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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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08STOCKHOLM213 | SWEDISH GOVERNMENT PROPOSES IMAM TRAINING [...] (C) Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg told EUR Senior Advisor Farah Pandith at a March 6 meeting that his controversial proposal for the Swedish state to establish and fund an imam training program was in response to concerns about radicalization in Sweden's Muslim com [...] | 2008-03-13 17:47:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL ECON OIIP KISL KPAO |
08STOCKHOLM226 | DEMARCHE ON DESIGNATION OF AL-SHABAAB AS A [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-20 14:24:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PREL PGOV KCRM SO SW |
08STOCKHOLM240 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON BELARUS: SWEDEN SUPPORTS [...] (C) On March 27 poloff delivered reftel demarche on EU support for the U.S. to the current to Balkan and Caucuses Desk Officer Anna Hamarlund Blixt. She said Sweden is in line with the USG that political prisoners, including Kazulin, should be released unconditionally and permanently. Sweden [...] | 2008-03-27 15:44:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | BO EU PHUM PREL SW |
08STOCKHOLM257 | SWEDEN: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHES ON UNSCR 1803 AND ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-02 13:00:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | KNNP EFIN ETRD PARM PREL MNUC IR SW |
08STOCKHOLM260 | SWEDEN UNDECIDED ON CANADIAN CLUSTER WEAPONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-04 12:37:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MOPS PGOV SW |
08STOCKHOLM265 | PM REINFELDT REQUESTS MAY 29 BILAT WITH SECRETARY [...] (C) MFA Political Director Bjorn Lyrvall requested April 7 that Charge convey the request of PM Reinfeldt for a bilateral meeting with Secretary Rice on May 29, in connection with the Secretary's anticipated participation in the Stockholm conference on the International Compact with Iraq (ref [...] | 2008-04-07 14:18:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP SECRETARY PGOV IZ SW |
08STOCKHOLM272 | THREE ISSUES FOR MOD TOLGFORS APRIL 17 CALL ON [...] (C) In connection the upcoming April 16-17 visit by Swedish Minister of Defense Sten Tolgfors to Washington, Embassy recommends raising two requests regarding specific additional contributions in Afghanistan (ref A) and Sweden's pending decision on participation in NATO's Rapid Response. We al [...] | 2008-04-11 15:16:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PINR PGOV IZ AF SW |
08STOCKHOLM278 | SWEDEN ASKS FOR U.S. HELP ON MAY 29 IRAQ CONFERENCE [...] (C) On April 15, MFA Political Director Bjorn Lyrvall told the DCM the Swedes look forward to working closely with the U.S. on the International Compact with Iraq (ICI),and asked for the following USG assistance: -Encouraging ICI invitees to send ministerial-level representation to the conf [...] | 2008-04-16 13:30:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON IZ EU SE |
08STOCKHOLM288 | FM BILDT ON U.S. HELP TO MAKE THE ICI A SUCCESS [...] (C) On April 17, Ambassador met with FM Bildt in anticipation of Sweden's hosting the May 29 International Compact with Iraq (ICI) conference. Bildt was joined by MFA State Secretary Belfrage, Ambassador Christer Kumlin (in charge of conference logistics),Chief of Staff Karin Olofsdotter, Am [...] | 2008-04-18 11:19:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON IZ EU SW |
08STOCKHOLM29 | URGING SWEDEN TO DO MORE IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) We should ask Sweden to plus up its ISAF operation in Afghanistan with additional manpower and resources, possibly including medevac helicopters, JAS Gripen fighters, and Operational Mentor and Liaison (OMLT) teams. Timing and developments affecting other international deployments may ma [...] | 2008-01-11 16:36:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV SW |
08STOCKHOLM290 | SWEDEN REQUESTS HELP REGARDING SWEDISH CASUALTY IN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-21 09:27:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | PREL PTER SO SW |
08STOCKHOLM292 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SWEDES: STOPPING TRAVEL TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-21 10:07:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN PREL PRTER IZ TU SE |
08STOCKHOLM294 | SWEDEN: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-21 14:58:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | DTRA PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP BA SE |
08STOCKHOLM298 | MAYOR OF SWEDEN'S REFUGEE CAPITAL MEETS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 18, Ambassador Wood held meetings in Sodertalje (a Stockholm suburb of 83,000 with about 26,000 Iraqi immigrants) to discuss immigration problems of Christian Iraqis. Sodertalje's Mayor said there has been a steep spike in Iraqi Christian asylum-seekers over the past t [...] | 2008-04-23 11:00:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF PREL PGOV IZ SE |
08STOCKHOLM310 | DAS GARBER TALKS IRAQ COMPACT CONFERENCE WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 25, DAS Judy Garber, accompanied by DCM, met with State Secretary Frank Belfrage to discuss issues surrounding the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) on May 29 in Stockholm. The Swedes are pressing EU and Gulf capitals to send FMs to the ICI, and would appreciate co [...] | 2008-04-28 13:17:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON IQ EU SW |
08STOCKHOLM316 | STATE SECRETARY BELFRAGE SAYS HE WAS MISQUOTED BY [...] (SBU) State-run Iranian press source, Press TV, ran a web article on April 23, which misquoted Swedish State Secretary Frank Belfrage during his recent visit to Tehran. In a meeting on April 25 in Stockholm, the DCM showed Belfrage the article. Excerpted text: "Belfrage has praised Iran' [...] | 2008-04-29 14:41:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IR SE |
08STOCKHOLM321 | UPDATE ON ICI PROGRESS IN STOCKHOLM [...] (C) Summary: Belfrage said the main message to send out of the ICI is that Europe has turned the page on Iraq and is now looking forward. (He commented that while it might be difficult to get European FMs to say this publicly, their attendance would send the right signal.) At the April 29 GAE [...] | 2008-04-30 13:59:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON UN EU IZ SE |
08STOCKHOLM354 | SWEDEN PREPARED TO SUPPLY HUMANITARIAN SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-09 15:19:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID BM SW |
08STOCKHOLM358 | SWEDISH RESPONSE: TERRORISM FINANCE: [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-12 09:35:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | EFIN PTER KTFN PINR PREL KU SW |
08STOCKHOLM362 | SWEDISH RESPONSE: TERRORISM FINANCE: [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-14 12:29:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | KFTN PTER PINR EFIN PREL BA QA SW |
08STOCKHOLM368 | SCENE-SETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S MAY 28-30 VISIT [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Stockholm/Embassy Baghdad message. SWEDEN 2. (C) Madame Secretary, welcome to Sweden. You are the first sitting Secretary of State to visit Stockholm since Lawrence Eagleburger in 1992. The occasion is historic: Sweden's hosting of the first post-Saddam me [...] | 2008-05-19 14:59:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | PREL PGOV EAID ECON SENV IZ SW |
08STOCKHOLM369 | USAID REPRESENTATIVE IN MAZAR-I-SHARIF URGES [...] (SBU) On May 15-16, Deputy Economic Counselor accompanied USAID Field Program Officer (FPO) from Mazar-i-Sharif to meetings at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense, Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Directorate, and the Swedish International Development Cooper [...] | 2008-05-20 05:57:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN ECON PGOV PREL MARR MASS AF SW |
08STOCKHOLM372 | SWEDEN AND CUBA: TITLE III COUNTRY REVIEW OF THE [...] (C) The protection and promotion of human rights is a central tenet of Swedish foreign policy. Sweden adheres to the EU's "constructive engagement" policy toward Cuba and employs such engagement to raise human rights concerns with Havana. In a March 2008 press release, Minister for Developme [...] | 2008-05-20 11:06:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU SW |
08STOCKHOLM379 | IRAQI PM MALIKI'S BILATERAL PROGRAM IN SWEDEN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-22 15:15:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IZ SE |
08STOCKHOLM404 | SWEDISH RESPONSE: CRITICAL EQUIPMENT NEEDS FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-03 14:47:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP TRGY PREL PARM MNUC AORC IAEA UNSC IR SW |
08STOCKHOLM407 | FM BILDT AND U.S. OFFICIALS DISCUSS IRAQ, IRAN [...] (C) Summary: On May 28, the day prior to the International Compact with Iraq (ICI),Deputy Secretary of Treasury Robert Kimmitt and Amb. Ryan Crocker, accompanied by Amb. Wood, met with FM Carl Bildt and other MFA officials. Crocker briefed Bildt on the improving situation in Iraq. Bildt anno [...] | 2008-06-04 08:35:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON IR IZ SW |
08STOCKHOLM412 | A/S FRIED TALKS EU ENLARGEMENT, CYPRUS, AND KOSOVO [...] (C) Summary: On May 29 MFA State Secretary Frank Belfrage told A/S Fried: -- Sweden, France, and the Czech Republic recently agreed on an EU tripartite presidency program that does not block further accession negotiations with Turkey and Croatia; -- Sweden is encouraging the UN to take a m [...] | 2008-06-05 13:18:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON IQ EU SW |
08STOCKHOLM431 | SWEDISH INSPECTORATE FOR STRATEGIC PRODUCTS ON [...] (S) On June 11, Deputy Economic Counselor met with Magnus Danielsson, Principal Administrative Officer, the Swedish Inspectorate for Strategic Products (ISP),to discuss Mahaco, a Swedish company owned and operated by a dual Swedish/Iranian national. Danielsson commented that Mahaco, which is [...] | 2008-06-13 10:30:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PARM MNUC IAEA UNSC ETTC MTCRE IR SW |
08STOCKHOLM442 | SWEDISH RESPONSE: DEMARCHE REQUEST: ATTENDANCE AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-19 10:58:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREL PHUM LE UNRWA SW |
08STOCKHOLM452 | U.S.-SWEDEN PLAN WAY FORWARD FOR ABKHAZIA CONFLICT [...] (U) Participants: U.S. ---- Matthew Bryza, EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary Michael Carpenter, Conflicts Advisor Casey Christensen, Political Counselor Briana Olsen, Deputy Political Counselor (notetaker) Sweden ------ Carl Bildt, Foreign Minister Frank Belfrage, State Secretary Bjorn [...] | 2008-06-23 11:07:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC UNMIK PBTS PINR KO RS GG XQ |
08STOCKHOLM474 | EMBASSY STOCKHOLM'S FEEDBACK ON ESTA [...] SUMMARY: An initial review of ESTA among various offices at Post raised several questions, including whether we can provide a prototype of the ESTA website as part of our outreach efforts and how ESTA will interface with the Class database and airline systems. This cable also outlines Post's [...] | 2008-06-30 06:14:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | CPAS CVIS CMGT PREL SW |
08STOCKHOLM482 | SWEDEN COMPLAINS OF EMBASSY'S PERIMETER BREACH BY [...] (U) On July 1, Head of the Gulf Department at the MFA, Dag Juhlen-Dannfelt, contacted poloff to protest the breach of Sweden's diplomatic compound in Baghdad by KBR contractors and the U.S. Military. According to a report sent by Sweden's security contractor Control Risks, the perimeter defen [...] | 2008-07-01 14:49:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV IZ SW |
08STOCKHOLM489 | SWEDISH RESPONSE: IRAN AIR CARGO AND ISLAMIC [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-07 14:53:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | EFIN EWWT ERTD PARM PINR PREL KNNP EUN IR SW |
08STOCKHOLM494 | PROPOSED RESPONSE TO SWEDISH REQUEST TO RELEASE [...] (S) Embassy Stockholm recommends we postpone a response to the Swedish request for release of AESA radar for Swedish Gripens until after Norway's selection of its next fighter jet, currently slated for December 2008. In informing Sweden of this delay, we should consider offering U.S. support [...] | 2008-07-09 14:14:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | PARM MOPS MARR PREL ECON PGOV SW |
08STOCKHOLM506 | IRAN SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM OPPORTUNITIES IN SWEDEN [...] (C) Summary: Post has reached out to members of the Iranian community in Sweden over the past year. Post has not yet identified recipients for the Iran Small Grants Program, however, we continue to vet different groups and intend to nominate several candidates in the Fall. Iranian Swedes are [...] | 2008-07-15 14:38:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | IR KDEM KPAO PREL SW |
08STOCKHOLM51 | SWEDISH PARLIAMENT'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS LEADERS ON [...] (C) Charge discussed Sweden's role in Afghanistan and Kosovo in separate meetings January 16 and 17 with Goran Lennmarker and Urban Ahlin, the government and the opposition leaders in the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee. Lennmarker and Ahlin both saw room for increases in the number of [...] | 2008-01-22 15:56:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV YI AF SW |
08STOCKHOLM511 | SWEDEN NOT DELAYING BUT SUPPORTS (SOME) EU [...] (C) Background: According to USEU Brussels sources, Sweden, among other EU members, are delaying the draft Common Position in UNSCR 1803, which transposes 1803 into an additional set of EU sanctions against Iran (reftel). End background. 2. (SBU) On July 17 Ambassador Peter Tejler, Directo [...] | 2008-07-17 13:43:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PINR KNNP IR BE SW |
08STOCKHOLM528 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SWEDES KEEPING PRESSURE ON THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-24 08:18:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | COL VE HR EUN PTER SNAR PGOV PREL SW |
08STOCKHOLM532 | AT EU, SWEDEN PUSHES IRAQI REFUGEES OVER [...] (U) On June 24, the local media ran an op-ed piece by Migration Minister Tobias Billstrom calling on other EU countries to take in more Iraqi refugees. That same day at the EU Ministerial meeting, the EU did not address the issue to take in more Iraqi refugees. According to press reports, th [...] | 2008-07-28 11:17:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER EU IZ SW |
08STOCKHOLM533 | AT EU, SWEDEN PUSHES IRAQI REFUGEES OVER [...] (U) On June 24, the local media ran an op-ed piece by Migration Minister Tobias Billstrom calling on other EU countries to take in more Iraqi refugees. That same day at the EU Ministerial meeting, the EU did not address the issue to take in more Iraqi refugees. According to press reports, th [...] | 2008-07-28 11:17:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL PGOV PTER EU IZ SW |
08STOCKHOLM557 | MUSLIM ENGAGEMENT IN SWEDEN [...] (U) Muslim immigrants have achieved substantial but uneven success in Sweden. They represent four to five percent of Sweden's population of nine million people, comprised of Iraqis (100,000),Iranians (56,000),Bosnian Muslims (40,000),Turks (38,000),Somalis (35,000),and smaller numbers fr [...] | 2008-08-08 09:00:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KISL KPAO OIIP PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SW |
08STOCKHOLM558 | ESTA: AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE U.S. SECURITY [...] (SBU) Post remains concerned about threats to U.S. security from naturalized Swedes who obtain Swedish passports by fraudulent means (reftels). Post recommends that the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) form be amended to add a requirement for travelers to list other names, ad [...] | 2008-08-08 11:27:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CMGT CPAS CVIS KFRD KVPR PGOV PINR PREL |
08STOCKHOLM565 | TFGG01: SWEDEN SHARES U.S. POSITION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-12 14:00:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU GG SW |
08STOCKHOLM571 | TFGG001: DEMARCHE DELIVERED--SWEDEN CONDEMNS [...] (C) Summary: A senior Swedish MFA official told poloff the EU is divided into two camps and the French have watered-down the GAERC conclusion. Unless the situation in Georgia worsens, the EU is unlikely to offer a stronger statement until after Sept. 6, when the foreign ministers will meet in [...] | 2008-08-15 11:05:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG RU SW |
08STOCKHOLM575 | TFGG01: SWEDEN CANCELS JOINT RUSSIAN MILITARY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-19 15:36:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV RU GG SW |
08STOCKHOLM576 | TFGG01: SWEDEN PUSHES EU OBSERVERS TO GEORGIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-19 16:20:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV RU GG SE |
08STOCKHOLM579 | TTFGG01: SWEDEN TO SEND 2-3 OSCE MIL OBSERVERS TO [...] (SBU) Head of the Eastern European Department, Johan Frisell, told poloff that Sweden agreed to send two to three military observers to the OSCE's 28-observer contingent that will deploy immediately to Georgia. The MFA has asked the Defense Ministry to approve adding eight more military obser [...] | 2008-08-20 14:00:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV OSCE RU GG SW |
08STOCKHOLM581 | HANDICAPPED APPLICANT'S ESTA REJECTION HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A physically handicapped applicant was required to apply for a tourist visa after having affirmatively answered to the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) application question regarding physical disorders. Her case, which was covered by a national paper, highlight [...] | 2008-08-20 14:49:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | CPAS CVIS CMGT PREL SW |
08STOCKHOLM585 | IRANIAN KURDISH PARTY OUTLINES GOI SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Salah Sharafi, a leading member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI) and Hussam Heydari, a local Swedish member, met with the Charge on August 13 and underscored the importance of the KDPI chapter in Sweden. The KDPI Sweden chapter is the largest in Europe, with [...] | 2008-08-22 12:35:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KDEM PREL PINR SW IR |
08STOCKHOLM586 | TFGG01: SWEDEN'S HUMANITARIAN AND OBSERVER [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-22 14:11:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GG EU SW |
08STOCKHOLM587 | TTFGG01: SWEDISH POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: Sweden fully supports the US positions on Georgia, both measures to support the Georgian government and people (see ref b on their military observers and humanitarian aid to date),and measures to review relations with Russia. On the latter, MFA political director Lyrvall outline [...] | 2008-08-22 15:22:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR PREL RU GG SW |
08STOCKHOLM59 | SWEDEN ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SPECIAL SESSION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-24 10:51:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV SW |
08STOCKHOLM590 | TFGG01: SWEDEN'S DEPUTY FM SAYS FRENCH OPPOSE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-25 14:32:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU GG SW |
08STOCKHOLM591 | GEORGIA DOMINATED MERKEL'S VISIT TO SWEDEN [...] (C) Russia's action in Georgia dominated the discussions when Merkel visited PM Reinfeldt in Stockholm, August 25. Germany and Sweden agree that Russia must withdraw its troops from Georgia and that the Russian President must not sign the referendum recognizing Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Both [...] | 2008-08-26 12:36:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ECON GG SW |
08STOCKHOLM593 | SWEDISH KING TO VISIT KYIV 30 SEPTEMBER [...] King Carl XVI Gustav and Queen Silvia will pay a state visit to Ukraine on 30 September to 3 October. A Swedish business delegation will also visit during this time. 2. The visit was in the planning stages from early 2007, but was delayed by domestic turbulence in Ukrainian politics, accor [...] | 2008-08-28 07:04:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV UK SW PREL |
08STOCKHOLM599 | ACTION REQUEST: GUIDANCE ON INFORMATION SHARING ON [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (C) On August 14, CDA and Poloff met with the director general of the Inspectorate of Strategic Products (ISP),Andreas Ekman, to discuss the ongoing proliferation activities of Mahaco, a Swedish-registered company owned by a Swedish citize [...] | 2008-08-29 14:55:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL SW SP IR |
08STOCKHOLM607 | SWEDEN ON GEORGIA IN ADVANCE OF THE SEPTEMBER 5-6 [...] (C) Summary: Swedish MFA Political Director Lyrvall told us September 4 that Sweden will emphasize the "political side" in upcoming donor conferences to highlight the need to demonstrate solidarity with Georgia and restore investor confidence. FM Bildt will work to "send a strong message" to [...] | 2008-09-04 15:06:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU GG RU SW |
08STOCKHOLM610 | SWEDISH POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY [...] (C) Summary: Swedish Political Director Bjorn Lyrvall told us the Sweden is committed to Afghanistan "for the long haul" and that political parties across the spectrum remain supportive of the government's Afghanistan policy. He expects no problems with respect to Afghanistan when Parliamen [...] | 2008-09-08 15:16:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | SW AF PREL |
08STOCKHOLM624 | SWEDISH MFA SAYS "WE'RE READY TO INCREASE AID TO [...] (U) The Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP),John Walters, met with MFA State Secretary Frank Belfrage on September 8 to discuss the way forward in Afghanistan. Walters thanked Sweden for its long-term support of Afghanistan, especially for its commitment to leading [...] | 2008-09-15 13:58:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL EAID AF SW |
08STOCKHOLM625 | SWEDISH RESPONSE TO SEPTEMBER 15-16 GAERC DEMARCHE [...] (C) Summary: Sweden thinks there is little to fear from a Serbian request to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to review the status of Kosovo, according to Hakan Emsgard, Deputy Director General of the EU Department at the MFA. The case would languish there for years, he asserted. Swed [...] | 2008-09-15 14:57:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG SE RS EUN |
08STOCKHOLM636 | SWEDISH RESPONSE: DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-19 14:25:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN IR SW |
08STOCKHOLM646 | SWEDEN PAYS DAMAGES TO SECOND EXPELLED EGYPTIAN [...] (U) On September 19, the Swedish government settled with Ahmed Agiza, an Egyptian national, to pay around USD 500,000 in damages--a large amount in Swedish courts--related to the circumstances of his deportation to Cairo. The award was not directly related to his claims of torture by U.S. agen [...] | 2008-09-25 15:00:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PHUM PREF PGOV PREL EG SW |
08STOCKHOLM647 | SWEDEN: SOLICITING CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SUSTAINING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-26 12:49:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PREL NATEU MOPS MARR SW |
08STOCKHOLM648 | STOCKHOLM ON HSPD-6 TERRORIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy delivered reftel demarche September 25 and urged that Swedish officials be prepared to meet with a negotiating team to discuss implementation of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 6 (HSPD-6) in October. Swedish officials predict they will be able to assemble the r [...] | 2008-09-26 14:34:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CMGT CVIS PTER PGOV PREL SW |
08STOCKHOLM657 | SWEDISH RESPONSE: ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA FOLLOWING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-02 12:05:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PREL KCRS KMCA EUMEM GG RS SW |
08STOCKHOLM67 | APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE JANUARY 28- [...] (U) On January 25, 2008, Poloff met with Anna Norell, MFA Deputy EU Correspondent, regarding the upcoming January 28-29 EU Foreign Ministers GAERC meeting. Comments on Kosovo, Iran, and the Isreali-Palestinian peace process were highlighted: KOSOVO ------ 2. (C) Sweden felt bound by UN [...] | 2008-01-25 17:38:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PHUM PREL PGOV KV IR IZ IS SU |
08STOCKHOLM674 | SWEDISH RESPONSE:DESIGNATION OF THE ISLAMIC [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-09 08:26:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | ECON EFIN ERTD PARM KNNP EUN EWWT PREL IR SW |
08STOCKHOLM688 | PANAMANIAN AMBASSADOR TO SWEDEN QUESTIONS VISA REVOCATION [...] (SBU) Panamanian Ambassador to Sweden Cecilio Eduardo Simon English (DPOB: 01-OCT-1951, Panama) met with DCM and Consul on 14 October in reference to reftel A notice that his B1/B2 visa has been revoked under INA 212(A)(3). The visibly distressed Ambassador stated that he was not an enemy of t [...] | 2008-10-17 06:52:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL PM SW |
08STOCKHOLM693 | SWEDEN TO SUPPORT AFGHAN ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-17 16:37:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SW AF |
08STOCKHOLM695 | SWEDISH SOC DEM LEADER AHLIN ON BELARUS, [...] (C) Summary: On October 15, Urban Ahlin, the foreign policy spokesman of the opposition Social Democrats told DCM and POL counselor: -- On Afghanistan, he is working to cement Social Democratic support for the Government,s bill to expand troops, but it will be a "tough ride" for the bill. [...] | 2008-10-20 10:06:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SW IR BO GG RS AF |
08STOCKHOLM700 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SWEDEN TO PLEDGE 14 MILLION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-20 15:10:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GG SW |
08STOCKHOLM701 | CORRECTED: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SWEDEN TO PLEDGE 15 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-21 08:47:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GG SW |
08STOCKHOLM703 | SWEDISH CONSULAR REQUEST ON DEATH OF MOHAMMED [...] (C) On October 16, Swedish MFA State Secretary Frank Belfrage asked DCM about the killing by U.S. troops of Mohammed Moumou, a Moroccan-born Swedish national who was second-in-command in Al-Qaeda in Iraq. DCM drew on the MNF-I press release of October 15 to describe the circumstances surroun [...] | 2008-10-21 11:15:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER CASC IQ SW |
08STOCKHOLM704 | SWEDISH SCENESETTER FOR HSPD-6 NEGOTIATING TEAM VISIT [...] (SBU) Embassy Stockholm welcomes Peter Thompson, Mary Doetsch, Zandra Flemister, and Wynne Teel, October 22-24. We believe, based on MOJ contacts and our political analysis, that the proposed exchange of terrorist screening information is going to be a very hard sell. We should make clear to [...] | 2008-10-21 12:48:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL PM SW |
08STOCKHOLM706 | SWEDISH DEP FM BELFRAGE ON AFGHANISTAN AND IRAN [...] (C) Summary: On October 16, Swedish MFA State Secretary (deputy minister equivalent) Frank Belfrage told DCM and Pol counselor: -- On Afghanistan, Belfrage noted "strong bipartisan support" for Sweden to stay for "the long haul," even though the opposition was creating difficulties for the [...] | 2008-10-21 14:35:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AF IR SW |
08STOCKHOLM712 | SWEDISH MFA ON AESA RELEASIBILITY, AFGHANISTAN AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-23 14:49:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD MARR RS SW IR AF |
08STOCKHOLM716 | OPPORTUNITY FAIR ATTRACTS HUNDREDS OF PARTICIPANTS [...] (U) Summary: On October 16, Sdertdlje, the Swedish town of 75,000 persons, about one third of whom are Iraqi born, collaborated with Embassy Stockholm to host the Sdertdlje Opportunity Fair "USA 2009." The fair was designed to provide information and advice on the myriad opportunities for peo [...] | 2008-10-27 12:44:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SCUL SW IQ |
08STOCKHOLM717 | SWEDISH EXPORTS TO IRAN RISING [...] (SBU) Summary: Swedish government agencies and official trade councils continue to encourage Swedish companies to do business with Iran. Exports to Iran in the first six months of 2008 are up 30% over the corresponding period in 2007. Sweden has also not tightened export credit guarantees for [...] | 2008-10-27 13:38:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD IR SW |
08STOCKHOLM719 | SWEDEN'S GEORGIA AID PACKAGE: 40 MILLION EUROS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-27 16:49:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GG SW |
08STOCKHOLM722 | SWEDEN ON PALESTINIAN DETAINEE AT GUANTANAMO [...] (S) This is an action request. Please see para 7. 2. (S) Summary: The Swedish Migration Board (SMB) appears interested in learning more about Detainee 049 based on comments made in an October 27 meeting with Emboffs. A "formal" written request is more effective within the Swedish bureauc [...] | 2008-10-29 15:17:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS KAWK KISL KPAO SW |
08STOCKHOLM726 | GYMNICH-GAERC POINTS DELIVERED TO SWEDEN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-30 15:36:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EU SW |
08STOCKHOLM729 | EU'S EASTERN PARTNERSHIP--SWEDEN'S PROPOSAL [...] (U) The Swedish MFA Eastern European Desk met with Poloff on October 20 to discuss Sweden and Poland's joint proposal to establish an "Eastern Partnership" between the EU and Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. Director Johan Frisell told Poloff the Partnership aims to g [...] | 2008-10-31 12:52:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EU SW |
08STOCKHOLM738 | SWEDEN -- FAST TRACK LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING [...] Per reftel, Post has reviewed the records of the below named Swedish military personnel and found no derogatory information: --Sweden: COL Lars-Olof Corneliusson, Naval Attache, Washington, D.C., DOB: November 9, 1959. --Sweden: LTC Michael Andersson, Senior Swedish Officer, CENTCOM (CCC),Ma [...] | 2008-11-05 07:28:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | EZ PGOV PHUM PM PREL SW |
08STOCKHOLM739 | SAAKASHVILI IN SWEDEN: "I REGRET NOTHING" [...] On October 30-31, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili visited Stockholm for talks with Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (FM Bildt was in Afghanistan at the time). The visit, planned in 2007, originally was to sign a bilateral investment protection agreement to encourage Swedish investments [...] | 2008-11-05 15:05:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL ENRG GG EU ZK SW |
08STOCKHOLM742 | SWEDISH RESPONSE: PSI: SUMMARY OF SEPTEMBER 2008 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-06 12:09:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL SW |
08STOCKHOLM747 | SWEDEN'S RESPONSE TO NOVEMBER GAERC POINTS [...] (C) Sweden's EU Correspondent Anna Norell told poloff on November 7 the following regarding the November 10-11 GAERC: --Syria is not on the agenda. --There will not be a discussion on Iraq, just the passing of council conclusions as "A items." --The EU will take a formal decision on the anti [...] | 2008-11-07 15:46:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU SW |
08STOCKHOLM748 | HSPD-6 TEAM VISITS TO DISCUSS TERRORIST SCREENING [...] (S) SUMMARY: Meetings between the HSPD-6 terrorist screening information negotiation team and the Swedish MOJ and MFA reveal that the current Swedish political climate makes any formal terrorist screening information agreement highly difficult. Existing informal arrangements are working well, [...] | 2008-11-07 16:32:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | ASEC CVIS PGOV PREL CMGT PTER SW |
08STOCKHOLM749 | SAAKASHVILI-PM REINFELDT MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-07 17:19:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG SW |
08STOCKHOLM750 | BILDT VISITS OFFICIALS AND TROOPS AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Swedish FM Bildt paid his first visit to Afghanistan October 29-31, 2008. On this "fact-finding" mission, he met with all levels of government in Kabul, including Foreign Minister Spanta and Minister of Interior Atmar, and with Balkh Province Governor Atta when he visited Sweden's PRT in [...] | 2008-11-07 17:36:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR AF SW |
08STOCKHOLM751 | SWEDEN LIKELY TO UP ISAF TROOPS BUT BILL DELAYED [...] (C) Summary: Sweden has once again delayed the submission of its ISAF authorization bill to Parliament to November 17-19, citing "differences in interpretation of the wording" as the main problem. Sweden is discussing raising the number of troops in Afghanistan from 375 to around 500, by sendi [...] | 2008-11-07 18:01:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID MCAP MOPS PGOV PREL AF SW |
08STOCKHOLM752 | SWEDEN LIKELY TO UP ISAF TROOPS BY 100; BILL [...] (C) Summary: Sweden has once again delayed the submission of its ISAF authorization bill to Parliament to November 17-19, citing "differences in interpretation of the wording" as the main problem. Sweden is discussing raising the number of troops in Afghanistan from 375 to around 500, by sendi [...] | 2008-11-10 07:49:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID MCAP MOPS PGOV PREL AF SW |
08STOCKHOLM754 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: EXPULSION OF DEA FROM BOLIVIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-10 16:31:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL SNAR BL SW |
08STOCKHOLM757 | SWEDEN ON EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT [...] On November 10, Sweden and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement on EU-Russia relations, signed by FM Bildt and FM Miliband The statement reaffirmed support for Georgia's territorial integrity and urged Russia to fully implement the August 12 and September 8 EU-brokered peace agreements [...] | 2008-11-12 17:06:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SW |
08STOCKHOLM761 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNGA RESOLUTION ON HUMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-13 15:59:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UN SW |
08STOCKHOLM763 | SWEDISH FINANCIAL SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY YET TO [...] (S) Summary: The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (FI) has not yet passed on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) warning issued on October 16 to Swedish financial institutions and banks. The warning calls for all countries to strengthen preventative measures to protect their financ [...] | 2008-11-14 07:13:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | PARM PREL EFIN KNNP IR SW |
08STOCKHOLM764 | SWEDISH MFA ON IRAN, SYRIA AND IRAQ [...] (S) Summary: Robert Rydberg, Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Middle East and North Africa at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA),told Emboffs that: -- Sweden is fully committed to tightening any loopholes and implementing all UN sanctions on Iran. He added t [...] | 2008-11-14 07:13:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | PARM PREL EFIN KNNP IR IZ SY SW |
08STOCKHOLM769 | SWEDISH TRADE MINISTER TO LEAD BUSINESS DELEGATION [...] Summary: Swedish Minister of Trade Eva Bjorling is leading a business delegation of major Swedish companies to Iraq. Scania Trucks is looking into opening a truck factory in Iskandaryah and service centers in Erbil and Basrah that would provide 500-600 jobs in Iraq. Embassy Stockholm facilita [...] | 2008-11-14 14:04:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN ECON ECPS EINV ENRG EPET PGOV PREL |
08STOCKHOLM770 | SWEDEN TO EXTEND MILITARY COMMITMENT TO AFGHANISTAN [...] On November 13, the Alliance government approved for transmission to Parliament a bill to extend Sweden's ISAF commitment to Afghanistan by 12 months. The bill will also expand the Swedish military contribution by: -- Increasing the number of ISAF troops from 366 to approximately 500 and ra [...] | 2008-11-14 15:40:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | MAAR MCAP MASS MOPS PGOV PREL AF SW |
08STOCKHOLM771 | SWEDES INCREASE AID TO AFGHANISTAN BUT CONTINUE TO [...] Summary: On November 13, Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation, announced that a new Afghanistan development cooperation bill had been introduced to Parliament that will: -- Focus on promoting democracy, providing education with an emphasis on increasing oppor [...] | 2008-11-14 15:56:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PGOV PREL KDEM KISL AF SW |
08STOCKHOLM777 | EMBASSY STOCKHOLM'S ESTA OUTREACH MATRIX [...] Summary: Post has compiled the following list of outreach efforts undertaken over the past five months to inform contacts, stakeholders, and the public about the ESTA program. Additional information about our efforts can be found in our previous reporting located in reftels. We will have addit [...] | 2008-11-19 15:19:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | CPAS CVIS CMGT PREL SW |
08STOCKHOLM781 | SWEDEN ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (S) This is an action request, please see para 4. 2. (S) On November 20, DCM had a pull-aside, after a meeting on other issues (septel),with MFA State Secretary Frank Belfrage on Sweden,s willingness to accept Guantanamo detainees. 3. (S) Belfrage said: --Closing Guantanamo is an imp [...] | 2008-11-20 15:40:00 | Embassy Stockholm | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS KAWK KISL KPAO SW |
08STOCKHOLM782 | SWEDEN RATIFIES LISBON TREATY [...] On November 20, the Swedish Parliament ratified the European Union's Lisbon Treaty, making Sweden the 25th of the 27 EU member states to approve the reform text. The debate in parliament lasted nine hours and dragged into late Thursday evening. The treaty was approved with 243 votes in favor [...] | 2008-11-21 13:43:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL SW |
08STOCKHOLM792 | SWEDEN ON THE EU EASTERN PARTNERSHIP AND NORDSTREAM [...] (C) Summary: The EU Foreign Ministers will discuss the draft plan for the Eastern Partnership initiative at the December 8 GAERC, paving the way for the first Eastern Partnership summit scheduled for April 2009 in Prague, according to Swedish MFA contacts. Unique features of the Eastern Partn [...] | 2008-11-28 16:39:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU SW |
08STOCKHOLM799 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] (U) On November 16, PM Reinfeldt announced that Sweden would sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CM) in Oslo. FM Bildt addressed the Parliament on November 28, reiterating the PM's statement, saying Sweden hopes the CM will have a positive effect on the Convention on Certain Conventional [...] | 2008-12-02 15:01:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM NATO MOPS PREL SW |
08STOCKHOLM801 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OSCE MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-02 15:24:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU SW |
08STOCKHOLM824 | OPPOSITION SUPPORTS TROOP INCREASE IN AFGHANISTAN [...] Summary: Despite internal dissent within the party, Sweden's opposition Social Democrats decided formally on December 4 to support the government's bill extending and increasing Sweden's ISAF deployment. It is, therefore, almost certain that the bill will be approved by Parliament on or abou [...] | 2008-12-10 07:41:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL SW |
08STOCKHOLM827 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON REVOCATION OF IRAN"S U-TURN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-11 13:11:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL EFIN KNNP SW |
08STOCKHOLM829 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NICARAGUAN MUNICIPAL [...] (C) Summary: Sweden is "worried" about the November 9 municipal elections in Nicaragua but has not yet called for a vote recount. Instead, it will follow EU consensus on the issue, expected to be reached at the EU's COLAT meeting in January. End Summary. 2. (C) On December 1, Poloff delive [...] | 2008-12-11 15:03:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NU SW |
08STOCKHOLM830 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN HARMONIZATION OF [...] Summary: On December 12, Conoff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Desk Officer for Security Policy and UN Affairs, Sara Dahlstein. Dahlstein stated that Sweden was not ruling out support for some elements of the U.S. proposal, but would be more inclined to support a less drastic modification o [...] | 2008-12-15 10:42:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AORC APER PREL UNGA SW |
08STOCKHOLM832 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH [...] Summary: On December 2 and 12, emboffs delivered reftel demarche talking points to MFA officers handling UN affairs. MFA officials said they could not provide an advance decision of Sweden's vote on the UNGA resolutions with Anti-Israel Bias, but noted Sweden's abstention of the three key reso [...] | 2008-12-15 11:01:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA SW |
08STOCKHOLM833 | SWEDEN INDICATES CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR UN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-15 11:02:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA KDEM |
08STOCKHOLM836 | STOCKHOLM: REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF [...] (U) The information in this message is keyed to questions posed in reftel. 2. (C) Has Sweden worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? -- Since 1996, Sweden's Cuba policy has been to support democratic development and respect for human rights in Cuba throu [...] | 2008-12-16 17:09:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU SW |
08STOCKHOLM84 | SWEDISH MFA ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE AND ESDP MISSION [...] (C) The Swedish position on Kosovo recognition appears to be starting to move in a positive direction. Sweden supported the January 30 approval of an ESDP mission. MFA contacts tell us Sweden will likely join in recognizing Kosovo, but would prefer for this to occur with substantial EU unity [...] | 2008-02-01 16:20:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SW YI |
08STOCKHOLM841 | SWEDISH MFA ON EU DISCUSSION OF CONGO, SOUTH ASIA, [...] (C) On December 17, Poloffs met with Axel Wernhoff, Deputy Head of the Division for European Affairs at the MFA. Wernhoff said: -- The EU will increasingly focus on Afghanistan in 2009 and understands that a "regional approach" is needed to deal with the Afghan-Pakistani border; -- FM Bil [...] | 2008-12-18 10:57:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU AF PK CG CF SW |
08STOCKHOLM842 | ASSISTANCE TO NICARAGUA FOLLOWING FRAUDULENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-18 12:49:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PREL |
08STOCKHOLM846 | SWEDISH PARLIAMENT APPROVED TROOP INCREASE IN AFGHANISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-19 12:46:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL SW |
08STOCKHOLM855 | TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE ON LASHKAR-E-TAYYIBA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-22 15:48:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC PK SW |
08STOCKHOLM857 | "EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED" DURING SWEDEN'S EU [...] (SBU) Summary: Sweden has about six months before it assumes the EU presidency on July 1, 2009, but the government is already in overdrive preparing policy goals and restructuring governmental offices. EUR/ERA Director Bill Lucas visited Stockholm on December 4-5 to discuss priorities for th [...] | 2008-12-23 11:09:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV INR EU SW |
08STPETERSBURG148 | ST. PETERSBURGERS HESITANT TO LABEL U.S. AN ALLY, POLL [...] Summary. According to a recent poll, only a minority of St. Petersburg residents consider the U.S. to be a "friend" of Russia, while the perception that China is a close Russian ally is quickly growing. At the same time, however, a majority of residents now deem the U.S. to be closer to a frie [...] | 2008-08-05 13:41:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPAO KDEM RS |
08STPETERSBURG194 | CODEL DELAHUNT VISIT TO ST. PETERSBURG [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 9-10, Representatives William Delahunt and Dana Rohrabacher met with several diverse groups of Russian interlocutors in St. Petersburg. Our interlocutors were pleased to be able to meet with such high-level representatives of the U.S. government. ---------------- [...] | 2008-12-16 10:44:00 | Consulate St Petersburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON RS |
08SURABAYA100 | SURABAYA WELCOMES NBA TO INDONESIA [...] Summary: Surabaya played host to the first ever NBA events in Indonesia when Danny Granger of the Indiana Pacers visited from August 22-25, 2008. He participated in a press conference, tossed up the opening jump ball and presented trophies at a high school championship tournament, visited an [...] | 2008-08-28 06:37:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP SCUL PREL ODIP KPAO ECON ID |
08SURABAYA11 | SOUTH SULAWESI: IRANIAN PUBLIC DIPLOMACY, REACHING OUT ONE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Iranian Embassy in Jakarta increased its public diplomacy efforts in Indonesia by establishing five "Iranian Corners" in 2007. The first Iranian Corner outside West Java was established at Hassanudin University in Makassar, South Sulawesi, in November, reaching out to studen [...] | 2008-01-29 01:57:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KIRF KISL IR ID PGOV KPAO |
08SURABAYA116 | CENTRAL SULAWESI: MEDIA REPORT OF PALU BOMB PLOT TURNS OUT [...] (SBU) Summary: A September 30 report titled "Kids Uncover Idul Fitri Bomb Terror Plan in Palu" was carried in the English language daily, The Jakarta Post. Congen Surabaya spoke with local police, and civil society leaders knowledgeable about local media who refuted the Jakarta Post story. W [...] | 2008-10-03 09:30:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KISL KIRF PTER EAID PREL ASEC ID PINS |
08SURABAYA119 | WEST NUSA TENGGARA: LIFE FOR LOMBOK'S AHMADIYAH SECT CHANGES [...] (SBU) Summary: During an October 16 visit by Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF) representative and Surabaya Pol/Econ Officer to Mataram, Ahmadiyah refugees described their difficult living conditions and frustrations trying to generate government action to improve their situation. [...] | 2008-10-24 07:18:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ID KIRF PHUM |
08SURABAYA12 | EASTERN INDONESIA: PUBLIC POLICY TRAINING PROGRAMS IN [...] (U) Much-welcomed USG-funded assistance programs aimed at capacity building and conflict resolution are being reestablished in areas which have suffered through years of ethnic and religious conflict. During separate mid-January trips to the eastern Indonesian provinces of Central Sulawesi and [...] | 2008-01-31 04:41:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ID PGOV KPAO |
08SURABAYA13 | CENTRAL SULAWESI: POSO FEELING SECURE, BUT WORRIED ABOUT THE [...] (SBU) Summary: On a January 18-20 visit to Central Sulawesi, Surabaya Pol/Econ officer spoke with NGOs, journalists, academics and local residents about the current state of post-conflict recovery in Poso. All agreed that the outlook is positive overall; however there is an equally clear conse [...] | 2008-01-31 11:10:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO EAID SOCI PTER |
08SURABAYA131 | EAST JAVA: RAZOR THIN VICTORY IN RUN-OFF ELECTION SIGNALS [...] (SBU) Summary: In the November 4 run-off election to select East Java's governor, low turnout and a lack of party discipline saw former Provincial Secretary Soekarwo squeak out a narrow (less than 1%) victory over East Java's first female gubernatorial candidate Khofifah. Although early exit [...] | 2008-11-14 10:28:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI KISL ID |
08SURABAYA133 | WEST NUSA TENGGARA: HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR CHANGE FROM THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Elected on an anti-corruption platform, recently inaugurated Governor of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Muhammad Zainul Majdi remains extremely popular among the local population of Mataram, the provincial capital. Political observers, however, are skeptical that he has the skills or [...] | 2008-11-20 07:49:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KIRF PHUM KISL EINV ID |
08SURABAYA14 | SULTAN OF TERNATE AS NORTH MALUKU MEDIATOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sultan of Ternate positioned himself as the mediator of the continuing North Maluku gubernatorial dispute during a January 25 meeting with Surabaya Principal Officer. Ternate, the capital of North Maluku, was calm after the January 23 Supreme Court ruling that supported form [...] | 2008-02-04 04:23:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ID |
08SURABAYA16 | POLICE AND SOLDIERS CLASH IN CENTRAL MALUKU: THREE DEAD [...] (SBU) According to police and media contacts, early Saturday morning, February 2, a group of Indonesian armed forces (TNI) soldiers from the 731 Kabaresi infantry battalion in Central Maluku attacked local police offices in the city of Masohi on the island of Seram. After an exchange of gunfir [...] | 2008-02-05 09:38:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PREL ID |
08SURABAYA20 | NORTH MALUKU: CONTINUING GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION UNCERTAINTY [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 11, a low-explosive, hand-made bomb exploded outside the Ternate residence of the head of the North Maluku High Court. There were no reports of injuries. Although no group has claimed responsibility, the bomb was reportedly an attempt to put pressure on local officia [...] | 2008-02-12 08:36:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL ID |
08SURABAYA21 | SUPER TUESDAY IN SURABAYA [...] (U) Summary: Congen Surabaya hosted a Super Tuesday Election event at the Consul General's residence for 35 invited guests from the media, local political parties, and academia. The Consulate's Pol/Econ Officer and Public Affairs Officer led a discussion of Blue State vs. Red State dynamics, [...] | 2008-02-13 01:36:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGPV KISL KPAO ID |
08SURABAYA33 | EASTERN INDONESIA: PROSPEROUS JUSTICE PARTY (PKS) TRIES TO [...] (SBU) Summary: In the regions beyond Java, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) are focused on attracting new members beyond the Muslim students and professionals who makeup the party's backbone. On the Hindu island of Bali and the Muslim-majority province of Gorontolo, local PKS leaders highlig [...] | 2008-03-10 07:14:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KIRL ID |
08SURABAYA35 | SOUTH SULAWESI: MAKASSAR DRUG BUST UNCOVERS EXPLOSIVES, [...] (SBU) Makassar authorities are still investigating the discovery of explosives, an AR-15 rifle and many rounds of ammunition at a house belonging to a Mr. Sabri at a housing complex in a Makassar suburb according to media reports and Congen Surabaya contacts. Makassar police -- acting on a ti [...] | 2008-03-13 10:05:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL ID |
08SURABAYA44 | CENTRAL SULAWESI: ON THE RUN SINCE 2005, SECT LEADER IS [...] (SBU) Summary: Arifin, (aka Madi),the fugitive leader of a so-called heretical Islamic sect, was killed while resisting arrest according to press reports and Congen Surabaya sources. After three years on the run, police received information that Madi had returned to his home village of Salen [...] | 2008-04-07 08:43:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KISL ID PGOV KIRF PREL |
08SURABAYA51 | EAST JAVA -- SOME LISTEN TO ALLAH, SOME TO THE POLLS; [...] (SBU) Summary: What role will the world's largest Muslim organization play in the run up to Indonesia's 2009 Presidential election? The East Java governor's race could provide a preview of the declining role of large Muslim organizations like Nadhlatul Ulama (NU),with some 40 million member [...] | 2008-04-23 09:27:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM SOCI KISL ID |
08SURABAYA57 | EAST JAVA: PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS DISCUSS DECENTRALIZATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Four presidential hopefuls discussed the power of decentralization on economic development at an April 30 seminar hosted by the Jawa Pos Group. All four agreed that the central government had failed to transfer sufficient authority to regional governments and questioned the gove [...] | 2008-05-06 10:45:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID PREL ID |
08SURABAYA61 | EAST JAVA: PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO OPENS EDUCATION DAY AMID [...] (U) Summary: President Yudhoyono visited East Java May 12-13 May for National Education Day opening ceremonies at Airlangga University in Surabaya. The President was greeted by small-scale student protests calling for reduction in fuel and food prices, expulsion of foreign oil companies and a [...] | 2008-05-14 09:09:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI SCUL KPAO OEXC OIIP PGOV ID |
08SURABAYA68 | EASTERN INDONESIA: AFGHANS BOUND FOR AUSTRALIA DETAINED IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Local police arrested seven Afghan nationals near Kupang, West Timor, for immigration violations. According to the police, the Afghans claimed they felt threatened in Afghanistan and intended to enter Australia via boat from Roti Island. All seven reportedly entered on valid In [...] | 2008-06-03 10:16:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF SMIG PREL ELAB KCRM KWMN ID |
