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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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09TBILISI121 | GEORGIA: FOLLOW ON QUESTIONS ON REMOVAL OF SUKHUMI [...] (U) This is an action request. Post requests Department's assistance in providing responses to the questions in paragraph 3. End action request. 2. (C) Poloffs delivered ref A demarche to Giorgi Dolidze, MFA's Deputy Director of the Security Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department [...] | 2009-01-23 13:21:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI1212 | GEORGIA: WEEKEND MEDIA REVIEW: PROTEST RALLY [...] (C) Summary: Non-parliamentary opposition leaders announced plans to hold a large-scale rally during Vice President Biden's visit to Georgia in July to demonstrate the opposition's strength and Georgia's "democratic aspirations." The non-parliamentary opposition's credibility suffered this [...] | 2009-07-01 14:17:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1213 | GEORGIA: GOG PROPOSES CANDIDATE FOR WHO REGIONAL [...] (SBU) On July 1, Ambassador Tefft met with Aleksandre Kvitashvili, Minister of Health, Labor and Social Welfare and Dr. Nata Menabde, Deputy Regional Director of the World Health Organization (WHO),Regional Office for Europe. Kvitashvili introduced Dr. Menabde and asked that the U.S. suppor [...] | 2009-07-01 14:22:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV WHO GG |
09TBILISI122 | GEORGIA OKAYS GAS TO SOUTH OSSETIA, ITERA ONLY [...] (C) Summary: On January 20, the Georgian Government issued an exception to the Law on Occupied Territories to Itera-Georgia in order to provide gas to South Ossetia. Itera-Georgia General Director David Beradze confirmed that Itera concluded a commercial contract with South Ossetia on Januar [...] | 2009-01-23 14:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG PGOV RU GG |
09TBILISI1221 | GEORGIA: RUSSIA THREATENS MILITARY ACTION AFTER [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: A Russian solider crossed into undisputed Georgian territory near Perevi on July 1. He hid in the home of a local resident until the MOIA took custody of him at approximately 2200 on July 1 when he requested asylum. [...] | 2009-07-02 13:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI1222 | GEORGIA: RUSSIA THREATENS MILITARY ACTION AFTER [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: A Russian solider crossed into undisputed Georgian territory near Perevi on July 1. He hid in the home of a local resident until the MOIA took custody of him at approximately 2200 on July 1 when he requested asylum. [...] | 2009-07-02 13:43:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI1233 | GEORGIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ITSO ARBITRATION [...] (SBU) On 02 July 2009, Post provided reftel points to Georgian MFA officials including Khatuna Salukvadze, Director of the Department of the Americas. Poloff reinforced reftel points with MFA officials and requested consideration of the request in the near term. MFA promised to pass the info [...] | 2009-07-06 13:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ECON ECPS EFIN KTIA PREL TSPA GG |
09TBILISI1234 | GEORGIA: FORMER PM GRIGOL MGALOBISHVILI NAMED NATO [...] (C) Summary. Grigol Mgalobishvili, former Prime Minister and career diplomat, was approved by the Georgian Parliament as Georgia's Permanent Representative to NATO on June 26, succeeding Revaz Beshidze. Mgalobishvili's tenure as Prime Minister, though short, was relatively well received(re [...] | 2009-07-06 13:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1235 | GEORGIA: MAESTRO TV GETS NATIONAL BROADCAST LICENSE [...] (C) Summary/Comment: On July 3, the Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC) granted pro-opposition Maestro TV's request for a ten-year satellite broadcasting license. This license will allow Maestro to broadcast nationwide. The decision was delayed for roughly a month by the GN [...] | 2009-07-06 13:50:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1237 | GEORGIA: UPDATE ON DEFECTION OF RUSSIAN SOLDIER [...] (C) Summary. The Russian soldier who requested asylum from Georgia met with his family in Tbilisi on July 4 and 5. EUMM, UNHCR, along with the Swiss (as the protective power for Russia in Georgia),Georgians and Russians, coordinated these meetings between Artemiev and his family. Artemiev's [...] | 2009-07-06 14:11:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI1243 | GEORGIA: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES RULE OF LAW WITH [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Minister of Justice Zurab Adeishvili on July 6 to discuss USG assistance in apprehending a wanted former advisor to President Shevardnadze, Temur Basilia. Basilia is believed to be in the U.S. The Ambassador took the opportunity to raise a number of is [...] | 2009-07-07 12:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1248 | GEORGIA: RESPONSE TO OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION REQUEST [...] (U) Summary and comment. In response to reftel A, post suggests raising human rights concerns in the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. With recent Russian vetoes of the OSCE and UN observer missions, outside access to vulnerable populations in both regions is nearly non-exist [...] | 2009-07-08 14:48:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM GG RU |
09TBILISI1250 | GEORGIA: PROPOSED PROTEST LAW FURY - MORE SHOW [...] (C) Summary/Comment: A proposed draft law to clarify the existing law on protests has been subject to extensive criticism by the non-parliamentary opposition. A preliminary assessment by Post and our Tbilisi-based European diplomatic colleagues reveals the law to be well within the European [...] | 2009-07-08 15:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1283 | GEORGIA: IFC EVALUATES GEORGIA'S SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary/Comment: On June 29, the International Finance Committee (IFC) released the results of its Sector Competitiveness Overview of Georgia. The Georgian Government requested the IFC conduct the competitiveness survey to help them identify strategic areas to focus investment in hope [...] | 2009-07-09 12:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EIND EINV ETRD PREL GG |
09TBILISI1285 | GEORGIA DENIES FLYING DRONES IN ABKHAZIA [...] (C) De facto Abkhaz authorities have publicly accused Georgia of flying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) over Abkhazia on July 7. The de facto foreign ministry claims that two Georgian UAVs flew over the village of Saberio in Gali district and Khukhun in Tkvarcheli district. The Georgian MFA i [...] | 2009-07-09 14:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1289 | GEORGIA: PATRIARCH DISCUSSES CHURCH DELEGATION TO [...] (C) Summary: The Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC),Ilia II discussed relations between Russia and Georgia, including relations between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and GOC over dinner with the Ambassador on July 7. Former Georgian Ambassador to Moscow Zurab Abashidze an [...] | 2009-07-10 13:39:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF RU GG |
09TBILISI1291 | GEORGIA: IRI POLL SHOWS SAAKASHVILI MORE POPULAR, [...] (C) Summary/Comment: An International Republican Institute (IRI) poll was carried out from June 16th to June 25th, 2009 and polled 1500 Georgians aged 18 years and older in face-to-face interviews. The International Republican Institute found few surprises in its June polling data. The stat [...] | 2009-07-10 14:04:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1292 | EXBS: GEORGIA MONTHLY REPORT JUNE 2009 [...] The Georgian Coast Guard (GCG) anniversary ceremony will be held at the GCG base in Poti on July 25. A U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) delegation has been invited to attend. 2. The newly assigned Maritime Advisor (MA),USCG LT Daniel Owen will report to Tbilisi on July 13th for a two year assignment [...] | 2009-07-13 11:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP GG |
09TBILISI1293 | GEORGIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON GICNT UPDATED MODEL [...] PolOff delivered reftel demarche to MFA's Second Secretary of New Threats and Arms Control Division Vasil Rubashvili on July 6. He agreed to review the document and provide comments. Post will forward any comments received to POC Zac Palmer. TEFFT [...] | 2009-07-13 11:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER GG |
09TBILISI1303 | GEORGIA: GOVERNMENT LESSONS LEARNED FROM THREE [...] (SBU) Embassy Prologue: "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in November 1942 who just might well have been describing Georgian internal politics in July 2009. End Prologue. 2. [...] | 2009-07-14 14:02:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1304 | GEORGIA: NON-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION - STUCK IN [...] (C) Summary/Comment: This is the second cable in a series analyzing opposition protests this spring against the Saakashvili government. This cable focuses on the non-parliamentary opposition which appears to have achieved little if anything positive from four months of street protests. Po [...] | 2009-07-14 14:12:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1305 | GEORGIA: PROTEST FALLOUT: LOTS OF LOSERS, BUT WILL [...] (C) Summary/Comment: This is the third in a series of three cables reviewing the longer term implications of the protests in Tbilisi this spring. The ultimate fallout from the protests which began in April is still to be determined. Some political actors among the non-parliamentary oppositi [...] | 2009-07-14 14:20:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1309 | GEORGIA: FAITH AND LANGUAGE NOT ENOUGH; GEORGIAN [...] (U) Summary. Georgian academics, artists and journalists gathered on June 18th at the Ambassador's residence to discuss the question of Georgian identity. Though specifically not intended to be a discussion of the current political situation, contemporary and historical politics were conside [...] | 2009-07-15 12:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI131 | GEORGIA: GAS RETURNS TO SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (SBU) Itera-Georgia confirmed on Saturday, January 24 that it received approval from the Russian Government (reftel) to import gas from GazProm to sell to South Ossetia. Itera-Georgia repressurized the line and began supplying natural gas to South Ossetia early on January 24. This resumes [...] | 2009-01-26 13:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI132 | GEORGIA: POLITICIANS HIT THE AIRWAVES [...] (C) Summary/Comment: In a televised first, President Saakashvili answered four hours of call-in questioning from the general public on January 23. Opposition figures called the session a "Putin-like" stunt. In our view, the event actually resembled more of a "town-hall" political event and [...] | 2009-01-26 14:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1327 | GEORGIA: PROTEST LAW PASSED - RAKLES OPPONENTS [...] (C) Summary: The revision to the Law on Protests (reftel),which strengthens the Government's authorities, was passed July 17. Critics have questioned the need to enact the law so quickly and raised concerns about the provision that extended the maximum term of administrative detention fro [...] | 2009-07-20 12:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1339 | GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI OUTLINES NEXT STEPS ON REFORM [...] (C) Summary and comment. In a nationally televised speech to Parliament July 20, President Saakashvili outlined his vision for next steps on reform and invited all elements of society to enter renewed dialogue. Key themes included the election code and local elections, constitutional and jud [...] | 2009-07-21 13:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL OVIP OTRA RS GG |
