinieri-style police officers and trainers by the end of 2010. Since November 2005, Italian Cara [...] | 2008-02-08 16:00:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IT ID NI UP CM IN |
08ROME190 | ITALY/TERROR FINANCE: NEW POLICY RELIES ON LEGAL [...] (C) Summary: In response to a US request, the GOI will not reveal to Italian National Nada the US decision to oppose his de-listing at the 1267 committee. The GOI repeated its request to be informed of the US position on the de-listing case of Himmat, a colleague of Nada's, before the March 1 [...] | 2008-02-11 16:02:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN IT KTFN PREL PTER UNSC |
08ROME195 | KOSOVO: ITALIANS PRESSING OSCE STATES TO AVOID [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-13 08:04:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNAUS UNMIK PGOV YI EU OSCE IT |
08ROME196 | PRODI TO ATTEND BUCHAREST SUMMIT, SEES NO EASY SOLUTION TO GARBAGE CRISIS [...] (C) On February 11, the Ambassador met with outgoing PM Romano Prodi to discuss a range of outstanding issues. Prodi said he had just spoken with President Bush and regretted that their February 4 meeting in Washington did not take place. He confirmed that despite the government crisis he would att [...] | 2008-02-13 09:50:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO IT |
08ROME197 | ITALIAN THOUGHTS ON TRADE WITH IRAN IN THE RUN-UP [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) During a February 8 meeting, Roberto Liotto, the Italian MFA official responsible for Italian participation in multilateral export control regimes, including the Wassenaar Arrangement, told Econoff the GOI has stopped issuing [...] | 2008-02-13 14:23:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | ETRD ETTC PREL PARM IR IT |
08ROME200 | ITALIANS TO VOTE "NO" AT FEB 12 VOTE ON BIOTECH [...] (U) On February 11, Embassy Rome's Minister-Counselor for Agricultural Affairs delivered reftel points on EU approval of biotech corn, cotton, and soybean varieties to contacts at the ministries of Health and Agriculture. Director General Romano Marabelli of the Ministry of Health and Diploma [...] | 2008-02-14 13:36:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAGR EUN TBIO IT |
08ROME201 | CLUSTER MUNITIONS: ITALY SEEKS TO PRESERVE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Acting Director for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Emanuele Farruggia on February 13. Farruggia was aware of the U.S. briefing to NATO allies on interoperability and said that Italy would oppose efforts of Olso Process leaders to push thr [...] | 2008-02-14 14:39:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PARM PREL NATO IT |
08ROME202 | ITALIAN VIEWS ON INTERNATIONAL RUBBER STUDY GROUP [...] (U) On February 14, Econoff delivered reftel points outlining USG concerns regarding the performance of Dr. Hidde Smit, Secretary General of the International Rubber Study Group (IRSG),to Stefano Nicoletti, the Italian MFA official responsible for Italian participation in the IRSG. Nicolett [...] | 2008-02-14 15:05:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD IT |
08ROME204 | ITALY: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (SBU) Post has reviewed reftel request for information about critical infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR) in Italy and has not identified any whose loss would have an immediate, first-order impact on the national security, economic stability, and/or national public health or safety of th [...] | 2008-02-15 15:12:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ECON PTER PREL PGOV ETTC EAID EFIN IT |
08ROME212 | ITALY: SUPPORTS MACEDONIAN NATO ASPIRATIONS; [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-19 17:55:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NATO PREL GR MK IT |
08ROME217 | SOMALIA ICG: ITALY AWAITING RESPONSE TO SWEDISH [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) DCM delivered reftel points to MFA Director General for Africa Armando Sanguini February 22 and sought Italian concurrence on proposed changes to the International Contact Group on Somalia. Sanguini said Swedish Ambassador Marik [...] | 2008-02-22 15:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV SO IT |
08ROME223 | ITALY TO DEFER TO OIC ON COMPREHENSIVE CONVENTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-25 10:16:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IT |
08ROME225 | CUBA: D'ALEMA CONGRATULATES RAUL CASTRO, GENTLY [...] (C) Ambassador spoke to FM D'Alema February 24 to deliver reftel points on promoting democratic change in Cuba. He urged D'Alema to issue a statement calling for free and fair elections, the release of political prisoners, and dialogue with democratic activists and civil society. D'Alema said [...] | 2008-02-25 16:25:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EU CU IT |
08ROME239 | ITALIAN FM D'ALEMA TRAVEL TO VENEZUELA FOR ENI [...] (C/NF) Italian FM D'Alema called the Ambassador Feb. 27 to inform that he planned to travel to Venezuela at the end of the week for a one-day visit for the signing of a major oil/gas concession to Italian energy firm ENI. D'Alema said ENI Chairman Scaroni had pushed him hard to attend and that [...] | 2008-02-28 07:56:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL VE IT |
08ROME243 | ITALY SUPPORTS UNSCR ON REBEL GROUPS IN EASTERN DRC [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA UN Deputy Office Director Leonardo Bencini February 19 and requested Italian support for a UNSCR condemning the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). Bencini responded to our demarche February 28, and said Italy agreed that we must add [...] | 2008-02-28 14:34:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | CG PREL RW UNSC ASEC ETTC IT |
08ROME246 | ITALY: PD LEADER VELTRONI SEES NO FOREIGN POLICY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-28 16:27:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IT |
08ROME247 | IRAN: ITALY CONTESTS EDISON DEAL VIOLATES ISA; [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 10. Summary. -------- 2. (C) Econ M/C delivered points on the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) and reported investment by Italian energy company Edison in Iran's Dayyer Block to MFA Political Director Giulio Terzi. Econ M/C also raised U.S. [...] | 2008-02-28 16:35:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR IT |
08ROME249 | ITALIAN MFA OFFICIAL OUTLINES ITALIAN ENERGY, [...] (C) Summary. During a February 13 meeting with Embassy Officers, Giovanni Manfredi, the Italian MFA official responsible for energy issues, provided a wide-ranging and candid assessment of Italian energy and energy security policy. Manfredi said Italian demand for natural gas will continue t [...] | 2008-02-29 12:14:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ENRG RU IT |
08ROME256 | ITALY SHARES US VIEWS IAEA IRAN BRIEFING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-29 16:14:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR IT |
08ROME257 | ISAF: CARETAKER PRODI GOVERNMENT MAY ANNOUNCE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Director for Political-Military Affairs Gianni Bardini on February 27. Bardini explained that the current caretaker government of PM Romano Prodi has no mandate to carry out anything more than basic administrative functions in the run-up to [...] | 2008-02-29 16:24:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | NATO PREL MARR MOPS AF IT |
08ROME259 | ITALY: COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Counternarcotics Officer Enrico Valvo on February 28. He thanked the USG for the information on the U.S. SBIRT and Cannabis resolutions and said he would pass the information to the interagency counternarcotics working group in the Italian [...] | 2008-03-03 13:31:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC SNAR IT |
08ROME260 | GOI WORKING TO IMPROVE NATO-EU RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-03 13:46:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MOPS EU TU CY IT |
08ROME261 | ITALY ON UNHRC DRAFT CLIMATE CHANGE RESOLUTION: [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-03 16:06:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KGHG PGOV PREL UNHRC MV IT |
08ROME262 | ITALY: EU COMMISSIONER MICHEL SHOULD ABIDE BY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-04 10:39:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EUN CU IT |
08ROME263 | ITALIAN ACTIONS TO FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS [...] Summary. A GOI action plan pre-dating the Berlin Declaration on Tuberculosis (TB) is advancing the implementation of most of ItalyQs commitments under paragraph five of the Declaration. Italy also has significantly increased its contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis a [...] | 2008-03-04 12:38:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO WHO EAID SOCI AF IT |
08ROME268 | ITALY: ERITREAN BEHAVIOR UNACCEPTABLE, BUT MORE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche March 4 to MFA East Africa Office Director Mario Sammartino and UN Desk Officer Gabriella Biondi, seeking Italian views on the future of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) and the possibility of sanctions or other measures targeted at Eritrea. [...] | 2008-03-04 15:55:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPKO ER ET IT |
08ROME274 | AUSTRALIA GROUP: ITALIAN PARTICIPATION IN PLENARY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-05 13:11:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC IT |
08ROME275 | ITALY: SEEKING BALANCED UNSCR ON GAZA SITUATION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-05 14:25:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC XF IS GZ IT |
08ROME276 | ITALIAN ELECTIONS: WHERE THINGS STAND AS CAMPAGIN [...] (C/NF) Former PM Silvio Berlusconi's People of Liberty (PdL) party leads Walter Veltroni's Democratic Party (PD) by six to eleven percentage points in opinion polls as the campaign for Italy's April 13-14 parliamentary elections gets underway. A complicated electoral system and a change in the [...] | 2008-03-05 17:02:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IT |
08ROME288 | ITALY ON SOMALIA AND PIRACY IN THE UNSC [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-06 13:21:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO IT |
08ROME294 | ITALIAN PARLIAMENT RATIFIES U.S.-EU GPS-GALILEO [...] Per reftel, on March 4 SCICouns spoke with Counselor Raffaella Campanati of the Foreign Affairs Ministry's (MFA) European Union (EU) External Relations Office, to follow up on the status of Italy's ratification of the U.S.-EU Global Positioning System (GPS)-Galileo Cooperation Agreement. Camp [...] | 2008-03-10 10:26:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPA TSPL TPHY PREL SENV IMO ICAO ITU IT |
08ROME298 | ITALY: TERZI RECEIVED BANK MELLI POINTS IN ADVANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-10 14:50:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | EUN KNNP PARM IR IT |
08ROME312 | AFGHANISTAN: ITALY STRESSES LONG-TERM COMMITMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Italy hosted a "West 4" meeting of ISAF RC-West contributor nations (Italy, Lithuania, Spain and the U.S.) in Rome on March 4. Italian MFA U/S for Asia Gianni Vernetti, in his opening address, said that Italy is in Afghanistan for the "long haul" in both its civilian and milita [...] | 2008-03-12 11:33:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PREL PINS SNAR AF IT SP LH |
08ROME315 | ITALIANS CALL FOR "DEEP REFLECTION" ON EU IRAN [...] (C/NF) Summary. MFA Deputy Political Director Fillipo Formica told ECMIN on March 11 that GAERC discussions on Iran were "confused" and that a final decision on additional EU sanctions has been postponed until the next FMs meeting. At the GAERC lunch discussions on Iran, the GOI questioned EU [...] | 2008-03-12 16:11:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EUN KNNP PARM PREL IR IT |
08ROME316 | ITALY: FIRST SECRETARY WILL ATTEND MARCH 14 BEIRUT [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points requesting Italian participation in the March 14 Beirut Conference to MFA Syria/Lebanon Desk Officer Michele Tommasi March 10. At poloff's urging Tommasi said Italy had decided to send a first secretary to the conference. This was a reversal of Italy's ear [...] | 2008-03-12 17:15:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREF PTER MASS PARM SY IS LE IT |
08ROME323 | IRAN: FM D'ALEMA SAYS ITALY FED UP WITH EU3; [...] (C) In a one-on-one meeting March 13, the Ambassador told FM D,Alema that Italy,s tactics on Iran were not working ) instead Italy was being isolated. D,Alema replied that Italy didn,t want to be told again by a small group of countries what it had to do without having any input. He said ot [...] | 2008-03-14 11:46:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KNNP PARM EUN IR IT |
08ROME33 | ITALY CONFIRMS PARTICIPATION IN TLSA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-10 16:47:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EUN KPKO MARR MASS IT |
08ROME34 | ITALY RECEPTIVE TO CHINA ANTI-SATELLITE TEST [...] (S) Poloffs delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Acting Director for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Emanuele Farruggia on January 7 and to East Asia Office Director Giuseppe Mistretta on January 10. Separately, Scioff delivered the demarche to MFA Director for Energy, Space, High Techn [...] | 2008-01-10 18:35:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | PREL PARM MNUC MARR TSPA CH IT |
08ROME342 | ITALY/EU: EUROPEAN COUNCIL TERMS BALI "IMPORTANT [...] (SBU) Summary. Italian MFA Minister Andrea Perugini correctly predicted to SCICouns on March 11 that the March 13-14 European Council conclusions would not mention the 25-40% greenhouse gas(GHG) reduction below 1990 levels by 2020 target, and would refer to the "important breakthrough" made at [...] | 2008-03-18 09:21:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG EUN IT |
08ROME351 | ITALY: RESPONSE ON TAIWAN'S PARTICIPATION IN THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-19 16:52:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON OECD IT |
08ROME357 | U.S. COORDINATOR SCHWEICH ENGAGES ITALIANS ON [...] (SBU) Summary. In meetings with GOI officials and the Italian press on March 13-14, Amb. Thomas A. Schweich, Coordinator for Afghan Justice Reform and Counternarcotics and INL PDAS, drew a strong correlation between security and narcotics in Afghanistan. He presented new USG and UNODC data s [...] | 2008-03-20 15:08:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR NATO IT MARR MOPS AF EAID |
08ROME365 | ITALY/CFE: GOI "POSITIVE" ON PROPOSED NATO CFE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA OSCE Desk Officer Emilio Giribone on March 25. He said that Italy will be represented at the March 27 HLTF by Brunella Borzi, MFA Envoy for OSCE Political-Military Affairs, who has already seen the draft U.S.-German Statement on CFE. Althoug [...] | 2008-03-25 17:14:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO KCFE MARR RS MD GG IT |
08ROME367 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: REFERENDUM IN BURMA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Southeast Asia Office Director Alberto Vecchi March 17 and urged Italy to speak out about concerns over the Burmese regime's announced constitutional referendum. Vecchi, who returned February 29 from a week-long trip to Burma, said Italy agreed with ou [...] | 2008-03-26 10:04:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM BM IT |
08ROME371 | ITALY ON IRAN SANCTIONS: MFA SUPPORTS IMMEDIATE [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA Non Proliferation Office Director Farruggia and Iran desk officer Kluzer in separate meetings on March 26 to urge swift Italian implementation of the financial provisions of UNSCR 1803 (Ref A and B). Both said Italy supported a common EU policy on UNSCR 1803 implement [...] | 2008-03-26 17:12:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM KNNP EUN IR IT |
08ROME384 | BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: ACHILLE AMERIO, NEW [...] Sensitive but unclassified; not for internet distribution. 2. (U) Italy?s new Ambassador in Damascus, Achille Amerio, reached post at the beginning of March, replacing Francesco Cerulli, who retired. Since 2004, Amerio was Diplomatic Adviser to two consecutive Defense Ministers, Antonio [...] | 2008-03-28 15:56:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PREL SY IT |
08ROME390 | ITALIAN ENERGY: EXPERTS UNCONCERNED ABOUT [...] (C) Summary. On February 28, Ecmin hosted a roundtable discussion with Italian energy experts. The discussion focused on Italian energy security (especially security of Italian natural gas imports),and Italy's energy relationship with Russia. With one exception, the Italian experts did not [...] | 2008-03-31 10:07:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETRD ENRG EINV EIND ETRN RU IT |
08ROME396 | ITALIAN FM CALLS GREEK FM TO PRESS FOR MACEDONIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-31 15:33:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO PGOV MK GR IT |
08ROME398 | GLOBAL HAWK: ITALY APPROVES BASING AT SIGONELLA: [...] (U) This message contains an urgent action request at para 2. 2. (C) The Italian Defense General Staff (IDGS) notified the Embassy in writing on April 1 that Italy approved the deployment of the Global Hawk UAV to Sigonella Naval Air Station in Sicily (text of approval note at para 4). Th [...] | 2008-04-01 14:09:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS NATO IT |
08ROME419 | ITALY: "ALREADY IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1803" [...] (C) Econ and Poloffs discussed reftels on UNSCR 1803 implementation with MFA Terrorist Financing, Iran, and Non-Proliferation desk officers on April 3. MFA officials said Italy had been pushing the EU to adopt an EU common position on UNSCR 1803 by the April 28 GAERC. On the question of Ital [...] | 2008-04-04 14:49:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON ETRD PARM PGOV PREL KNNP IR IT |
08ROME435 | ITALIAN ELECTIONS: U.S. INTERESTS TO BENEFIT [...] (C/NF) Former PM Silvio Berlusconi retained a 5 to 8 percentage point lead ahead of April 13-14 parliamentary elections with late March polls showing he will win a comfortable majority in the Chamber of Deputies. The situation in the Senate is less predictable because of a complicated regiona [...] | 2008-04-08 09:23:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IT |
08ROME440 | ITALY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON UNSCR 1540 [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Director for Arms Control and Nonproliferation Emanuele Farruggia on April 4. Farruggia had seen the Russian draft language for the technical rollover and was satisfied with it, but said he would take the U.S. position in favor of a strength [...] | 2008-04-08 14:38:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP IT |
08ROME445 | ITALY WANTS COORDINATED ANNOUNCEMENT OF NDRANGHETA [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. Not for internet distribution. 2. (U) This message contains an action request at para 3. 3. (SBU). SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. The Italian MFA informed Charge d'Affaires on April 9 that the GOI welcomes the possibility of a [...] | 2008-04-09 14:50:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IT KCRM SNAR PTER |
08ROME449 | ITALY/IRAN: INTESA SAO PAOLO INVESTIGATION INTO [...] (S/NF) Post has learned that the U.S. Department of Justice has passed to Italian authorities a request under our Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) for information regarding possible violations of U.S. and New York criminal law. Banca Intesa San Paolo (Italy's largest bank) is suspected o [...] | 2008-04-10 06:14:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN PTER ECON IT IR |
08ROME451 | ENI: WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT GAZPROM'S ITALIAN PARTNER? [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-10 13:17:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EIND EINV ENRG ETRD IT RU |
08ROME454 | ITALY: PRESSING OUR PRIORITIES WITH THE NEXT [...] (C) Summary. Italy's upcoming elections and period of government formation will give us an opportunity to press our agenda with renewed vigor after four months with a caretaker government and more than two years with a government hampered by far left partners. While our relationship with the P [...] | 2008-04-11 09:50:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IT |
08ROME456 | AUSTRALIA GROUP: GOI EXPECTS TO SUPPORT USG [...] (U) On April 10, Econoff met with Carlo Tripepi, one of the Italian MFA officials responsible for Australia Group (AG) matters, to discuss the USG proposals to revise AG controls for cross (tangential) flow filtration (CFF) equipment (Ref A) and to revise the AG's definition for highly pathog [...] | 2008-04-11 11:49:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM ETTC CBW IT |
08ROME461 | SCENESETTER FOR ACTING DEPUTY SECRETARY OF ENERGY [...] (C/NF) Your trip to Rome for the International Energy Forum (IEF) will occur immediately after Italy's April 13-14 parliamentary elections. While you are here, Italian parliamentarians will be in the beginning of the government formation process. Romano Prodi's center-left coalition governm [...] | 2008-04-14 09:01:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON ENRG EPRT IT |
08ROME471 | ITALIANS SUPPORT EFFORTS FOR GREATER REGIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-15 11:51:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR IT |
08ROME472 | ITALY: BERLUSCONI WINS ITALIAN ELECTIONS [...] (C/NF) Former PM Silvio Berlusconi's coalition defeated center-left rival Walter Veltroni 46.8 to 37.4 in Italy's parliamentary elections, obtaining comfortable majorities in both houses of parliament. The populist, anti-immigrant Northern League, a Berlusconi ally, doubled its percentage to [...] | 2008-04-15 13:15:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IT |
08ROME484 | AFGHANISTAN/ITALY: AMBASSADOR WOOD URGES INCREASED [...] (C) Summary. During an April 14-16 visit to Rome, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan William Wood praised Italian civilian and military efforts in Afghanistan while encouraging a vigilant military posture in Regional Command-West and urging greater involvement in police training activities. He re [...] | 2008-04-18 11:08:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR MOPS NATO MARR EAID IT AF |
08ROME51 | CHAD/CAR: ITALY WILL CONTRIBUTE MILITARY HOSPITAL [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel non-paper to MFA West Africa Office Director Mario Sammartino (whose office's responsibilities extend as far east as Chad) January 11. Poloff emphasized USG support for an ESDP mission in Chad and theQntral African Republic (CAR),and requested information on Italy' [...] | 2008-01-15 09:15:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PGOV CD IT |
08ROME519 | GEORGIA/RUSSIA: ITALIANS PREFER DISCUSSING [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Marco Clemente, MFA Office Director for Russia and CIS affairs. Clemente agreed that Russia's Presidential Instructions on relations with Abkhazia represented a creeping annexation of the separatist region and stated that Italy was concerned by rising tens [...] | 2008-04-23 13:25:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GG RS IT |
08ROME52 | SUDAN: ITALY STILL STUDYING REQUEST FOR JIU SUPPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-15 09:15:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU IT |
08ROME523 | EEB DAS HENGEL PUSHES FOR MORE ROBUST ITALIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-24 14:04:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IR IT |
08ROME525 | (C) DELIVERING TOUGH MESSAGES TO ENI CEO PAOLO [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his May 5-6 visit to Washington, Post believes it would be helpful to U.S. interests if Eni CEO Paolo Scaroni is told very clearly of serious USG concerns about 1) his company's close collaboration with Russia's Gazprom and 2) his company's continuing involvement in Iran. E [...] | 2008-04-24 14:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG IR IT PGOV PREL RU |
08ROME528 | GREECE/MACEDONIA: ITALY IN FAVOR OF QUICK [...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel points on April 18 to MFA NATO desk officer Piermario Dacco. Poloffs requested high-level Italian intervention with Greece to urge renewed commitment in resolving the Macedonia name dispute as soon as possible. Dacco said Italy shared the USG concern and also w [...] | 2008-04-24 15:27:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO PGOV MK GR IT |
08ROME53 | SUDAN: ITALY STILL STUDYING REQUEST FOR JIU SUPPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-15 09:15:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU IT |
08ROME54 | ITALY: POL DIRECTOR TELLS U/S ROOD ITALY SUPPORTS [...] (C) Italian MFA Political Director Terzi told U/S Rood that Italy supported additional measures to encourage Iran to suspend uranium enrichment (with a strong preference for a UNSCR, but also expressing openness to EU action). Terzi said the GOI believed in continuing the two-tracked approach [...] | 2008-01-15 09:15:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV KNNP XF IT |
08ROME541 | CSD: ITALIAN HIGH-LEVEL/POLITICAL REPRESENTATION [...] (C) Summary. Italian MFA officials told Emboffs that the head of Italy's delegation to the May 5-16 United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD),like that of the U.S., likely will be a senior career official, rather than a high-level or political figure. This is largely due to [...] | 2008-04-30 06:45:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV AORC PREL EAGR EUN EAID ECON ZI XA IT |
08ROME544 | ITALY CONSIDERING REQUEST TO RESETTLE CUBAN MIGRANT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-30 11:32:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF SMIG CU PM IT |
08ROME545 | RAISING ZIMBABWE AT THE UN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-30 11:34:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC XA ZI AU IT |
08ROME546 | IRAQ: ITALY PLANS TO PARTICIPATE IN ICI [...] Poloff delivered ref a points to Amb. Gianludovico De Martino, Director of the MFA Iraq Task Force, on April 29. De Martino said that Italy will have a new government by the ICI Ministerial and was hopeful that the new Foreign Minister would attend. De Martino noted that as IRFFI co-chair, Ita [...] | 2008-04-30 11:41:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IZ IT |
08ROME55 | CHAD/CAR: ITALY WILL CONTRIBUTE MILITARY HOSPITAL [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel non-paper to MFA West Africa Office Director Mario Sammartino (whose office's responsibilities extend as far east as Chad) January 11. Poloff emphasized USG support for an ESDP mission in Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR),and requested information on Ital [...] | 2008-01-15 09:15:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PGOV CD IT |
08ROME558 | ITALY UNLIKELY TO MAKE PUBLIC STATEMENT ON BURMA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-05 07:46:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM BM IT |
08ROME56 | SUDAN: ITALY STILL STUDYING REQUEST FOR JIU SUPPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-15 09:15:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU IT |
08ROME568 | SOMALIA PIRACY: ITALY CONCERNED ABOUT SETTING A [...] (C) On May 6 Poloff delivered reftel points to Leonardo Bencini of the MFA UN Office. Bencini said Italy agrees that piracy in Somali territorial waters is becoming an increasingly serious threat to international vessels and the that the international community needs to take action. Bencini n [...] | 2008-05-06 11:12:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM UNSC SO IT |
08ROME57 | CHAD/CAR: ITALY WILL CONTRIBUTE MILITARY HOSPITAL [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel non-paper to MFA West Africa Office Director Mario Sammartino (whose office's responsibilities extend as far east as Chad) January 11. Poloff emphasized USG support for an ESDP mission in Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR),and requested information on Ital [...] | 2008-01-15 09:15:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PGOV CD IT |
08ROME58 | SUDAN: ITALY STILL STUDYING REQUEST FOR JIU SUPPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-15 09:15:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU IT |
08ROME586 | LEBANON: ITALY SUPPORTIVE OF SINIORA GOVERNMENT IN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Lebanon/Syria Desk Officer Michele Tommasi on May 9. Tommasi said that Italian Ambassador to Lebanon Gabriele Cecchia had already delivered a strong message of support to the Siniora Government and to General Sleiman and would continue to do [...] | 2008-05-09 15:09:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER LE IT |
08ROME587 | ITALIANS TELL WHA A/S SHANNON THEY WILL CONTINUE [...] (C) Summary. On May 2 WHA A/S Thomas Shannon met with Giovan Battista Verderame, MFA Director General for Latin American Affairs, and his staff to discuss recent developments in the region. Verderame said Italy's commercial relationship and large expatriate community meant Italy needed a str [...] | 2008-05-12 06:13:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IT |
08ROME602 | ITALIANS CAUTIOUS ABOUT FRENCH UNSCR ON BURMA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-12 14:46:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM IT |
08ROME604 | CLUSTER MUNITIONS: ITALY STILL FIRMLY WITHIN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Acting Director for Nonproliferation and Disarmament Affairs Laura Aghilarre on May 9. Aghillare stressed that the Italian position is still decidedly against any agreement that would compromise the "like-minded" approach and that the Italian [...] | 2008-05-13 06:01:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | IT MOPS PREL PARM NATO |
08ROME613 | AFGHANISTAN: ITALY CONSIDERING SIGNIFICANT PARIS [...] (C) Summary: Acting PolCouns met with Italian MFA Director General for Asia Iannucci on May 14 to discuss Iannucci's upcoming trip to Kabul and Farah Province and to discuss the new Berlusconi Government's plans for Afghanistan. Iannucci said that Italy had not yet decided what sort of pledge [...] | 2008-05-14 16:01:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR MOPS NATO MARR EAID IT AF |
08ROME621 | ITALIAN FM CALLS ON HIZBALLAH TO AVOID CREATING A [...] (C) In the absence of the FM, who was in Peru attending the EU-Latin America Caribbean Summit, we delivered reftel points May 16 to the PM's Diplomatic Advisor for the Middle East Marco Carnelos, to MFA Near East Office Director Carlo Formosa, and to Lebanon desk officer Michele Tommasi, who [...] | 2008-05-16 14:02:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LE SY IR IT |
08ROME629 | TERRORISM FINANCE: ITALY PRE-NOTIFICATION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-19 13:15:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | KTFN EFIN PTER PINR PREL IT |
08ROME630 | TERRORISM FINANCE: ITALY PRE-NOTIFICATION FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-19 13:16:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | KTFN EFIN PTER PINR PREL IT |
08ROME650 | ITALY: REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE [...] (U) This is post's response to reftel request for updated information necessary for the President's consideration of continued suspension of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act. 2. (C) There has been no significant change in Italian relations with Cuba over the past six months. There were no high [...] | 2008-05-22 13:24:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU IT |
08ROME651 | ITALY: REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE [...] (U) This is post's response to reftel request for updated information necessary for the President's consideration of continued suspension of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act. 2. (C) There has been no significant change in Italian relations with Cuba over the past six months. There were no high [...] | 2008-05-22 13:25:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU IT |
08ROME655 | POST RESPONSE: INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND [...] (U) Child and forced labor is rare in Italy, and the GoI investigates and prosecutes the few cases of apparent forced labor when they arise. Minors aged 14 and above can be legally employed. According to the latest government statistics, 275,000 people aged 15 to 19 were employed in 2003. [...] | 2008-05-22 13:54:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | ELF EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI IT |