08SURABAYA7 | SOUTH SULAWESI: DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE IN ADVANCE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Daily protests against the Supreme Court's December decision requesting gubernatorial elections be re-run in four South Sulawesi regencies turned violent January 16 when supporters of declared victor Syahrul Yasin Limpo entered the governor's office. The local election commissio [...] | 2008-01-18 01:29:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ID |
08SURABAYA74 | CENTRAL SULAWESI: LOCAL VIEWS OF POST CONFLICT ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Former sites of extreme violence between Muslim and Christian communities throughout the Central Sulawesi city of Poso are now safe, although physical signs of the conflict remain. Residents of the Poso and NGO leaders told visiting Surabaya Pol/Econ Officer that economic devel [...] | 2008-06-19 09:13:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ID KISL PTER EAID PREL SOCI SCUL |
08SURABAYA78 | NBA BASKETBALL: SPORTS DIPLOMACY PARTNERSHIPS IN INDONESIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Deteksi Basketball League (DBL) has secured a multi-year partnership with the National Basketball Association (NBA). This new agreement was facilitated through introductions and suggestions made by U.S. Consulate General Surabaya following meetings in Jakarta. An NBA player an [...] | 2008-07-08 06:32:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL KPAO PREL ECON ID |
08SURABAYA8 | EAST JAVA: DECENTRALIZATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY [...] (SBU) Summary: During a wide ranging lunch discussion with visiting DCM January 16, six Surabaya-based political observers -- representing the media, academia, NGOs, and religious communities -- offered their frank assessments of the successes and limitations of decentralization in East Java. [...] | 2008-01-20 05:36:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PREL EAID ID |
08SURABAYA81 | EAST JAVA: EDUCATION COOPERATION A PRIORITY FOR LOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary: During a July 4 visit to Surabaya, Ambassador Hume discussed the prospects for enhanced education cooperation between the U.S. and Indonesia with local officials, academics, and business leaders. All stressed the importance of establishing necessary infrastructure and institutio [...] | 2008-07-10 08:21:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL KPAO PREL ECON EAID ID |
08SURABAYA88 | EAST JAVA GOVERNOR'S ELECTION: WEAK PARTY LOYALTY LEADS TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Based on quick count results, it appears likely East Java governor's election will go to a second round after no candidate garnered 30% of the vote in a five ticket race. Soekarwo-Syaifullah Yusuf -- supported by the National Mandate Party (PAN),Party Democrat (PD),and the Pro [...] | 2008-07-25 10:36:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI KISL ID |
08SURABAYA94 | EAST JAVA: THE TANGLED WEB SURROUNDING THE SOLE FEMALE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: East Java's female candidate for governor, Khofifah Indar Parawansa, succeeded in reaching the second round of the election, but faces strong criticism from women's issues activists in Surabaya. While her critics acknowledge that the Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama's (NU) [...] | 2008-08-01 08:13:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KWMN KDEM SOCI KISL PREL ID |
08SURABAYA97 | SURABAYA: ICITAP-FUNDED DNA LAB OPENED WITH ENTHUSIASM [...] (SBU) Summary: The opening of a Surabaya DNA forensics lab established with assistance from the U.S. Department of Justice's International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) generated positive press in East Java and the continued appreciation of provincial police. Th [...] | 2008-08-08 08:59:00 | Consulate Surabaya | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID ASEC ID |
08SUVA100 | FIJI: QARASE COURT CASE; CHAUDHRY TAX ISSUE; FIJI [...] (C) Deposed Fiji Prime Minister Qarase's court case against Commodore Bainimarama's December 2006 coup seems to be rapidly drawing to a close. The Interim Government's (IG's) hand-picked judges will apparently start writing their decision shortly. An appeal is expected to follow, whatever th [...] | 2008-03-12 16:44:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CJAN PHUM PINR MARR FJ |
08SUVA109 | A TONGA ELECTION PREVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Seventy-one candidates are running for the nine seats in Tonga's parliament reserved for People's Representatives(PRs) in the April 23-24 elections. While Tonga law has no provision for candidates to register their political affiliation, at least 30 are associated with the pro- [...] | 2008-03-19 15:04:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TN |
08SUVA121 | FIJI UPDATE - "PEOPLE'S CHARTER" REMAINS INTERIM [...] (SBU) The day after the Pacific Island Forum Foreign Ministers expressed their concern that Fiji's "People's Charter" should not be used to delay the planned March 2009 elections in Fiji (reftel),Interim PM Bainimarama implied that is exactly what may happen. In a speech 3/27, Bainimarama [...] | 2008-03-27 14:34:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL FJ |
08SUVA13 | FIJI: "LAND" ISSUE; ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES; PEOPLE'S [...] (C) Interim Finance Minister Chaudhry has proposed that he and interim PM Bainimarama can resolve Fiji's racially charged "land" issues. That vision has raised intense concern among ethnic-Fijians, most of whom trust neither Bainimarama nor Chaudhry to handle the issue. The interim governmen [...] | 2008-01-15 17:11:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PHUM FJ |
08SUVA135 | NAURU GOVERNANCE PROBLEMS RECUR [...] (C) Tiny Nauru has slid into another period of political instability. The landslide re-election of the reformist Scott government in August 2007 brought a sense of hope (Ref A); but leadership battles since have pushed Nauru back into seesaw political squabbles that we had hoped were history. [...] | 2008-04-07 13:24:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM NR |
08SUVA143 | FIJI POLICE ARREST TIBET PROTESTERS [...] (U) Fiji police arrested 17 NGO human rights activists who took part in a silent protest across the street from the Chinese embassy in Suva April 10. No charges have been laid. Several NGOs have questioned police grounds for breaking up a peaceful demonstration. The Chinese Embassy condemned [...] | 2008-04-15 02:55:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL FJ CH |
08SUVA144 | NO BEND (YET) IN FIJI'S BAINIMARAMA [...] (C) A visit to Fiji by PNG Prime Minister Somare and Tonga PM Sevele to meet with interim PM Bainimarama late last week reportedly left Somare and Sevele still feeling uncomfortable about Fiji political developments. Bainimarama gave assurance that he intends elections in March 2009, but only [...] | 2008-04-15 05:07:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MARR FJ |
08SUVA145 | BAINIMARAMA'S NATIONAL COUNCIL PROPOSES DRAMATIC [...] (SBU) The National Council for Building a Better Fiji (NCBBF),co-chaired by Interim PM Bainimarama, put forward to President Iloilo late April 15 a resolution calling for dramatic changes in Fiji's electoral system. Iloilo will undoubtedly endorse the resolution. According to the resoluti [...] | 2008-04-16 03:34:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM FJ |
08SUVA147 | FIJI'S PREPARATIONS FOR THE PLANNED 2009 ELECTIONS [...] (C) While the Fiji Interim Government (IG) continues to give mixed signals about a March 2009 election, preparations are starting at a pace slower than donor countries would like. After months of delays, a New Zealand lawyer was named Supervisor of Elections April 17, to take up the job in e [...] | 2008-04-18 03:12:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM FJ |
08SUVA153 | FIJI CHIEFS PLEAD FOR FOREIGN HELP [...] (C) Embassy Suva has received a hand-delivered "private and confidential" letter from the highest chiefs of Fiji laying out a series of complaints against interim PM Bainimarama and the "immigrant race" (the ethnic Indians). The letter is also addressed to the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and E [...] | 2008-04-20 17:36:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MARR FJ |
08SUVA155 | FIJI ELECTION POSTPONEMENT IN THE WORKS? [...] (C) Several indicators suggest Fiji interim PM Bainimarama does not really intend to fulfill his pledge to Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders to hold free and fair elections by March 2009. Bainimarama reportedly indicated as much to the PNG and Tonga PMs recently. In addition, the interim g [...] | 2008-04-23 17:28:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MARR FJ |
08SUVA17 | BRIG.GEN. (RET) KONROTE CONCERNED ABOUT [...] (C) George Konrote, well-connected retired soldier, diplomat, and deposed State Minister, is deeply concerned that Fiji interim Prime Minister Bainimarama, his friend, has been listening to poor advice, particularly from Interim Finance Minister Chaudhry and interim Attorney General Sayed-Khai [...] | 2008-01-22 15:52:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR ASEC CASC FJ |
08SUVA174 | TONGA: PLOTTING THE FUTURE AFTER THE PEOPLE [...] (C) Most everyone in Tonga accepts an April 24 election signaled the vast majority want rapid democratic reform. Prime Minister Sevele was shocked by the result. He thought an onslaught of ads tying veteran People's Representatives (PRs) to a riot in November 2006 would sway voters. He was w [...] | 2008-05-07 13:57:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CVIS PHUM SOCI KJAN TN FJ |
08SUVA175 | DONOR COUNTRIES ADVISE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK TO [...] (C) On May 7, representatives of the United States, Australia, New Zealand, PNG and the UK told the head of the regional Asian Development Bank Office in Suva they hoped ADB would not push forward with any new initiatives in Fiji for the time being. In light of the recent expulsion of Fiji Ti [...] | 2008-05-07 14:29:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PROV PREL FJ |
08SUVA176 | FIJI -- DEATH THREAT AGAINST AUSTRALIAN HIGH [...] (U) On the evening of May 7, someone delivered a written statement to the Australian High Commission in Suva that reportedly threatened the life of High Commissioner James Batley. The Aussies immediately increased their internal security and brought in the Fiji Police, who have begun an inves [...] | 2008-05-07 14:33:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC CASC PGOV PHUM PINR MARR FJ |
08SUVA18 | TONGA REQUIREMENTS FOR IRAQ DEPLOYMENT: SECOND [...] (C) Regarding reftel (deadline today),Tonga Prime Minister Sevele and Tonga Defense Service (TDS) Commander BG Uta'atu visited Honolulu this week to observe the next TDS contingent training for deployment to Iraq (MNFI). We understand that Sevele and Uta'atu discussed prospects for future Ir [...] | 2008-01-23 14:42:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS IZ TN |
08SUVA184 | FIJI INTERIM AG COMPLAINT THAT USG DENIED VISA FOR [...] (U) Fiji's interim Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum phoned Suva media from Vienna on Friday, May 9, to make public his unhappiness at Embassy Suva having denied him a visa to transit Los Angeles to and from a U.N conference in Vienna. He also complained that the U.S. denial came at "the e [...] | 2008-05-11 12:53:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR CVIS FJ |
08SUVA185 | FIJI INTERIM GOVERNMENT SEEKS UN, COMMONWEALTH [...] (C) Fiji's President Iloilo has asked the UN and the Commonwealth for immediate help to create a forum to address reform of Fiji's electoral system in anticipation of elections in 2009. Iloilo seeks funds and expertise. He suggests names for eminent people to oversee the effort, and specific [...] | 2008-05-11 15:38:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR CVIS UN FJ |
08SUVA19 | FURTHER EVIDENCE OF POST-COUP PROBLEMS IN FIJI [...] (C) One of Fiji's best judges, Roger Coventry (protect) has resigned early because of intense frustration about how other judges have "hijacked" the judiciary to their personal agendas in support of the December 2006 coup. Coventry has confirmed to us a long series of affronts to justice that [...] | 2008-01-24 10:47:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CJAN PHUM FJ |
08SUVA20 | TONGA REQUIREMENTS FOR IRAQ DEPLOYMENT -- PM [...] (C) Tonga Prime Minister Sevele visited Embassy Suva on Jan. 25 on his way back to Tonga from a visit to Honolulu (see ref A). As requested Ref B, we followed up on his PACOM discussions regarding the possibility of further Tonga Defense Service (TDS) deployments to Iraq. Sevele made clear t [...] | 2008-01-24 15:28:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS CVIS IZ TN |
08SUVA204 | FIJI: BAINIMARAMA, QARASE MEET; PR EFFORT IN [...] (C) Fiji interim Prime Minister Bainimarama met with deposed PM Qarase on May 19, a first since the December 2006 coup. Little of substance was reportedly discussed, but they agreed to meet again. Interim Attorney General Sayed-Khaiyum announced that the interim government (IG) is now willing [...] | 2008-05-19 16:13:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR FJ |
08SUVA224 | FIJI'S BAINIMARAMA -- WITHOUT PRETENSIONS. ALSO [...] (C) During a meeting of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) in Vanuatu last week, and in a media interview on the side, interim PM Bainimarama made clear publicly that he sees himself as the Ataturk of Fiji, the military man who has the vision to right the nation's wrongs and build a bright f [...] | 2008-06-01 16:56:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR FJ |
08SUVA244 | BAINIMARAMA RECEIVES "UNDERSTANDING" FROM [...] (C) Summary. A dispirited Papua New Guinea High Commissioner to Fiji, Peter Eafeare, described the May 29-30 Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Summit in Vanuatu as a setback in the effort to ensure Fiji's interim government (IG) holds elections as promised next March. Language in the Summit [...] | 2008-06-12 06:03:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FJ |
08SUVA247 | FIJI ELECTION PREPARATIONS WAY BEHIND SCHEDULE [...] (C) Summary: Evidence is mounting that Fiji's interim government is intentionally dragging its feet in preparing for the national elections it has promised to hold in early 2009. The Finance Ministry has not yet released funds needed to staff up the Elections Office or signed off on a New [...] | 2008-06-18 03:03:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FJ |
08SUVA250 | A FRUSTRATED FIJI INTERIM GOVERNMENT [...] (C) The PIF-Fiji Joint Working Group held its 30th meeting this morning, with interim AG Sayed-Khaiyum present. We are told S-K made very clear the IG view that the next elections must be under a reformed electoral system, and election timing will depend on electoral-reform progress. He indi [...] | 2008-06-19 05:07:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR FJ |
08SUVA266 | FIJI, TONGA, KIRIBATI, NAURU, AND TUVALU: A STATUS [...] (C) The five small Pacific nations within Embassy Suva's bailiwick all are of interest to the United States, not least because each has a vote in the UNGA. In Fiji, Commodore Bainimarama's December 2006 coup has discolored the bilateral relationship. He is frustrated at not achieving legitima [...] | 2008-07-02 04:47:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MARR SENV EAID FJ |
08SUVA274 | PRC AID TO FIJI - SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION [...] (C) PRC aid to the Interim Government (IG) is set to increase sharply in the next few years as Fiji begins to tap into the US$375 million soft loan package for the Pacific that PRC Premier Wen announced in Nadi two years ago. PRC Embassy officials insist, however, that reports of increased a [...] | 2008-07-08 21:33:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PGOV MARR FJ CH TW |
08SUVA287 | FORUM MINISTERS HOLD FIRM ON FIJI ELECTIONS [...] (C) Pacific Island Forum Foreign Ministers who met with Interim PM Bainimarama July 15-16 delivered a unified, firm message that they expect Bainimarama to fulfill his promise to Forum Leaders to hold elections no later than March 2009. Ministers were reportedly "shocked" at statements by the [...] | 2008-07-17 07:45:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR FJ |
08SUVA315 | FIJI'S DRAFT PEOPLES CHARTER RELEASED [...] (U) Summary. The National Council for Building a better Fiji (NCBBF) unveiled its draft Peoples Charter for Change and Progress on August 5. The original plan to have the Charter voted on by the people of Fiji has gone by the wayside. NCBBF will instead conduct six weeks of public consultatio [...] | 2008-08-08 02:43:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL FJ |
08SUVA316 | TROUBLING INDICATIONS THAT FIJI'S INTERIM GOVERNMENT MAY [...] (SBU) Summary: There are troubling indications that Fiji's Interim Government (IG) has no plans for elections in the near term. A key member of the NCBBF today told the media that some of the reforms envisioned in the draft Peoples Charter may take up to twelve years to implement. PM Bainimar [...] | 2008-08-08 04:38:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL FJ |
08SUVA33 | FIJI: SLOW PREP FOR ELECTION; PEOPLE'S CHARTER [...] (C) The interim government is beginning to put out signals that preparations for a March 2009 election are lagging. From what we hear, the problems are of the IG's own making, and IG officials have been reluctant to accept offers of outside help. The 35 people chosen for the People's Charter [...] | 2008-01-28 16:11:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM FJ |
08SUVA331 | CHAUDHRY RESIGNS, FIJI WITHDRAWS FROM REGIONAL MEETING IN [...] (U) Summary: Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry resigned from the interim government (IG) on August 18 following weeks of speculation that his head was on the chopping block for mismanaging the economy and harassing overseas investors. However, Chaudhry's departure may significantly diminish p [...] | 2008-08-19 20:08:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL FJ |
08SUVA365 | EMBASSY SUVA'S REPLY RE UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE DEMARCHE [...] Post delivered reftel talking points to the five countries of accreditation (Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga and Tuvalu) and requested further direct discussions with each country concerning the upcoming UNGA Third Committee meeting in New York. While no response from any of the governments has [...] | 2008-09-18 03:40:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UN |
08SUVA387 | OUTCOMES OF THE 19TH SPREP AND ASSOCIATED MEETINGS, [...] (U) Summary: Important institutional and budget issues dominated this year's SPREP and related meetings. The SPREP Meeting selected Cristelle Pratt, who is the current SOPAC director, to be the director of SPREP (para. 5-7). It adopted modified recommendations from the report of the recently c [...] | 2008-10-07 04:17:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV AORC PREL XV FM |
08SUVA40 | FIJI UPDATE: BAINIMARAMA FUDGES ELECTION DATE [...] (C) Fiji interim Prime Minister Bainimarama told a radio reporter Jan. 31 that an election could take place in 2009 (as he has promised regional leaders) or ten or fifteen years from now, depending on God's plan and contingent on achievement of a pathway to progress and stability. Bainimarama [...] | 2008-01-31 15:27:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CJAN PHUM FJ |
08SUVA400 | DON'T COME WITH ANY DEMANDS SAYS BAINIMARAMA [...] Summary: Having raised hopes by inviting members of Fiji's various political parties to a political dialogue on October 27, interim Prime Minister Bainimarama this week reverted to form, warning invitees not to demand elections in 2007 and advising them to read the recent High Court decision an [...] | 2008-10-23 04:33:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL FJ |
08SUVA401 | DIALOGUE OPENS RIFT IN FIJI"S GOVERNING CIRCLE [...] (C) Summary. The move by Fiji's interim Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama to convene a "Presidential Political Dialogue Forum" (PPDF) to facilitate the conducting of a general election "as soon as practically possible" has opened a schism within the inner circles of the interim gov [...] | 2008-10-24 03:36:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL FJ |
08SUVA417 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES BAINIMARAMA FOR BENCHMARKS TO [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 4, Ambassador McGann met one-on-one with Fiji's Interim Prime Minister Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama almost immediately after presenting his credentials to Fiji's President Iloilo. Ambassador pressed Bainimarama to set benchmarks and timelines for an early restoratio [...] | 2008-11-06 02:55:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AS FJ |
08SUVA432 | CONFLICTING OPINIONS IN FIJI COURTS; BAINIMARAMA WOOS [...] (SBU) Summary: A High Court injunction ordering the Interim Government (IG) to cease all work promoting the Peoples' Charter was overturned only hours after it was issued on November 14, following an urgent ex parte appeal by Fiji's interim attorney general to a judge more sympathetic to the IG [...] | 2008-11-17 17:55:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL FJ |
08SUVA435 | RE-INVENTED FIJIAN OPPOSITIONIST CALLS ON AMBASSADOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-18 00:25:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL FJ |
08SUVA475 | KIRIBATI CABINET AGREES TO OFFER ASYLUM TO UIGHURS [...] (S) On December 20, Embassy delivered points reftel to Kiribati Foreign Secretary Tessie Lambourne. Embassy also forwarded a cover note in conjunction with the non-paper. The Kiribati cabinet had not been privy to earlier discussions between governments. Embassy wanted to help President Tong [...] | 2008-12-22 03:00:00 | Embassy Suva | SECRET | PHUM PTER PREL PINR KDRG FJ |
08SUVA5 | FIJI: INTERIM CABINET RESHUFFLE; PEOPLE'S CHARTER [...] (C) Interim PM Bainimarama has announced the replacement of over half the interim cabinet. The net result is even more of a military, Fiji Labor Party (FLP),and National Alliance Party (NAP) flavor. The stated aim is to rationalize governance; an unstated aim is to reduce frictions among th [...] | 2008-01-06 16:23:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PHUM PINR FJ |
08SUVA60 | FIJI UPDATE: BAINIMARAMA TO INDIA; CJ FATIAKI [...] (C) Fiji interim Prime Minister Bainimarama departed Suva today for medical consultations in India. His departure suggests he does not consider current dissent within the military to be overly threatening. The interim government (IG) tribunal created to consider allegations against suspended [...] | 2008-02-12 17:05:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CJAN PHUM FJ |
08SUVA64 | TONGA DEPLOYMENTS TO IRAQ; RELATED ISSUES [...] (C) During a meeting with Ambassador Dinger in Nuku'alofa Feb. 6, Tonga Foreign/Defense Minister Tu'a re-confirmed that, per reftel, if Tonga decides to continue deploying forces to Iraq into 2009, past the end of the current UN resolution, Tonga expects any such deployments to come under the [...] | 2008-02-13 16:33:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR CVIS SENV TN |
08SUVA71 | TONGA UPDATE -- DISCONTENT; ROYAL LIFESTYLE; [...] (C) Conversations in Tonga Feb. 6-9 revealed that discontent continues. The economy is doing poorly; the King's lifestyle and his extravagant plans for an August 1 coronation rankle; allegations of official corruption are gaining currency; and pro-democracy elements hanker for more rapid prog [...] | 2008-02-18 17:57:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CJAN PHUM TN |
08SUVA72 | FIJI UPDATE -- SCENESETTER FOR EAP PDAS DAVIES [...] (C) Fiji interim Prime Minister Bainimarama, currently in India, has issued a decree reforming the Great Council of Chiefs, putting himself in control of yet another institution. The move has generated heated reactions at all levels of the ethnic-Fijian community. Bainimarama's recent effort [...] | 2008-02-19 17:55:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CJAN PHUM FJ |
08SUVA75 | FIJI UPDATE -- CHAUDHRY PROBLEMS; BAINIMARAMA ON [...] (C) Fiji newspapers confirmed over the weekend that interim government (IG) Finance Minister Chaudhry is the minister who allegedly engaged in tax evasion related to income from around US$1 million placed in Australian bank accounts by sources in India in the years after Fiji's 2000 coup. In [...] | 2008-02-24 16:04:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PHUM FJ |
08SUVA85 | EAP PDAS DAVIES FEB 27 VISIT TO SUVA [...] (C) EAP PDAS Davies met with the key players in Fiji on Feb. 27, including interim PM Bainimarama. Davies stressed to all the U.S. continuing interest in a return to legitimate, democratically-elected governance as soon as possible. The shocking expulsion of the Fiji Sun publisher had taken [...] | 2008-03-02 09:20:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CJAN PHUM FJ |
08SUVA86 | FIJI ELECTION PREPARATION: DONOR COUNTRIES [...] (C) Summary: Just twelve months away from the crucial election to return Fiji to civilian rule, there are indications that the interim government (IG) may be dragging its feet in preparations for the polls. An unexpected assertion of authority by the Electoral Commission into the detailed wor [...] | 2008-03-03 16:52:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID FJ PGOV PREL |
08SUVA89 | FIJI - BAINIMARAMA "NO" ON REEVES' DIALOGUE; [...] (C) Fiji interim Prime Minister Bainimarama has declined a proposal to meet with deposed PM Qarase and others, under the auspices of Commonwealth Secretariat envoy Sir Paul Reeves. Bainimarama said the Military Council objected, but Reeves reportedly puts the blame on interim Finance Minister [...] | 2008-03-06 14:18:00 | Embassy Suva | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CJAN PHUM PINR MARR FJ |
08TAIPEI1 | SIMPLIFIED-CHARACTER CHINESE BOOKS IN THE TAIWAN MARKET [...] Summary: From surreptitious back-alley distribution to yearly import figures approaching two million volumes, the distribution in Taiwan of books from the Mainland featuring simplified Chinese characters has grown considerably in the two decades since the end of martial law. Relaxation of res [...] | 2008-01-02 03:40:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO TW |
08TAIPEI1010 | TAIWAN OVERVIEW OF CROSS-STRAIT ECONOMIC AGENDA [...] (C) SUMMARY. In recent meetings with AIT ECON staff, Taiwan authorities responsible for cross-Strait economic issues have outlined a wide-ranging program that includes expansion of cross-Strait passenger charter flights, establishing cargo and shipping links, and unilateral Taiwan measures to [...] | 2008-07-10 08:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV PREL TW CH |
08TAIPEI1034 | FORMER PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN ON DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary: Former President Chen Shui-bian told the Director on July 10 that DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen has been doing a good job so far, adding that he has been working behind the scenes to support her. However, Chen expressed concern that some party heavyweights, sensing possible openi [...] | 2008-07-14 10:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON CH JA TW |
08TAIPEI1038 | KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON DOMESTIC POLITICS, [...] (C) Summary: KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung, accompanied by Vice Chairman John Kuan and former TECRO Representative Stephen Chen, told the Director on July 14 that it is impossible for President Ma Ying-jeou to stay on the "second line" in the Taiwan political environment. In the fall-out over t [...] | 2008-07-15 10:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR CH TW |
08TAIPEI1039 | TAIWAN IPR: 301 WATCH LIST OCR PROCESS UPDATE TWO [...] (SBU) Summary: Due in part to a recent compromise between local rights-holder groups and the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) on draft language for internet service provider (ISP) amendments to Taiwan's Copyright Act, Taiwan is now making progress on all three areas outlined in May's [...] | 2008-07-15 22:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR PREL PGOV TW |
08TAIPEI1091 | EAP/CM DIRECTOR JOHN NORRIS'S MEETINGS WITH NSC [...] (C) Summary: During separate meetings on July 15 with NSC Secretary General Su Chi and Foreign Minister Francisco Ou, EAP/CM Director John Norris welcomed recent cross-Strait progress and noted U.S. efforts urging Beijing to take a constructive and flexible approach toward cross-Strait relati [...] | 2008-07-24 05:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON CH TW |
08TAIPEI1094 | KMT MAINLAND AFFAIRS DIRECTOR CHANG JUNG-KUNG [...] (C) Summary: KMT Deputy Secretary-General Director Chang Jung-kung told a visiting INR analyst and AIT on July 17 that cross-Strait relations have made significant progress with the start of weekend charter flights on July 4 and the opening of those flights to mainland Chinese tourists on Jul [...] | 2008-07-24 11:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON CH TW |
08TAIPEI1120 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CONGRESSIONAL [...] (SBU) My AIT team and I are looking forward to your visit, which will help underscore the importance of the U.S.-Taiwan relationship. I will meet you upon arrival at the airport Saturday afternoon, August 9, and, with my AIT team, will provide you a briefing after your check-in at the hotel. [...] | 2008-07-31 10:29:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD MARR TW |
08TAIPEI1147 | HONORARY KMT CHAIRMAN LIEN CHAN ON CROSS-STRAIT [...] (C) Summary: Honorary KMT Chairman Lien Chan told the Director on August 4 that he will meet with Taiwan Affairs Office Director Wang Yi in Beijing on August 5, the first day of his trip to China to attend the Olympic opening ceremony on August 8. Lien stressed the importance of U.S. support [...] | 2008-08-05 10:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI1148 | LEGISLATIVE SPEAKER WANG JIN-PYNG ON U.S.-TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: Legislative Yuan (LY) Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (KMT) told the Director on August 5 that his recent meetings in Washington went well and he has briefed President Ma on the U.S. desire that Ma's upcoming transits be kept low-key. Wang said he believed the U.S. would try to handle arms [...] | 2008-08-05 10:47:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
08TAIPEI1160 | PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU ON BILATERAL RELATIONS, [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with the Director on August 7, President Ma said he was "very impressed" by President Bush's recent positive remarks on the current state of cross-Strait relations. The Director urged Taiwan to act quickly on opening its market to all U.S. beef products, noting [...] | 2008-08-07 13:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD EAGR TW |
08TAIPEI1172 | FOREIGN MINISTER OU DISCUSSES TAIWAN'S NEW UN [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Ou told the Director on August 7 that Taiwan plans to have its allies co-sponsor a proposal on Taiwan's "meaningful participation" in UN specialized agencies at this year's UNGA General Committee meeting. Taiwan is hoping for limited discussion and a mild PRC rea [...] | 2008-08-08 10:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW |
08TAIPEI119 | DPP CANDIDATE FRANK HSIEH ON PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Director on January 23, DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh described cross-party efforts to resolve the UN referendum issue, an issue that is controversial for both the DPP and KMT. The KMT is talking to President Chen about its ideas for a possible com [...] | 2008-01-24 11:26:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI1209 | CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION LED BY REPRESENTATIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Congressional delegation led by Representative Jerry Costello (D-IL) met with President Ma Ying-jeou at the Presidential Office on August 11. Ma noted the delegation was the largest to visit Taiwan in recent years, and said he hoped more Congressional and Staff delegations [...] | 2008-08-13 11:09:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EAGR MARR US TW |
08TAIPEI1210 | DPP CHAIRPERSON TSAI ING-WEN ON TAIWAN POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen told the Director on August 12 that her recent statements criticizing the KMT's cross-Strait policies reflected the views of party supporters and were necessary to placate their "anger." Tsai said her current priority is getting the DPP house in order [...] | 2008-08-13 11:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
08TAIPEI1270 | REPRESENTATIVE ENGEL MEETS TAIWAN OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) Summary. Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY) discussed U.S.-Taiwan relations, cross-Strait relations, and Taiwan's foreign policy in separate meetings on August 19-20 with Legislative Yuan (LY) Speaker Wang Jin-pyng, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairperson Lai Hsin-yuan, Straits Exchan [...] | 2008-08-26 02:57:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH ECON MARR PGOV PREL TW |
08TAIPEI1292 | KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG DISCUSSES INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Acting Director on August 27, KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung discussed his recent meetings in Beijing with PRC President Hu Jintao, Central Standing Committee member Jia Qinglin, and Taiwan Affairs Office Director Wang Yi. PRC leaders raised concerns about Taiw [...] | 2008-08-28 10:05:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI1298 | Former President Chen's Family Under Investigation for [...] (SBU) Although it is not uncommon for Taiwan's wealthy or upper middle classes to send money overseas for investment, to avoid tax, or for other reasons, it came as a shock to many when former President Chen Shui-bian acknowledged that his family had accumulated overseas accounts equivalent to [...] | 2008-09-01 22:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN PGOV ECON PREL SENV TW |
08TAIPEI1318 | Taiwan IPR: 301 Watch List OCR Update Three [...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan has now made measurable progress on all three areas outlined in May's Special 301 Watch List submission for Taiwan (ref A). Following the July opening of the Intellectual Property (IP) Court (ref B) and ongoing actions under the Campus IP Action Plan, the Taiwan Intellect [...] | 2008-09-04 08:59:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR PREL PGOV TW |
08TAIPEI1324 | FORMER FM ON TAIWAN'S INTERNATIONAL SPACE AND [...] (C) Summary: President Ma Ying-jeou had erred in not using party channels to engage Beijing directly on international space issues and help China better understand his proposed "diplomatic truce," Taichung Mayor Jason Hu (Taiwan's Foreign Minister from 1997-2000 and TECRO Washington chief repr [...] | 2008-09-05 08:19:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI1373 | FOREIGN MINISTER OU ON UN EFFORT, DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Ou told the Director on September 18 that the failure of Taiwan's UN proposal the day before was expected. Both Taiwan and the PRC made an effort to downplay the issue, and although the PRC reaction was "a little tough," PermRep Wang Guangya's UN statement also [...] | 2008-09-18 10:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PM PA NU GT DR CH TW |
08TAIPEI1384 | PRC ASYLUM SEEKERS IN TAIWAN TREATED ADEQUATELY [...] (C) Summary: The Taiwan authorities provide haven (in theory temporary but in practice indefinite) and modest subsistence to PRC asylum seekers they determine are bona fide political dissidents who would face persecution if repatriated. Without a refugee law, the government here says it cann [...] | 2008-09-19 09:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI1400 | TAIWAN'S PACIFIC ALLIES SECURE FOR NOW, BUT PRC [...] (C) Summary: While its diplomatic ties to six Pacific island states appear stable for the moment, Taiwan's efforts to expand its dialogue with the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) illustrate the problems it faces in implementing President Ma Ying-jeou's "diplomatic truce" with the PRC and his call [...] | 2008-09-25 01:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID TW CH |
08TAIPEI1407 | USCC MEETING WITH TAIWAN PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU [...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan's key short-term goals in its relations with the United States are securing the approval of the pending package of weapons systems, obtaining public U.S. support for Taiwan's proposal on meaningful participation in UN specialized agencies and strengthening of bilateral co [...] | 2008-09-25 07:23:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR MCAP TW US CH |
08TAIPEI1408 | USCC DELEGATION DISCUSSES U.S.-TAIWAN AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Members of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) met August 22 with key members of President Ma Ying-jeou's administration and the head of the island's main opposition party to review the status of U.S. relations with Taiwan and assess the evolving cross- [...] | 2008-09-25 07:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MCAP MARR CH TW |
08TAIPEI1419 | DPP LEADERS ON STALLED ARMS SALE AND CHEN YUNLIN [...] (C) Summary: President Ma's cross-Strait policy conveyed the false impression of reduced tensions and thereby weakened U.S. support for arms sales, DPP Chair Tsai Ing-wen told the Director during a September 30 meeting. Tsai also hinted of protests during ARATS head Chen Yun-lin upcoming visi [...] | 2008-09-30 10:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
08TAIPEI1432 | LY SPEAKER WANG JIN-PYNG ON KMT POLITICS AND [...] (C) Summary: In addition to low approval numbers in national polls, President Ma Ying-jeou suffers from a poor image within the KMT, Legislative Yuan Speaker Wang Jin-pyng told the Director during an October 2 meeting. Despite his concerns about Ma's management style, Wang, a KMT power center [...] | 2008-10-02 10:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
08TAIPEI1434 | TAIWAN-PARAGUAY TIES APPEAR STABLE, BUT UNDERSCORE [...] (C) Summary: While the facts are murky, indications and perception in Taiwan are that the PRC has thus far discouraged Paraguay's efforts to establish diplomatic ties with China in the interest of reducing cross-Strait tensions. More clear is that Paraguay is dissatisfied with strings curren [...] | 2008-10-03 08:35:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW CH |
08TAIPEI1464 | LOOKING TO BOUNCE BACK, DPP DE-EMPHASIZES [...] (C) Summary. Since the start of 2008, Taiwan,s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been humiliated in legislative and presidential elections and wracked by a scandal that threatens to end in money laundering charges against its former party leader and two-term President. Although reeling, [...] | 2008-10-14 06:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | CH PGOV PREL TW |
08TAIPEI1479 | TAIWAN, CHINA SCHOLARS TALKING, BUT IS MA [...] (C) Summary: As Taiwan and China scurry to set the date for the next round of "unofficial" cross-Strait talks, a flurry of recent visits by mainland scholars to Taiwan offers insights on Beijing's strategy and suggests Chinese leaders are in no hurry to seal the deal with President Ma Ying-jeou [...] | 2008-10-17 08:04:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
08TAIPEI1496 | SCUFFLE WITH VISITING PRC OFFICIAL UNLIKELY TO [...] (C) Summary. A senior official from the PRC's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) cut short his "academic" visit to southern Taiwan following an October 21 incident in which pro-independence activists led by a DPP Tainan Councilman jostled him until he stumbled - or was [...] | 2008-10-22 11:06:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW CH |
08TAIPEI1515 | OPPOSITION DPP TO DEMONSTRATE SATURDAY IN THE [...] (C) Summary. The DPP and likeminded organizations will hold a large march and rally this Saturday (Oct.25) to demonstrate their supporters' discontent with President Ma's performance, his policies toward China, and PRC actions. This demonstration will set the stage for further protests when P [...] | 2008-10-24 11:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI1520 | LARGE OPPOSITION RALLY PUTS PRESSURE ON PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) staged a large, peaceful demonstration in Taipei on October 25 mainly to protest against President Ma Ying-jeou and the PRC. The demonstration was intended to put pressure on the Ma administration ahead of the visit next week by P [...] | 2008-10-27 10:30:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI1521 | KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON PRESIDENT MA [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Director on October 27, KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung attributed President Ma Ying-jeou's low standing in public opinion polls to the economic downturn, public disappointment that Ma's presidency has not fulfilled expectations, and Ma's early standoffish attitu [...] | 2008-10-27 10:45:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI1530 | DPP PLANS MORE PROTESTS FOR CHEN YUNLIN VISIT BUT [...] (C) Summary: Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen told the Director on October 28 she was pleased the party's October 25 protest demonstration had gone smoothly and had received very broad support from other likeminded organizations. Without providing details, she sai [...] | 2008-10-30 00:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI1531 | FORMER PREMIER SU TSENG-CHANG ON DOMESTIC POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Director on October 24, former Premier Su Tseng-chang expressed disappointment that the DPP has not been able to take advantage of what he regarded as the dismal performance of President Ma Ying-jeou and the KMT administration. While Ma's approval rating in [...] | 2008-10-30 00:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI1539 | MAC CHAIR LAI SHIN-YUAN PREVIEWS UPCOMING [...] (C) Summary. On October 29, AIT Director Young met with the chairwoman of Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC),Lai Shin-yuan for a preview of the agenda and substance of the November 3-7 talks between the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China's Association for Relations Across the T [...] | 2008-10-30 10:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAIR EWWT PGOV TW CH |
08TAIPEI1541 | HARD TIMES FOR CHINA TIMES -- TAIWAN'S DAILIES FACE REVENUE [...] (U) Summary: The China Times, one of Taiwan's oldest and most respected newspapers, has laid off half its staff, seen its circulation drop by half, reduced its daily page count and announced its intention to transform itself into an "elite" daily. Advertising expenditures on the island have fa [...] | 2008-10-31 07:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO TW |
08TAIPEI1545 | TAIWAN PROSECUTORS DETAIN FORMER PRESIDENT CHEN'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Former Vice Premier Chiou I-jen today (Oct. 31) became the latest Taiwan political figure to be detained on alleged embezzling charges. Chiou was former President Chen Shui-bian's top advisor and was a founding member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Chiou's arrest [...] | 2008-10-31 10:09:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TW |
08TAIPEI1546 | TAIWAN PROSECUTORS DETAIN FORMER PRESIDENT CHEN'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Former Vice Premier Chiou I-jen today (Oct. 31) became the latest Taiwan political figure to be detained on alleged embezzling charges. Chiou was former President Chen Shui-bian's top advisor and was a founding member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Chiou's arrest [...] | 2008-10-31 10:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TW |
08TAIPEI1554 | PRC ARATS CHAIRMAN CHEN YUNLIN BEGINS HISTORIC [...] (C) Summary: PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin arrived in Taiwan on November 3 for an historic four-day visit. Chen will hold cross-Strait talks with Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P. K. Chiang on November 4, and the two sides will [...] | 2008-11-03 11:00:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH TW |
08TAIPEI156 | RISING KMT STAR ERIC CHU ON ELECTIONS, "TYPHOONS" [...] (C) Summary. Taoyuan Magistrate Eric Chu, a rising younger generation KMT leader, told the Director on January 28 that he expects the KMT to "take off the table" its support for the UN referendum before the March 22 presidential election. He urged that the U.S. not make further statements, [...] | 2008-02-01 07:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR CH TW |
08TAIPEI1563 | FORMER PRESIDENT LEE TENG-HUI CRITICIZES PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: Former President Lee Teng-hui told the Director on October 31 that, in his view, cross-Strait talks should now be conducted directly between government agencies such as the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) and the PRC's Taiwan Affairs Office rather than through intermediary bodies [...] | 2008-11-04 10:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI1569 | PROTEST FEARS TRIGGER LAST MINUTE CHANGES IN [...] (C) Summary: Concerns about a large DPP protest scheduled for the afternoon led President Ma Ying-jeou to advance by several hours the time for his meeting today with PRC ARATS Chairman Chen Yunlin. The meeting lasted just seven minutes, with Ma delivering brief remarks, and Chen making no r [...] | 2008-11-06 11:40:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI1579 | TAIWAN CAUTIOUS ON DPRK HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: During recent meetings with a visiting U.S. envoy, Taiwan government and NGO officials displayed little understanding or concern about human rights issues in North Korea. While willing, in principle, to expand cooperation with the United States, local thinktank Taiwan Foundation [...] | 2008-11-07 08:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | CH KN KS PGOV PHUM PREL |
08TAIPEI1584 | PRC ARATS CHAIRMAN CONCLUDES TAIWAN VISIT AFTER [...] (C) Summary: After a day and night of intense and sometimes violent protest demonstrations on Thursday (Nov. 6),Taipei is breathing a sigh of relief following PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin's smooth departure for Beijing this morning. Che [...] | 2008-11-07 11:54:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI1588 | FOREIGN MINISTER OU ON WHO, INTERNATIONAL SPACE, [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan understands that gaining WHO observer status will require talking directly with Beijing and expects to re-engage the mainland soon, Foreign Minister Ou told the Director during a November 7 meeting. On other "international space" issues, Taiwan has been receiving mixed me [...] | 2008-11-10 09:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW CH |
08TAIPEI1599 | DPP CHAIR TSAI ING-WEN FEARS MORE VIOLENCE IF [...] (C) Summary: A visibly tense Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chair Tsai Ing-wen told the Director on November 10 that she was decidedly downbeat about the future of Taiwan democracy. Claiming that President Ma Ying-jeou wasn't really in charge of his party (the KMT),Tsai predicted more p [...] | 2008-11-12 09:08:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI1602 | SEF CHAIRMAN P. K. CHIANG ON THE CHEN YUNLIN VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P. K. Chiang told the Director on November 10 that, on the surface, the PRC's ARATS Chairman Chen Yunlin had been understanding about the political situation in Taiwan and appreciative of the government's efforts to protect his security [...] | 2008-11-12 11:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON CH TW |
08TAIPEI1610 | MAC CHAIR:CHEN YUNLIN VISIT BEGINS ERA OF "MUTUAL [...] (C) Summary. The official portion of ARATS head Chen Yunlin,s groundbreaking visit to Taiwan was a success and demonstrated that China had accepted Taiwan,s call for &mutual non-denial,8 MAC Chair Lai Shin-yuan told the Director November 11. It will be difficult to maintain rapid progress, t [...] | 2008-11-13 08:05:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW CH |
08TAIPEI1627 | TAIWAN PREPARES TO ADMIT PRC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 10, Education Minister Cheng Jei-ching announced that, beginning with the fall semester in 2009, Taiwan's colleges, universities and graduate schools will begin accepting up to 1,000 students per year from the PRC. Increasing cross-Strait contacts by opening Taiwan t [...] | 2008-11-19 09:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON ECIN CH TW KPAO |
08TAIPEI1628 | KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON DOMESTIC POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung told the Director on November 17 that PRC ARATS Chairman Chen Yunlin had seemed satisfied with his visit to Taiwan, despite the protests. Wu was concerned that violence in some of the demonstrations would give the mainland a bad impression of Taiwan's [...] | 2008-11-19 10:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI1648 | TAIWAN'S NATIONAL IMMIGRATION AGENCY STRENGTHENS [...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan is taking concrete steps to strengthen anti-trafficking efforts, including, for example, implementing measures to protect victims and allow them to obtain temporary work and residency permits, emphasize National Immigration Agency (NIA) officials. Moreover, Taiwan's Exec [...] | 2008-11-24 08:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL ELAB TW |
08TAIPEI1668 | TAIWAN APEC REPRESENTATIVE ON HU JINTAO MEETING, [...] (C) Summary. Although APEC is primarily an economic, and not political institution, Taiwan's representation at this year's summit by a former Vice President was a &breakthrough,8 Lien Chan told the Director December 1. Lien described his meeting with Hu Jintao as another step forward in a gra [...] | 2008-12-01 08:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TW CH |
08TAIPEI1676 | DPP STRUGGLES TO GET BACK INTO THE POLITICAL GAME [...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting with the Director, several DPP elders argued that the Ma administration under President Ma Ying-jeou has reversed course on Taiwan's democratization, citing the clampdown on protesters during the early November visit of PRC official Chen Yunlin and an alleged j [...] | 2008-12-02 08:05:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR CH TW |
08TAIPEI1694 | PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU TAKES CRITICISM FOR NIXING [...] (C) Summary: The DPP and even some KMT politicians have criticized President Ma Ying-jeou for saying on December 3 that this is not a good time for the Dalai Lama to visit Taiwan. DPP critics charge Ma with yielding to pressure from Beijing, contrasting his agreement to a visit by the PRC's [...] | 2008-12-05 11:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI17 | MALAWI TO SWITCH RECOGNITION FROM TAIPEI TO [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan's effort to prevent the loss of diplomatic recognition by Malawi is running into difficulty as the Malawi government on January 4 declined a request by Foreign Minister James Huang to meet with the president and foreign minister. Huang left Taipei for Malawi on January 2 [...] | 2008-01-04 11:23:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MI TW |
08TAIPEI170 | AIT-TECRO EXTRADITION RELATIONSHIP: SOMETHING FOR [...] (C) AIT delivered to MOFA North American Affairs Deputy Director-General Christina Hsueh on January 24 reftel talking points on a possible extradition relationship between AIT and TECRO. AIT stressed that the USG was not proposing negotiations, only seeking to gauge Taiwan's interest and its [...] | 2008-02-04 09:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | CJAN KCRM PREL PGOV TW |
08TAIPEI1705 | MA ADMINISTRATION MOVES TO INSTITUTIONALIZE [...] (C) Although Honorary KMT Chair Lien Chan will take part in the December 20-21 KMT-CCP Forum in Shanghai, KMT Chairman Wu Poh-Hsiung will be in charge, Taiwan Deputy National Security Advisor Ho Sze-yin told the Deputy Director December 9. Although the talks will remain informal and consultat [...] | 2008-12-09 09:27:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GPGOV PINR TW CH |
08TAIPEI1717 | TAIWAN RESEARCHER: PRC PUTTING BRAKES ON ACADEMIC [...] (C) Summary. At least five PRC academic delegations planning travel to Taiwan in recent weeks to discuss Taiwan's "international space" and related issues have been cancelled, presumably by Chinese authorities, according to a researcher at a Taiwan government-funded think tank. Beijing likely [...] | 2008-12-11 09:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW CH |
08TAIPEI1728 | DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: TAIWAN TO (AGAIN) SEEK [...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan's executive branch will request the Legislative Yuan to ratify the UN International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, despite Taiwan's lack of standing in the UN, President Ma Ying-jeou announced at a December 10 ceremony m [...] | 2008-12-15 06:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CH PGOV PHUM PREL TW |
08TAIPEI1746 | DPP CHAIR TSAI ING-WEN ON CHEN SHUI-BIAN AND PARTY [...] (C) Summary: Former President Chen Shui-bian should be "brave" and face Taiwan's judicial process, opposition DPP Chair Tsai Ing-wen told the Director on December 16. Balancing pressure from Chen's supporters to do more on his behalf with views of critics within the party of the former preside [...] | 2008-12-17 08:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI1748 | MA TO CODEL ISSA: CROSS-STRAIT TIES ON RIGHT [...] (C) Summary. As the new U.S. administration reviews its approach on trade issues, Taiwan hopes to work with the U.S. to put in place the building blocks for an eventual bilateral FTA, Taiwan President Ma told Congressman Darrell Issa during a December 17 meeting. Taiwan appreciates U.S. securi [...] | 2008-12-18 08:45:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD INT PGOV PINR PREL TW |