09TBILISI1355 | GEORGIA: INFORMING ISAF OF FUTURE OF MANAS [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, on 17 July Post delivered talking points informing NATO allies and non-NATO contributors to ISAF about the operation of a transit center at Manas Airport to MFA Department of the Americas First Secretary Nana Shonia. Shonia expressed interest in the details and p [...] | 2009-07-24 13:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF GG |
09TBILISI1358 | GEORGIA: RUSSIANS TIGHTEN CONTROL IN GALI [...] (C) Summary and comment. In recent weeks Russian Border Guards have tightened control over Abkhaz administrative boundary line crossing points. In a July 22 incident, they detained over 20 ethnic Georgians attempting to depart Abkhazia, confiscated Georgian passports from nine of them, and p [...] | 2009-07-24 14:08:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1359 | GEORGIA: VP BIDEN'S VISIT/SPEECH PLEASES EVERYBODY [...] (SBU) Summary/Comment. The Vice President's two-day trip to Tbilisi received extensive coverage by the Georgian press and elicited an overwhelmingly positive response from ruling party and opposition politicians, the media, and Georgian political analysts alike. VP Biden's speech at the Ge [...] | 2009-07-24 14:10:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREF PREL GG |
09TBILISI1382 | GEORGIA: HEAD OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING RESIGNS [...] (C) Summary: Levan Kubaneishvili's July 20 resignation from his position as Georgia's public broadcasting (GPB) general director appears to be a tacit recognition of the continuing political battles that have swirled around the station for months. He has not publicly explained his resig [...] | 2009-07-30 15:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1408 | GEORGIA: MAJORITY NAMES LIKELY SUCCESSOR TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The United National Movement (UNM) has nominated Giorgi Tugushi to replace Sozar Subari as ombudsman. As the ruling party's candidate, Tugushi's confirmation by Parliament is all but guaranteed with a vote expected on July 31 (although it had not taken place by COB). Althoug [...] | 2009-07-31 14:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1409 | GEORGIA: INCIDENTS RAISE CONCERNS, MECHANISMS MEET [...] (C) Summary and comment. Deputy Foreign Minister Nalbandov told the Ambassador the government is concerned about a spate of recent incidents, especially as the August 7 first anniversary of Georgia's 2008 war with Russia approaches. An explosive device killed the father of a family of IDPs t [...] | 2009-07-31 14:51:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1426 | GEORGIA: HIGH LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT 64TH UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-03 14:13:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA OVIP CVIS UNGA KSEP GG |
09TBILISI1427 | GEORGIA: ADDITIONAL PROVOCATIONS HEIGHTEN TENSION [...] (C) Summary and comment. On August 2 Russian Border Guards set up poles in the village of Kveshi, 200 meters outside of the South Ossetian administrative boundary, as an apparent first step to establish a checkpoint; on August 3, the Russians and the poles were gone. On August 1 South Osseti [...] | 2009-08-03 14:47:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI148 | RUSSIAN SOLDIER DESERTS, SEEKS ASYLUM IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary and comment. On January 26 a Russian soldier based in the Akhalgori Valley inside South Ossetia deserted his post, crossed the administrative boundary at Odzisi, flagged down a Georgian Interior Ministry car, and requested asylum, based on his difficult living conditions. The Min [...] | 2009-01-28 13:06:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF MOPS KBTS RU GG |
09TBILISI1505 | GEORGIA: U.S. TRAINING STARTS SEPTEMBER 1 FOR [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) Summary: Members of the Georgian ISAF Deployment Training Program (GIDTP),led by the United States Marine Corps (USMC),will begin training a Georgian infantry battalion on September 1. The training will continue through Feb [...] | 2009-08-07 11:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PTER GG |
09TBILISI1508 | GEORGIA AND U.S. SIGN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY [...] On August 6, the U.S. and Georgia signed the "Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Georgia on Science and Technology Cooperation." The Ambassador signed for the United States and Minister of Education and Science Nika Gvaramia signed for Geor [...] | 2009-08-07 13:09:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL TSPL GG |
09TBILISI1510 | GEORGIA: THE REMAKING OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING [...] (C) Summary: Three seats on the public broadcasting board of trustees were filled on July 31 with remarkably little protest from within the parliament. The three men selected are generally highly respected for their objectiveness and better known for their sound academic work than for any p [...] | 2009-08-07 13:55:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1512 | GEORGIA: DEAL STRUCK TO PUSH BACK BY-ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Parliamentary minority faction Christian Democratic Movement (CDM) convinced the ruling United National Movement party (UNM) to postpone until 2010 by-elections in three single-mandate, majoritarian constituencies set for September 27. The by-elections will now be scheduled [...] | 2009-08-07 13:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1513 | GEORGIA: UPDATE ON ALLEGED ATTACKS ON OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary/Comment: For the past week, Post has urged the Government to provide more details and investigate alleged beatings of opposition activists. On August 2, former Parliamentary Speaker and opposition leader Nino Burjanadze from the Democratic Movement-United Georgia (DMUG) party in [...] | 2009-08-07 13:58:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1514 | GEORGIA: MARKING THE AUGUST 7 ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY [...] (U) Summary: Georgians commemorated the one-year anniversary of the August 2008 conflict with numerous events around the country, including a mid-day visit by President Saakashvili to a cemetery containing the bodies of soldiers killed in the war, a nationwide moment of silence at 3 pm, an [...] | 2009-08-07 14:14:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS GG |
09TBILISI1517 | GEORGIA: INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO ABKHAZIA AND [...] (C) Summary and comment. Immediately following the August 2008 war between Russia and Georgia, our small USG aid programs in Abkhazia and South Ossetia were closed, with the exception of HALO Trust's demining program in Abkhazia. Other international donors, including the European Commission ( [...] | 2009-08-10 08:49:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS EAID SOCI AID GG |
09TBILISI1519 | GEORGIA: UNEASY CALM AS WAR ANNIVERSARY COMES AND [...] (C) Summary. August 5 and 6 were uneasily calm after several days of incidents and allegations, followed by five Georgians being kidnapped and returned unharmed on August 7. On August 3, Georgian and South Ossetian forces traded allegations of an attack near Plavismani and Otrevi, and on Augu [...] | 2009-08-10 12:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1524 | GEORGIA: AMBASSADOR FRIED DISCUSSES GEORGIAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: During his August 5-6 visit to Tbilisi, Special Envoy for Guantanamo Bay Ambassador Daniel Fried discussed with a wide-range of Senior Georgian officials the details of how Georgia planned to implement its offer to accept a number of detainees currently detained at Guantanamo B [...] | 2009-08-11 11:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET | PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI1525 | GEORGIA: AMBASSADOR FRIED MEETS WITH GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his visit to Tbilisi on August 5 and 6, Special Envoy for Guantanamo Bay Ambassador Daniel Fried met with a range of senior Georgian officials, including Minister of Foreign Affairs Grigol Vashadze, Secretary of the National Security Council Eka Tkeshelashvili, Minister [...] | 2009-08-11 11:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RR GG |
09TBILISI1526 | GEORGIA: NATIONAL FORUM - QUIETLY BECOMING A PLAYER [...] (C) Summary/Comment: In the wake of three months of protests, the National Forum seems to have found a message that resonates with the Georgian public. More importantly, National Forum leaders have shown a willingness to do the hard work necessary to build a grass-roots party despite limit [...] | 2009-08-11 11:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1528 | GEORGIA: NO SURPRISES IN SELECTION OF PUBLIC TV'S [...] (C) Summary/Comment: On August 10 Georgia Public Broadcasting's (GPB) Board of Trustees elected Gia Chanturia as the new GPB General Director. Perceived as the ruling United National Movement's (UNM) candidate, Chanturia was widely expected to be selected for the position (ref A). Chanturia i [...] | 2009-08-12 07:21:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1541 | GEORGIAN REACTIONS TO THE MEDVEDEV-YUSHCHENKO [...] (U) Summary: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's August 11, 2009, letter and accompanying video address (available widely on the internet) to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has dominated Georgian headlines and raised questions about Moscow's intentions. In the letter, Medvedev specif [...] | 2009-08-13 14:09:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV RU UK GG |
09TBILISI1543 | MR. PUTIN COMES TO GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary and comment. Russian Prime Minister Putin visited Abkhazia August 12, renewing Russia's commitment to Abkhaz "independence" and promising nearly USD 500 million in spending on military infrastructure. Abkhaz de facto "president" Bagapsh called the visit an example of the "dynamic [...] | 2009-08-13 14:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1551 | GEORGIA: OPPOSITION PLEASED WITH RECENT MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: The August 7 National Security Council Meeting attended by several opposition leaders, both parliamentary and non-parliamentary, and an August 12 meeting between opposition leaders and the Minister of Internal Affairs to discuss alleged political repression of opposition activi [...] | 2009-08-14 14:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1553 | EXBS: GEORGIA MONTHLY REPORT JULY 2009 [...] The Maritime Advisor (MA),U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) LT Daniel Owen, reported to Tbilisi on July 13th. EXBS Advisor (EA) Charles Hiscock left Tbilisi for annual leave in the States on July 16 with a return to Tbilisi projected for August 3. 2. $200,000 will be allocated during the first week [...] | 2009-08-17 12:54:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP GG |