08ROME657 | ITALY/CUBA: ACTIVITIES FOR THE DAY SOLIDARITY WITH [...] (C) Summary: Per ref A-C requests, Post engaged in a robust effort to mark May 21's "Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People." We placed the Cuba Solidarity op-ed May 20 in leading center-right daily Il Giornale. Lobbying by the Ambassador convinced Senate President Schifani, Chamber of Depu [...] | 2008-05-22 15:34:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PHUM PREL KPAO SOCI CU IT |
08ROME662 | BURMA: ITALY PLANS LOW-LEVEL PARTICIPATION AT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-23 15:24:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PHUM BM IT |
08ROME681 | ITALY: BERLUSCONI'S IMPRESSIVE START: DELIVERING [...] (C/NF) Capitalizing on his strong electoral victory and a weak opposition, PM Berlusconi is enjoying high approval ratings for his quick delivery on campaign promises to reduce taxes and increase security. Since April, Berlusconi has dominated the Italian political stage. By reaching out to [...] | 2008-05-30 11:24:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ECON IT |
08ROME683 | (S) GOI TO INVESTIGATE EXPORT OF MACHINE TOOL TO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) On May 29, Econoff delivered to Roberto Liotto, the Italian MFA official responsible for Italian participation in the Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) and Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) Ref A non-paper on the export of an Italian compu [...] | 2008-05-30 12:25:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | PARM MTCRE PREL IT IR |
08ROME684 | IOM DG RACE: ITALY HAS NO BACKUP PLAN SHOULD ITS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-30 15:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF SMIG AORC IT |
08ROME71 | ITALY: FM D'ALEMA ON KOSOVO, AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, [...] (C/NF) Ambassador called on FM D'Alema January 15 to run through key foreign policy issues in advance of PM Prodi's February 4 visit to Washington. D'Alema was in a constructive mood and said Italian foreign policy on key issues was largely convergent with that of the U.S. He said that Kosov [...] | 2008-01-16 16:57:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL NATO UNSC EUN IT |
08ROME711 | ITALY/TERROR FINANCE: A NEW PROCEDURE ON 1267 [...] (C) Summary: The Italian Government has determined that it cannot continue to support the 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban) listing of its nationals if they have been cleared of criminal charges. Italy will support delisting requests from persons cleared of charges, but it will forward delisting reque [...] | 2008-06-04 15:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KFIN IT |
08ROME716 | ITALY TO ATTEND JUNE VIENNA CONFERENCE ON LEBANON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-05 12:57:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREL PHUM LE UNRWA IT |
08ROME72 | ITALY: MINISTER OF JUSTICE SUBMITS RESIGNATION [...] (C/NF) Minister of Justice Clemente Mastella submitted his resignation January 16 after prosecutors ordered the provisional house arrest of his wife, also a prominent politician. PM Prodi quickly rejected his resignation. It is unclear whether Mastella will insist on resigning, though an off [...] | 2008-01-16 18:00:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV IT |
08ROME725 | TERRORISM FINANCE: ITALY PRE-NOTIFICATION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-06 16:29:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | KTFN EFIN PTER PINR PREL IT |
08ROME726 | ITALY: PM BERLUSCONI IN BROAD AGREEMENT ON KEY [...] (C/NF) The Ambassador met June 6 with PM Silvio Berlusconi and U/S Gianni Letta to frame issues President Bush may discuss with Berlusconi during their June 12 bilateral meeting in Rome. Berlusconi said he saw no problematic issues in the U.S.-Italian relationship. In office for less than on [...] | 2008-06-09 11:52:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL NATO ETRD IT |
08ROME743 | BURMA: ITALY SEES IMPROVEMENT IN HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Southeast Asian Office Director Alberto Vecchi June 9, urging Italy to press the Burmese regime to improve humanitarian access and halt forced relocation of cyclone victims. Vecchi, who represented Italy at the May 25 pledging conference in Rangoon, [...] | 2008-06-11 14:42:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM BM IT |
08ROME744 | ITALY ALERT TO IRANIAN EFFORTS TO PROCURE [...] (C) Econoff delivered Ref A points on critical equipment needs for Iran's IR-2 centrifuge design to Roberto Liotto, the Italian MFA official responsible for export controls and Italian participation in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) on May 22. Liotto said he would pass the nonpaper to the [...] | 2008-06-12 07:22:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP TRGY PREL PARM MNUC AORC IAEA UNSC IR IT |
08ROME745 | ITALY TO ATTEND BERLIN CONFERENCE FOR PALESTINIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-12 11:37:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS EUN IT |
08ROME746 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: ITALY REGRETS U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-12 11:43:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM IT |
08ROME747 | ITALY SUPPORTIVE OF SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-12 12:45:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNSC ZI IT |
08ROME748 | ITALY SUPPORTIVE OF SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-12 12:46:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNSC ZI IT |
08ROME772 | ITALY: ITALIAN ASSISTANCE OFFICIAL TO ATTEND LIBERIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-18 16:10:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN LI IT |
08ROME777 | GOI MIN TRANSPORT ASKS EU TRANSPORT COMMISSIONER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Econ Couns met with Achille Vinci-Giacchi, Diplomatic Advisor to the Italian Minister of Transport, and with Massimo Gaiani, GOI's Director of the Secretariat for Coordinating European Union (EU) Affairs, to encourage the GOI to raise concerns about the EU's proposed aviation Emis [...] | 2008-06-20 07:48:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON ETRD SENV IT |
08ROME779 | ITALIAN TRADE ROUND-UP: DOHA, POSSIBLE EU-CANADA [...] (U) Summary. During a June 9 meeting, Director General for Trade Amadeo Teti said he thought a Doha Round agreement on agricultural trade is close to being finalized, but noted negotiations on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) and services are far from over. Teti told Econ Counselor that [...] | 2008-06-20 15:49:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETRD EAGR EAID ECON TBIO IT |
08ROME78 | SYRIA: ITALY SUPPORTS EU AS VENUE FOR SUPPORTING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-18 10:58:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL XF XG KMPI NSC SY IT |
08ROME786 | ITALY: G-8 HEALTH INITIATIVES DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-23 15:10:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SENV TBIO IT |
08ROME802 | ITALY TO MAKE PRESENTATION AT CANBERRA MTCR PLENARY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-27 12:44:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC IT KSCA MNUC PARM PREL TSPA |
08ROME809 | ITALY: RESPONSE TO CHAPTER VII UNSCR ON ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-30 15:00:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI IT |
08ROME814 | ITALY SAYS EU CONSIDERING 25 MILLION EURO PLEDGE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-01 10:51:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP IAEA ENRG IT |
08ROME816 | ITALY'S NEW MINISTER OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SEEKS [...] (C) Summary: Newly appointed Minister of Economic Development Claudio Scajola, who claims almost super-minister status with responsibility for Italy's Trade, Energy, Communications and IPR portfolios, met with Ambassador Spogli on June 26 to discuss mutual concerns about Italy's energy securit [...] | 2008-07-01 19:08:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG IT KIPR KNNP EPRT |
08ROME823 | ISAF: ITALY PLEDGES MORE FLEXIBLE USE OF TROOPS [...] (C) Summary. Poloff met with Italian MFA Acting NATO Office Director Carlo Batori on June 25 to review Italian commitments to ISAF in the wake of the June 12 meeting between President Bush and PM Berlusconi. Batori confirmed that Italy is "removing" geographic caveats on Italian forces unde [...] | 2008-07-02 15:00:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR AF IT NATO |
08ROME828 | ITALY WELCOMES NASA-CNSA TALKS, STRATEGIC SPACE [...] (U) SCICOUNS delivered reftel non-paper to Giovanni Manfredi, Director for Energy, Space, High Technology and Aerospace and Defense Programs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on June 27, 2008. Manfredi,s successor, Counselor Roberto Liotto, also attended the meeting. Due to reorganizat [...] | 2008-07-03 09:20:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | PARM PREL TSPA TPHY TSPL KSCA CH IT |
08ROME83 | BURMA: FASSINO SAYS EU AND U.S. POSITIONS IN [...] (C) Ambassador spoke to EU Special Envoy for Burma Piero Fassino January 17 and delivered ref points on coordinating U.S. and EU approaches to Burma. Fassino, who had met January 17 with EU High Rep Solana, Commission President Barroso, and Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner, and spoken with UN Spe [...] | 2008-01-18 16:47:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PHUM PREL BM IT |
08ROME835 | AFGHANISTAN: ITALY RECEPTIVE TO ANA TROOP INCREASE [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered Reftel demarche on July 3 to Italian MFA Deputy Afghanistan Coordinator Paola Munzi and Deputy NATO Office Director Carlo Batori. Munzi said that the Italian government supports the Afghanistan Compact goal [...] | 2008-07-03 13:02:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
08ROME840 | ITALY: BERLUSCONI HITS STRONG HEADWINDS [...] (C/NF) After a very strong first month in office, PM Berlusconi's political honeymoon has been upset by prosecutors accelerating proceedings in criminal cases pending against him. These proceedings, leaked wiretaps, as well as the probability of further leaks have Berlusconi insiders concerned. The [...] | 2008-07-03 16:54:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV IT |
08ROME841 | ITALY: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MAKTOUM FOUNDATION ENTREPRENEURS [...] (U) In consultation with our constituent posts, below is a suggested list of names for the Maktoum Foundation Entrepreneurs Conference, Ref A. 2. (SBU) Name: Ms. Mona Mohanna Business Address: Via Vallazze 95, 20131 Milano Business Telephone: +39 011 02/ 2664781 Business Fax: +39 [...] | 2008-07-07 07:26:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL IT |
08ROME843 | MERCURY MANAGEMENT: ITALY NOW FAVORS A BINDING INSTRUMENT [...] Summary. On June 17, Post delivered reftel questions to Ms. Giuliana Gasparrini of the Environment Ministry (MOE) Directorate for Environmental Research and Development. Gasparrini heads the V Division, which deals with European Union (EU) and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (U [...] | 2008-07-07 13:35:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV AORC EAGR ETRD UNEP IT |
08ROME857 | CIVAIR: ITALY'S ENAC REPRIMANDS SOLFANELLI [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-09 13:58:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR IT |
08ROME858 | ITALY: GIDEON GONO SANCTIONS RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-09 16:00:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC ZI IT |
08ROME859 | ITALY DOES NOT SUPPORT ARAB GROUP DRAFT UNSCR ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-09 16:53:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IS LE SY IT |
08ROME865 | ITALY BEGINS CENSUS OF ROMA CAMPS [...] (C) With a large majority in both houses of parliament and a public united in feelings of insecurity in large cities, PM Berlusconi's government has begun to crack down on illegal immigration and crime. A plan to conduct a census of residents of encampments, aimed at Italy's Roma population, [...] | 2008-07-10 16:02:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM IT |
08ROME871 | BURMA: ITALY IN AGREEMENT ON POST-CYCLONE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-11 14:45:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID BM EUN IT |
08ROME872 | ITALY REMAINS FOCUSED ON HOLDING PRISONERS OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-11 14:46:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PHUM PREL KDEM IT |
08ROME873 | ITALIAN IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL HEALTH [...] Post delivered reftel talking points to Dr. Loredana Vellucci of the Health Ministry (MOH) Directorate for Health Prevention On April 2. Vellucci heads Office III, which coordinates the Italian network of Maritime, Air and Border Health Offices (USMAF),as well as prevention activities relat [...] | 2008-07-11 16:10:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO AORC PREL WHO IT |
08ROME881 | AMB. PRESSES ITALIAN MOD AND PM ADVISER ON NATO SAC [...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings with MOD La Russa and PM Berlusconi's principal adviser U/S Gianni Letta on July 15, the Ambassador noted the importance of the NATO Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) to provide mission critical assistance in Afghanistan and lamented that an Italian withdra [...] | 2008-07-16 14:41:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NATO LE AF XF IT |
08ROME883 | ITALIAN MFA SUGGESTS QUINT DISCUSSIONS ON P5+1 [...] (C) Poloff discussed points in reftel regarding U/S Burns attendance at the P5 1 meetings in Geneva with Italian MFA Non Proliferation Director Emanuele Farruggia July 17. Farruggia said Political Director Terzi appreciated Ambassador Spogli's phone call on July 16 regarding U/S Burns' parti [...] | 2008-07-17 15:17:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM IR IT |
08ROME887 | ITALY: IAEA BOG MESA SEAT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-18 11:38:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | IAEA KNNP PREL KZ SY AORC IT |
08ROME888 | ITALY: SUPPORTIVE ON INDIA-IAEA SAFEGUARDS [...] (C) Summary. Italy will seek to be supportive of India in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG),but MFA officials urgently request information on the Indian sites to be placed under safeguards, and on the likely substance of the NSG waiver request. [...] | 2008-07-18 14:57:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | IAEA ETTC KNNP AORC PARM PREL IT |
08ROME892 | ITALY SUPPORTS EXPANDED NTM-I; CONSIDERING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-21 16:55:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO IZ IT |
08ROME893 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF DASD WHELAN: AFRICOM [...] (C) Summary: Your visit to Italy offers an opportunity to engage the GOI at the highest levels on the pending issue of U.S.- GOI consultations on AFRICOM component headquarters in Italy. Initial readings from top-level Italian civilian officials are encouraging. However, the devil will be in t [...] | 2008-07-22 09:20:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IT NATO |
08ROME900 | FM FRATTINI TO COORDINATE WITH U.S. ON IRAN, [...] (C) Summary. Italian FM Franco Frattini told the Ambassador on July 21 that Italy is prepared to do more to make EU measures against Iran more effective but opposition from Spain and Austria make it unlikely that it will happen during the July GAERC. In a recent phone conversation, Syrian FM [...] | 2008-07-22 16:29:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO ECON IT |
08ROME905 | ITALY: GOI PROGRESS ON AID TO AFRICA FOR G8 [...] (U) Summary: The Director of Italy's Sub-Saharan African Assistance Office said assistance levels are not expected to change with the newly installed Berlusconi government. Italy will continue to focus its funding on Ethiopia and Mozambique, with an emphasis on health and education. Development off [...] | 2008-07-23 13:14:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IT |
08ROME910 | ITALY: RESPONSE TO INFORMATION ABOUT ITALIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-23 15:40:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | IR IT MTCRE PARM PREL |
08ROME911 | ITALY: KEEPING THE PRESSURE ON THE FARC [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-24 07:41:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | CO VE HR EUN PTER AF SNAR PGOV PREL IT |
08ROME914 | ITALY: RESPONSE TO POSTAL UNION CONGRESS DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-24 15:22:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECON ETRD WTRO IT |
08ROME915 | ITALIAN SUPPORT FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1816 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-24 15:23:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KCRS KJUS EWWT PHSA PREL IT |
08ROME917 | ITALY, GERMANY, FRANCE, SPAIN SEND LETTER TO SYRIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-24 16:52:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SY LE EUN IT |
08ROME924 | ITALY: THE WAY FORWARD ON UNMEE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA East Africa Office Director Mario Sammartino July 25. Sammartino said Italy was largely in agreement with U.S. thinking on the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE). UNMEE's mandate must be terminated, he said, given the lack of agreement by e [...] | 2008-07-28 14:21:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS ET ER IT |
08ROME94 | YOUR FEBRUARY 4 MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER PRODI [...] (C/NF) Summary. Mr. President, on February 4 you will be seeing Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, who has surpassed my expectations in both his ability to manage for more than 18 months an inherently unstable governing coalition and to advance domestically controversial policies in support [...] | 2008-01-23 13:27:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IT |
08ROME943 | ITALY: TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION MUST STAY ON TRACK [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-29 08:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV TU EUN IT |
08ROME944 | ITALY WANTS TO HOST OFF-CONTINENT AFRICOM HQ [...] (C) SUMMARY. DASD Whelan, the Ambassador and DATT briefed the Italian PM's principle advisor and U/S Gianni Letta on DOD strategic thinking with respect to AFRICOM and our desire to establish Army and Navy service component commands (at Initial Operational Capability) in Italy by October 1, 20 [...] | 2008-07-29 15:23:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IT NATO |
08ROME945 | ITALY: PROPOSED WAY FORWARD ON AFRICOM [...] (U) This cable is an ACTION request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) Summary and Action Request. Post welcomes reftel instructions to begin official consultations on the establishment of U.S. AFRICOM Army and Navy service component headquarters in Italy. We have already broached the sub [...] | 2008-07-29 16:04:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IT NATO |
08ROME95 | ITALY: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON HOST [...] (SBU) The following are Embassy Rome's answers to the questionnaire on host government information collection, screening and sharing practices contained in Reftel. 2. (SBU) Section A: Watchlisting -------------------------------- Question: If host government maintains a "watchlist," how [...] | 2008-01-23 14:00:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS IT |
08ROME954 | DESIGNATION OF MISSION DISASTER RELIEF OFFICER AND [...] (U) Below is the contact information for the Mission Disaster Relief Officer (MDRO) and the MDRO Alternate. The Alternate, as recommended, is an FSN who works closely with the MDRO. 2. (SBU) MDRO Name: Christopher P. Curran (effective 29 August) Title: Economic Officer [...] | 2008-07-30 16:16:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID SOCI IT |
08ROME959 | ITALY: ATTENDANCE AT UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-31 16:19:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA IT |
08ROME960 | ITALY PASSES NEW SECURITY LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Italian Senate approved the security package on July 25, finalizing one of the more controversial and complicated pieces of legislation passed since the Berlusconi government took office in May. Rooted in campaign promises to improve security on Italian streets and crack down [...] | 2008-07-31 17:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM IT |
08ROME995 | ITALY: OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-06 11:35:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM IT |
08ROME998 | TREASURY U/S LEVEY NOTES ITALIAN COOPERATION ON [...] (S/NF) Summary. Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey visited Italy on July 14/15 to discuss efforts to increase financial pressure on Iran and prevent Iran from misusing the international financial system to support its proliferation activities. U/S Le [...] | 2008-08-06 14:30:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN IR KNNP PREL IT |
08STATE104207 | UPDATE ON IRAN SPECIFIC EXPORT CONTROL OUTREACH [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (SBU) BACKGROUND: On May 15, Washington provided all Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) Participating Governments (PGs) with detailed information regarding critical commodities Iran will require to [...] | 2008-09-30 15:30:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PREL PARM IR MNUC UK GM FR BE IT SZ CH JP |
08STATE104496 | DESIGNATION OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN [...] (C) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. ------------------ SUMMARY/BACKGROUND ------------------ 2. (SBU) The United States designated the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and 18 subsidiaries under E.O. 13382 ("Blocking the Property of Weapons of Mass De [...] | 2008-09-30 20:49:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | AG AS AJ BE CH CY EG RE GM IN IR IT JA LY MY MT |
08STATE111310 | SOUTH STREAM - BACKGROUND FOR POSTS' USE [...] (U) Department is aware that posts do or may contend with questions about South Stream. In the interest of keeping posts apprised of Washington thinking on this issue, we offer the below background on South Stream for your use in discussing the issue with host governments. This background su [...] | 2008-10-17 23:23:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PGOV EU BG GR HU RS SL SB IT AS |
08STATE125632 | DEMARCHE TO ITALY, SPAIN, AND QATAR REGARDING [...] (U) This is an action request; see para 3. 2. (S) Summary: On December 3, the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) will be opened for signature in Oslo, Norway. The United States will neither sign this Convention nor participate as an observer, although many of our allies and partners [...] | 2008-11-26 21:41:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PARM NATO MOPS PREL IT SP |
08STATE132279 | ITALY: TIP ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP (2008-2009) [...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 1 when host governments are fully meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Remaining on Tier [...] | 2008-12-17 21:30:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG IT |
08STATE133633 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post's assistance in conducting a pre-shipment check on application 050133135 for the export of NVD component parts to Nigeria. Post is requested to complete t [...] | 2008-12-22 20:33:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC NI IT |
08STATE19466 | USG RESPONSE TO ITALIAN PROPOSAL FOR RC-WEST [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-26 22:56:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | AF IT MARR MOPS NATO PREL |
08STATE20251 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Posts' assistance in conducting a post-shipment end-use check on license number 05-050031252 for the export of defense hardware to South Korea. Posts are reque [...] | 2008-02-28 15:30:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC IT KS KOMC |
08STATE24292 | INFORMATION ON BANK MELLI FOR ITALY,S [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) The EU is expected to consider sanctions against Iran the week of March 10. On February 6, EU experts prepared a list of 19 new entities and 15 new individuals to be designated under the EU's Comm [...] | 2008-03-07 23:42:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | EUN IT KNNP PARM |
08STATE24923 | ITALIAN CARABINIERI TRAINING FOR AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (C/Rel Italy) SUMMARY: A critical part of the counter-insurgency plan for Afghanistan is assisting the Afghans in standing up an effective police force. The U.S. is committing a number of U.S. Marine trainers, due to arrive in Af [...] | 2008-03-11 00:29:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | AF IT MOPS NATO PREL |
08STATE36722 | INSTRUCTIONS AND GUIDANCE FOR THE APRIL 10 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-09 02:05:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC UNGA PREL GM JA IT BR IN PK |
08STATE45220 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Embassy's assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on license 050060873 for the export of C27J aircraft wing components to Italy. Embassy is requested to [...] | 2008-04-29 18:55:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC IT |
08STATE4740 | ITALY: INFORMATION REQUEST CONCERNING UN 1267 [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraphs 11-14 and 18-19. 2. (C) Summary: On December 21, Stefania Fancello at the Italian MFA's Office of International Cooperation against Terrorism conveyed a request to Embassy Rome officials for more information on the 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban [...] | 2008-01-15 22:07:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN IT KTFN PREL PTER UNSC |
08STATE53922 | U/S JEFFERY AND ITALIAN ENI CEO SCARONI DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary. Under Secretary Reuben Jeffery met with Italian energy firm Eni's CEO Paolo Scaroni on May 6 in Washington. Scaroni came to Washington seeking U.S. views on Eni's activities in Iran and to discuss its growing relationship with Russia's Gazprom. U/S Jeffery pushed back hard when [...] | 2008-05-20 21:05:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ETTC EFIN EUN LY AG TU RS IR IT |
08STATE55497 | ITALIAN MACHINE TOOLS SOLD TO IRANIAN CLIENTS VIA [...] This is an action request. Embassy Rome, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: The U.S. has information that the Italian machine tool manufacturer, CMS Industries, sold computer numerical controlled (CNC) processing machines to clients in Iran. Specifically, CMS Industries sold to [...] | 2008-05-23 15:10:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PARM MTCRE PREL IT IR |
08STATE58193 | (S) SHIPMENT OF MATERIAL TO SYRIAN WEAPONS ENTITY [...] (S//NF) Posts are requested to approach appropriate-level host nation officials regarding a shipment of steel destined for an end user in Syria that has acted as an intermediary for Syria's weapons programs in the past. Posts may draw from objectives, background, and talking points/non-paper [...] | 2008-05-30 19:17:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | IT MNUC PARM PREL SP SY |
08STATE5979 | GUIDANCE FOR THE U.S. DELEGATION TO THE INFORMAL [...] (U) This cable is to provide guidance and instructions for the U.S. delegation to the informal Iraq donors meeting in Naples, Italy on January 23-24, 2008. Reftels give the composition of the delegation. 2. (U) With an eye toward achieving the goals of the International Compact with Iraq, a [...] | 2008-01-18 20:18:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN ECON EU UN IT IZ |
08STATE61421 | (S) POTENTIAL TRANSFER OF HELICOPTER PARTS TO IRAN [...] (S) Summary: The U.S. has information indicating that the Rome based office of a Swiss firm has been providing Iran with U.S.-origin helicopter parts. Such transfers may be in violation of the company's obligations to the United States and could result in the imposition of sanctions or the co [...] | 2008-06-06 21:23:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | ETTC MASS PREL IT SZ IR |
08STATE61857 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-09 18:02:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC IT KOMC MY |
08STATE66363 | G-8 HEALTH INITIATIVES DEMARCHE [...] This is an action request. See paragraphs 5-6. 2. SUMMARY. During his trip to Europe, the President emphasized the importance of G-8 members following through on pledges on health assistance made at past G-8 summits. The President also asked for our partners' support for new G-8 initia [...] | 2008-06-20 01:01:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | CA EU FR GM IT PREL RS SENV TBIO WHO |
08STATE68633 | CORRECTED COPY: REQUEST TO ENGAGE JAPAN ON [...] (U) This is an Action Request, please see paragraph 3. ---------- Background ---------- 2. (C) The Government of Japan (GOJ) is actively considering possible contributions to support NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) security operations in Afghanistan (REFS A [...] | 2008-06-26 13:10:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SMIL MARR MOPS NATO AF AS CA GM IT FR JA |
08STATE69339 | IMPLEMENTATION OF THE IRISL CARGO INSPECTION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. ---------------------- SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND ---------------------- 2. (U) On March 3, 2008, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 1803, which imposed further Chapter VII sanctions on Iran in response to its failure to c [...] | 2008-06-27 15:56:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | AG AS AJ BE CH CY EG FR GM IN IR IT JA LY MY MT |
08STATE75132 | RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ABOUT ITALIAN [...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Rome, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background/Objective: In May 2008, the U.S. provided information to the GOI that the Italian machine tool manufacturer, CMS Industries, sold computer numerical controlled (CNC) processing machines to clients in I [...] | 2008-07-14 15:16:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PARM MTCRE PREL IT IR |
08STATE77504 | T LETTER OF THANKS TO ITALY MFA OFFICIAL FOR PSI [...] SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND: Italian MFA Deputy Director General for Political Affairs Filippo Formica made a formal statement at the Senior-Level Meeting for all states endorsing the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) held May 28, 2008, in Washington, DC, on the occasion of the PSI's Fifth [...] | 2008-07-18 16:39:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IT |
08STATE80262 | INITIATION OF HOST NATION CONSULTATIONS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2 for requested action and paragraph 8 for suggested talking points. 2. (C//REL ITA) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Post is requested to initiate consultations with Italy at the appropriate time and level, regarding the establishment of USA [...] | 2008-07-25 13:02:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | IT MARR PREL |
08STATE80869 | ISN LETTER OF THANKS TO ITALY PSI PRESENTER [...] SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND: On May 29, 2008, the United States hosted a Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Outreach Workshop in Washington, attended by representatives of 21 countries that have not yet endorsed the PSI, as well as most of the 92 PSI participating states. The workshop provi [...] | 2008-07-28 13:12:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IT |
08STATE82414 | CORRECTED COPY: INITIATION OF HOST NATION [...] (C//REL ITA) This is a corrected copy of State 80262. The final talking point in Para 9 has been changed to reflect that the Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe will be dual, vice triple-hatted. 2. (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3 for requested action and paragraph 9 [...] | 2008-07-31 14:33:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | IT MARR PREL |
08STATE91332 | AFTER-ACTION REPORT FOR DEMETER'S RESILIENCE, THE [...] (U) Summary: Following the recommendations of the G8 Bioterrorism Experts (BTEX) Group in 2005, a series of G8 workshops dealing with decontamination, food defense and public health/law enforcement cooperation was organized. "Demeter,s Resilience" was the second G8 food defense event and was [...] | 2008-08-25 20:32:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA EUN FR GM IT JA PTER RS TBIO UK |
08STATE97531 | ACTION REQUEST: INITIATE HOST NATION [...] (C) This is an action request for Embassy Rome. Post is requested to conduct host nation consultations at the appropriate level regarding the proposed return of the Monte Orlando Compound, at Gaeta, Italy, operated by U.S. Naval Forces, Europe, to the Government of Italy, as described in para [...] | 2008-09-11 20:06:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL IT |