08TAIPEI1758 | LEGISLATIVE SPEAKER WANG JIN-PYNG ON DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary: Legislative Yuan (LY) Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (KMT) assured the Director on December 16 that he would support speedy action by the LY to approve Taiwan's accession to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA). Wang discussed plans for his upcoming visit to Washington for the [...] | 2008-12-19 06:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR ECON ETRD PHUM CH TW |
08TAIPEI1759 | KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON THE UPCOMING KMT-CCP [...] (C) Summary: Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung told the Director on December 18 that he had agreed to the request of both Honorary Chairman Lien Chan and President Ma Ying-jeou to lead the KMT delegation to the KMT-CCP forum in Shanghai on December 20-21. Topics at the forum will include cross-Strait c [...] | 2008-12-19 07:15:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN ETRD CH TW |
08TAIPEI1762 | TAIWAN SCHOLAR: MA'S SOFTER TONE ON WHO/WHA [...] (C) Summary. China is blocking academic travel to Taiwan as PRC leaders hammer out a consensus on ties with the island, according to a well-connected scholar in confirmation of previous similar reports. On "international space," President Ma's apparent pessimism about prospects for a breakth [...] | 2008-12-22 07:35:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TW CH |
08TAIPEI1778 | SENIOR KMT OFFICIALS DISCUSS KMT-CCP CROSS-STRAIT [...] (C) Summary. PRC Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) head Wang Yi offered encouraging words about the prospects for Taiwan's participation in the May 2009 World Health Assembly (WHA) in informal meetings on the margins of the December 20-21 KMT-CCP cross-Strait economic forum in Shanghai, according to [...] | 2008-12-24 07:05:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON WHO AORC TW CH |
08TAIPEI1781 | VICE PRESIDENT SIEW ASSESSES TAIWAN'S ECONOMY [...] (C) In a wide-ranging discussion with AIT Director Young, Vice President Vincent Siew expressed guarded optimism that Taiwan's economy will recover in the second half of 2009. At the same time, Siew believes recent moves to improve cross-Strait economic ties would not have much impact on Taiw [...] | 2008-12-29 09:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD CH TW |
08TAIPEI1788 | FM OU ON THE "DIPLOMATIC TRUCE," WHO/WHA, AND THE [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan's "diplomatic truce" with China over competition for diplomatic allies is holding, Foreign Minister Francisco Ou told the Director during their December 30 meeting. Taiwan's quest for greater international space is more complex because it involves sovereignty questions, a [...] | 2008-12-31 06:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI1789 | KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON CROSS-STRAIT FORUM, [...] (C) Summary: KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung told the Director on December 29 he was optimistic on prospects for a breakthrough regarding Taiwan's participation in the WHA next May, although he acknowledged the issue is not yet resolved. The Director noted that China objects to the U.S. raising the [...] | 2008-12-31 09:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD CH TW |
08TAIPEI189 | PRESIDENT CHEN ON ELECTION POLITICS, UN [...] (C) Summary: During a dinner hosted by President Chen on February 4, he described his recent trip to the Spratlys and explained why China wasn't concerned. The Director urged Taiwan to open its market to all U.S. beef products as soon as possible. Chen stressed his commitment to open up the [...] | 2008-02-05 07:53:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS EAGR ETRD TW |
08TAIPEI191 | 2008 G/TIP INCLE AND ESF FUNDING PROPOSALS: TAIWAN [...] Summary: Per G/TIP instructions, AIT submits five trafficking in persons project proposals for ESF and INCLE funding. One proposal is from a Taiwan university, three proposals are submitted by Taiwan non-governmental organizations (NGOs),and one proposal is submitted by the Department of Just [...] | 2008-02-12 08:11:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM ELAB PHUM PREL SMIG ASEC TW |
08TAIPEI218 | TAIWAN NOTIFIED OF IMPENDING U.S. SATELLITE [...] (C) AIT Acting Director Robert Wang delivered reftel notification to Taiwan Acting Foreign Minister Yang Tzu-pao at 1000 February 15 (2300 EST, February 14). Yang was accompanied by North American Affairs Director-General Leo Lee, who told ADIR before the meeting that FM James Huang is trave [...] | 2008-02-15 07:47:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PNAT KTIA PINS TSPA TPHY ESA CDG PREL |
08TAIPEI238 | FM HUANG ON TAIWAN FOREIGN RELATIONS, UN REFERENDA [...] (C) Summary. Fm James Huang is generally upbeat on the status of Taiwan's relations with most of its twenty-four remaining diplomatic partners, with the exception of Panama. It is "just a matter of time" before Panama switches to Beijing, he told the Director, lamenting China's "imperial" am [...] | 2008-02-20 10:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH TW |
08TAIPEI35 | DPP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FRANK HSIEH WORKS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Responding to criticism that DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh's economic policies are too close to those of his KMT opponent Ma Ying-jeou, the Hsieh campaign is developing an economic policy White Paper that will maintain support for cross-Strait economic opening while placin [...] | 2008-01-09 09:04:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL SENV TW |
08TAIPEI37 | PRESIDENT CHEN RAISES FTA, F-16S, AND REFERENDA [...] (SBU) Summary. President Chen Shui-bian urged visiting Congressmen Steve Chabot and Solomon Ortiz to support a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Taiwan and, pointing to the missile build-up across the Taiwan Strait, the sale of F-16 C/D fighters. He insisted to the congressmen that the UN ref [...] | 2008-01-09 10:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TW |
08TAIPEI386 | DPP CANDIDATE FRANK HSIEH ON ELECTION CAMPAIGN AND [...] (C) Summary: DPP candidate Frank Hsieh told the Director on March 18 that he trails the KMT's Ma Ying-jeou by a 3-5 percent margin but is working to close the gap before the presidential election on Saturday, March 22. Hsieh noted that the March 12 intrusion at his headquarters by four KMT l [...] | 2008-03-18 12:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI411 | NOTES ON TAIWAN'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: MA [...] (C) Summary: This cable provides biographical information on DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh (Chang-ting) and KMT candidate Ma Ying-jeou, including personality, leadership styles and views on dealing with the United States. Widely known as a cosmopolitan thinker with a sharp wit, Hsi [...] | 2008-03-21 12:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR TW |
08TAIPEI420 | PRESIDENT-ELECT MA YING-JEOU MOVES INTO TRANSITION [...] (C) Summary. The Ma campaign team is shifting into transition mode, with much of the campaign staff moving to the new transition team. President-elect Ma plans to move quickly on selecting his senior administration members so that the Ma transition team can begin addressing the numerous dom [...] | 2008-03-24 10:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH TW |
08TAIPEI421 | KMT'S MA YING-JEOU WINS DECISIVE VICTORY IN [...] (C) Summary: The KMT's Ma Ying-jeou swept to victory with a record-breaking 58.4 percent of the votes in Taiwan's presidential election on March 22, beating the ruling DPP candidate Frank Hsieh, who took 41.6 percent of the votes. On a day when the entire island enjoyed good weather, the elec [...] | 2008-03-24 11:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI440 | TAIWAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: EXPLAINING MA'S [...] (SBU) Summary: The KMT's Ma Ying-jeou won a record-breaking 58.4 percent of the votes in Taiwan's presidential election on March 22, beating the ruling DPP candidate Frank Hsieh, who took 41.6 percent of the vote (Reftel). Most observers here place the major responsibility for the defeat o [...] | 2008-03-26 10:45:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TW |
08TAIPEI452 | KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON MA YING-JEOU'S [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Director Young on March 27, KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung conceded that president-elect Ma Ying-jeou had jumped the gun by publicly announcing his desire to visit the U.S. before consulting AIT first. To avoid embarrassment, Wu expressed hope the U.S. would allow t [...] | 2008-03-28 11:06:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TW |
08TAIPEI464 | FOREIGN MINISTER HUANG AND CHAIRMAN BURGHARDT [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Huang told Chairman Burghardt and Director Young on March 28 that he remains worried about the possibility of further diplomatic losses to Beijing prior to President-elect Ma Ying-jeou's inauguration on May 20. Huang was most concerned that St. Kitts and Nevis m [...] | 2008-03-31 10:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SC PM NU RM CH TW |
08TAIPEI473 | VP-ELECT VINCENT SIEW AND CHAIRMAN BURGHARDT [...] (C) Summary: Vice President-elect Vincent Siew told Chairman Burghardt and DDIR Wang on March 28 that the Ma administration will end the current price freezes on oil and electricity, as well as take other steps to deregulate Taiwan's economy and lower barriers to investment in the PRC. The ne [...] | 2008-04-01 07:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAGR ETRD CH TW |
08TAIPEI475 | CHAIRMAN BURGHARDT AND LEGISLATIVE SPEAKER WANG [...] (C) Summary: The U.S. is Taiwan's most important friend, ally, and democratic role model, Legislative Yuan (LY) Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (KMT) told AIT Chairman Burghardt on March 29. Taiwan will continue to rely on U.S. support, particularly defense assistance, under the new Ma administration. [...] | 2008-04-01 10:06:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAGR ETRD TW |
08TAIPEI487 | KMT HONORARY CHAIRMAN LIEN CHAN ON CROSS-STRAIT [...] (C) Summary: Honorary KMT Chairman Lien Chan suggested to the Director on April 3 that Ma Ying-jeou's victory is also a win for the U.S., because Ma will restore stability and predictability to cross-Strait relations, easing U.S. security concerns. Lien expressed appreciation for President Bu [...] | 2008-04-07 09:52:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI499 | MA INSIDER TAOYUAN MAGISTRATE ERIC CHU PREDICTS [...] (C) Summary: Taoyuan Magistrate Eric Chu told the Director privately on April 9 that President-elect Ma Ying-jeou had already chosen his premier (Prof. Liu Chao-hsuan),and the likely candidates for Foreign Minister (David Lee),National Security Adviser (Su Chi),and the head of the Straits [...] | 2008-04-10 09:04:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI515 | VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT VINCENT SIEW MEETS WITH PRC [...] (C) Summary: Vice President-elect Vincent Siew returned Sunday from the Boao Forum in Hainan, where he had met with PRC President Hu Jintao. Siew described Hu as "pragmatic" and said Hu's comments offered a "historic opportunity" to improve cross-Strait relations. During the meeting, Siew an [...] | 2008-04-14 10:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON CH TW |
08TAIPEI545 | KMT VICE CHAIRMAN JOHN KUAN ON MA CABINET [...] (C) Summary: KMT President-elect Ma Ying-jeou will draw from previous KMT administrations as well as from those outside the party to staff his Cabinet, KMT Vice Chairman John Kuan told the Deputy Director on April 17. Ma is following his own rules in choosing the new Cabinet, said Kuan, and h [...] | 2008-04-18 10:27:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI546 | KMT MAINLAND AFFAIRS DIRECTOR CHANG JUNG-KUNG [...] (C) Summary: President-elect Ma Ying-jeou will be under strong pressure to deliver on cross-Strait economic opening after his inauguration on May 20, KMT Mainland Affairs Director Chang Jung-kung recently told AIT. Although public expectations are high for quick movement on economic issues, [...] | 2008-04-18 10:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON CH TW |
08TAIPEI551 | TAIWAN'S "SECOND STAGE" WHA EFFORT: BACK TO [...] (C) Summary. Fully expecting WHO to reject President Chen Shui-bian's letter to WHO Director-General Margaret Chan applying for WHO membership, MOFA plans a "second stage" effort applying for observership. MOFA hopes the World Health Assembly (WHA) opening sessions on May 19 can host a two-b [...] | 2008-04-21 10:11:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TBIO WHO AORC CH TW |
08TAIPEI552 | MA GOVERNMENT TAKES SHAPE: FIRST TRANCHE OF [...] (SBU) Premier-designate Liu Chao-hsuan (reftel) today, April 21, announced the first tranche of seventeen appointments to his new cabinet, which will take office on May 20 following the swearing-in of President-elect Ma Ying-jeou and Vice President-elect Vincent Siew. Ma personally announced [...] | 2008-04-21 11:02:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR TW |
08TAIPEI561 | AIT RECEIVES ASYLUM REQUEST FROM PRC NATIONAL [...] (C) On April 2, PRC citizen Cai Lujun sent an email to AIT's American Corner library in Taichung, requesting political asylum or refugee status in the U.S. The email was forwarded to the AIT political section on April 7. 2. (C) In his email, Cai claimed he was imprisoned in the PRC for th [...] | 2008-04-23 10:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL CVIS ASEC PGOV PINR PHUM TW CH |
08TAIPEI582 | MA GOVERNMENT TAKES SHAPE: SECOND TRANCHE OF [...] (SBU) Premier-designate Liu Chao-hsuan today, April 28, announced the second tranche of eighteen appointments to his new cabinet, which will take office on May 20 following the swearing-in of President-elect Ma Ying-jeou and Vice President-elect Vincent Siew (see reftel for first tranche). Li [...] | 2008-04-28 10:01:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR TW |
08TAIPEI595 | FUTURE MAC CHAIRPERSON LAI SHIN-YUAN: MA'S [...] (SBU) Premier-designate Liu Chao-hsuan has named former Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) legislator Lai Shin-yuan to head the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC),the most controversial figure among the 18 cabinet appointments that Liu announced April 28 (see reftel for comprehensive list). As MAC c [...] | 2008-04-29 10:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON CH TW |
08TAIPEI620 | PREMIER-DESIGNATE LIU CHAO-HSUAN ON HIGH [...] (C) Summary: Premier-designate Liu Chao-hsuan told the Director during a May 2 meeting that he had not expected to be named Premier, and that he was leaving academic life somewhat reluctantly. The public expects too much, too soon, from the incoming Ma administration, he lamented, leaving Ma a [...] | 2008-05-05 10:08:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI625 | LY SPEAKER WANG JIN-PYNG (KMT) ON MA [...] (C) Summary: LY Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (KMT) told the Director during a May 5 meeting that China would not ease pressure on Taiwan's "international living space" during Ma's presidency, even if it harmed chances to warm cross-Strait relations. Facing high commodity prices and a global economic [...] | 2008-05-06 10:00:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI636 | STRAITS EXCHANGE FOUNDATION CHAIRMAN-DESIGNATE [...] (C) Summary: Kuomintang Vice-Chairman Chiang Pin-kung (P. K. Chiang) is slated to become chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF),Taiwan's quasi-official organization for handling relations with mainland China, after President-elect Ma Ying-jeou is inaugurated on May 20. The 76 yea [...] | 2008-05-08 00:53:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON CH TW |
08TAIPEI671 | MAC CHAIRPERSON-DESIGNATE LAI SHIN-YUAN ON FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: MAC Chairperson-designate Lai Shin-yuan told the Director on May 14 that improving cross-Strait relations will be a difficult task, emphasizing that progress will need to come "one step at a time" so as not to get ahead of expectations of what can be accomplished on both sides. [...] | 2008-05-14 10:40:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON CH TW |
08TAIPEI672 | SEF CHAIRMAN-DESIGATE P.K. CHIANG ON CROSS-STRAIT [...] (C) Summary: SEF Chairman-designate P.K. Chiang told the Director on May 13 that future discussions with Beijing on cross-Strait issues will focus initially on establishing weekend charter flights and increasing the number of Chinese tourists to Taiwan. In the course of discussions, Taipei [...] | 2008-05-14 10:47:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON CH TW |
08TAIPEI698 | MA YING-JEOU INAUGURATED AS NEW TAIWAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: Ma Ying-jeou and Vincent Siew were inaugurated as Taiwan's new president and vice president on May 20. In his inaugural address, Ma pledged to strengthen relations with the U.S., Taiwan's "foremost security ally and trading partner." Extending an olive branch to Beijing, Ma sai [...] | 2008-05-20 11:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI715 | KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON UPCOMING HISTORIC [...] (C) Summary: KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung told the A/DIR on May 22 that he will be departing May 26 for a six-day visit to mainland China at the invitation of PRC President Hu Jintao. Wu emphasized that President Ma Ying-jeou fully supports his visit, the highlight of which will be Wu's meeting [...] | 2008-05-23 06:52:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI72 | TAIWAN LOSES ANOTHER DIPLOMATIC PARTNER: MALAWI [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan on January 14 terminated its 42-year diplomatic relationship with Malawi after the southeastern African country informed Taipei it had switched diplomatic recognition to Beijing. This loss reduces the number of countries that recognize Taiwan to 23, down from 29 when Pre [...] | 2008-01-15 11:09:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MI TW |
08TAIPEI727 | FOREIGN MINISTER OU AND ACTING DIRECTOR DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: During an introductory call by A/DIR on May 23, Foreign Minister Francisco Ou expressed appreciation to the U.S. for sending Special Envoy Andrew Card to attend President Ma Ying-jeou's inauguration. The Ma administration wants to rebuild the mutual trust with the U.S. that was [...] | 2008-05-27 11:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR ETRD TW |
08TAIPEI732 | MA YING-JEOU TO FOLLOW MORE PRAGMATIC FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary. President Ma Ying-jeou,s foreign policy will focus on Taiwan,s most important economic and security partners rather than continuing the diplomatic numbers game, according to National Security Council (NSC) Deputy Secretary-General Ho Szu-yin. This more pragmatic approach to dip [...] | 2008-05-28 10:22:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV WHO CN TW |
08TAIPEI733 | PRO-GREEN SCHOLARS CRITIQUE MA YING-JEOU'S [...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent panel discussion, several leading pro-Green scholars argued that President Ma Ying-jeou's May 20 inaugural address and his approach in general are rooted in the past, turning back to KMT policies from the early 1990s (when the party was in power) to address 21st cen [...] | 2008-05-28 10:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI758 | TAIWAN FOREIGN MINISTER FRANCISCO OU: A PROFILE [...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan's new Foreign Minister Francisco H. L. Ou (Hung-lien) is a strong proponent of President Ma Ying-jeou's proposal to "call a diplomatic truce" with Beijing over competition for recognition from small countries in the Americas, South Pacific, and Africa. A distinguished [...] | 2008-06-03 05:30:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR TW |
08TAIPEI762 | TAIWAN NSC SECRETARY-GENERAL SU CHI ON [...] (C) Summary. NSC Secretary General Su Chi told Senate Foreign Relations Committee senior staff member Frank Jannuzi that the Ma Administration considers its U.S. ties to be even more important than its relations with Beijing. He said the former is critical to both Taiwan's survival and prosp [...] | 2008-06-03 08:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AORG MARR MASS MCAP CH TW |
08TAIPEI787 | SFRC SENIOR STAFF MEMBER JANNUZI DISCUSSES TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: Two senior DPP party officials told SFRC senior staff member Frank Jannuzi on June 2 that Tsai Ing-wen's election as DPP chairperson would help the party get back on its feet following a series of defeats at the polls. Bikhim Hsiao cited internal divisions and perceived loss of [...] | 2008-06-06 11:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI799 | TAIWAN RENDERING APPROPRIATE AID TO PRC ASYLUM [...] (C) PRC citizen Cai Lujun first contacted AIT via email on April 2, 2008. In his email, Cai requested political asylum or refugee status in the U.S. Cai also complained that because the Taiwan immigration authorities forbade him from working, he was in serious financial distress. On April 11 [...] | 2008-06-09 06:54:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL CVIS ASEC PGOF PINR PHUM TW CH |
08TAIPEI807 | SEF CHAIRMAN P. K. CHIANG PREVIEWS UPCOMING [...] (C) On June 9, Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P. K. Chiang (Pin-kung) briefed the Acting Director on his upcoming visit to Beijing to resume the cross-Strait dialogue, suspended since 1999. During the talks, the two sides will complete agreements on passenger charter flights and [...] | 2008-06-09 09:50:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EINV TW CH |
08TAIPEI818 | KMT CHAIRMAN WU POH-HSIUNG ON BEIJING VISIT, U.S. [...] (C) Summary: KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung told A/DIR Wang on June 11 that the current cross-Strait atmosphere is returning the "China fever" Taiwan experienced ten years ago. In his private meeting with PRC President Hu Jintao on May 28, Wu said he had stressed the importance of "security, inte [...] | 2008-06-11 09:53:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR CH US TW |
08TAIPEI831 | TAIWAN AND PRC RESUME CROSS-STRAIT DIALOGUE, SIGN [...] (C) Summary: On June 13, P.K. Chiang (Pin-kung),Chairman of Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF),and Chen Yunlin, Chairman of the PRC's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS),signed two agreements in Beijing, one on weekend passenger charter flights and the other [...] | 2008-06-13 11:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAIR ETRD CH TW |
08TAIPEI833 | TAIWAN-JAPAN RELATIONS HEAT UP OVER COLLISION NEAR [...] (SBU) At 3:38 a.m. local time on Tuesday, June 10, the "Lienho," a Taiwanese leisure fishing boat carrying 13 tourist passengers and three crew, sank after colliding with a Japan Coast Guard vessel during a chase near the disputed Diaoyutai (Senkaku) Islands in the East China Sea. Taiwanese c [...] | 2008-06-16 10:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL JP TW |
08TAIPEI850 | VICE PRESIDENT SIEW ON CROSS-STRAIT, U.S.-TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: In a June 17 meeting, AIT Director Young relayed Washington's message of welcome to the new Ma administration, and support for Taiwan's efforts to improve relations with China. Cross-Strait relations are off to a good start, Siew replied, but thornier issues like Taiwan's "intern [...] | 2008-06-17 10:17:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAGR PGOV PREL TW |
08TAIPEI860 | SEF CHAIRMAN P.K. CHIANG ON CROSS-STRAIT TALKS AND [...] (C) Summary: Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P.K. Chiang told the Director on June 17 he was pleased with the results of the June 11-14 talks in Beijing with China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS). Chiang said the two agreements on passenger charter flight [...] | 2008-06-18 10:04:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ECON ETRD EINV EAIR EFIS CH |
08TAIPEI861 | FOREIGN MINISTER OU AND DIRECTOR DISCUSS TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: During an introductory call by DIR on June 18, Foreign Minister Francisco Ou expressed appreciation to the U.S. for its sustained support of Taiwan. Ou stressed that Taipei wants to rebuild mutual trust with the U.S. following strains during the Chen administration, and he expr [...] | 2008-06-18 10:06:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAGR ETRD JA TW |
08TAIPEI864 | NSC CHAIRMAN SU CHI: PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU'S TOP [...] (C) Summary: NSC Secretary-General Su Chi is a longtime friend and advisor to President Ma Ying-jeou, having served most recently as a speechwriter and deputy campaign manager for Ma. NSC colleagues predict Su's NSC will play an advisory role, and will not oversee or manage cross-Strait, fo [...] | 2008-06-19 06:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR CH TW |
08TAIPEI892 | DPP CHAIRPERSON TSAI ING-WEN ON CHALLENGES FACING [...] (C) Summary: New DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen told the Director on June 20 that so far she has been accepted by party elders, whose support she needs to carry out reforms to strengthen the party's structure. The opposition DPP needs to reduce the damaging infighting in party primaries and to [...] | 2008-06-23 10:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR TW |
08TAIPEI915 | MAC CHAIRPERSON LAI SHIN-YUAN ON CROSS-STRAIT [...] (C) Summary: Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairperson Lai Shin-yuan told the Director on June 25 that she has not encountered problems so far coordinating cross-Strait policy, pointing out that MAC is the government agency legally responsible for dealing with cross-Strait affairs and polici [...] | 2008-06-27 05:04:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH TW |
08TAIPEI93 | MONEY TALKS - TAIWAN "BLUE" AND "GREEN" MEDIA RUN EACH [...] Summary: (SBU) Taiwan's ever-developing democracy is proving lucrative as the media cash in on the elections. Political parties spent heavily on television commercials and campaign advertisements in the run-up to the January 12 legislative election. Despite their political bias in day-to-day [...] | 2008-01-18 06:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC KMDR KPAO PREL SCUL TW |
08TAIPEI949 | LY SPEAKER WANG JIN-PYNG ON CROSS-STRAIT [...] (C) Summary: During a June 30 meeting with the Director, Legislative Yuan (LY) Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (KMT) asserted the LY is entitled to supervise cross-Strait negotiations and ratify cross-Strait agreements. This would ensure that Taiwan's sovereignty and security are not impugned, and the [...] | 2008-07-01 10:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR ETRD MARR CH TW |
08TAIPEI959 | KMT INSIDER CANDIDLY DISCUSSES KMT POLITICS, [...] (C) Summary: Taoyuan County Magistrate Eric Chu (protect) suggested to the Director on July 2 that recent maneuverings by Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng and other KMT leaders were part of the normal give and take of intra-party politics. In a free-wheeling discussion, this confidant of Pr [...] | 2008-07-02 10:25:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR ETRD ECON CH TW |
08TAIPEI969 | TAIWAN CROSS-STRAIT EXPERTS EXPECT CONTINUED FOCUS [...] (C) Summary: President Ma Ying-jeou,s inauguration and new cross-Strait agreements on weekend charter flights and Chinese tourism have raised expectations here of a cross-Strait thaw that will bring Taiwan substantial economic and political benefits. Several Taiwan cross-Strait experts tel [...] | 2008-07-03 11:05:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON CH TW |
08TALLINN102 | ESTONIA: SURVEY OF IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS [...] (S) In response to reftel, post submits the following responses to the questions posed: A. (S) WHAT ARE UROPEAN LEADERS' LONG-TERM (I.E., BEYOND 2008) PLANS FOR THEIR FORCES AND OTHER EFFORTS IN IRAQ? (S) While the Government of Estonia (GOE) has maintained its strong political commitmen [...] | 2008-03-11 11:50:00 | Embassy Tallinn | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL IZ EN |
08TALLINN103 | ESTONIA: PM ANSIP's VISIT TO GEORGIA [...] (U) Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip visited Georgia February 4-6 (his first trip as Prime Minister). Following the visit, Kyllike Sillaste Elling, the PM's Foreign Policy Advisor, briefed interested journalists and diplomats on highlights of the trip. -- PM Ansip met with President Saak [...] | 2008-03-11 14:03:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EU NATO GG EN |
08TALLINN109 | DHS SECRETARY CHERTOFF AND ESTONIAN INTERIOR [...] (U) DHS Secretary Chertoff and Estonian Minister of Interior Juri Pihl signed a bilateral MOU on the Visa Waiver Program in Tallinn on March 12. 2. (C) In a meeting prior to the public signing ceremony, Pihl said Estonia welcomed the progress on VWP and the opportunity to sign the MOU, w [...] | 2008-03-14 12:24:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS EU KFRD PREL EN |
08TALLINN111 | ESTONIAN AGENDA FOR 2008 NATO BUCHAREST SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary. Afghanistan is Priority One for Estonia at the upcoming NATO Summit in Bucharest. Estonia has announced it will send a mortar platoon to Afghanistan this spring as an additional commitment to ISAF, but is unlikely Estonia will be ready to contribute to a new PRT in Nimroz. Other [...] | 2008-03-18 14:38:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS NATO EN |
08TALLINN121 | NORDSTREAM ROAD SHOW COMES TO TALLINN [...] (SBU) Summary: In a 3-hour presentation hosted by the German embassy in Tallinn, presenters from WinGas, BASF and the UN Economic Commission for Europe both promoted and defended the NordStream gas pipeline project. They used a variety of arguments to claim that NordStream will be a cheaper, [...] | 2008-03-28 15:25:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV PREL ECON EUR EN |
08TALLINN134 | ESTONIA TO PROPOSE TEXT FOR JOINT EDITORIAL ON [...] (SBU) On April 10, Poloffs meet with Aivo Orav, Director of Political Department, and Anneli Poolakese, Terrorism Desk Officer and Global Initiative (GI) POC at the Estonian MFA, to discuss points provided in reftel A. Orav said that the Government of Estonia (GOE) is pleased with Secretary R [...] | 2008-04-14 12:11:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KNNP RU EN |
08TALLINN135 | SCENESETTER FOR ESTONIAN PRESIDENT ILVES' APRIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Estonia's own "Jersey Boy," visits Washington and Tampa April 17-22. President Ilves is fervently pro-American, and he supports strongly Estonia's military engagements abroad. In fact, keeping Estonia in Iraq will be high on Ilves' agenda during hi [...] | 2008-04-14 13:10:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG NATO ECON CVIS EN |
08TALLINN139 | ESTONIA: FOREIGN MINISTER CONSIDERING STATEMENT ON [...] (C) On April 21, Poloff met with Lauri Kuusing, Russia Desk Officer at the Estonian MFA, to discuss points in reftel. According to Kuusing, Foreign Minister Paet has not yet decided whether to issue a statement formally condemning Russian actions in Georgia. Paet is consulting with experts i [...] | 2008-04-21 14:21:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG EN |
08TALLINN144 | ESTONIA'S PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT [...] (U) We contacted Marje Luup, Estonian MFA External Economic and Development Cooperation Division Director, to discuss points in reftel and emphasize the importance the USG places on this initiative. On April 21, Luup confirmed to us that Foreign Minister Urmas Paet plans to attend the confere [...] | 2008-04-23 13:48:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN KDEM PGOV PREL EN |
08TALLINN145 | ESTONIA: FOREIGN MINISTER AND PARLIAMENT SPEAK OUT [...] (U) On April 23, after an extraordinary session of Parliament, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and the Parliament released statements in support of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia. The parliament's statement called on Russia to suspend the regulation signed by Presid [...] | 2008-04-24 14:25:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EUN RS GG EN |
08TALLINN146 | ESTONIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO DISCUSS MACEDONIA [...] (C) On April 21, Poloff met with Kaili Terras, NATO Desk Officer, and Bjorn Piibur, Western Balkans Desk Officer at the Estonian MFA to discuss the Macedonia name issue, as requested in reftel. The MFA echoed the position it has taken in our previous conversations: the name issue is a "diffi [...] | 2008-04-25 07:35:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NATO MK GR EN |
08TALLINN149 | ESTONIA PROVIDES DRAFT GLOBAL INITIATIVE JOINT [...] (U) Action request - please see paragraph (3). 2. (SBU) On April 25, Anneli Poolakese, Counter Terrorism Desk Officer at the Estonian MFA, provided Poloff the MFA's draft text for the proposed Estonia-U.S.-Russia joint editorial on the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GI) (re [...] | 2008-04-25 13:12:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KNP RU EN |
08TALLINN153 | IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - ESTONIA [...] As requested reftel, below is a readout on the Impact of Rising of Food/Commodity Prices on Estonia. Demand and prices ----------------- 2. In Estonia, the most essential foods/agricultural commodities are dairy products, meat, grain, potatoes, and fodder crops for animal feed. In 2007, [...] | 2008-05-02 11:52:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL EN |
08TALLINN154 | ESTONIA'S REACTION TO THE BUCHAREST NATO SUMMIT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an unprecedented joint briefing for the Parliament, the Estonian Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Defense Minister touted the success of the Bucharest Summit. The Prime Minister praised the strength of the final declaration's statement on membership for Georgia and Ukrain [...] | 2008-05-02 13:32:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS NATO EN |
08TALLINN158 | ESTONIA: OUTREACH TO DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS AND DISSIDENTS [...] (SBU) As requested in reftel A and B, Embassy Tallinn has continued to reach out to democracy and human rights activists in Estonia. On March 2, 2008, Acting DCM joined Vice Speaker of the Estonian Parliament Kristiina Ojuland in a panel discussion at the first Congress of the New Belarusian [...] | 2008-05-06 11:05:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EN LH PHUM PREL |
08TALLINN161 | ESTONIA: HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO BURMA [...] On May 9, Poloff delivered reftel points to Eero Saue, Acting MFA Burmese Desk Officer and Marje Luup, MFA Division Director for Development Cooperation. In his response, Saue indicated that the Government of Estonia (GOE) is deeply concerned for the fate of people of Burma and has announced a [...] | 2008-05-12 10:11:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL BM EN |
08TALLINN163 | ESTONIA: PLEDGING FOR AFGHANISTAN AT THE [...] (U) On April 29, we delivered points in ref A to Marje Luup, Estonian MFA Division Director for Development Cooperation. Luup told us the Government of Estonia (GOE) agrees with the USG suggestion to differentiate between old and new pledges at the Paris Conference. The GOE is planning to all [...] | 2008-05-14 13:18:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN KDEM PGOV PREL EN |
08TALLINN164 | ESTONIA: DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE CUBAN PEOPLE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-15 13:32:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PREL KPAO SOCI CU EN |
08TALLINN174 | ESTONIA ON ARAB LEAGUE SUPPORT FOR LEBANON [...] Action Request- please see paragraph (4) 2. (C) On May 20, Poloff delivered points on Lebanon in reftel to Juri Kahn, Division Director for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Estonian MFA. Kahn replied that while Estonia has no diplomatic relations and relatively little experience in Lebanon, t [...] | 2008-05-20 13:15:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LE EU SY EN |
08TALLINN179 | ESTONIA: SCENESETTER FOR DAS DAVID GROSS [...] (U) Welcome to Tallinn. Your visit will bring you to one of our most supportive allies in Europe. Perhaps the most dynamic of the "Baltic Tigers" since re-independence in 1991, Estonia enjoyed average annual GDP growth racing above eight percent from 2001-2007. Growth began to slow in 2007, [...] | 2008-05-22 06:43:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON BEXP PGOV OIIP TINT EN |
08TALLINN182 | ESTONIA: SOLIDARITY DAY ACTIVITIES AND LIBERTAD [...] (SBU) In connection with Reftel A, the following events marking Cuban Solidarity Day took place in Estonia this week. -- On May 20, a leading Russian language newspaper, with an estimated 70,000 readers, published an Op-Ed signed by the Ambassador calling on Estonia to mark Cuban Solidarity [...] | 2008-05-23 08:50:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL EN |
08TALLINN196 | FIRST MEETING OF ESTONIAN CYBER DEFENSE CENTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the May 14 signature of a Memorandum of Understanding in which they committed formally to support Estonia's Cooperative Cyber Center (CCD),the seven Sponsoring Nations met officially for the first time in Tallinn May 29-30. This CCD "Steering Committee" (SC) reviewe [...] | 2008-06-03 12:04:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PREL NATO EN |
08TALLINN212 | ICT AMBASSADOR GROSS' VISIT TO ESTONIA [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 26-27, Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, highlighted U.S. engagement on cyber security and ICT issues with senior GOE officials as well as U.S. and Estonian business leaders. Estonia?s Ministry of Defense [...] | 2008-06-17 13:29:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON BEXP PGOV OIIP TINT EN |
08TALLINN22 | FMF FUNDING FOR ESTONIA [...] (C) Post understands the Department may cut the FY08 Foreign Military Financing (FMF) allocation for Estonia by as much as 90 percent. While we understand that FMF funding must be prioritized for developing countries and not for full NATO members, a cut of this magnitude in a single year will [...] | 2008-01-11 15:01:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL EN |
08TALLINN228 | ESTONIA/IRAQ: TIMING FOR POST-UNSCR ARRANGEMENTS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Estonia's mandate to participate in Operation Iraqi Freedom, currently predicated on UNSCR 1151, will expire at the end of 2008. The Estonian parliament will be required to vote on a recommendation from the government to extend the mandate and thereby the deployment. The Iraq m [...] | 2008-07-02 14:25:00 | Embassy Tallinn | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL IZ EN |
08TALLINN241 | THE DECLINE OF ESTONIA'S ETHNIC RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although ethnic Russians make up about one-third of Estonia's population, they have failed to achieve any significant influence over Estonian politics. Support for Russian parties continues to decline, with most Russians supporting the mainstream Center Party. The small Russia [...] | 2008-07-14 13:06:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI RS EN |
08TALLINN25 | ESTONIA TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR CERD [...] (SBU) On January 11, Veikko Kala of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affair's International Organizations and Regional Cooperation Division informed Poloff that the Government of Estonia will support U.S. candidate Pierre Prosper for the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discriminatio [...] | 2008-01-14 12:53:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PHUM PREL EN |
08TALLINN256 | ESTONIA: NO COMMENT ON REQUEST TO INCREASE NTM-I [...] (C) Over the past several weeks, post has engaged both the Estonian MFA and MOD concerning prospects for increased Estonian support for the NATO Training Mission in Iraq (NTM-I) in accordance with commitments made at the Bucharest Summit. Currently, Estonia has three staff officers assigned t [...] | 2008-07-25 09:24:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL IZ EN |
08TALLINN259 | ESTONIA NAMES NEW AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. On August 1, Simmu Tiik, Estonia's new Ambassador to Russia, will take up his duties in Moscow, replacing Marina Kaljurand. Tiik, a fifteen-year veteran of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is an outgoing (and verbose) personality who has served in several senior positions within [...] | 2008-07-29 11:33:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL RU EN |
08TALLINN264 | ESTONIA'S EVOLVING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE [...] (U) Summary. While a relative newcomer to the field of foreign assistance, Estonia continues to expand its role as a donor nation. The GOE goal is to spend at least 0.1 percent of Gross National Income (GNI) on development assistance by 2010, still short of the EU target of 0.17 percent for n [...] | 2008-07-29 12:10:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID EN |
08TALLINN267 | ESTONIA CONTINUES SUPPORT FOR TURKISH EU ACCESSION [...] (C) On July 28, Poloff met with Piret Urb, Turkey Desk Officer at the Estonian MFA, to discuss recent developments in Turkey's EU accession negotiations (reftel). Urb reiterated the Government of Estonia's (GOE) consistent, strong support for EU enlargement, including vis-a-vis Turkey. Urb s [...] | 2008-07-30 07:43:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU EU EN |
08TALLINN272 | BALTICS: GETTING THE MOST OUR OF FOREIGN POLICY COOPERATION [...] (U) This is a joint message from Embassies Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius. 2. (C) Embassies Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn want to express our appreciation and support for the proposals in reftel geared toward engaging our missions in EU capitals more actively and improving our foreign policy coordin [...] | 2008-08-01 13:24:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN EN LG LH |
08TALLINN279 | TFGGO1: ESTONIA SUPPORTS STRONG NAC STATEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-12 10:22:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV RS GG AM EN |
08TALLINN282 | TFGGO1: Estonian President Ilves Issues for [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-15 09:34:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV RS GG EN |
08TALLINN290 | TFGG01: ESTONIAN FM PAET'S VISIT TO GEORGIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. On August 15, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet embarked on a three day visit to Georgia. In addition to meetings with Georgian Prime Minister Vladimir Gurgenidze and Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili, Paet visited injured Georgians in a hospital and toured an Internally Di [...] | 2008-08-21 13:20:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV RS GG AM EN |
08TALLINN291 | ESTONIA'S RULING COALITION STRONG, BUT CHALLENGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Formed in April 2007, Estonia's current center-right governing coalition, comprised of Reform, Pro Patria-Res Public Union (IRL) and Social Democrat (SDE) parties, has maintained stable relationships, and benefits in large part, from years of strong economic growth. However, an [...] | 2008-08-21 14:43:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EN |
08TALLINN292 | Estonian FM Paet Visit to Baghdad [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Crocker and Iraqi officials told Estonian Foreign Minister Paet August 12 that Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) negotiations are ongoing and there is no guarantee they will conclude before Estonia's legislative mandate for operations in Iraq expires in December. With [...] | 2008-08-22 10:48:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ EN |
08TALLINN294 | ESTONIAN RESPONSE TO PROPOSED REGIONAL SOUTH [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH 3. 2. (SBU) In a conversation with Poloff on August 22, Christian-Marc Liflander, Director of Policy Planning Department at the Estonian MOD, Riho Rongelep, Director of Operations (MOD),Liis Jemmer from the Policy Planning Department (MOD) and E [...] | 2008-08-22 14:36:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NATO AF EN |
08TALLINN298 | TFGG01: ESTONIA AND GERMANY CONDEMN RUSSIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. In Tallinn August 26th, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Russia's decision to recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia "completely unacceptable" and "illegal" and stressed the need to maintain EU unity vis-a-vis Russia. Estonian PM Ansip proposed the EU lau [...] | 2008-08-27 12:50:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV RS GG EN |
08TALLINN3 | ESTONIA'S LAND SWAP SCANDAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Security Police (KAPO) investigation has implicated several key Estonian politicians and business leaders in a high-profile corruption case. The "Land Swap Scandal" alleges the ex-head of Estonia's Land Board orchestrated the exchange of environmentally-protected state land f [...] | 2008-01-03 09:24:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KCOR PREL EN |
08TALLINN301 | ESTONIA: NO DIRECT THREAT FROM RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Harry Lahtein, MFA Division Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Toomas Tirs, the Georgia Desk Officer, told Pol/Econ Chief August 29 that Russian Ambassador Nikolai Uspenski did not directly threaten Estonia during his meeting with Foreign Minister Paet on August 27th (ref C). [...] | 2008-08-29 11:03:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RU GG EN |
08TALLINN303 | ESTONIAN PRESIDENT ILVES EMPHASIZES NATO [...] (C) On September 2, Ambassador called on President Toomas Hendrik Ilves to discuss the situation in Georgia. Ambassador was accompanied by DCM and Pol/Econ Chief (notetaker). Sven Jurgenson, Ilves? Foreign Policy Advisor (and a former Ambassador to the United States) and Jana Vanaveski, Head [...] | 2008-09-03 06:43:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RU GG EN |
08TALLINN326 | ESTONIA CHARTS LEGAL, MILITARY FUTURE OF CYBER [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In the wake of the August cyber attacks against government websites in the Republic of Georgia, Estonia has provided both material and technical assistance to Tbilisi. Lawyers at the Cyber Center of Excellence in Tallinn have produced a legal analysis of the status of cyber [...] | 2008-09-22 14:07:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS TINT NATO RU GG EN |
08TALLINN338 | Scenesetter for A/S Fried's Visit to Estonia [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: I am delighted to welcome you to Tallinn and your visit on October 1 could not be better timed. In the wake of Russia's invasion of Georgia and sensitivities related to Estonia's own large Russian- speaking minority, the Government of Estonia (GOE) is eager for assurances from [...] | 2008-09-25 11:38:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU GG EN |
08TALLINN346 | ESTONIA ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY [...] (C) Post has engaged the Government of Estonia (GOE) Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Defense (MOD) on multiple occasions with regards to reftel. On October 2, the MOD informed Poloff that currently, the GOE is unable to provide any trainers to assist the Afghan National Army, but in 2 [...] | 2008-10-02 11:52:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS NATO AF EN |
08TALLINN347 | ESTONIAN REACTION TO AFGHANISTAN CIV-MIL CELL [...] (C) Post has engaged the Government of Estonia (GOE) Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Defense (MOD) on multiple occasions with regards to reftel. Neither agency was able to provide a substantive response with regards to requests for contributions to the Civ-Mil cell. However, on Octo [...] | 2008-10-02 12:32:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS NATO AF EN |
08TALLINN349 | Estonia's Search for Electricity to 2018 and [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Greater energy independence is a high voltage political issue, and economic necessity, in Estonia. The Government of Estonia (GOE) is well aware the clock is ticking to replace the aging, dirty and CO2- intensive oil shale-fired power plants that generate 90 percent of the coun [...] | 2008-10-03 14:33:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG KGHG EN |
08TALLINN354 | ESTONIA: A/S FRIED VISITS TALLINN [...] (C) SUMMARY. During EUR A/S Dan Fried's October 1 visit to Tallinn, Estonian government and political leaders urged that NATO military commanders update NATO's Article 5 contingency planning in the wake of Russia's invasion of Georgia. Estonia's President, Prime Minister and Foreign Ministe [...] | 2008-10-07 10:30:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CVIS RU GG AJ MD UP EN |
08TALLINN358 | ESTONIA SAYS NO TO PALESTINAIAN DETAINEE [...] (C) On October 20, 2008, Poloff met with Juri Kahn, Division Director for the Middle East at the Estonian MFA to discuss the points in reftel. Kahn reported that after consulting with the Estonian Office of Migration, the Government of Estonia has decided they are not able to accept a Palesti [...] | 2008-10-21 07:08:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL KPAO EN |
08TALLINN363 | ESTONIA: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF DHS SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Summary. Mr. Secretary - welcome to Estonia! Your October 29 visit to Tallinn is a significant milestone in our bilateral relationship with Estonia, and will be seen here as the fulfillment of the President's promise of Visa Waiver Program (VWP) membership made during his 2006 visit to [...] | 2008-10-23 09:37:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL CVIS AMGT ASEC AFIN EN |
08TALLINN367 | ESTONIA: PARLIAMENT EXTENDS AFGHANISTAN TROOP [...] (U) On October 22, the 101-member Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu) voted to extend the mandate for the Estonian troop deployment in Afghanistan by 12 months (until December 31, 2009). Estonia troops are embedded with British units in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan. The current m [...] | 2008-10-23 15:03:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM MARR PGOV AF EN |
08TALLINN372 | ESTONIA: NOMINATION FOR 2009 SECRETARY'S [...] (U) SUMMARY. Embassy Tallinn is pleased to nominate Sergeant-Major Jaune Engel for the 2009 Secretary's International Women of Courage (IWOC) Award. As a member of the Estonian Defense Forces ('ESTCOY-4') unit deployed in southern Afghanistan, Jaune Engel has shown remarkable courage by volu [...] | 2008-10-27 14:14:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM EN |
08TALLINN377 | ESTONIA: DHS SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S VWP VISIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff visited Tallinn October 29-30 to welcome formally Estonia into the Visa Waiver Program (VWP),and to announce that eligible Estonian travelers will be able to commence visa-free travel to the United States on November 17, 2008. Both [...] | 2008-10-30 15:00:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS PREL EU RU GG IZ EN |
08TALLINN383 | SCENESETTER FOR SECDEF GATES' VISIT TO TALLINN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mr. Secretary, I will be delighted to welcome you to Tallinn on November 12-13. Estonia is a steadfast Ally and your visit is an important sign of the strength of the U.S.-Estonian bilateral relationship and Estonia's commitment to NATO. In the wake of Russia's invasion of Geor [...] | 2008-11-04 12:20:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS NATO EN |
08TALLINN387 | ESTONIA: NO COMMENT ON FATF STATEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-05 13:57:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EFIN KNNP EN |
08TALLINN393 | GAERC: ESTONIA LIKELY TO JOIN CONSENSUS ON PCA [...] (C) MFA European Correspondent Kristina Meius confirmed to Pol/Econ Chief on November 7 that Estonia will not block consensus at next week's GAERC on moving forward with PCA negotiations. Meius said that she believes the member states will find a compromise solution. Estonia will agree to re [...] | 2008-11-07 13:29:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN RS EN |
08TALLINN395 | ESTONIAN VISA WAIVER AND ESTA OUTREACH [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Tallinn has embarked on a long-term commitment to educate Estonian travelers on the intricacies of the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). The Embassy has organized a variety of outreach activities, including numerous press interviews, presentations to travel professionals and a [...] | 2008-11-10 15:31:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS CMGT PREL KPAO KHLS EN |
08TALLINN402 | ESTONIAN COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS ON IRAQ INVITE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Estonia approved legislation extending Estonia's mandate in Iraq on the basis of the preliminary letter of invitation from the Government of Iraq (GOI) (reftel). Parliamentary debate will begin in early December. However, the mandate renewal legislation will n [...] | 2008-11-21 12:29:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS NATO EN |