09TBILISI1568 | GEORGIA: COURT RULES THAT BURJANADZE MUST PAY [...] (C) Summary: Nino Burjanadze (Democratic Movement - United Georgia) has been ordered by a Tbilisi court to pay 1.2 million lari (approximately USD 715,000) for her tax bill for her dacha in Tkneti, just outside of Tbilisi. The court upheld the assessment of the Ministry of Finance which Bu [...] | 2009-08-19 13:09:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1575 | GEORGIA: DAS BRYZA HONORED FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO [...] (C) Summary. Matthew Bryza paid his farewell visit as Deputy Assistant Secretary to Georgia August 9-11, meeting with senior officials and receiving a Golden Fleece award from President Saakashvili for his contributions to Georgian-American relations. After the ceremony, Bryza and Saakashvil [...] | 2009-08-20 14:23:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1580 | GEORGIA: MOIA FOLLOWS THROUGH, NON-PARLIAMENTARY [...] (SBU) Summary: As a result of the August 12 meeting between opposition leaders and the MoIA (ref A),a dozen detainees have been released on bond. The MoIA continues to review the 44 cases that Irakli Alasania (Our Georgia - Free Democrats) provided during the meeting as well as other cases [...] | 2009-08-21 13:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1581 | GEORGIA: ENDING MEMBERSHIP IN CIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 18, 2009, Georgia's membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) organization officially expired, following the one year mandatory wait period after officially informing the organization f its intentions on August 14, 2008 in the aftermath of the war wi [...] | 2009-08-21 14:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RS GG |
09TBILISI1582 | GEORGIA: FUTURE ENGAGEMENT WITH ABKHAZIA AND UN [...] (C) Summary and Comment. In recent meetings, UN Special Representative Johann Verbeke and other European diplomats have proposed various ideas on the future of the international community's engagement with the breakaway regions, and a possible new role for the UN. Expressing satisfaction th [...] | 2009-08-24 04:56:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI1587 | GEORGIAN COAST GUARD CRACKS DOWN ON ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary and comment. On August 15 and 18 the Georgian Coast Guard detained two vessels for violations of the Law on Occupied Territories and other infractions, including for traveling in restricted Black Sea waters off the coast of Abkhazia. Although both vessels were stopped more than [...] | 2009-08-24 14:48:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHSA PGOV EWWT ETRD CB FR PM RS |
09TBILISI1588 | GEORGIA: MINISTER OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SACKED [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Nika Gilauri fired Minister of Economic Development Lasha Zhvania on August 21, ostensibly for poor performance. Zhvania held a near simultaneous press conference in which he announced he was resigning from the Ministry due in part to interference by others in th [...] | 2009-08-24 15:13:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI1602 | GEORGIA SEEKS U.S. HELP IN PROMOTING UNGA IDP [...] (SBU) Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department Sergi Kapanadze told emboffs on August 25 that the EU has decided to support the draft UN General Assembly resolution entitled "Status of Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia a [...] | 2009-08-25 14:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF UNGA RS GG |
09TBILISI1625 | GEORGIA: IRI FOCUS GROUPS - ROSNER POLL INDICATE [...] (C) Summary: Recent IRI focus groups along with a United National Movement (UNM) poll indicate that President Saakashvili enjoys solid support and a large majority view that it is likely he will serve out his presidential term which ends in 2013. According to the August 8-12 UNM poll condu [...] | 2009-08-27 14:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1627 | GEORGIA: LEGAL QUESTIONS SURROUNDING OCCUPIED AREAS [...] (U) This is an action message; please see paragraphs 9-11. 2. (C) Summary. Recent seizures by the Georgian Coast Guard of Black Sea vessels suspected of violating various Georgian laws, including the Law on Occupied Territories, have raised questions about the legal basis for Georgia's enf [...] | 2009-08-27 14:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHSA ETRD ETTC EWWT RS GG |
09TBILISI1628 | GEORGIAN MINISTER OF DEFENSE REPLACED [...] (U) On August 27, President Saakashvili removed Defense Minister Davit Sikharulidze from his position. Saakashvili named Deputy Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia the new Minister of Defense. Sikharulidze, also the former Georgian Ambassador to the U.S., reportedly will remain in the governmen [...] | 2009-08-27 14:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI1634 | GEORGIA: READING MISHA'S MIND: WHY A NEW DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary. Since President Saakashvili tapped Bacho Akhalaia to replace Dato Sikharulidze as Minster of Defense on August 27, speculation on Saakashvili's motivations have swept through Tbilisi. Senior Georgian officials have repeated to the Ambassador on multiple occasions in the last s [...] | 2009-08-31 14:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS PTER RS GG |
09TBILISI164 | GEORGIA: UNOMIG OBSERVES SNIPER PATROL IN ABKHAZIA [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. On January 22 a UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) patrol in Abkhazia saw seven individuals in unmarked camouflage patrolling near the village of Gvashigverdi, just inside the administrative boundary. Among other weapons, the group carried three SVD sniper ri [...] | 2009-01-29 14:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1643 | GEORGIA: CONCERNS OVER RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA, [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze called in the U.S. and UK ambassadors August 31 to request urgent assistance on two matters. First, the Georgians learned that four African countries -- Burundi, Central African Republ [...] | 2009-09-01 14:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHSA EWWT UNGA BY CT ML PU RS GG |
09TBILISI1644 | GEORGIA: TROUBLING HUMAN RIGHTS TRENDS IN ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary. The departure of UNOMIG and arrival of Russian Border Guards have not yet caused a new exodus of ethnic Georgian Gali residents from Abkhazia, according to local observers. Conditions, however, have deteriorated, and the local population is more nervous than ever. Problems incl [...] | 2009-09-01 14:35:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI165 | GEORGIA: THE RULING PARTY REFLECTS, DEVELOPS [...] (C) Summary/Comment: While highly confident in their ability to serve out their mandates, the leaders of the United National Movement (UNM) have gone through a period of self-evaluation as to how best to effectuate their political and policy aims in the coming year. UNM is poised to resume [...] | 2009-01-29 14:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1652 | GEORGIA: DEFENSE MINISTER AKHALAIA SEEKS TO [...] (C) Summary. Newly-appointed Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia met NATO resident Ambassadors September 2 in a "getting-to-know" you meeting. Akhalaia stressed that there would be no change in MOD priorities -- NATO integration, modernization of the armed forces and "preserving the peace" wer [...] | 2009-09-02 13:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS PREL GG |
09TBILISI1653 | GEORGIA: INCIDENT PREVENTION MECHANISMS HIT STRIDE [...] (C) Summary and comment. Recent meetings of Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRMs) for both Abkhazia and South Ossetia have showed progress toward the original concept: a forum enabling regular exchange of information and the pragmatic discussion of incidents and the security e [...] | 2009-09-02 14:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1665 | GEORGIA: ABKHAZIA STEPS UP RHETORIC ON BLACK SEA [...] (C) Summary and comment. On September 2 Abkhaz de facto "president" Bagapsh ordered his naval forces to attack any Georgian vessel entering what he considers Abkhaz territorial waters. Following Georgian seizures of ships traveling to Abkhazia for violations of Georgian law and Russian prom [...] | 2009-09-04 15:14:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHSA EWWT MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1669 | GEORGIA: RE-ENGAGING WITH ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary. One year after the U.S. ceased nearly all aid to the breakaway regions in the aftermath of the Russia-Georgia war, the time is right to re-engage with Abkhazia. The Georgian government and the Abkhaz de facto authorities both support the idea, and U.S. long-term goals are bett [...] | 2009-09-08 12:01:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID OEXC RS GG |
09TBILISI1674 | GEORGIA: WHAT IS GOING ON WITH NINO BURJANADZE? [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Despite her almost complete lack of political support, Burjanadze, likely because of her past international role as Georgia's acting President (twice) and well-known Speaker as well as the on-going activities of her husband, still commands the GoG's attention. A growing [...] | 2009-09-08 14:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI168 | GEORGIA: NON PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION CALLS FOR [...] (C) Summary/Comment: The non-parliamentary opposition announced and distributed its Declaration of Political Parties and Civil Society Organizations of Georgia (Declaration) which calls for President Saakashvili's resignation; early presidential and parliamentary elections; and the establish [...] | 2009-01-30 14:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI169 | GEORGIA: THE ECONOMY IS SAAKASHVILI'S TOP PRIORITY [...] (C) Summary. Although in better financial shape than some of its neighbors, Georgia is starting to suffer from the overall international economic malaise. Georgia's banking sector remains sound due to high liquidity and conservative lending policies, but experts worry that a likely devaluat [...] | 2009-01-30 14:42:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI17 | GEORGIA'S ENVIRONMENT MINISTER PLANS REFORMS [...] (SBU) Begin summary. During a December 23 meeting with the Ambassador, new Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, Giorgi Khachidze, was upbeat and energized about his plans for reforms, including the finalization of a strategic environmental plan for the country. He desc [...] | 2009-01-06 13:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SENV SCUL BEXP AID GG |