08THEHAGUE866 | CWC: REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER 25-26, 2008 CWC [...] (U) On September 25-26, 2008 the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) sponsored a two day workshop in Florence for selected Western Europe and Other Countries Group (WEOG) State Parties and Japan in an effort to find common ground on two issues noted during the Second Review Conference(Re [...] | 2008-10-15 16:27:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC IT |
08THESSALONIKI78 | THESSALONIKI: GOG INVITES FORMER ADVERSARIES TO NATIONAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a reconciliatory gesture, Defense Minister of Greece Evangelos Meimarakis invited his counterparts from Turkey, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia and other outheastern European countries, to attend the traditional military parade on Greece's national day, October 28 (Greece's e [...] | 2008-10-31 13:33:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GR MK TU IT BK BU MW AL HR YI |
08TIRANA292 | SUPREME COURT SUSPENDS TWO MAJOR CRIMINAL CASES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Chief Justice of the Albanian Supreme Court, Thimio Kondi, issued two suspension decisions in December 2007 that froze the application of criminal sentences on two trafficking-related cases pending the final decision of the Supreme Court. Kondi's decision froze the enforc [...] | 2008-04-14 14:39:00 | Embassy Tirana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM PGOV PREL AL IT |
08TOKYO117 | AUSTRALIA GROUP: TOKYO ON PROPOSED RUSSIAN PLENARY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-15 08:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PARM PREL GM IT UK AS FR RS JA |
08TOKYO1508 | PM FUKUDA BEGINS EUROPE TRIP [...] (C) Summary: PM Fukuda began a five-day trip to Europe June 1, with meetings scheduled with his German, British, French and Italian counterparts, as well as an address to the Food and Agricultural Organization's food security conference and talks with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. During h [...] | 2008-06-02 08:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAGR GM IT UK FR |
08TOKYO1642 | G8 POLITICAL DIRECTORS MEETINGS IN TOKYO, JUNE 10, [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary Bill Burns participated in the June 9-10, 2008 Tokyo meetings of the G8 Political Directors, hosted by Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Kenichiro Sasae. Discussion topics included Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Zimbabwe and a review of the plan [...] | 2008-06-16 22:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER UK IT GM RS CA SI AF PK |
08TRIPOLI230 | LIBYA MAKES PROGRESS ON BANKING REFORM REF: TRIPOLI 126 [...] (C) Summary: Libya's banking reform program continues to make progress. Buoyed by the windfall that accompanied the February 13 sale of a share in state-run Wahda Bank to Jordan's Arab Bank, the Central Bank is pressing forward with its own restructuring and training programs. There may be opportun [...] | 2008-03-17 16:53:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON PGOV EFIN EINV PTER IT LY |
08TRIPOLI382 | DEATH OF KEY LIBYAN OFFICIAL HAMPERS COUNTER-MIGRATION EFFORTS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-12 16:14:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF LY IT MT |
08TRIPOLI466 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): CONVERSION OF THE RABTA CHEMICAL WEAPONS PRODUCTION FACILITY [...] (C) Summary: The GOL's lead interlocutor on CWC issues told us: 1) conversion of the Rabta chemical weapons production facility would not be completed until December 2009 (which the GOL appears to have known since early 2006),2) the GOL would not submit a new National Paper at the upcoming June 2 [...] | 2008-06-15 15:48:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW CH JA IT LY |
08TRIPOLI574 | U.K. VISIT TO RABTA CHEMICAL WEAPONS PRODUCTION FACILITY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-14 15:50:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW IT UK LY |
08TRIPOLI688 | QADHAFI, BERLUSCONI SIGN HISTORIC AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) The Italian Ambassador in Tripoli briefed local heads of mission on a "historic treaty of friendship and cooperation" (or "colonial compensation agreement", as the Libyan government has characterized it) signed on August 30 in Benghazi by Libyan leader Muammar al-Qadhafi and Italian prime [...] | 2008-09-03 18:53:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IT LY |
08UNVIEVIENNA478 | FRIENDS OF AFGHANISTAN TAKES SHAPE IN PREPARATORY MEETING [...] (U) Representatives from Afghanistan, France, Italy, U.K., and U.S. met at the Italian mission in Vienna on August 27 to discuss the structure and format of the proposed "Friends of Afghanistan" group. Charge delivered guidance points from reftel, which were well received across the board. [...] | 2008-08-27 15:12:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR UN AF FR UK IT CA AS NL GM DA NO TU RS PK |
08UNVIEVIENNA523 | VIENNA'S FRIENDS OF AFGHANISTAN ON COMPACT AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-25 11:48:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | AF AS AU CA EAID FR IT KCRM NL NO PREL |
08UNVIEVIENNA666 | UNODC MAJOR DONORS MEETING TACKLES UNGASS REVIEW, PIRACY [...] (SBU)INL A/S David T. Johnson led the USDEL to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Major Donors meeting, December 5. Discussion with the other 20 donor countries included (1) a proposal for UNODC action to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia, (2) the funding situation of UNODC, and (3) [...] | 2008-12-22 13:31:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM UN PGOV AORC AF SW SZ GM FR CA IN IT |
08USNATO37 | ITALIAN PROPOSAL FOR RC-WEST MEETINGS IN [...] (SBU) The Italian Mission to NATO passed USNATO a non-paper on January 25 proposing meetings among ISAF RC-West contributing nations, modeled after ". . . the one currently adopted by Australia, Canada, Estonia, Netherlands, Romania, United States, (and) United Kingdom for their political-mil [...] | 2008-01-30 13:29:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MOPS MARR AF IT |
08USOSCE196 | OSCE DISCUSSES ROMA/SINTI INTEGRATION [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: On July 10-11, the OSCE and civil society representatives discussed Roma and Sinti Integration, highlighting the need for increased Roma/Sinti participation, taking an integrated approach to addressing the root causes of discrimination, and more comprehensive data c [...] | 2008-07-29 14:08:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM IT CZ BU RO OSCE |
08USUNNEWYORK1065 | UNSC REFORM: OPEN-ENDED WORKING GROUP MEETS; PGA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the first meeting of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) during the 63rd UNGA session, the President of the General Assembly (PGA) reiterated his October 10 letter to the membership about launching intergovernmental negotiations November 21, though he had previously indicate [...] | 2008-11-13 23:01:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC UNGA KUNR IN BR IT JP GM |
08USUNNEWYORK258 | UNSC REFORM: GERMAN-LED GROUP TABLES PROPOSAL IN [...] (SBU) Summary. During a March 18 meeting of the German-led Over-Arching Process on UNSC reform, Cyprus presented a proposal on behalf of a small drafting group that it hoped could serve as a basis for the inter-governmental negotiations on Council expansion set to take place in 2008. The prop [...] | 2008-03-20 23:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KUNR UNSC GM JA IT BR IN PK |
08USUNNEWYORK310 | PGA KERIM REQUESTS U.S. VIEWS ON INTERMEDIARY [...] (U) This is an action request for Department guidance before the April 10 OEWG session. Please see para 6. 2. (U) Summary. President of the General Assembly (PGA) Serdjam Kerim requested a meeting with Amb Khalilzad on April 4 to discuss UNSC reform. Noting that he had received several p [...] | 2008-04-07 14:40:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR UNSC GM JA IT BR IN PK |
08USUNNEWYORK545 | UNSC REFORM: MEMBER STATES SPLIT ON BEGINNING [...] (SBU) Summary. President of the UN General Assembly (PGA) Srgjan Kerim convened the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on June 17 to discuss the report prepared by his four-person Task Force with suggestions on moving forward towards inter-governmental negotiations (IGN) on UNSC reform. Major p [...] | 2008-06-20 20:30:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KUNR UNSC IN BR PK IT JA GM AR SP KS |
08USUNNEWYORK768 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM: PGA STILL TRYING TO [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 22, General Assembly President Kerim gathered together Perm Reps from Japan, the UK, Pakistan, Egypt, Djibouti, and the U.S. for a discussion of compromise language for the report of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Security Council expansion to the General Asse [...] | 2008-08-26 14:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR UNSC IN BR PK IT JP GM |
08USUNNEWYORK796 | UNSC REFORM: OPEN-ENDED WORKING GROUP DEEPLY [...] (U) The Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Security Council reform met September 2 to discuss the draft report and decision that must be sent to the General Assembly for adoption before the end of the 62nd session (Sept. 12). The debate illustrated the continuing divide between the Group of [...] | 2008-09-04 22:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR UNSC IN BR PK IT JP GM |
08USUNNEWYORK840 | UNSC REFORM: GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSES CONSENSUS [...] (SBU) Summary: The final, acrimonious negotiations September 15 over the end-of-session report and draft decision by the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) on Security Council expansion were only resolved with a last minute negotiation on the floor of the General Assembly, prior to closing the [...] | 2008-09-18 21:28:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR UNSC IN BR PK IT JP GM |
08USUNNEWYORK927 | UNSC REFORM: GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT SCHEDULES [...] (SBU) In an October 10 letter addressed to all missions, the President of the General Assembly (PGA) Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann announced: (1) a meeting of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) on November 11, 2008; and (2) an informal plenary of the General Assembly on November 21, 2008, to com [...] | 2008-10-10 23:17:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR UNSC IN BR PK IT JP GM |
08USUNNEWYORK960 | UNGA: PRESIDENT AGREES NOT TO ACCELERATE TIMELINE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Khalilzad told the President of the UN General Assembly (PGA) October 20 that the PGA's decision to accelerate intergovernmental negotiations on UN Security Council expansion had alienated a number of significant countries including the U.S., which had helped facilitat [...] | 2008-10-22 17:48:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN KUNR UNSC UNGA IN BR PK IT JP GM |
08USUNNEWYORK978 | UNGA: SOUTH KOREAN PERM REP ON POSSIBLE NEW SC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Park told Ambassador Khalilzad October 24 that the Indian Perm Rep may send a letter to the UN General Assembly President (PGA) pressing for a compromise start date of mid-December for UN Security Council reform intergovernmental negotiations. Park and Khalilzad agreed [...] | 2008-10-27 22:47:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN SENV UNSC UNGA IN BR PK IT JP GM |
08VIENNA1844 | OMV says TGI, Not Turkey, Is Chief Worry For [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The head of OMV's gas business, Werner Auli, told us December 11 that TGI, not Turkey, has become the main obstacle to moving ahead with the Nabucco gas pipeline. Expressing confidence that a deal with Turkey would be forthcoming, Auli fretted that "if Azerbaijan sells its gas [...] | 2008-12-16 08:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG EPET PREL AU RU IR TU IT |
09ANKARA1150 | LET'S MAKE A DEAL (OR TWENTY): PUTIN IN ANKARA [...] (C) Summary. Russian Prime Minister Putin's August 6 visit to Ankara resulted in a flurry of deals and media frenzy, further heightened by the last-minute participation of Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi. The visit focused on energy pipelines and economic cooperation, and twenty separate ag [...] | 2009-08-07 15:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PREL RS IT TU |
09ASHGABAT1531 | ITALIAN COMPANY ENI SIGNS MOU WITH TURKMEN [...] (SBU) On November 25, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the Turkmen State Agency for Hydrocarbon Resources and Italy's state-owned energy company ENI during President Berdimuhamedov's recent visit to Rome. ENI acquired Burren Energy in 2008, after Burren had long been a party t [...] | 2009-11-27 11:58:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ECON PGOV EINV BTIO TX IT |
09ASMARA261 | ISAIAS PUSHES ITALIAN GOVERNMENT FOR MORE [...] (C) The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for Sub-Saharan Africa, Giuseppe Morabito, visited Asmara the week of July 27. According to an Italian embassy source, Morabito obtained a last-minute meeting with President Isaias on Friday. The president made a strong push for gr [...] | 2009-08-07 07:45:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ER SO IT |
09ASTANA1626 | KAZAKHSTAN: THE GOVERNMENT'S EVOLVING APPROACH TO BTA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Kazakhstani financial officials are negotiating with export credit authorities (ECAs) from at least 14 countries, who have demanded sovereign guarantees for debt repayment on several billion in exposure. For seve [...] | 2009-09-28 01:05:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN GM UK IT KZ |
09ASTANA2007 | MINISTER OF ENERGY ON BN-350, SEMIPALATINSK AND ALATAU [...] (S) SUMMARY: On November 12, the Ambassador discussed non-proliferation issues, specifically the transfer of BN-350 spent-fuel and the Semipalatinsk and Alatau projects, with Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Sauat Mynbayev. The Minister welcomed further cooperation on BN-350 security [...] | 2009-11-13 06:29:00 | Embassy Astana | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR ECON EPET MARR KNNP IT TU KZ |
09ASTANA2100 | KAZAKHSTAN TO STUDY PLANS FOR SAMSUN-CEYHAN PIPELINE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Meeting in Yalta on November 20, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Kazakhstani Prime Minister Karim Masimov witnessed the signing of a protocol to study plans for the construction of an oil pipeline betwee [...] | 2009-11-30 10:43:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV EPET KZ RS TK AJ IT |
09ASTANA442 | KAZAKHSTAN: ITALY REMAINS A MAJOR INVESTOR, ACTIVE IN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: PolOff met on February 17 with Ugo Boni, First Secretary and DCM at the Italian Embassy in Astana, to discuss the Kazakhstan-Italy relationship. Boni characterized the overall Kazakhstan-Italy relationship as pos [...] | 2009-03-13 08:30:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EINV EPET ETRD IT KZ |
09ATHENS1551 | SEDM: GREECE WELCOMES U.S. POSITION [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel to the Greek MFA's Southeastern Europe Directorate the morning of October 16. Greece supports the membership of both Serbia and Montenegro in the Southeastern Europe Defense Ministerial and welcomed our message, calling it a most positive development. The MFA will [...] | 2009-10-16 09:36:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR GR RO TU SR UP SI MW IT BU HR |
09ATHENS40 | GREECE ASSURING LNG-BASED GAS SUPPLIES FROM [...] (C) Summary. Greece's natural gas company (DEPA) has contracted LNG deliveries to supply the country through January 20 and is close to finalizing LNG supplies through the end of the month. Observers remain uncertain how Gazprom's gas cut off will affect Greek energy policy. One senior of [...] | 2009-01-13 17:00:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PREL GR IT AJ RS BU |
09BEIJING1838 | JULY 2 MFA PRESS BREIFING: WU DAWEI, G-8, GREEN DAM, [...] Key points at the July 2 MFA press briefing: -- Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei began his visit to Russia, the United States, Japan and South Korea on July 2, and will "exchange views with relevant parties" on the situation on the Korean Peninsula as well as issues relating to Northeast Asia. [...] | 2009-07-01 10:34:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PARM ECIN CH JA KN KS ZI RS IT TW |
09BEIJING332 | FEBRUARY 10 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SECRETARY VISIT, MIDDLE [...] Key points at the February 10 MFA Press Briefing: -- China hopes Secretary Clinton's visit will "strengthen dialogue, increase mutual trust, broaden cooperation and push China-U.S. relations on a track of healthy and stable development." -- China "hopes U.S. Middle East policy can help ease [...] | 2009-02-10 23:11:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM SENV CH CA FR IR XF IT SA |
09BEIRUT1051 | DEFMIN MURR ON GOVERNMENT FORMATION [...] (C) Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri has no new strategy to form the government since his renomination on September 16, caretaker Defense Minister Elias Murr told the Ambassador September 23. Murr said he advised Hariri to make President Michel Sleiman a "real partner" in the government f [...] | 2009-09-24 15:36:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM KPKO MARR PINR PINS SY IT SP LE |
09BEIRUT974 | DEFMIN MURR FRUSTRATED WITH HARIRI BUT SAYS [...] (C) Caretaker Minister of Defense Elias Murr told the Ambassador on August 28 that the Lebanese cannot expect "better than Saad Hariri these days." However, he continued, Prime Minister-designate Hariri needs to be viewed as "strong." Murr assessed that the planned August 31 meeting of major [...] | 2009-08-31 15:50:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR UNSC MOPS LE IS IT |
09BELGRADE348 | SERBIA RESPONSE: DEVELOPING FOLLOW-UP DATA ON COESPU [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-24 13:22:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS IT PKO SR |
09BELGRADE349 | SERBIA RESPONSE: DEVELOPING FOLLOW-UP DATA ON COESPU [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel request for assistance to Interior Ministry International Cooperation Bureau head Drazen Maravic on April 3. Maravic told us the Ministry was discussing increasing police involvement in European peacekeeping operations and Interior Minister Ivica Dacic had already co [...] | 2009-04-24 13:23:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS IT PKO SR |
09BELGRADE356 | SERBIA RESPONSE: DEVELOPING FOLLOW-UP DATA ON COESPU [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-24 13:29:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS IT PKO SR |
09BELGRADE645 | SERBIA: REGIONAL SUMMIT TRUMPETS CQERATION BUT YIELDS [...] (C) Serbia hosted over a dozen Central European presidents at a June 19-21 summit focusing on regional cooperation in the realms of energy, economics and European integration. Though hailed as a success for Serbia's regional policy, the summit yielded little beyond symbolism and rhetoric. T [...] | 2009-07-07 09:21:00 | Embassy Belgrade | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV AL AU BK BU EZ HR IT KV LO MD MK MW PL |
09BERLIN1049 | EADS SHAREHOLDER BREAKDOWN - DO THE FRENCH REALLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The European Defense and Space Company (EADS) is often assumed to be dominated by French influence and EADS-Astrium, a subsidiary of EADS, has been accused by German industry of wielding this influence to the benefit of French competitors. However, while French industry represe [...] | 2009-08-27 16:17:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL TSPA IT RS CH GM |
09BERLIN1080 | GERMANY TO FRANCE: STAY OUT OF OUR COMMERCIAL SATELLITE AFFAIRS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-03 13:34:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL TSPA IT RS CH GM |
09BERLIN1130 | GERMAN OPTICAL SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING: THE PATH FORWARD [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-11 16:21:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL TSPA IT KS FR GM |
09BERLIN1263 | MEDIA REACTION: AFGHANISTAN, MIDEAST, IMF, EU, [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. (Afghanistan) U.S. Strategic Deliberations 3. (Mideast) Goldstone Report 4. (Economic) IMF/World Bank Meeting 5. (EU) Future of Lisbon Treaty 6. (Italy) Implications of Court Ruling for Berlusconi  [...] | 2009-10-08 11:54:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO AF XF EFIN EU IT |
09BERLIN1270 | MEDIA REACTION: OBAMA-NOBEL, AFGHANISTAN, ITALY, UK, U.S.; [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. (U.S.-Norway) President Obama Awarded Nobel Peace Prize 3. (Afghanistan) Future U.S. Strategy 4. (Italy) Implications of Court Ruling on Berlusconi 5. (UK) Tory Party Conference 6. (U.S.) Economic Development  [...] | 2009-10-09 12:08:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO US AF IT UK ECON |
09BERLIN1400 | MEDIA REACTION: AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, EU, GENERAL MOTORS, [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. GMQs U-turn 3. Chancellor Merkel in the US 4. President Obama Q One year after the elections 5. Lisbon Treaty 6. CIA Q Italian Court 7. Climate Change 8. Iranian Protests 9. Afghanistan  [...] | 2009-11-05 13:58:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO AF KGHG IR EU GM US IT |
09BERLIN1587 | MEDIA REACTION: COP15, IRAN, ITALY, GERMANY-AFGHANISTAN, [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. (Environment) Copenhagen Climate Summit 3. (Iran) Nuclear Conflict 4. (Italy) Aftermath of Attack on Berlusconi 5. (Germany-Afghanistan) Afghanistan/ zu Guttenberg 6. (Greece) Financial Crisis  [...] | 2009-12-15 12:56:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO KGHG IR IT GM GR |
09BERLIN422 | MEDIA REACTION: CUBA, MOLDOVA, GITMO, COUNTER-PIRACY, [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. (U.S.-Cuba) Congressional Delegation in Cuba 3. (Moldova) Unrest 4. (U.S.) Renditions, ICRC Report 5. (Somalia) Fate of Pirates 6. (Environment) Bonn UNFCCC 7. (Italy) Berlusconi on Earthquake Victims 8. (Eastern Europe) Democracy [...] | 2009-04-09 12:51:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO GM US CU MD SO IT RS UP GG KG |
09BERLIN443 | MEDIA REACTION: GMOs, Bagram, DPRK, Iran, Cuba, Thailand [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. (Germany) Ban on GMOs 3. (U.S.) Bagram Prisoners 4. (North Korea) Six-Party Talks 5. (Iran) Nuclear Program 6. (U.S.-Cuba) Relaxation of Sanctions 7. (Thailand) Revolution Cancelled  [...] | 2009-04-15 12:06:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO GM US CU MD SO IT RS UP GG KG |
09BERLIN448 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-Mexico, U.S.-Pakistan, Mideast, [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. (U.S.-Mexico) Obama Trip 3. (U.S.-Pakistan) Criticism of Zardari 4. (Mideast) Mitchell Trip, Peace Process 5. (U.S.) Obama's Disarmament Proposals 6. (Russia) Medvedev Interview 7. (Africa) Anti-Piracy Efforts  [...] | 2009-04-16 12:36:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO GM US CU MD SO IT RS UP GG KG |
09BERLIN725 | MEDIA REACTION: Iran U.S.-Iran Iran-Internet [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. (Iran) Aftermath of Presidential Elections 3. (U.S.-Iran) Obama Reaction 4. (Iran) Effect of the Internet 5. (U.S.) Guantnamo Prisoners 6. (Georgia) Unomig Mission 7. (Economic) BRIC Countries Meeting  [...] | 2009-06-17 12:27:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO GM US CU MD SO IT RS UP GG KG |
09BERLIN765 | ASTRIUM GERMANY PLANS TO CORNER WORLD SPACE RADAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EADS Astrium Friedrichshafen and their daughter company, Infoterra GmbH, are actively marketing their space-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery, imagery derived products, and even complete spacecraft to the US market with the strategic goal of securing funding to devel [...] | 2009-06-25 13:57:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL TSPA IT RS CH GM |
09BERLIN905 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-ISRAEL U.S.-CHINA, IRAN, RUSSIA, [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. (U.S.-Israel) Netanyahu-Mitchell Meeting 3. (U.S.-China) Washington Summit 4. (Iran) Western Reaction 5. (Russia) Influence on Central Asian Neighbors 6. (Moldova) Re-Election  [...] | 2009-07-29 11:43:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO GM US CU MD SO IT RS UP GG KG |
09BERLIN909 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA, U.S.-IRAQ, IRAQ, NIGERIA, [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. (U.S.-China) Summit in Washington 3. (U.S.-Iraq) Gates on Troop Withdrawal 4. (Iraq) Storming of Camp Ashraf 5. (Nigeria) Islamic Militants 6. (Spain) ETA Bomb Attack  [...] | 2009-07-30 11:43:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO GM US CU MD SO IT RS UP GG KG |
09BRUSSELS1421 | EU STANCE ON NABUCCO WORRIES ITGI [...] (SBU) Summary: A representative of the Italy-Turkey-Greece Interconnector (ITGI) pipeline project believes the Commission,s public bias towards Nabucco is prejudicing ITGI,s ability to secure a gas deal. Commission officials told him that their support for Nabucco is driven by USG pressure. [...] | 2009-10-22 14:13:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG IT ZJ RU EU |
09BRUSSELS284 | ITALIANS SEEKING U.S. SUPPORT ON BOSNIA TRANSITION [...] (C) Summary: In a lunch meeting with the Charge March 2, Italian PSC Ambassador Andrea Meloni sought U.S. support for changes to the international community's political and military posture in Bosnia. Fearing a loss of EU credibility in Bosnia if a new EUSR were not appointed quickly, Meloni [...] | 2009-03-02 14:56:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN BK IT |
09CAIRO230 | EGYPTIANS SEEK USG SUPPORT FOR G20 AND G8 MEETINGS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-09 15:51:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN OVIP PREL PGOV ECON IT UK EG |
09DARESSALAAM327 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL ISAKSON AND CORKER [...] (SBU) Your visit to Tanzania comes at a time when the country is gearing up for national elections in 2010, attempting to mitigate the effects of the global economic downturn, and continuing to deepen its relationship with development partners, particularly the United States. The 2010 election [...] | 2009-05-21 03:10:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP ASEC AMGT AFIN PREL PGOV TZ KE RW SU IT XA |
09DHAKA1040 | BANGLADESH EMBRACES USG GLOBAL HUNGER AND FOOD SECURITY INITIATIVE [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 8. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Bangladesh and Mission Dhaka are moving ahead with plans to collaborate on food security, as laid out in the USG's new Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative. The Ambassador and senior officials from [...] | 2009-11-17 09:19:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BG EAGR EAID IT KWMN PINR PREL SOCI |
09DOHA470 | U.S. EMBASSY DOHA COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-27 12:04:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS IT QA |
09ISTANBUL220 | IRAN/ELECTIONS: "AN IRGC COUP" NOW FACES THREE [...] (S) Summary: A former IRGC captain maintains that the Iranian regime's claim of an Ahmadinejad presidential victory was "an IRGC coup." He claims to have been told by current IRGC contacts (hinting that they are colonels or brigadiers) that once the IRGC saw on election day that that Mousavi [...] | 2009-06-17 14:24:00 | Consulate Istanbul | SECRET | PINS PGOV KDEM PREL IT TU |
09KABUL3981 | ACTION REQUEST: ENGAGING COALITION PARTNERS TO QUICKLY [...] This message contains an action request in para 4 2. (U) Begin Summary. Embassy Kabul continues to engage with coalition partners with Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) to press for conclusion of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Life, Security and Mobility Support. We understand c [...] | 2009-12-10 09:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID UK NO SW GM HU CA NL LH FR SP IT NZ EZ PL TU AF |
09KABUL4152 | STATUS UPDATE: MOU WITH COALITION PARTNERS ON LIFE, [...] (U) This message contains an action request in para 4 2. (U) Begin Summary. Embassy Kabul continues to engage with coalition partners who lead Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) in order to press for conclusion of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Life, Security and Mobility Support. [...] | 2009-12-28 10:06:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AF CA EAID FR GM HU IT LH NL NO NZ PGOV SP SW UK |
09KUWAIT1094 | WELCOME CABLE FOR CODEL MURTHA (NOVEMBER 22-23, 2009) [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes CODEL Murtha to travel to post Nov 22-23, 2009. 2. Visit Officer: An Embassy visit officer and a driver/expeditor will meet and assist you at the airport. Embassy point of contact is: Kristina Weiss, ISU Senior Liaison Office- (965) 2259-1170 Cell- (965) 998 [...] | 2009-11-18 15:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN KU EI TC IT |
09KUWAIT135 | WELCOME CABLE FOR CODEL FALEOMAVAEGA (February 14-18, [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes CODEL Faleomavaega to travel to post on February 14-18, 2009. 2. Visit Officer: An Embassy visit officer and a driver/expeditor will meet and assist you at the airport. Embassy point of contact is: Agnel Berry, ISU Coordinator Office- (965) 2259-1416 Cell- (9 [...] | 2009-02-16 04:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN GM IT KU |
09LONDON2075 | UK FOLLOW-UP: BLUE LANTERN CASE NUMBER 05-0092253 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-08 08:50:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC UK IT |
09MADRID1019 | SPAIN'S VIEWS ON UNIFIL HANDOVER [...] (C) MOD Director General for Defense Policy, General Raggio, shared information about how Spain is preparing for a proposed UNIFIL command handover. Spain is still working towards a transition sometime in February, although they have heard that there have been "rumblings" from the Italian m [...] | 2009-10-19 06:05:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IT LE IS SP |
09MANILA1468 | LAST REMAINING ICRC HOSTAGE EUGENIO VAGNI RELEASED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The last of three International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) workers kidnapped January 15 on Jolo island in the southern Philippines by Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) terrorists was released early Sunday morning, July 12. The 62-year-old Italian engineer, Eugenio Vagni, was release [...] | 2009-07-13 10:18:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR KISL IT RP |
09MILAN153 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] (U) In response to reftel, Econ Officer and an Economic Specialist from Consulate General Milan visited the headquarters of Aermeccanica S.R.L., via Monte Grappa N.2, 21015 Lonate Pozzolo Varese, on June 29, 2009 to obtain the following information. 2. (U) Aermeccanica is a family-owned air [...] | 2009-07-21 09:51:00 | Consulate Milan | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC IT |
09MILAN172 | 2G,S - NORTHERN ITALIAN MUSLIMS WITHOUT A COUNTRY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-12 10:23:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SMIG PGOV SCUL IT |
09MILAN173 | ITALY'S LEGA NORD EYES BIG REGIONAL PRIZES [...] (C) Summary: With the Northern League's (LN) successful showing in recent local elections, attention is now turning to bigger prizes: regional governorships coming vacant in March 2010. With Veneto apparently in the bag, party leaders are now looking for at least one other scalp -- either Lom [...] | 2009-08-13 09:04:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IT |
09MILAN176 | WHO WILL RIDE THE NEXT WAVE OF LEGA NORD [...] (C) As mentioned in reftel, the 67 year-old founder of the Northern League (LN) political party, Umberto Bossi, remains in poor health due to a stroke he suffered in 2004. Though Bossi continues an active and provocative political life, constantly in the media and public eye, judging by appea [...] | 2009-08-19 09:18:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IT |
09MILAN20 | PADUA: DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUPPORT FADING [...] (SBU) Summary. The Democratic Party (PD) in Northern Italy hopes to offset likely losses in the June EU parliamentary elections with some significant wins in the accompanying local elections where the individual popularity of candidates matters more. Key to this strategy would be the reelec [...] | 2009-01-28 15:26:00 | Consulate Milan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IT |