08TALLINN403 | ESTONIA'S NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS(C-RE8-00759) [...] (C) SUMMARY: Estonia's post-Soviet political landscape has been characterized by youthful leadership. Beginning with the first post-independence Estonian government of Mart Laar in 1992 to the current Andrus Ansip government elected in 2007, young and influential decision makers have been a c [...] | 2008-11-25 14:01:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EN |
08TALLINN405 | SNAPSHOT: GROWING UP RUSSIAN IN ESTONIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-28 11:48:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV RU EN |
08TALLINN406 | SNAPSHOT: GROWING UP RUSSIAN IN ESTONIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Eight years into the Government of Estonia's (GOE) integration policy, integration of the Russian-speaking community remains a challenge for the state, and for Estonian society at large. However, unlike their parents, ethnic Russian youth have lived their whole lives in an ind [...] | 2008-11-28 11:48:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV RU EN |
08TALLINN415 | ESTONIA: LIBERTAD ACT INFORMATION [...] (C) Post provides the following information in response to Reftel questions related to Title III of the Libertad Act: 2. (C) Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? 3. (C) Has the host country made public stateme [...] | 2008-12-08 12:36:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL EN |
08TALLINN431 | ESTONIA: RESPONSE TO CIVIL-NUCLEAR WORKING [...] (SBU) Embassy Tallinn's responses below are keyed to questions in reftel. Questions are repeated below for ease of reading. POC for follow-up questions is Economic Officer Rob Hollister, Jr. at hollisterrm@state.gov, tel. +372 668 8107. -- Describe any plans for the development of nuclear [...] | 2008-12-17 14:51:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO KGHG PREL PGOV EN |
08TALLINN440 | ESTONIA ON SECURITY SUPPORT FOR 2009 AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) On December 23, Poloff met with Lauri Abel, Deputy Director of Operations and Crisis Management and Liis Jemmer, Policy Planning Advisor, at the Estonian Ministry of Defense (MOD) to discuss the points in reftel. Jemmer and Abel indicated that the Government of Estonia (GOE) has not reac [...] | 2008-12-31 13:28:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS NATO AF EN |
08TALLINN54 | USG SUPPORT FOR ESTONIAN CYBER CENTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The experience of unprecedented and wide- spread cyber attacks in April/May 2007 prompted Estonia to accelerate its leadership efforts in promoting international cooperation on cyber security. The Government of Estonia (GOE) is working with NATO to make its national Cooperative [...] | 2008-02-07 11:45:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PREL NATO EN |
08TALLINN59 | ESTONIA: KOSOVO DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Drawing on points provided reftel, on February 11 Ambassador sent a letter to Foreign Minister Urmas Paet urging Estonia to act swiftly following a Kosovo declaration of independence. The letter emphasized the stabilizing effect a show of global solidarity will have on the region. It a [...] | 2008-02-12 15:19:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM YI EU EN |
08TALLINN64 | ESTONIA: CLOSE TO AGREEMENT ON VWP MOU [...] (SBU) Estonian negotiators from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior, and Justice reached near agreement with DHS and Department negotiators on the language of a Visa Waiver Program memorandum of understanding. Final agreement awaits completion of text revisions and then approval from t [...] | 2008-02-14 09:31:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD PREL EN |
08TALLINN66 | ESTONIA: DAS GARBER VISITS ESTONIA [...] (C) Summary. Estonian government and political leaders told visiting EUR DAS Garber that GOE priorities for the NATO summit in Bucharest are NATO membership for the Adriatic 3 and "positive messages of progress" for Ukraine and Georgia. Estonian interlocutors expressed continued support for [...] | 2008-02-15 13:29:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM EN |
08TALLINN72 | ESTONIA: RUSSIA WILL NOT RECOGNIZE AN INDEPENDENT [...] (SBU) On February 14, Poloff met with Simmu Tiik, Director General of the 3rd Political Department (Russia) and Toomas Tirs, Georgia Desk Officer, at the Estonian MFA to discuss reftel points. Tiik said, based on recent statements by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavarov, he does not think [...] | 2008-02-22 12:50:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV RS GG EN |
08TALLINN76 | WELCOMING ESTONIA INTO THE GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] (U) Action Request - please see paragraph (6). 2. (SBU) On February 21, the Ambassador and Russian Ambassador to Estonia Nikolai Uspensky met with Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and the Estonian MFA's Director of Political Department Aivo Orav to officially welcome Estonia as a memb [...] | 2008-02-26 13:48:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KNNP RU EN |
08TALLINN96 | CORRECTED COPY - ESTONIA: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF DHS [...] (SBU) Summary: Welcome to Tallinn. Your visit and the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) will be significant new milestones in our bilateral relationship with Estonia. Accession to VWP has been a long-standing priority for the Government of Estonia (G [...] | 2008-03-06 15:08:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL CVIS AMGT ASEC AFIN EN |
08TALLINN97 | FISCAL TRANSPARENCY IN ESTONIA [...] (U) The following information on fiscal transparency in Estonia is provided for use in updating the 2003 country narrative - as requested reftel. -- The Government of Estonia (GOE) has set out transparent policies and effective laws to foster competition and establish "clear rules of the g [...] | 2008-03-07 14:09:00 | Embassy Tallinn | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL EN |
08TASHKENT1006 | UZBEKISTAN: EXPECTING RUSSIA-GEORGIA DISCUSSION [...] (C) On August 27, Charge d'Affaires met with First Deputy Foreign Minister Nematov and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Americas Department Chief Mamadjanov to deliver reftel A demarche urging the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) to condemn and reject Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and A [...] | 2008-08-28 10:13:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR ASEC EAID GG RS UZ |
08TASHKENT1022 | UZBEKISTAN: CSTO DEMARCHE AND PUTIN VISIT [...] (C) On Sunday, August 31, we delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev, who promised to relay it immediately to appropriate officials. Contacted at home on the September 1 Uzbek Independence Day holiday, Fayzullaev said a response had to be [...] | 2008-09-02 12:58:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | GG PBTS PREL RS UZ |
08TASHKENT1024 | UNICEF PLANS INFORMAL CHILD LABOR ASSESSMENT [...] (C) Summary: On August 27 Charge and poloff met with UNICEF Representative in Uzbekistan Mahboob Shareef to discuss plans to assess the extent of child labor during the cotton harvest season as well as the agenda for the upcoming September 16-18 Executive Board Meeting in New York. Shareef re [...] | 2008-09-03 05:15:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1029 | UZBEKISTAN: NO EVIDENCE OF CHANGE IN POSITION ON [...] (C) On September 3, Pol-Econ Section Chief and Poloff met with Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev to discuss reftel A demarche on the upcoming Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) meeting. Fayzullaev stated that he delivered this info [...] | 2008-09-03 12:25:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | GG PBTS PREL RS UZ |
08TASHKENT1034 | ACTING CENTCOM COMMANDER GENERAL DEMPSEY MEETS [...] (C) Summary: During a visit to Tashkent on August 28, Acting CENTCOM Commander General Martin Dempsey met separately with First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ilkhom Nematov and Director of the National Drug Control Center Kamol Dusmetov. He also conducted mil-to-mil meetings with Ministe [...] | 2008-09-05 03:21:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR PHUM EAID PINR AF PK GG RS UZ |
08TASHKENT1035 | ACTING CENTCOM COMMANDER GENERAL DEMPSEY MEETS [...] (C) Summary: On August 28 visiting Acting CENTCOM Commander General Martin Dempsey met with Yves Giovannoni, the ICRC Head of the Regional Delegation in Central Asia, and Raffaello Muller, the Deputy Head. The meeting, which itself sent a strong signal of USG interest to the Uzbeks, focused o [...] | 2008-09-05 03:27:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KCOR PINR KZ KG TI TX UZ |
08TASHKENT1037 | UZBEKISTAN: NO COMMENT ON KOSOVO DEMARCHE [...] (C) On September 3, Poloff delivered reftel demarche on Serbia's request for a UNGA resolution seeking an ICJ advisory opinion on Kosovo's independence to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Desk Chief, Ismat Fayzullaev. Fayzullaev stated that Uzbekistan has not recognized Kosovo's indepe [...] | 2008-09-05 12:13:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNGA KV UZ |
08TASHKENT104 | CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL FALLON MEETS ICRC IN [...] (C) On January 25 visiting Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Admiral William J. Fallon, accompanied by the Ambassador, met with Rafaello Muller, Country Director of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). This meeting was an opportunity to discuss the importance of a substantiv [...] | 2008-01-28 12:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV ICRC UZ |
08TASHKENT1048 | UZBEK DEPUTY FM DENIES GAS DEAL SIGNED WITH RUSSIA [...] (C) In a September 8 meeting with Ambassador, Uzbek Deputy Foreign Minister Nematov denied that Uzbekistan had "signed" an agreement with Russia for construction of a new gas pipeline during Russian PM Putin's Sept. 2 visit to Tashkent. Nematov said that talks were on-going with Russia on the [...] | 2008-09-11 11:32:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL PGOV UZ RS |
08TASHKENT105 | CDR USCENTCOM: LOOKING FOR MIL-MIL REENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Visiting USCENTCOM Commander Admiral William J. Fallon met January 24 jointly with the National Security Advisor, Defense Minister, Foreign Minister and Chairman of the Border Guards of the National Security Service. The meeting, which immediately preceded one with Uzbek Preside [...] | 2008-01-28 13:16:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS UZ |
08TASHKENT1050 | UZBEKISTAN: U.S. CONDUCTS PATHOGEN SECURITY [...] (U) Summary: A team of scientific and legal experts from the Department of State and the Department of Health and Human Services conducted a Legal and Pathogen Security Workshop September 8-9 in Tashkent. Representatives from the Parliament, Cabinet of Ministers, Ministries of Health, Justice [...] | 2008-09-11 11:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL TBIO UZ |
08TASHKENT1060 | UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for one Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) official scheduled to attend the Program for Advanced Security Studies at the Marshall Center in Garmisch, Germa [...] | 2008-09-15 07:34:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR UZ |
08TASHKENT1061 | UZBEKISTAN SHARES ITS VIEWS OF SCO SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: A representative from Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Section told us on September 11 that Uzbekistan is pleased with the results of the August SCO summit in Dushanbe. Uzbekistan's main goals for future summits include further secur [...] | 2008-09-15 12:09:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC ECIN ECON PGOV PINS PTER UZ |
08TASHKENT1085 | PRESIDENT KARIMOV SIGNS TIP CRIMINAL CODE [...] (U) Summary: On September 16 President Islam Karimov signed long-awaited criminal code amendments into law specifically criminalizing trafficking in persons and outlining stricter punishments of up to 12 years in prison for convicted traffickers. In adopting the amendments, the Government of [...] | 2008-09-19 11:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM KWMN PHUM UZ |
08TASHKENT1086 | GOVERNMENT ADOPTS NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ON CHILD [...] (SBU) Summary: The Uzbek government recently adopted a National Action Plan on implementing two International Labor Organization (ILO) anti-child labor conventions. According to contacts and press reports, the Prime Minister also warned regional governors not to mobilize schoolchildren to pic [...] | 2008-09-19 12:37:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1089 | SCENE SETTER FOR SEPTEMBER 23-24 ARCENT COMMANDER [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Tashkent welcomes your visit to Uzbekistan and thanks you and your command for the quick response to the consequences of the Kagan Ammunition Depot explosions of 10 July 2008. The delivery of equipment and the subsequent training were very timely for relations between the [...] | 2008-09-22 11:25:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR UZ |
08TASHKENT1113 | ARCENT COMMANDER MEETS NEW UZBEK DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: ARCENT Commander Lieutenant General James Lovelace met with newly-appointed Defense Minister General-Major Kabil Berdiyev during a September 23-24 visit to Uzbekistan. Berdiyev, who is believed to favor greater cooperation with the U.S., thanked LTG Lovelace for support in the w [...] | 2008-09-29 09:34:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM PHUM MARR PINR UZ |
08TASHKENT1123 | UZBEKISTAN: NATO ENVOY ON AFGHANISTAN TRANSIT [...] (C) Summary: On September 26, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General Robert Simmons briefed a gathering of NATO Embassy officials on his recent meetings with Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) officials on NATO-Uzbekistan cooperation, including ongoing transit agreement discussions. Simmons said [...] | 2008-09-30 09:46:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC AORC MOPS KTIA NATO AF UZ |
08TASHKENT1124 | UZBEKISTAN: NATO ENVOY ON AFGHANISTAN TRANSIT [...] (C) Summary: On September 26, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General Robert Simmons briefed a gathering of NATO Embassy officials on his recent meetings with Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) officials on NATO-Uzbekistan cooperation, including ongoing transit agreement discussions. Simmons said [...] | 2008-09-30 09:55:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC AORC MOPS KTIA NATO AF UZ |
08TASHKENT1127 | UZBEKISTAN: PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUPPORTING [...] (C/NF) Summary: The imperative of establishing new supply routes to support Coalition forces in Afghanistan necessitates continued inter-agency deftness and consensus on our approach to Uzbekistan. We have important equities at stake here, particularly in advancing human rights, religious fre [...] | 2008-09-30 10:27:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM MARR UZ |
08TASHKENT113 | SECURITY SERVICE POWER-BROKERS LIMIT [...] (C) Summary: Reftel A discussed the keen interest of the counter-narcotics-focused Sensitive Investigative Unit in resuming active cooperation with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. However, it is still uncertain whether the Government of Uzbekistan would issue long-term visas to U.S. [...] | 2008-01-29 04:23:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | PREL PGOV KCRM KCOR PINR SNAR UZ |
08TASHKENT1133 | UZBEK MFA DENIES COLLUSION WITH RUSSIA ON MANAS [...] (C) Ambassador met with Uzbek MFA Americas Department Director Takhir Mamadjanov on October 3 to urge the Government of Uzbekistan not to allow the future of Manas Air Base to be questioned during the upcoming CIS Summit. Ambassador underscored the importance of Manas to Coalition operations [...] | 2008-10-03 13:00:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR UZ |
08TASHKENT1138 | UZBEKISTAN: PROTESTANT RELEASED; ACTIVIST GRANTED [...] (C) Summary: In the past week, Uzbek authorities have dropped religious extremism charges against Protestant Aimurat Khayburahmanov and issued an exit visa for human rights activist Mutabar Tojiboyeva to receive medical treatment abroad. Forum 18, which first reported Khayburahmanov's release [...] | 2008-10-06 12:32:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1139 | UZBEKISTAN: UNGA DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On September 29, Poloff delivered reftel demarche in support of the U.S. draft resolution, "Compliance with nonproliferation, arms control, and disarmament agreements" to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Farhod Fayzullaev from MFA's Americas Desk indicated that the issue [...] | 2008-10-07 11:50:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM CDG PREL UNGA UZ |
08TASHKENT1140 | UZBEKISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR 21-24 OCTOBER NGLOC [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Tashkent welcomes you to Uzbekistan for what will be a very important step toward realizing a new Northern Ground Line of Communication (NGLOC). This initiative's significance is increasingly important due to pending USG decisions concerning strengthening our military pre [...] | 2008-10-07 11:52:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC EAID ECON KTIA MARR MASS MOPS OVIP |
08TASHKENT1149 | UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVIST DETAINED AFTER PROVIDING TOUR [...] (C) Summary: During a five-day trip to Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan on September 29 - October 3, G/TIP Foreign Affairs Officer Megan Hall met with human rights activists monitoring the use of child labor during the annual cotton harvest in Syrdarya province. Despite the government's rec [...] | 2008-10-08 05:16:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT115 | SCENE SETTER FOR COMMANDER, U.S. CENTCOM,S VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND. Embassy Tashkent welcomes the 24-25 January 2008 visit by the Commander of U.S. CENTCOM. This will be the first visit by a CENTCOM Commander to Uzbekistan in nearly three years since relations dissolved in the wake of the May 2005 Andijon events and the U.S. depa [...] | 2008-01-29 08:37:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV |
08TASHKENT1154 | UZBEK FM URGES STEP BY STEP APPROACH ON [...] (C) Summary: Uzbek FM Norov called in Ambassador on October 8 to discuss the way forward on Afghanistan transit. Norov said that the upcoming fact-finding visit led by RADM Harnitchek should focus strictly on commercial and technical issues, leaving political discussions and ministerial-level [...] | 2008-10-08 13:09:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR MOPS PGOV ECON UZ |
08TASHKENT1155 | UZBEKISTAN: EU DIPLOMATS EXPECT SANCTIONS TO BE [...] (C) Summary: During a six-day visit to Uzbekistan, DRL Foreign Affairs Officer Rachel Waldstein on September 23 participated in an informal roundtable at the Embassy with diplomats from the German, French, Italian, and Latvian Embassies in Tashkent. The diplomats reported that the EU would mo [...] | 2008-10-09 11:41:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EUN PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT1156 | UZBEKISTAN: UNICEF DISCUSSES CHILD LABOR ACTION [...] (C) Summary: During a six-day visit to Uzbekistan, DRL Foreign Affairs Officer Rachel Waldstein met on September 23 with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Child Protection Officer Siyma Barkin to discuss the government's recent adoption of a National Action Plan on child labor. Barkin [...] | 2008-10-09 11:50:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT116 | UZBEKISTAN'S "TAPOICH" AVIATION PLANT REQUESTS [...] (C) Summary: On January 23, the Ambassador visited the Chkalov Tashkent Aircraft Production Company (TAPOiCh) and met with officials including Director-General Sultanov. Sultanov requested U.S. assistance in facilitating the transfer of U.S.-made auxiliary power units to TAPOiCh, as these part [...] | 2008-01-29 09:13:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS ECON PGOV PREL US UZ |
08TASHKENT1163 | UZBEKISTAN: JOURNALIST RECEIVES 10-YEAR SENTENCE [...] (C) On October 10, a court in Uzbekistan's Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan convicted journalist Salidjahon Abdurakhmanov of possessing narcotics with the intent to distribute (criminal code article 273) and sentenced him to ten years' imprisonment. His lawyer Rustam Tulyganov told polo [...] | 2008-10-10 09:56:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1167 | TASHKENT TIDBITS OCTOBER 14, 2008 [...] (U) This is the first edition a new weekly product from Embassy Tashkent intended to provide a space for a broader range of noteworthy developments from Uzbekistan that may not ordinarily be the subject of front channel reporting. Uzbek FM Extols Virtues of Economic Model ------------------- [...] | 2008-10-14 10:31:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON UZ |
08TASHKENT1173 | UZBEKISTAN: RED CROSS CAUTIOUSLY EXPLORING [...] (C) Summary: On September 30, Poloff and Deskoff met with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) representative Simon Yule, who discussed ICRC plans to provide assistance to the Government of Uzbekistan's (GOU) security forces. Yule believes that this engagement may reduce the risk o [...] | 2008-10-14 12:13:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL MOPS MCAP PGOV PHUM UZ |
08TASHKENT1176 | UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for two Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to attend a Counternarcotics Conference at the Marshall Center in Garmisch, Germany October 26-29, [...] | 2008-10-15 09:59:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR UZ |
08TASHKENT1188 | UZBEKISTAN: INVESTIGATION CONCLUDES THAT ACTIVIST [...] (U) On October 14, a court in Karakalpakstan announced that an investigation had determined that the health of human rights activist Akzam Turgunov did not suffer as a result of a police officer pouring boiling water on his back during pre-trial detention. Turgunov was originally arrested in [...] | 2008-10-16 09:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1189 | UZBEKISTAN: LEADING ACTIVIST CRITICIZED BY EXILES [...] (C) Summary: On October 10, poloff met at the Embassy with human rights activist Mutabar Tojiboyeva, who told poloff that she favored engagement with the Uzbek government and was personally against sanctions, which she believed would cutoff dialogue with the government. However, she reported b [...] | 2008-10-16 09:15:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KWMN PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT119 | AUTHORITIES RAID POPULAR TASHKENT MULTIMEDIA CHAIN [...] (C) Summary: On January 25 Uzbek tax and intellectual property rights authorities raided the popular Nirvana chain of multimedia stores in Tashkent. Reportedly, 100,000 discs containing pirated music, film, and software were seized. Journalists were invited on the simultaneous raids, which w [...] | 2008-01-29 12:36:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KCRM KIPR UZ |
08TASHKENT1192 | UNODC REPORTS GREATER COOPERATION FROM CENTRAL [...] (U) Summary: On September 19 poloff attended a donor coordination roundtable hosted by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Office in Central Asia. UNODC Senior Law Enforcement Advisor, Mark Colhoun, reported increased cooperation with law enforcement agencies in the f [...] | 2008-10-17 05:25:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM TX IR TI UZ ASEC |
08TASHKENT1193 | GOOD TIMES AND GOODWILL FOR UZBEK LAW ENFORCEMENT [...] (C) Summary: On October 7 poloff paid a visit to the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Budapest, Hungary, where eight mid-level Uzbek officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Security Service (NSS) were wrapping up an eight-week training program funded by t [...] | 2008-10-17 05:29:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PINR EAID UZ |
08TASHKENT1197 | UZBEKISTAN: NGOS RECEIVE PERMISSION FOR HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: Two non-governmental organizations (NGOs) receiving Embassy Democracy Commission grants have been recently granted permission by authorities to conduct human rights trainings at schools and with law enforcement officials. Their success in engaging local officials on human rights [...] | 2008-10-20 05:54:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID KIRF KWMN PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT1200 | UZBEKISTAN: THREE POLITICAL PRISONERS RELEASED [...] (C) Summary: On October 20, sources reported that three political prisoners in Uzbekistan have been recently released: human rights activist and opposition party member Dilmurod Mukhiddinov; human rights activist Mamarajab Nazarov; and independent journalist Jamshid Karimov, the nephew of Pre [...] | 2008-10-20 12:13:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1201 | TASHKENT TIDBITS OCTOBER 20, 2008 \ [...] (C) The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and \ Uzbekistan's State Customs Committee have launched a new \ website (www.customsreform.uz),which will include updates on \ the latest changes in Customs regulation and discussions of \ the new Customs Code. An English-language version is in t [...] | 2008-10-20 12:40:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON UZ |
08TASHKENT1217 | UZBEKISTAN: SANJAR UMAROV'S WIFE DESCRIBES PRISON [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with poloff at the Embassy on October 21, Indira Umarova - the wife of imprisoned political oppositionist Sanjar Umarov (and a recently naturalized AmCit) - described her visit to her husband in prison and his poor health condition. What Umarova told poloff roug [...] | 2008-10-21 10:45:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1218 | UZBEKISTAN: CUSTOMS REQUESTS TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT [...] (C) Summary: On September 30, Poloff and Deskoff met with Customs representatives who described the agency's priorities and expressed appreciation for U.S.-provided border security assistance. Customs appears to be particularly interested in receiving additional technical equipment that would [...] | 2008-10-21 11:21:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS ASEC PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT1222 | UZBEKISTAN: KARAKALPAKSTAN'S COUNCIL OF MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary: On October 2, Deputy Chairman Abdijaliev of Karakalpakstan's Council of Ministers discussed conditions in Karakalpakstan--Uzbekistan's only autonomous republic--with us in Nukus. The Deputy Chairman repeatedly asserted Karakalpakstan's "sovereignty," citing a series of its own in [...] | 2008-10-22 12:56:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI SENV PHUM UZ |
08TASHKENT1225 | UZBEKISTAN: OFFICIALS CITE AREAS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: During a six-day visit to Uzbekistan, DRL Foreign Affairs Officer Rachel Waldstein met on September 22 with the Human Rights Ombudsman, the National Human Rights Center director, and Ministry of Interior officials. The officials emphasized legal reforms the government had undert [...] | 2008-10-24 03:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KWMN PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1226 | UZBEKISTAN: PROSECUTOR GENERAL PUBLISHES MAJOR [...] (U) On October 17 Uzbekistan Prosecutor General Rashitjon Qodirov prominently published a major 3,000 word report on trafficking in persons (TIP) in the state-controlled newspaper "Narodnoe Slovo" (People's Word). This is the first high-profile action by Qodirov in his capacity as the Chairma [...] | 2008-10-24 08:25:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN UZ |
08TASHKENT1227 | KAZAKHSTANI NGOS DISCUSS LABOR MIGRATION, [...] (C) Summary: During a five-day trip to Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan on September 29 - October 3, G/TIP Foreign Affairs Officer Megan Hall met with Kazakhstani NGOs to discuss labor migration, human trafficking, and child labor issues. The president of an anti-trafficking NGO in Shymkent [...] | 2008-10-24 12:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ELAB KWMN KCRM SOCI KZ UZ |
08TASHKENT1231 | UZBEKISTAN: RESPONSE TO GLOBAL INITIATIVE QUERIES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-27 09:16:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC UZ |
08TASHKENT1234 | UZBEKISTAN: NOMINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF [...] (SBU) Post is honored to nominate human rights defender Mutabar Tadjibayeva from Uzbekistan for the Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage (ref A). A fearless and unfailing critic of human rights abuses in Uzbekistan, Tadjibayeva was imprisoned for speaking out against the gove [...] | 2008-10-27 09:55:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KPAO KWMN PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1235 | UZBEKISTAN: MEDICAL COMMISSION TO EXAMINE [...] (C) Summary: On October 22, the Ambassador met with Indira Umarova, the AmCit wife of imprisoned political oppositionist Sanjar Umarov, who described her recent visit to see her husband in prison on October 17 and his deteriorating health condition (reftel). Afterwards, the Ambassador drafte [...] | 2008-10-27 10:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CASC ICRC PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1247 | UZBEKISTAN STILL PLAYING HARD TO GET ON RULE OF [...] (C) Summary: On October 10 we received a diplomatic note declining a proposal to use INL funds on a rule of law project that would have been implemented by the American Bar Association - Rule of Law Initiative (ABA-ROLI). This is the latest in a series of recent setbacks on efforts to invest i [...] | 2008-10-28 12:02:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM KCRM EAID PINR UZ |
08TASHKENT1253 | UZBEKISTAN: INTER-MINISTERIAL RIVALRIES SEEN AS [...] (C) Reftel pointed to puzzling instances of rejection by Uzbek authorities of certain U.S. programs in such areas as rule of law, health and education -- puzzling because the proposed programs on the face of it do not appear threatening and because the general tenor of U.S.-Uzbek relations has [...] | 2008-10-29 10:30:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM EAID UZ |
08TASHKENT1256 | UZBEKISTAN: UNICEF SHARES RESULTS OF CHILD LABOR [...] (C) Summary: During a recent meeting with foreign diplomats, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) office in Tashkent announced that an informal assessment of child labor conducted by its employees found that students were still being mobilized for the cotton harvest, despite the governm [...] | 2008-10-30 08:31:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAGR ECON ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1257 | UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVIST SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS' [...] (C) Summary: On October 23, a court in Uzbekistan's Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan sentenced human rights activist Akzam Turgunov and another defendant to ten years' imprisonment on politically motivated charges of extortion. Turgunov's trial had been temporarily interrupted following [...] | 2008-10-30 10:40:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1258 | UZBEKISTAN: POLICE OFFICERS ON TRIAL FOR DEATH IN [...] (U) In two recent articles from October 20 and October 27, the independent Uznews.net website reported that a trial has begun at the Tashkent regional criminal court for four police officers charged with beating and killing Muzaffar Tuychiyev, a 30-year resident of the town of Angren in Tashk [...] | 2008-10-31 04:11:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1259 | UZBEKISTAN HOSTS CONFERENCE ON ELECTIONS AND [...] (C) Summary: On October 15-16, Uzbekistan's Foundation for Regional Policy (FRP)--an "NGO" with close ties to the Presidential Apparat--hosted an international roundtable entitled "Elections to Representative Bodies and Issues of Increasing the Political Culture of the Electorate" in Tashkent. [...] | 2008-10-31 05:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI PHUM UZ |
08TASHKENT1260 | UZBEKISTAN: SERIOUS PROSPECTS FOR TRANSIT TO [...] (C) Summary: A delegation from U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) and U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) led by TRANSCOM Rear Admiral (RADM) Mark Harnitchek and CENTCOM Brigadier General (BG) Peter Lennon visited Uzbekistan October 21 - 24 to explore options for transit of supplies to Coalition [...] | 2008-10-31 10:31:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR ECON PGOV UZ |
08TASHKENT1265 | UZBEKISTAN: OFFICIALS DESCRIBE EFFORTS TO [...] (U) Summary: On September 29-30, poloff and a visiting officer from the Department's Office to Combat and Monitor Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) met with Uzbek officials from the Ministries of Internal and Foreign Affairs, the Office of the General Prosecutor, and the National Women's Committee [...] | 2008-11-03 09:20:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN UZ |
08TASHKENT1267 | UZBEKISTAN: RESPONSE ON DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN [...] (C) On October 31, Poloff delivered reftel demarche on the U.S. designation of Iranian entities and individuals under Executive Order 13382 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev. Fayzullaev pledged to pass the information to relevant Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) [...] | 2008-11-03 09:42:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC IR GM PREL PARM EFIN UZ |
08TASHKENT1269 | UZBEKISTAN: IMPRISONED ACTIVIST REPORTEDLY [...] (C) Summary: On November 3, the Deputy Chairman of the Ezgulik human rights group confirmed internet reports of the alleged suicide attempt by imprisoned Ezgulik member Abdurasul Khudoynazarov. According to the Deputy Chairman, Khudoynazarov attempted suicide after enduring frequent mistreat [...] | 2008-11-04 05:47:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1271 | UZBEKISTAN IDENTIFIES POINTS OF CONTACT FOR GLOBAL [...] (SBU) On October 31, Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed Post via diplomatic note that the following individuals are the Government of Uzbekistan's points of contact for activities related to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism: H. Halilov, Branch Chief at "Sanoatko [...] | 2008-11-04 09:14:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER UZ |
08TASHKENT1274 | TASHKENT TIDBITS NOVEMBER 3, 2008 [...] (SBU) Mahmoud Naderi, the Almaty-based Director of the International Organization for Migration who also is responsible for Uzbekistan, told us yesterday that the organization is moving ahead with plans to seek registration here (first reported in May). This would be welcome news, as it is aw [...] | 2008-11-04 10:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON UZ |
08TASHKENT1277 | UZBEKISTAN: MAJOR DEALS FOR GM AND BOEING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Last week saw the signing of two major deals between U.S. corporations and counterparts in Uzbekistan. On October 27 General Motors (GM) informed us privately that it had agreed with the Uzbek Government on building a new engine and transmission plant near Tashkent. Almost sim [...] | 2008-11-05 09:17:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON ETRD PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT1279 | UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING CLEARANCE FOR [...] (SBU) Post has conducted a review of its files and has found no evidence of human rights violations committed by Shavkat Holmatov, Djonrid Kudratkhodjaev, or Marat Sooltonov, who have been nominated to participate in the NATO-Russia General Training Course to be held at the Domodedovo Center o [...] | 2008-11-06 03:13:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL MARR UZ |
08TASHKENT1284 | U.S. ELECTIONS ENTHRALL YOUNG UZBEK AUDIENCE [...] (SBU) An embassy-hosted event to watch the election returns the early morning of November 5 was exceptionally well-attended by an enthusiastic and predominantly young Uzbek crowd of approximately 350. Participants were able to cast mock ballots, get brochures and information about the elector [...] | 2008-11-06 11:03:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UZ |
08TASHKENT1288 | "WHIRLPOOL OF DEATH:" UZBEK TV REPORTS ISLAMIC [...] (C) Summary: On October 31, Uzbek state-controlled television broadcasted a 20-minute program claiming that members of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization had recruited Uzbeks in the town of Khonobod in Andijon province and facilitated their travel to Pakistan to train in militant camps. [...] | 2008-11-07 10:41:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PTER KIRF KISL PINR PGOV PREL SOCI PK UZ |
08TASHKENT129 | UZBEK MIGRANTS EYE VISA-FREE TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: On January 13 poloff, who previously served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bukhara, learned that his Uzbek former counterpart teacher was departing immediately -- and possibly forever -- for Turkey. Having been frustrated at recent attempts to find work abroad in Russia, Cyprus, a [...] | 2008-01-31 07:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM CVIS KCRM KWMN ECON SOCI TU UZ |
08TASHKENT1291 | PDAS CAMP'S MEETINGS WITH UZBEK FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: SCA PDAS Donald Camp met with Uzbek Foreign Minister (FM) Norov and National Security Advisor (NSA) Atayev during an October 28-29 visit to Tashkent. Camp exchanged views on the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, pushing back on Uzbek statements that the solution to the probl [...] | 2008-11-10 10:03:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR UZ |
08TASHKENT1298 | UZBEKISTAN: CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT [...] The president of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, sent the following congratulatory message to President-elect Obama, the original of which was transmitted to the Department on November 5 via the Uzbek Embassy in Washington. This cable is for record traffic purposes only and, per Reftel, we unders [...] | 2008-11-12 08:55:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC OVIP PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT1299 | UZBEKISTAN: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AGENCY WILL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Technology Transfer Agency (TTA) of Uzbekistan will be the implementing partner for the U.S. Department of Energy's (USDOE) and Carnegie Institute's "School-in-a-Box" renewable energy pilot project in Tashkent, with the first workshop scheduled to take place November 10-15. [...] | 2008-11-12 11:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SENV UZ |
08TASHKENT1304 | UZBEKISTAN: AUTHORITIES TO OPEN REHABILITATION [...] (U) On November 11, the state-controlled UzReport.com website reported that - in line with a resolution of President Karimov's from November 5 - the Ministry of Labor will open a national rehabilitation center in Tashkent to assist and protect human trafficking victims. According to the webs [...] | 2008-11-13 11:35:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB KTIP KWMN KCRM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1306 | UZBEKISTAN: AFGHAN REFUGEES STILL ENDURE [...] (C) Summary: The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) office in Tashkent reports that Afghan refugees with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) mandate status in Uzbekistan continue to face harassment and occasional deportation at the hands of authorities. According to U [...] | 2008-11-13 11:47:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UNDP UNHCR AF TI UZ |
08TASHKENT1308 | UZBEKISTAN SCENE-SETTER FOR GENERAL MCNABB, [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Tashkent looks forward to hosting you and advancing one more step toward opening a new Northern Distribution Network (NDN) (previously referred to as the Northern Ground Line of Communication or NGLOC) to Afghanistan. The Government of Uzbekistan (GoU) viewed Rear Admiral [...] | 2008-11-14 09:11:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC EAID ECON KTIA MARR MASS MOPS OVIP |
08TASHKENT131 | GOU AND CIVIL SOCIETY: ON THE ROAD TO NORMALCY [...] (C) Summary: In the past few weeks, the government has taken several positive steps on the civil society front, including: signaling that it will register a German non-governmental organization (NGO); opening three new resource centers for local NGOs; and awarding 22 grants to NGOs through th [...] | 2008-01-31 12:41:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT1313 | UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING FOR NATO-RUSSIA [...] (SBU) Post has conducted an internal review of its files and has found no evidence of human rights violations committed by Amirtemirkhon Musaev, Khurshid Shukurov, Anatoli Milyukov, or Nordirbek Mamadeliev, who have been nominated to participate in the NATO-Russia counternarcotics training to [...] | 2008-11-14 10:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR UZ |
08TASHKENT1314 | UZBEKISTAN: TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-17 09:12:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB KTIP KWMN KCRM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1315 | 2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT INCSR [...] SUMMARY UZBEKISTAN: Uzbekistan is primarily a transit country for opiates originating in Afghanistan. Well-established trade routes facilitate the transit of these narcotics to Russia and Europe. There is a growing market for a variety of intravenously administered narcotics and consequently a [...] | 2008-11-17 10:55:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT132 | UZBEKISTAN GRANTS OVERFLIGHT RIGHTS, USE OF TERMEZ [...] (SBU) The Government of Uzbekistan informed Post via diplomatic note on January 30 that it has approved overflights of Uzbekistan and the transit of the Uzbek-German airbase at Termez by U.S. military and diplomatic personnel assigned to NATO and/or International Security Assistance Forces whe [...] | 2008-01-31 13:18:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS AF UZ |
08TASHKENT1322 | UZBEKISTAN: EMBASSY HOSTS ROUNDTABLE FOR [...] (C) Summary: While the atmosphere in Uzbekistan's majority Muslim community has improved somewhat over the past year, some smaller Christian evangelical groups - particularly those which are unregistered and have ethnic Uzbek members - continue to endure frequent raids, harassment, and the de [...] | 2008-11-18 09:56:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1324 | TASHKENT TIDBITS NOVEMBER 17, 2008 [...] (SBU) The British Embassy's Third Secretary who is responsible for Public Affairs, Richard Pike, shed additional light on the recent agreement that the British Council signed with Gulnara Karimova's Forum for Culture and Arts. He explained that the agreement outlined no specific projects, bu [...] | 2008-11-18 10:56:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON UZ |
08TASHKENT1325 | UZBEKISTAN: FORMER OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: On November 13, Furkat Sidikov (a former official who remains affiliated with the Government of Uzbekistan) discussed a range of political and security issues with Poloff and expressed interest in developing bilateral cooperation. Sidikov asserted that Uzbekistan is curious about [...] | 2008-11-18 10:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC KISL PINS PTER PHUM SOCI AF UZ |
08TASHKENT133 | UZBEKISTAN, 2007 INL END USE MONITORING REPORT [...] (U) Per instructions in reftel, Embassy Tashkent presents the required annual End Use Monitoring Report to the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) for calendar year 2007. ---------- PROCEDURES ---------- 2. (U) Embassy Tashkent requires the Government of [...] | 2008-02-01 02:04:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL ASEC AFIN EAID UZ |
08TASHKENT1341 | FATF Member Embassies Not United on Uzbekistan [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel points to Uzbek Deputy Prime Minister Azimov and Foreign Minister Norov on November 19 on the margins of meetings with TRANSCOM Commander General Duncan McNabb. Azimov was already aware of the upcoming FATF team's visit and mentioned DAS Glaser by name. He nodded [...] | 2008-11-21 10:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PINR PREL KCRM UZ |
08TASHKENT1351 | UZBEKISTAN: AUTHORITIES REPORT ON HEALTH OF IMPRISONED OPPOSIT [...] (C) Summary: On November 18, the MFA delivered to the Embassy the results of a medical commission that was established by President Karimov on October 24 to examine the health of imprisoned oppositionist Sanjar Umarov (ref A). The report stated that Umarov suffered from "no significant patholo [...] | 2008-11-24 11:56:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT1379 | UZBEKISTAN: NEW LEGAL CLINICS TO OPEN, BUT BAR ASSOCIATION [...] (C) Summary: The Tashkent Legal Clinic Director reported that authorities have approved the opening of three new legal clinics in Uzbekistan and have granted a six-month Uzbek visa to the AmCit American Bar Association (ABA) office director in Almaty, who is currently in Uzbekistan attending tr [...] | 2008-11-26 12:34:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1380 | UZBEKISTAN: UPDATE ON TIP AND LABOR MIGRATION [...] (C) Summary: In a November 22 article, BBC Monitoring reported that Uzbekistan's state-controlled media has launched a human trafficking awareness campaign, which tracks with poloff's observation that over the past few months, human rights-related articles have appeared in the state-controlled [...] | 2008-11-26 12:45:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON ELAB KCRM KWMN PGOV PREL SOCI KZ UZ |
08TASHKENT1382 | Uzbekistan Supportive on Afghanistan Transit Concepts [...] (C) Summary: The Commander of U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM) General Duncan McNabb visited Uzbekistan November 18-20 to discuss possible modalities of establishing commercial transit of non-lethal supplies for U.S. forces in Afghanistan (Northern Distribution Network -NDN). The Governme [...] | 2008-11-26 13:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR EINT UZ |
08TASHKENT1420 | UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE ON THE HELSINKI OSCE MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Pol-Econ Chief discussed reftel points with Uzbek MFA UN and International Organizations Division Head Karomiddin Gadoev on December 3.Karomiddin noted that, for the first time in three years (i.e. since Andijon),Uzbekistan would be represented in Helsinkiat the ministerial level byForeign [...] | 2008-12-04 13:21:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OSCE PHUM KDEM UZ |
08TASHKENT1429 | UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR ONE GOU PARTICIPANT [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. 2. Post has been provided with one additional name of an officer nominated to participate in the Senior Executive Seminar 09-1 at the Marshal Center in Garmisch, Germany. The training program is funded by and arranged by the Marshal C [...] | 2008-12-05 10:29:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ASEC PGOV PREL SNAR UZ |
08TASHKENT143 | GOU: BLUSTER ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: There are signs of progress on some aspects of our human rights agenda with Uzbekistan, especially concerning civil society (ref A),but the issue of political prisoners remains the toughest nut to crack. We and the French have encountered visceral reaction at the Ministry of For [...] | 2008-02-01 14:53:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MARR PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT1454 | UZBEKISTAN: ATMOSPHERE SLOWLY IMPROVING FOR ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary: In the past weeks, independent human rights activists have held two human-rights related events attended by government officials. On November 28, the independent Ezgulik human rights group held a conference evaluating the government's recent legal reforms with several other indepen [...] | 2008-12-12 06:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1459 | Uzbekistan Scenesetter for LTG Allen [...] (C) Embassy Tashkent warmly welcomes your visit to Uzbekistan as an important opportunity to build on recent progress in U.S.-Uzbekistan cooperation. Your meetings will primarily be an opportunity to exchange views on the situation in Afghanistan with Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) officials an [...] | 2008-12-12 12:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR UZ |
08TASHKENT146 | UZBEKISTAN TAKES ANOTHER SWIPE AT TAJIKISTAN OVER [...] (C) Summary: The recent publication in Uzbekistan's state-run press of an article critical of Tajikistan's hydroelectric power projects, and flagged by President Karimov in his January 24 meeting with CENTCOM Commander Admiral Fallon, is the latest move in Uzbekistan's longstanding efforts to [...] | 2008-02-04 08:58:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ENGR EAID PREL TI UZ |
08TASHKENT1463 | Tashkent Tidbits December 15, 2008 [...] (SBU) Recently, a member of the Ezgulik human rights group's Syrdarya province branch observed that his organization has received a response from law enforcement officials regarding complaint letters they had sent over an incident in October when a police officer threatened and hit Ezgulik memb [...] | 2008-12-15 12:35:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KDEM PHUM UZ |
08TASHKENT1471 | UZBEKISTAN: BORDER SECURITY ASSESSMENT [...] (C) Summary. Several U.S. programs--including the Export Control and Related Border Security program, the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement program, and others sponsored by the Department of Defense and Department of Energy--have contributed to enhancing the security of Uzbekistan's b [...] | 2008-12-17 08:29:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS ASEC ECON MASS PGOV PINS KNNP PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT1472 | UZBEKISTAN: STAFFDEL MEETS WITH MINISTRY OF DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary:During a meeting with Colonel Rustamov of Uzbekistan's Ministry of Defense on December 15, House Foreign Affairs Committee staffers discussed a range of defense and security issues.Rustamov voiced support ofinternational efforts to promote stability in Afghanistan and was pleased th [...] | 2008-12-17 09:59:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ASEC MASS PINS PTER PHUM SNAR UZ |
08TASHKENT1473 | UZBEKISTAN: FOUR POLICE JAILED OVER FATAL TORTURE [...] (U) On December 12, the Tashkent provincial Criminal Court sentenced four police officers to between eight and 17 years' imprisonment for torturing to death Muzaffar Tuychiev in the town of Angren in March, according to a December 16 article by Agence France Presse (refs A and B). The article f [...] | 2008-12-17 11:34:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT1474 | PRESIDENT KARIMOV'S CONSTITUTION DAY SPEECH - "DON'T DESTROY THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 5th 2008, Uzbek President Islom Karimov delivered a speech commemorating the 16th anniversary of the adoption of Uzbekistan's constitution and ushering in 2009 as the "Year of Rural Development and Improvement of the Countryside". Of note in a generally unremarkable s [...] | 2008-12-18 04:51:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT1475 | UZBEKISTAN: UNITED NATIONS DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) On December 15, Poloff delivered reftel demarche urging the Government of Uzbekistan to support the U.S. proposal for United Nations harmonization of conditions of service overtwo alternative proposals toUzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev. Fayzullaev [...] | 2008-12-18 10:58:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT AORC APER PREL UNGA UZ |
08TASHKENT1476 | UZBEKISTAN: TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE ON DESIGNATION OF AL-SHABAAB [...] (C) On December 15, Poloff delivered reftel demarche on the U.S. designation of three members of al-Shabaab for supporting terrorism to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev, who promised to inform appropriate parts of the Government of Uzbekistan. NORLA [...] | 2008-12-18 11:23:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC KE ET UZ |
08TASHKENT1477 | UZBEKISTAN: TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE ON UNION OF GOOD DELIVERED [...] (C) On December 15, Poloff delivered reftel demarche onthe U.S. domestic designation of Union of Good as a supporter of terrorism to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev, who promised to inform parts of the Government of Uzbekistan who work on the issue. [...] | 2008-12-18 11:20:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR KWBG KPAL IS SA WE GZ UZ |
08TASHKENT1479 | UZBEKISTAN: GLOBAL INITIATIVE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) On December 19, Poloff and Russian Charge d'Affaires Alexey Mochulsky jointly delivered reftel demarche on the upcoming Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism plenary meeting to First Secretary Oybek Abdiev of Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs United Nations and International [...] | 2008-12-22 10:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC UZ |