09TBILISI170 | GEORGIAN PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS, FINANCE MINISTER [...] (C) After a prolonged illness over the past few months, including extensive treatment in Europe, Prime Minister Mgaloblishvili submitted his resignation to the President on January 30. Although only 35 years old, Mgaloblishvili is suffering from kidney disease and as reported reftel, is visi [...] | 2009-01-30 14:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI171 | GEORGIA: GOVT AGREES TO LIMIT OFFENSIVE CAPABILITY [...] (C) Summary and comment. In a briefing for diplomats, EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) staff provided information about the January 26 agreement between the EUMM and the Georgian Ministry of Defense (MOD). The EUMM military advisor judged that the limitations the Georgians voluntarily imposed upo [...] | 2009-01-30 14:47:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI1713 | GEORGIA: ABKHAZ POLITICS HEAT UP AS ELECTIONS DRAW [...] (C) Summary and comment. Several recent incidents in Abkhazia point to heightened political tension in the area, including de facto "president" Bagapsh's order to his naval forces to attack Georgian ships entering Abkhaz water (reftel),the passage and repeal of the law on "citizenship" for e [...] | 2009-09-11 13:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF RU GG |
09TBILISI1714 | GEORGIA: FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT AND SHIP SEIZURES [...] (C) Summary and comment. The latest round of the incident prevention and response mechanism (IPRM) meetings took place on September 3 in Ergneti for the South Ossetian side and September 8 in Gali for the Abkhaz side. The atmosphere during the South Ossetian IPRM was tense and a considerable [...] | 2009-09-11 13:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1721 | EXBS: GEORGIA MONTHLY REPORT AUGUST 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-14 14:33:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP GG |
09TBILISI1729 | GEORGIA: QUAD DEMARCHE ON GEORGIAN SHIP SEIZURES [...] (C) As requested, Charge joined the German, French and UK Ambassadors in a September 16 meeting to deliver the points contained ref a to Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze. The Quad group reviewed the points and stressed that the decision to deliver this demarche jointly was intended [...] | 2009-09-16 14:08:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL GG RS |
09TBILISI1730 | GEORGIA: PREPARED TO SUPPORT USG ON IRAN, BUT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-16 14:10:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PREL PARM IAEA IR AORC GG |
09TBILISI1735 | GEORGIA: PRESIDENT SAAKASHVILI'S TO-DO LIST AT UNGA [...] (C) Summary. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili will be looking closely for evidence of any change in U.S. policy toward Georgia when he meets with the Secretary on the margins of the UNGA. According to several key presidential advisors, Saakashvili will seek reassurance at the highest [...] | 2009-09-17 13:20:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNGA GG |
09TBILISI1738 | GEORGIA: IRANIAN INVESTMENT IN HYDROPOWER [...] (U) This is a guidance request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) Charge was called in September 9 by Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Nalbandov with a response to the points contained reftel. The initial points, which cautioned Georgia about the negative consequences of accepti [...] | 2009-09-18 13:19:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ENRG IR GG |
09TBILISI1739 | GEORGIA WORRIES ABOUT BELARUSAN RECOGNITION OF [...] (C) Summary. Since Venezuela's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Georgian policymakers have warned of a "cascade of recognitions" that could occur should Belarus follow suit. Belarusan President Lukashenko's September 15 statement that the Parliament would consider recognition when [...] | 2009-09-18 14:33:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI1742 | Georgia: Visit of Senate Foreign Relations Staff [...] (U) Summary: Staff members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) Steven Feldstein, Jason Bruder, and Dillon Guthrie, visited Georgia from August 27 to August 30 and met with a variety of government, civil society, development and international representatives. Themes discussed inclu [...] | 2009-09-21 07:10:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI1745 | GEORGIA: LIFE ON THE BRINK IN GALI [...] (C) Summary. A September 11 trip into Abkhazia confirmed many concerns about the marginal existence facing ethnic Georgian residents of Gali. Emboffs observed decrepit housing, execrable roads, collapsing schools, insufficient health care facilities, horse-drawn carts, and insect-threatene [...] | 2009-09-21 13:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR RS GG |
09TBILISI1755 | GEORGIA: SOME NON-PARLIAMENTARY PARTIES COME OFF [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Members of the Irakli Alasania-led Alliance for Georgia, Republican (represented by David Berznenishvili) and New Rights (represented by Mamuka Katsitadze) Parties followed political ally Irakli Alasania's earlier lead and joined the National Democratic Institute (NDI) [...] | 2009-09-23 14:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1756 | GEORGIA: TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS TBILISI [...] (C) Summary. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu paid an official visit to Tbilisi September 7-8 and was joined by his Deputy Under Secretary for the Caucasus and Central Asia, Ambassador Unal Cevikoz; Cevikoz later visited Sukhumi on September 10. Davutoglu met with President Saakashvi [...] | 2009-09-23 14:35:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL TU GG |
09TBILISI1757 | GEORGIA: RADICAL ORTHODOX GROUP STOPS MOSQUE [...] (C) Summary: On September 16, representative of two radical fundamentalist Georgian Orthodox groups, the "Society of Saint David the Builder" and "Union of Orthodox Parents" stopped construction on a mosque in the village of Talaveri. The groups demanded to see the villagers' construction perm [...] | 2009-09-23 14:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL AZ GG |
09TBILISI1760 | GEORGIA: MINISTER EXPRESSES GRATITUDE FOR U.S. [...] Summary. USG agencies and programs provide significant assistance to the Government of Georgia in the fields of nonproliferation, as well as nuclear and radiation safety. This assistance is provided by several different programs of the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administr [...] | 2009-09-24 12:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KNNP PARM GG |
09TBILISI1765 | GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI EXPRESSES CONCERN TO DAS [...] (C) Summary. During her September 15 introductory call on President Saakashvili, EUR DAS Tina Kaidanow urged him to make progress on democratic reforms as a way to increase support for Georgia within the international community and shore up domestic stability, echoing earlier comments from VP [...] | 2009-09-25 08:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL BR RU AM AZ GG |
09TBILISI1766 | GEORGIA: DAS KAIDANOW URGES DEMOCRATIC REFORM IN [...] (C) Summary: During meetings with a wide range of GoG officials, non-parliamentary opposition leaders, opposition and majority MPs, and members of civil society, EUR DAS Tina Kaidanow stressed to all of her interlocutors the importance of political engagement and the need for progress on demo [...] | 2009-09-25 08:20:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1772 | GEORGIA: VISAS FOR DE FACTOS - THE CASE AGAINST [...] (C) Summary. According to ref A, Russia has indicated it intends to seek U.S. visas for Abkhaz and South Ossetian de facto officials to travel to New York for discussions at the UN. In post's view, the issuance of such visas could undermine U.S. policy on the status of the regions; legitim [...] | 2009-09-25 14:11:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC UNGA CVIS RS GG |
09TBILISI1773 | GEORGIA: NATO ASSESSMENT TEAM OUTBRIEF ON HEELS OF [...] (C) Summary. Frank Boland, Head of Force Planning Department of NATO Defense Policy and Planning Division, and lead for the NATO Planning and Review Process (PARP) and Annual National Program (ANP) assessment team, briefed NATO Ambassadors and defense attaches on their most recent review, giv [...] | 2009-09-25 14:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI1781 | GEORGIA: A TALE OF TWO ETHNIC MINORITY CITIES [...] (C) Summary: City government officials and NGOs in the Samtskhe-Javakheti (S-J) cities of Akhaltsikhe and Akhalkalaki were upbeat about their future in Georgia, but worried about protecting their cultural and linguistic heritage. The majority of the estimated 300,000 ethnic Armenians in Georg [...] | 2009-09-29 14:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1784 | GEORGIA: BURJANADZE'S TAX SAGA CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary: Former Speaker of Parliament, Nino Burjanadze (Democratic Movement - United Georgia) has indicated that she may challenge President Saakashvili to arrest her on what she believes are trumped up tax penalties in connection with a property she received for one lari (60 cents) in [...] | 2009-09-30 05:58:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1786 | GEORGIA: TAGLIAVINI REPORT FINDS PLENTY OF BLAME [...] (C) Summary. The EU-sponsored Tagliavini Commission on the August 2008 war, released in Brussels on September 30, points fingers at many parties, including Georgia, Russia, the de facto authorities, the United States, and the international community writ large. It expressly refuses to iden [...] | 2009-09-30 14:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1787 | GEORGIA: JEWISH COMMUNITY RESTORES SYNAGOGUE THEY [...] (U) With great fanfare, a 150-year-old Ashkenazi synagogue reopened in the "Old Tbilisi" district on September 15. The synagogue was badly damaged by a 1991 earthquake and was closed in 2005. The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC),who held their annual conference in Georgia last year, primari [...] | 2009-10-01 14:48:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1790 | GEORGIA: PREDICTABLE POLITICAL PARTY COMMENTARY ON [...] (U) Summary: Domestic political reaction to the Tagliavini report (reftel) predictably corresponded to long-held political perceptions. Various non-parliamentary opposition leaders took the opportunity, citing a finding in the report criticizing Georgia for a disproportionate use of force [...] | 2009-10-02 14:56:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RR GG |
09TBILISI1797 | GEORGIA: ABKHAZ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FLIRTS WITH [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. BRIEF REGISTRATION FOR THE CCIA 2. (SBU) The World Chambers Federation (WCF),part of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC),accepted the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Abkhazia (CCIA) as a member on September 8. This [...] | 2009-10-05 13:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETTC PREL GG |