09MILAN209 | LEGA'S BIG NIGHT OUT: FILM PREMIERE OF ""BARBAROSSA"" [...] (U) SUMMARY: Hundreds of local and national politicians, including PM Berlusconi, attended the Milan premiere of the colossal Braveheart-like epic film ""Barbarossa."" The movie tells the story of the birth of northern Italy,s Lombard League and its defeat of the Holy Roman army at the 12th c [...] | 2009-10-20 08:34:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IT |
09MILAN214 | DAL MOLIN UPDATE: VICENZA COMMUNITY MOSTLY [...] (C) Summary: In meetings with local Vicenza politicians across the political spectrum, the general consensus was that the ugliest period of contentious and politically charged opposition to the U.S. army's Dal Molin base construction has passed. Their assessment is that most community residents [...] | 2009-11-10 13:25:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PINS PREL IT |
09MILAN220 | NORTHERN ITALIAN "DISTRETTI" HANGING ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The clusters of small same-sector firms known as "distretti" are the backbone of the Italian -- and particularly northern Italian -- economy. To varying degrees these "distretti" have been suffering from the global economic crisis that has hit their traditional export markets. [...] | 2009-11-20 13:13:00 | Consulate Milan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EINV IT |
09MILAN221 | NORTHERN ITALIAN "DISTRETTI" HANGING ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The clusters of small same-sector firms known as "distretti" are the backbone of the Italian -- and particularly northern Italian -- economy. To varying degrees these "distretti" have been suffering from the global economic crisis that has hit their traditional export markets. [...] | 2009-11-20 13:13:00 | Consulate Milan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EINV IT |
09MILAN237 | MUSLIM 2GS SEEK INROADS TOWARD INTEGRATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-21 07:29:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SMIG PGOV SCUL IT |
09MILAN27 | 2008 VOTING IN MILAN AND LESSONS LEARNED [...] SUMMARY: Voting interest in Milan's consular district reached unprecedented levels and reflected not only widespread U.S. citizen anticipation but intense Italian public interest as well. Post engaged in a variety of voter assistance activities to reach over 19,000 registered Americans, compr [...] | 2009-02-03 10:02:00 | Consulate Milan | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC KPAO IT |
09MILAN31 | IS THERE A FUTURE FOR MALPENSA? [...] (SBU) Summary: Doomsday scenarios abound in Milan following the decision by Alitalia to partner with Air France and decisively choose Rome as its sole hub. Predictions of immediate economic pain to the region are overstated, but certainly possible is an atrophying of the area's attractiveness [...] | 2009-02-10 10:32:00 | Consulate Milan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PGOV IT |
09MILAN56 | PDL STALWARTS TALK POLITICS ALLA MILANESE [...] (U) This is a joint Consulate General Milan/Embassy Rome cable. 2. (C) Summary: Blunt assessments of local, national, and foreign policy issues emerged from a lunch the Consul General hosted for senior Milan-based national and EU political figures. In Milan, the imbroglio over the EXPO is e [...] | 2009-03-09 10:17:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR IT |
09MILAN78 | NORTHERN ITALIAN "DISTRETTI" FACE THE GROWING [...] (SBU) Summary: Across Italy's industrial northern heartland, we've heard the same message with respect to the economic crisis in recent weeks: we're holding on, but won't last forever. Northern Italy's economy is dependent on clusters of "distretti," each with dozens of small firms that produ [...] | 2009-03-23 16:18:00 | Consulate Milan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EAGR PGOV IT |
09MILAN80 | NORTHERN LEAGUE PUSHES TO LEGALIZE ITS VOLUNTEER [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Rome and Consulate General Milan cable. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) In an environment of pervasive media coverage of violent crime perpetrated by immigrants (despite a significant statistical decrease in crime from 2007 to 2008),the Northern League (LN [...] | 2009-03-26 10:02:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI IT |
09MILAN95 | KEEPING BERLUSCONI CLOSE: NORTHERN LEAGUE STRATEGY [...] (C) Northern League (LN) insiders Roberto Calderoli, Minister for Legislative Simplification, and Giancarlo Giorgetti, President of the Finance Committee in the Chamber of Deputies described their strategy to make LN the hegemonic political party in Northern Italy over the next few years. Key [...] | 2009-04-28 15:41:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON IT |
09MILAN96 | PRIVATE EQUITY IN ITALY: GROWING, BUT IN THE RIGHT [...] (SBU) Summary: Even in the midst of economic crisis, Italy's small private equity (PE) marketplace is expanding. Larger multinational PE firms and those in search of "mega-deals" are playing a smaller role, but local PE outfits see a potential for smaller, less-leveraged, longer-horizon, "buy [...] | 2009-04-28 16:16:00 | Consulate Milan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON IT |
09MOSCOW1273 | ITALIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS (C-RE8-02675) [...] (S/NF) Economic ties, especially long-term gas contracts, are a pillar of Russia-Italy relations and affect Italy's policies toward Russia. Italian gas company ENI and Russian Gazprom have supply commitments in place until 2035, as well as a joint-construction agreement for the South Stream pipelin [...] | 2009-05-20 05:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ENRG EPET IT RS |
09MUNICH241 | BAVARIAN CALL TO ARMS - CSU DEFENDS GERMAN DEFENSE [...] (C) The consolidation of the global defense industry will affect Germany and Bavaria significantly, the Christian Social Union (CSU),Germany's leading regional political party, warned its members at a party congress on September 4 in Munich. Speakers mocked Germany's overly modest and hide- [...] | 2009-09-21 07:47:00 | Consulate Munich | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL FR IT UK GM |
09NAIROBI1002 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL ISAKSON (MAY 23-31) [...] (C) Summary: Welcome to Kenya. Your visit comes 18 months after the disputed December 2007 general elections, when the controversial announcement of the victory of incumbent President Mwai Kibaki led to widespread violence, the deaths of 1,500 people and displacement of 500,000 Kenyans. Over th [...] | 2009-05-18 09:45:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC OREP AMGT AFIN GH IT PGOV PREL RW SU |
09NAIROBI1527 | UPDATE ON KENYAN PIRACY PROSECUTIONS [...] Summary: There are currently 100 Somali piracy suspects being held in Kenya, including nine delivered by the Italian Navy on June 26. The manner of delivery and quality of evidence, as much as the number of transfers, has dampened Kenya's enthusiasm for piracy cases. A few cases were delivered [...] | 2009-07-16 07:54:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KJUS KCRM EWWT MOPS SO EU IT |
09NAIROBI2016 | KENYA THREATENS END TO PIRACY PROSECUTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 12, the Kenya Attorney General (AG),Amos Wako, presented opening remarks at the Kenya prosecutors' convention in Mombasa, and touted the Department of Public Prosecutions' (DPP) progress under his leadership. He listed a dozen specialized units that had been forme [...] | 2009-09-24 14:29:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KJUS PHSA KCOR PGOV KE IT |
09NAPLES102 | REPORT SHOWS ALARMING INCREASE IN ORGANIZED CRIME IN NAPLES [...] (U) A report issued on September 30 by the Rome-based research institute Censis, and funded by the Italian Parliament's Anti-Mafia Committee, concludes that organized crime is on the rise throughout Italy but constitutes "a true national emergency" in the greater Naples area. The report is b [...] | 2009-10-01 14:55:00 | Consulate Naples | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM ASEC CASC SNAR IT |
09NAPLES52 | REACHING OUT TO CALABRIA [...] (C) Summary: During an early April trip through Italy's most problematic region, Calabria, Consul General Truhn and ConGen Naples staff reached out to both government officials and the public to reiterate our common interest in development and rule of law. In a region in which politicians ar [...] | 2009-04-22 14:28:00 | Consulate Naples | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL BEXP SNAR SOCI KCRM KCOR CASC IT |
09NAPLES53 | CAN ITALY'S ETERNAL "SOUTHERN QUESTION" BE SOLVED? [...] (SBU) Summary: The economy of southern Italy has been in a sad state for over a decade, with almost zero growth and chronic unemployment. The worldwide economic crisis does not bode well for a region where 22.5 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. Only one-half of one per [...] | 2009-04-23 10:37:00 | Consulate Naples | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KCRM KCOR IT |
09NAPLES64 | LAMPEDUSA: THE TINY ITALIAN ISLAND THAT LOOMS LARGE FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: During a May 13 visit to Italy's southernmost territory, the island of Lampedusa, we observed a well-run migrant detention center that provides humane treatment, food and medical care to those who arrive by boat from North Africa. While the camp has suffered from severe overc [...] | 2009-05-22 19:34:00 | Consulate Naples | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL SMIG PGOV PBTS PHSA UNHCR IT LY |
09NAPLES69 | SICILY: REGIONAL GOVERNMENT IN TURMOIL WHILE THE MAFIA IS [...] (C) Summary: As host to an important U.S. Navy base, location of recently discovered gas reserves, and home to 17,000 U.S. citizens, Sicily's future is clearly of interest to the United States. For now, political feuding has replaced the war on organized crime in the headlines: Regional President R [...] | 2009-06-15 07:39:00 | Consulate Naples | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM ECON SNAR MARR KCOR IT |
09NAPLES74 | GROWTH PLUMMETS IN ITALY'S CAMPANIA REGION [...] (SBU) Summary: A new report by Italy's central bank shows that the country's second-most populous region, Campania, has the lowest growth rate in Italy and the lowest rate of employment of any region in the EU. The region has experienced stagnant growth for about fifteen years, but the globa [...] | 2009-06-23 07:39:00 | Consulate Naples | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KCRM KCOR IT |
09NAPLES90 | FIXING ITALY'S SOUTHERN PROBLEM: BERLUSCONI'S "NEW DEAL" [...] (SBU) Summary: Using American comparisons such as "New Deal" and "Marshall Plan," Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has outlined his government's new plan for the South, which he intends to supervise personally. The three priority sectors are infrastructure, tourism, and innovation. The Ita [...] | 2009-08-13 15:53:00 | Consulate Naples | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN KCOR KCRM IT |
09OTTAWA67 | ITALIAN AMBASSADOR SEEKS UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL [...] (C) Italian Ambassador to Canada Gabriele Sardo met with Charge d'Affaires on January 21 to sound out the U.S. response to himself as a candidate for Director-General of UNESCO. Ambassador Sardo, who noted he had served as Italy's Ambassador to UNESCO from 1998 to 2002 and as First Counselor [...] | 2009-01-23 16:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL UNESCO CA IT |
09PARIS1154 | FRENCH FRUSTRATION WITH SLOW PACE OF EUROPEAN [...] (C) Summary. In recent meetings, French officials have expressed significant frustration with the delays in launching the European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) police training mission to Afghanistan, attributing much of the problem to Italian intransigence. While the August meetings at NATO to s [...] | 2009-08-21 15:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO AF FR IT |
09PARIS1766 | STAFFDEL KESSLER'S VISIT TO PARIS JAN. 12-14 [...] Embassy Paris welcomes the visit of Staffdel Kessler on January 12-14, 2010. 2. The control officer for this visit will be Political Officer David Nobles: Off. Tel: +33 1 4312 2515 Off. Fax: +33 1 4312 2663 Cell: +33 6 1511 3868 Home: +33 1 8209 4791 Unclass e-mail: noblesdt@state.gov [...] | 2009-12-31 12:32:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN UK GM IT SP FR |
09RABAT722 | MOROCCO MISCELLANY: FORUM FOR THE FUTURE, [...] (U) Summary. Charge and A/Polcouns met on August 25 with Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (MFA) Secretary General Youssef Amrani. Ambassador Amrani requested the meeting to discuss preparations for the upcoming Forum for the Future, to held in Marrakech November 1-3. Ch [...] | 2009-08-26 12:23:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KMPI KPAO KDEM MO IT |
09ROME1004 | ITALY H1N1 UPDATE: 1800 CONFIRMED CASES, NO DEATHS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The number of confirmed A(H1N1) infections in Italy reached the total of 1800 as of August 26. So far, only a few hospital admissions and no deaths are reported. However, a 24-year-old man is currently in an intensive care unit; his case strengthened calls for a nation-wide de [...] | 2009-09-01 08:15:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU ECON PREL SOCI CASC EAGR IT |
09ROME1019 | G20: ITALIANS SEE EUROPE DIVIDED ON BANKERS' [...] (SBU) Summary: A senior aide of Italy's Finance Minister told econoff August 31 that in the runup to the next G20 meeting Europeans remain divided on how to regulate compensation of financial sector executives, a point Italians expect to be high on the Pittsburgh agenda. The aide also ventured [...] | 2009-09-01 15:16:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV ECON OECD IT |
09ROME1029 | INCLUSION OF USG (STATE) OPERATORS IN EU EMISSIONS [...] (U) Post delivered the demarche to Aldo Sansone, Director General for Airports and Air Navigation at the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure. Sansone said the key person he has working this issue is Paulo Sappino who will not be in the office until the week of September 7. Absent Mr [...] | 2009-09-04 13:42:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON SENV KGHG IT |
09ROME1031 | NO EU BAN ON U.S. SOY PRODUCTS IN EU AGRICULTURE COUNCIL [...] Post's Econ and FAS Sections delivered reftel points to the Italian Director General for Trade Amedeo Teti. We also delivered them to Romano Marabelli, Head of the Department of Veterinary Public Health in the Ministry of Health, and to Salvatore Petroli, Chief of EU and International Affairs a [...] | 2009-09-04 15:25:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EUN TBO IT |
09ROME1032 | AMBASSADOR THORNE PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Ambassador David Thorne presented his credentials to President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano at the Quirinale Palace, Rome, on September 4. During a wide-ranging discussion of foreign policy and U.S. domesti [...] | 2009-09-04 16:00:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL OVIP IT |
09ROME1035 | ITALIAN GOVERNMENT PLEDGES TO FOLLOW-THROUGH ON [...] (C/NOFORN) SUMMARY: On August 28, Italian Embassy officials in Washington cited the case of the Edison company as an example of GOI "moral suasion" efforts to stop investments in Iran, implying that the company's project in that country has been halted. But a senior Edison official told us on [...] | 2009-09-08 06:40:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | IT IR FR |
09ROME1040 | MOD LA RUSSA REQUESTS OCTOBER MEETING WITH SECDEF: [...] (C) Summary. An adviser to Italian MOD La Russa told Post on September 3 that La Russa would like a meeting with Secretary Gates in Washington the week of October 6-11. Post strongly recommends that SecDef accept the visit, which La Russa needs in order to bolster the strong case he is making [...] | 2009-09-08 16:06:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
09ROME1044 | VISAS VIPER AUGUST 2009: MISSION ITALY REPORT [...] Mission Italy consists of Embassy Rome and Consulates General in Milan, Naples and Florence. Embassy Rome Coordinator is Visa Chief Donald Frerichs; the Milan Coordinator is Consul William Gill. Naples Visas Viper Coordinator is Vice Consul Daniela DiPierro and the Coordinator for Florence is [...] | 2009-09-09 13:46:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR PTER ASEC KVPR CVIS CMGT IT |
09ROME1047 | ITALY MAY BE READY FOR GREATER IPR COOPERATION WITH USG [...] (U) Italy's new Intellectual Property Director has begun coordinating Italy's domestic approach to IPR protection, and a new Italian law increases penalties for IPR crimes. This recent action on IPR presents an opportunity for engagement, and Italian contacts have signaled their interest in de [...] | 2009-09-11 08:57:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IT KIPR ETRD ECON EINT |
09ROME1048 | SCENESETTER FOR ITALIAN MINISTER CLAUDIO SCAJOLA'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-11 11:39:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON ENRG IT |
09ROME1069 | ITALY'S PRIME MINISTER ACCEPTS INVITATION TO [...] (SBU) President Obama's invitation to Heads of State or Heads of Government representing top contributors of troops and police contingents to UN peacekeeping operations was delivered to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's office on September 8. The Prime Minister's diplomatic staff has [...] | 2009-09-18 12:07:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA KPKO IT |
09ROME1072 | GOI RESOLVE SHAKEN BUT INTACT AFTER SIX SOLDIERS [...] (C) Summary: The day after an IED attack in Kabul left six Italian soldiers dead and four wounded, political and public reaction ranged from strong statements in support of the mission to outright calls for the troops to come home. While PM Berlusconi told the Ambassador privately that talk of [...] | 2009-09-18 17:34:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
09ROME1077 | BERLUSCONI REAFFIRMS AFGHAN COMMITMENT DURING [...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador Thorne's first call on PM Berlusconi, the PM appeared elated by President Obama's decision on missile defense; reaffirmed Italy's commitment to the Afghanistan mission, despite the fatal September 17 attack on an Italian convoy, while noting the need for a "trans [...] | 2009-09-21 11:31:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO IT AF RU IR |
09ROME1093 | ITALY SEEKS USG PARTNERS FOR BIOCONTAINMENT FACILITIES; [...] (SBU) Summary. The director of Italy's National Infectious Disease Institute told EUR/PGI Director Marc Ostfield on September 11 that he is interested in potential USG partners to collaborate with a new containment facility in Rome for the treatment and management of patients with highly infec [...] | 2009-09-24 10:20:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU ECON KCOR KTFN PTER IT |
09ROME1108 | ITALY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON THE GOLDSTONE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Italian MFA supports the U.S. position on the Goldstone report. The MFA emphasized the importance of the report "staying in Geneva" as part of the debate in the Human Rights Council (HRC). The MFA also hopes the report does not have a negative impact on the peace process. EN [...] | 2009-09-28 14:55:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL PHUM PTER KPAL IT |
09ROME1109 | ITALY CONFIRMS COMMITMENT TO EXPANDING FIGHT AGAINST GLOBAL [...] (SBU) Summary. A senior Italian official in the Labor, Health and Social Policies Ministry confirmed Italy's political commitment to participate in the U.S.-initiated effort to help other countries combat the global H1N1 influenza pandemic. The Italian Government (GOI) is still working out t [...] | 2009-09-28 15:31:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU ECON PREL WHO IT |
09ROME1110 | AMBASSADOR WARNS EDISON ON ITS IRAN PROJECT [...] (C/NF) Summary: Ambassador Thorne told Edison CEO Quadrino that his operations in Iran are helping the Iranian regime and seriously damaging his company's image in Washington. The Ambassador noted that the USG supports Southern Corridor Caspian gas projects such as Edison's TGI, but he warned [...] | 2009-09-28 16:03:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON ENRG IR IT |
09ROME1119 | UNIFIL: ITALY LOOKING FOR A SIGNAL FROM US [...] (C/NF) Summary. We have a window -- albeit one that is beginning to close -- to reverse an evolving decision by the GOI to cut its posture in UNIFIL by nearly half as it cedes the command to Spain. The decision comes as the GOI looks for ways to trim its budget while maintaining funding for [...] | 2009-09-30 16:03:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS KPKO IT LE IS |
09ROME1122 | PAKISTANI PRESIDENT ZARDARI RECEIVES WARM WELCOME [...] 3. (SBU) Bellato said that FM Frattini reaffirmed to Zardari that Italy was pleased with the positive steps Pakistan had taken in terms of democratic reform and counterterror efforts in FATA and Waziristan -- all of which had been recognized at the New York meeting of the Friends of Democra [...] | 2009-10-01 16:39:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET IT PK IR |
09ROME1131 | ITALY SUPPORTS THE CONCLUSIONS OF THE BURMA POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered reftel points on October 1 to Fabio Schina, MFA Acting Office Director for Asia, Oceania and Antarctica. Schina conveyed Italy's support for the U.S. approach to Burma outlined by Massimo Iannucci, MFA Director General for Asia, Oceania and Antarctica. The GOI's [...] | 2009-10-05 11:40:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IT BM |
09ROME1132 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY GATES' OCTOBER 13 [...] (C) Your meeting with Italian Minister of Defense Ignazio La Russa in Washington on October 13 comes at a crucial moment, as Italy ponders possible cuts to its overseas deployments budget. La Russa is a good friend of the U.S., a strong advocate for our shared transatlantic security interests [...] | 2009-10-05 15:02:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF LE |
09ROME1137 | BRIEFING ON OUTCOME OF P5+1 TALKS WITH IRAN IN [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel points on the outcome of the October 1 P5 1 talks to Gulf States Office Director Stefano Queirolo Palmas and Non Proliferation Office Director Giovanni Pugliese. 2. (S) Both officials had received readouts from NY and elsewhere, but were grateful for the inform [...] | 2009-10-08 10:23:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | IT KNNP PARM MNUC |
09ROME1138 | BRIEFING ON OUTCOME OF P5+1 TALKS WITH IRAN IN [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel points on the outcome of the October 1 P5 1 talks to Gulf States Office Director Stefano Queirolo Palmas and Non Proliferation Office Director Giovanni Pugliese. 2. (S) Both officials had received readouts from NY and elsewhere, but were grateful for the inform [...] | 2009-10-08 10:23:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | IT KNNP PARM MNUC |
09ROME1140 | VISAS VIPER SEPTEMBER 2009: MISSION ITALY REPORT [...] Mission Italy consists of Embassy Rome and Consulates General in Milan, Naples and Florence. Embassy Rome Coordinator is Visa Chief Donald Frerichs; the Milan Coordinator is Consul William Gill. Naples Visas Viper Coordinator is Vice Consul Daniela DiPierro and the Coordinator for Florence is [...] | 2009-10-08 11:47:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR PTER ASEC KVPR CVIS CMGT IT |
09ROME1141 | Climate Change - Italy Supportive on MEF and Emerging [...] (SBU) Summary: Italian officials involved in international climate negotiations feel the September Major Economies Forum (MEF) meeting went well, and recommend close U.S.-EU coordination before the October 18-19 MEF meeting. They confirmed that Italian Environment Minister Prestigiacomo had p [...] | 2009-10-08 11:51:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG TRGY KSCA UN IT |
09ROME1143 | ITALY: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT REJECTS LAW GRANTING [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The Italian Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional a 2008 law granting temporary criminal immunity to PM Berlusconi and three other senior officials. The court's decision will allow several pending criminal cases against Berlusconi to proceed. Government spokesperson [...] | 2009-10-08 16:03:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IT |
09ROME1144 | ITALY: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT REJECTS LAW GRANTING [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The Italian Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional a 2008 law granting temporary criminal immunity to PM Berlusconi and three other senior officials. The court's decision will allow several pending criminal cases against Berlusconi to proceed. Government spokesperson [...] | 2009-10-08 16:03:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IT |
09ROME1155 | AMBASSADOR DAALDER AND FM FRATTINI DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder and EUR DAS for Western Europe Spencer Boyer met with Italian Foreign Minister Frattini on October 8 to discuss the way ahead in Afghanistan and the development of the NATO Strategic Concept. Frattini said that Italy remains firmly committed t [...] | 2009-10-14 13:04:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
09ROME1156 | ITALY TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR INTERNATIONAL MARITIME [...] (U) Embassy Rome delivered the diplomatic note demarche concerning the U.S. candidacy for the International Maritime Organization Council. The demarche was submitted to Roberto Pietrosanto, Coordinator of Office I, Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the Ministry of Fore [...] | 2009-10-15 09:33:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC IMO EWWT PHSA ECON IT |
09ROME1165 | SEDM: ITALY WELCOMES U.S. SUPPORT FOR SERBIAN [...] (C) Poloff delivered Reftel points to Italian MFA Deputy Director for Political-Military Affairs Carlo Batori (please protect) on October 16. Batori was pleased at the news that the U.S. would support Serbian membership in the Southeastern Europe Defense Ministerial (SEDM),which Italy has lo [...] | 2009-10-16 15:02:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL IT RO SR MW |
09ROME1173 | POCS FOR MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AUTHORIZATIONS IN [...] Per ref B, the POC for marine scientific research authorizations in Italy is: Ms. Jean Preston, Environment, Science and Technology Affairs Counselor (telephone: (+39) 06 4674-2691; e-mail: prestonj@state.gov). She will be in Italy until approximately August 2010. 2. The alternate POC is [...] | 2009-10-21 14:04:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KSCA KRVC EWWT IT |
09ROME1176 | GNEP: ITALY TO HAVE "CONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH" TO USG [...] (SBU) On October 20 ECONOFF delivered reftel points, on the changes the USG is proposing for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP),to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Counselor Roberto Liotto. Liotto is Director for Space, Technology, Defense, Nuclear Issues, and Non-proliferation in [...] | 2009-10-22 11:28:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP TRGY IAEA IT |
09ROME1177 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES UNIFIL, AFGHANISTAN AND [...] (C/NF) Summary: In a meeting with Ambassador Thorne on October 22, FM Frattini said Italy is willing to extend General Graziano's command of UNIFIL for up to nine months at the current troop level of 2,300, as long as the request comes from the UNSYG. He congratulated the U.S. for convincing [...] | 2009-10-22 16:14:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IT AF PK LE UN |
09ROME1180 | SOMALIA: PRODDING ERITREA TO PLAY A MORE [...] (U) This cable is a guidance request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On October 19, DCM Dibble met with MFA DG for Sub-Saharan Africa, Giusseppe Morabito, to discuss strategies for making the Eritrean government's (GSE) role in Somalia "more positive." The GOI does not want to sing [...] | 2009-10-23 13:00:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IT SO XW ER |
09ROME1185 | ITALY LIKELY TO SUPPORT AMCIT NOMINATION FOR UN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on US nominee for UN International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) election to Counselor Gabriella Biondi, MFA UN desk officer, on October 26. Biondi stated that the GOI is familiar with the nominee, Lucretia Myers, and looks favorably on her nomination. [...] | 2009-10-27 12:18:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC KJUS AORC APER PREL IT UNGA |
09ROME1187 | ITALY: SCANDALS TAKING TOLL ON BERLUSCONI’S [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Though PM Berlusconi's parliamentary majority is strong, and nobody is yet willing to predict his political demise, a growing list of scandals, adverse court decisions and health issues have weakened him and led some erstwhile Berlusconi allies to begin hedging their bets on his pol [...] | 2009-10-27 15:17:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IT |
09ROME1188 | ADDING HFCS TO THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL: ITALY IN FAVOR BUT [...] Summary. Italy supports including hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in the Montreal Protocol, as proposed by the U.S., Canada and Mexico, but believes that the phasedown dates in the North American proposal are too soon. Italy would like the Montreal Protocol Technical and Economic Assessment Panel [...] | 2009-10-27 18:02:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV AORC KGHG IT |
09ROME1189 | ITALY SHARES CONCERN OVER AFGHAN GOVERNOR [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA Afghanistan Envoy Sergio Mercuri on October 27 to deliver Reftel points stressing the importance of coordinated efforts by PRT lead nations to ensure that provincial governor appointments remain qualifications-based and do not become rewards for Karzai supporters. Merc [...] | 2009-10-28 16:27:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO IT AF |
09ROME1190 | ITALY OPTIMISTIC ON MEETING AFPAK AID TARGETS [...] (SBU) Summary: By the end of 2009, Italy plans to disburse Euro 62 million in development assistance to Pakistan and Euro 45-50 million in assistance to Afghanistan, in line with its Tokyo and Paris pledges. In Pakistan, Italian assistance will be focused on rural development, community empowe [...] | 2009-10-28 16:53:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PINS IT AF PK |
09ROME1194 | ITALY: FINANCE MINISTER'S MANEUVERING OPENS MORE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Money quarrels within the GOI, regional tensions between Berlusconi coalition partners, and some preliminary maneuvering for the post-Berlusconi period have led to speculation that Finance Minister Tremonti may resign or be forced out of office. The continued strong of support fro [...] | 2009-10-29 15:51:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IT PREL EFIN PGOV |
09ROME1195 | BLUE LANTERN BROKER INQUIRY: CASE NO. K-2180 [...] Summary: Subject company, GATE & C. s.r.l. (GATE) appears to be a bona fide sales representative of Northrup Grumman Electronic Systems International, Inc. (NGESI). Company management seems to be familiar with restrictions on the re-export of U.S. Munitions List materials. End Summary. [...] | 2009-10-29 16:25:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC IT KOMC |
09ROME1200 | ITALIAN RESPONSE TO USG OBJECTIONS TO EC/SWISS POSITIONS ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-30 16:25:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EUN KIPR IT |
09ROME1221 | ITALY FULLY SUPPORTS "PARTNERING FOR FOOD [...] SUMMARY. Senior officials in the GOI offer enthusiastic support for Secretary Clinton's "Partnering for Food Security: Moving Forward" proposal. END SUMMARY. 2. On October 22, ECONOFF delivered Secretary Clinton's cover letter and "Partnering for Food Security: Moving Forward" proposal to [...] | 2009-11-03 14:54:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD IT |
09ROME1222 | ITALY: INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-03 15:22:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR IT |
09ROME1225 | ITALY'S POSITIONS ON 64TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on USG human rights priorities for the 2009 UN General Assembly Third Committee on November 2 to MFA Human Rights Office Director Laura Carpini. She confirmed the GOI's opposition to no-action motions. She noted Italy's close work with EU partners on this [...] | 2009-11-03 16:21:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN IT |