08TASHKENT1480 | UZBEKISTAN: NEW LAW ENHANCES RIGHTS OF DEFENDANTS, LAWYERS, [...] (C) Summary: In December, Uzbekistan's Parliament adopted a new law on defense attorneys which significantly increases protections for defendants, their lawyers, and witnesses. The former Chairwoman of the Tashkent Bar Association, who provided poloff with a copy of the law, described it as "r [...] | 2008-12-22 11:25:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID KCRM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT151 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NORTH KOREA OVERFLIGHT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-04 12:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT1521 | UZBEKISTAN: INFORMATION ON NEWLY-APPOINTED FOREIGN MINISTRY [...] (C) Summary: Newly-appointed First Deputy Foreign Minister Karamatov made a favorable impression on the Ambassador in a meeting with him on December 17. Another recently-appointed Foreign Ministry official is Deputy Foreign Minister Islamov, whose responsibilities include Uzbekistan's relation [...] | 2008-12-23 13:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT1522 | Uzbekistan: CENTCOM Deputy Commander Lt. General Allen [...] (C) Summary: On December 19 CENTCOM Deputy Commander Lt. General John Allen met separately with Uzbek Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov and Defense Minister Kabul Berdiyev in Tashkent. Lt. Gen. Allen's visit laid the groundwork for a planned visit by CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus in J [...] | 2008-12-24 08:52:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MASS ETRD PINR PHUM ECON KCOR TI AF UZ |
08TASHKENT1538 | UZBEKISTAN: "ACCESS" PROJECT SUPPORTS THE RIGHTS OF THE [...] (U) Earlier this year, the Uzbek Ministry of Labor announced that it signed an agreement to participate in an ACCESS (Accessibility, Civic Consciousness, Employment, and Society Support for Persons with Disabilities) project with several international partners - including UNDP, UNICEF, UNESCO, [...] | 2008-12-30 13:20:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KPAO OIIP PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT1539 | UZBEKISTAN: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST ACCUSED OF FRAUD [...] (U) On December 31, Radio Free Europe's Uzbek-language Ozodlik.org website reported that Ezgulik human rights activist Karim Bozorboev has been accused of fraud by law enforcement officials in Gulistan in Syrdarya province. According to the article, Bozorboev was accused of swindling a 60-year [...] | 2008-12-31 09:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON KCRM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT155 | ANDIJON-BASED ACTIVIST SAIDJAHON ZAYNABIDDINOV [...] (U) On February 5, the independent Harakat.net website reported that Andijon-based human rights activist Saidjahon Zaynabiddinov had been amnestied and released from the Zangi Ota correctional camp in Tashkent province on February 2. The article reported a telephone conversation Zaynabiddinov [...] | 2008-02-05 11:37:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT156 | DOING BUSINESS WITH UZBEKISTAN: FOLLOW UP TO THE [...] (SBU) Nine Jeep Cherokees were provided to the Uzbek State Customs Committee in August 2000. In post's 2004 End Use Monitoring Report (reftel B, paragraph #2-C),we first reported that "two of the vehicles are perhaps being misused" and may have been given to other agencies. The bilateral re [...] | 2008-02-05 12:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR ASEC EAID PREL KCRM KCOR UZ |
08TASHKENT157 | STATE-CONTROLLED PAPER RUNS FULL-PAGE HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 1 a full-page article highlighting trafficking-in-persons appeared in the Pravda Vostoka, one of three major newspapers in Uzbekistan. The prominent placement and lengthy detail of the article in a widely circulated, state-controlled publication is noteworthy and a [...] | 2008-02-06 05:17:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN AE UZ |
08TASHKENT167 | GOU AMNESTIES MORE POLITICAL PRISONERS [...] (C) Summary: In a press release on February 5, Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced that the Uzbek government on February 4 and 5 had amnestied two additional political prisoners, Dilmurod Muhitdinov and Bahodir Mukhtarov, though Ezgulik Chairperson Vasila Inoyatova has been unable to confirm t [...] | 2008-02-07 05:53:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT168 | UPDATE ON EUROPEAN BORDER SECURITY EFFORTS IN [...] (C) Summary: In a January 29 meeting with Emboffs, former Chief Technical Advisor for the Border Management in Central Asia Program, Pierre-Paul Antheunissens, provided an update on the program's border security efforts in Uzbekistan. The Border Management in Central Asia Program completed and [...] | 2008-02-07 08:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL PGOV ASEC UZ |
08TASHKENT174 | SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Norland and Emboffs met with the Executive Committee of the Regional Antiterrorist Structure (RATS) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on January 31. Executive Committee officials provided a rundown on the structure, responsibilities, and key officials of th [...] | 2008-02-08 07:51:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC PTER SNAR PGOV PBTS PINR SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT176 | HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REOPENS IN TASHKENT [...] (SBU) Human Rights Watch (HRW) reopened its Tashkent office with the arrival of its new Uzbekistan country director, Igor Vorontsov, on February 6, shortly after a visit by EU Commission members to Tashkent (ref A). As a Russian citizen (from Saint Petersburg),Vorontsov did not need a visa [...] | 2008-02-08 11:55:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT177 | DIPLOMATS PONDER HOW TO LIFT EU SANCTIONS ON [...] (C) Summary. The French, British and German Ambassadors in Tashkent were pleasantly suprised by a "qualitative improvement" in the Uzbek government's handling of human rights during a Feb. 5-6 visit by Commission representatives. These ambassadors (protect) uniformly endorse termination of [...] | 2008-02-08 12:41:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MARR EAID EU EUN NATO UZ |
08TASHKENT183 | UZBEK LEGAL REFORM CONFERENCE TO DRAW "POWER [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan agreed to substantially upgrade the scope of an upcoming March conference on law enforcement and human rights. The two-day conference is being organized by the USAID-funded Open Dialogue Project in conjunction with Eastern Kentucky University, the In [...] | 2008-02-12 04:36:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM EAID UZ |
08TASHKENT186 | (S//NF) DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO UZBEKISTAN ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-12 11:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT189 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: LOBBYING FOR KOSOVO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-12 11:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV XH UZ |
08TASHKENT190 | ARAL SEA TO BE FOCUS OF MARCH INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: On February 7, the Ambassador, USAID Country Director, and Poloff met with Fikrit Akcura of the United Nations Development Program and others who are directly involved with an upcoming international conference on the Aral Sea on March 11-13. Akcura described how Uzbekistan has gr [...] | 2008-02-12 12:15:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EAGR EAID KTIA PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT198 | TURKEY'S BID TO WIN CENTRAL ASIAN HEARTS AND MINDS [...] (C) Summary. Paving the way for the Turkish outreach effort to Central Asia outlined reftel, Turkish MFA Deputy Under Secretary Unal Cevikoz held eight hours of political consultations in Tashkent on February 12. He told diplomats the visit was successful in improving the political dialogue [...] | 2008-02-13 10:13:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ENRG EPET EINV TU UZ |
08TASHKENT199 | RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR ON PUTIN-KARIMOV MEETING [...] (C) Summary: On February 11 the Ambassador called on Russian Ambassador Farit Muhametshin to discuss President Karimov's February 5-6 trip to Moscow, including his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Muhametshin described the trip as "nothing extraordinary" and said all meetings an [...] | 2008-02-13 11:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EMIN ENRG ECON SNAR RS AF TI ZK UZ |
08TASHKENT2 | UZBEKISTAN'S BORDER GUARD AND CUSTOMS OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: Julia Khersonsky, who works at the University of Georgia's Washington DC-based Center for International Trade and Security (CITS),briefed Poloff on her recent meetings with Border Guard and Customs officials. They were highly appreciative of past U.S. assistance in border securi [...] | 2008-01-02 05:46:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL SNAR PTER AF UZ |
08TASHKENT20 | MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: Poloff met with officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) on December 4 to discuss counterterrorism issues. After an overview of the history of counterterrorism efforts in Uzbekistan, the officials outlined the MVD's priorities and responded to Poloff's questions, oft [...] | 2008-01-07 10:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PINS PREL MCAP SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT212 | UZBEKS REQUEST NATO ASSISTANCE WITH ROCKET FUEL [...] (C) Summary: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officials, visiting per the invitation of the Government of Uzbekistan, briefed the diplomatic corps on February 13 after discussing a project to dispose of 1,100 tons of melange rocket fuel. NATO is currently finishing a similar project [...] | 2008-02-14 12:54:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MASS ENRG NATO UZ |
08TASHKENT218 | FORMER SOVIET WEAPONS SCIENTISTS CONTRIBUTE TO [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met on February 13 with a team from the Los Alamos National Laboratory involved in a project to provide gainful commercial employment for former weapons scientists. The USD one million project is going well at the halfway point, and Uzbek scientists are making cob [...] | 2008-02-19 05:49:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM MNUC KNNP EMIN ECON EIND ETTC |
08TASHKENT219 | UZBEKS ON REGIONAL TRADE, AFGHAN ELECTRICITY [...] (C) Summary: SCA Special Advisor for Economic Integration Bob Deutsch met in Tashkent January 29 with senior Uzbek officials, to discuss provision of electricity to Afghanistan and prospects for this year's Trade and Investment Framework Agreement meetings. The Uzbeks underscored the importanc [...] | 2008-02-19 06:56:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ENRG ETRD PGOV PHUM AF UZ |
08TASHKENT223 | STALEMATE CONTINUES ON ICRC PRISON VISITS IN [...] (C) Rafaello Muller, Country Director of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Uzbekistan, told poloff that, while lines of communication remain open, there is still no progress in "achieving a dialogue" with the Government of Uzbekistan regarding previously submitted prison m [...] | 2008-02-19 13:31:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT233 | KOSOVO DEMARCHE DELIVERED, BUT UZBEKS ARE [...] (SBU) Per instructions in reftel A, on February 20 we delivered demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Chief Ismat Fayzullaev. He listened to the points and undertook to forward the information to the appropriate officials, as did his superior Takhir Mamajanov last week during a sim [...] | 2008-02-21 10:19:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU KV UZ |
08TASHKENT235 | UZBEKISTAN: RELEASE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS REPORTED [...] (SBU) Summary: Independent and opposition websites report the release of two human rights activists, Bobomurod Mavlanov and Sanjar Umarov. The reports have not yet been independently verified. End summary. Bobomurod Mavlanov ------------------ 2. (SBU) Post reported reftel that human r [...] | 2008-02-21 11:34:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV UZ |
08TASHKENT236 | UZBEKISTAN: RELEASE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS REPORTED [...] (SBU) Summary: Independent and opposition websites report the release of two human rights activists, Bobomurod Mavlanov and Sanjar Umarov. The reports have not yet been independently verified. End summary. Bobomurod Mavlanov ------------------ 2. (SBU) Post reported reftel that human r [...] | 2008-02-21 11:34:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV UZ |
08TASHKENT237 | UZBEK PRIME MINISTER REPLACED [...] (C) Independent website Uzmetronom reported late on February 21 that Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyaev has been removed as Prime Minister and will assume duties as Hokim (governor) of Ferghana Province. First Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Azimov will assume duties as acting Prime Minister. The [...] | 2008-02-21 13:03:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON UZ |
08TASHKENT238 | ISRAEL GETS COLD SHOULDER FROM UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) Summary: On February 19 the Ambassador met with his Israeli counterpart Ami Mehl and Gary Koren, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of the Eurasia Department, Division for Central Europe and Eurasia. Koren noted that, for unknown reasons, the Israel-Uzbekistan bilateral rel [...] | 2008-02-21 13:41:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL ASEC ELTN MASS EG IR IS XF UZ |
08TASHKENT242 | UZBEK PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE DENIES DISMISSAL [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyaev's press secretary and others are denying reports that First Deputy SIPDIS Prime Minister Rustam Azimov will be named acting Prime Minister. The reports have touched a raw nerve and open a window on a palace intrigue whose ultimate stakes may be [...] | 2008-02-22 11:23:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KPAO PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT251 | UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ADVANCING THE [...] (C) DCM delivered ref A demarche, including pitch to release all Cuban political prisoners, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Chief of U.S. Affairs and Countries of America Department Takhir Mamadjanov on February 26. Mamadjanov did not provide a substantive response, but noted that he w [...] | 2008-02-26 11:59:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EU CU UZ |
08TASHKENT252 | RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE: NORTH KOREA OVERFLIGHT [...] (S/NF) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) arranged a meeting with poloff on February 25 to pass an official response to our recent demarche (reftel) and diplomatic notes requesting cooperation on a flight of interest between North Korea, Syria, and Iran. The response noted that the outbound [...] | 2008-02-26 12:01:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | PARM PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT253 | UZBEKS AND ICRC REACH AGREEMENT ON RESTARTING [...] (C) Summary: On February 26 the Ambassador met with Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Alisher Sharafutdinov who, in the course of discussions on the human rights situation (septel),stated that the Government of Uzbekistan has reached an agreement with the International Committee of the Red [...] | 2008-02-26 12:36:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ICRC UZ |
08TASHKENT254 | DEPUTY INTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER OF UZBEKISTAN ON [...] (C) Summary: On February 26 the Ambassador met with Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Alisher Sharafutdinov to discuss recent progress and next steps on human rights, legal reform, and ICRC prison visits. The Uzbek side invited journalists to the meeting and interviewed the Ambassador on c [...] | 2008-02-27 13:47:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM ICRC EAID UZ |
08TASHKENT265 | UZBEKISTAN: NO RESPONSE ON SOMALIA AND PIRACY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-28 11:10:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS KCRM UZ |
08TASHKENT266 | ICRC PRESIDENT TO VISIT UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) Summary: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of Regional Delegation in Central Asia Yves Giovannoni and Deputy Head Raffaello Muller requested a meeting with the Ambassador on February 28 to discuss ICRC's new agreement with the Government of Uzbekistan to resume prison v [...] | 2008-02-28 11:50:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL EAID ASEC MCAP SOCI ZK AF KG |
08TASHKENT267 | AUTHORITIES REPORTEDLY OFFER SANJAR UMAROV FREEDOM [...] (C) On February 28, poloff met with opposition Free Farmers Party leader and Sunshine Coalition member Nigara Khidoyatova to discuss what she had described as a recent development in the case of Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov, who was imprisoned in March 2006 on politically-motivated [...] | 2008-02-28 13:30:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT281 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH FREED SON OF HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: As part of a one-day visit to Jizzakh province on February 29, the Ambassador met with human rights activist Bakhtiyor Hamroev and his son Ikhtiyor, who was amnestied and released from prison on February 2 (ref A). Ikhtiyor told the Ambassador that his release was the result of t [...] | 2008-03-04 11:45:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT294 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ANNOUNCING THE U.S. SPECIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-07 08:53:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OIC UZ |
08TASHKENT295 | UZBEKISTAN GSP DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Over the past five weeks, post has demarched Uzbek officials from relevant ministries on the concerns raised ref C. We have informed Uzbek officials in the Ministries of Foreign Economic Relations and Foreign Affairs, as well as in the Republican Copyright Agency, of the impending June [...] | 2008-03-07 09:20:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB ETRD KIPR PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT297 | C-DI8-00223: NO TENSION EXPECTED IN UZBEKISTAN [...] (S) There will not likely be any reaction in Uzbekistan to the upcoming release of an anti-Islamic film by Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders (reftel). The Government of Uzbekistan is perpetually concerned about the potential threat of Islamic extremism as a destabilizing force in the countr [...] | 2008-03-07 09:28:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR UZ |
08TASHKENT299 | BUKHARA COURT CONVICTS 13 INDIVIDUALS OF RELIGIOUS [...] (C) Summary: On March 6, poloff met with Saidazam Askarov, the brother of Salihiddin Askarov, who was convicted along with 12 other defendants of being members of a religious extremist cell by a Bukhara court in late February and sentenced to between 16 and 20 years' imprisonment each. Accord [...] | 2008-03-10 11:24:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT300 | HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER IN UZBEKISTAN DESCRIBES [...] (C) Summary: In between sessions of an international human rights conference in Tashkent devoted to Uzbekistan's abolishment of the death penalty and adoption of what is referred to as the "habeas corpus" law, the Ambassador met with the Swiss Ambassador and a local human rights lawyer, who d [...] | 2008-03-10 12:08:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT301 | UZBEKISTAN: RESPONSE TO UNSCR 1803 DEMARCHE [...] (S/NF) Ambassador delivered ref A demarche on Iranian nuclear activities March 7 to Oybek Eshonov, Head of the MFA's Department of Asian and African Countries. Eshonov underscored Uzbekistan's concerns about Tehran, saying that reform is stalled, the economy is sinking and Ahmadinejad is unpo [...] | 2008-03-10 12:17:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL IAEA KNNP MNUC PARM IR UZ |
08TASHKENT303 | CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS LETS WESTERN EXPERTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The USAID-funded Open Dialogue Project, under the auspices of the Institute for New Democracies (IND) and the University of Eastern Kentucky, in conjunction with the state-supported Foundation for Regional Policy, sponsored an international conference in Tashkent on March 5-6 fo [...] | 2008-03-11 14:21:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC KCRM EAID PHUM UZ |
08TASHKENT305 | GOOD ATMOSPHERICS AS UZBEK AND TURKMEN LEADERS [...] (SBU) A raft of documents was signed by the Uzbek and Turkmen leaders, as usual during visits involving former Soviet states, and the details of possible arrangements on gas deals and pipelines will no doubt emerge in due course. But one thing was visibly clear from the March 10-11 state vis [...] | 2008-03-12 12:29:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR TX UZ |
08TASHKENT307 | UZBEK FOREIGN MINISTER: HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT MAY [...] (C) Summary: On March 12, the Ambassador was summoned to a meeting with Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to the release of the 2007 U.S. State Department Human Rights Report on March 11. Norov was swift to condemn the report, which he characterized [...] | 2008-03-12 13:56:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT312 | NOT QUITE HABEAS CORPUS, BUT A GOOD STEP [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 6 a visiting U.S. Federal Judge met on the margins of a USAID-funded conference on human rights and law enforcement in Tashkent with Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs (MVD) Alisher Sharafutdinov and Tashkent State Law Institute Professor Umida Tukhtasheva. The priva [...] | 2008-03-13 10:41:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM EAID PREL KCRM PGOV PINR ASEC UZ |
08TASHKENT313 | FORMER MUFTI: RELIGIOUS EXTREMIST THREAT WEAKENING [...] (C) Summary: Muhammad Sodiq Muhammad Yusuf, the former Mufti of Uzbekistan and Central Asia, received pol-econ chief and poloff at his Tashkent home on March 4. Muhammad Sodiq shared his view with Emboffs that religious extremism in Uzbekistan has become less of a threat now than before, whic [...] | 2008-03-13 11:54:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIPR KIRF PGOV PINR PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT314 | PARLIAMENTARIAN RESIGNS AMIDST HUMAN TRAFFICKING [...] (C) On March 10 an article on the news website centrasia.ru reported that Ms. Matlyuba Burxanova, a member of the Oliy Majlis, the lower house of Parliament, resigned over allegations of human trafficking. Embassy LES Political Assistant confirmed this information with Marifdjon Usmanov (plea [...] | 2008-03-13 12:42:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM KCOR UZ |
08TASHKENT324 | ICRC RESUMES PRISON VISITS IN UZBEKISTAN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (U) On March 13 the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) publicly announced that it had resumed visits to detainees in Uzbek prisons as part of a six-month trial period of renewed engagement. In the statement (e-mailed to [...] | 2008-03-14 11:33:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL ICRC UZ |
08TASHKENT33 | UZBEKISTAN AIRWAYS OFFICIALS FAVORABLE TO AVIATION [...] (C) Ambassador paid a courtesy call on January 3 on the Director General of Uzbekistan Airways, Valeriy Tyan. (Note: Uzbekistan Airways is the largest non-Russian airline in the Commonwealth of Independent States. End note.) Tyan noted that per its contract with Boeing, Uzbekistan would rece [...] | 2008-01-08 12:28:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL US UZ |
08TASHKENT330 | EMBASSY HOSTS ROUNDTABLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (C) Summary: On March 13, the Embassy hosted the rollout of the 2007 U.S. State Department's Human Rights Report. In stark contrast to last year's rollout, when several invitees were detained and harassed (ref A),this year's event went forward without any interference from the government. A [...] | 2008-03-14 13:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT344 | UPDATE ON ICRC PRISON VISITS IN UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) On March 17 Charge d'Affaires and poloff met with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of Regional Delegation Yves Giovannoni to get a status report on the recently announced prison visits in Uzbekistan (reftel). ICRC will only be able to visit some of the approximately 200 [...] | 2008-03-19 14:18:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM PINR UZ |
08TASHKENT351 | LOWER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT PASSES ANTI-TRAFFICKING [...] (C) Summary: On March 18 the Oliy Majlis, the lower house of the Uzbek parliament, passed a draft anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) law on the third and final reading. The next step is for the Senate to approve the law, which is listed as the number one agenda item for the upcoming March 27 p [...] | 2008-03-20 12:01:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM KCOR UZ |
08TASHKENT361 | TOUGH ENVIRONMENT FOR UZBEK JOURNALISTS [...] (C) Sobirjon Yakubov, commentator of GOU-controlled "Hurriyat" newspaper and Begqul Egamqulov, commentator on world affairs for the official GOU newspaper "Halq Sozi" were fired on March 18 for participating in a professional development program in France, much like State's International Visit [...] | 2008-03-24 13:01:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO UZ |
08TASHKENT363 | UZBEKISTAN CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL APPROACH TO [...] (C) Summary: A broad array of senior representatives from various governments, international organizations, and donor agencies participated in a March 12 conference in Tashkent dedicated to problems associated with the Aral Sea. Several drivers appear to underpin Uzbekistan's decision to host [...] | 2008-03-25 12:04:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EAGR EAID KTIA PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT365 | UZBEK LOWER HOUSE ADOPTS INTERNATIONAL LABOR [...] (C) Summary: On March 13, a state-controlled website reported that the lower house of Uzbekistan's Parliament adopted International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 138 (Minimum Age for Employment) and ILO Convention 182 (Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labor). In separate conversation [...] | 2008-03-26 13:19:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT366 | UNODC REQUESTS EXPERT PARTICIPATION IN UZBEKISTAN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (U) Summary: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC),which is sponsoring an anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) conference in Tashkent on May 14-15 in conjunction with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Eur [...] | 2008-03-26 13:23:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM KCOR UZ |
08TASHKENT370 | GENERAL MOTORS UZBEKISTAN TAKES OFF [...] (C) Summary: General Motors Uzbekistan, a joint venture between General Motors and the state-controlled company UzAvtoSanoat and the largest auto plant in Central Asia, officially opened on March 20 at a gala affair attended by senior GM executives and Deputy Prime Minister Sanakulov. GM repr [...] | 2008-03-28 02:19:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN SOCI PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT371 | EU CONSENSUS FORGED IN TASHKENT ON HEADS OF [...] (C) The on-again, off-again consensus (reftels) among EU heads of mission (HOM's) in Tashkent on a report to EU ministers regarding human rights and sanctions on Uzbekistan is apparently back on. French Ambassador Hughes Pernet and British Ambassador Iain Kelly (protect) told Ambassador Marc [...] | 2008-03-28 02:24:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EU UZ |
08TASHKENT374 | UZBEKISTAN: PROCEDURES FOR TRANSIT VIA [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Post requests assistance in notifying Allied Joint Forces Command (JFC) Headquarters to disseminate required procedures for personnel transiting Uzbekistan territory via the Uzbek-German Air Base in Termez. Post also requests [...] | 2008-03-28 10:12:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL NATO MARR GM AF UZ |
08TASHKENT384 | GOVERNMENT OF UZBEKISTAN PROTESTS U.S. CIVILIAN [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see Paragraph 3. 2. (U) The Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) informed Post via diplomatic note on March 27 that according to its aviation authorities, the aircrew of B-772 (sic) Continental Airlines Flight SOA-49 violated Uzbekistan's airpsace on March [...] | 2008-03-31 13:18:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PREL PBTS UZ |
08TASHKENT385 | US-UZBEKISTAN WORKING GROUP REVIEWS AGRICULTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S.-Uzbekistan Joint Working Group (JWG) met on March 19 to review implementation of projects funded by U.S. Food for Progress programs. Ministry of Finance Deputy Minister Tursunov repeatedly apologized for delays in the financing of ten projects and assured the U.S. side [...] | 2008-04-01 04:09:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ECIN SOCI PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT388 | UZBEKISTAN - WORLD TB DAY ACTIVITIES [...] (U) Per reftel, to mark World TB Day, Post devoted a session of its weekly Chay Chat Conversation Club to the topic of Tuberculosis and the challenge that it presents in Uzbekistan and around the world. On March 14, Dr. Benjamin Mills of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) hi [...] | 2008-04-01 06:10:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO PREL KPAO UZ |
08TASHKENT398 | UZBEKISTAN: CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN TO TAKE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (U) Post has been in contact with Saifiddin Juraev, Director of the Foundation of Regional Policy in Uzbekistan, who has requested U.S. assistance in identifying and providing funding for U.S. participation in an upcoming internatio [...] | 2008-04-03 13:22:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER PINS PBTS UZ |
08TASHKENT400 | GOVERNMENT OF UZBEKISTAN WOULD WELCOME RETURN OF [...] (C) Summary: Senior officials from Uzbekistan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Commission for Drug Control told U.S. officials on April 2 that their respective agencies as well as the National Security Service would welcome the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's return to Uzbeki [...] | 2008-04-04 11:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT401 | (S/NF) DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DPRK-IRAN-SYRIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-04 12:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL KNNP UZ |
08TASHKENT403 | SANJAR UMAROV'S SON REPORTS FATHER IN NEAR [...] (C) Summary: On April 3, poloff met with Arslan Umarov, the son of Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov, who was imprisoned in March 2006 on politically-motivated charges of tax evasion and illegal commodities trading. Arslan reported visiting his father in prison with his aunt on March 26 [...] | 2008-04-04 14:00:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT405 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL CENTER SENIOR [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph two. 2. Post requests Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for two Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to attend a Marshall Center Senior Executive Seminar on April 16-23, 2008 in Garmisch, Germany. Post unders [...] | 2008-04-07 06:28:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR ASEC UZ |
08TASHKENT431 | ICRC: IMPROVING UZBEK PRISON CONDITIONS LIKELY TO [...] (C) Summary: During a five-day visit to Uzbekistan on March 27 - April 1 (septels),Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Pamela Spratlen SIPDIS met on March 31 with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of Regional Delegation Yves Giovannoni t [...] | 2008-04-14 14:08:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT432 | UZBEKISTAN: RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS COMMITTEE AND MFA [...] (C) Summary: During a five-day visit to Uzbekistan on March 27 - April 1 (septels),Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Pamela Spratlen SIPDIS visited the Tashkent main Madrassah and the Jewish community in Bukhara. She also met with Ministry of Foreign Af [...] | 2008-04-14 14:52:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL TI UZ |
08TASHKENT441 | UZBEKISTAN: SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS OFFER THE [...] (C) Summary: Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (A/DAS) Pamela Spratlen, Ambassador Norland and Emboffs participated in a series of meetings with high-ranking Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) officials March 28-31 in Tashkent and Bukhara. GOU authorities agreed to all requested meetings [...] | 2008-04-16 05:02:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM SOCI ECON UZ |
08TASHKENT442 | PRESIDENT KARIMOV SIGNS LAW RATIFYING ILO [...] (C) On April 8 President Karimov signed the law ratifying the International Labor Organization's (ILO) Convention 182 on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor. The information appeared in state-controlled press on April 14 and was also posted on official government websites. As r [...] | 2008-04-16 05:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT444 | A/DAS DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN [...] (C) Summary: During her March 27 - April 1 visit to Tashkent and Bukhara (septels),Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (A/DAS) for South and Central Asia and SIPDIS Public Diplomacy Pamela Spratlen held meetings with a diverse array of human rights and civil society representatives. [...] | 2008-04-16 05:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM UZ |
08TASHKENT445 | UZBEKISTAN: SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS OFFER THE [...] (C) Summary: On March 31, A/DAS, accompanied by the Ambassador and DCM, met with Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for nearly two hours. Norov covered a wide range of topics from human rights to security and economic issues. He welcomed an invitation for his D [...] | 2008-04-16 05:50:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC PHUM ECON EINV SOCI SNAR AF UZ |
08TASHKENT446 | UZBEKISTAN: NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL CHIEF [...] (C) Summary: On March 31, A/DAS, Ambassador, and DCM met with Secretary of the National Security Council (NSC) Murat Ataev. Like FM Norov (septel) and Parliamentarian Tashmukhamedova (septel),Ataev greeted the U.S. side warmly and announced that the GOU's Ministries and the NSC are ready fo [...] | 2008-04-16 07:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC ELTN KISL PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PINS |
08TASHKENT447 | UZBEKISTAN APPROVES MAJORITY OF OSCE PROJECTS [...] (C) Summary: On April 14 Bernard Rouault, Senior Project Officer at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Project Coordination Office in Tashkent, informed poloff that the Government of Uzbekistan approved 14 of the 19 proposed projects submitted for 2008 after a long [...] | 2008-04-16 08:12:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OSCE PHUM UZ |
08TASHKENT449 | UZBEKISTAN: GOVERNMENT SEEKS FEEDBACK ON "6 PLUS [...] (C) Summary: On April 11, First Deputy Foreign Minister Nematov told the Ambassador that the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) will indicate who will participate in the upcoming Afghanistan Support Conference in Paris, and provided us with a non-paper elaborating on the "6 plus 3" proposal that P [...] | 2008-04-16 10:24:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC AORC PGOV AF UZ |
08TASHKENT452 | UZBEKISTAN: ENCOURAGING EFFORT TO FIGHT [...] (C) Summary: During her March 29 - March 30 visit to Bukhara, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (A/DAS) for South and Central Asia and Public Diplomacy Pamela Spratlen held meetings with a diverse array of civil society representatives, including U.S. Government-sponsored exchange pr [...] | 2008-04-16 13:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KWMN KCRM OEXC EAID UZ |
08TASHKENT453 | UZBEKISTAN: ECONOMY MINISTER SEEKS U.S. [...] (C) Summary: On March 28, in a long and sometimes contentious meeting, Minister of Foreign Economic Relations Elyor Ganiev laid out his case for Uzbekistan's strong economic performance and promising investment prospects. He told A/DAS Pamela Spratlen that Uzbekistan is currently experiencing [...] | 2008-04-16 14:07:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL ECIN EINV ENGR EAGR PGOV UZ |
08TASHKENT459 | UZBEKISTAN VEHEMENTLY DENIES RUMORS OF SEPARATIST [...] (C) Summary: Senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials directed MFA Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev to deliver a statement to Poloff on April 16 refuting press reporting on separatist sentiment in Uzbekistan's autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan, and warning that U.S. Embassy i [...] | 2008-04-17 12:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT462 | PRESIDENT KARIMOV SIGNS ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING LAW [...] (U) On April 17 President Karimov signed Uzbekistan's first comprehensive anti-trafficking in persons legislation into law. This marked the final step in a surprisingly rapid legislative process. The bill was introduced in January, passed by the lower chamber on March 13, and by the Senate on [...] | 2008-04-18 12:23:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM UZ |
08TASHKENT464 | DENMARK DELIBERATING A CARROT VERSUS STICK [...] (C) Summary: Visiting Danish First Secretary Ulrik Birk-Petersen met with the Ambassador and poloffs on April 16 to discuss the human rights situation in Uzbekistan. The Moscow-based Birk-Petersen was in town to gather current information ahead of the EU's April 28 sanctions debate. He opin [...] | 2008-04-18 12:45:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI DA UZ |
08TASHKENT465 | DENMARK DELIBERATING A CARROT VERSUS STICK [...] (C) Summary: Visiting Danish First Secretary Ulrik Birk-Petersen met with the Ambassador and poloffs on April 16 to discuss the human rights situation in Uzbekistan. The Moscow-based Birk-Petersen was in town to gather current information ahead of the EU's April 28 sanctions debate. He opin [...] | 2008-04-18 13:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI DA UZ |
08TASHKENT475 | UZBEKS SIGN ON TO TURKMENISTAN-CHINA GAS PIPELINE [...] (SBU) Summary: Uzbekistan's state oil and gas monopoly Uzbekneftigaz, has announced that Uzbekistan agreed on April 11 to a Chinese proposal for construction of the Turkmenistan-China natural gas pipeline (also known as the Trans-Asia pipeline),which will transit Uzbekistan. The Uzbeks will s [...] | 2008-04-22 07:45:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON ETRD PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT476 | UZBEKISTAN: MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS RESPONDS [...] (C) Summary: On April 11, the Ambassador used a meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Nematov to pursue our dialogue with Uzbekistan on human rights as a follow-on to A/DAS Spratlen's March meetings with senior Uzbek officials and an array of human rights representatives (reftel). Nematov noted [...] | 2008-04-22 11:50:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV UZ |
08TASHKENT478 | UZBEKISTAN: DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY PREPARES TO [...] (C) Summary: On April 7-8, visiting Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) officials Laurel Cotton and Lindsay Guthrie met with officials from Uzbekistan's Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP) and the State Customs Committee (SCC) to discuss DOE's upcoming ass [...] | 2008-04-22 12:45:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ASEC PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT482 | NATO ENVOY: UZBEKISTAN POSITIVE ON COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary. NATO envoy Robert Simmons gave a readout to NATO Embassies on April 15 of meetings with Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) officials. According to Simmons, senior GOU officials may be split on pushing Uzbekistan's "6 plus 3" proposal. Simmons reported on the NATO land transit agreem [...] | 2008-04-24 04:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC AORC MOPS KTIA NATO AF UZ |
08TASHKENT485 | CARICC READY TO MOVE FORWARD AS PILOT PHASE NEARS [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 23 the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Office for Central Asia hosted a briefing by Barsultan Sarsekov, Director of the Central Asian Regional Information Coordination Center for Combating Ilicit Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Sub [...] | 2008-04-24 12:25:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM ASEC PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT486 | UZBEKISTAN/EBRD: NO SUBSTANTIVE REACTION ON [...] (SBU) P/E Chief delivered reftel demarche April 22 to Ismat Faizullaev, head of MFA's U.S. Affairs Section. Faizullaev had no immediate reaction but promised to share it with other offices at MFA, including the head of the UN and International Oganizations Office. 2. (SBU) The EBRD's altern [...] | 2008-04-24 12:56:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EBRD ECON EAID PREL TU UZ |
08TASHKENT487 | UZBEKISTAN STAYING CLEAR OF ABKHAZIA/SOUTH OSSETIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-24 12:56:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO GG RS UZ |
08TASHKENT493 | CENTRAL BANK ON MONEY LAUNDERING ISSUES [...] (C) On April 23 emboffs met with Alisher Akmalov, Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank, to discuss the anti-money laundering regime in Uzbekistan. Akmalov initially presented the typical explanation of Uzbekistan's anti-money laundering regime. Clearly aware of the international perceptions, h [...] | 2008-04-25 14:37:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRM ASEC PREL ECON KCOR PINR UZ |
08TASHKENT494 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for four Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to attend a Marshall Center-sponsored event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany May 12-August 9. [...] | 2008-04-28 05:03:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR UZ |
08TASHKENT495 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for three Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to attend a Marshall Center-sponsored event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany May 23-June 27. [...] | 2008-04-28 05:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR UZ |
08TASHKENT496 | (S) UZBEKISTAN - DEMARCHE ON FLIGHT OF [...] (S) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on the updated information concerning the North Korean flight of proliferation concern to MFA Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev on April 25. Fayzullaev said that the information would be relayed to other GOU agencies, and asked whether the Government of [...] | 2008-04-28 07:31:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | KNNP PREL PARM KZ KN SY IR UZ |
08TASHKENT5 | ODIHR LIMITED OBSERVER MISSION TO UZBEKISTAN WAS [...] (C) Summary: On December 26 Ambassador and DCM had an outbrief with Ambassador Walter Siegl, who headed the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) limited election observer mission for the Presidential elections in Uzbekistan. Siegl reported that, although the c [...] | 2008-01-02 10:48:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM OSCE UZ |
08TASHKENT501 | HIGH-PROFILE PRISONERS REPORTEDLY TREATED AT [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 26, an independent website reported that the health of recently imprisoned dissident poet Yusuf Jumaev had sharply deteriorated, and that as a result, he had been brought to the Bukhara province hospital's cardiology department for treatment on April 24. On April 28, p [...] | 2008-04-28 12:51:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT507 | FORENSIC LABORATORY PROJECT IMPROVES CAPACITY AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: An ongoing project to upgrade the Main Forensic Laboratory of the Ministry of Health, funded by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) with implementing support from the Department of Justice Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICI [...] | 2008-04-29 11:48:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR ASEC PHUM PREL KCOR KCRM UZ |
08TASHKENT508 | HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH DIRECTOR STILL WAITING FOR [...] (C) Summary: More than two months after applying for accreditation with the Ministry of Justice, Human Rights Watch Director Igor Vorontsov still has not received any indication from the Ministry on whether he will be accredited or not. According to a Cabinet of Ministers resolution from 200 [...] | 2008-04-29 12:37:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT51 | POSITIVE RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE: UZBEKISTAN TO [...] (SBU) Post followed up with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department on Uzbekistan's position on the upcoming vote for the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (reftel A). Durbek Amanov, the Chief of the Department, confirmed that Uzbekistan [...] | 2008-01-16 07:52:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA UZ |
08TASHKENT514 | IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/AG COMMODITY PRICES [...] (SBU) Food and agricultural commodity prices have risen steeply in Uzbekistan over the past year and a half or more. More recent spikes in world prices have been felt acutely in Uzbekistan, as in other Central Asian countries. Embassy Tashkent maintains its own detailed price survey data for [...] | 2008-05-02 04:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ETRD PGOV PREL UZ EAGR |
08TASHKENT517 | AMCIT RABBI AND JEWISH-AMERICAN NGO FACE [...] (C) Summary: In the past month, the Ministry of Justice has refused to renew the accreditation of an AmCit Rabbi, who heads the World Wide Lubavitch Movement in Uzbekistan, and threatened the registration of the Joint Distribution Committee, a Jewish-American humanitarian organization. In ad [...] | 2008-05-02 12:07:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON EAID KIRF PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT524 | UZBEKISTAN/DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH CUBAN PEOPLE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-05 13:24:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KDEM PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT525 | UZBEKS REACT TO EU SANCTIONS DECISION [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Norov called in Ambassador on May 5, to discuss the April 28 EU decision to continue suspension of visa sanctions. Norov downplayed the EU's recognition of human rights steps the Uzbeks have taken and focused instead on the EU's continued criticism, which he said [...] | 2008-05-06 02:15:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN PHUM PGOV UZ |
08TASHKENT526 | UZBEKS REACT TO EU SANCTIONS DECISION [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Norov called in Ambassador on May 5, to discuss the April 28 EU decision to continue suspension of visa sanctions. Norov downplayed the EU's recognition of human rights steps the Uzbeks have taken and focused instead on the EU's continued criticism, which he said [...] | 2008-05-06 02:15:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN PHUM PGOV UZ |
08TASHKENT53 | UZBEKISTAN'S PARTICIPATION IN PSI FIFTH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-16 08:17:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM KNNP KSTC PREL XX UZ |
08TASHKENT531 | STRANGE AND CONTRADICTORY EVENTS: PAVING THE WAY [...] (S) Summary: Cutting oddly across the grain of recent rapprochement with the U.S. and the West, the government of Uzbekistan has taken a number of controlling measures which could simply reflect disregard for our sensibilities on reform or, more likely, portend deeper disarray and looming p [...] | 2008-05-07 11:32:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT532 | UZBEKISTAN: OUTREACH TO DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary: Per reftel requests, we have summarized below efforts to implement the President's Freedom Agenda in Uzbekistan through outreach to democracy activists and dissidents. Democracy and human rights remain at the forefront of our agenda with the Uzbek government. The Ambassador and [...] | 2008-05-08 02:10:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT546 | UZBEKISTAN: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE REFLECTS [...] (C) Summary: Uzbekistan hosted a significant international conference focusing on regional security, particularly the situation in Afghanistan, on April 29-30. The event illustrates Uzbekistan's continuing concerns about the security situation in Afghanistan as well as growing regional interes [...] | 2008-05-13 11:52:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC EAID ECIN KNNP KTIA MASS PBTS PGOV |
08TASHKENT547 | UZBEKISTAN: POST'S LEAHY VETTING CLEARANCE FOR [...] (U) Embassy Tashkent has reviewed its files on intended Uzbekistani participants Ilkhombek Kazakov, Shawkat Gafurov, and Rahiboy Bekhchanov in the NATO-Russia Counternarcotics Training event at the Domodedovo Center in Russia, May 13-28, and has found no derogatory information. NORLAND [...] | 2008-05-13 11:52:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR UZ |
08TASHKENT549 | ACTIVIST REPORTS DEATH OF JASLYK INMATE [...] (C) Summary: In recent days, we have received conflicting reports on prison conditions from human rights activists. On May 8, Reuters reported that a prisoner at the Jaslyk prison in Karakalpakstan died, possibly from torture. Local human rights activist Surat Ikramov, most likely the source [...] | 2008-05-13 13:33:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT550 | ACTIVIST BRIEFLY DETAINED IN NAMANGAN; POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: On May 8, the independent Centrasia.ru reported that human rights activist and former Radio Liberty correspondent Nosir Zokirov was arrested in Namangan for allegedly insulting a police officer. On May 12, the independent Harakat.net website reported that Zokirov had been release [...] | 2008-05-13 13:35:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT552 | HUMAN RIGHTS IN UZBEKISTAN: THE CASE AGAINST [...] (C) Ambassador's introduction: The U.S. faces a decision in June on possible sanctions against Uzbekistan given ongoing concerns about the government's poor performance on human rights. Reftel cites upcoming leadership transition issues as a key factor in this decision, arguing that now is [...] | 2008-05-14 13:36:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT561 | PENTAGON AND DEA OFFICIALS PARTICIPATE IN [...] (C) Summary: As part of the military-to-military Action Officers Working Group (AOWG),on April 17, 2008 a separate meeting was held with Uzbek officials to discuss possible counternarcotics cooperation and border security-related issues as part of a Counternarcotics Working Group. Two visiti [...] | 2008-05-16 12:40:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR UZ |
08TASHKENT563 | UPDATE: UZBEKISTAN/DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH CUBAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-19 10:04:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT564 | GOVERNMENT OF UZBEKISTAN PROTESTS ANOTHER U.S. [...] (U) On May 13, the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) informed Post via diplomatic note that according to its aviation authorities, the aircrew of G-550 Pentastar Aviation Airlines Flight N940DC violated Uzbekistan's overflight procedures on April 22. The flight was en-route to Helsinki from Mumba [...] | 2008-05-19 11:47:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PREL PBTS UZ |
08TASHKENT578 | IOM QUIETLY MAKING NEW EFFORT TO REGISTER IN [...] (C) Summary: International Organization for Migration (IOM) Chief of Mission in Kazakhstan Mahmoud Naderi met with poloff on the margins of a major international workshop on trafficking in persons (TIP) in Tashkent on May 14-15. Naderi confirmed that IOM executives in Geneva have discreetly a [...] | 2008-05-21 08:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT580 | INTERNATIONAL ANTI-TIP WORKSHOP IN TASHKENT SETS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) co-sponsored a major international anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) workshop on May 14-15 in Tashkent. Visiting American participants included a Congression [...] | 2008-05-21 09:42:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT585 | UZBEKISTAN: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH DIRECTOR DENIED [...] (C) Summary: One week before planned visits by Ambassador-at-Large for Religious Freedom John Hanford and Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher, the Uzbek government, with its usual perfect timing, denied accreditation to Human Rights Watch's director in Tashkent and threatened to deport an AmCi [...] | 2008-05-22 11:52:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT589 | SIGN OF BETTER TIMES? LAND BORDER CROSSING FROM [...] (C) In contrast to the land border crossing experience of poloffs traveling from Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan last year (reftel),on April 26 a poloff on an unofficial trip in a personal vehicle encountered only pleasant, efficient service from Uzbek border guards and customs officials. Whereas p [...] | 2008-05-23 04:17:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI ECON KZ UZ |
08TASHKENT594 | UZBEKISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR A/S BOUCHER'S MAY-JUNE [...] (SBU) Summary: Your trip to Tashkent offers a chance to cement recent improvements in U.S.-Uzbek cooperation, particularly on counter-narcotics and border security, and to offer the Uzbeks candid advice on the necessity of translating recent positive messages on human rights into actual improv [...] | 2008-05-23 14:10:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ASEC KCRM MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS SNAR UZ |