09TBILISI18 | GEORGIA: ATTEMPTS TO REPRESSURIZE GAS PIPELINE TO [...] (C) Summary: Despite continued lack of access to sections of the natural gas pipeline running from Agara to Tskhinvali and on to Java, on December 31 the Georgian Oil and Gas Company (GOGC) pressurized the line to determine if gas could be restored to Tskhinvali. Unfortunately, during the r [...] | 2009-01-06 13:48:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI1809 | GEORGIA: MR. LAVROV COMES TO GEORGIA [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov visited Abkhazia during the first week of October, reportedly to sign an agreement on visa-free travel, discuss bilateral relations and confer about the results of the latest Geneva talks. Lavrov's schedule, as publicly released, included meetings [...] | 2009-10-06 14:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI1810 | GEORGIA: MISSTEPS ON NEW OSCE PRESENCE [...] (C) Summary and comment. OSCE Chairman-in-Office Special Representative Christopoulos visited Tbilisi and Tskhinvali September 30 - October 2, hoping to reach agreement on modalities for a new roving OSCE presence. Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Bokeria protested some process fouls, but a [...] | 2009-10-06 15:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1823 | GEORGIA: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ASD VERSHBOW [...] (C) Summary. During your visit to Tbilisi, Saakashvili and his team will be watching closely for clues to any adjustments in U.S. policy toward Georgia. They will be anxious to discuss developments at the MOD, to clarify the new Minister's role and to reassure us of Georgia's commitment to [...] | 2009-10-08 08:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MASS GG |
09TBILISI1840 | GEORGIA: BIG SELL ON ECONOMIC REFORM UNDERMINED BY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-08 14:01:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI1853 | GEORGIA: NON-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION TRYING TO [...] (C) Summary: The non-parliamentary opposition has spent much of the last three months since July when the final "cells" were taken off of Rustaveli Avenue prior to the Vice President's visit staying out of the spotlight. Behind the scenes, leaders have been engaged in largely fruitless dis [...] | 2009-10-08 14:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI1854 | GEORGIA: MFA PROPOSALS FOR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP [...] (SBU) Deputy Foreign Minister Giga Bokeria outlined to the Charge Georgian plans for upcoming Strategic Partnership Commission Working Group meetings in Tbilisi. In addition to discussing dates, he suggested possible participation and broad strokes for agenda items. Each of the four working [...] | 2009-10-08 14:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ENIV ENRG PGOV PREL |
09TBILISI1877 | GEORGIA: GINCT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-09 13:15:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC GG |
09TBILISI1880 | GEORGIA: UN REP VERBEKE RAISES QUESTIONS ON [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. In an October 7 meeting with the Charge, UN Representative Johan Verbeke asked about the U.S. commitment to the Geneva talks -- in particular whether A/S Gordon would be attending the November 11 round. He said Russia was looking for an excuse to downgrade the pro [...] | 2009-10-09 14:44:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV UNSC RS GG |
09TBILISI1881 | GEORGIA: ROUGH RECEPTION FOR DANISH FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: During an October 6 visit to Abkhazia, Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller met with de facto "foreign minister" Shamba and "president" Bagapsh. In meetings described by the Danish Honorary Consul, who accompanied the FM, as "disastrous," "poorly timed," and "awkward," Moell [...] | 2009-10-09 15:06:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV DA RS GG |
09TBILISI1884 | EXBS: GEORGIA MONTHLY REPORT SEPTEMBER 2009 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-13 09:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP GG |
09TBILISI19 | GEORGIA'S ENVIRONMENT MINISTER ON NONPROLIFERATION [...] (SBU) Begin summary and comment. New Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, Giorgi Khachidze, discussed nonproliferation issues with the Ambassador on December 23, focusing on a new donation from the U.S. of specialized equipment to handle radioactive materials at Georgi [...] | 2009-01-06 13:54:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PGOV PREL KNNP GG |
09TBILISI1915 | GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI ACKNOWLEDGES HIS IMAGE [...] (C) Summary. During a lunch following the Ambassador's credentials ceremony, President Saakashvili acknowledged the international community's questions about the Georgian Government's reform program. However, he insisted that he was committed to using the remaining four years of his term i [...] | 2009-10-19 14:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI1919 | GEORGIA: RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL CROSSES THE BORDER [...] (C) Summary. On August 26, a car carrying three Armenian citizens entered Georgia from Armenia at the Sadakhlo border crossing. The car set off a gamma alarm on the radiation detection portal monitor. The driver provided a cursory explanation for the alarm, and the patrol police did not detain the [...] | 2009-10-21 12:49:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PREL KNNP DOE GG |
09TBILISI1920 | GEORGIA: GOVERNMENT SUBMITS NOTIONAL BUDGET TO [...] (C) The Government's notional draft of the 2010 budget submitted to Parliament shows the economic difficulties facing the country and contains cuts across the board (except in key social spending areas). While the draft meets the Government's technical and legal requirements, it does not prov [...] | 2009-10-21 12:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI1931 | GEORGIA IDENTIFIES SHERPA FOR NUCLEAR SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-23 15:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ENRG PREL PTER TRGY IAEA GG |
09TBILISI1932 | GEORGIA: PUBLIC MORE OPTIMISTIC, BENEFITTING [...] (C) Summary: Georgians are more optimistic about their futures even as they struggle economically, according to the International Republican Institute's (IRI) latest poll. The shift in mood and economic stabilization have benefited the President and his party; Saakashvili received a 10 point [...] | 2009-10-23 16:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1935 | GEORGIA: INCIDENT PREVENTION - LOTS OF MEETINGS, [...] (C) Comment. The Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRMs) have become more routine and therefore there is less "breaking news" to report out of them. This has led to more regular contact and a general reduction of tension among the participants. However, the same themes are discus [...] | 2009-10-27 14:33:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1949 | GEORGIA: ASD VERSHBOW LEADS SECURITY WORKING GROUP [...] (C) Summary. Under the umbrella of the U.S.-Georgia Charter on Strategic Partnership, Assistant Secretary of Defense Alexander Vershbow, Ambassador Bass, and an extended USG team jump-started the U.S.-Georgia Charter Working Groups. The meeting on October 20 with Georgian Deputy Defense Minis [...] | 2009-10-29 15:55:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI1962 | GEORGIA:COUNTERING RUSSIAN CLAIMS OF TERRORISTS IN [...] (C) Summary: A visit to Pankisi revealed no evidence of Russian claims of increased terrorist activity in the region. Stopping in each village after reaching the gorge, CDM leader Giorgi Targamadze facilitated discussion among locals, police officials, and community leaders on the situation [...] | 2009-10-30 14:49:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI1965 | GEORGIA: MISHA TELLS ASD VERSHBOW GEORGIA IS [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Saakashvili assured visiting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Alexander Vershbow that Georgia understands there will be no military solution to the conflicts -- only Georgia's further progress on democratic and economic reform could re-at [...] | 2009-11-02 15:13:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PREL RS UP BO GG |
09TBILISI1972 | GEORGIA WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-04 13:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA GG |
09TBILISI1973 | GEORGIA INCLINED TO SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-04 14:40:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNGA GG |
09TBILISI1989 | GEORGIA: LONDON HOSTS ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. Participants at the October 14 meeting hosted by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office featured an open and candid exchange of views among Georgian officials, Quad and EU counterparts, and outside experts on other countries that have faced protracted political di [...] | 2009-11-09 14:33:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV EAID CY EU GM RS UK GG |
09TBILISI1990 | GEORGIA: ALL RELATIVELY QUITE ON THE NOVEMBER 7 [...] (C) Summary/Comment: The second anniversary of the November 7, 2007, GoG crackdown on protesters were marked by low-key, sparsely attended and relatively uneventful demonstrations. The mile-long protest march from the Georgian Public Broadcaster's station to Parliament proceeded peacefully wi [...] | 2009-11-09 14:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI1991 | GEORGIA: PRE-ELECTION VISIT TO ABKHAZIA - NEW [...] (C) Summary and comment. During a meeting in Sukhumi with Department and Embassy visitors, mid-level de facto officials expressed openness to additional visits from U.S. officials, but were non-committal on waiving the requirement for a "visa" for more senior visitors. They also expressed s [...] | 2009-11-09 14:40:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF MOPS EAID RS GG |
09TBILISI1998 | GEORGIA: DESERVING OF A SECOND MCC COMPACT [...] (SBU) Summary Since its Millennium Challenge compact came into effect in April 2006, Georgia has consistently performed well in implementation and has strived to maintain and improve upon MCC indicators. Georgia's strong performance in implementing the current compact underscores that the M [...] | 2009-11-10 14:24:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI2002 | GEORGIA: SCENESETTER FOR DEMOCRACY WORKING GROUP [...] (C) Summary. The holding of this first Democracy Working Group as envisioned by the U.S.-Georgia Strategic Partnership Charter is greatly anticipated and will be closely followed by the Georgian Government, opposition leaders, and civil society. The Georgian delegation will be anxious to dis [...] | 2009-11-12 14:44:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI2004 | GEORGIA: RESPONSE ON 3RD COMMITTEE [...] (C) On November 13 embassy officer delivered points on country-specific resolutions at the UNGA Third Committee session from ref A, as well as more general Third Committee points from ref B, to Alexander Chelidze, MFA International Organizations Department. We focused in particular on the Tbi [...] | 2009-11-13 13:33:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA IR GG |