09ROME1228 | ITALY/IRISL: GOI TO CONSIDER SUPPORTING BRITISH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A senior official from the Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance (MEF) responded favorably to our request that the GOI support the British ban on providing insurance coverage to IRISL vessels, saying that at an upcoming interagency meeting he would support issuing a warning [...] | 2009-11-04 16:02:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KNNP IR IT |
09ROME1231 | ITALY: MTCR REPORT ON CONTACTS WITH NON-PARTNERS [...] (C) On November 5, ECONOFF delivered the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) report on contacts with non-MTCR members (reftel) to Counselor Roberto Liotto, Director of Office VI in the Directorate General for Multilateral Economic Cooperation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Of [...] | 2009-11-06 09:20:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL TSPA IT |
09ROME1232 | ITALY/EXPORT CONTROL: GOI INFORMED THAT TWO CMS [...] (S) On November 5, ECONOFF met with Counselor Roberto Liotto, Director of Office VI in the Directorate General for Multilateral Economic Cooperation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Office VI is responsible for space, technology, defense, nuclear and non-proliferation issues. Post i [...] | 2009-11-06 09:25:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | ETTC IR IT KSCA MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL TU |
09ROME1256 | U.S.-ITALY SECURITY DIALOGUES [...] (U) This cable answers reftel request for information on U.S.-Italian Security Dialogues: their nature, frequency and usefulness. 2. (SBU) The principal U.S.-Italy security dialogue is the Joint Military Commission, which governs the presence of U.S. military forces on Italian bases. It w [...] | 2009-11-13 15:33:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IT |
09ROME126 | ROME MEETING OF RC-WEST EMBASSIES: GUIDANCE REQUEST [...] This is an action request. See para 5. 2. The Italian Foreign Ministry will host a meeting on February 9 for Embassies of countries with forces serving under Italian leadership in Western Afghanistan as part of NATO's ISAF mission. The meeting is part of a GOI effort to encourage cohesio [...] | 2009-02-04 17:46:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS MARR AZ IT NATO |
09ROME1264 | ITALY TO ALERT PRIVATE SECTOR ENTITIES TO USG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. An official in the Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance (MEF) stated that she will advise private sector institutions of the USG designation, under Executive Order 13382 (reftel),of First East Export Bank (FEEB) of Malaysia, and of the Chairman of Bank Mellat of Iran, and [...] | 2009-11-16 15:06:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN IR IT KNNP PARM |
09ROME1271 | ITALY TO SUPPORT PROPOSED NORTH KOREAN ENTITIES [...] (U) SUMMARY. Post conveyed subject list of designated North Korean entities and individuals (reftel) to officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the Ministry of Economics and Finance (MEF). Both responded favorably and stated that the GOI would support EU designation of the enti [...] | 2009-11-17 15:35:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KNNP EUN KN PARM UNSC IT |
09ROME1272 | AFGHANISTAN: ITALY SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. PRIORITIES [...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel points to Italian MFA Special Envoy for Afghanistan Sergio Mercuri on November 17. Mercuri reacted favorably to the demarche, saying that it tracked closely with the approach envisaged by FM Frattini, who will attend the inauguration along with MFA Af-Pak Envoy Ma [...] | 2009-11-17 16:51:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IT AF |
09ROME1277 | VISAS VIPER OCTOBER 2009: MISSION ITALY REPORT [...] Mission Italy consists of Embassy Rome and Consulates General in Milan, Naples and Florence. Embassy Rome Coordinator is Visa Chief Donald Frerichs; the Milan Coordinator is Consul William Gill. Naples Visas Viper Coordinator is Vice Consul Daniela DiPierro and the Coordinator for Florence is [...] | 2009-11-20 12:11:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR PTER ASEC KVPR CVIS CMGT IT |
09ROME1279 | AFGHANISTAN: ITALY BRACED FOR TROOP REQUEST, [...] (C) Summary: The GOI is braced for an eventual request for more troops in Afghanistan, but its initial offer will likely be modest due to political, budgetary, and structural constraints on Italian troop deployment capability. We can and should push the Italians beyond their current comfort z [...] | 2009-11-20 14:26:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
09ROME128 | FINAL THOUGHTS ON THE U.S.-ITALY RELATIONSHIP: [...] (C/NF) Madame Secretary, as I depart Rome after three and a half years, permit me the privilege of passing on my thoughts to you on the state of U.S. - Italian relations. Throughout the post-war period, in particular since the end of the Cold War, Italy has been a staunch, reliable, and seriou [...] | 2009-02-05 09:48:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NATO IT |
09ROME1284 | CONTINUED USG ENGAGEMENT IMPORTANT AS ITALY TAKES [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The GOI is creating a nuclear energy regulatory agency, the first in a series of important steps in the government's efforts to bring back nuclear energy to Italy. Much remains to be done: Italy must win public support for nuclear power and find a solution to the nuclear waste [...] | 2009-11-20 16:05:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EINV ENRG IT |
09ROME1286 | ITALY - WORKERS OCCUPY ALCOA FACILITY [...] Workers at the Sardinia plant of the US multinational ALCOA have occupied the plant, detaining the Italian management. The company announced plans to close the plant and another in the Veneto region temporarily after the European Commission on November 19 confirmed an earlier ruling that the [...] | 2009-11-20 16:48:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB IT EU |
09ROME1299 | ITALY: RESPONSE FOR REVIEW OF SUSPENSION OF TITLE [...] (U) This message is post's response to reftel request for updated information necessary for the President's consideration of continued suspension of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act. 2. (C) There has been no significant change in Italian relations with Cuba over the past six months. Italy eng [...] | 2009-11-25 13:12:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC CU IT |
09ROME1308 | ITALY: ARGENTINA BONDHOLDERS DIGGING IN [...] Confidential - - Entire Text. 2. Summary - Italian bondholders of defaulted Argentine debt are unlikely to take up the most recent GOA buy-out offer and intend to pursue ongoing arbitration. A bondholders' group says its members' interests vary greatly from those of US institutional investors th [...] | 2009-11-25 16:34:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV AR IT |
09ROME1309 | AFGHANISTAN: ITALY CAUTIOUSLY SUPPORTIVE ON [...] (C) Ambassador Thorne delivered Reftel points to Gianni Letta, Chief Undersecretary to PM Berlusconi, on November 24. Letta took the message on board, and thanked the Ambassador for the heads up on the pending USG decision and "asks" for new resources. Following the NSA Jones discussion with [...] | 2009-11-25 17:51:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
09ROME1318 | AFGHANISTAN ANNOUNCEMENT: ITALY PREPARING MAJOR [...] C) Summary: Foreign Minister Frattini assured the Ambassador that Italy was striving to provide over 1,000 additional troops to the ISAF mission but its final increase depended on cuts in other overseas missions. Defense Minister LaRussa will announce Italy's intent to do more on December 2 [...] | 2009-12-01 16:17:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PGOV NATO IT AF |
09ROME1323 | GOI UNOFFICIALLY AGREES TO IMMEDIATE BUDGET [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOI has unofficially agreed to convert 10 million euros of its unobligated Paris pledge into immediate budget support for the Palestinian Authority. End summary. 2. (U) On 1 December ECONOFF conveyed Secretary Clinton's request for immediate budget support for the Palesti [...] | 2009-12-02 13:39:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EU IS IT OPDC PGOV PREL WBG |
09ROME1328 | ITALY PUSHING TO ALTER EU PEACE PROCESS STATEMENT [...] (C) Israel Palestinian Affairs office director, Davide La Cecilia (protect),told poloff Italy is working hard to alter the language of the Swedish-proposed EU statement on the peace process currently being circulated in advance of the December 7-8 GAERC meeting. La Cecilia said the GOI is di [...] | 2009-12-02 16:02:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IT IS PA |
09ROME1336 | GOI CLARIFICATION OF G8 L'AQUILA FOOD SECURITY [...] (U) Summary. A GOI official has reaffirmed the commitments made by Italy at the L'Aquila G8 meeting: Italy expects to provide USD 450 million for food security. End Summary. 2. (U) On 25 November ECONOFF conveyed the USG concerns regarding the food security commitments made at the L'Aquila [...] | 2009-12-03 16:40:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON IT |
09ROME1338 | ITALY'S RESPONSE TO PRESSING FOR DIALOGUE IN BURMA [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel demarche with MFA Asia, Oceania, Pacific and Antarctic Office Director Adriano Monti on December 2. Monti agreed with all of the points in the demarche and asserted that the GOI continues to share the US strategy on dealing with the military junta that rules Burma. [...] | 2009-12-04 11:43:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BM IT |
09ROME1339 | ITALY SUPPORTS US APPROACH ON DPRK UNIVERSAL [...] (C) Italy agrees with the USG views and suggested questions and recommendations for the upcoming U.N. Human Rights Council's (HRC) Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the DPRK according to MFA Human Rights Office Director Laura Carpini. Carpini commented that the proposed questions were thorou [...] | 2009-12-04 14:04:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM AORC SOCI UNGA IT |
09ROME1340 | ITALIAN ECONOMY REMAINS IN LOW GEAR [...] (U) Summary -- Italy's central bank and private economists are predicting modest growth in 2010, ranging from 0.4% to 1.0%, but they remain concerned that a stagnant jobs picture may yet tip Italy into a double-dip recession. Italy's already massive public debt prevents any significant stimul [...] | 2009-12-04 14:28:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON IT |
09ROME1341 | MEETING ON IRAN WITH ITALIAN ADVISOR TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PEOPLE'S PARTY [...] (C) Poloff and Econoff met with Rino Trombetta, an Italian adviser on Iran and Afghanistan to the members of the European People's Party (EPP) in the European Parliament. Several of his Parliamentarians are members of a Delegation for Relations with Iran, a group composed of 18 MEPs and 16 alt [...] | 2009-12-04 14:51:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EU IR IT |
09ROME1343 | ITALIAN EFFORTS ONGOING ON MEPP STATEMENT FOR NEXT [...] (C) Office Director for Israel-Palestinian Affairs, Davide La Cecilia, told Poloff on December 4 that his delegation is still working hard to achieve a more "balanced version" of the Swedish-proposed EU declaration on the Peace Process, and that some progress has been made. The declaration [...] | 2009-12-04 16:02:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IT IS |
09ROME1344 | GOI RESPONSE TO USG REQUEST TO DELIST TRANCHE 3 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The GOI agreed to delist eight of the eighteen individuals identified in the Italy section of the Tranche 3 Names list and have requested more time to gather information on the remaining ten individuals. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) On November 2, ECONOFF conveyed the Tranche 3 list [...] | 2009-12-04 16:05:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC IT |
09ROME1347 | A/S GORDON'S MEETINGS WITH ITALIAN FM FRATTINI AND [...] (C) Summary: Following the November 23rd G8 Political Directors' meeting, A/S Gordon met with FM Frattini and SG Massolo in back to back discussions, reviewing the new EU appointments, Iran sanctions, Afghanistan, Russia and the Balkans. Frattini expressed optimism that the new post-Lisbon te [...] | 2009-12-07 12:31:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IT |
09ROME1349 | BANKS CLAIM ITALIAN TAX AMNESTY CONSISTENT WITH [...] (U) Italian Banking Association officials have indicated to Post that Italian banks remain beholden to know-your-client and suspicious transaction reporting obligations when processing transactions pursuant to Italy's current tax amnesty. End Summary 2. (U) Econoffs met on November 25 Ita [...] | 2009-12-10 08:44:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN SNAR KCRM IT |
09ROME1350 | VISAS VIPER NOVEMBER 2009: MISSION ITALY REPORT [...] Mission Italy consists of Embassy Rome and Consulates General in Milan, Naples and Florence. Embassy Rome Coordinator is Visa Chief Donald Frerichs; the Milan Coordinator is Consul William Gill. Naples Visas Viper Coordinator is Vice Consul Daniela DiPierro and the Coordinator for Florence is [...] | 2009-12-10 10:48:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR PTER ASEC KVPR CVIS CMGT IT |
09ROME1363 | ISAF: NEXT STEPS FOR ITALY'S 1,000 TROOP COMMITMENT [...] (C) Summary. The Italian government has started the Parliamentary approval process for its increased ISAF commitments. On December 10, FM Frattini and MOD La Russa briefed Parliament's Defense and Foreign Affairs Committees on the GOI's plans for a 1,000-troop surge in ISAF over the next te [...] | 2009-12-11 16:39:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
09ROME1371 | GOI TO DISBURSE WFP ASSISTANCE TO PAKISTAN [...] (U) Summary. The GOI will immediately disburse 500,000 euros to assist the WFP in Pakistan. End summary. 2. (SBU) On December 14, ECONOFF met with an official in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to convey the USG request for immediate support for the WFP (reftel). The official, [...] | 2009-12-15 10:58:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD IO IT PGOV PHUM PK PREF |
09ROME1382 | ENI EXPLORING GAS PROJECT TO BRING TURKMENISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Eni's CEO Scaroni told Post that his company is exploring a gas-swap deal with Turkmenistan and Turkey to bring 5 billion cubic meters of gas per year to Bulgaria and perhaps other parts of Eastern Europe. This project may be an attempt by Eni to portray itself as supporting EU ene [...] | 2009-12-16 16:48:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG IT |
09ROME1391 | US - ITALY 1999 DOUBLE TAXATION TREATY - EXCHANGE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-18 16:28:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA ECON PREL IT |
09ROME1395 | IPR IN ITALY - USG COOPERATION WITH ITALIAN IP DIRECTORATE [...] (U) Italian officials have expressed interest in closer collaboration with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on intellectual property (IP) issues. They also seem eager to take steps that could lead to Italy being taken off the USG's 301 Watch List, but it is not clear that they will succeed [...] | 2009-12-21 15:29:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IT KIPR ETRD ECON EINT |
09ROME1396 | IPR IN ITALY - AMERICAN VOICES AMONG ITALIAN ELITE [...] (U) Three American speakers, recruited by Embassy Rome, recently spoke at an intellectual property rights (IPR) conference held in Rome. The two USG speakers and one private sector speaker spoke on issues of IPRs and competition law, emerging areas of patent law, and U.S. approaches to copyrig [...] | 2009-12-21 15:30:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | IT KIPR ETRD ECON EINT |
09ROME1404 | GOI WILL REVIEW USG UNSCR 1267 CO-SPONSORSHIP [...] (S) Summary. The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) will submit to the appropriate agencies for review, the USG request to co-sponsor for designation under UNSCR 1267, Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and its leaders, Nasir al-Wahishi and Ali al-Shihri. End summary. 2. (S) O [...] | 2009-12-23 15:26:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | IT KTFN PINR PREL PTER SA YM UN |
09ROME1405 | GOI OPPOSES DELISTING SEVEN TRANCHE 3 NAMES [...] (C) Summary. Upon further review by Italian police and intelligence agencies (reftel Rome 1344 and State 109494),Italy opposes delisting seven Tranche 3 names. However, the GOI supports delisting two Tranche 3 names and asks the USG for support in expediting the delisting of one individual. E [...] | 2009-12-23 15:27:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN IT KTFN PREL PTER UNSC |
09ROME1409 | ITALY-RUSSIA SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS EVER STRONGER [...] (SBU) MFA officials view the December 3 summit between PM Berlusconi, Russian President Medvedev and numerous cabinet minsters a showcase for the bright future of Italian-Russian relations. Historically strong economic, political and cultural ties between Italy and Russia were reinforced by [...] | 2009-12-23 16:02:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENGR PGOV OSCE NATO AF RS IT EUN |
09ROME141 | ITALIAN G8 OUTREACH APPROACH CLARIFIED; SOUS SHERPA [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: On February 3, Italian Sous Sherpa Guido La Tella briefed DCM and Science Counselor on the GOI approach to G8 Summit structure. While noting that consensus has not yet been reached among G8 members, La Tella sai [...] | 2009-02-05 15:56:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KGHG SENV ENRG OTRA IT |
09ROME1414 | ITALY FISHERIES ENFORCEMENT UPDATE: NEW POLICY MEASURES [...] (SBU) Summary. Italian Fisheries Under Secretary Buonfiglio stressed to DCM some significant recent changes in Italian fisheries policies, including more centralized enforcement and enhanced monitoring and data collection; a "point system" for fishing licenses; a 50-percent reduction in the bl [...] | 2009-12-28 07:44:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS SENV ETRD ICCAT IT |
09ROME1415 | ITALY FISHERIES ENFORCEMENT UPDATE: ENFORCEMENT DATA [...] (SBU) Summary. Italian fisheries authorities have provided data on Port Captaincy-Coast Guard enforcement activities in 2008 and 2009, for USG consideration in the context of the U.S. Moratorium Protection Act. Although the 2009 data covers only the year to October, it shows an increase in in [...] | 2009-12-28 07:44:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS SENV ETRD ICCAT IT |
09ROME1419 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE AMCIT [...] C) Poloff spoke with Iran desk officer, Silvia Santangelo, regarding the cases of American citizens detained in Iran, and requested the GOI's assistance, per reftel. The Iran desk said that in the last two months, all human rights discussions, including consular discussions with the Iranians [...] | 2009-12-29 15:48:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER IR IT |
09ROME1421 | ITALY SUPPORTS DJIBOUTI PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA East Africa Office Director, Giovanni Polizzi, to deliver demarche on prioritizing the Djibouti Peace Process. Upon his return from the International Contact Group for Somalia meeting in Jeddah on December 17, Polizzi affirmed the GOI's support for maintaining the Djib [...] | 2009-12-30 15:57:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SO IT |
09ROME143 | ITALY WANTS G-8 TO TACKLE INTERNET "REGULATION" [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-06 12:24:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IT ECON ETRD KIPR |
09ROME144 | U/S BURNS' PARTICIPATION IN G8 POLITICAL DIRECTORS [...] (SBU) Summary: Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Bill Burns participated in the first Political Directors Meeting of the Italian G8 Presidency in Venice, February 2-3. All participants showed great interest in the new Administration's approach to major policy issues -- most notabl [...] | 2009-02-06 13:16:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PARM MNUC IT AF PK IR KN BM |
09ROME145 | ITALY HOSTS UNSC REFORM MINISTERIAL [...] (SBU) Representatives of 77 countries, 21 of them at the ministerial level, convened in Rome February 5 for an MFA-hosted meeting on reform of the UN Security Council. Although contacts at the MFA insisted the meeting was not a Uniting for Consensus (UFC) event, the guest list and discussion p [...] | 2009-02-06 14:15:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC IT |
09ROME159 | SCENESETTER FOR SPEAKER PELOSI'S FEBRUARY 13-22 [...] (C) Madame Speaker, I would like to extend a warm welcome from Team Italy in anticipation of your upcoming visit. Your trip comes at a critical moment as the Berlusconi government seeks to understand how it fits into the new Administration's reengagement with Europe. Berlusconi's close person [...] | 2009-02-10 15:58:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IT |
09ROME160 | ITALY PRESSES RC-WEST PARTNERS TO CONTRIBUTE MORE [...] (C/NF) Summary: At a February 9 meeting of countries with forces serving under Italian leadership in Western Afghanistan, the GOI announced its intent to provide part of the maneuver battalion needed for Election Security Forces (ESF) in the region. The GOI urged other countries at the confer [...] | 2009-02-10 16:00:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
09ROME163 | ITALY DOES NOT HAVE A CANDIDATE FOR UNESCO DG [...] (C) Italy has not, and does not intend to, put forward a candidate for director general of UNESCO, according to Barbara Bregato, director of the MFA office of multilateral cultural cooperation. Bregato told Poloff February 11 that there had been some tentative discussions about the possibilit [...] | 2009-02-11 14:12:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNESCO CA IT |
09ROME171 | INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2009 - ITALY [...] SUMMARY: Following is Post's submission for 2009 Investment Climate Statement for Italy. End Summary. OVERVIEW AND UPDATE ------------------- 2. A January 2008 article in London's Financial Times likened investing in Italy to "driving with the brakes on." It cited the dearth of global [...] | 2009-02-12 11:44:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB OPIC KTDB USTR PGOV IT |
09ROME173 | IRAN: ITALY FAULTS GERMANS FOR DELAYS OF EU [...] (C/NF) Summary. Italy faults Germany for postponing recent EU-level experts meetings on new Iran proliferation-related designations that were scheduled for February 11. The MFA is concerned the EU is losing momentum while waiting for US policy announcements and highlighted that every small d [...] | 2009-02-12 14:32:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KNNC ETTC EFIN IT |
09ROME176 | ITALY: MFA HESITANT IN PRESSING MOI ON CUBAN [...] (C) A/DCM met February 10 with MFA Americas DG Verderame, at the latter's request, as well as with Migration Deputy DG Palladino to discuss our pending request for the resettlement in Italy of Cuban protected migrant Luis Manuel Alfonso Romero, currently at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo [...] | 2009-02-12 15:19:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PREF SMIG KAWC IT CU |
09ROME177 | GETTING ITALY TO DO MORE IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) This is a joint Political and Economic Section cable. 2. (S/NF) Summary. Italy can and should do more in Afghanistan. It is a top-tier contributor to ISAF with 2,600 troops (making it the sixth-largest contingent),and it has made Afghanistan a centerpiece of its G8 Presidency by prop [...] | 2009-02-13 10:15:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
09ROME178 | ITALY: US COMPANY MAY BE INVOLVED IN SUSPECT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-13 12:26:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC IR IT |
09ROME188 | ITALY APPROVES AUTOMOBILE SECTOR ASSISTANCE PACKAGE [...] (U) Summary: On February 6, 2009, the GOI approved an automobile sector assistance package as part of a broader industrial sector stimulus package. The auto sector measures provide consumer incentives, ranging from 500 to 6500 euros, to increase demand and do not appear to give direct support t [...] | 2009-02-18 13:03:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN PREL WTO IT |
09ROME191 | ITALY HESITANT ON MAURITANIA SANCTIONS, WANTS TO [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA West Africa Office Director Pierluigi Verlani February 18, urging Italy to press for a principled EU position supporting a return to democracy and constitutional order in Mauritania, given the African Union's February 5 decision to impose targeted sanc [...] | 2009-02-18 17:14:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EUN MR IT |
09ROME192 | VELTRONI RESIGNS, PD ON LIFE SUPPORT [...] (C) The opposition Democratic Party (PD) could ultimately face fracture after party leader Walter Veltroni stepped down yesterday citing the February 15-16 defeat in regional elections in Sardinia. Veltroni's resignation leaves PD flat-footed in advance of the European Parliament elections in [...] | 2009-02-18 17:27:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IT |
09ROME204 | ITALY: 2008 TIP REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-20 16:09:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM PHUM PREF KWMN KFRD SMIG IT XX |
09ROME207 | NUCLEAR POWER COMPETITION: US AND FRANCE IN THE [...] (C) Summary: The U.S. Mission recently orchestrated a visit by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) officials to provide Italy with U.S. views on nuclear power regulation and plant licensing. Both issues are under review here as the GOI moves to reintroduce nuclear power after a twenty-year [...] | 2009-02-23 15:13:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON ENRG FR IT PREL |
09ROME211 | YOUR FEBRUARY 27 MEETING WITH ITALIAN FM FRATTINI [...] (C/NF) Summary. On February 27, you will meet Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, an experienced and serious statesman who seeks to raise Italy's profile on the international stage. Your meeting represents for the GOI a long-awaited first encounter with the new U.S. administration. The [...] | 2009-02-24 12:08:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NATO MOPS IT |
09ROME227 | IPR SPECIAL 301 REVIEW -- MISSION ITALY INPUT [...] (U) Summary: The fall of the Prodi government in 2008 understandably interrupted what had been strong momentum on IPR issues in Italy. Post has recently seen a renewed executive branch determination to tackle IPR issues, in particular, on-line piracy. Problems still exist, especially the cur [...] | 2009-02-27 14:59:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | IT KIPR ETRD ECON EINT |
09ROME230 | ITALY PLEASED WITH U.S. REENGAGEMENT IN UN HRC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-27 15:59:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL IT |
09ROME232 | ITALY CLAIMS REDUCTIONS IN IRANIAN EXPORT AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-01 14:03:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP EFIN ETRD IT IR |
09ROME252 | ITALY REDUCES EXPORT CREDITS TO IRAN, BUT WORRIES [...] (C) Summary: Over the past three months, Italy's Export Credit Agency (SACE) has reduced its exposure in the form of insurance guarantees on trade and investment to Iran from 1.5 billion euros to about 1.3 billion euros as existing debts have been repaid. SACE's managers have chosen not to [...] | 2009-03-04 07:19:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP EFIN ETRD IT IR |
09ROME253 | ITALY LIKELY TO OFFER SOME ASSISTANCE TO AMISOM, [...] (U) This message contains an action request. See para 4. 2. (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Somalia Coordinator Giovanni Polizzi March 3, requesting Italian support for the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and for security forces loyal to the Somali Transitional Federal [...] | 2009-03-04 13:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SO IT |
09ROME259 | Italy Implements Measure to Bolster Bank-Lending. [...] (SBU) Summary -- On February 26, the GOI authorized the Italian Treasury to buy extraordinary convertible bonds issued by Italian banks as a way to raise banks' capital ratios and spur new lending, especially to small and medium businesses. The instruments, in terms of risks taken by the GOI an [...] | 2009-03-05 09:00:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN IT |
09ROME275 | ITALY AGREES TO GAZA SMUGGLING INTERDICTION [...] (C) Italy approves the Program of Action for the March 13 London meeting on Gaza smuggling interdiction with no edits to the draft as presented. The Middle East Levant and Egypt Office told us that they have reviewed the Program of Action and fully support the document and most importantly, t [...] | 2009-03-09 13:15:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO IT |
09ROME281 | ITALIAN PIPELINE COMPANY CONCERNED ABOUT AZERI [...] (C) Summary: Franco - Italian energy company Edison, one of the leading partners in the Turkey-Greece-Italy (TGI) gas pipeline project, is concerned about Azerbaijan's decision to delay production from its Shah Deniz II gas field. Such a delay would adversely impact current plans for first TGI [...] | 2009-03-11 09:24:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG GR IR IT RS TU AJ |
09ROME284 | IRAQ: KEEPING ITALY ENGAGED [...] (C) Summary. Italy has been an important partner in helping provide security and economic development for Iraq. Despite the previous government's decision to withdraw combat troops from the coalition in 2006, the GOI has worked hard to maintain a leadership role in the training of Iraqi securit [...] | 2009-03-11 17:00:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IT |
09ROME290 | ITALIAN EFFORTS TO INDUCE SLOVENIA TO ACCELERATE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and Slovenian referendum timeline to Italian MFA NATO Desk Officer Carlo Batori on March 9. Batori said the GOI agrees on the need to pressure the Slovenian government to move more quickly on ratifying Croatia's NATO accession protocol, and FM Frattini ra [...] | 2009-03-12 16:45:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NATO KTIA PREL HR AL SL IT |
09ROME297 | CORRECTED VERSION - SIPDIS CAPTION ADDED: G-20 [...] Summary - Italy remains insulated from the worst of the crisis impacting financial institutions, but is looking at a deeper and longer recession than originally anticipated. The GOI has put in place various modest measures to bolster confidence in banks, increase credit to the economy, and pr [...] | 2009-03-13 15:38:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN IT |
09ROME298 | ANTARCTIC/ARCTIC EVENT: MFA U/S SCOTTI TO ATTEND FOR ITALY; [...] Summary and action request. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Under Secretary Vincenzo Scotti will represent Italy at the April 6 ministerial event on Antarctic and Arctic affairs at the Department. Senior working-level MFA Antarctic and Arctic officials are available for consultation by the [...] | 2009-03-13 15:56:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY SENV AORC KSCA PHSA EWWT PBTS IT |
09ROME30 | ITALY: SUPPORTS PROPOSED CONTACT GROUP ON SOMALI [...] (SBU) Political Military Counselor met with MFA NATO Director Massimo Marotti and UN Director Natalia Quintavalle on January 8 to extend ref A invitation for Italy to participate in the Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP) and to brief them on the agenda and topics for the January 13-14 meeti [...] | 2009-01-09 16:41:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL PGOV EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA PTER IT |
09ROME302 | ENDING IRFFI: REPORT ON THE 8TH IRFFI DONORS [...] (U) Summary: The International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFFI) Donors Committee discussed the closure of the donor facility and procedures for wrapping-up its project planning and commitment processes by the end of 2010 at its Eighth Donors Committee (DC) meeting that was held i [...] | 2009-03-13 16:32:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON IT IZ DA PGOV PREL |
09ROME31 | ITALY: WILL ATTEND GAZA MEETING ON MARGINS OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-09 16:42:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL PREL MARR MOPS IT |
09ROME320 | ITALIAN ECONOMIC PRIORITIES IN RUN-UP TO LONDON [...] (SBU) Summary - The Italian economy remains troubled, especially as exports have turned down dramatically. A top Central Bank official expects government instruments to bolster Italian banks' capital to be fully subscribed. The government is shifting its focus to addressing the prospect of h [...] | 2009-03-18 16:14:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD IT |
09ROME325 | BLUE LANTERN CHECK ON LICENSE 050109951: RIFLES [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) Summary: Post performed a Level 3 Blue Lantern Post Shipment End Use Check on Ditta Individuale Adriano De Rossi, a Rome-based bona fide gun dealer. The sensitive items -- license number 050109951 -- were properly sec [...] | 2009-03-19 10:30:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC IT |