08TASHKENT602 | UZBEKISTAN: NAMES, TITLES, CONTACT NUMBERS FOR [...] (SBU) Country: Uzbekistan Date: 05/30/2007 Head of State Last/Family Name: Karimov First/Middle Names: Islam Abduganievich Conventional Usage: Islam Karimov Formal Title: President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Office Telephone Numbers: ( 998-71) 239-6996, ( 9 [...] | 2008-05-29 12:46:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT604 | UZBEKISTAN: ASSISTANCE TO WATER EXPERTS COULD [...] (C) Summary: On May 14, Ambassador met with representatives of the Scientific Information Center of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (ICWC) to discuss regional water management policy. The water experts indicated that the demand for water in Central Asia has increased in recen [...] | 2008-05-30 09:53:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EAGR EAID KTIA PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT607 | UZBEKISTAN: NADZHIMOV TO HEAD TIFA DELEGATION TO [...] (SBU) On May 30 MFA Americas' Desk Chief Ismat Fayzulaev told us that although the decision was not final, the MFA now expects the Uzbek delegation to the June 16-18 TIFA meetings in Dushanbe will be headed by Nasriddin Nadzhimov, First Deputy Minister in the Ministry for Foreign Economic Rela [...] | 2008-05-30 12:45:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN ECON PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT608 | UZBEKISTAN: GRANT SUBMISSIONS FOR FY 2008 TAFT [...] (SBU) Summary: Post solicited and received two submissions for the FY 2008 Taft Fund for Refugees (formerly the Ambassadors' Fund for Refugees) announced in reftels, one from the International Professional Education Development Assistance Center (PROFED) proposing to assist Afghan and Tajik re [...] | 2008-05-30 12:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT609 | FORMER OPPOSITIONIST SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS' [...] (C) Summary: The grandson of a prominent oppositionist was recently sentenced to four years' imprisonment for assaulting two individuals with a knife, but we do not believe that he was targeted because of his previous involvement in opposition politics. On May 23, the independent Harakat.net [...] | 2008-05-30 13:21:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT610 | AMBASSADOR'S MAY 28 MEETING WITH UZBEK [...] (C) Summary: Inoyatov told the Ambassador on May 28 that Mutabar Tojiboyeva might be released on medical grounds, that Sanjar Umarov would not be released anytime soon, that Human Rights Watch's office in Uzbekistan would remain open but its current representative would not receive accredit [...] | 2008-05-30 13:25:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR CASC UZ |
08TASHKENT620 | AMCIT RABBI TOLD TO LEAVE UZBEKISTAN IMMEDIATELY [...] (C) On June 4, the Ministry of Interior and Visa and Registration Department (OVIR) informed Rabbi David Gurevich, a dual American-Israeli citizen whose accreditation and visa expired on April 1 (ref A),that he must leave Uzbekistan immediately. According to Gurevich, the OVIR official told [...] | 2008-06-04 12:30:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT623 | BOUCHER AND SENIOR UZBEKS REVIEW OBSTACLES AND [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher visited Uzbekistan May 30-June 3, stopping in Samarkand and Tashkent. In separate meetings June 2 with Uzbek Foreign Minister Norov and National Security Council Secretary Ataev, Assistant Secretary Boucher di [...] | 2008-06-05 10:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | PREL ASEC ELTN PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PINS ECON |
08TASHKENT624 | KARIMOV TO BOUCHER: PROGRESS POSSIBLE, BUT NOT [...] (S) Summary. Meeting at the Presidential Palace in Tashkent on June 2, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher and Uzbekistan President Islom Karimov agreed that the U.S. and Uzbekistan share important interests on Afghanistan, on political, economic [...] | 2008-06-05 10:58:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR UZ |
08TASHKENT627 | TOJIBOYEVA RELEASED FROM PRISON; VOWS TO CONTINUE [...] (U) Human rights activist Mutabar Tojiboyeva, who was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment on politically-motivated charges in 2006, was released from prison on health grounds on June 2. Tojiboyeva was not amnestied and remains subject to the terms of a three-year suspended sentence. Tojib [...] | 2008-06-05 12:07:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT628 | (S) UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FLIGHT OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-05 12:08:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC UZ |
08TASHKENT629 | ANTI-TIP MOMENTUM CONTINUES WITH WORKSHOP IN [...] (U) Summary: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Office for Central Asia sponsored an anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) workshop on May 30-31 in Tashkent, following up on a UNODC anti-TIP workshop co- sponsored with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Eur [...] | 2008-06-05 12:30:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT632 | UZBEKISTAN: INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD [...] Summary: Per reftel request, post is providing the following information on the use of child labor and forced labor in the production of specific goods in Uzbekistan. Numerous credible sources report the widespread use of child labor in Uzbekistan during the annual cotton harvest, a practice [...] | 2008-06-06 11:09:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON EIND ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT633 | UZBEKS RELEASE RELIGIOUS PRISONER, SON OF HUMAN [...] (C) On June 6, Human Rights Watch director Igor Vorontsov confirmed that Hamidullo Madmarov, one of the sons of Margilan-based human rights activist Ahmadjan Madmarov, had completed his seven-year prison sentence and was released from custody. Ahmadjan Madmarov still has two other sons and tw [...] | 2008-06-06 11:27:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT634 | UZBEKISTAN'S OLDEST "POLITICAL PRISONER" RELEASED [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 4, authorities released from prison 83-year old Akhmadjan Adilov, a highly controversial figure whom some human rights activists considered to be Uzbekistan's oldest political prisoner. Adilov, who operated Uzbekistan's largest agro-industrial complex in Namangan provin [...] | 2008-06-06 12:46:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT639 | UZBEKISTAN/SCO: PRIORITIES AND OUTLOOK [...] (C) Summary: Officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),including representatives from MFA's Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Section, have indicated recently that Uzbekistan prioritizes security and economic cooperation within the organization but is strongly opposed to Iran [...] | 2008-06-09 10:00:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL ASEC ECIN ECON EINV PGOV PINS PTER UZ |
08TASHKENT641 | FRENCH AMBASSADOR PURSUES KOUCHNER/RICE PULL-ASIDE [...] (C) Summary. Praising Uzbek Foreign Minister Norov in Paris for releasing political prisoner Mutabar Tojiboeva could encourage the Uzbeks to do more of the same in coming weeks. This in turn would facilitate efforts to cooperate with Uzbekistan on ground transit of supplies to U.S. forces [...] | 2008-06-10 10:16:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR FR UZ |
08TASHKENT644 | UZBEK CENTRAL BANK ACCEPTS INVITATION FOR AML [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) On Monday, June 9, the Uzbek MFA delivered a diplomatic note saying that Central Bank Deputy Chairman Akmalov has accepted the U.S. invitation to come to Washington for consultations regarding Uzbekistan's anti-money laundering [...] | 2008-06-10 11:03:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCRM ASEC PREL ECON KCOR PINR UZ |
08TASHKENT659 | BOEING UZBEKISTAN: DAMAGE CONTROL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Boeing is in the midst of negotiations to replace 787 Dreamliners it had contracted to deliver to Uzbekistan Airways with 767s. Assuming the negotiations conclude successfully, it is expected the new contract will be signed later this summer. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Ambassador [...] | 2008-06-12 08:08:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ECON ETRD PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT660 | UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON EXTRADITION OF [...] (C) Per reftel request, on June 11 poloff voiced serious concern to MFA America's Chief Ismat Fayzullaev over the May 14 extradition of Erkin Halikov, an Uzbek asylum seeker who was in prison in Kyrgyzstan. Poloff observed that Halikov's case was being followed as an example of the government' [...] | 2008-06-12 11:35:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ICRC PGOV PREF PREL KG UZ |
08TASHKENT661 | UZBEKISTAN: EQUIPMENT DELIVERY WILL ASSIST BORDER [...] (C) Summary: The Deputy Chief of Mission and Emboffs provided Uzbekistan's State Customs Committee with radioisotope identification devices worth approximately 90,000 USD during a June 6 ceremony at the Higher Military Customs Institute in Tashkent. Deputy Customs Chairman Rustam Mansurov exp [...] | 2008-06-12 11:46:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS ASEC PREL PGOV PTER KNNP UZ |
08TASHKENT670 | UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE ON SENIOR ROUNDTABLE FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-13 10:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KPAO KWMN PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT671 | UZBEKISTAN: EMBASSY INPUT FOR OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION [...] (SBU) Summary: Per reftel request on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) in Warsaw (scheduled for September 29 - October 10),we are providing the following input for the pre-HDIM demarche to the Uzbek government. We wou [...] | 2008-06-13 10:14:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM KIRF OSCE PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT677 | UZBEK GOVERNMENT TO RE-REGISTER JEWISH-AMERICAN NGO [...] (C) Summary: On June 12, regional coordinators of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC),a Jewish-American humanitarian organization, reported being told by a Ministry of Justice official that their organization will soon be re-registered, pending the resolution of a minor legal issue. The r [...] | 2008-06-16 07:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT700 | RUMORS CONTINUE TO SWIRL AROUND YUSUF JUMAEV CASE [...] (C) Family members of dissident poet Yusuf Jumaev, who in April was sentenced to five years' imprisonment at a minimum-security labor camp for resisting arrest and harming a police officer (ref A),continue to report contradictory and unsubstantiated information about Jumaev's condition and th [...] | 2008-06-19 12:00:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT701 | ACTIVIST REPORTS ON DEATH PENALTY COMMUTATIONS AND [...] (C) Summary: On June 12, Mothers Against the Death Penalty and Torture Chairwoman Tamara Chikunova reported that Uzbekistan's Supreme Court had completed its review of more than forty death penalty cases following the abolishment of the death penalty on January 1, 2008. The Supreme Court com [...] | 2008-06-19 12:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT702 | SANJAR UMAROV'S CONDITION REPORTEDLY IMPROVES IN [...] (C) On June 16, Sunshine Coalition leader Nigara Khidoyatova reported to poloff that the health of Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov, who was imprisoned in March 2006 on politically-motivated charges of tax evasion and illegal commodities trading, has noticeably improved in the past few [...] | 2008-06-19 12:10:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT704 | UZBEKISTAN ICRC STAFFER ON PRISON VISITS [...] (S) Summary. As she prepares to depart Uzbekistan after several months working on ICRC prison visits, an ICRC Delegate (strictly protect) shared observations with the Ambassador regarding pressures which lead law enforcement officials to engage in torture and judicial officials to tolerate [...] | 2008-06-20 08:52:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | PREL PGOV PHUM UZ |
08TASHKENT706 | SUBJECT: UZBEK JOURNALIST DETAINED ON DRUG CHARGES [...] (C) On June 17, Information Officer met with Bahram Abdurahmanov, the brother and lawyer of detained journalist Salijon Abdurahmanov, in the western city of Nukus, Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan. Abdurahmanov formerly worked for Voice of America, Radio Liberty, and Institute for War an [...] | 2008-06-20 10:12:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAO PHUM PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT708 | UZBEKS TO RESPOND TO AMBASSADOR HANFORD'S LETTER [...] (C) Summary: During a May 28-31 visit to Uzbekistan, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford met with government officials to discuss Uzbekistan's Country of Particular Concern (CPC) designation under the International Religious Freedom Act and the contents of a dr [...] | 2008-06-23 05:10:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT713 | FRUSTRATED MFA OFFICIAL VENTS ABOUT UZBEK POWER [...] (S) Summary: At a June 20 reception at the Ambassador's residence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev expressed to poloff his deep frustration with the Uzbek government structure. He criticized Foreign Minister Norov as "weak" and noted that rank-and-file [...] | 2008-06-23 09:19:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM UZ |
08TASHKENT714 | UZBEKISTAN: SCO OFFICIALS DISCUSS PLANS, POSE [...] (C) Summary: In a conversation with Poloff on June 17, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) Senior Experts Bakhram Auanassov and Kairbek Amenov discussed upcoming SCO plans and the role of observer states, but were reticent in discussing threat perce [...] | 2008-06-23 10:54:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC ECIN ECON EINV PGOV PINS PTER AF UZ |
08TASHKENT720 | UZBEKISTAN: EU DIPLOMATS NOT KEEN ON THIRD [...] (C) Summary: On June 16, poloff hosted another session of a periodic roundtable on human rights issues with Human Rights Watch director Igor Vorontsov and counterparts from the British, French, German, and Czech Embassies. During the meeting, the EU diplomats expressed skepticism about attemp [...] | 2008-06-24 06:26:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT721 | UZBEKISTAN: AMBASSADOR CONVEYS P5 PLUS 1 PACKAGE [...] (C) On June 20, Ambassador met with officials from Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) - including Oybek Eshonov, Chief of the Department for Middle East and Near East Affairs; Nosir Giyosov, First Secretary of the Department for Middle and Near East Affairs; and Ismat Fayzullaev, C [...] | 2008-06-24 08:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KNNP MNUC PARM IR ASEC PREL PINS UZ |
08TASHKENT722 | SURKHANDARYA PROVINCE ACTIVIST REPORTS [...] (C) Summary: On June 20, human rights activist Fakhriddin Tilloev reported to poloffs the torture and imprisonment of four alleged Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) members in Surkhandarya province. According to Tilloev, all four were allegedly linked to a Tajik HT leader named "Norillov," who invited the [...] | 2008-06-24 09:13:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PINR PREL TI UZ |
08TASHKENT728 | UZBEK-EU ANDIJON DISCUSSION DOCUMENTS GENUINE, BUT [...] (C) German Charge Rudiger Bohn verified to DCM that the two volume set of documents regarding the discussions between the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) and the EU on Andijon in December 2006 and April 2007, which were shared by the MFA with the Embassy under cover of diplomatic note on April 2 [...] | 2008-06-24 12:00:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS GM UZ |
08TASHKENT729 | EBRD OFFICIAL WANTS TO SEE POLICY SHIFT TOWARD [...] (C) On May 27 emboffs met with Turan Oz, Alternate Director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD),who is responsible for nine countries, including Uzbekistan. Oz, a Turkish citizen, expressed his "disappointment" with his organization's harsh stance toward Uzbekistan [...] | 2008-06-24 12:04:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN UZ |
08TASHKENT730 | UZBEK INTERNATIONAL MEDIA CONFERENCE A BIG SHOW [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan organized a "Media Freedom in a Modern Democratic Society" conference on June 9-10 in Tashkent which provided little debate on press freedom in Uzbekistan. The event was originally to be co-sponsored by the EU, but EU Embassies pulled out of the con [...] | 2008-06-24 13:04:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KPAO PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT739 | UZBEKISTAN: OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON PROPOSED [...] (C) Summary: In a June 24 meeting with Poloff, Bahromjon Aloev from Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticized the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Eurasian Economic Community (Eurasec) for slow activity and duplication of effort. He noted Uzbekistan's especiall [...] | 2008-06-25 11:54:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC ASEC ECIN KTIA PBTS PGOV PINR PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT741 | UZBEKISTAN BAR ASSOCIATION PUSHES FOR A MEANINGFUL [...] (C) On June 24 poloff met with Gulnora Ishankhanova, Chairperson of the Tashkent City Branch of the Uzbekistan Bar Association and Guljakhon Amanova, the organization's Projects and International Law Issues Consultant, to discuss the May 1 Presidential Decree on strengthening the bar associati [...] | 2008-06-27 08:46:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR UZ |
08TASHKENT748 | TRANSPORTATION AID PROVIDES CRITICAL LIFELINE TO [...] (C) Summary: Humanitarian supplies delivered through transportation programs funded by the Office of the Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia (EUR/ACE) continue to fulfill critical needs of NGOs and other institutions in Uzbekistan that serve many of the country's most vulnera [...] | 2008-06-27 12:53:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT749 | UZBEK TV DOCUMENTARY BASHES JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES [...] (C) Summary: A recent hour-long broadcast on Uzbek state television highlighted the "illegal missionary activity" of Jehovah's Witnesses and Pentecostal churches, and appeared to be designed to discredit those groups and inspire fear of and disdain for their activities. In 2006, the airing of [...] | 2008-06-30 01:45:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT763 | UZBEKISTAN/SCO: OFFICIAL DESCRIBES SCO'S [...] (C) Bakhram Auanassov, a Senior Expert from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's (SCO) Regional Antiterrorist Structure (RATS),recently provided Poloff with a speech on the SCO's role in Central Asian security. He had intended to give the speech during the Tashkent-hosted international co [...] | 2008-07-01 10:46:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PREL ASEC KTIA PINR PINS PTER UZ |
08TASHKENT764 | STRATEGIC TERMEZ RIVER PORT PLAYS QUIET ROLE IN [...] (C) Summary: On June 27 the Ambassador and emboffs made a rare visit to the Termez City River Port on the southern border with Afghanistan. Barges at the Soviet-era facility transfer goods from road and rail links to the upstream Afghan town of Hayraton, returning with agricultural produce. [...] | 2008-07-01 12:23:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON MCAP KCRM AF UZ |
08TASHKENT765 | UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for two Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to attend a Marshall Center-sponsored event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany September 10-17. P [...] | 2008-07-01 13:01:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR UZ |
08TASHKENT767 | UZBEKISTAN: HEALTH CONDITION OF RELEASED HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: During a three-day visit to the Ferghana Valley on June 25 - 27, poloff visited human rights activist Mutabar Tojiboyeva at a private clinic in Margilan, where she has been receiving treatment since being released from prison on medical grounds on June 2. Tojiboyeva explained that [...] | 2008-07-02 06:46:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ICRC KWMN PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT769 | UZBEK PARLIAMENT RATIFIES UNITED NATIONS TIP [...] (U) On June 23 the lower house of the Uzbek Parliament (Oliy Majlis) adopted a draft law on ratification of the November 2000 United Nations Protocol on Trafficking in Persons (TIP). The Senate followed suit just four days later, on June 27, thereby completing the Parliamentary steps and pavi [...] | 2008-07-02 11:52:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM UNCRIME KWMN KCRM UZ |
08TASHKENT771 | UZBEKISTAN: SPECTER OF CORRUPTION STIFLES [...] (C) Summary: On July 1 poloff met with an affluent, well-connected young acquaintance from Bukhara whose extended family has successfully established a syringe-making factory. The family is also planning to diversify and start another factory to manufacture diapers. The young man wants to st [...] | 2008-07-03 08:47:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR ECON BTIO EPET SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT777 | FERGHANA VALLEY ACTIVISTS AND IMAMS REPORT LESS [...] (C) Summary: During a three-day visit to the Ferghana Valley on June 25 - 27, poloff met with several human rights activists and religious leaders who reported that religious extremist organizations like Hizb ut-Tahrir have become less active (or at least less visible) in recent years. While [...] | 2008-07-03 11:22:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PINR PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT779 | UZBEKISTAN: FORENSIC LABORATORY ENHANCEMENT [...] (U) As part of an ongoing assistance project funded by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL),a team of forensic experts from the Department of Justice International Criminal Investigative and Training Assistance Program (DOJ/ICITAP) traveled to Uzbekistan in [...] | 2008-07-07 06:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM EAID UZ |
08TASHKENT780 | UZBEKISTAN TERRORISM FINANCE: REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-07 08:21:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC KU UZ |
08TASHKENT783 | UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-07 11:14:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT786 | UZBEKISTAN: INSTITUTE FOR NEW DEMOCRACIES FINALLY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Justice chose the symbolic date of July 4 to announce the formal registration of the USAID-supported Institute for New Democracies (IND) in Uzbekistan. Although IND has successfully functioned in a difficult environment for the past two years without registrati [...] | 2008-07-08 11:02:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID PINR UZ |
08TASHKENT787 | UZBEK GOVERNMENT REPORTS CONVICTION IN TRAFFICKING [...] (U) A major state-run newspaper, Xalq Sozi (People's Word),ran a prominent 800-word article on July 1 reporting that a ring of Uzbek nationals was arrested for trafficking at least two Uzbek women to China with false employment offers. An Uzbek national, Aleksandr Rudenko, who worked in Chin [...] | 2008-07-08 11:04:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN PHUM UZ |
08TASHKENT79 | OPEN DIALOGUE PROJECT TO CO-SPONSOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: On January 16, poloff met with the directors of the Open Dialogue Project (ODP) and National Democratic Institute (NDI),who talked about their recent activities and plans. ODP Director Mjusa Sever described her organization's plans to co-sponsor a March conference on law enforcem [...] | 2008-01-22 12:36:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EUN PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT792 | UZBEKISTAN: AUTHORITIES MOVING TO DEPORT [...] (C) Summary: During a three-day visit to the Ferghana Valley on June 25 - 27, poloff visited Birlik opposition political party Deputy Chairman Pulat Akhunov, who returned to Uzbekistan from exile in Sweden in March 2007 to renew his passport, at his family's estate in Andijon province. Akhunov [...] | 2008-07-09 12:59:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM KIRF PGOV PINR PREL PTER SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT793 | UZBEK AUTHORITIES DEVELOP PLAN TO IMPLEMENT CHILD [...] (C) On July 8, International Labor Organization (ILO) representative Svetlana Rakhimova (protect) provided poloff with a copy of the government's draft national action plan on implementing ILO child labor Conventions 182 (Worst Forms of Child Labor) and 138 (Minimum Age of Employment),which th [...] | 2008-07-09 13:10:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT794 | UZBEKISTAN: LARGE EXPLOSIONS REPORTED IN TOWN NEAR [...] (SBU) Several Embassy contacts reported a series of explosions occurring in or near the town of Kagan, about 15 kilometers away from Bukhara, during the early morning of July 10. Preliminary reports are sketchy, but it appears that some type of accident occurred at an army depot used to store [...] | 2008-07-10 05:18:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT797 | ACTIVIST REPORTS MISTREATMENT AT NAVOI PSYCHIATRIC [...] (U) This is an action request - see paragraph 12. 2. (C) Summary: On July 2, Bukhara-based human rights activist Shukhrat Ganiev reported visiting a psychiatric hospital in Navoi province and discovering that 12 teenagers, approximately between the ages of 13 and 16 years, were at the hospi [...] | 2008-07-10 08:30:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB OEXC PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT8 | UZBEK ELECTRICAL GENERATION AND EXPORT PROSPECTS, [...] (SBU) Summary: Emboffs met with Botir Teshaboev, the Chairman of state-owned Uzbekenergo, on December 21, to discuss domestic electricity generation, infrastructure and export. Uzbekenergo is modernizing many of its generation facilities, most of which are natural gas fired, increasing effici [...] | 2008-01-03 14:39:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET EAID PGOV PREL ZK AF UZ |
08TASHKENT802 | UZBEKISTAN: UPDATE ON EXPLOSIONS NEAR BUKHARA [...] (SBU) Summary: As the day progresses, more reports have come in from Embassy contacts and local and international news sources regarding the series of explosions which occurred during the morning of July 10 in the town of Kagan, approximately 15 kilometers from Bukhara (reftel). All reports i [...] | 2008-07-10 13:14:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CASC PINR PREL PTER UZ |
08TASHKENT803 | UZBEKISTAN: WHAT'S GOOD FOR GENERAL MOTORS IS GOOD [...] (C) SUMMARY. General Motors (GM) is poised for a dramatic expansion of its operations in Uzbekistan with the building of casting and engine plants. Negotiations with the GOU are proceeding well, and there is hope that final agreement will be reached before the end of the summer. END SUMMARY [...] | 2008-07-10 13:24:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT807 | UZBEKISTAN: KAGAN EXPLOSIONS: DAY TWO [...] (SBU) Summary: Later in the day and evening of July 10, the state-controlled media carried several stories on the series of explosions which occurred early that morning at an army depot in the town of Kagan, near Bukhara (reftels),reporting "preliminary data" as showing that 3 individuals wer [...] | 2008-07-11 13:22:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CASC PINR PREL PTER UZ |
08TASHKENT818 | OSCE NOTES ON KARIMOV MEETING OFFER INSIGHTS INTO [...] (C) Summary: On July 3 Bernard Rouault, Senior Project Officer at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Project Coordination Office in Tashkent, provided poloff with notes from the June 4 meeting between Alexander Stubb, visiting Chairman in Office of the OSCE and Fin [...] | 2008-07-14 12:21:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OSCE PHUM PINR AF KZ UZ |
08TASHKENT819 | UZBEKISTAN: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST CHARGED IN [...] (C) Summary: On July 13, the Voice of Freedom website reported that human rights activist and opposition party member Azam Turgunov was detained by police in the town of Mangit in the Karakalpakstan Autonomous Republic on July 11. According to Human Rights Watch director Igor Vorontsov, Turgu [...] | 2008-07-14 13:07:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KPAO PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT82 | SENSITIVE INVESTIGATIVE UNIT STILL FUNCTIONING AND [...] (C) Summary: On January 17 poloff visited the Sensitive Investigative Unit (SIU) within the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was established with the assistance of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) expertise and funds as well as funds from the Bureau of International Narcotics and [...] | 2008-01-22 14:21:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM EAID UZ |
08TASHKENT821 | UZBEK AUTHORITIES REJECT CHRISTIAN LITERATURE [...] (C) Summary: On July 8, the Ambassador and DCM met with Bible Society Director Sergei Mitin, who reported that Uzbek authorities ordered the return of a large shipment of Christian literature that the Bible Society attempted to import into Uzbekistan in May. The authorities did not provide a [...] | 2008-07-15 08:16:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT835 | UZBEKISTAN: SIX MONTH SCORECARD ON HABEAS CORPUS [...] (SBU) Summary: The USAID-funded Institute for New Democracies (IND) co-sponsored a workshop in Tashkent on July 9-10 to examine efforts to implement a law with habeas corpus elements that took effect in January 2008. There was high-level participation by the Government of Uzbekistan, includi [...] | 2008-07-16 11:48:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM PHUM EAID UZ |
08TASHKENT836 | OFFICIAL HINTS AT GREATER ROLE FOR WESTERN NON [...] (C) Summary: Furqat Sidikov, an Uzbek diplomat who previously served in Washington and now works at the government-sponsored International Center for Strategic Studies, sought out poloff at a July 15 reception to discuss the future role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Uzbekistan. [...] | 2008-07-17 11:41:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID PINR UZ |
08TASHKENT838 | BUKHARA PANICS AS KAGAN IS EVACUATED AGAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 16, authorities again evacuated Kagan, a town near Bukhara that was the scene of a series of explosions at a nearby army munitions depot on July 10 (reftels). An official told poloff that authorities planned to divert a nearby canal to flood the munitions depot, which w [...] | 2008-07-17 13:27:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CASC PINR PREL PTER UZ |
08TASHKENT843 | YUSUF JUMAEV MOVED TO HIGH-SECURITY PRISON IN [...] (C) During a two-day trip to Bukhara on July 15-16, poloff met with the daughter of Yusuf Jumaev, a dissident poet who was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in April for resisting arrest and harming a police officer (ref A). The daughter, Feruza, explained that Jumaev was recently moved f [...] | 2008-07-18 11:36:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT845 | UZBEKISTAN: BUREAUCRATIC WRANGLING STALLS [...] (C) Summary: On July 10, Poloff met with the Chairman of the Disabled People's Society of Uzbekistan to discuss Uzbekistan's efforts to ratify the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Despite most ministries' endorsement of the Convention, the Ministries o [...] | 2008-07-18 12:31:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT846 | UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON OSCE HUMAN [...] (U) On July 18 the Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Norov and, per request in reftel, delivered the demarche on the agenda for the upcoming OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting. The Ambassador noted that the balanced points illustrate how we can have a productive dialogue on human [...] | 2008-07-21 09:33:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE UZ |
08TASHKENT854 | HEALTH OF IMPRISONED OPPOSITIONIST REPORTEDLY [...] (C) On July 22, Free Farmers opposition party leader and Sunshine Coalition member Nigara Khidoyatova reported that the health of imprisoned Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov has deteriorated again. She reported that Umarov's son Arslan has traveled to Uzbekistan from the United States [...] | 2008-07-22 12:17:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT860 | UZBEKISTAN EAGER FOR U.S. ASSISTANCE TO SECURE [...] (U) This is an action cable. Action requested is in paragraph 6. 2. (C) Summary: On July 22 the Ambassador met with President Islam Karimov, who expressed appreciation for and accepted the offer of U.S. assistance in securing unexploded ordnance following the explosion of a munitions depo [...] | 2008-07-23 12:42:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MASS MARR EAID PINS UZ |
08TASHKENT862 | CHARGE D'AFFAIRES DECLARES KAGAN EXPLOSION SITE A [...] (U) U.S. Charge d'Affaires, ad interim Duane Butcher, in agreement with Ambassador Richard Norland, declared the area including and surrounding the Kagan Ammunition Depot in Bukhara Province a disaster area. Per reftels the Government of Uzbekistan has accepted our offer of assistance in the [...] | 2008-07-24 04:36:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MARR MASS EAID UZ |
08TASHKENT863 | (S) UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FLIGHT OF [...] (S) On July 24 poloff delivered demarche per reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev, who promised to promptly pass this time-sensitive information to the appropriate authorities within the Government of Uzbekistan. BUTCHER [...] | 2008-07-24 12:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | MNUC PARM PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT865 | AMBASSADOR HANFORD MEETS WITH RELIGIOUS LEADERS, [...] (C) Summary: During a visit to Uzbekistan on May 29 - 30, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford met with a variety of religious leaders, scholars, and human rights activists. On May 30, Hanford met a local Jehovah's Witnesses community representative, historian a [...] | 2008-07-25 07:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT866 | AMBASSADOR HANFORD MEETS WITH ICRC REPRESENTATIVE [...] (C) Summary: During a two-day visit to Uzbekistan, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford met on May 30 with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Deputy Director Raffaello Muller, who reported on prison conditions for individuals convicted of religious [...] | 2008-07-25 07:53:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ICRC KIRF PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT878 | BUKHARA ACTIVIST: BETTER-TRAINED IMAMS FENDING OFF [...] (C) Summary: During a two-day visit to Bukhara on July 15 - 16, poloff discussed the current state of the region's Muslim community with a prominent local human rights activist and imams at Sunni and Shiite mosques. The activist, Shukhrat Ganiev, observed that that Muslim religiosity, especia [...] | 2008-07-29 12:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PINR PREL SOCI EG SA RS UZ |
08TASHKENT879 | DAS KROL MEETS UZBEK FOREIGN MINISTER NOROV IN [...] (C) Summary: On July 25 Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia George Krol met with Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov in Tashkent. The atmosphere was warm and cordial, and Norov framed his remarks in the context of President Karimov's positive July 22 meeting with the A [...] | 2008-07-30 03:48:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI PHUM KCOR PINR KTER ENRG UZ |
08TASHKENT889 | UZBEKISTAN AFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO THE GLOBAL [...] (SBU) On July 30, Charge d'Affaires Butcher, Poloff, Russian Charge d'Affaires Vazykh Serazev, and Russian Second Secretary Kirill Belikov jointly demarched officials from Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) per reftel, welcoming Uzbekistan to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear [...] | 2008-08-01 05:29:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP UZ |
08TASHKENT890 | UZBEKISTAN: DAS KROL MEETS WITH CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (C) Summary: During a two-day visit to Uzbekistan on July 24 - 25, Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia George Krol participated in an Embassy roundtable with human rights activists and the Director of the Bible Society of Uzbekistan, and had separate meetings with two human r [...] | 2008-08-01 05:29:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON ELAB KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT891 | DAS KROL'S MEETING WITH UZBEK NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: On July 25 visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia George Krol met with National Security Council (NSC) Secretary Murod Ataev in Tashkent. Ataev spoke at length about the recent munitions depot explosion in Kagan, thanking the U.S. government for [...] | 2008-08-01 05:53:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SOCI PHUM KCOR MARR PINR UZ |
08TASHKENT892 | UZBEKISTAN: SCO DEMARCHE DELIVERED, OFFICIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-01 12:38:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | PREL MARR MOPS PGOV AFIN UZ |
08TASHKENT893 | UZBEKISTAN: TWO MORE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES IMPRISONED [...] (C) Summary: On July 29, the Forum 18 website reported that two Jehovah's Witnesses in Margilan were convicted of teaching religion illegally on July 23 and imprisoned. On August 1, two Jehovah's Witness representatives confirmed the Forum 18 article with poloff and noted observing several ir [...] | 2008-08-01 13:00:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT898 | UZBEKISTAN: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON EXTRADITION OF [...] (C) In a diplomatic note dated July 14 (but handed to poloff in late July),the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) responded to a diplomatic note the Embassy sent to the MFA over Erkin Halikov, an Uzbek asylum seeker who was imprisoned in Kyrgyzstan and extradited to Uzbekistan in May (reftels). [...] | 2008-08-04 12:47:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ICRC KIRF PGOV PREF PREL KG UZ |
08TASHKENT899 | SOUTH KOREA PLAYS ALONG WITH UZBEK DREAMS OF AIR [...] (C) Summary: Surprised by the front page coverage of the Ambassador's July 22 meeting with President Karimov, the South Korean Embassy sent Second Secretary See-Hong Pak to call on poloff on July 29 for a readout of evolving U.S.-Uzbek relations. Pak noted that it appears Russia's influence [...] | 2008-08-04 14:00:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KCOR ETRD KS UZ |
08TASHKENT900 | UZBEKISTAN ADOPTS TIP NATIONAL ACTION PLAN [...] (U) Summary: On July 8 President Karimov issued a resolution adopting an anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) National Action Plan, thereby fulfilling a key requirement of the comprehensive anti-TIP law passed in March. The National Action Plan officially establishes a National Inter-agency Com [...] | 2008-08-04 14:04:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN PHUM UZ |
08TASHKENT901 | UZBEKISTAN WANTS TECHNICAL, NOT PERSONNEL HELP [...] (C) Summary: On August 4 Charge d'Affaires, U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) experts, and representatives from the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs met with Deputy Minister of Defense Rustam Niyazov and other officers from the Uzbek Ministries of Defense and Emergency Situation [...] | 2008-08-04 14:36:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR EAID PHUM UZ |
08TASHKENT911 | UZBEKISTAN: PARTICIPATION IN UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) On August 5, Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev told Poloff that Uzbekistan will take part in the 63rd United Nations General Assembly General Debate, but not all participants have been identified. Fayzullaev indicated that mid-level personnel fro [...] | 2008-08-06 05:26:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA |
08TASHKENT913 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR EXBS-SPONSORED TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for three Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to attend an Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS)-funded export control training ev [...] | 2008-08-06 11:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR UZ |
08TASHKENT917 | UZBEK DEFENSE MINISTER LEADS TOUR OF KAGAN [...] (C) Summary: On August 5 emboffs, visiting U.S. Army experts, and representatives of the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs met with Uzbek Minister of Defense Ruslan Mirzayev in Bukhara Province to tour the disaster site and discuss details of a U.S. military assistance package. Mirzayev ex [...] | 2008-08-07 12:16:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR EAID PHUM PINR UZ |
08TASHKENT920 | LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR EXBS-SPONSORED TRAINING, [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for two additional Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to attend an Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS)-funded export control t [...] | 2008-08-08 09:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR UZ |
08TASHKENT922 | UZBEKISTAN FORENSIC LAB EXPERTS VISIT USA [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL),with the support of the Department of Justice Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP),arranged for the participation of Uzbek forensic experts in the 18th International Association of Fo [...] | 2008-08-11 04:09:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR ASEC PREL KCOR KCRM UZ |
08TASHKENT923 | UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for a Government of Uzbekistan official nominated to participate in the Executive-level Program on Advanced Security Studies (EPASS 08-7). The traini [...] | 2008-08-11 12:36:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR UZ |
08TASHKENT924 | FREEDOM HOUSE TRIES TO UNITE LAWYERS AND HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: On July 26-29, poloff observed an offshore Freedom House training conference for Uzbek human rights activists and state-licensed defense lawyers in Istanbul, the first to be conducted under Freedom House's new USAID grant. The conference sought to encourage greater cooperation bet [...] | 2008-08-11 12:55:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID KDEM PGOV PREL SOCI TU UZ |
08TASHKENT926 | UZBEKISTAN: PUBLIC DEFENDER CENTERS IN NEED OF [...] (C) Summary: During a July 26-29 Freedom House conference in Istanbul for Uzbek human rights activists and state-licensed defense lawyers (septel),poloff had the opportunity to meet with several lawyers who work at Public Defender Centers supported by the American Bar Association Rule of Law [...] | 2008-08-12 08:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID KJUS PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT927 | EMBASSY TASHKENT HOSTS ROUNDTABLE ON IMPRISONED [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 6, poloff hosted an informal roundtable at the Embassy with Arslan Umarov, the son of imprisoned Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov. The roundtable was attended by the Charge, the Swiss Ambassador, the French and Italian DCMs, and officers from the German and Bri [...] | 2008-08-12 08:51:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM KPAO ICRC PGOV PINR PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT928 | UZBEKISTAN: OPPOSITION LEADER FORCIBLY DEPORTED TO [...] (C) On August 12, Birlik opposition party General Secretary Vasila Inoyatova (who is also head of the Ezgulik human rights group) reported to poloff that Birlik Deputy Chairman Pulat Akhunov, who returned to Uzbekistan from exile in Sweden in March 2007 to renew his passport (reftel),was forc [...] | 2008-08-12 12:21:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL KG UZ |
08TASHKENT929 | UZBEKISTAN: CLOSELY STUDYING RUSSIA-GEORGIA [...] (C) On August 12, Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev told Poloff that he had spoken with officials from MFA's Commonwealth of Independent States Department regarding the Russia-Georgia conflict. Fayzullaev emphasized that the Government of Uzbe [...] | 2008-08-12 12:40:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PGOV PINS UZ |
08TASHKENT937 | UZBEKISTAN: KEY OFFICIALS CONFIDENT THAT [...] (C) Summary: On August 7 Charge Butcher and emboffs met with Ravshan Gulyamov, Executive Director of the Uzbekistan Fund for Reconstruction and Development, and Alisher Akmalov, Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank, to discuss Uzbekistan's preparations for a September assessment of its anti-mon [...] | 2008-08-13 05:27:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM EFIN ECON PINR UZ |
08TASHKENT938 | UZBEKISTAN: PRESIDENTIAL RESOLUTION ESTABLISHES [...] (U) Summary: On June 23 President Karimov issued the latest in a series of decrees on legal reform initiatives, this one establishing a research center in the Supreme Court and promoting the "independence of the judicial system." The resolution envisions the new judicial research center will [...] | 2008-08-13 05:29:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KCRM PHUM UZ |
08TASHKENT944 | UZBEKISTAN: MINISTRY OF EMERGENCY SITUATIONS [...] (C) On August 12, Acting Defense Threat Reduction Office Chief and Poloff provided Uzbekistan's Ministry of Emergency Situations (MChS) with 15 DTRA-funded radioisotope identification devices (RIIDs). Deputy Minister Lt. Col. Abdulazizov, Chief of Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Safety Lt [...] | 2008-08-13 12:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS ASEC PREL PGOV PTER KNNP UZ |
08TASHKENT945 | UZBEKISTAN: AGREEMENT TO HELP SECURE UZBEKISTAN'S [...] (C) Summary: On August 5-8, representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory met with representatives from Uzbekistan's Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP) to negotiate a contract on maintenance of the radiat [...] | 2008-08-14 09:23:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ASEC PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT947 | JOURNALIST, ACTIVIST, AND PROTESTANT FACE TRIAL IN [...] (C) Summary: During a one-day visit to Uzbekistan's Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan on August 7, poloff met with acquaintances of journalist Salidjahon Abdurakhmanov (ref A),human rights activist Akzam Turgunov (ref B),and Protestant Aimurat Khayburahmanov (ref C),all of whom remain i [...] | 2008-08-14 10:48:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT948 | UNODC REPORTS FIRST PRECURSOR SEIZURE IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff met on August 8 with Mark Colhoun, Senior Regional Law Enforcement Advisor at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Office in Central Asia, which is based in Tashkent. Colhoun said the recently conducted Operation Tarcet netted 1.6 tons of acetic [...] | 2008-08-14 12:21:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM KG AF IR UZ |
08TASHKENT949 | EMBASSY TASHKENT HOSTS CHILD LABOR ROUNDTABLE [...] (U) Summary: On August 11, poloff hosted an informal roundtable at the Embassy on child labor in Uzbekistan in conjunction with representatives from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the International Labor Organization (ILO). The roundtable was also attended by the Charge, the [...] | 2008-08-15 09:00:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ECON ELAB KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT958 | UPDATE ON USG MILITARY ASSISTANCE FOR UZBEKISTAN [...] (SBU) Per reftels the Government of Uzbekistan accepted the USG offer to provide assistance in the aftermath of powerful explosions at the munitions depot in Kagan, Bukhara Province. As of August 19 the Defense Attache Office (DATT) confirmed that 187 detection devices and 6 underwater detect [...] | 2008-08-19 11:25:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR EAID UZ |
08TASHKENT959 | UZBEKISTAN: KARIMOV TO ATTEND SCO SUMMIT AFTER ALL? [...] (S) On August 19, Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev confirmed for Poloff that the information in reftel A demarche was delivered to the appropriate authorities in the Government of Uzbekistan, and indicated that President Karimov will in fact be attending the [...] | 2008-08-19 12:40:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | PREL PGOV UZ |
08TASHKENT964 | UZBEKISTAN: PRESIDENT KARIMOV SIGNS LAW RATIFYING [...] (U) On June 27 the Senate followed the lower chamber (Oliy Majlis) in adopting a law to ratify the UN Convention Against Corruption. President Karimov then signed the law on July 7, completing the Government of Uzbekistan's ratification steps. The Head of the International Organizations Depar [...] | 2008-08-20 10:28:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KCOR PHUM KCRM UZ |
08TASHKENT965 | UZBEKISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CENTCOM [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Tashkent warmly welcomes your visit to Uzbekistan as an important opportunity to cement recent improvements in U.S.-Uzbekistan cooperation. Recent months have shown increasing dialogue and net improvements in the relationship, particularly in the defense and security sect [...] | 2008-08-20 12:30:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC KNNP MARR MASS PBTS PGOV PINS SNAR |
08TASHKENT97 | UZBEKISTAN: NO COMMENT ON DELIVERED KOSOVO POINTS [...] (C) On January 18, Ambassador delivered reftel points on resolving Kosovo's status to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Americas Division Chief Mamajanov. Mamajanov received them without comment. Deputy Foreign Minister Nematov would not meet Ambassador earlier, despite Post's repeated requ [...] | 2008-01-24 12:11:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNMIK UNAUS YI EU UZ |
08TASHKENT971 | UZBEKISTAN: USG MILITARY ASSISTANCE FOR MUNITIONS [...] (SBU) At 1700 local time on August 21, Air Attache confirmed that the plane carrying USG-provided equipment and the five-person team of U.S. Army experts to assist Government of Uzbekistan clean-up efforts in Kagan, Bukhara Province, had arrived in Bukhara from Bagram. The equipment includes [...] | 2008-08-21 12:58:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR EAID UZ |
08TASHKENT972 | UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for one Government of Uzbekistan official nominated to participate in the Program for Advanced Security Studies (PTSS) 08-7 at the Marshall Center in [...] | 2008-08-22 08:25:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR UZ |
08TASHKENT973 | UZBEKISTAN: NO OFFICIAL COMMENT ON RUSSIA-GEORGIA [...] (C) The Government of Uzbekistan has yet to announce an official position on the Russia-Georgia conflict, but an Embassy contact and local press reports have provided hints that Tashkent may be quietly siding with Moscow on this issue. According to a Regional Security Office contact in the Mi [...] | 2008-08-22 08:35:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC MOPS UZ |
08TASHKENT979 | UZBEKISTAN: DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN ENTITIES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-25 09:47:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC IR GM PREL PARM EFIN UZ |
08TASHKENT985 | UZBEKISTAN: TWELVE CONVICTED OF ALLEGED HIZB [...] (C) Summary: Poloff met on August 22 with Akhmadjon Madmarov, a Margilan-based human rights activist whose two sons and two nephews are incarcerated for alleged membership in extremist organizations. He reported that his son Habibullah was convicted on August 15 along with 11 fellow inmates [...] | 2008-08-26 06:29:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KTER UZ |
08TASHKENT987 | UZBEKISTAN: HUMAN TRAFFICKING A HOT TOPIC IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan is off to a fast start in implementing its new anti-trafficking national action plan as five of 12 provinces plus Tashkent City have already formed and convened mandated local inter-agency committees to discuss prevention and protection measures. Th [...] | 2008-08-26 08:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN UZ |
08TASHKENT991 | UZBEKISTAN: EXPECTING RUSSIAN PRESSURE ON [...] (C) On August 25, Charge d'Affaires met with Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Department Chief Takhir Mamadjanov to urge the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) to press Russia not to recognize the separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and to convey the other points in [...] | 2008-08-26 12:50:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR ASEC EAID GG RS UZ |
08TASHKENT993 | UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for three Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to attend a State Department-sponsored biosafety/biosecurity legislative seminar on September 8- [...] | 2008-08-27 10:38:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR UZ |
08TASHKENT994 | KARAKALPAKSTAN CASES AGAINST ACTIVISTS MOVING [...] (C) Summary: On August 25 the trial against prominent human rights activist Akzam Turgunov started in Mangit but was immediately postponed after the judge decided that the attorneys required interpreters, a move described as "very surprising" by Dilorom Ishakova of the opposition Erk Party. I [...] | 2008-08-27 12:17:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM UZ |
08TBILISI1019 | GEORGIA CONCERNED ABOUT REPORTS OF GAZPROM [...] (C) Georgia's Minister of Energy, Aleksandr Khetaguri, met with Embassy Econoff and the Director of USAID's Office of Energy and Environment on June 10. Khetaguri said that he is deeply concerned by reports published the week of June 2 that Gazprom is interested in purchasing Azeri gas. Kheta [...] | 2008-06-13 13:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PREL GG |