09TBILISI2005 | GEORGIA: PROGRESS ON ELECTION CODE [...] (C) Summary: Opposition parties and the ruling United National Movement (UNM) have announced agreement on a number of key issues regarding the new electoral code, paving the way for a Venice Commission review. Behind the scenes negotiations within the UNM, amongst the opposition, and betwe [...] | 2009-11-13 15:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI2009 | GEORGIA: PROGRESS ON ELECTION CODE [...] (C) Summary: Opposition parties and the ruling United National Movement (UNM) have announced agreement on a number of key issues regarding the new electoral code, paving the way for a Venice Commission review. Behind the scenes negotiations within the UNM, amongst the opposition, and betwe [...] | 2009-11-16 05:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM GG PREL |
09TBILISI2012 | EXBS: GEORGIA MONTHLY REPORT OCTOBER 2009 [...] EXBS Georgia has recently learned that the Operation and Maintenance manual for the Caterpillar 3412 diesel engine is available on CD in the Russian language. The model 3412 engine powers the former U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) 82' Point Class patrol boats donated to Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkmeni [...] | 2009-11-16 12:12:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP GG |
09TBILISI2013 | GEORGIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON US STRATEGY FOR ENLARGEMENT GOALS FOR DECEMBER FOREIGN MINISTERIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-16 13:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET | GG NATO PGOV PREL |
09TBILISI2024 | GEORGIA: RISKY SITUATION IN THE BLACK SEA [...] (C) Summary: Georgian officials confirm that they are neither interdicting vessels outside their territorial waters nor patrolling the waters north of the Enguri River in the Black Sea, and they continue to seek a way forward on shipping with Turkey. There have been no additional maritime in [...] | 2009-11-19 12:20:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHSA EWWT MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI2025 | GEORGIA: MISTRAL SALE COULD DESTABILIZE BLACK SEA [...] (C) Summary and comment. On November 13 and 16 Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze voiced serious concerns about the potentially destabilizing influence of France's possible sale of Mistral-class helicopter carrier ships to Russia (reftel) to DAS Tina Kaidanow and the Ambassador. As the broker of t [...] | 2009-11-19 12:35:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI2026 | GEORGIA: DEMARCHE OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 14:30:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA KPAL IS SY LE GG |
09TBILISI2027 | GEORGIA: DEMARCHE ON U.S. PRIORITIES FOR NEW [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-19 14:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AF GG |
09TBILISI2028 | GEORGIA: ELECTION LAW WORKING GROUP STALLS, BUT [...] (C) Summary: The United National Movement (UNM) announced that it would pull out of the Election Law Working Group (ELWG) on November 18 after consensus could not be reached, but informal talks among the parties continue. A wide-ranging package had been agreed to by all parties except for [...] | 2009-11-19 14:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI203 | GEORGIA: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF VCJCS [...] (SBU) Your visit to Georgia follows the visit of USAREUR Commanding General Ham, which was well-received by the Georgians, but focused mainly on military-to-military discussions. Your itinerary will be broader - we have requested meetings with the President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, an [...] | 2009-02-04 10:56:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI2056 | GEORGIA: SPEAKER BAKRADZE WORKING TO SALVAGE THE [...] (C) Summary: Speaker of Parliament David Bakradze told the Ambassador on November 20 that he was working to find consensus that would allow all parties who participated in the Electoral Law Working Group (ELWG) to sign on to a package of reforms. Bakradze said that he hoped to develop a ve [...] | 2009-11-24 14:58:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI2063 | GEORGIA: U.S. POSTURE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] (SBU) On November 25, we delivered the points detailed in reftel on the U.S. posture towards the Iranian nuclear program to Levan Nizharadze of the Americas division in MFA. We also noted that this information would likely be the first step as we continued to work with our international partne [...] | 2009-11-25 15:15:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IR GG |
09TBILISI2066 | GEORGIA: UN SEES ABKHAZ INCIDENT PREVENTION [...] (C) Summary. UN officials see the Abkhaz Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism as a useful mechanism to defuse tensions that provides a constructive vehicle for engaging all sides. The UN reported that most IPRM procedural issues were resolved within the first meeting. They also noted t [...] | 2009-11-27 13:00:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI207 | GEORGIA: BORDER CONTROL CHANGES WORRY [...] (C) Summary and comment. Organizational changes within the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOIA) effective January 1, specifically in the Border Police and Patrol Police, have changed operations at Georgia's ports of entry. Previously, the Border Police controlled operations and passenger proc [...] | 2009-02-05 07:47:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV DOE KNNP GG |
09TBILISI2083 | GEORGIA: ABKHAZ ELECTION CAMPAIGN HEATS UP [...] (C) Summary and comment. UN team member Hailu Mamo, a long-time Abkhazia observer, believes Abkhaz de facto "president" Bagapsh now faces a tough battle for re-election. Given past elections in Abkhazia, it is possible that this could be a real contest. No single opposition candidate has em [...] | 2009-12-01 15:13:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI2084 | GEORGIA: BELARUSIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS VISIT GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: Belarusian Parliamentarians paid a visit to Georgia in late November, with part of the delegation stopping in Tbilisi to meet with Georgian government officials, and two smaller groups traveling into Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Georgian press broadly covered the visit, and spec [...] | 2009-12-01 15:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BO GG |
09TBILISI2092 | GEORGIA: US-GUAM MEETING MESSAGE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-02 13:12:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN ODIP PREL GG |
09TBILISI2102 | GEORGIA: DAS KAIDANOW TALKS DEMOCRACY, CONFLICTS, [...] (C) Summary. EUR DAS Kaidanow met with Georgian officials to urge further progress on democratic reforms and review the current situation around Georgia's conflict zones. She urged the government to avoid provocations in the Black Sea and discussed the increasingly heated tone of rhetoric f [...] | 2009-12-03 11:21:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI2103 | GEORGIA: DASD WALLANDER PROMOTES PROGRESS ON REFORM [...] (C) Summary and comment. On the margins of the U.S.-Georgia Bilateral Defense Consultations (BDC),DASD Wallander spoke with senior government and parliamentary counterparts about next steps on reform, NATO membership, the National Security Review, the government's engagement strategy with t [...] | 2009-12-03 11:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI2105 | GEORGIA: UPCOMING LOCAL ELECTIONS REVEAL SIGNS OF [...] (C) Summary/Comment: The ruling United National Movement (UNM) has maintained its hold on political power in no small part due to its party discipline (ref B). Although it is premature to declare any sort of lame duck status or impending breakup of the UNM, it has become increasingly obvio [...] | 2009-12-03 13:58:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI2106 | GEORGIA: CHURCH AND STATE, MAINTAINING A DELICATE [...] (C) Summary: Georgian Government officials are privately expressing frustration over the expansive role the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) plays in society. The long-hidden conflict between the GOC and GOG may be beginning to play out publicly in subtle ways. Internet videos mocking GOC Patr [...] | 2009-12-03 14:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG KIRF |
09TBILISI2109 | Georgia: Supportive Reaction to President Obama's Speech [...] (U) Summary: In line with Georgia's strong support of the mission in Afghanistan, senior Georgian officials and the MFA have publicly endorsed the plan laid out by President Obama on December 1st. Georgia's support is backed up by contributions: in November, Georgia sent 170 troops under the [...] | 2009-12-04 05:22:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI212 | GEORGIA: OFFICIALS AND PRESS DISMISS UNION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. The reaction in Georgia to the February 3 meeting of the "Union of Georgians" in Russia, despite heavy coverage on Georgian television, has been mostly dismissive, with significant skepticism regarding its utility in improving relations between the neighbors. Following the meeti [...] | 2009-02-05 10:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI2131 | GEORGIA: DETENTIONS RAISE TENSIONS AROUND SOUTH [...] (C) Summary. A series of detentions over the past month has increased tension between Georgia and the South Ossetian de facto authorities. These recent incidents are not the only such cases, and older outstanding cases, some dating even from before the August 2008 war, have complicated reso [...] | 2009-12-04 14:24:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI2134 | EXBS: GEORGIA MONTHLY REPORT NOVEMBER 2009 [...] The Georgian Coast Guard (GCG) Head of Resources, Commander Vepkhvia Bibileishvili, has been dismissed and a successor has yet to be named. Commander Bibileishvili was the main point of contact for several EXBS initiatives at the Georgian Coast Guard base including the restoration of a vessel r [...] | 2009-12-07 05:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP GG |
09TBILISI2137 | GEORGIA: A/S POSNER LEADS DEMOCRACY WORKING GROUP [...] (C) Summary: In the first full meeting of the Democracy Working Group under the umbrella of the U.S.-Georgia Charter on Strategic Partnership, DRL A/S Posner and EUR DAS Kaidanow both challenged the GoG to continue its democratic evolution noting the crucial link between establishing a plur [...] | 2009-12-07 12:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI2138 | GEORGIA: DRL A/S POSNER AND EUR DAS KADINOW HEAR [...] (C) Summary: In preparation for the Democracy Working Group, under the auspices of the U.S.-Georgia Strategic Partnership Commission, members of the U.S. delegation met with leading civil society representatives and opposition political leaders who expressed concerns in several areas, includ [...] | 2009-12-07 13:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI2168 | GEORGIA: OSCE COUNTERTERRORISM WORKSHOP [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Embassy Tbilisi would like to put forth one primary and one alternate name for consideration to attend the 11-12 February 2010 OSCE counterterrorism workshop in Vienna. Either candidate would strongly contribute to an effective environment for discussion on the p [...] | 2009-12-09 14:06:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OSCE PREL PTER GG |