09ROME339 | ITALY SUPPORTS PAKISTAN DONORS CONFERENCE, [...] Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered Reftel demarche to Italian MFA South Asia Office Director Domenico Bellato on March 18. Bellato said that Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Massimo Iannucci would attend the Pakistan Donors Conferenc [...] | 2009-03-20 16:25:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK IT |
09ROME341 | ITALY AGREES ON KFOR: IN TOGETHER, OUT TOGETHER [...] (C) Charge took the opportunity of a March 17 lunch with MFA Director General for Europe Laura Mirachian to conduct a wide-ranging review of Kosovo, prefiguring reftel demarche. Charge urged Italy to stay the course in Kosovo and not to make any precipitous moves to reduce or end participation [...] | 2009-03-23 14:09:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO KPKO KV IT |
09ROME342 | G8 LABOR MINISTERIAL: SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Madame Secretary, I would like to extend a warm welcome from Team Italy in anticipation of your trip to participate in the G8 Labor Ministerial. The Labor Ministerial will be the first full G8 ministerial and it offers an excellent opportunity to highlight the new Administration's polic [...] | 2009-03-24 07:54:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IT |
09ROME343 | ITALY: GREEN "INVESTMENTS" IN STIMULUS PACKAGE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-24 09:23:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ENRG SENV IT |
09ROME346 | ISAF: MOD LA RUSSA OFFERS SMALL INCREASE IN [...] (C/NF) Summary. Italian MOD La Russa told Charge on March 23 that Italy is considering sending to Afghanistan -- in addition to 200 temporary Electoral Support Forces already pledged -- 50 Carabineri police trainers, two C-27J Transport Aircraft, three medevac helicopters, and up to two additi [...] | 2009-03-24 15:53:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
09ROME35 | ITALY AWAITING FORMATION OF EU POLICY TOWARD [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel points on January 5 to FM Frattini and indicated US interest in working with Europeans to develop a strategy to encourage the reintegration of separatist areas in Georgia. The Foreign Minister stated that was unaware of any existing strategy and would pass the [...] | 2009-01-13 12:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GG RS IT |
09ROME352 | ITALY: 2008 TIP REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-25 15:52:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KCRM PHUM PREF KWMN SMIG IT |
09ROME353 | ITALY: GREEN "INVESTMENTS" IN STIMULUS PACKAGE [...] (U) The Italian government, in the context of its modest economic stimulus effort (ref B),has implemented a number of measures, some of which could be seen as environmentally friendly, and others not. The government has not explicitly sought to tackle environmental challenges as part of it [...] | 2009-03-25 15:53:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ENRG SENV IT |
09ROME355 | ITALY READY TO HELP ON GUANTANAMO BAY DETAINEES [...] (C) Italian Foreign Minister Frattini confirmed to S/WCI Ambassador Williamson March 24 that Italy is ready to help the United States resolve the issue of Guantanamo detainees through resettlement in Italy and advocacy for the U.S. effort within the EU. Frattini advised that there is oppositio [...] | 2009-03-26 17:12:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS KISL IT |
09ROME356 | BERLUSCONI'S CENTER-RIGHT SHOTGUN WEDDING [...] (C) From 27 to 29 March, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will preside over the merger of Italy's two main center-right parties into a single entity, the People of Liberty (PDL) party. The inaugural party congress that will take place this weekend will fuse Berlusconi's personal political vehi [...] | 2009-03-27 11:08:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IT |
09ROME358 | ITALY: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MCCONNELL [...] (U) Summary. Your visit to Rome comes at an important period in our relationship with Italy. As Italy's leadership undertakes engagement with the new Administration, Italians are eager to show that Italy remains committed to maintaining a strong relationship with the U.S. and is ready to co [...] | 2009-03-27 16:18:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP IT |
09ROME363 | REQUEST FOR PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION: 65TH [...] (U) This in an action message; see paras 2-6. This message is sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Post requests the designation of a Presidential Delegation to attend events in Rome on June 4, 2009, commemorating the 65th anniversary of the Allied liberation o [...] | 2009-03-30 10:48:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SCUL OVIP IT |
09ROME364 | AFGHAN POLICE TRAINING: ITALY PREPARED TO SEND [...] (C/NF) Summary: Italy is prepared to double or triple its current contingent of 40 Carabinieri police trainers in Afghanistan and expand their mandate to include district-level mentoring, but is concerned about cost. The GOI favors either (1) an NTM-A arrangement in which the burden of fundi [...] | 2009-03-30 17:33:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF FR |
09ROME378 | ITALY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT U.S. CANDIDACY FOR UN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-02 14:06:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL IT |
09ROME379 | WESTERN MED RSI PROPOSAL: STRENGTHENING [...] (SBU) In partnership with the Department of Justice, Embassy Rome proposes to host a two-day conference in fall 2009 for approximately 50 prosecutors and other appropriate officials from the United States, Italy, France, Spain, the UK, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya to develop closer and [...] | 2009-04-03 06:34:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC IT |
09ROME386 | SUBJECT: ITALY DODGES FINANCIAL MELT DOWN, BUT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-03 14:53:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD IT |
09ROME387 | DEMARCHE REPLY: ITALY WILL LET OTHERS LEAD ON CEE [...] (U) Econoff on April 3 discussed ref demarche and presented talking points to Francesco Galietti, a senior advisor to Minister of Finance and Economics Giulio Tremonti. Galietti was familiar with EU-wide efforts to conceive various measures to assist ailing economies in central and eastern Eu [...] | 2009-04-03 15:42:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON EFIN IT |
09ROME388 | ITALY MUSTERING POLITICAL WILL TO DO MORE IN [...] (C) Summary. The Government of Italy is in broad agreement with the conclusions of the U.S. Afghanistan-Pakistan Strategic Review and is actively considering additional contributions to make at the NATO Summit and the Pakistan Donor Conference in Tokyo. Although facing tight budgetary restrict [...] | 2009-04-03 16:46:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF PK EAID |
09ROME392 | ITALY SITREP: STRONG EARTHQUAKE HIT CENTRAL ITALY [...] (SBU) On Monday morning an earthquake registering 5.8 on the Richter scale struck central Italy, centered about 60 miles from Rome near the capital of Abruzzo, L'Aquila. Initial reports indicate that 50 were killed and hundreds injured. The earthquake damaged L'Aquila's most important churches [...] | 2009-04-06 11:18:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IT |
09ROME395 | ITALY DODGES FINANCIAL MELT DOWN, BUT GLOBAL [...] (C) Summary: Conservative, risk-averse practices and tight supervision allowed Italy's banking system to avoid the worst of the financial melt-down that hit the United States and other countries. But the worldwide recession sparked by this financial crisis is now beginning to hit Italy's e [...] | 2009-04-06 14:50:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD IT |
09ROME396 | ITALY CONDEMNS NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCH [...] (U) On Sunday April 5, the Italian MFA issued a statement condemning the North Korean Missile launch, calling it a violation of UNSCR 1718 and characterizing it as a threat to global nonproliferation efforts. The GOI, in its capacity as G8 President, calls on North Korea to cease all activitie [...] | 2009-04-06 15:27:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP KN IT |
09ROME399 | ITALY SITREP: EARTHQUAKE DEATH TOLL RISES TO 179 [...] (U) The death toll from Monday morning's earthquake in Abruzzo has risen to 179, with 34 still missing. Additionally, 1,500 are injured and 17,000 homeless, including 10,000 in the region's capital L'Aquila (total population 80,000). Thus far, 100 people have been rescued from the rubble. A se [...] | 2009-04-07 11:15:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC PGOV PREL IT |
09ROME402 | ITALY SITREP: DISASTER RELIEF CONTINUING [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. Death Toll Hits 250 - - - - - - - - - - 2. (U) The Italian media has reported that the death toll for Monday morning's earthquake has now reached 250, with 1,000 injured, including 100 seriously. On Tuesday strong [...] | 2009-04-08 12:12:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CASC IT |
09ROME408 | ITALY COOPERATIVE ON JOINT APPROACH TO TUNIS SCHOOL [...] (C) The Italian MFA is eager to cooperate with us and others to obtain a favorable resolution to the American Cooperative School of Tunis (ACST) tax situation. MFA Counselor Lorenzo Morini from the Maghreb Office, stated he would discuss this issue with the Italian Ambassador in Tunisia, Amb [...] | 2009-04-09 08:34:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASCH ODIP PREL IT |
09ROME409 | G8 ASIA DIRECTORS MEETING ON AFGHANISTAN AND [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: SCA PDAS Patrick Moon and S/SRAP Adviser Neil Kromash represented the U.S. at an April 6 G8 Asia Directors' Meeting in Rome convened by Italy to craft an agenda for its G8 Ministerial Outreach Meeting on Afghan [...] | 2009-04-09 10:17:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF PK EAID |
09ROME417 | ITALIAN FM'S TRIP TO LEBANON AND SYRIA [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Franco Frattini conducted a two-day visit to Lebanon and Syria, where he found both governments openly positive about the new U.S. administration's policies and suggested this emergence of optimism provides an opportunity to make progress on the Middle East Peac [...] | 2009-04-09 16:22:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG KPAL IT |
09ROME42 | ITALY: FRATTINI PLANS MID-EAST MISSION, GOI [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-14 18:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG KPAL EU IS EG SY IT |
09ROME424 | ISAF: ITALY CONFIRMS STRASBOURG PLEDGE OF 524 [...] (C) Overview and Summary: Italian MFA Officials confirmed on April 10 Italy's NATO Summit offers of 524 new troops and trainers for Afghanistan. This number represents a last-minute ramp-up in the final days before the summit from Italy's planned contribution of 324 (Ref A),which was preview [...] | 2009-04-10 15:09:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
09ROME427 | U/S BURNS' PARTICIPATION IN G8 POLITICAL DIRECTORS [...] (U) This message has been cleared by Under Secretary Burns. 2. (SBU) Summary: Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Bill Burns participated in the second Political Directors meeting of the Italian G8 Presidency in Taormina, Sicily, April 6-7. The Political Directors discussed a [...] | 2009-04-14 16:42:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PREL PTER AF BM GG IR IT KN PK |
09ROME428 | COORDINATION OF RESPONSE TO ABRUZZO EARTHQUAKE [...] In the wake of the earthquake which struck Italy on April 6 (Ref B),expressions of American solidarity and sympathy have been widely reported in the media and greatly appreciated. Caustic comments about the size of our initial emergency $50,000 disaster grant were reported in only one provoc [...] | 2009-04-15 06:38:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SCUL PGOV PREL IT |
09ROME430 | ITALIAN POLICE, TERRORIST FINANCING, AND CT [...] (SBU) This cable contains a proposal for support from the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Counterterrorism from the U.S. Mission in Italy. Proposed Project ---------------- 2. (SBU) Educational Initiative for Italian Police Task Force on Terrorism and Organized Crime. Executive Summary - [...] | 2009-04-15 18:42:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EFIN PTER IT |
09ROME431 | DAS HENGEL DEMARCHES THE GOI AND ENI ON IRAN AND [...] (C) Summary: During separate April 3 meetings with the Italian MFA and Italian energy parastatal ENI, EEB/ESC DAS Hengel requested appropriate action be taken to halt new petrochemical deals with Iran (Ref A). ENI executives said Iran needs advanced oil recovery technology to become a net gas [...] | 2009-04-16 06:38:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ETTC IR IT |
09ROME434 | ITALY YES ON KOSOVO IMF AND WORLD BANK MEMBERSHIP [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-17 09:54:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL IT KV |
09ROME435 | RSI PROPOSAL: CRITICAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT [...] (SBU) This message has been prepared in coordination with the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See. Need for Project ---------------- 2. (SBU) The purpose of the project is to foster a bilateral dialogue with the Vatican on counter-terrorism preparedness and to improve the Vatican's ability to [...] | 2009-04-17 12:02:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC IT VT |
09ROME437 | NO MORE MR. NICE GUY (I): INEFFECTIVE ITALIAN [...] (SBU) Recent tragic reports of boatloads of African immigrants crossing from Libya to Lampedusa, a 12 square mile island off of the coast of Sicily, have transfixed local, regional and international audiences. The arrivals have accelerated a law and order approach to irregular immigration pr [...] | 2009-04-17 12:47:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF IT |
09ROME438 | NO MORE MR. NICE GUY (III): INEFFECTIVE ITALIAN [...] (SBU) This is the third in a series of three reporting cables on immigration in Italy. This first reporting cable described the current situation. The second reported on the government's reaction to the immigration challenge. This third cable examines the concerns raised by the government's [...] | 2009-04-17 13:34:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF IT |
09ROME439 | NO MORE MR. NICE GUY (II): INEFFECTIVE ITALIAN [...] (SBU) This is the second in a series of three reporting cables on immigration in Italy. This first reporting cable described the current situation. This second cable reports on the government's reaction to the immigration challenge. The third examines concerns about the limitations of the g [...] | 2009-04-17 13:34:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF IT |
09ROME456 | VISITING AFGHAN GOVERNORS ASK ITALY FOR MORE [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. The Governors of Afghanistan's Farah and Bamyan Provinces visited Rome April 20-21 on the first leg of a tour of Europe co-sponsored by Embassy Kabul, USNATO and Embassies Rome and The Hague. In a very successf [...] | 2009-04-22 15:43:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR KPAO MOPS NATO EAID SNAR IT AF |
09ROME464 | ITALY CONSIDERING CONTRIBUTION FOR ETHIOPIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-24 14:50:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO ET SU IT |
09ROME472 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ITALY AWARE OF IRANIAN [...] (C) On 15 and 16 April Econoff delivered reftel demarche to the Ministry of International Trade and to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, respectively, concerning Iranian efforts to procure sensitive items for use in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) via an Italian intermediary. Econoff prese [...] | 2009-04-28 15:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR IT |
09ROME476 | U.S.-RUSSIA TALKS IN ROME ON START FOLLOW-ON [...] (S) During the initial discussions of the START follow-on agreement, the heads of delegation (Assistant Secretary for Verification, Compliance and Implementation Rose Gottemoeller and Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov) agreed to a tentative work program for developing the major elements of the [...] | 2009-04-29 12:16:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | PARM PREL KACT START JCIC US RS IT |
09ROME481 | LUKASHENA IN ROME, BERLUSCONI PROMISES VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenka visited Rome April 27 to meet with Pope Benedict XVI (reftel) and PM Berlusconi. The MFA claimed that Berlusconi had made the decision to break Lukashenka's isolation in the hopes of exploiting potential opportunities for a thaw in EU-Belarus [...] | 2009-04-29 15:13:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BO IT |
09ROME483 | ITALY WILL ATTEND ISLAMABAD MAY 13-14 CONFERENCE [...] MFA Special Envoy for Afghanistan Sergio Mercuri and MFA Counselor for Asia, Domenico Bellato, both confirmed Italy's participation in the May 13-14 Islamabad Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan. While not confirmed, Italy's Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Amb [...] | 2009-04-30 10:42:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON ENRG ETRD KPWR EAID IT |
09ROME486 | SPECIAL 301 - ITALY 2009: DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) On April 30, Econoff delivered the requested demarche on Italy's Special 301 review. The demarche was delivered to Fabrizio Mazza, head of the Intellectual Property Office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mazza said he found the criticism to be fair said he was appreciative of the rec [...] | 2009-04-30 13:44:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON ETRD IT |
09ROME487 | ABRUZZO EARTHQUAKE-POSSIBLE NEXT STEPS WITH NIAF [...] SUMMARY: At the conclusion of a visit by a delegation of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF),Post proposes moving forward in a public-private partnership with NIAF, focused on education, specifically on the University of Aquila, in response to the earthquake that struck the Abruz [...] | 2009-05-04 05:31:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SCUL PGOV PREL IT |
09ROME493 | ABRUZZO EARTHQUAKE-POSSIBLE NEXT STEPS WITH NIAF [...] SUMMARY: At the conclusion of a visit by a delegation of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF),Post proposes moving forward in a public-private partnership with NIAF, focused on education, specifically on the University of Aquila, in response to the earthquake that struck the Abruz [...] | 2009-05-04 09:15:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SCUL PGOV PREL IT |
09ROME504 | ENI WANTS TO TALK TO USG ABOUT ITS PLANS TO SIGN [...] (C) Summary: Italian energy company ENI is seeking at least tacit USG approval for a memorandum of understanding that it wishes to sign with Iran. The MOU would be for a feasibility study to increase oil production from the Darquain field. ENI's CEO Paolo Scaroni will raise this issue with US [...] | 2009-05-05 15:19:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ETTC IR IT |
09ROME506 | MEGAPORTS IN ITALY: DETECTING NUCLEAR MATERIALS [...] (SBU) Summary: The DOE Megaports program seeks to protect the United States from attack by placing radiation detectors in container ports. Italy has long been on the Department of Energy's list of desired Megaports participants, but efforts to institute the program in Italy stalled several yea [...] | 2009-05-06 15:06:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | IT PGOV ETRD PBTS PTER PARM |
09ROME507 | VIEWS OF ABRUZZO EARTHQUAKE ZONE; POTENTIAL IMPACT [...] (SBU) Summary: In order to gauge progress in earthquake relief and reconstruction, particularly as to how conditions on the ground may impact planned G8 events near the epicenter, Embassy recently met with the Italian official in charge of earthquake relief and reconstruction, as well as with [...] | 2009-05-06 15:06:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CASC IT |
09ROME508 | MEGAPORTS IN ITALY: DETECTING NUCLEAR MATERIALS [...] (SBU) Summary: The DOE Megaports program seeks to protect the United States from attack by placing radiation detectors in container ports. Italy has long been on the Department of Energy's list of desired Megaports participants, but efforts to institute the program in Italy stalled several yea [...] | 2009-05-06 15:07:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IT PGOV ETRD PBTS PTER PARM |
09ROME513 | BLUE LANTERN LICENSE 050079832: STELIT EMITTER [...] (SBU) Summary: On 28 April Econoffs performed a site visit of Stelit SRL, pursuant to license 050079832 for Emitter Memory Modules. Stelit appeared to be a bona fide Foreign Intermediate Consignee. Company management was familiar with restrictions on re-export of US defense items. End Sum [...] | 2009-05-07 09:50:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KOMC IT |
09ROME518 | IRANIAN-ORIGIN VEHICLES STILL IN ITALY, BUT MAY BE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-07 15:02:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC PARM IR IT |
09ROME521 | ISRAELI FM LIEBERMAN REWARDS ITALY'S FRIENDSHIP [...] (C) Summary. On a May 4-5 visit to Rome, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman met separately with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, as well as Rome's mayor and the leadership of its tiny Jewish community. With Berlusconi and Frattini, Lieberman stre [...] | 2009-05-08 06:07:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG KPAL EU IS IT |
09ROME529 | IRANIAN-ORIGIN VEHICLES STILL IN ITALY, BUT MAY BE [...] (U) This is an Action Request, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Emboffs met with Emanuele Farruggia, MFA Director for Arms Control and Non Proliferation, on May 6 to deliver reftel demarche concerning Iranian-origin vehicles destined for Syria, which Italy detained in 2006. Farruggia ackno [...] | 2009-05-08 15:58:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | PREL ETTC PARM IT |
09ROME535 | NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORATE FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY [...] (U) Summary: The Italian government has reorganized its patent and trademark offices, creating a General Directorate for Intellectual Property. The new Directorate will be responsible for all domestic anti-counterfeiting action and will, in addition, coordinate the action of all agencies with [...] | 2009-05-12 13:08:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | IT KIPR ETRD ECON EINT |
09ROME546 | BURMA: ITALY CONVOKES BURMESE CHARGE OVER [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-15 15:15:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BM IT |
09ROME558 | G8 ENERGY MINISTERIAL: SCENESETTE... [...] (C/NF) Summary: Your 23-25 May visit to Rome will provide opportunities to interact with senior Italian officials on priority USG energy issues. On European energy security, Italy's very close relationship with Russia often causes it to resist efforts to reduce dependence on Russian energy s [...] | 2009-05-20 08:19:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG EPET OVIP PREL IR RU IT |
09ROME589 | UNAMID: ITALY WILL CONTRIBUTE 500,000 EUROS FOR [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Italy has identified 500,000 euros to support the Ethiopian multi-role logistics unit in Darfur, according to MFA East Africa Office Director Giuseppe Pastorelli. Pastorelli contacted poloff May 20 with a f [...] | 2009-05-21 12:00:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO ET SU IT |
09ROME592 | FM FRATTINI ABRUPTLY CANCELS TEHRAN VISIT [...] (C) Summary. FM Franco Frattini abruptly canceled his May 20-21 visit to Tehran when Iran insisted on a meeting with President Ahmadi-Nejad in Semnan, the location of the May 20 missile launch. Frattini had intended to meet with Iranian FM Manouchehr Mottaki to discuss Iranian participation [...] | 2009-05-21 16:19:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG KPAL IT IR |
09ROME595 | ITALY: RESPONSE FOR REVIEW OF SUSPENSION OF TITLE [...] (U) This message is post's response to reftel request for updated information necessary for the President's consideration of continued suspension of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act. 2. (C) There has been no significant change in Italian relations with Cuba over the past six months. There wer [...] | 2009-05-22 07:23:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU IT |
09ROME60 | ITALIANS HAVE NO SUBSTANTIVE COMMENT ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-16 16:56:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PARM PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS IT |
09ROME600 | ITALY ENACTS A TOUGH SECURITY LAW IN RESPONSE TO [...] (C//NF) During the week of May 18, the parties of the governing coalition finally reached an accord and passed a tough new security law that will allow the GOI to detain irregular immigrants for up to six months, for the first time classifies irregular immigration as a crime, and gives the leg [...] | 2009-05-22 14:51:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREF PREL IT |
09ROME601 | IRAN SANCTIONS: GETTING ITALY TO DO MORE [...] (C/NF) Summary: Italy's argument that it should be included in the P5 1 is based on long-standing Italian claims to a major economic relationship with Iran. The trade relationship is not, in fact, particularly large and any vulnerability appears to be more on the Iranian side. Even energy im [...] | 2009-05-22 15:40:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN ETRD IT KNNP PREL |
09ROME618 | ITALIAN DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON SRMS/SECURITY TEAMS ABOARD MERCHANT VESSELS [...] (SBU) Post delivered the demarche on Arms/Security Teams aboard Merchant Vessels to Massimo Marotti, the NATO director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Below are the answers provided by Mr. Marotti. He stressed, however, that this information should be considered to be preliminary and not [...] | 2009-05-29 10:24:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC IT KHLS KOMC MARR PARM PHSA PREL EWWT |
09ROME623 | ITALY GIVES 760K EUROS FOR PAKISTANI IDPS; 40M [...] (C) Summary: In response to humanitarian needs created by recent hostilities in the Swat valley, Italy has pledged 400,000 Euros for emergency aid to be managed through the Pakistani Red Crescent, as well as another 360,000 Euro "in kind" donation of humanitarian supplies. Italy is also fi [...] | 2009-05-29 14:06:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PHUM PREF PK IT |
09ROME638 | FRATTINI TELLS AG HOLDER ITALY FAVORS ACCEPTING [...] (C) Attorney General Eric Holder (AG) discussed resettlement of Guantanamo detainees with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini in Rome May 29 on the margins of the G8 meeting of interior and justice ministers. Frattini said the GOI ""profoundly shares"" the President's views on Guantanamo [...] | 2009-06-04 09:59:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IT |
09ROME647 | INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION: ITALIAN VIEWS [...] Summary. Italian International Whaling Commissioner Giuseppe Ambrosio responded on June 8 to our inquiries regarding the upcoming International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting (reftel). Among the key points: Italy supports keeping the Small Working Group (SWG) closed to observers, and belie [...] | 2009-06-09 06:41:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS SENV PREL KSCA IWC IT |
09ROME649 | SCENESETTER FOR ITALIAN PM BERLUSCONI’S JUNE 15 [...] (C/NF) Mr. President, your meeting with Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi comes at a time when his closest advisors fear Italy is losing the credibility and influence that it enjoyed in Washington under the previous U.S. administration. In fact, while Italy has been a stalwart partner and participant in [...] | 2009-06-09 08:11:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IT |
09ROME652 | ITALY AGAIN SEEKS INFO ON TERRORISM LISTINGS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: Echoing the request made by the Italian delegation to USUN in New York May 5 (ref A),MFA terror finance officer Lorenzo Tomassoni on May 28 requested Embassy assistance in helping Italy fulfill its reporting obligat [...] | 2009-06-09 12:31:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID UNSC IT |
09ROME653 | ITALY PROPOSES LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATION WITH [...] Summary. At a May 26 low-carbon technology conference organized by the Embassy and Italian co-sponsors, Environment Director General Corrado Clini called for Italy-U.S. collaboration in developing and deploying clean energy technology in China and other countries. He highlighted three sector [...] | 2009-06-09 13:31:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG KGHG TRGY KSCA KPAO CH IT |
09ROME661 | U.S./ITALY/CHINA: OPPORTUNITIES FOR CLIMATE AND [...] (SBU) Italian Environment Director General Corrado Clini, a pillar of Italy's climate negotiations for over 15 years, in recent months has strongly called, both in private and publicly, for Italy-U.S. collaboration in developing and deploying clean energy technology in China and other countrie [...] | 2009-06-11 06:03:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG TRGY KSCA CH IT |
09ROME686 | U/S BURNS' PARTICIPATION IN G8 POLITICAL DIRECTORS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-17 06:16:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC PTER AF IR IT KN PK YM |
09ROME687 | U/S BURNS' PARTICIPATION IN G8 POLITICAL DIRECTORS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-17 06:16:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC PTER AF BM GG IR IT KN |
09ROME719 | SCENESETTER FOR THE G8 FOREIGN MINISTERIAL IN [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: While the two G8 sessions are packed with regional and functional issues, this Foreign Ministerial has become almost a sideshow to what FM Frattini intends as the "jewel in the crown," the Afganistan-Pakistan Outreach that include neighbors and "influential others" in disc [...] | 2009-06-22 06:19:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IT |
09ROME728 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ITALY APPROVES SOME EXPORTS TO [...] (C) Econoff delivered reftel demarche to the Ministries of International Trade and Foreign Affairs concerning export license applications by Worthington SRL and Emerson Process Management to ship industrial items to Iran (reftel). Econoff presented the demarche to Giovanni Ramella Zampa, a [...] | 2009-06-23 13:32:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL IR MNUC ETTC IT |
09ROME736 | ITALY LEANING TOWARD UAE FOR IRENA HEADQUARTERS, STILL [...] (SBU) Summary. Italian Foreign Ministry officials said Italy is leaning toward the choice of the United Arab Emirates as the headquarters for the new International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA),but the Italian position could still change if there are "important advances" in the case for Bo [...] | 2009-06-25 06:31:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG TRGY SENV KSCA IEA IT |
09ROME738 | ITALY: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON COMPREHENSIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-25 07:45:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER IT |
09ROME748 | EMBASSY ROME HAS RESCINDED IRANIAN AMBASSADOR'S [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-25 15:22:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ODIP IR IT |
09ROME752 | SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-26 16:30:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IT |
09ROME753 | AFGHANISTAN: ITALY WILL PUSH FOR CREDIBLE ELECTIONS [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel demarche to Italian MFA Secretary General Giampiero Massolo on June 23 and Poloff delivered it to Italian MFA Afghan Unit Director Sergio Mercuri on June 22. Both Massolo and Mercuri said that Italy, in its role as G8 President and ISAF contributor, will continue [...] | 2009-06-26 16:31:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO IT AF |
09ROME755 | SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: This G8 Summit in L'Aquila is the culmination of a busy year for the Italian G8 Presidency. Prime Minister Berlusconi is very pleased to host this event, to host you, and to demonstrate his role as elder statesman of the G8 ""club."" In Italy, all eyes will be on Berlusconi [...] | 2009-06-27 08:22:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IT |