08TBILISI1021 | CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS, RULING PARTY NEGOTIATE; JOINT [...] (C) Summary: On June 12, Giorgi Targamadze's Christian Democratic Movement (CDM) reached tentative agreement with Parliamentary Speaker Davit Bakradze and the ruling United National Movement (UNM) on many of the terms whereby the CDM would enter Parliament. These terms include changes to the [...] | 2008-06-13 14:50:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI1023 | TWO KILLED, SEVERAL WOUNDED IN FIREFIGHT IN SOUTH [...] A firefight erupted in the South Ossetian conflict zone on the evening of Saturday, June 14, killing two Ossetians and wounding several more (Note: media reports estimate between five and seven wounded. End note). The fighting took place between the capital of the breakaway republic, Tskhinva [...] | 2008-06-16 13:23:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GG |
08TBILISI1028 | ACTION CABLE RESPONSE REGARDING PRESS STATEMENT ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-17 14:11:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | EUN PHUM PREL |
08TBILISI1029 | GEORGIAN COAST GUARD READY FOR COOPERATION WITH [...] On June 16, Embassy Econoff presented the concept of the Global Maritime Partnership initiative to Ramaz Papidze, Head of the Resources Management Division of the Georgian Coast Guard Department. The Georgian Coast Guard is an organ of the Border Police, under the Ministry of Internal Affairs [...] | 2008-06-18 04:55:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT EAID PREL MARR SNAR GG |
08TBILISI1030 | GEORGIANS SEIZE PEACEKEEPERS' AMMO TRUCK IN ZUGDIDI [...] Summary and Comment: On the evening of June 17, Georgian police seized an CIS peacekeeping truck carrying ammunition and anti-tank missiles traveling from Abkhazia to a peacekeeping checkpoint near the Georgian village of Urta, on the Zugdidi side of the conflict zone. Four peacekeepers wer [...] | 2008-06-18 12:04:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GG |
08TBILISI1031 | GEORGIANS SEIZE PEACEKEEPERS' AMMO TRUCK IN [...] Summary and Comment: On the evening of June 17, Georgian police seized an CIS peacekeeping truck carrying ammunition and anti-tank missiles traveling from Abkhazia to a peacekeeping checkpoint near the Georgian village of Urta, on the Zugdidi side of the conflict zone. Four peacekeepers wer [...] | 2008-06-18 12:04:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GG |
08TBILISI1065 | GEORGIANS RELEASE PEACEKEEPERS' TRUCK, KEEP [...] The Georgian Ministry of Interior announced on June 19 that it had released the CIS PKF ammunition truck that was detained on June 17 (reftel) for unauthorized ammunition transfer through the Georgian side of the conflict zone. Deputy Minister of Interior Shota Utiashvili said that the Minist [...] | 2008-06-20 13:08:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GG |
08TBILISI1066 | 2008 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION CAMPAIGN FINANCING [...] Summary: Pursuant to campaign funding disclosure requirements, all four parties that crossed the 5 percent election threshold in the May 21 parliamentary elections have submitted campaign funding reports to the Central Election Commission (CEC). An audit group contracted by the CEC studied th [...] | 2008-06-20 13:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GG |
08TBILISI1072 | AFTER ELECTIONS: BURJANADZE ANNOUNCES FOUNDATION, [...] Summary: On June 17, former Parliamentary Speaker Burjanadze announced she is establishing a think-tank called the "Foundation for Democratic Development." Burjanadze said she sees her foundation not as a purely analytical, apolitical think-tank, but rather as a "new way for her to participate [...] | 2008-06-23 04:59:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI1121 | GEORGIAN TALKS WITH ABKHAZ IN SWEDEN:THE FAST [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Temuri Yakobishvili, Georgian State Minister for Reintegration, told the Ambassador that last week,s talks in Sweden between de facto Abkhaz representatives yielded no progress in resolving the conflict. The talks confirmed Georgian thinking that the highest pr [...] | 2008-06-27 14:00:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI1136 | GEORGIAN POLICE BLOCK CIS PKF TRUCK FROM ENTERING [...] Georgian media reported on June 27 that Georgian police had prevented a CIS peacekeeping truck, accompanied by an armored personnel carrier, from entering the Georgian side of the security zone. The truck was headed to the CIS PKF checkpoint in the Georgian village of Urta, south of Zugdidi. [...] | 2008-07-01 08:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GG |
08TBILISI114 | DAS BRYZA MEETS WITH SRSG ARNAULT [...] (C) Summary: In a January 19 meeting with Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Jean Arnault, DAS Bryza discussed the current situation in Abkhazia and progress on the self-assessment of the United Nations Observer Mission to Georgia (UNOMIG) operations. Arnault told Bryza [...] | 2008-01-24 12:14:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNOMIG KPKO GG |
08TBILISI1141 | ABKHAZIA CLOSES BORDER AFTER BLASTS, GEORGIANS [...] (SBU) As a result of several blasts in Abkhazia on June 29 and 30, Abkhaz de facto President Sergey Bagapsh closed all border crossings with Georgia, including the Inguri River crossing, on July 1. UNOMIG confirmed on June 30 that around noon two blasts went off the same day in Sokhumi. One o [...] | 2008-07-01 14:44:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI1152 | ANOTHER BLAST ON BORDER, ABHKAZIA DECLARES STATE [...] (SBU) Summary: An additional explosion occurred in Georgian-controlled territory near the administrative boundary with Abkhazia on July 2. No injuries were reported. Abkhaz separatist leaders declared a state of emergency on July 1, following earlier blasts (reftel). Georgian leaders blamed [...] | 2008-07-02 14:44:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI116 | DAS BRYZA'S JANUARY 19 MEETING WITH GEORGIAN PRIME [...] (S) Summary: In a January 19 meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze, EUR DAS Matthew Bryza said that following Embassy Tbilisi's extensive review, the USG did not agree with opposition claims that massive fraud occurred or skewed the outcome of the January 5 presidential election, [...] | 2008-01-24 12:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET | PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG KCRM USTR GG RU |
08TBILISI1160 | GEORGIAN FM ON THE FRIENDS PLAN [...] (C) On July 3, Georgian FM Eka Tkeshelashvili met with the Western Friends of Georgia to discuss the status of the plan from the Friends meetings in Berlin on June 30. Representatives from the German, British and French embassies joined the meeting. The German ambassador acknowledged that s [...] | 2008-07-03 16:01:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | GG PGOV PREL |
08TBILISI1161 | POLICE CHIEF KILLED, SANAKOYEV TARGETED IN SOUTH [...] (SBU) OSCE told Poloff July 3 that separatist South Ossetian police chief Nodar Bibilov was killed in an explosion outside his home around 0600 in the South Ossetian village of Dmenisi on July 3. The OSCE told Post that a monitoring team had visited the site. They said an explosive device wa [...] | 2008-07-04 08:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI1163 | A/S KRAMER MEETINGS WITH OPPOSITION, PUBLIC [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On June 25, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) David J. Kramer and the Ambassador met with the Public Defender, Georgian opposition leaders, civil society and those involved in judicial reforms to discuss the state of human rights [...] | 2008-07-04 08:07:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI1170 | FOUR KILLED IN ABKHAZIA BLAST [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On the evening of July 6, a powerful explosion ripped through a cafe in the city of Gali, killing four, including the de-facto chief of state security for Gali, Major Muratia, and an off-duty UN interpreter. Ten others, including another UN interpreter, were wounded. [...] | 2008-07-07 14:01:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
08TBILISI1182 | EU SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE SEMNEBY DISCUSSES [...] (C) In a July 8 meeting with the Ambassador, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus Peter Semneby discussed his impressions of the June 16 talks in Sweden between Abkhaz de-facto authorities and Georgian government officials and the current situation in the conflict zones. Semneby, [...] | 2008-07-08 13:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL GG |
08TBILISI1204 | GEORGIA RECALLS AMBASSADOR, ASKS FOR HELP IN [...] (C) Georgia Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Vashadze called in the Ambassadors representing the Western Friends of the Secretary General to the MFA on July 11 to ask for Western support in the UNSC and OSCE regarding July 8 overflights by Russian fighter planes over South Ossetia. The Russian [...] | 2008-07-11 12:58:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
08TBILISI1205 | ACTION REQUEST RESPONSE--PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-11 13:30:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | EUN PHUM PREL KDEM GG |
08TBILISI1216 | LEGAL PROFESSION REFORM INDEX SHOWS GEORGIA'S [...] (U) Summary and Comment: On July 10, the American Bar Association released the second volume of its Legal Profession Reform Index (LPRI) which assesses the performance of the legal profession in Georgia. Overall, there have been significant improvements since the first LPRI in 2005: out o [...] | 2008-07-15 13:22:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM GG |
08TBILISI1217 | FREEDOM HOUSE NATIONS IN TRANSIT REPORT: GEORGIAN [...] (U) Summary and Comment: Freedom House's 2007 Nations in Transit report released on June 24 covering the period of January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007, gives Georgia a "Democracy Score" of 4.79, down from the previous year's score of 4.68. The study describes Georgia's hybrid system of dem [...] | 2008-07-15 13:22:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM GG |
08TBILISI1228 | GEORGIA: USG RESPONSE TO OSCE QUESTIONNAIRE ON [...] Per reftel request, Poloff delivered a copy of the USG response to Alexander Nalbandov, Director of Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. TEFFT [...] | 2008-07-16 13:01:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL NATO OSCE GG |
08TBILISI1229 | GEORGIA: EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO COMBAT [...] In response to ref A, post provides information on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) in relation to the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG). This report combines input solicited from Georgian law enforcement officials, international organizat [...] | 2008-07-16 13:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPKO GG |
08TBILISI123 | PM GURGENIDZE SUBMITS NEW CABINET TO PARLIAMENT [...] (U) On January 24, Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze held a press conference and announced President Saakashvili's nominations for his new cabinet of ministers. Gurgenidze submitted the list of nominees to the Georgian Parliament on January 25. Gurgenidze said that the new nominees are inclusiv [...] | 2008-01-25 14:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR GG RU |
08TBILISI1239 | POLOFF DISCUSSES TROOP LEVEL AND DEFENSE SPENDING [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff met with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Desk Officer for the United States, Irakli Machitidze, Director of Department of International Organizations, Alexander Nalbandov and Head of NATO Division, Tornike Parulava regarding press reports that Georgia is planning to [...] | 2008-07-17 12:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL PGOV GG |
08TBILISI1241 | IDP RETURNEES TO GALI FACE CHALLENGES BEYOND [...] Summary and Comment: Poloff traveled to the largely ethnic-Georgian Gali district of the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia June 23-25 to learn more about the lives of Georgian internally displaced persons (IDPs) who had returned to their homes. Many of the estimated 40,000 IDPs who have returned [...] | 2008-07-17 13:43:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
08TBILISI1245 | RECENT DOMESTIC DEVELOPMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The parliamentary minority faction has nominated one of three vice-speaker positions in Parliament reserved for opposition lawmakers and has filled deputy chairmen positions on parliamentary committees. The Parliamentary Committee for Procedural Issues rejected the Labor Party' [...] | 2008-07-18 13:24:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI1246 | GEORGIA: OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING DEMARCHE [...] Per reftel request, Poloff provided a copy of USG concerns and comments to Alexander Nalbandov, Director of Department of International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. TEFFT [...] | 2008-07-18 13:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL NATO OSCE GG |
08TBILISI125 | PUBLIC DEMANDS, INTERNAL RIFTS IN GEORGIA'S [...] (C) Summary: On January 28, opposition leaders laid out the United Council of Opposition's (UNC) demands for electoral and political reforms to the international diplomatic corps. The joint memorandum, to be signed by three opposition presidential candidates and the leaders of 12 opposition p [...] | 2008-01-28 13:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
08TBILISI1265 | LISTS OF SANCTIONED ENTITIES DELIVERED TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloffs visited the new headquarters of the Financial Monitoring Service (FMS) and the Financial Supervisory Agency (FSA) and delivered reftel lists of sanctioned organizations to Giorgi Kadagidze of FSA. Poloffs learned little about money laundering in Abkhazia because neither [...] | 2008-07-23 12:21:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL GG KDEM |
08TBILISI1268 | SUMMARY OF RUSSIAN MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador attended a July 22 meeting at the MFA for NATO Ambassadors. A paper prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs was distributed, summarizing Russian military activities in Abkhazia this spring. The paper is not classified, but the MFA asked that it be treated [...] | 2008-07-25 04:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI1273 | EKA BESELIA CLAIMS SON'S ARREST IS POLITICALLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Eka Beselia, member of the Joint Opposition, activist and well-known defense lawyer, alleged her son's recent arrest is politically motivated and is the latest step by the GOG to repress members of the opposition. Beselia's son, Rati Milorava (age 15 or 16) is facing two to fiv [...] | 2008-07-25 07:30:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI1286 | LABOR PARTY ACTIVIST ARRESTED, NATELASHVILI CLAIMS [...] (U) On July 25, Georgian police arrested Labor Party activist Archil Benidze on charges of money laundering. Chairman of the Labor Party Shalva Natelashvili held a press brief where he denounced the arrest as "political persecution by the government." Natelashvili alleged the arrest was engin [...] | 2008-07-29 11:43:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI1296 | OSCE-JPKF JOINT PATROL COMES UNDER FIRE TRYING TO [...] (C) Summary and comment: Two OSCE-Joint Peacekeeping Forces (JPKF) monitoring patrols were denied access to two separate incident sites in the breakaway region of South Ossetia on July 28 and 29, with one patrol coming under direct fire. A firefight erupted near the village of Cholibauri, app [...] | 2008-07-30 12:42:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
08TBILISI1310 | GEORGIA INFORMED OF NEW GI PARTNER NATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-01 09:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM PTER KGIC KNNP GG |
08TBILISI1313 | GEORGIA BI-WEEKLY UPDATE AUGUST 1 [...] This cable contains current items of political, economic and social interest concerning Georgia for the weeks of July 14-August  [...] | 2008-08-01 10:42:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM EPET KDEM GG |
08TBILISI1317 | GEORGIANS DEMAND ABKHAZ LEAVE ACHAMKHARA HEIGHTS [...] (C) Begin Summary and Comment: In an August 1 meeting with Ambassadors from Western Friends of the Secretary General, Giga Bokeria, Deputy Foreign Minister, along with Vano Merabishvili, Minister of Internal Affairs (MOIA),and Shota Utiashvili, Chief, Analysis and Information, MOIA, relayed [...] | 2008-08-01 14:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS GG |
08TBILISI1327 | GEORGIANS SEEK CALM IN SOUTH OSSETIA AND ARE [...] (C) Begin Summary and Comment: On the evening of 1 August sniper activity erupted around South Ossetian villages and soon expanded into mortar fire which continued until the morning of 2 August when events calmed. OSCE military monitors said that the use of mortars by both sides and the ran [...] | 2008-08-04 14:17:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS GG |
08TBILISI1336 | SITREP 1: FIGHTING IN SOUTH OSSETIA ESCALATES [...] (C) Begin Summary: Intense fighting began in South Ossetia the evening of August 6 and continued into the daylight hours August 7. Intense fighting broke out west of Tskhinvali at approximiately 1800 in Avnevi and Nuli and continued until 2100, when explosions were noted northeast of Tskhinvali in [...] | 2008-08-07 13:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG |
08TBILISI1337 | SITREP 1: FIGHTING IN SOUTH OSSETIA ESCALATES [...] (C) Begin Summary: Intense fighting began in South Ossetia the evening of August 6 and continued into the daylight hours August 7. Intense fighting broke out west of Tskhinvali at approximiately 1800 in Avnevi and Nuli and continued until 2100, when explosions were noted northeast of Tskhinvali in [...] | 2008-08-07 13:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG |
08TBILISI1341 | GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIA SITREP 2: GEORGIA CLAIMS [...] (C) Summary: President Saakashvili in an August 8 conversation with the Ambassador, and Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili in a briefing to the diplomatic corps, claimed that Georgia now controlled most of South Ossetia, including Tskhinvali, although fighting was continuing near the northern to [...] | 2008-08-08 10:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG |
08TBILISI1342 | GEORGIA: AUGUST 8 EAC REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-08 17:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PREL AEMR CASC GG |
08TBILISI1343 | GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIA--SITREP 3: RUSSIAN BOMBS [...] (C) Begin Summary and Comment: Multiple bases, airports, and Georgia's port of Poti were all bombed overnight by Russian aircraft, with bombing continuing in the daylight hours of August 9, with bombs hitting civilian targets in the Georgian city of Gori. Reports of casualties continue to come [...] | 2008-08-09 07:56:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1348 | GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIA SITREP 4: GEORGIANS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-09 17:15:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU GG |
08TBILISI1349 | GEORGIA: SITREP 5: GEORGIANS NEARLY EXHAUSTED; [...] (C) Begin Summary: FM Tkeshelashvili briefed the diplomatic corps August 10 that Georgia has suffered huge casualties. The FM described the situation as no longer about South Ossetia but rather was Russia aggression against an independent country. She said Russian planes have bombed hospitals in Go [...] | 2008-08-10 09:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1350 | GEORGIANS LOOKING TO WEST FOR HELP, OPPOSITION AND [...] (SBU) Post has reached out to notable opinion leaders in Georgia and found a common theme from all -- threats from Russia have unified the Georgian political class. Most have reported that Georgians are feeling terrorized by indiscriminate Russian bombing of Georgian cities, particularly Russ [...] | 2008-08-10 12:15:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI1355 | GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIA, SITREP 6 [...] (C) Summary and Comment: French FM Kouchner and Finnish FM Stubbs met with President Saakashvili August 11 in Tbilisi to discuss a cease-fire package, with the goal of presenting it to Russian officials in Moscow later the same day. Swedish FM Carl Bildt and EUR DAS Bryza are both expected to arriv [...] | 2008-08-11 09:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG |
08TBILISI1356 | GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIA SITREP 7 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-11 13:13:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV RU GG |
08TBILISI136 | DAS BRYZA'S JANUARY 19 MEETING WITH ACTING [...] (C) Summary: Acting President Nino Burjanadze told DAS Matthew Bryza at a January 19 meeting that she planned to continue talks with representatives of the opposition and also pledged to take steps to improve election procedures prior to the spring 2008 parliamentary elections. Burjanadze was [...] | 2008-01-29 13:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI1362 | GEORGIA: SITREP 8: RUSSIANS PULL BACK, BUT BOMBING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-12 10:11:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1372 | GEORGIA: SITREP 9: RUSSIAN TROOPS REMAIN IN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-13 11:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | GG RS PGOV PHUM PREL |
08TBILISI1379 | GEORGIA: SITREP 10: RUSSIANS ON MOVE, IN GEORGIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-16 15:43:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1380 | GEORGIA: SITREP 11: RUSSIANS HOLD IN PLACE, [...] (SBU) Summary: There were few reports of Russian troops movements on August 17, following a day of conflicting reports on the status, location, and direction of Russian forces in Georgia. It is clear that Russian troops control the east-west corridor through Georgia from Poti north and eas [...] | 2008-08-17 13:40:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1385 | GEORGIA: SITREP 12: WAITING FOR A RUSSIAN PULLOUT [...] (SBU) Summary. As of mid-day August 18, there is no evidence that Russian troops have begun to withdraw from Georgia. The road from Tbilisi to Gori remains closed and travelers are subject to Russian roadblocks. Next international visitor to Tbilisi will be UK Foreign Secretary Miliband o [...] | 2008-08-18 10:21:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1386 | GEORGIA: DAS BRYZA MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (C) Begin Summary: On August 14, Minister of Defense David Kezerashvili spoke with DAS Bryza, the Ambassador, and DATT about the MOD's current situation following Russia's invasion. Kezerashvili said Georgia's army troops are now at Vaziani and other bases around Tbilisi, trying to regroup. [...] | 2008-08-18 13:42:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1387 | GEORGIA: DAS BRYZA MEETING WITH MOIA VANO [...] (C) Begin Summary: On August 14, Minister of Internal Affairs (MOIA) Vano Merabishvili spoke with DAS Bryza and the Ambassador Tefft about the current situation following Russia's invasion, the status of Georgian troops, and how the attacks unfolded. Shota Utiashvili, nominally head of the [...] | 2008-08-18 14:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG RU |
08TBILISI1391 | GEORGIA: SITREP 13 [...] (C) Summary: As of 1600 August 19, there is still no evidence of Russian troops withdrawing from Georgia. Russian checkpoints remain along the main East-West highway on both sides of Gori. Embassy officers who attempted to drive up the road from Tbilisi to Gori were turned back after the [...] | 2008-08-19 11:53:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1403 | GEORGIA: SITREP 14 - THE WAITING GAME CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary: Faint and uncertain signs of a Russian withdrawal are reported, but there is as yet no unmistakable sign of a pullback. Russian troops attempted August 19 to oust Georgian soldiers from a base in Western Georgia, to which the Georgians had retreated in conformity with the six-p [...] | 2008-08-20 12:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON GG RU |
08TBILISI1404 | THE CASE FOR INTENTIONAL TARGETING OF GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: After visiting the site of the August 9 and August 12 Russian bombings of the Western Route (Baku-Supsa) pipeline, the Embassy believes a reasonable case can be made that the bombings were intentional. Three lines of craters cross the pipeline, and one missile, reportedly an SS-26 [...] | 2008-08-20 14:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PREL MOPS GG RU |
08TBILISI1409 | GEORGIA: SITREP 15: LITTLE OR NO CHANGE ON THE [...] (U) Summary. Observers are not reporting any real movement to withdraw by Russian troops in Georgia. According to the Georgian press, the Russians say they intend to set up a double line of checkpoints around South Ossetia with a buffer zone in between; however, Gori will not be in that zo [...] | 2008-08-21 12:43:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1412 | GEORGIA: SITREP 16: LOOKING FOR SIGNS OF A RUSSIAN [...] (U) Summary. As of mid-day, there were no definite sign of a Russian withdrawal from Georgia, but OSCE reported columns of Russian vehicles lining up in Gori and Kashuri on August 21. On the other hand, there also continue to be reports of erecting fortifications and the continued demoliti [...] | 2008-08-22 10:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1418 | GEORGIA: SITREP 17: IT'S ABOUT TIME - BULK OF [...] (U) Summary. Multiple sources confirm Russian troops have withdrawn most troops from undisputed Georgian territory, although some remain near key positions such as Poti, Senaki and Sachkere. The eastern part of the east-west highway is reportedly open, with light civilian traffic underway, [...] | 2008-08-23 12:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1420 | PM GURGENIDZE URGES SENATOR BIDEN TO SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: In an August 17 meeting with U.S. Senator Joseph Biden, Georgian Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze outlined the economic cost of the Russian invasion of his country. He stressed the importance of continued existence of the reform-minded government of Georgia to continuing U.S. i [...] | 2008-08-25 04:40:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL GG |
08TBILISI143 | DAS BRYZA MEETS WITH OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: On January 19, EUR DAS Matt Bryza and Ambassador Tefft met with key leaders of the United National Council of Opposition (UNC). The UNC's main contention was that Mikheil Saakashvili did not receive 50 percent of the vote in the January 5 election. Consequently, they said they a [...] | 2008-01-30 14:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG RU |
08TBILISI1437 | GEORGIA: SITREP 18: ALL EYES ON AKHALGORI [...] (C) Summary. The situation remains tense in Akhalgori, with South Ossetian militia in an apparent standoff with Georgian police and interior forces; the Georgian government considers the location a potential flashpoint. The Russian presence in the west continues, maintaining a level of ten [...] | 2008-08-25 12:56:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1470 | GEORGIA: SITREP 19: RESPONDING TO MEDVEDEV'S [...] (C) Summary. Tbilisi is formulating its official response to Russian President Medvedev's announcement that Russia would recognize the breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and per DFM Vashadze, is looking for a strong reaction from the West (more details to be provided septel). [...] | 2008-08-26 14:21:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1472 | TFGG01: GEORGIA: REQUEST FOR STRONG WESTERN [...] (C) Georgian DFM Vashadze called in the German, French, UK and U.S. Ambassadors August 26. Although the meeting was called initially for the MFA to present a non-paper (faxed to EUR/CARC) regarding principles and objectives for resolution of the conflict, President Medvedev's announcement tha [...] | 2008-08-27 04:23:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI1474 | GEORGIA: SITREP 20: RUSSIA'S RECOGNITION SOBERS [...] (C) Summary. President Saakashvili sought to reassure the nation in an upbeat televised speech, but Russia's recognition of the breakaway regions has increased the pressure on the president and the nation. The situation in Akhalgori seems to have been resolved for the moment with Georgian t [...] | 2008-08-27 12:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1481 | CONGRESSMAN SMITH DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS/IDPS [...] (C) Summary. Congressman Chris Smith (NJ - 4) had separate meetings with Patriarch Ilia II, Human Rights Watch (HRW),and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to discuss human rights issues and the IDP situation in Georgia the week of August 18. The Patriarch, HRW, and the I [...] | 2008-08-29 05:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG RU |
08TBILISI1482 | GEORGIA: SITREP 21: PARLIAMENT SAYS ALL RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 28, the Georgian Parliament adopted a resolution that declared Abkhazia and South Ossetia "territories occupied by the Russian Federation"; appeared to nullify the legal basis for any Russian forces, including peacekeepers, to be on Georgian territory; and urged the g [...] | 2008-08-29 11:54:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1496 | GEORGIA: SITREP 22: HUMAN CHAIN SHOWS GEORGIAN [...] (C) Summary. On September 1 as many as 1.5 million Georgians rallied across the country to express national unity and opposition to Russia's actions. The OSCE did not observe any confrontations or movements, but did see the presence of heavy vehicles in an ethnically Georgian village southw [...] | 2008-09-02 13:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1506 | GEORGIA: SITREP 23: DOMESTIC POLITICIANS BEGIN [...] (C) Summary. On September 2 ruling party and opposition politicians met to find a way forward on the domestic political front that will maintain national unity while ensuring the opposition's concerns are not lost. The government sees next steps on the conflicts as the withdrawal of Russian [...] | 2008-09-03 11:14:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1513 | GEORGIA: SITREP 24: GEORGIANS WELCOME VICE [...] (C) Summary. President Saakashvili warmly welcomed Vice President Cheney to Georgia, with the visit receiving extensive local coverage. The September 3 announcement of a one-billion-dollar U.S. aid package was also well received, with some calling it a Marshall Plan for Georgia. The OSCE w [...] | 2008-09-04 13:14:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1514 | SENATOR CORKER SURVEYS DAMAGE IN GORI [...] (SBU) Senator Robert Corker (R-TN) traveled to Gori August 30, visiting an IDP center and meeting with various GOG officials to survey damage and assess the impact of the Russian invasion and occupation of Georgia. Governor Lado Vardzelashvili explained that the resettlement of Gori is on s [...] | 2008-09-05 05:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM GG RU |
08TBILISI152 | REPUBLICANS VOTE FOR SEPARATE PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) Summary: On January 30, opposition leader and Republican Party Chairman David Usupashvili told the Ambassador that the Republican party will not join the United National Council of Opposition (UNC) on a joint party list for the coming parliamentary elections. Former presidential candidat [...] | 2008-01-31 14:47:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
08TBILISI1522 | CLAIMS OF ATROCITIES IN GEORGIA MERIT SERIOUS [...] (C) Summary and Comment. In advance of S/WCI Ambassador Williamson's September 8-11 visit to Georgia, the Embassy has compiled a preliminary list of the many reports we have received of "ethnic cleansing" and accusations of "war crimes" that have taken place in the conflict zones and areas [...] | 2008-09-05 14:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KAWC RU GG |
08TBILISI1523 | GEORGIA: SITREP 25: NO CONFIRMATION OF AN ABKHAZ [...] (C) Summary. UNOMIG has been unable to confirm press reports of a wall planned by Abkhaz "authorities" along the administrative border. The OSCE was finally allowed to patrol north of Russian checkpoints and came within four km of Tskhinvali, but was again refused access to Akhalgori. Polit [...] | 2008-09-05 15:04:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1525 | GEORGIAN GOVERNMENT STABLE BUT THREATS LOOM [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Russia's public push to force regime change in Georgia may have failed in the short term, but judging by continued public statements critical of President Saakashvili, a longer-term strategy of eroding support for Saakashvili by weakening the economy appears to be in [...] | 2008-09-08 05:50:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL GG |
08TBILISI1527 | GEORGIA: SITREP 26: STORIES ABOUND IN ABKHAZIA, [...] (SBU) Summary. Stories persist of Abkhaz plans to construct a wall along the border, but UNOMIG observers have discovered only limited evidence. Villagers are also reporting rumors of Abkhaz plans for Russian passports, conscription, and compulsory use of the Abkhaz language in schools. Th [...] | 2008-09-08 13:17:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1530 | GEORGIA: SITREP 27: SARKOZY IN TBILISI, OSCE MAKES [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian General Kulakhmetov canceled a September 8 meeting with OSCE to discuss access beyond Russian checkpoints. Opposition leader Shalva Natelashvili called for the resignation of the current Georgian leadership. The two Polish television news crew members detained on Sep [...] | 2008-09-09 12:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI155 | GEORGIA: INFORMATION PAPER ON MGD WORKSHOP [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-01 11:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PTER PREL KGIC GG |
08TBILISI1550 | GEORGIA: SITREP 28: GEORGIAN POLICEMAN KILLED AT [...] (C) Summary. A Georgian police officer was shot while manning his regular post in Karaleti, reportedly by an Ossetian irregular according to the Interior Ministry. Russian vehicles and South Ossetian militias seem to have begun withdrawing from positions inside Georgia proper on a limited ba [...] | 2008-09-10 14:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1554 | GEORGIA: SITREP 29: UN ASSISTANCE CONVOY GAINS [...] (C) Summary. The UN announced that a humanitarian assistance convoy was allowed to pass the Georgian checkpoint at Karaleti September 11, delivering four tons of assistance to the Georgian village of Patara Garadjivari. Georgia's Reintegration Minister formally announced a freeze on develop [...] | 2008-09-11 14:50:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI156 | GEORGIA: PRIVATE SECTOR OUTREACH ANT THE GLOBAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-01 11:17:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER IAEA KGIC GG |
08TBILISI1571 | GEORGIA: SITREP 30: OSSETIANS REFUSE ACCESS TO OSCE [...] (C) Summary. Russian forces allowed OSCE monitors past checkpoints outside Akhalgori, but an Ossetian checkpoint did not allow the OSCE into Akhalgori. This raises questions about the prospects for South Ossetian cooperation with OSCE and EU monitors in the future. A special letter has been [...] | 2008-09-12 15:44:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1572 | UNGA DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GEORGIAN MFA [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche to the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on September 9, 2008. Present at the meeting were MFA Head of International Organizations Office Alexander Nalbandov and MFA Head of the Americas Division Levan Nizharadze. 2. (C) After Poloff outlined th [...] | 2008-09-13 09:59:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1595 | INSIDE GEORGIA'S MINISTRY FOR REINTEGRATION - NO [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In a September 9 meeting with poloffs, Deputy Minister for Reintegration David Rakviashvili provided both the Ministry's and his own personal insights on Georgia's strategy on South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Rakviashvili's comments suggested the government does not yet h [...] | 2008-09-16 14:55:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1596 | GEORGIA: SITREP 32: RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS [...] (C) Summary. UNOMIG observers reported a Russian propaganda campaign in Abkhazia. OSCE observers said that they have access to the Russian "buffer zone," but still have no access beyond the former administrative border into South Ossetia (with the exception of Mission Head Hakala's Septembe [...] | 2008-09-16 15:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1602 | GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI'S STATE OF THE COUNTRY ADDRESS [...] (C) Summary and Comment. President Saakashvili's September 16 state of the nation included concessions to the opposition, proposals to check executive power, and measures to increase judicial freedom and open media. Parliamentary opposition members said that most of the proposals were not n [...] | 2008-09-17 14:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL RU GG |
08TBILISI1603 | REQUEST FOR U.S. GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE IN GEORGIAN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) During the August 2008 conflict between Russian and Georgia, Russian air and ground forces inflicted significant damage to the military and coast guard side of the port in Poti. Several vessels were attacked by Russian air [...] | 2008-09-18 05:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EWWT PARM GG |
08TBILISI1608 | GEORGIA: GOVERNMENT CONFIDENT OF PUBLIC SUPPORT [...] (C) Introduction and Comment: Tbilisi Mayor and Saakashvili insider Gigi Ugulava told the Ambassador that polling data indicates that Saakashvili and his Government enjoy broad public support, but noted that the Government needed to use the next 12-18 months to focus on rehabilitation and reco [...] | 2008-09-19 07:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1620 | GEORGIA: YOUR MEETING WITH PRESIDENT SAAKASHVILI [...] (C) In your meeting with President Saakashvili on the margins of the UN General Assembly you will find a leader who is newly focused on the concept of strategic patience. He is circling his wagons around several key objectives: reconstruction of damaged infrastructure and Georgia's economy; [...] | 2008-09-22 05:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG RU |
08TBILISI164 | GEORGIA'S ANNUAL NATO ASSESSMENT: ON BALANCE [...] (C) Summary: On January 31, NATO International Staff (IS) briefed NATO Ambassadors and Defense Attaches in Tbilisi on the highlights of their latest assessment of Georgia's International Partnership Action Plan (IPAP),the draft of which would be circulated to NATO Allies in Brussels by mid- [...] | 2008-02-01 14:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
08TBILISI1689 | RUSSIAN CHECKPOINTS STILL PRESENT, POTENTIALLY [...] (C) Summary and comment. According to the Georgian National Security Council (NSC),13 Russian checkpoints remain on undisputed Georgian territory as of September 23 -- 6 in western Georgia and 7 in the east, outside South Ossetia, along with 1 supply base in the west and 1 communications cen [...] | 2008-09-24 14:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MARR RU GG |
08TBILISI1751 | GEORGIA: WAR CRIMES ISSUES AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Ambassador-at-Large Clint Williamson visited Georgia September 10-11 to highlight USG concerns over war crimes and ethnic cleansing allegations from the August conflict and to stress the need to hold perpetrators accountable. Williamson frankly told GOG officials t [...] | 2008-09-25 14:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KAWC RU GG |
08TBILISI179 | DAS BRYZA'S 19 JANUARY MEETING WITH GEORGIAN [...] (C) Summary: Georgian Defense Minister Davit Kezerashvili told DAS Matthew Bryza at a 19 January meeting that Georgia still hopes to achieve a Membership Action Plan (MAP) at the upcoming Bucharest NATO summit. Kezerashvili argued that failure to meet this goal before the spring 2008 Georgian [...] | 2008-02-04 14:23:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS GG |
08TBILISI1793 | GEORGIA: VIOLENT INCIDENTS UNDERSCORE FRAGILITY; [...] (C) Summary and comment. Three incidents on September 25 -- a car bombing in Sukhumi that caused damage to buildings, but no injuries, a landmine explosion outside Tskhinvali that killed a 13-year-old boy, and the shooting of a construction worker on the main road between Tbilisi and Gori -- [...] | 2008-09-26 14:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR RU GG |
08TBILISI1810 | EU MONITORS ARRIVE IN GEORGIA, PREPARE TO DEPLOY [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. At least 200 monitors will be in Georgia by September 30 and will start work October 1. The headquarters will be in Tbilisi, with satellite offices in Poti (30-40 observers),Zugdidi and Gori (70 monitors each) and a 25-member rapid-reaction force based in Tbilisi. [...] | 2008-09-29 15:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MARR RU GG |
08TBILISI183 | DAS BRYZA MEETS ELECTION TASK FORCE MEMBERS [...] (C) Summary: On January 18, EUR DAS Matt Bryza and Ambassador met with Elections Task Force Members MP Nino Nakashidze, and D/MOIA Eka Zguladze, as well as with key Saakashvili insider MP Giga Bokeria and UNM Spokesman David Bakradze on leave from his position as Minister of Conflict Resolu [...] | 2008-02-05 09:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM GG |
08TBILISI1833 | GEORGIA: HEAD OF EU MONITORING MISSION GIVES [...] (C) Summary and comment. On October 2, Head of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia, Ambassador Hansjorg Haber, informed diplomatic colleagues about the mission and its plans. Although all 225 civilian monitors are in place, the mission expects all 127 support staff will arrive only by the e [...] | 2008-10-02 15:21:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS GG |
08TBILISI1834 | ARMENIANS IN SAMTSKHE-JAVAKHETI EXPRESS SOLIDARITY [...] (C) Begin Summary and Comment: During the Ambassador's September 10-11 trip to the Samtskhe-Javakheti region, the president's representative to the region and local officials in Akhalkalaki expressed their solidarity with the federal government against Russian aggression. They said there we [...] | 2008-10-03 05:23:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL RU GG |
08TBILISI1837 | GEORGIA FINALIZES CULTURAL AGREEMENT [...] (U) On September 18, post received a dipnote from the MFA indicating that Georgia had completed the internal legal procedures required for entry into the "Agreement between the Government of Georgia and the Government of the United States of America on the Protection and Preservation of Certain [...] | 2008-10-03 12:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | GG PREL SCUL |
08TBILISI1842 | UNGA DEMARCHE ON FIRST COMMITTEE RESOLUTION [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on October 3, 2008. Present at the meeting was Head of the Americas Division Levan Nizharadze. Nizharadze responded that the Georgian government attaches great importance to cooperating with the United Stat [...] | 2008-10-03 14:47:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | CDG PARM PREL UNGA GG |
08TBILISI1844 | DEMARCHE ON EXERCISE PLANNING GROUP MEETING [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on October 3, 2008. Present at the meeting was Head of the Americas Division Levan Nizharadze. He agreed to take the demarche into consideration and transmit it to the appropriate division for review. TEFF [...] | 2008-10-03 14:49:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | KGIC MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER GG |
08TBILISI1845 | GEORGIA NOT WILLING TO ACCEPT ARRIA IN EXCHANGE [...] (S) Summary. Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili told the Ambassador October 3 that Georgia was opposed to inviting de facto Abkhaz and South Ossetian authorities to New York for an Arria-style meeting in exchange for the renewal of UNOMIG. She also asked for United States assistance in convin [...] | 2008-10-06 10:11:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET | PGOV PREL RU GG |
08TBILISI186 | COMMERCE SECRETARY GUTIERREZ'S JANUARY 20 MEETING [...] (C) Summary: During his January 20 visit to Tbilisi, Georgia for the inauguration of President Mikheil Saakashvili, Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez met with the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Karim Masimov, at Masimov's request. Masimov told the Secretary he is ready to come to the Unit [...] | 2008-02-05 12:07:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG GG KZ |
08TBILISI1862 | GEORGIA: UPDATE ON THE CURRENT RUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) Although the Russian Embassy in Georgia officially closed on September 3, 2008, a fairly sizable Russian diplomatic presence remains in Tbilisi. According to press reports, only the Russian consul, two vice-consuls, and a small technical staff have remained behind. There is actually a m [...] | 2008-10-07 15:30:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL CVIS RU GG |
08TBILISI1868 | GEORGIA: RUSSIAN FORCES WITHDRAW [...] (C) Summary and comment. Multiple sources confirm Russian forces withdrew from nearly all remaining posts on undisputed Georgian territory on October 8, two days before the deadline. Russian military and local Georgian officials signed documents transferring the points outside Abkhazia back [...] | 2008-10-08 14:42:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS RU GG |
08TBILISI188 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PRICE'S VISIT [...] (SBU) Your visit to Tbilisi comes during the most politically significant period in Georgia since the 2003 Rose Revolution brought Mikheil Saakashvili to power. The January 5 presidential election was judged by the U.S. Embassy, the OSCE and the Council of Europe to be the most competitive in [...] | 2008-02-05 14:12:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON OVIP GG |
08TBILISI1888 | GEORGIA: EU OBSERVER MISSION DISCUSSES POST [...] (C) Begin Summary and Comment: European Monitoring Mission Head (EUMM) Hansjoerg Haber briefed Ambassadors on October 9 that Russian forces had withdrawn to positions outsid of Georgia proper. Several controversial observation posts remain, with competing claims regarding in which territor [...] | 2008-10-10 14:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1890 | GEORGIA: GOVERNMENT REVIEWS MAESTRO LICENSE, [...] (C) Summary. Speaker of Parliament Bakradze announced October 10 that the Parliament would modify the nature of the license for the radio station Maestro to enable it to broadcast political talk shows. Maestro, whose request to expand its entertainment broadcasting to include political pro [...] | 2008-10-10 15:11:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM GG |
08TBILISI195 | SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRIED MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: Kosovo and the upcoming parliamentary elections will likely dominate your meeting with President Saakashvili at the Wehrkunde conference. Kosovo is nearly certain to be the first issue on Saakashvili's agenda, as he seeks more information about the timing of an independence decl [...] | 2008-02-06 13:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1982 | GEORGIA: A/S FRIED VISITS GORI, CHECKPOINTS [...] (C) Begin Summary: EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried and the Ambassador visited the Gori Field Office of the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM),which conducts patrols to the south and southwest of South Ossetia, October 19. So far, the EUMM has been denied access into South Ossetia [...] | 2008-10-24 10:40:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1985 | GEORGIA: A/S FRIED MEETS OPPOSITION, BOTH INSIDE [...] (C) Begin Summary: On October 20, Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried and Ambassador Tefft met with Georgian opposition parliamentarians. The MPs told Fried they were working to help the country through its post-invasion recovery and were pursuing democratic reforms. The group spoke about the A [...] | 2008-10-24 12:14:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1987 | GEORGIA: IRI NATIONAL VOTER SURVEY: GEORGIANS [...] (C) Summary: The latest USAID-funded International Republican Institute (IRI) poll, based on 1,500 surveys conducted from September 23 to October 1, showed that the August war with Russia dominated the national mood. IRI said the poll showed that Georgians believed that Russian aggression wa [...] | 2008-10-24 13:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI1988 | GEORGIA: LACK OF ACCESS KEEPS HOTSPOTS HOT [...] (C) Summary and comment. Georgia has so far avoided major provocations since Russian troops withdrew from most undisputed Georgian territory, but several potential sources of friction remain. Among them are Akhalgori; ongoing tension along the administrative boundaries of South Ossetia and [...] | 2008-10-24 15:23:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS RU GG |
08TBILISI2009 | GEORGIA: NEW PM MAY HAVE A SHORT TENURE [...] (C) Summary and Comment. President Saakashvili announced on October 27 the resignation of Lado Gurgenidze from the post of Prime Minister and his nomination of Grigol Mgaloblishvili to the position. Gurgenidze's departure had been expected for many months, but the appointment of Mgaloblish [...] | 2008-10-28 14:49:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI2016 | GEORGIA: PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION INVESTIGATES [...] (SBU) Summary: An Ad-hoc Parliamentary Commission investigating the Georgian-Russian war of August 2008 began its hearings on October 25. The Commission was designed to obtain evidence from government officials, who "were directly or indirectly involved in decision-making during the August e [...] | 2008-10-30 13:21:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI2018 | GEORGIA: LOW TURNOUT EXPECTED FOR NOVEMBER 3 ELECTIONS IN [...] Summary and comment: On November 3 elections will be held for the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, which is institutionally an important component of Adjara's autonomy but a plays a minimal national role. By-elections for the national Parliament will also take place in two [...] | 2008-10-30 17:15:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI2022 | GEORGIA: BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (SBU) Sumary: Business Executives for National Security (BENS),a nonpartisan organization of senior private-sector representatives, visited Tbilisi October 19-21, accompanied by the Deputy European Commander (EUCOM) Vice Admiral Gallagher and EUCOM POLAD Ambassador Katherine Canavan. The v [...] | 2008-10-31 09:12:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV GG |
08TBILISI2025 | GEORGIA: CABINET RESHUFFLE DRAWS LITTLE REACTION [...] (C) Summary/Comment: In a widely anticipated move, four new Cabinet members were nominated October 29 to head up the Ministries of Justice, Culture, Refugees, and Environment. The shakeup drew little reaction among the press or opposition as all are familiar names and loyal Saakashvili backe [...] | 2008-10-31 09:30:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI204 | DAS BRYZA MEETS CIVIL SOCIETY MEMBERS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with DAS Bryza and Ambassador, representatives of civil society discussed the problems of the Presidential election and what impact it would have on Saakashvili's second term. The group was divided on whether Saakashvili won in the first round. Many thought that a [...] | 2008-02-07 10:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GG KDEM PHUM |
08TBILISI2050 | GEORGIA: EUMM SEEKS TO FORMALIZE ARRANGEMENTS ON [...] (C) Summary and comment. The EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) has made some progress in expanding its reach and effectiveness by making initial contact with Russian and South Ossetian authorities, increasing its patrols, and initiating discussions with Georgian authorities on an agreement to pro [...] | 2008-11-04 10:20:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS RU GG |
08TBILISI2053 | GEORGIA: ABKHAZIA: VIOLENCE CONTINUES, TROOPS DIG [...] (C) Summary and comment. Two disturbing trends have emerged in Abkhazia in recent weeks. Abkhaz and Russian forces have taken steps to establish firmer control over the administrative boundary, such as reducing crossing points, extending trenches and limiting cooperation with UNOMIG. De fac [...] | 2008-11-04 14:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS GG |
08TBILISI2063 | GEORGIA: U.S. ELECTION PARTY DRAWS ATTENTION OF [...] (U) The Embassy and American Chamber of Commerce co-sponsored an election party which drew a crowd of roughly five to six hundred attendees who watched the results of the U.S. Presidential election. Among the notables were newly-confirmed Prime Minister Grigol Mgaloblishvili; Mayor of Tbilis [...] | 2008-11-05 14:33:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI207 | SCENESETTER FOR GEO MINDEF DAVIT KEZERASHVILI [...] (C//NF) Summary: Continued U.S. support for Georgia's NATO aspirations and mil-mil cooperation will likely dominate your meeting with Minister of Defense Kezerashvili. The development and reform of the Georgian Armed Forces into a NATO interoperable force is part of the foundation for a Geo [...] | 2008-02-08 04:40:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL RU GG |
08TBILISI2071 | GEORGIA: LAW ON OCCUPIED TERRITORIES SEEKS TO [...] (C) Summary and comment. The "Law of Georgia on the Occupied Territories" was formally published with President Saakashvili's signature October 30. Georgian parliamentarians and staff described the law as a response to Russian aggression and an effort to prevent degradation of Georgian terri [...] | 2008-11-06 13:47:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KBTS RU GG |