09TBILISI2170 | GEORGIA: ELECTORAL CODE PASSES FIRST READING, [...] (C) Summary: As expected, Parliament passed draft amendments to the electoral code on the first reading and is expected to adopt the law after a second and third reading scheduled for later this month. The draft consists of the general consensus as agreed to in the framework of the NDI spo [...] | 2009-12-09 14:33:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI2179 | GEORGIA: TOLERANCE REIGNS AT THE OMBUDSMAN'S OFFICE [...] Summary: For the first time, the Public Defender's Office (PDO) commemorated an "International Day of Tolerance," honoring several Georgian NGOs and individuals for their contribution toward advancing tolerance in Georgian society. This event brought together representatives from all the maj [...] | 2009-12-11 14:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI2180 | GEORGIA: LATVIAN PRESIDENT OFFERS MISHA MORAL [...] (C) Summary: Latvian President Valdis Zatlers, accompanied by his wife and 65 Latvian businessmen, paid an official visit to Georgia in early December. With the economies of both Latvia and Georgia struggling, the visit centered on shared possibilities for enhanced business relationships. G [...] | 2009-12-11 14:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LV GG |
09TBILISI2181 | GEORGIA: BAGAPSH WINS IN ABKHAZIA [...] (SBU) According to the "central election commission" of Abkhazia, incumbent "president" Sergey Bagapsh won the "presidential elections" in Abkhazia on December 12 with 59.4 percent of the vote, avoiding the need for a run-off. There was a striking dichotomy in official Georgian reaction tothe [...] | 2009-12-14 15:51:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI2203 | GEORGIA: GOVERNOR OF SHIDA KARTLI LOOKS TO THE [...] (C) Summary. Shida Kartli regional governor Vladimer (Lado) Vardzelashvili told us he is concentrating on looking past last year's conflict with Russia, helping the region's residents resume their daily lives and move forward instead of remaining bound to the war. In his view, the path to rei [...] | 2009-12-15 12:04:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS GG |
09TBILISI2204 | GEORGIA: CONSTRUCTIVE EXCHANGE ON THE ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary. On December 11 Reintegration Minister Yakobashvili led a discussion with international partners of a draft strategy on engagement with Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Characterizing it as a "human-centric" engagement (not de-occupation) plan, Yakobashvili called it the government's [...] | 2009-12-15 13:39:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS EAID RS TU GG |
09TBILISI222 | GEORGIA: NON-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION MUST CHOOSE [...] (C) Summary: The Georgian Parliament is renewing its efforts to create a working group to reform Georgia's Election Code (ref A) in 2009. Speaker Bakradze has invited significant political parties (inside and outside of Parliament),five local NGOs, the Central Election Commission (CEC),and [...] | 2009-02-05 14:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI2239 | GEORGIA: TRAINING OF GEORGIAN BATTALION FOR [...] (C) Summary and comment: Both the U.S. and Georgia assess the ongoing training by U.S. Marines of the Georgian 31st battalion in preparation for deployment in Afghanistan as going well. The training is intended to increase Georgian forces' ability to operate in a counter-insurgency environme [...] | 2009-12-16 12:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR NATO AF GG |
09TBILISI2240 | GEORGIA DOWNPLAYS NAURU'S RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary and comment. Georgian officials downplayed the significance of Nauru's apparent December 14 recognition of Abkhazia's "independence," which Russia reportedly encouraged with an offer of $50 million to the island nation. Although officials are discussing with Australian counterpa [...] | 2009-12-16 13:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS XM AS NR RS GG |
09TBILISI2254 | GEORGIA: IRI POLL SHOWS UGULAVA AS FRONT RUNNER [...] (C) Summary/Comment: A recent International Republican Institute (IRI) poll of Tbilisi residents showed likely United National Movement (UNM) candidate and current mayor Gigi Ugulava with a significant lead on the field of probable Tbilisi mayoral candidates in upcoming local elections sche [...] | 2009-12-21 11:44:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON GG |
09TBILISI2255 | GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIANS SPURN OSCE WHILE [...] (C) Summary and comment. During a December 11 trip Tskhinvali, South Ossetian de facto representatives made clear to outgoing Greek OSCE Chairman Special Representative Christopoulos and his incoming Kazakh successor Bolat Nurgaliyev their lack of interest in an OSCE roving team, their tough [...] | 2009-12-21 12:11:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS EPET RS KZ GG |
09TBILISI2257 | GEORGIA: TWO TEENAGERS HELD SINCE NOVEMBER 4 [...] (C) Three Georgians youths were released by the South Ossetian de facto authorities on Saturday December 19th, including two teenagers detained on November 4th and one 16 year old boy detained in July (ref A). Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg met on December 17 [...] | 2009-12-21 13:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI2276 | GEORGIA: RUSSIAN SERVICEMAN SEEKS ASYLUM IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary. According to Ministry of Refugee Affairs (MRA) officials, a Russian contract soldier, Vitaliy Khripun, crossed the administrative border line (ABL) from the breakaway region of South Ossetia into undisputed Georgia December 20. The European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) and [...] | 2009-12-22 14:23:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG PHUM |
09TBILISI2277 | GEORGIA: WWII MEMORIAL RELOCATION IN KUTAISI ENDS [...] (SBU) Summary/Comment: The planned relocation of a bronze Soviet-era memorial and destruction of its backdrop took a tragic turn when the explosion designed to demolish the backdrop killed two and injured others. The memorial was removed to make way for the construction of a new parliament [...] | 2009-12-23 05:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM RS GG |
09TBILISI2280 | GEORGIANS PREPARED TO COMPROMISE WITH RUSSIA IN [...] (C) Summary. The Governments of Georgia and Russia are continuing quiet talks regarding the opening of the land border crossing at Kazbegi-Larsi. Georgian FM Vashadze told the Ambassador that Georgia, Russia and Armenia will meet December 23-24 to continue the discussions begun in Yerevan in [...] | 2009-12-23 13:59:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS AM RS GG |
09TBILISI2283 | GEORGIA: DASD WALLANDER MEETING WITH MINDEF [...] (C) SUMMARY. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Celeste Wallander laid out the results of the Bilateral Defense Consulations (BDC),reaffirming U.S. support for Georgia's defense reform and modernization along Euro-Atlantic lines in her meeting with Georgian Minister of Defense Bacho Akh [...] | 2009-12-24 10:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI2291 | GEORGIA: DASD WALLANDER LEADS BILATERAL DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary and Comment. On 19-20 November, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Celeste A. Wallander co-chaired with First Deputy Minister of Defense Nikoloz Vashakidze the 2009 U.S.-Georgia Bilateral Defense Consultations (BDC) in Tbilisi, Georgia. The BDC established the strategic direct [...] | 2009-12-29 12:42:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS GG RS |
09TBILISI23 | GEORGIA: NDI POLL SHOWS PUBLIC OPINION REMAINS [...] (C) Summary/Comment: A new NDI poll taken in November 2008 shows that Georgian public opinion remains largely unchanged from earlier post-war polling by IRI and Greenberg, Quinlan, and Rosner Associates. The NDI poll shows some potential softening of support for President Saakashvili and th [...] | 2009-01-06 14:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI2307 | GEORGIA: ELECTORAL CODE PASSES THIRD READING WITH [...] (U) Summary: The Electoral Code (ref A) passed its third reading after a three day delay due to opposition Christian Democrats' objections about voter lists and voter registration procedures. The only notable change to the code on the third reading was the adoption of an amendment that bar [...] | 2009-12-30 14:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI24 | GEORGIA: RUMORS, MANEUVERING, AND ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Well informed International Republican Institute Country Director, Dimitry Shashkin (strictly protect) has passed on several far fetched but widely circulated rumors in Tbilisi alleging a US or EU engineered plot to oust President Saakashvili in the spring. While the lik [...] | 2009-01-06 14:50:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI255 | GEORGIA: NEW CABINET CONFIRMED, GOG STRESSES [...] (SBU) Summary: As expected, Parliament confirmed Nika Gilauri as Prime Minister, Kakha Baindurashvili as Finance Minister, Dimitri Shashkin as Minister for Penitentiary, Probation and Legal Assistance, and Davit Tkeshelashvili as Minister for Regional Development and Infrastructure on Februa [...] | 2009-02-06 15:06:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI271 | GEORGIA: VP'S MUNICH SPEECH WELL RECEIVED, [...] (SBU) Summary/Comment: Vice President Biden's speech in Munich was very well received in Georgia making front page news in Georgian papers. The Vice President's firm remarks that the United States would never recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia garnered most of the headlines. The meeting [...] | 2009-02-09 11:20:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI272 | GEORGIA: KIDNAPPED FOOTBALL REFEREE FREED, [...] (SBU) Summary: A Georgian soccer referee, reportedly kidnapped on February 7 on Georgia's main east-west highway by armed South Ossetians, was released to Georgian police on February 8. South Ossetian de-facto authorities, and Russian officials, claim the referee was found and freed by Ossetia [...] | 2009-02-09 14:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI275 | GEORGIA: NUCLEAR SMUGGLING UPS AND DOWNS [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Despite making great strides in combating nuclear smuggling, Georgia lacks a reliable system for effectively responding to incidents of nuclear and radioactive material detection. The Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration/Office of Second Line [...] | 2009-02-10 11:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PREL KNNP DOE GG |