09ROME77 | MLAT: UPDATE UPDATE ON ITALIAN RATIFICATION OF [...] (C) The Government of Italy (GOI) referred the US-EU Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance Agreements to the Parliament on December 12. Per reftel reguest, Poloff raised the ratification status with Member of Parliament Alessandro Ruben, who is close to President of the Chamber of Deputies G [...] | 2009-01-22 14:55:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM KTIA AA IT |
09ROME770 | ITALY - AUTUMN MARKS DO-OR-DIE FOR ECONOMY [...] (SBU) Summary - A recent stream of economic forecasts and data suggest that, while Italy's economy may have touched bottom in the current global downturn, recovery remains elusive. Sobering GDP growth forecasts and unemployment projections counterbalance encouraging signs in consumer and bus [...] | 2009-07-01 14:13:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD IT |
09ROME776 | TRIESTE G8 FOREIGN MINISTERIAL: FOCUS ON IRAN, [...] (C) Under Secretary Burns headed the U.S. delegation to the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting in Trieste June 25-27. The G8-only portion of the meetings focused on global and regional challenges but the forum grew on June 26th to include meetings between the G8 and Afghan and Pakistani foreign m [...] | 2009-07-06 05:58:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC PTER AF IR IT KN PK YM |
09ROME78 | ITALY CONFIRMS INTEREST IN GAZA ARMS INTERDICTION [...] (C) Summary: GOI Officials confirmed to Embassy Rome on January 22 Italy's interest in participating in a multilateral effort to interdict the flow of arms to Gaza, but voiced uncertainty about the legal basis for the various mechanisms being considered. PM Berlusconi, FM Frattini and MOD La [...] | 2009-01-22 17:04:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS NATO KPAL IS IR EG IT |
09ROME782 | ITALIAN COMPANY INVOLVEMENT IN IRANIAN GAS [...] (C) Summary: On June 9, 2009, the Italian engineering company Maire Tecnimont announced that it intends to sign a 200 million Euro contract to help build a gas treatment plant in Tombak, Iran. This announcement comes in spite of an April 2009 U.S. demarche requesting the GOI discourage this d [...] | 2009-07-08 12:42:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ETTC IR IT PREL |
09ROME786 | ITALY AGREES TO CONSIDER THREE DETAINEES FOR [...] (C) Summary. Special Envoy Fried met separately with Foreign Minister Frattini and Minister of Justice Alfano in Rome on July 1 to share information on three Guantanamo detainees for the Italians to consider for possible resettlement in Italy. Italian officials are contemporaneously working wi [...] | 2009-07-08 16:01:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IT |
09ROME793 | VISAS VIPER JUNE 2009: MISSION ITALY REPORT [...] Mission Italy consists of Embassy Rome and Consulates General in Milan, Naples and Florence. Embassy Rome Coordinator is Visa Chief Hugo Rodriguez; the Milan Coordinator is Consul William Gill. Naples Visas Viper Coordinator is Vice Consul Daniela DiPierro and the Coordinator for Florence is [...] | 2009-07-10 08:18:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR PTER ASEC KVPR CVIS CMGT IT |
09ROME812 | Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern's Meeting with [...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 9 meeting with U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern on the margins of the G8 Summit, United Nations Secretary General (UNSYG) Ban Ki Moon thanked the U.S., and President Obama in particular, for leadership on the issue of climate change. Ban asked that th [...] | 2009-07-16 08:06:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG TRGY KSCA UN IT |
09ROME815 | ITALIAN PARLIAMENT GIVES GREEN LIGHT FOR NUCLEAR [...] (C/NF) Summary: The Italian Parliament approved nuclear energy legislation on July 9th that gives the GOI the green-light to re-launch Italy's civil nuclear energy program. The legislation calls for the GOI to come up within six months with revamped regulation to govern the nuclear sector, ide [...] | 2009-07-16 12:27:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EINV ENRG IT |
09ROME827 | ITALY 2008 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION [...] (U) Embassy is aware of four (4) outstanding expropriation cases concerning the estates of United States citizens of Italian descent against the Government of Italy for the expropriation of property. For Claimant A, there is only one up-date from the Embassy's report of last year. There is no [...] | 2009-07-21 08:39:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON IT |
09ROME847 | AFTER SUCCESSFUL G8, BERLUSCONI BREATHES SIGH OF [...] (C//NF) After months of charges of sex and financial scandals, Prime Minister Berlusconi emerged from the G8 summit in L'Aquila strengthened. No further serious allegations or charges from the judiciary emerged; the event went off without a significant logistical hitch; and to his domestic aud [...] | 2009-07-23 15:55:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IT |
09ROME851 | AFGHANISTAN: ITALY TO KEEP ELECTION SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: The GOI is looking at ways to enhance its support for Afghanistan after the August 20 presidential elections. It has a bill before Parliament authorizing Euro 509 million for Italian overseas security and peacekeeping missions through October 2009. The bill, which passed the lo [...] | 2009-07-24 10:59:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
09ROME877 | ITALY: MAKING POLITICAL HAY ABOUT ISAF MISSION [...] C)Summary: Lega Nord Leader Bossi grabbed an opportunity afforded by what was supposed to be a routine vote to call for a political level discussion on the ISAF mission in Afghanistan and Italy's continued involvement. Citing the high cost of the mission and increasing NATO casualties, Bossi [...] | 2009-07-30 15:24:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO IT AF |
09ROME878 | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MINISTER SCAJOLA'S U.S. VISIT TO STRESS NUCLEAR ENERGY AND OTHER COMMERCIAL COLLABORATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-30 15:45:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EINV ENRG IT PREL |
09ROME889 | DAS SPIRNAK'S MEETING WITH ITALIAN VICE DIRECTOR [...] (U) On the margins of a July 24 discussion on the Broader Middle East Initiative, NEA Acting DAS Madelyn Spirnak spoke with Italian MFA Vice Director General Luigi Marras about the situation in Iran, Lebanon and Syria. ---- Iran ---- 2. (C) Spirnak complimented Marras for Italy's hand [...] | 2009-07-31 16:50:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IS IT IR |
09ROME89 | ITALIAN PRIVACY AUTHORITY PROHIBITS IPR HOLDERS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-23 15:17:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD IT KIPR PGOV |
09ROME923 | VISAS VIPER JULY 2009: MISSION ITALY REPORT [...] Mission Italy consists of Embassy Rome and Consulates General in Milan, Naples and Florence. Embassy Rome Coordinator is Acting Visa Chief Jill Hutchings; the Milan Coordinator is Consul William Gill. Naples Visas Viper Coordinator is Vice Consul Daniela DiPierro and the Coordinator for Floren [...] | 2009-08-11 15:47:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR PTER ASEC KVPR CVIS CMGT IT |
09ROME925 | SECRETARY'S LETTER ON SUPPORT FOR THE PALESTINIAN [...] The Embassy delivered the Secretary's letter regarding support for the Palestinian Authority to Foreign Minister Frattini on August 4. Following delivery of the Secretary's letter, EconOff contacted Counselor Guglielmo Giordano and Antonello De Riu, in the Office of Italian Foreign Assistance [...] | 2009-08-12 07:48:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EFIN ECON EAID KWBG PREL IT |
09ROME928 | ITALIAN "MORAL SUASION" PUTS IRANIAN PROJECT ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-12 11:39:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG EPET ETTC IR IT PREL |
09ROME930 | ITALY: DONOR SUPPORT FOR THE SOMALIA TFG [...] (SBU) Summary. Poloff delivered demarche seeking donor support for the Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) following the agreement with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) to MFA East Africa Office Director Giuseppe Pastorelli. He emphasized the GOI's continuing commitment to achieving st [...] | 2009-08-12 13:17:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER SO EAID KPKO IT |
09ROME940 | ITALY'S VIEWS ON UPCOMING UNESCO DIRECTOR-GENERAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-17 09:39:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNESCO IT |
09ROME944 | ITALY: PIRATES RELEASE BUCCANEER CREW WITHOUT [...] (C) Summary: On August 11, Poloff met with Massimiliano D'Antuono, Deputy Head of the MFA Crisis Unit, to discuss the details of the release of the MV Buccaneer crew which was taken hostage by pirates off the coast of Somalia. A Somali pirate is quoted in the press as saying that a four million [...] | 2009-08-17 14:29:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHSA SO IT |
09ROME95 | LESSONS LEARNED - ROME DVC CRISIS MANAGEMENT [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (U) Summary: In November 2008, the Tri-Mission in Rome participated in a Foreign Service Institute- facilitated Crisis Management Exercise (CME) conducted via Digital Video Conference (DVC). The exercise reinforced expectatio [...] | 2009-01-26 10:43:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR AFSI AMGT ASEC CASC IT |
09ROME959 | ITALY'S INTERIM RESPONSE: ATTENDANCE AT 64TH UN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-20 12:53:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP CVIS UNGA IT |
09ROME960 | BLUE LANTERN RESPONSE ON ELETTRONICA AMPLIFIERS: [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-20 13:55:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC IT |
09ROME962 | NO DEFINITIVE INFORMATION ON ITALIAN CMS [...] (S) Per Ref A, Post requested that Italian officials provide an up-date on Italian machine tool manufacturer CMS Industries proposed export of NSG and Wassenaar Arrangement controlled machines tools to Iran. The export would have been through a Turkish company called Ark Makina. On August 5, [...] | 2009-08-20 14:14:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | ETTC IR IT KSCA MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL |
09ROME967 | BERLUSCONI TO VISIT LIBYA FOR "FRIENDSHIP DAY" [...] (C) Prime Minister Berlusconi is scheduled to visit Libya to celebrate the first anniversary of the signing of the Italy-Libya Friendship Treaty. The treaty established August 30th as Libya-Italy "Friendship Day" and Berlusconi will participate in several events marking the day. According to [...] | 2009-08-21 14:13:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM LY IT |
09ROME968 | ITALY'S STRONG REACTION TO AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on welcoming Italy's strong and non-partisan condemnation of Aung San Suu Kyi's conviction on August 19 to MFA Southeast Asia Office Deputy Head, Fabio Schina. Schina confirmed FM Frattini's public statement that "Since this fresh sentence will prevent Mrs [...] | 2009-08-21 14:56:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV BM IT |
09ROME97 | ITALY-RUSSIA RELATIONS: THE VIEW FROM ROME [...] (U) This is a joint Political and Economic Section cable. 2. (C/NF) Summary. Italy's relationship with Russia is complex, encompassing historical ideological sympathies, geostrategic calculations, commercial pressure, energy dependence, and personal relationships between top leaders. The combinat [...] | 2009-01-26 11:48:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ENRG EPET RS IT |
09ROME989 | ITALIAN SURVEILLANCE SHOWS NO EVIDENCE OF EXPORTS [...] (S) Summary: In response to Post's inquiry about the GOI's investigation of the suspected export of restricted Japanese-origin items by an Italian firm to Iran, the GOI advised that it had put the suspected Italian firm under surveillance for the 3 months ending on July 28. The surveillance u [...] | 2009-08-27 13:54:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | ETTC IR IT JA KSCA MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL |
09ROME997 | AFGHANISTAN: ITALY SEEKS TO HEAL EGF RIFT WITH [...] (C) Summary: Italian officials are optimistic that they can come to an amicable agreement with France over the proposed deployment of a European Gendarmerie Force mission to Afghanistan. At the next meeting of the EGF governing committee in Paris, September 2-4, Italy will present ideas for E [...] | 2009-08-28 13:01:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS NATO PINS AF IT FR |
09SOFIA662 | BULGARIA TO SUPPORT ITALIAN FOR IDLO DIRECTOR [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel points on the upcoming election for Director General of the International Development Law Organization to Dimitri Pampoulov, Head of International Law Department at the MFA on November 18. Pampoulov informed us that Bulgaria will vote for Italian candidate, Antonio [...] | 2009-11-19 08:20:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL IT BU |
09STATE101367 | (U) ASSISTANT SECRETARY SHANNON,S SEPARATE [...] (U) September 23, 2009; various times; New York, USA. 2. (C) SUMMARY. In separate meetings with Italian Secretary of State Ezno Scotti, Guatemalan Foreign Minister Haroldo Rodas, and Paraguayan FM Hector Lacognata, Assistant Secretary Shannon described the current state of affairs in H [...] | 2009-09-29 18:23:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR HO VT IT PA XK GT |
09STATE102073 | MULTILATERAL "COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM [...] Action Request - See Para 9. 2. (SBU) The Secretary's Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism is pleased to announce a three-day "Multinational Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Planners Workshop" from Wednesday, November 4-Friday, November 6, 2009 in Washington, D.C. This workshop wil [...] | 2009-10-01 01:35:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV KHLS UK SP GM FR IT AS |
09STATE105467 | UNIFIL: BUCKING UP THE ITALIANS [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs three through six. Summary ------- 2. (C/NF) Summary. We want to prevent a significant drawdown of Italy's contribution to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL),a linchpin of the post-2006 ceasefire between Israel and Hizballah. Due t [...] | 2009-10-09 13:40:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS KPKO IT LE IS |
09STATE107044 | ACTION REQUEST: SUPPORT FOR MONTENEGRO'S AND [...] (U) This is an action request cable. Please see paragraphs 4-5. 2. (SBU) BACKGROUND: In previous Southeastern Europe Defense Ministerial (SEDM) membership discussions, the U.S. objected to Serbian membership in SEDM without a firm commitment by the Government of Serbia to not/not block its [...] | 2009-10-15 14:45:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL GR RO TU SR UP SI MW IT BU HR |
09STATE107309 | LETTER FROM SECRETARY CLINTON TO FM FRATTINI [...] Please deliver the following message from Secretary Clinton to Italian Foreign Minister Frattini. The Department does not plan to release the text of the message but has no objection if the government of Italy wishes to do so. There will be no signed original. 2. BEGIN TEXT: Dear Mr. [...] | 2009-10-15 22:55:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL IT XG XT ZM |
09STATE11918 | JANUARY 27 MEETING OF THE G-8 GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the first G8 Global Partnership Working Group (GPWG) meeting of the Italian 2009 G8 Presidency, Chair Gianluca Alberini outlined a program of work that included the two main G8 Global Partnership (GP) objectives agreed to at the 2008 G8 Summit: (a) completing current G8 Globa [...] | 2009-02-10 00:28:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC KNNP CBW TRGY GM JA RS CA UK FR IT |
09STATE119647 | INFORMING THE GOT OF THE TRANSFER OF TUNISIAN DETAINEES FROM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 20:07:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDRG PHUM IT TS |
09STATE120211 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on licenses 050190394, 050190382, and 050190375 for the export of International Traffic in Arms (ITAR)-con [...] | 2009-11-20 21:31:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC IT |
09STATE126206 | U.S. RESPONSE TO EU DRAFT CODE OF CONDUCT FOR [...] (SBU) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. See paragraph 3 below. 2. (U) BACKGROUND: On December 8, 2008, the European Union (EU) Foreign Ministers endorsed a draft proposal for a "Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities" (http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/0 8/st17/st17175. en08.p [...] | 2009-12-09 22:27:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | AS CA CDG EC ESA EUN FR GM IT JA KACT KS KTIA MCAP |
09STATE12794 | DELEGATION GUIDANCE FOR THE EIGHTH IRFFI DONORS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-11 20:45:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON IT IZ DA PGOV PREL |
09STATE129187 | ENGAGING COALITION PARTNERS TO QUICKLY REVIEW [...] (U) This is an action request (see paragraph 3). 2. (U) Begin Summary: Significant numbers of additional U.S. civilian personnel are now arriving in Afghanistan for deployment to all Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) as a critical element of our strategy. To facilitate timely deploy [...] | 2009-12-17 22:00:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID UK NO SW GM HU CA NL LH FR SP IT NZ EZ |
09STATE129480 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE AMCIT [...] (U) This is an action request for Embassies Rome, Canberra, Ankara, Jakarta, New Delhi, Brasilia, Oslo, Baghdad, Muscat, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Paris, Berlin, Ottawa, The Hague, Brussels, Vienna, Stockholm, Mexico City, Pretoria, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Ashgabat, Beijing, and the U.S. Mission to the Eu [...] | 2009-12-18 18:07:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | CASC IR PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER IT NZ TU ID |
09STATE130318 | INFORMING THE GOT OF THE TRANSFER OF TUNISIAN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (S/NF) The recent conclusion of an arrangement with the Government of Italy regarding the requirements for the transfer of Tunisian national Moez Bin Abdul Qadir Fezzani to the custody of the GOI paved the way for his transfer from Bagr [...] | 2009-12-22 21:50:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KDRG PHUM IT TS |
09STATE130971 | (C) KUDOS AND FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS ON ITALIAN [...] (C/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS APPRECIATED REFS ON ITALY'S POLICY TOWARDS THE BALKANS. WE ARE CLOSELY MONITORING DEVELOPMENTS RELATED TO THE GRADUAL DRAWDOWN OF ITALIAN FORCES IN THE BALKANS AND ARE ASSESSING ITALY'S CONTINUED COMMITMENT AND POLITICAL POLICY IN THE BALKANS, IN THE EVENT OF A PUL [...] | 2009-12-24 17:09:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR MARR NATO PGOV PREL AL BK IT KV |
09STATE131161 | LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BELGRADE 1428) [...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (COESPU) in Vicenza, Italy beginning on January 18, 2010. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individ [...] | 2009-12-28 15:33:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM MASS PHUM PREL IT SR |
09STATE1313 | INVITATION TO ITALY TO JOIN THE CONTACT GROUP ON [...] (SBU) This is an Action Request, please see para. 3. 2. (SBU) Following the Government of Italy,s formal offer of significant naval assets to support counter piracy operations off the coast of Somalia, the Department concurs with Embassy Rome,s support for Italy,s request (Ref A) to be inclu [...] | 2009-01-07 14:16:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA PTER IT |
09STATE13703 | CORRECTED CABLE: DELEGATION GUIDANCE FOR THE [...] (U) This cable corrects references, background and certain guidance points appearing in reftel State 12794. 2. (U) This is an action cable for the U.S. delegation to the eighth formal meeting of the Donors Committee that oversees the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFF [...] | 2009-02-13 16:31:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON IT IZ DA PGOV PREL |
09STATE1420 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2 - 4. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on license 050109951 for the export of firearms to Italy. Post is requested to complete this Blue Lantern che [...] | 2009-01-07 16:22:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC IT |
09STATE17176 | NORWAY, ESTONIA, TURKEY, LUXEMBOURG, ITALY AND [...] (U) Norway, Estonia, Turkey, Italy, Luxembourg and Iceland have formally accepted the accession to NATO of Albania and Croatia by depositing with the U.S. Department of State, their instruments constituting acceptance of the NATO Accession Protocols. 2. (U) Date of deposit: Norway, Estonia, [...] | 2009-02-24 21:49:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EN IC IT KTIA LU MARR NATO NO PARM PREL TU |
09STATE22496 | GUIDANCE FOR G-8 BIOTERRORISM EXPERTS GROUP [...] (U) This message provides guidance for the U.S. delegation to the U.S. delegation to the G-8 Bioterrorism Experts Group (BTEX) workshop in Tokyo, March 12-13, 2009. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of Disarmament, Nonproliferation a [...] | 2009-03-10 19:52:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PTER GM JA RS CA UK IT FR TBIO |
09STATE32091 | (U) Deputy Secretary Steinberg's March 6, 2009 [...] (S) SUMMARY: In Deputy Secretary Steinberg's March 6 meeting with Italian Ambassador Castellaneta, Castellaneta stressed that Italy was very interested in a close, consultative relationship with the United States, similar to what Washington has with the UK, France, and Germany. He listed fo [...] | 2009-04-02 18:51:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | OVIP STEINBERG JAMES PREL KPAL IT IR NATO |
09STATE32269 | IRANIAN UAV PROGRAM SEEKING JAPANESE-ORIGIN ITEMS [...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Tokyo, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: Since the summer of 2007, we have discussed with Japanese officials the efforts of entities acting on behalf of Iran's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program to acquire SSPS105 and PS050 servo-actuat [...] | 2009-04-02 21:32:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR IT |
09STATE32648 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-03 15:29:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC IT |
09STATE34798 | IRANIAN PROCUREMENT ENTITY USES ITALIAN FIRM AS [...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Rome, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: The United States has information indicating that in mid-February 2009, Iran's Farazeh Equipment Distributor Company (FEDCO) sought servo-actuators manufactured by the Japanese firm Tonegawa-Seiko via [...] | 2009-04-09 13:34:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR IT |
09STATE36567 | G8-BMENA INITIATIVE SECOND COORDINATION MEETING [...] Summary: Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Madelyn Spirnak attended a G8-Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) coordination meeting hosted by Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Youssef Amrani in Rabat on April 2, 2009. Italy,s Deputy Direc [...] | 2009-04-14 15:24:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KPAO PREL IT MO LE QA |
09STATE38773 | RESPONSE TO ITALY ON EXPORTS TO IRAN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. ------------------------- OBJECTIVES/ACTION REQUEST ------------------------- 2. (C) Washington requests Post deliver the non-paper in paragraph 3 to appropriate host government officials in the foreign affairs ministry in response [...] | 2009-04-20 12:46:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL IR MNUC ETTC IT |
09STATE44624 | RESPONDING TO GOJ QUESTIONS ABOUT IRANIAN [...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Tokyo, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: Since the summer of 2007, we have discussed with Japanese officials the efforts of entities acting on behalf of Iran's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program to acquire SSPS105 and PS050 servo-actuat [...] | 2009-05-01 18:55:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR IT |
09STATE45019 | READ OUT OF APRIL 23 MEETING OF G-8 [...] (SBU) Summary: The G-8 Nonproliferation Directors devoted most of the April 23 NPDG meeting in Rome to revising draft nonproliferation language, which the Italian G-8 Presidency plans to release as a separate Leaders' statement at the July G-8 Summit. Lengthy debate occurred on the paragraph r [...] | 2009-05-04 15:57:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PREL KNNP IT |
09STATE45230 | SHIPMENT OF IRANIAN-ORIGIN TACTICAL VEHICLES [...] (S//REL Italy) Italian authorities detained a shipment of Iranian-origin tactical vehicles destined for Syria in June 2006. We have obtained information suggesting that the shippers of this cargo believe Italian authorities intend to release the shipment, allowing them to complete the delive [...] | 2009-05-04 21:48:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | ETTC IR IT PARM PREL |
09STATE55801 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on license 050092253 for the export of CH-47C Chinook helicopter spare parts to the United Kingdom. Post i [...] | 2009-06-01 13:16:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC UK IT |
09STATE61153 | READOUT OF JUNE 5 MEETING OF G-8 NONPROLIFERATION [...] (SBU) Acting ISN DAS Matthias Mitman led the U.S. Delegation to the last NPDG meeting before the G-8 Summit. After some heated discussion, the Group agreed on most of the Leaders' nonproliferation statement, but several paragraphs remained in brackets. France remained isolated in opposition t [...] | 2009-06-12 20:50:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM PREL KNNP IT |
09STATE62400 | JUNE 4 MEETING OF THE G-8 GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ISN Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Matthias Mitman led the USDEL to the G-8 Global Partnership Working Group (GPWG) meeting in Rome on June 4--the final meeting prior to the G-8 Summit July 8-10. The GPWG focused on achieving consensus on the final GP Annual Report and the GP [...] | 2009-06-16 21:58:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC KNNP CB TRGY GM JA RS CA UK FR IT |
09STATE64201 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on license 050088933 for the export of International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) - controlled ampl [...] | 2009-06-22 12:49:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC IT |
09STATE68878 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: ENSURING FAIRNESS BY BIDDERS IN [...] (SBU) Summary and action request. Please see para 2 for action request. Response requested by July 7. The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) is expected to announce next week the winner of the nearly $4 billion third set of locks contract. This project is the centerpiece of the Canal,s overa [...] | 2009-07-02 15:56:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT BEXP ECON EFIN ETRD PM SP FR IT |
09STATE69224 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: ENSURING FAIRNESS BY BIDDERS IN [...] 1. (SBU) Summary and action request. Please see para 2 for action request. The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) is expected to announce next week the winner of the nearly $4 billion third set of locks contract. This project is the centerpiece of the Canal,s overall expansion plan. The thre [...] | 2009-07-02 22:33:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT BEXP ECON EFIN ETRD PM SP FR IT |
09STATE73624 | RESPONSE TO ITALY ON COORDINATE MEASURING MACHINE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. ------------------------- OBJECTIVES/ACTION REQUEST ------------------------- 2. (C) Washington requests Post deliver the non-paper in paragraph 3 to appropriate host government officials in the foreign affairs ministry in response t [...] | 2009-07-15 18:42:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL IR MNUC ETTC IT |
09STATE75910 | (S) FOLLOWING UP WITH ITALY ON MACHINE TOOL SALE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-21 15:43:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IT IR |
09STATE75985 | (S) FOLLOWING UP WITH ITALY REGARDING EFFORTS BY [...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Rome, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: In April 2009, the U.S. provided Italian authorities with information regarding attempts by Farazeh Equipment Distributor Company (FEDCO) to acquire Japanese-origin servo actuators from the Italian f [...] | 2009-07-21 17:52:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IT IR |
09STATE80201 | (U) "JOINING HANDS AGAINST FORCED MARRIAGES" [...] (S/NF) NATIONAL COUNTERTERRORISM CENTER (NCTC) ANALYSTS IN THE RADICALIZATION AND EXTREMIST MESSAGES GROUP (REMG) ARE INTERESTED IN REPORTING ON THE EUROPEAN INITIATIVE AGAINST FORCED MARRIAGES LAUNCHED BY STICHTING PLATFORM ISLAMITISCHE ORGANISATIES RIJNMOND - FOUNDATION PLATFORM ISLAMIC OR [...] | 2009-07-31 21:33:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR SCUL BE FR GM IT NL SP UK |
09STATE80208 | (S/NF) KUDOS FOR SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S [...] (S/NF) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS GREATLY APPRECIATE POST,S INSIGHTFUL REPORTING ON ITALIAN PRESIDENT GIORGIO NAPOLITANO. THIS TYPE OF BIOGRAPHIC REPORTING GREATLY INFORMS OUR ANALYSIS AND BACKGROUND WHEN ASSESSING ITALIAN LEADERS. WE CONTINUOUSLY SEEK MORE REPORTING ON THE BACKGROUND AND STYLES O [...] | 2009-07-31 22:04:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PGOV PREL IT |
09STATE8305 | RESPONSE TO ITALIAN REQUEST FOR USG INFO ON IRAN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. ------------------------- OBJECTIVES/ACTION REQUEST ------------------------- 2. (U) Washington requests Post deliver the non-paper in paragraph 3 to appropriate host government officials in the foreign affairs ministry in respons [...] | 2009-01-30 00:02:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC IR IT |
09STATE86464 | FOLLOW-UP: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT [...] According to our records, we have not yet received a response to subject Blue Lantern request regarding the export of amplifiers and phase shifters to Italy. This request was sent on 22 June 2009, over 45 days ago. We request an update from Post regarding the status of this case. If Post has [...] | 2009-08-19 17:49:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC IT |
09STATE94810 | BLUE LANTERN: VERIFYING BONA FIDES OF REGISTERED [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 3-4. 2. U.S. embassies have frequently inquired about the legitimacy of arms export transactions involving U.S. contractors and host-country partners in support of U.S. efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, or other U.S. government programs. The Depar [...] | 2009-09-11 19:29:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC IT |
09STATE99410 | RESPONDING TO GOI QUESTIONS ON IRANIAN EFFORTS TO [...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Rome, please see paragraph 6. 2. (S) Background: On April 2, 2009, we shared with the government of Japan information indicating that in mid- February 2009, Iran's Farazeh Equipment Distributor Company (FEDCO) sought servo-actuators manufactured by [...] | 2009-09-24 15:52:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR IT |
09STATE99480 | BLUE LANTERN: VERIFYING BONA FIDES OF REGISTERED [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 3-4. 2. U.S. embassies have frequently inquired about the legitimacy of arms export transactions involving U.S. contractors and host-country partners in support of U.S. efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, or other U.S. government programs. The Depar [...] | 2009-09-24 16:50:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC IT |
09STOCKHOLM368 | POST SUPPORT OF POTUS BILATERAL WITH SWEDISH PM [...] (U) On June 16, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs formally requested a bilateral meeting for Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt with the President on the margins of the G8 in Italy on 8-10 July. (We understand the Swedish embassy in Washington passed this request to NSC also.) [...] | 2009-06-18 17:45:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EUN IT SW |
09TIRANA474 | SUPREME COURT SETS ANOTHER TRAFFICKER FREE [...] (C) Summary: On May 28, notorious human trafficker Genci Hysa, who was found guilty of human trafficking, had his conviction reversed and was freed from prison by the Supreme Court. The high court claimed that he could not be charged in Albania for crimes he was already acquitted of in Italy, [...] | 2009-07-14 12:59:00 | Embassy Tirana | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KTIP KCRM PGOV PREL AL IT |