08TBILISI2073 | GEORGIA: UNM STRONG IN ADJARA ELECTIONS, DESPITE [...] (SBU) Begin Summary: Extremely low turnout marked by-elections in two Tbilisi districts held on November 3 to fill two vacant seats that opposition parties refused to fill after the May elections. The Christian-Democratic Movement (CDM) candidate won the Vake seat. In Didube, the National D [...] | 2008-11-06 14:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI2075 | GEORGIA: OPPOSITION SCRAMBLING TO MOUNT NOVEMBER 7 [...] (C) Summary: On November 6, the United Opposition held a briefing for the Diplomatic Corps to discuss their plans for a political protest to begin at 2pm, November 7. The protest will commence in front of Parliament and then may proceed to the Presidential Palace, if it attracts enough parti [...] | 2008-11-07 05:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI2085 | GEORGIA: GUIDANCE REQUESTED ON REMOVAL OF [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Summary and Comment: In spite of the August conflict and loss of official Georgian access to the Abkhazia separatist region, MFA officials continue to seek U.S. assistance to develop a plan to remove four high-level radioactive [...] | 2008-11-07 13:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PGOV PREL GG GR |
08TBILISI2086 | GEORGIA: OPPOSITION PROTEST FIZZLES OUT [...] (C) Summary: The November 7 opposition demonstration to commemorate last year's rally that turned violent drew a very modest turnout and was not attended by many leading opposition leaders. Protests were peaceful and police presence was limited with various speakers standing in front of the [...] | 2008-11-07 15:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI2107 | GEORGIA: CHANGES AT THE BORDER POLICE [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: General Zaza Gogava, former Chief of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces at the Ministry of Defense, was appointed Chairman of the Georgian Border Police on November 4, following the resignation of Badri Bitsadze. This new position is widely seen as a demotion for G [...] | 2008-11-12 05:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KSTC KNNP GG |
08TBILISI2111 | GEORGIA: ARRIVAL OF OSSETIAN FORCES WORSENS [...] (C) Summary and comment. Ossetian forces now control the primary checkpoint south of the village of Perevi, Russian forces have established a new checkpoint north of the village, and as many as 200 villagers may have fled. International organizations have been unable to gain access to the vil [...] | 2008-11-13 05:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS GG |
08TBILISI2117 | GEORGIA: EFFECTS OF WAR CHALLENGE PROGRESS IN [...] (C) Begin Summary: Following November 3 elections for the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara in southwestern Georgia (ref A),Poloff met local officials and the Turkish Consul. The region was recovering from lost tourism revenues as a result of the August war with Russia. L [...] | 2008-11-13 13:43:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM TU GG |
08TBILISI2118 | GEORGIA: EUMM SEEKS CHANGES TO PROPOSED INFO [...] (C) Begin Summary and Comment: In a November 12 meeting, European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) Head Hansjoerg Haber told the Ambassador he is seeking additional modifications to the proposed Exchange of Information Agreement which is pending signature between the EUMM and the Georgian De [...] | 2008-11-13 14:09:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RU GG |
08TBILISI2120 | GEORGIA: GOG OUTLINES ITS VISION FOR POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary/Comment: The Government of Georgia recently released a document laying out a variety of political reforms currently underway in order to improve democracy and pluralism in Georgia. The document also acknowledges the mistakes the government made in its use of force to quell the [...] | 2008-11-13 14:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI2121 | GEORGIA: GOG OUTLINES ITS VISION FOR POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary/Comment: The Government of Georgia recently released a document laying out a variety of political reforms currently underway in order to improve democracy and pluralism in Georgia. The document also acknowledges the mistakes the government made in its use of force to quell the [...] | 2008-11-14 05:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI2172 | GEORGIAN GOVERNMENT INFORMED ON NEXT STEP [...] (C) As requested by the Department (se ref A),on November 21, PolOffs and Brent Eastman (ISN/WDMT) called on Giorgi Dolidze, MFA's Deputy Director of the Security Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department, and Nestan Bejanishvili, Third Secretary of the same department. They informed D [...] | 2008-11-21 14:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PGOV PREL GR GG |
08TBILISI2173 | GEORGIA: TV NEWS MARKET LACKING BUT IMPROVEMENTS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Access to television airtime has long been a source of opposition dissatisfaction with President Saakashvili and the GOG. While there is substantial evidence that the playing field is not level between the government and the opposition on the televised airwaves, the [...] | 2008-11-21 14:33:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI2174 | GEORGIA: ABKHAZIA, TORN BETWEEN TWO LOVERS [...] (C) Summary and comment. Two recent encounters with the Abkhaz de facto leadership produced two different perspectives on the current Abkhaz outlook. UN Special Representative Verbeke concluded that the Abkhaz realize they have burned their bridges with most of the international community a [...] | 2008-11-21 14:35:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS RU GG |
08TBILISI2176 | GEORGIA: SERIOUS INCIDENTS, FATALITIES ON THE RISE [...] (C) Summary and comment. Recent weeks have seen an increase in the number and severity of boundary-line incidents, including several fatalities. The one exception is Perevi, where the withdrawal of Ossetian forces reduced tensions -- although Russian forces still occupy a checkpoint outside [...] | 2008-11-24 05:24:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS GG |
08TBILISI2189 | GEORGIA: UNITED OPPOSITION SHOWING SIGNS OF [...] (C) Summary/Comment: David Gamkrelidze (New Rights) provided poloffs with a view about the future of his party and hinted about that he would leave the united opposition soon. Gamkrelidze confirmed that he is working closely with David Usupashvili (Republicans) to form a new coalition, build [...] | 2008-11-24 13:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI2190 | GEORGIA SIGNS 5 YEAR MOU FOR GAS WITH SOCAR [...] (C) Summary and Comment: After months of discussion, the Georgian government signed a five-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SOCAR, the Azerbaijani state oil and gas company, to provide natural gas to Georgia. The agreement will, in principle, take effect on January 1, 2009 follow [...] | 2008-11-24 13:55:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU AZ GG |
08TBILISI2191 | GEORGIA: FORMER SPEAKER BURJANADZE LAUNCHES NEW [...] (C) Summary. On the fifth anniversary of Georgia's Rose Revolution, former Speaker of the Parliament Nino Burjanadze (and twice interim President of Georgia) officially launched her new political party "Democratic Movement United Georgia" in a packed basketball arena of 1800 supporters. In [...] | 2008-11-24 13:59:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI2192 | GEORGIA QUIETLY MARKS ROSE REVOLUTION'S FIFTH [...] (U) On November 23, the fifth anniversary of Georgia's Rose Revolution, the Government held a party and concert to commemorate the occasion. The Ambassador attended both events Only a small number of foreign dignitaries attended the events, including Polish President Lech Kaczynski, UK Speci [...] | 2008-11-24 14:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI2193 | GEORGIA: SHOOTING NEAR PRESIDENTIAL CONVOY [...] (C) Summary and comment. While observing Russian and Ossetian checkpoints on the edge of South Ossetia, Georgian President Saakashvili and Polish President Kaczynski heard gunfire from a seeming short distance away and quickly departed from the area. No one was injured. The motorcade was at [...] | 2008-11-24 14:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PL RU GG |
08TBILISI2203 | GEORGIA: DETAILED ACCOUNT OF SHOOTING NEAR [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. A more comprehensive readout of the November 23 incident at the South Ossetian administrative boundary (see reftel) indicates the motorcade went right up to a combined Russian/Ossetian checkpoint on the administrative boundary of South Ossetia, and the presidents t [...] | 2008-11-25 14:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MOPS PL RU GG |
08TBILISI2212 | GEORGIA: RECENT ARRESTS SHOW PROGRESS ON [...] (S/NF) Summary and Comment: Joint cooperation between the USG and the Georgian government has improved Georgia's ability to prevent nuclear smuggling. One area in which the government of Georgia continues to improve is the investigation of nuclear smuggling cases and the prosecution of traff [...] | 2008-11-26 14:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP PARM PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI2213 | GEORGIA: DEPUTY FM SAYS OSSETIANS FIRED AT [...] (C) Acting Foreign Minister Giga Bokeria told the diplomatic corps November 26 that South Ossetian de facto spokesperson Irina Gagloyeva noted on the record that Ossetian forces had fired upon the Georgian and Polish Presidents on November 23 (reftel). The interview with Gagloyeva appeared [...] | 2008-11-26 14:24:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI2219 | GEORGIA: FORMER SAAKASHVILI ALLY ACCUSES TBILISI [...] (C) Summary and Comment. In a November 25 appearance before the Parliamentary Commission Investigating the August Conflict, former Georgian Ambassador to Russia Erosi Kitsmarishvili publicly stated his views that Georgia's leaders wanted conflict with Russia and that the United States gave [...] | 2008-11-28 14:10:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU |
08TBILISI2224 | GEORGIA: NEW JUSTICE MINISTER DISCUSSES BUSINESS [...] (C) Summary: In a November 29 meeting, Ambassador raised two ongoing commercial cases involving U.S. companies with newly-appointed Justice Minister Zurab Adeishvili. Regarding the Basel case, Adeishvili acknowledged that he had heard of allegations of corruption and bribe-taking by the jud [...] | 2008-12-01 14:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL EINV GG |
08TBILISI2225 | GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI TAKES HIS CASE PUBLIC, MAKES [...] (U) Begin Summary: In an unprecedented development in modern Georgian history, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili voluntarily testified on November 28 in front of Parliament's "Ad Hoc Commission Investigating the August events and Russia's invasion." The country watched on live TV as t [...] | 2008-12-01 14:49:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI2252 | GEORGIA: 2009 BUDGET REVENUE OUTLOOK IMPROVES BUT [...] (C) Summary: The Ministry of Finance projects that budget revenues will increase by about GEL 160 million in 2009 even factoring in the PM's recent proposal for an accelerated tax cut. Revenue projections for 2009 reflect only the GEL 700 million in international aid for which an official a [...] | 2008-12-05 14:15:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL GG EFIN |
08TBILISI2254 | GEORGIAN LEADERS HAIL NATO MINISTERIAL AS SUCCESS, [...] (U) Georgian government officials hailed this week's NATO Ministerial in Brussels as a victory for Georgia. They said the decision to intensify cooperation between Tbilisi and NATO and invigorate the NATO-Georgia Commission (NGC) would play a central role in moving Georgia toward membership. [...] | 2008-12-08 05:30:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV GG |
08TBILISI2268 | GEORGIA: CABINET RESHUFFLE TRIGGERED BY ALASANIA [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Mgaloblishvili announced a cabinet reshuffle on December 6 almost immediately following the news that Irakli Alasania, Georgia's former Ambassador to the UN, had resigned. Grigol Vashadze, current Minister of Culture and former Deputy Foreign Minister, was named t [...] | 2008-12-08 12:55:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI2269 | GEORGIA: IMPOSSIBLE TO GOVERN WITHOUT GOD AND BIBLE [...] (C) Summary: The Georgian Orthodox Church is a inherent part of Georgian society and for many, defines what it is to be Georgian. For those who are not ethnic Georgian, this close association threatens disenfranchisement. Most Georgians, even if not fervent parishioners, would not openly [...] | 2008-12-08 13:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV RU GG |
08TBILISI227 | GEORGIA BI-WEEKLY UPDATE February 8 [...] This cable contains current items of political, economic, and social interest concerning Georgia during the weeks of January 26-February 8. New Governors Appointed ----------------------- 2. On February 4, President Saakashvili replaced three regional governors. Ramaz Nikoleishvili, the f [...] | 2008-02-08 14:14:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM GG |
08TBILISI2271 | GEORGIA: ABKHAZIA SITUATION UNTENABLE [...] (C) Summary and comment. During December 2-3 meetings in Zugdidi, government officials, EUMM and UNOMIG monitors, and NGO representatives all told the Ambassador that the security situation in and outside Abkhazia is precarious, with frequent violent incidents and provocations. Georgian poli [...] | 2008-12-08 13:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS RU GG |
08TBILISI2292 | GEORGIA: GOVERNMENT SHAKEUP ROLLS ON [...] (C) Summary: The Cabinet shakeup continues with three new Ministers named December 9. The second shakeup follows the initial Cabinet changes announced on December 5 subsequent to Irakli Alasania's resignation as Ambassador to the UN and presumed return to Georgia to enter politics. Current [...] | 2008-12-09 13:12:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI2303 | GEORGIA: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF SENATOR JOHN [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit to Georgia comes in the aftermath of the August conflict, which resulted in Russia's occupation of and recognition of the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Tension along the de facto boundaries remains high, and no international monitors have had access [...] | 2008-12-09 14:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI2304 | GEORGIA: NEW OPPOSITION ALLIANCE UPS THE ANTE [...] (C) Summary: David Usupashvili (Republicans) and David Gamkrelidze (New Rights),two of the more moderate leaders in the opposition outside of parliament, formally announced their alliance, thereby making public their plans to work together as an opposition voice. The two also extended a pu [...] | 2008-12-09 14:58:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI2316 | GEORGIA: TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on December 5, to Otar Berdzenishvili, MFA's Counselor of the Americas Division. Mr. Berdzenishvili told Poloff that they would study the issue and take it under advisement. LOGSDON [...] | 2008-12-10 14:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR KWBG KPAL IS |
08TBILISI2378 | GEORGIA: SCENESETTER FOR THE TBILISI VISIT OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit to Georgia comes in the aftermath of the August conflict, which resulted in Russia's occupation and recognition of the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Tension along the de facto boundaries remains high, and international monitors do not have access to So [...] | 2008-12-15 11:44:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI2399 | GEORGIA: OPPOSITION PARLIAMENTARIANS PROPOSE NEW [...] (U) Summary: Members of the Parliamentary minority faction Christian-Democrats (CDM) have presented a plan for a new national security initiative, including a new structure for the national security council. The initiative is intended to address the problems identified in the aftermath of Geor [...] | 2008-12-15 14:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI2400 | GEORGIA: NOT ALL OPPONENTS SUPPORT EARLY ELECTIONS [...] (C) Comment: Although parliamentary and presidential elections are not scheduled to take place until 2012 and 2013 respetively, calls for early elections have become de rigueur in Georgia for some opposition leaders. Thus far, President Saakashvili does not appear inclined to call either pa [...] | 2008-12-15 14:43:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI2411 | GEORGIA: ARMENIAN NORASHEN CHURCH - CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary: The latest in a series of disputes between the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) and the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) ignited November 18 when a construction crew using a bulldozer, hired by a Georgian Orthodox priest, moved the headstones of several Armenian graves at Norashen C [...] | 2008-12-17 14:44:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV AR GG |
08TBILISI2413 | GEORGIA: RUSSIAN FORCES RE-ENTER PEREVI [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Russian forces once again control the checkpoint at Perevi. After dismantling the checkpoint and withdrawing on December 11, Russian spetsnaz forces returned on December 13 after Georgian Ministry of Internal Police (MOIA) police, and later MOIA special forces, moved [...] | 2008-12-17 15:06:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS GG |
08TBILISI2417 | GEORGIA: ELECTION CODE REFORM BACK AGAIN [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Speaker Bakradze announced December 15 the formation of a special group of lawmakers from the Parliamentary majority and minority, NGO representatives, and non-Parliamentary opposition to improve the election code. It is generally agreed that the current code is flawed [...] | 2008-12-18 09:40:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI2418 | GEORGIA: DEMARCHE ON UNITED NATIONS HARMONIZATION [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Division of Americas desk officer Nana Shonia on December 17. She promised to relay the information to the appropriate MFA officials. TEFFT [...] | 2008-12-18 09:47:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT AORC APER PREL UNGA GG |
08TBILISI2419 | GEORGIA: DEMARCHE ON DIRECTOR-GENERAL UNESCO [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Division of Americas desk officer Nana Shonia on December 17. She promised to relay the information to the appropriate MFA officials. TEFFT [...] | 2008-12-18 09:48:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNESCO GG |
08TBILISI2420 | GEORGIA: PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE PREVIEWS FINDINGS [...] (C) Summary: The Chairman of the ad-hoc of the Parliamentary Commission ("Commission") to look into events during and preceding the August war between Georgia and Russia, Paata Davitaia (Leader of "We Ourselves" Parliamentary Opposition),briefed the Diplomatic Corps December 17 on the upcom [...] | 2008-12-18 12:59:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI2426 | GEORGIA: GAS PIPELINE TO TSKHINVALI SERIOUSLY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Georgian Oil and Gas Company (GOGC) cannot resume the movement of gas to South Ossetia until unexploded ordnance is cleared and GOGC is given access to repair the gas pipeline which runs from Agara to Tskhinvali and on to Java. GOGC has already repaired all the damage to [...] | 2008-12-19 14:19:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PREL RU GG |
08TBILISI2438 | GEORGIAN PATRIARCH ON CHURCH DISPUTE WITH ARMENIA [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Ambassador raised the ongoing dispute over Norashen church in Tbilisi with Georgian Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II on December 22. The Georgian Patriarch seemed open and willing to resolve contentious issues and noted the Georgian priest who was involved in moving graveston [...] | 2008-12-22 13:11:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AR GG |
08TBILISI2439 | GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT ENDORSES INVESTIGATORY [...] (SBU) Summary: In a unanimous vote of 88 to none on December 19, Georgia's Parliament formally endorsed the report and conclusion presented by the ad-hoc Committee to Investigate August Events (ref A). Parliamentary Speaker David Bakradze spoke highly of the Committee's work. Opposition Vice- [...] | 2008-12-22 14:35:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM RU GG |
08TBILISI2458 | GEORGIA: MILITARY MOVES FROM ABKHAZIA ON THE [...] (C) Summary and comment. The chilly winter air in Georgia is rife with rumors that the Abkhaz and Russians are planning military action in the near future, possibly to annex undisputed Georgian territory north of the Enguri River and establish the river as the "border." Facts on the ground [...] | 2008-12-23 12:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS RU GG |
08TBILISI2459 | TBILISI: PATRIARCH'S TAKE ON MOSCOW MEETINGS, [...] (C) Summary: During a December 22 meeting with the Ambassador, Georgian Patriarch Ilia II discussed his recent meeting in Moscow with Russian President Medvedev the current situation in Abkhazia, and the likely successor of Patriarch Alexei II. Ilia II expressed his desire to serve a positi [...] | 2008-12-23 12:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
08TBILISI246 | REINTEGRATION MINISTER YAKOBASHVILI EAGER TO TRY [...] (C) New State Minister for Reintegration Temuri Yakobashvili has thus far managed to retain the penchant for provocative thinking and creative ideas that he exhibited in his years as an NGO leader. In a February 8 meeting with DCM, Yakobashvili detailed some of the ideas he has been discussin [...] | 2008-02-12 13:53:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
08TBILISI2482 | GEORGIA: ALASANIA SPEAKS BUT SAYS LITTLE [...] (SBU) Summary: In his first public statement since his resignation, former Georgian Ambassador to the UN and newest opposition figure, Irakli Alasania, addressed the Georgian media on December 24th. His long anticipated "announcement" consisted largely of common opposition criticisms of Pre [...] | 2008-12-30 10:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI249 | OPPOSITION OLIGARCH PATARKATSISHVILI DEAD OF [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 13 news broke in Georgia that Georgian oligarch and opposition figure Arkadi "Badri" Patarkatsishvili died in London. He was 52 years of age. Patarkatsishvili's Tbilisi-based lawyer, Shalva Khachapuridze, confirmed the news. The reported cause of death is a heart [...] | 2008-02-13 09:48:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI2492 | IMPACT OF CLOSING THE OSCE MISSION TO GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary and comment. The OSCE Mission to Georgia offers the international community several unique tools in monitoring and facilitating Georgia's democratic, secure and prosperous development. As a monitoring mission, it provides information on the situation on the ground, with a special [...] | 2008-12-30 14:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS EAID ECON SNAR KBTS RU GG |
08TBILISI2493 | GEORGIA: SOCAR PURCHASES 22 OF GEORGIA'S INTERNAL [...] (C) The Georgian Government has sold 22 regional natural gas distribution companies to the Azerbaijani State Oil and Gas Company SOCAR. Georgia had originally pledged to sell a number of its natural gas delivery systems to SOCAR during negotiations with Azerbaijan in November that resulted i [...] | 2008-12-30 14:33:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PGOV PREL AZ GG |
08TBILISI2495 | GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIA INCIDENTS: LESS FATAL, BUT [...] (C) Summary. Although the area around South Ossetia has not seen any conflict-related fatalities since November 17, several recent incidents have caused injuries and shown a brazen attitude by the South Ossetian or Russian perpetrators. Georgian Interior Ministry forces have been the target [...] | 2008-12-30 14:56:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KBTS RU GG |
08TBILISI2498 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY RICE'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) New Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze's first visit to the United States will be an auspicious one, featuring the signing of the US-Georgian Charter on Strategic Partnership. The Georgian government is enthusiastic about the content and timing of the Charter, viewing it as a majo [...] | 2008-12-31 10:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG |
08TBILISI254 | GEORGIA WILL NOT SUPPORT SERBIA'S PLAN TO INVOKE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-14 06:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNAUS UNMIK YI OSCE GG |
08TBILISI262 | HOW MUCH DISTANCE BETWEEN GEORGIANS AND ABKHAZ IN [...] (C) The convergence of several developments -- the apparently increasing anger of the Abkhaz de facto leadership, the strong focus on engagement by new Georgian State Minister for Reintegration Yakobashvili, and most of all the coincidence of timing with the Kosovo decision -- makes for a deci [...] | 2008-02-15 12:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UN GG |
08TBILISI271 | OPPOSITION PROTESTS GEORGIAN GOVERNMENT MEMORANDUM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-15 14:43:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | GG KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL |
08TBILISI277 | GEORGIA RESPONDS TO KOSOVO'S INDEPENDENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Following Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence on February 17, most Georgian leaders, from President Saakashvili to the Patriarch, stated publicly that Kosovo does not constitute a precedent that can be followed by other breakaway regions, including Abkhazia and South [...] | 2008-02-19 10:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG RU |
08TBILISI296 | GEORGIA BI-WEEKLY UPDATE FEBRUARY 22 [...] This cable contains current items of political, economic, and social interest concerning Georgia during the weeks of February 9-22. Prime Minister Unveils Anti-Poverty Plan ---------------------------------------- 2. The Georgian government has presented its long-term plan for realization [...] | 2008-02-22 12:39:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM GG |
08TBILISI299 | GEORGIAN RESPONSE TO ADVANCING THE U.S. POSITION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-25 10:00:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CU GG |
08TBILISI304 | OPPOSITION POSTPONES HUNGER STRIKE, RESUMES [...] (SBU) Summary: Early on February 22, the United National Council of Opposition (UNC) voted to postpone a hunger strike and street protest scheduled to begin that afternoon (reftel). Following the vote, UNC leader MP Levan Gachechiladze wrote and delivered an address explaining the opposition [...] | 2008-02-25 14:01:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
08TBILISI339 | GEORGIAN RESPONSE ON SOMALIA AND PIRACY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-29 06:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO KCRM SO GG |
08TBILISI343 | GEORGIA AND RUSSIA CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS TO BREAK [...] (SBU) Summary: Econoff met with Deputy Minister of Economic Development Tamara Kovsiridze on February 26. Kovsiridze said an agreement has been reached in principle with the Russians to allow Georgian officials to staff border crossings between Russia and Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhaz [...] | 2008-02-29 14:01:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL WTO USTR GG RU |
08TBILISI346 | CODEL PRICE MEETS GEORGIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS, [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 23-24 members of the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC) visited Tbilisi to support democratic reform and fair elections. CODEL Price met with ruling National Movement MPs and Parliament staff over dinner and, on February 24, met with opposition leaders fr [...] | 2008-02-29 14:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM OVIP KDEM GG |
08TBILISI35 | SENATOR LUGAR'S JANUARY 10 MEETING WITH MIKHEIL [...] (C) Summary: During a January 10 refueling stop in Tbilisi, Senator Richard Lugar met with Mikheil Saakashvili and Acting President Nino Burjanadze. Although Saakashvili's re-election as President of Georgia has not yet been confirmed, acting President Nino Burjanadze clearly deferred to his [...] | 2008-01-10 13:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET ENRG MARR GG |
08TBILISI362 | NEW DIRECTION FOR PRISON REFORM? [...] (U) Summary: Representatives from the Penitentiary Service (PS) and Ministry Of Justice (MOJ) announced March 4 that Tbilisi Prison Number 5 pre-trial detainment facility is now officially closed. All prisoners have been transferred to other facilities and MOJ plans to demolish the building [...] | 2008-03-05 13:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM GG |
08TBILISI364 | ELECTION NEGOTIATIONS END (FOR NOW) IN [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 4 Georgia's Parliament approved the first reading of an amendment to the Constitution on elections. The proposed amendment changes the composition of Parliament to 75 party list seats, and 75 "majoritarian" single mandate seats. This move was in opposition to the poli [...] | 2008-03-05 14:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
08TBILISI384 | GEORGIA BI-WEEKLY UPDATE MARCH 7 [...] This cable contains current items of political, economic, and social interest concerning Georgia during the weeks of February 23-March 7. New Board for Public Broadcaster -------------------------------- 2. On February 26, the Georgian Parliament approved the new composition of the Supervi [...] | 2008-03-07 11:58:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM GG |
08TBILISI385 | EX-DEFENSE MINISTER OKRUASHVILI ATTACKS PRESIDENT [...] On March 6, Georgian pro-opposition television station Kavkasia aired an interview with ex-Defense Minister of Georgia Irakli Okruashvili, leader of the opposition political party Movement for United Georgia. The interview was recorded in Paris, where Okruashvili is under home-arrest awaiting [...] | 2008-03-07 12:00:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR KBIO GG |
08TBILISI387 | GEORGIA MINISTER OF ENERGY ON BTC PIPELINE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Georgian Minister of Energy Aleko Khetaguri on February 27. Khetaguri told the Ambassador that Georgia is not willing to approve expansion of the Baku Tbilisi Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline until it receives an explanation of BP's plans for re-opening the Baku-Supsa [...] | 2008-03-07 14:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI388 | GEORGIA STRONGLY PROTESTS RUSSIA'S WITHDRAWAL FROM [...] (SBU) Summary: On the evening of March 6, President Saakashvili told the Ambassador that Russia had unilaterally announced its withdrawal from the 1996 Decision by CIS member states to impose sanctions against Abkhazia. Saakashvili condemned the action, which he believed would lead to the R [...] | 2008-03-07 14:49:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV GG |
08TBILISI402 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador used his first official meeting with Nick Gvaramia, Minister of Justice to underscore the importance of rectifying problems identified previously to permit Parliamentary elections to take place in a transparent and positive environment. Ambassador stressed the need t [...] | 2008-03-11 14:55:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM GG |
08TBILISI403 | RULING PARTY AGAINST CHANGING ELECTORAL SYSTEM, [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and other Embassy officials raised the issue of the newly proposed Parliamentary electoral system with key MPs on March 11. Speaker Burjanadze told Ambassador Tefft that some in the opposition are now calling for a return to the "winner-take-all" system, although [...] | 2008-03-11 14:55:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM GG |
08TBILISI41 | A DAY AT THE POLLS IN GEORGIA [...] (U) Twenty teams of U.S. Embassy observers spread out across Georgia on January 5 to observe the presidential election from the opening of polls to the completion of the count late into the night. In addition to providing material for our reports on the conduct and the results of the election, [...] | 2008-01-11 13:43:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM GG |
08TBILISI437 | IRI NATIONAL VOTER SURVEY: NEW PUBLIC OPTIMISM [...] (C) Summary: The latest USAID-funded International Republican Institute (IRI) poll, based on 1,500 surveys conducted from February 19-27, shows more optimism about the future than was seen in September 2007 (reftel). More people said the country is going in the right direction than in Septem [...] | 2008-03-14 13:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI444 | RULING PARTY AMENDS GEORGIAN CONSTITUTION AGAIN, [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 12, the ruling National Movement (UNM) amended the Georgian Constitution to maintain 75 single-mandate Parliamentary seats for the upcoming election (reftel) and establish 75 party list seats. In response to the proposed amendment, the Labor Party called on all the op [...] | 2008-03-17 13:56:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI473 | USUPASHVILI: UNITED OPPOSITION BROKEN, NO EASY END [...] (C) Summary: On March 19, Republican Party Chairman David Usupashvili told Charge that the leadership of the United National Council of Opposition (UNC) and the New Rightists (NR) parties, weakened by their ongoing hunger strike (reftel),is nearly broken. According to Usupashvili, both the U [...] | 2008-03-19 14:44:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI483 | SOUTH OSSETIANS AGAIN BLOCK WORK OF OSCE [...] (SBU) OSCE officials have described to us how representatives of the South Ossetian de facto army and de facto intelligence service stopped an OSCE/UN team March 19 and confiscated cameras and video equipment. OSCE intends to send a letter to de facto officials to protest this interference, w [...] | 2008-03-20 13:17:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL OSCE GG |
08TBILISI496 | PATRIARCH CALLS FOR DIALOGUE, BURJANADZE REJECTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 20, Georgian Patriarch Ilia II called on the United National Council of Opposition (UNC) and the New Rightists (NR) to end their hunger strike (reftel) and return to dialogue with the ruling National Movement (UNM). At the same time, Ilia II called on the UNM to "take [...] | 2008-03-21 13:23:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI497 | GEORGIA BI-WEEKLY UPDATE MARCH 21 [...] This cable contains current items of political, economic, and social interest concerning Georgia during the weeks of March 8-21. Okruashvili Asserts Control of Shrinking Party --------------------------------------------- - 2. On March 15, the political party United Georgia elected its most [...] | 2008-03-21 13:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM GG |
08TBILISI503 | THE TROUBLE WITH GEORGIA'S OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: Recent protests and a hunger strike (ref A) by opposition MPs demonstrate the continuing radicalization of Georgia's opposition. The opposition's confrontational style and inability to negotiate effectively with the government beg the more important question: Why is Georgia's op [...] | 2008-03-24 11:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
08TBILISI509 | ELECTION CODE AMENDED FOR MAY 21 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary: On March 21, the Parliament of Georgia amended Georgia's election code (reftel) by a vote of 134-2. All but one opposition member of Parliament boycotted the proceeding. The deadline for registering political parties is March 26. This cable summarizes the main points of the amen [...] | 2008-03-26 05:20:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI519 | FISCAL TRANSPARENCY IN GEORGIA [...] (U) Pursuant to reftel request, Embassy Tbilisi submits the following update of information on fiscal transparency in Georgia. 2. (SBU) Fiscal transparency in Georgia is much improved since the Rose Revolution in 2004. The Law on Budgetary Systems (December 29, 2004, as amended) specifies i [...] | 2008-03-27 06:07:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL GG |
08TBILISI527 | MAJOR IMPEDIMENTS REMAIN FOR IDPS SEEKING RETURN [...] (C) Summary: Despite recent Russian Foreign Ministry claims that a "majority" of ethnic Georgians have returned to Gali, nearly 230,000 of an estimated 270,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who fled Abkhazia during the 1992-3 war remain displaced and unable to return to their homes. S [...] | 2008-03-28 11:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
08TBILISI528 | GEORGIAN OPPOSITION HUNGER STRIKE ENDS, CAMPAIGN [...] (C) Summary: On March 25, after 16 days, the United National Council of Opposition (UNC) and the New Rightists (NR) party ended their hunger strike. They said they could not ignore a second appeal to stop by the Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Ilia II, after he visited them at Parl [...] | 2008-03-28 12:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI545 | GEORGIANS LOOK TO MAY 21 ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary: A Presidential decree on March 21 set the date for upcoming parliamentary elections on May 21. Against the backdrop of campaign preparations, events are unfolding quickly. The ruling National Movement (UNM) party replaced its Secretary General, effectively sidelining a leading r [...] | 2008-04-02 13:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI546 | OPCAT--GEORGIA WORKS ON IMPROVING PRISON CONDITIONS [...] (SBU) In June 2007 The Government of Georgia created an Inter-agency Coordination Council to address the issue of torture in prisons and other closed facilities. On March 31, this council met for the first time since September 2007 to discuss the action plan to implement the Optional Protoco [...] | 2008-04-02 13:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL GG |
08TBILISI567 | GEORGIA REACTS POSITIVELY TO NATO SUMMIT OUTCOME [...] Although Georgia did not receive a Membership Action (MAP) at the NATO summit in Bucharest, top Georgian officials have lauded the results as a major success, pointing to language in the April 3 summit communique that Georgia and Ukraine "will become members of NATO." In a broadcast from Bucha [...] | 2008-04-04 13:48:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
08TBILISI568 | GEORGIA BI-WEEKLY UPDATE APRIL 4 [...] This cable contains current items of political, economic, and social interest concerning Georgia during the weeks of March 22-April 4. Transport Links with Russia Re-Opening -------------------------------------- 2. Russia's closure of air and sea links with Georgia -- in effect since Octo [...] | 2008-04-04 13:51:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM GG |
08TBILISI590 | GEORGIAN CONCERN OVER RUSSIA'S "CREEPING [...] (C) Summary: In a series of recent meetings with the Group of Friends of the Secretary General, Georgian government officials have expressed their strong concern that Russia continues to take steps to increase ties with the breakaway republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In an April 8 m [...] | 2008-04-10 14:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
08TBILISI614 | GEORGIANS REMAIN CONCERNED OVER "CREEPING [...] (C) Summary: On April 11, Minister of Foreign Affairs David Bakradze called in Ambassador Tefft to express Georgia's disappointment with the U.S. decision not to support a Georgian intervention at the OSCE over a Russian request to negotiate the extradition of Russian prisoners in Abkhazia w [...] | 2008-04-14 13:01:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI645 | GEORGIA INFORMED OF U.S. APPOINTMENT OF MANPADS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-15 13:59:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PGOV PREL PTER PARM GG |
08TBILISI658 | GEORGIANS EXPRESS CONCERN OVER EXPULSION OF PRIEST [...] (SBU) The Ambassador received the following letter, dated April 11, from Deputy Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze, drawing attention to the apprehension of an ethnic Georgian priest by "Abkhazian military intelligence" and his expulsion from Abkhazia. Vashadze describes this case as a violation [...] | 2008-04-17 14:14:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF GG |
08TBILISI665 | GEORGIA BI-WEEKLY UPDATE APRIL 18 [...] (U) This cable contains current items of Political, Economic, and social interest concerning Georgia during the weeks of April 4-18. New Director of Public TV ------------------------- 2. (U) Levan Kubaneishvili, the new Director of Public Television, is the former head of TBC Studios, a [...] | 2008-04-18 14:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM GG |
08TBILISI666 | GEORGIA PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS UPDATE [...] (C) On April 8, the Central Election Commission (CEC) kicked off Georgia's parliamentary elections and presented their election strategy to the international community. OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights' (ODIHR) election observation mission (EOM) began operations on Ap [...] | 2008-04-18 14:35:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI67 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED - RESOLVING KOSOVO,S STATUS IN [...] (C) DCM delivered demarche as requested by reftel to Deputy Foreign Minister Gogi Manjgaladze on January 15. Manjgaladze welcomed the update on the anticipated process and timing for resolving Kosovo,s status. Manjgaladze said the MFA has not yet formulated a plan for how to respond to a Kos [...] | 2008-01-17 07:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI674 | PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION UPDATE 04-21-2008 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-21 13:47:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI676 | PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION UPDATE 04-21-2008 [...] Summary: Twelve registered parties/election blocs must submit their full party lists and majoritarian MP candidates by the evening of April 21. Once these lists are submitted, Georgia's May 21 parliamentary elections will be much clearer. In addition, the Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) a [...] | 2008-04-21 13:53:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI68 | GEORGIA: EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO COMBAT [...] In response to ref A, post provides information on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) in relation to the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG). This report combines input solicited from Georgian law enforcement officials, international organizat [...] | 2008-01-17 09:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPKO GG |
08TBILISI69 | WILL A WEAKER SAAKASHVILI GIVES RISE TO A STRONGER [...] (C) By narrowly crossing the fifty-percent threshold to gain a first-round victory January 5, Mikheil Saakashvili won another five-year term as Georgia's president. Nevertheless, the close result suggests that Georgian politics will be decidedly different in this term than in the first, when t [...] | 2008-01-17 09:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM GG |
08TBILISI707 | GEORGIA PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION UPDATE APRIL 24 [...] (U) Summary: On the evening of April 21, Speaker of Parliament Nino Burjanadze surprised most of Georgia and announced that she would not seek re-election May 21. Foreign Minister Davit Bakradze took her place atop the ruling United National Movement's (UNM) party list. Her announcement was [...] | 2008-04-24 15:17:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI712 | SEEKING INDEPENDENCE, ABKHAZ GET CLOSER TO RUSSIA [...] (C) During an April 18-20 visit to Abkhazia, we found Abkhaz de facto officials in an uncompromising mood, reiterating that they will never agree to be reintegrated into the Georgian state nor permit return of Georgian internally displaced persons (IDPs) under current conditions. They were pl [...] | 2008-04-29 13:56:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
08TBILISI713 | SANAKOYEV'S HOPES AND FEARS FOR SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (C) Dmitry Sanakoyev outlined for Washington and Embassy representatives April 21 his achievements in his first year as leader of the Georgian-recognized Temporary Administrative Unit of South Ossetia, and laid out his vision for a future in which young men in the region have other opportunitie [...] | 2008-04-29 13:58:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
08TBILISI714 | RUSSIA INCREASING NUMBER OF PEACEKEEPERS IN ABKHAZ [...] (C) Summary: On April 29, the commander of the CIS peacekeeping forces in Abkhazia, Sergei Chaban, sent a letter to Georgian Minister of Defense David Kezerashvili informing him that the CIS PKF will increase the size of its peacekeeping contingent in the Abkhaz conflict zone. In the letter [...] | 2008-04-29 14:23:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
08TBILISI718 | GEORGIA REACTS TO RUSSIAN PEACEKEEPING INCREASE [...] (C) On April 29, acting Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze told ambassadors and charges from the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, and the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) that the increase in strength of the Russian peacekeeping force was the latest in a series of Russian steps intended to d [...] | 2008-04-30 13:54:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS GG |
08TBILISI720 | GEORGIA FREEZES NEGOTIATIONS WITH RUSSIA ON WTO [...] (C) On April 28 the GOG issued a statement to the members of the working party on the accession of the Russian Federation to the World Trade Organization (WTO) wherein it announced that it is temporarily halting its bilateral negotiations with Russia until Russia rescinds the instructions issu [...] | 2008-04-30 13:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL WTO USTR GG RU |
08TBILISI724 | STATE MINISTER YAKOBASHVILI ON THE ABKHAZIA CRISIS [...] (C) State Minister for Reintegration Temuri Yakobashvili summarized his view of the situation in Abkhazia in a meeting with DCM on May 1, 2008, before departing on a tour of European capitals to build support for the Georgian peace initiative and discuss ideas for implementing it. Yakobashvil [...] | 2008-05-01 14:17:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS GG |
08TBILISI726 | GEORGIA PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION UPDATE MAY 1 [...] (C) Summary: On April 30, the United National Movement's (UNM) pollster told the Ambassador that the UNM is polling around 57 percent among likely voters in the May 21 election. This will likely result in another UNM constitutional majority. He expects at least three other opposition parties [...] | 2008-05-01 14:42:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI743 | REPUBLICANS COOL BUT RESIGNED TO NATIONAL MOVEMENT [...] (C) Summary: David Usupashvili, Chairman of the Republican Party of Georgia, spoke on April 23 with EUR/CARC Director Paul Wohlers. Usupashvili regretted the decision of Nino Burjanadze not to run for a parliamentary seat because it sets up a confrontation between the radical wing of the Unit [...] | 2008-05-02 14:42:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI749 | GEORGIA BI-WEEKLY UPDATE MAY 2 [...] This cable contains current items of political, economic, and social interest concerning Georgia during the weeks of April 19-May 2. Two New Ministers, One New Deputy for Reintegration --------------------------------------------- ------ 2. Even before voters go to the polls, the May 21 par [...] | 2008-05-05 13:53:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KDEM GG |
08TBILISI750 | RUSSIA COMPLETES PKF REINFORCEMENT, ABKHAZ CLAIM [...] (C) Summary: Russia completed its troop reinforcement of the (entirely Russian) CIS peacekeeping force over the weekend, bringing its total troop strength to somewhere between 2,500 and 3,000 soldiers, the upper limit allowed under the 1994 CIS decision governing the PKF. According to Unite [...] | 2008-05-05 14:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS GG |
08TBILISI751 | PARTIES FOCUS ON MAJORITARIAN RACES IN GEORGIA'S [...] Summary: On April 28, the Central Election Commission (CEC) approved the lists of candidates for the May 21 parliamentary elections that were submitted by political parties on April 21. Most of the party leaders, except Republicans, are both leading the party lists and running as majoritarian [...] | 2008-05-05 14:51:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR GG |
08TBILISI752 | RESPONSE TO ACTION CABLE 44903, ACTIVISTS FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-06 06:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL |
08TBILISI753 | INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS GROUP FINISHES INVESTIGATION [...] (C) Summary: The Georgian Ministry of Defense announced on May 5 that the group of international experts has completed its investigation of the April 20 shootdown (reftel) of a Georgian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The report has been cleared for release and will be presented to the Georg [...] | 2008-05-06 13:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS GG |
08TBILISI754 | GEORGIA WITHDRAWS FROM AIR DEFENSE COOPERATION [...] (U) Summary: The Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on May 5 that Georgia was withdrawing from a 1995 Air Defense Cooperation Agreement with Russia. Deputy Defense Minister Batu Kutelia explained to the media that the 1995 treaty was politically and technically incompatible with [...] | 2008-05-06 14:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MOPS GG |
08TBILISI756 | GEORGIA PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION UPDATE MAY 6 [...] (SBU) Summary: The environment surrounding Georgia's parliamentary election campaign degraded during the week. The Joint Opposition scuffled outside the Central Election Commission (CEC),while their youth wing did the same near the CEC Chairman's home. The Joint Opposition called for rallie [...] | 2008-05-06 14:13:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI765 | ELECTIONS UPDATE MAY 7 [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 6 President Saakashvili stated publicly that United National Movement (UNM) intimidation of local officials will not be tolerated. The Minister of Internal Affairs (MOIA) publicly made a similar statement the same day telling police their role is to provide a safe envir [...] | 2008-05-07 13:59:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI77 | SCENESETTER FOR COMMERCE SECRETARY GUTIERREZ'S [...] (SBU) Your visit to Tbilisi comes during the most significant period of political uncertainty in Georgia since the 2003 Rose Revolution brought Mikheil Saakashvili to power. The January 5 presidential election was judged by the U.S. Embassy, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Eu [...] | 2008-01-17 15:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON GG |
08TBILISI775 | ODIHR TELLS AMBASSADORS: SO FAR, SO GOOD ON [...] (SBU) Summary: ODIHR's Election Observation Mission (EOM) monitoring Georgia's parliamentary elections briefed the Diplomatic Corps on May 8. The EOM said neither the government nor opposition was pleased with its first interim report, suggesting its balance was accurate. Overall, ODIHR Hea [...] | 2008-05-08 16:47:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI803 | IAKOBASHVILI OUTLINES CIS PKF VIOLATIONS IN LETTER [...] Summary: On May 2, State Minister for Conflict Resolution Temur Iakobashvili sent a letter (faxed to EUR/CARC) to Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Jean Arnault, with copies to the Group of Friends, outlining Russian violations of various CIS agreements resulting from Ru [...] | 2008-05-15 13:07:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GG |
08TBILISI808 | DAS BRYZA'S MEETINGS WITH GEORGIA MINISTRY OF [...] (C) Summary: EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary Matt Bryza met on May 9 in Tbilisi with Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs (MOIA) Eka Zguladze and the Head of the MOIA Analytical Department, Shota Utiashvili. On May 12, he met separately with Minister of Internal Affairs Vano Merabishvili. Bryza [...] | 2008-05-16 11:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG RU |
08TBILISI819 | FOUR CIS PKF BRIEFLY DETAINED AFTER TRAFFIC [...] (C) Georgian media reported on May 18 that an armored vehicle from a CIS peacekeeping convoy hit a private vehicle while traveling to a PKF checkpoint on the Zugdidi side of the conflict zone. Reports claimed that the Russian troops were reinforcements for existing peacekeepers stationed on [...] | 2008-05-19 13:00:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
08TBILISI828 | GEORGIA PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION UPDATE MAY 20 [...] (SBU) Summary: As the election campaign entered its last week, ODIHR released its Second Interim Report on May 15. The report highlights active GOG election preparations, an extended deadline to check voter lists, increased campaign activity by opposition parties, and the broadly-equal TV cov [...] | 2008-05-20 15:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
08TBILISI829 | WEST GEORGIAN AUTHORITIES READY, OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff visited the city of Zugdidi in Georgia's Western Samegrelo region for a pre-election visit May 6-7. Poloff met with regional government, the District Election Commission (DEC),four political parties, NGOs and journalists, and conducted an interview on free and fair elec [...] | 2008-05-20 15:30:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
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