09TIRANA56 | SUPREME COURT RELEASES HUMAN TRAFFICKER [...] (SBU) Summary: The Supreme Court recently overturned two suspected traffickers' convictions and a lower court's decision to confiscate their assets, believed to be worth several million euros. The Supreme Court ruled that since the victims were "cohabitating" with their traffickers (the traff [...] | 2009-01-27 15:48:00 | Embassy Tirana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP PHUM KCRM PGOV PREL IT AL |
09TRIPOLI155 | THE FROGMAN WHO COULDN'T SWIM: A COOPERATION CAUTIONARY [...] (C) Summary: At a recent meeting in Tripoli, the Italian ambassador said his government was alarmed by the sharp increase in the number of illegal migrants transiting Libya to Italy, and expressed frustration with difficulties Italy had encountered in trying to cooperate with the GOL on combatting [...] | 2009-02-17 14:31:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PTER KCOR PREL PGOV PREF LY IT |
09TRIPOLI391 | LIBYA TAKES BACK 500 ITALY-BOUND MIGRANTS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-14 16:38:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | SMIG PHUM PREL MARR PREF KTIP IT LY |
09TRIPOLI492 | QADHAFI IN ROME: THE 'MAN OF HISTORY' VISITS THE ETERNAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-18 14:01:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL SMIG KTIA IT LY |
09TRIPOLI637 | UN OFFICIAL SAYS LIBYA, ITALY SHIRKING HUMAN RIGHTS RESPONSIBILITIES REF: A. TRIPOLI 579 B. 08 STATE 112873 C. TRIPOLI 273 TRIPOLI 00000637 001.2 OF 002 CLASSIFIED BY: Gene A. Cretz, Ambassador, US Embassy Tripoli, Department of State. REASON: 1.4 (b),(d) [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-05 13:50:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREF PHUM PREL IT LY |
09TRIPOLI886 | ISN/CTR VISIT: LIBYA MOVES FORWARD ON SCIENTIST ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS REF: A) TRIPOLI 437, B) TRIPOLI 212, C) TRIPOLI 436, D) TRIPOLI 482, E) TRIPOLI 476, F) TRIPOLI 490, G) TRIPOLI 795 TRIPOLI 00000886 001.2 OF 004 [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Libyan government warmly greeted the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation's Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (ISN/CTR),team leader Kathryn Insley and program manager D.A. Brown, on ISN/CTR's first official trip to Libya since November 2008. This visit was [...] | 2009-11-03 14:38:00 | Embassy Tripoli | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP AORC IAEA PGOV LY IT |
09TUNIS640 | BERLUSCONI'S VISIT TO TUNISIA: OLD FRIENDS, NEW [...] (C) Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi deepened their ties of friendship August 18 with a day-long personal visit. Berlusconi arrived mid-morning and stayed until late in the afternoon. The visit was so private in nature that neither the It [...] | 2009-09-01 08:19:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL TS IT |
09UNROME78 | ROME FOLLOW-UP MEETING TO L'AQUILA FOOD SECURITY INITIATIVE [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 3 and 4, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome co-hosted the third follow-up to the G8 `plus' meeting on global food security held i [...] | 2009-12-11 16:51:00 | UN Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAGR EAID FAO WFP IT |
09UNVIEVIENNA152 | UNODC AND COUNTERNARCOTICS IN THE AF-PAK POLICY [...] This is action request. Please, see para 5. 2. (SBU) Ambassador met UNODC Executive Director Antonio Costa on April 2, and discussed with him the Administration's new Af-Pak strategy and deployed the points in Ref A, highlighting our new regional emphasis and our interest in incorporati [...] | 2009-04-08 12:18:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PREL PTER SNAR AF AS CA IR IT JA PK UN |
09UNVIEVIENNA159 | UN VIENNA CHIEF SEEKS EXTENSION OF TERM? [...] (C) Antonio Costa, Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Director General of UNOV, may seek to extend his current and second term, which expires in May 2010, to December 31, 2011, to coincide with the term of UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. Given USG advocacy [...] | 2009-04-09 15:17:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT KCRM SNAR IT UN |
09UNVIEVIENNA242 | ITALIAN COUNTERNARCOTICS COOPERATION WITH IRAN [...] (C) Summary. On May 20, Msnoff met with an Italian counterpart, Marco Prencipe, who recently left a four-year post in Tehran to discuss the effectiveness of Iranian cooperation with the Italians on counternarcotics efforts. For the most part, cooperation has been successful, and Italy and [...] | 2009-05-27 12:52:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR AF PAK IR IT |
09UNVIEVIENNA284 | KEY PARIS PACT MEMBERS URGE RESULTS RATHER THAN MEETINGS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an informal June 9 meeting, key Paris Pact members agreed to continue their support for the Pact. They also agreed to use 2010 to review the implementation of recommendations from three past roundtables -- precursors, financial flows, and cross-border management. In addition [...] | 2009-06-18 09:11:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PREL PTER SNAR UN AF PK CA RU IT UK SW AS |
09USEUBRUSSELS1421 | EU STANCE ON NABUCCO WORRIES ITGI [...] (SBU) Summary: A representative of the Italy-Turkey-Greece Interconnector (ITGI) pipeline project believes the Commission,s public bias towards Nabucco is prejudicing ITGI,s ability to secure a gas deal. Commission officials told him that their support for Nabucco is driven by USG pressure. [...] | 2009-10-22 14:13:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG IT ZJ RU EU |
09USNATO530 | NATO ALLIES TELL BOSNIAN FM THAT REFORMS ARE [...] (C) Summary: Bosnia-Herzegovina's Foreign Minister failed in a November 17 informal meeting with NATO PermReps to push Allies towards consensus that Ministers should grant Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) the Membership Action Plan (MAP) in December. Most PermReps rejected the FM's assertion that pro [...] | 2009-11-18 17:28:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO BK TU IT NO |
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 |
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 |
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 |
09USUNNEWYORK888 | UN GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES (SEPTEMBER 23 PM): [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The September 23rd afternoon session of the General debate saw the U.S. delegation walk out of Iranian President Ahmedinejad's fiery diatribe against the U.S. and Israel. The Iranian President derided capitalist economic systems, defended recent election results, and condemned bo [...] | 2009-10-09 21:46:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA PREL PGOV ECON AORC KPKO SW UK IT AR |
09WELLINGTON329 | DRAFT MOU ON LIFE, SECURITY AND MOBILITY SUPPORT DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-23 04:34:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID UK NO SW GM HU CA NL LH FR SP IT NZ EZ |
10BERLIN33 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S., MEPP, U.S., ITALY, ECONOMIC;BERLIN [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. (U.S.) President Obama's Remarks on Improving Security 3. (MEPP) U.S. Pressure on Israel 4. (U.S.) Harry Reid Comments 5. (Italy) Violence Against Africans 6. (Economic) Google Tax  [...] | 2010-01-11 13:24:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | US XF IT ECON |
10BERLIN5 | GERMANY NOTIFIED OF COLLISION RISK TO TUBSAT-A [...] (U) Per refs A and B, Econoff notified Dr. Udo Renner of the Technical University in Berlin (TU Berlin),TUBSAT-A Project Manager, of the January 10 collision risk posed by debris from the Russian COSMOS 2251 satellite. Dr. Renner was very appreciative of the notification and was previously u [...] | 2010-01-05 14:11:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA PARM PREL NASA IT FR GM |
10CARACAS163 | Venezuela: Italian Ambassador Briefs on Eni Oil Deals [...] (C) SUMMARY: Italy's Eni stands to become possibly the second largest international oil company operating in Venezuela as a result of deals signed at the end of January, according to Italian Ambassador Luigi Maccotta. It has agreed to develop the extra heavy crude Junin 5 block, to build an upgrade [...] | 2010-02-10 22:10:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ENRG ECON IT VE |
10FLORENCE1 | AMBASSADOR SEEKS UPDATE ON STATUS OF BILATERAL TAX [...] See Action Request in paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) Summary. During a bilateral discussion following his presentation of credentials, Ambassador David Thorne pledged his best efforts to meet the Republic of San Marino's request to conclude a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with the [...] | 2010-01-04 11:55:00 | Consulate Florence | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PGOV SM IT |
10KABUL213 | U.S. - ITALIAN COOPERATION IN AFGHANISTAN'S HERAT PROVINCE [...] SUMMARY Italian Ambassador to Afghanistan Claudio Glaentzer told Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs (CDDEA) Ambassador Wayne January 19 that Italy was prepared to support funding of the 330 km "east-west" road, specifically the Chesti Sharif to Chagcharan portion. Gla [...] | 2010-01-21 13:39:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ECIN EMIN ETRD EAID IT AF |
10KABUL46 | KEY AMBASSADORS IN KABUL DISCUSS REVIEW OF COMMAND [...] (C/Rel US, ISAF, NATO) Begin Summary. In a New Year's Day briefing by Generals McChrystal and Rodriguez for the embassies most active in the South and Southwest of Afghanistan ) Australia, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States ) the Generals outlined the co [...] | 2010-01-05 12:56:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS UK CAN IT NL AS AF |
10MILAN13 | U.S. INVESTORS SPEAK OUT ON DOING BUSINESS IN ITALY [...] (SBU) Summary: American companies in northern Italy (which hosts nearly 80 percent of the country's foreign investment) have given us a frank view of the investment climate. The major areas of concern are structural: inflexible labor markets, a convoluted legal framework and slow legal process [...] | 2010-02-01 12:43:00 | Consulate Milan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON PGOV IT |
10MILAN16 | INTERIOR MINISTER MARONI'S PLANS FOR INTEGRATION [...] (C) Summary: Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, a member of the Northern League (LN) party, recently announced a new draft law that would offer immigrants a residence permit, known as a "permesso di soggiorno," in return for a promise to integrate into Italian society. The Maroni plan--which [...] | 2010-02-10 09:01:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | IT KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM PINR SMIG |
10MILAN2 | DIVERGENT PATHS OF INTEGRATION IN NORTHERN ITALY [...] (C) Summary: The integration of the growing immigrant population in Northern Italy is a challenge for communities throughout the region. Constructively, the city of Turin is taking advantage of a national government program to welcome so-called "second-generation immigrants" into the civil [...] | 2010-01-05 14:49:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR SMIG KISL IT |
10MILAN21 | PRE-ELECTION LANDSCAPE: DOMINANT CENTER-RIGHT AND [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Heading into the March 28-29 regional elections, the political landscape in the Veneto, one of Italy's most politically and economically important regions, displays a dominant center-right coalition headed by a Northern League (LN) candidate and a weak and disorganized center-l [...] | 2010-02-17 07:15:00 | Consulate Milan | CONFIDENTIAL | IT PGOV PREL |
10MOSCOW266 | (C/NF) XXXXXXXXXXXX ON ENERGY INTERESTS, [...] (C/NF) XXXXXXXXXXXX told us during a February 4 lunch that his Embassy and his Foreign Ministry often only learn of conversations between PM Berlusconi and PM Putin after the fact, and with little detail or background. He expressed frustration about the PMs' "direct line," which sometimes leaves th [...] | 2010-02-05 10:39:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG ECON PREL PINR RS IT |
10NAIROBI69 | Somalia - Italian Foreign Minister Re-Affirms Support for [...] (C) Summary: Brief conversations with the Transitional Federal Government's (TFG) Ambassador to Kenya, TFG President Sharif's Chief-of-Staff, and Italian Special Envoy to the TFG on January 15 suggest that the January 14 meeting between Italian Foreign Minister Frattini and Sharif prod [...] | 2010-01-15 08:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SO EAID MARR IT |
10NIAMEY164 | NIGER: POL/ECON UPDATE FOR FEBRUARY 2010 [...] The following is an Embassy Niger compilation of political and economic highlights for February 2010 not otherwise covered in mission reporting. This report covers the following issues: -- Opposition Members Take to the Streets; -- Japanese Donates Food Aid to Niger; -- Chinese Pre- [...] | 2010-02-18 07:45:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM NG JA CH IT EAGR EAID KCRM EAIR SOCI |
10ROME1 | VISITING WITH A RECUPERATING BERLUSCONI [...] C) Summary: The Ambassador visited recuperating Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at his Lombardy estate for a private luncheon December 30. The Ambassador had suggested he visit Berlusconi after the Prime Minister was assaulted at a Milan rally in mid-December. Accompanied by Gianni Letta, the Unde [...] | 2010-01-01 15:02:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IT |
10ROME112 | SANCTIONS SUCCESS: ITALIAN SHIPPER TO BREAK WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. In response to the pressure that resulted from a sanctions designation by the U.S. Treasury Department, the Fratelli Cosulich shipping company of Genoa plans to end the company's joint venture with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL). Action on this long-pending iss [...] | 2010-01-29 15:58:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | ECON EFIN ETRD EWWT GM IR IT KNNP PARM PREL |
10ROME114 | ITALY ON THE IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL UNIVERSAL [...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel points to MFA Human Rights Office Director Laura Carpini and to Gulf Desk Officer Silvia Santangelo to seek support for U.S. views and solicit recommendations to affect Iranian behavior on the occasion of the upcoming U.N. Human Rights Council's (HRC) Universal Per [...] | 2010-01-29 17:30:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | IT PHUM PREL |
10ROME117 | ITALY'S PUBLIC DEBT - NO PIIGS HERE [...] Summary -- The 2008 financial crisis and ensuing recession have strained many Western European governments' finances, including Italy's. While the Italian debt picture is troubling, it is Post's view that the problem is manageable in the foreseeable future, and unlikely to deteriorate in the m [...] | 2010-02-02 11:02:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV IT |
10ROME125 | OPPONENTS OF ITALIAN INTERNET BILL SAY IT STIFLES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Opponents of a new bill before Italian parliament that would further regulate the Internet say it endangers free speech and is a threat to Italian democracy. The bill also appears to favor PM Berlusconi's Mediaset television service while disadvantaging Sky, one of its major competitor [...] | 2010-02-03 16:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ETTC KIPR EINT IT |
10ROME139 | ITALY-IRAN: AMB. THORNE'S CONVERSATION WITH FM [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Frattini assured the Ambassador that Italy was ready to back new stronger sanctions against Iran and that Prime Minister Berlusconi was "now convinced" of the need for Italy to be part of a strong unified position in concert with the U.S. Frattini stressed that [...] | 2010-02-04 17:06:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IT IR IS |
10ROME142 | CITES: ITALY STILL FIGHTING ON CORAL, SAYS EU LIKELY TO [...] (SBU) Summary. Italy is still fighting a losing battle within the European Union (EU) on corals. The GOI has asked the EU Council to reconsider its decision to co-sponsor the U.S. proposal listing Corallium under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Appendix II, [...] | 2010-02-05 16:10:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV CITES EFIS AORC KSCA UNEP IT |
10ROME149 | ITALY ON BOARD WITH U.S. SAFE DRIVING EFFORTS: [...] (U) EconOff delivered the Safe Driving demarche on January 19 to Ambassador Gabriele Sardo, diplomatic advisor to Minister of Transportation Altero Matteoli. Sardo was very enthusiastic in his response. He said that safe driving initiatives are a pet project of Minister Matteoli and that Ita [...] | 2010-02-08 15:38:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI UNDP UNGA EU IT |
10ROME150 | ENI RUSHES TO FINISH ITS WORK FOR IRAN [...] (C/NF) Summary: In the latest of a series of letters to senior USG officials, the Italian energy company Eni claims that it will conclude its expansion work in Iran, including in the Darquain field, by the end of March. Eni officials told us that their work will end not as a result of USG pres [...] | 2010-02-09 07:11:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON ENRG EPET ETTC IR IT PREL |
10ROME151 | ITALY TO BUILD REHABILITATION FACILITY IN HAITI [...] (U) Summary. In a response to U.S. reftel, the GOI has informed post that it will build a Physical Rehabilitation Facility in Haiti. End summary. 2. (U) On January 26 ECONOFF met with Agostino Miozzo, General Director of the International Relations Office of the Italian Civil Protection Dep [...] | 2010-02-09 07:28:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON HA IT PREF PREL |
10ROME152 | TOUR D'HORIZON WITH CENTER-LEFT FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C/NF) On February 4, Democratic Party foreign policy chief Piero Fassino met with the Ambassador to discuss foreign and domestic policy issues, particularly focusing on Burma and Middle East, on which he has special envoy roles for the European Union and the Council of Europe respectively. Fa [...] | 2010-02-09 08:38:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IT |
10ROME156 | ITALIAN ECONOMIC PRESSURE ON IRAN: HEADING IN THE [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Recent statements from senior Italian officials describe Italy as significantly scaling back important commercial ties with Iran as part of efforts to increase international pressure. Those senior Italian officials have noted that the GOI has used moral suasion on Italian compa [...] | 2010-02-10 15:54:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON ETRD IR IT |
10ROME172 | SECDEF MEETING WITH ITALIAN MINISTER OF DEFESNE [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (SecDef) met with Italian Minister of Defense Ignacio La Russa during an official visit to Rome on February 6-7, 2010. La Russa expressed deep appreciation for SecDef's visit and for the chance to focus on bilateral defense relations rather tha [...] | 2010-02-12 13:17:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MARR MOPS NATO IT AF IR KV |
10ROME173 | SECDEF MEETING WITH ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (SecDef) met with Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Franco Frattini during an official visit to Rome on February 8. On Afghanistan, Frattini was eager to move beyond the London Conference and work to produce practical results for the Afghan [...] | 2010-02-12 13:18:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MARR MOPS NATO IT AF IR |
10ROME174 | SECDEF MEETING WITH ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER SILVIO [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (SecDef) met with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during an official visit to Rome on February 6, 2010. SecDef thanked Berlusconi for Italy's pledge of more Italian troops for operations in Afghanistan and assured him that the creation [...] | 2010-02-12 13:27:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MOPS MARR NATO IT AF IR |
10ROME181 | ITALIAN BANK (UBAE) CLAIMS IT WILL HALT BUSINESS [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The Managing Director of Banca UBAE, the Italian bank that finances much of Italy's trade with Iran, told Post on February 11 that the bank will halt its business with Iran starting on February 15. The Italian Finance Ministry encouraged the bank to take this step. Banca UBAE [...] | 2010-02-12 16:54:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN PARM IR IT |
10ROME182 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S.-EU SECOND STAGE AIR [...] (U) EconOff delivered the demarche on U.S.-EU Second Stage Air Transport Negotiations. Post first spoke with Aldo Sansone, director general for airports an air nagivation at the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure. Sansone suggested that the demarche be delivered to M. Cristina Fra [...] | 2010-02-12 17:02:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EUN NO IT IC KTIA |
10ROME186 | HAITI: ITALIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO EXPANDED MINUSTAH [...] (U) Poloff raised reftel points with MFA Political-Military Officer Andrea Romussi on February 11. Romussi said that the Ministry of Defense is ready to deploy a self-sustaining Formed Police Unit (FPU) of 125 Carabinieri to Haiti under the MINUSTAH mandate. Approval from the Prime Minister' [...] | 2010-02-16 15:59:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
10ROME195 | AFGHANISTAN: ITALY PLEDGES 75 NEW TRAINERS FOR ANSF [...] (C) Summary: MOD La Russa called the Ambassador on February 18 to inform him that Italy would provide 75 additional trainers in response to appeals from Secretary Gates and NATO SYG Rasmussen. 35 of these will be military and 40 will be Carabinieri police trainers. This will entail a redist [...] | 2010-02-18 18:41:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
10ROME212 | ITALY: GOLDSTONE FOLLOW-UP ACTION [...] (C) On February 25, Poloff discussed reftel points with Middle East Office Director Davide La Cecilia regarding the impending vote on the Palestinian-drafted UNGA resolution related to the Goldstone Report. While the Italian position is the same as before (Italy voted "no" on the October 16 HR [...] | 2010-02-26 07:16:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IO PHUM UNGA IT |
10ROME25 | THREAT OF KIDNAPPING IN MAGHREB [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Massimiliano D'Antuono, Deputy Director of the Italian MFA's Unita di crisi, Italy's "ops center" or situation room equivalent. 2. (U) With regard to travel warnings, D'Antuono said that Italy has issued alerts via the MFA website recommending agains [...] | 2010-01-11 16:43:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL ASEC XI XG IT |
10ROME35 | GETTING ENI TO HALT ITS EXPANSION IN IRAN [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: While Eni claims to cooperate with us on Iran, the Italian energy parastatal company continues to expand its operations in there. One-third owned by the Italian government, Eni is the largest foreign energy company in Iran. With significant assets in the United States, Eni is [...] | 2010-01-12 14:23:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON ENRG EPET ETTC IR IT PREL |
10ROME49 | SCENESETTER FOR FOREIGN MINISTER FRATTINI'S VISIT [...] (C) Foreign Minister Frattini's visit to Washington is an opportunity to reinforce Italy's commitment to Afghanistan, and stress the need for close coordination on Iran: you will want to thank Italy for its early announcement of additional troop contributions for Afghanistan, and deliver a fir [...] | 2010-01-13 14:42:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IT |
10ROME56 | ITALY ON EU ENGAGEMENT WITH CIVIL SOCIETY IN CUBA [...] (C) On January 8, Poloff delivered reftel points to Michele Pala, MFA Office Director for Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean to brief the GOI on the USG approach on Cuba and to ascertain GOI perspective on the current state of their bilateral relations with Cuba, Italy's stance on the EU [...] | 2010-01-14 13:23:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI CU IT |
10ROME61 | GOI OPPOSES DELISTING NINE UNSCR 1267 TRANCHE 4 [...] (SBU) Summary. After reviewing the fourteen UNSCR 1276 Tranche 4 names of interest to Italy (reftel),the GOI has no objection to delisting five of the names but, based on investigations carried out by the Special Operational Group Carabinieri (ROS),opposes delisting the remaining nine indivi [...] | 2010-01-15 12:11:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN IT KTFN PREL PTER |
10ROME62 | ITALY 2010 ECONOMIC OUTLOOK - FRAGILE RECOVERY [...] (C) Summary -- Forecasters expect the Italian economy to grow modestly in 2010, with inflation remaining in check. Bank lending is still slow and some bank ratings have been downgraded slightly. Having managed the worst of the 2009 crisis creditably, the GOI will remain primarily preoccupied [...] | 2010-01-15 12:13:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON IT |
10ROME64 | BREAKTHROUGH ON NUCLEAR SECURITY IN ITALY [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-15 14:43:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ENRG KNNP PARM OTRA PTER ETRD PBTS IT |
10ROME75 | ITALY AGREES TO CO-SPONSOR UPCOMING UNSCR 1267 [...] (C) Summary. After a careful review, the GOI has agreed to co-sponsor the UNSCR 1267 listing request of Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula and of its leaders, Nasir Al-Wahishi and Said Al-Shihri (reftel). End summary. 2. (C) An official in the counter terrorism section of the Italian Minist [...] | 2010-01-20 15:39:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | IT KTFN PINR PREL PTER SA YM |
10ROME82 | INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2010 - ITALY [...] SUMMARY: Following is Post's submission for 2010 Investment Climate Statement for Italy. End Summary. OVERVIEW AND UPDATE ------------------- 2. The Government of Italy (GOI) maintains a welcoming posture to foreign investment and has made modest progress in addressing the structural e [...] | 2010-01-21 14:06:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB OPIC KTDB USTR PGOV IT |
10ROME83 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SECRETARY GATES TO ROME [...] (C) Mr. Secretary, Mission Italy and I look forward to hosting you in February, as does Minister La Russa and the Government of Italy. In anticipation, I met with La Russa on January 19. He is delighted that you have accepted his invitation and is working hard to ensure that your meetings in [...] | 2010-01-22 12:28:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
10ROME89 | ITALY-YEMEN: SENIOR MFA OFFICIALS OUTLINE APPROACH [...] (C) FM Frattini's Chief of Staff Alain Economides and Acting Director General of the MFA Middle East Bureau Luigi Marras told us the international community needed to take an inclusive and regional approach to stabilizing Yemen in the aftermath of the attempted bombing of NWA Flight 253. Marr [...] | 2010-01-22 16:34:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KISL IT YE |
10ROME90 | FAC POINTS FOR JANUARY 25TH MEETING DELIVERED [...] (U) Poloff spoke with Ministry officials about the Foreign Affairs Committee points in advance of the January 25th Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) meeting. Iran ----- 2. (C) On Iran, poloff learned from both Gulf Office Director Stefano Queirolo Palmas and the European Correspondent Gio [...] | 2010-01-22 18:02:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IT EU |
10ROME94 | Italy Supports Copenhagen Accord; Waiting for BASIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Italian FonMin Frattini confirmed to the Ambassador that Italy supports the Copenhagen Accord on climate change. Through the EU, Italy will associate itself with and inscribe a target in the accord. Frattini dismissed the idea that Tunisia would listen to Italian urging to sig [...] | 2010-01-26 12:41:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ENRG TRGY KSCA UN IT |
10ROME96 | DELIVERY OF U.S. POLICY TOWARD YEMEN DEMARCHE [...] (C) On January 25, Poloff delivered ref A points to MFA Office Director for the Gulf States, Minister Stefano Queirolo Palmas. Palmas commented that Yemen's problems are closely linked to instability and underdevelopment in the whole region, especially Somalia and other East African countri [...] | 2010-01-26 15:46:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KISL IT YE |
10ROME97 | AFGHANISTAN: ITALY AGREES ON THE NEED TO AVOID [...] (C) The Ambassador raised Ref A points with Italian MOD La Russa at a lunch on January 19, asking him to help underscore in public that NATO's planning process for ISAF transition to Afghan lead at the provincial level is not an exit strategy. La Russa agreed and said that Italian commander [...] | 2010-01-27 11:23:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO IT AF |
10STATE14503 | BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT END USE CHECK ON [...] This is an action message. See paragraphs 2-10. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on the export of satellite components to Italy. Post is requested to complete this Blue Lantern check wi [...] | 2010-02-18 15:13:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC IT KOMC |
10STATE5259 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-LICENSE/PRE-SHIPMENT [...] (U) This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 4 - 5. 2. (U) The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a post-license/pre-shipment check on license 050209404 for the export of detonators to India. Post is requested to com [...] | 2010-01-19 23:00:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC IT IN |
10STATE8676 | (C) REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON ITALY-RUSSIA [...] (C) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS GREATLY APPRECIATE THE EXCELLENT REFS ON ITALIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS AND WOULD APPRECIATE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS TOPIC, AS POST'S TIME AND RESOURCES PERMIT. BECAUSE ITALY IS ONE OF RUSSIA'S STRATEGIC PARTNERS IN EUROPE, THERE IS SIGNIFICANT POLICYMAKER INTERES [...] | 2010-01-28 14:27:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR EINV ENRG ETRD PGOV PREL IT RS |
10TRIPOLI137 | MEETING OF LIBYAN, ITALIAN AND MALTESE FOREIGN MINISTERS LIKELY TO LEAD TO RESOLUTION OF SCHENGEN VISA CRISIS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-17 16:51:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CVIS PINR LY SZ IT MT |
85KADUNA653 | IRAN TO PUBLISH HAUSA LANGUAGE MAGAZINE [...] IRAN WILL SOON BEGIN PUBLICATION OF A NEWS MAGAZINE IN THE HAUSA LANGUAGE, ACCORDING TO THE MAY 23 ISSUE OF GASKIYA TA FI KWABO, THE GOVERNMENT-OWNED HAUSA NEWSPAPER. THE MAGAZINE IS TO BE CALLED "SAKON SAURA", WHICH ROUGHLY TRANSLATES TO "THE OTHER MESSAGE". 2. THE UNATTRIBUTED NEWS REPO [...] | 1985-05-23 15:26:00 | Consulate Kaduna | UNCLASSIFIED | PINS PROP SCOM NI IT |
88ROME19700 | GUILT FOR THE GULF WAR: IRAQ PAYS FOR AD TO [...] THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT PAID FOR A HALF-PAGE ADVERTISEMENT WHICH APPEARED IN THE AUGUST 25 ISSUE OF ROME'S CENTRIST "IL MESSAGGERO." ENTITLED "IRAN-IRAQ: WHO STARTED THE WAR," THE IRAQI AD DETAILS "A SERIES OF (IRANIAN) VIOLATIONS AND MILITARY AGGRESSIONS" AGAINST IRAQ IN 1979 AND 1980, LEADING [...] | 1988-08-25 17:03:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL IR IZ IT |
90KHARTOUM7632 | DIPLOMATS AGREE--BASHIR IS HERE TO STAY, IF NOT [...] CONFIDENTIAL - ENTIRE TEXT. 2. AT LUNCH HOSTED BY CHARGE JULY 24 SIX SENIOR DIPLOMATS ASSIGNED TO KHARTOUM EXPRESSED THEIR CONVICTION THAT THE BASHIR GOVERNMENT WILL REMAIN IN POWER FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE--AT LEAST SIX MONTHS, POSSIBLY A YEAR. UNLIKE EARLIER MEETINGS WHICH WITNESSED [...] | 1990-07-26 09:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PGOV SU EG NL GE IT UR MO |
96ROME8274 | MEDIA REPORTS RUMORS OF GADHAFI HEART ATTACK [...] ON AUGUST 14 TWO LEADING NEWSPAPERS, "REPUBBLICA" AND "CORRIERE DELLA SERA", REPORTED RUMORS THAT MUHAMMAR GADHAFI HAD SUFFERED A RECENT HEART ATTACK. THE PAPERS, CITING UNNAMED DIPLOMATIC SOURCES AND BUSINESSMEN, REPORTED THAT A LIBYAN ARMED FORCES ATTACK AGAINST ISLAMIC MILITANTS AND GADHAF [...] | 1996-08-14 16:40:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINR LY IT |
97ROME4528 | QADHAFI JUST WANTS TO BE FRIENDS WITH EUROPE [...] No summary [...] | 1997-05-21 14:00:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL XI LY IT |
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 |
97ROME9630 | LIBYA: QADHAFI HOPES IN ITALY'S LEFTISTS [...] THE ITALIAN PRESS CONTINUES TO REPORT ON LIBYA, CITING QADHAFI AS SAYING OCTOBER 29 HE BELIEVES ITALY'S LEFTIST GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH APPROVING INDEMNITY PAYMENTS TO LIBYA AS COMPENSATION FOR ITALIAN COLONIAL DAMAGES. THREE PROMINENT FIGURES, FORMERLY MEMBERS OF THE THEN-IT [...] | 1997-11-07 09:54:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL XI XF LY IT |