09TBILISI276 | GEORGIA: SPEAKER BRIEFS DIPLOMATIC CORPS ON POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: On February 6, 2009 Speaker of Parliament David Bakradze called in the diplomatic corps and representatives of implementing organizations such as NDI and IRI to discuss recent political developments and Parliament's progress and plans on democratic reforms. Bakradze [...] | 2009-02-10 12:33:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI292 | GEORGIA: NEW PM EXPRESSES CONCERN RE ECONOMY, REITERATES [...] (SBU) In his first official meeting since being confirmed as Prime Minister, Nika Gilauri told the Charge and AID Mission Director February 9 that he was very concerned about the state of the Georgian economy and outlined a series of initiatives aimed at garnering more budget and balance of p [...] | 2009-02-11 13:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI313 | GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI WARNS OF EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC [...] (U) Summary: On February 12 President Saakashvili delivered his fifth annual state of the union address to the Parliament, which was attended by Members of Parliament, regional governors and the Mayor of Tbilisi, members of the Cabinet, the diplomatic corps including the Charge and a group of [...] | 2009-02-13 14:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI314 | GEORGIA: DISCOVERY OF ORPHAN RADIOACTIVE SOURCE [...] (C) Summary and Comment. On Sunday, February 8, customs officers discovered by chance an orphan radioactive source buried near Kopitnari airport, which is fourteen kilometers west of Kutaisi in western Georgia. Officials from the Nuclear and Radioactive Safety Service (NRSS) determined that [...] | 2009-02-13 14:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PGOV PREL KNNP DOE GG |
09TBILISI32 | GEORGIA: FUNDING RESTORED TO OPPOSITION AND [...] (SBU) Summary/Comment: Parliament recently passed a law to restore funding to six opposition parties who refused to enter Parliament. The law envisages special foundation funding based on the German stiftung model that Secretary Rice suggested during an earlier visit to Tbilisi to aid part [...] | 2009-01-08 15:13:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI321 | GEORGIA: ABKHAZ, PROUD BUT NERVOUS -- AND READY TO [...] (C) Summary and comment. During the first official USG trip to Abkhazia since the August 2008 war, Abkhaz de facto officials and civil society representatives showed new confidence in their so-called independence, but also unease with Russia's increasing influence. They believe Russia's reco [...] | 2009-02-17 12:07:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF MOPS KBTS RU GG |
09TBILISI322 | GEORGIA: SERIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS IN GALI [...] (C) Summary. During the first official USG trip to Abkhazia since the August 2008 war, representatives of civil society in Gali provided information about several serious human rights concerns facing ethnic Georgians in Gali. They face extortion from well-organized criminal gangs; pressure t [...] | 2009-02-17 12:10:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF MOPS KBTS RU GG |
09TBILISI324 | GEORGIA: ALASANIA INTRODUCES POLITICAL TEAM, [...] (SBU) Summary: Irakli Alasania introduced his political "team" on February 16 at a widely attended presentation event that attracted representatives of most of parties that make up the non-parliamentary opposition and garnered major press attention. The notable names joining Alasania's effo [...] | 2009-02-17 14:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI332 | GEORGIA: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-18 11:55:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC GG |
09TBILISI333 | GEORGIA: REQUESTING IAEA INSPECTION OF SUKHUMI [...] (S) Poloff delivered Reftel A demarche to Nestan Bejanishvili, MFA's Second Secretary of the Security Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department on February 17. Bejanishvili thanked poloff for the information. In response to poloff's point that representatives from the Russian Mission in [...] | 2009-02-18 12:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET | KNNP PARM PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI339 | GEORGIA: REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE ON BLACK SEA DEFENSE [...] (U) This is an action request - see paragraph 6. 2. (C) Deputy Minister of Defense Giorgi Muchaidze called in Embassy Tbilisi's Defense Attache and Pol-Econ Chief to consult on Georgia's response to an invitation from the Turks for Georgia's Minister of Defense to participate in a Black [...] | 2009-02-19 14:39:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI345 | GEORGIA'S KAKHETI REGION: UNM DOMINATES, JOBS THE [...] (SBU) Summary: During a February visit to the eastern province of Kakheti, Georgia's version of the Napa Valley, both the Deputy Governor and Christian Democratic Movement (CDM) opposition members stressed that the region's primary political concern was the local economy, specifically the cr [...] | 2009-02-20 12:24:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI357 | GEORGIA: REFERENDUM PROCESS AN UPHILL CLIMB [...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition leaders outside of Parliament, led by Irakli Alasania, have begun discussing publicly the idea of a public vote either calling for new presidential elections or a referendum to change existing constitutional procedures for calling new elections. Current Georgian law [...] | 2009-02-23 14:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI358 | GEORGIA: MONITORS FIND NO BUILD-UP OF GEORGIAN [...] (C) Summary: According to recent briefings by the EU and UN in Tbilisi, European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) and United Nations Observation Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) monitors conducted no-notice inspections of Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOIA) police stations and checkpoints [...] | 2009-02-23 14:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI359 | GEORGIA: NO RESPONSE YET ON NUCLEAR [...] Poloff delivered questions in reftel to Nestan Bejanishvili, MFA's Second Secretary of the Security Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department, on February 17. Bejanishvili did not have immediate answers, but promised to advise poloff when there were substantive responses. Post will rep [...] | 2009-02-23 15:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
09TBILISI374 | GEORGIA: DURBAN CONFERENCE ON RACISM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-25 10:30:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM GG |
09TBILISI375 | GEORGIA: UN APPEALS TRIBUNAL - SUPPORTING AMCIT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-25 10:33:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA |
09TBILISI377 | GEORGIA: ENGAGING ALLIES ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) As requested in reftels, Ambassador raised our views on Afghanistan's future with Foreign Minister Vashadze on February 25. FM Vashadze said that Georgia was eager to support our efforts, and was committed to providing a 150-man company by year's end to support the French contingent. Va [...] | 2009-02-25 14:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NATO PREL PGOV MOPS MARR AF GG |
09TBILISI378 | GEORGIA: ALASANIA ANNOUNCES ALLIANCE, CALL FOR [...] (C) Summary: Just a week after presenting his new political team and with much fanfare, former Georgian Ambassador to the UN Irakli Alasania announced February 23 that his political team would join forces with the Republican party, led by David Usupashvili, and the New Rights party, led by [...] | 2009-02-25 14:39:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI379 | GEORGIA: PENDING CHANGE AT NATIONAL BANK OF GEORGIA [...] (C) Embassy Summary/Comment: Acting head of the National Bank of Georgia (NBG),David Amaglobeli told us that he will be replaced by the current head of the Financial Sector Authority, Giorgi Kadagidze. Amaglobeli believes the decision is in connection with his view that the National Bank o [...] | 2009-02-25 14:39:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI389 | GEORGIA REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO JOINING NATO [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. Georgian officials continue to express through both public and private channels their continued commitment to NATO membership. On February 17, the Minister of Defense released his "Minister's Vision 2009," a public document that identifies NATO membership as one of [...] | 2009-02-26 14:15:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MOPS GG |
09TBILISI395 | GEORGIA: PARTIES SIGN CODE OF CONDUCT PAVING THE [...] (C) Summary and Comment. In a low-profile working meeting on February 26, Georgian political party leaders met to sign a "code of conduct" which represents the first step in forming a working group of party leaders from inside and outside of Parliament to develop an Election Legislation Wor [...] | 2009-02-27 11:25:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM GG |
09TBILISI398 | GEORGIA: ACTION REQUEST FOR DEPARTMENT GUIDANCE - [...] (C) Summary: Mark Hauf, attorney for Ina Gudavadze, widow of Badri Patarkatsishvili, has repeatedly approached the Ambassador and other Embassy officials and requested that Post advocate on behalf of Gudavadze with the Government of Georgia. Specifically, Hauf requests that Post demand that [...] | 2009-02-27 12:15:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI40 | GEORGIA: VERBEKE ON WAY FORWARD FOR UN [...] (C) Summary and comment. UN Special Representative for Georgia Johan Verbeke offered the Ambassador initial thoughts on the prospects for renewal of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG). He believes Russia would prefer to see the mission closed, but might not want to risk internationa [...] | 2009-01-12 12:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KBTS RU GG |
09TBILISI407 | GEORGIA: DOZENS BLOCKED FROM HOMES IN OTOBAIA, [...] (SBU) Summary and comment. Although conflicting reports make it difficult to establish a precise chain of events,dozens of individuals were blocked from their homes in Otobaia after a resident of the village was detained and then fled from Abkhazia. The Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs c [...] | 2009-02-27 15:00:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI408 | GEORGIA: RUMORS OF A SPRING OFFENSIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In recent weeks, we have detected a marked increase in comments, both public and private, that the Russians plan to invade Georgia in the spring. These rumors have started to percolate into the press, assisted by Georgian parliamentarians such as Chairman David Bakradze who expr [...] | 2009-02-27 15:08:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI409 | GEORGIA: U.S. AND GEORGIA SIGN JOINT DOCUMENT ON [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 27, U.S. and Georgian representatives signed the "Addendum to the Joint Document of Georgian and U.S. Delegations on Georgia's Priority Needs to Improve Its Capabilities to Combat Nuclear Smuggling." This document addresses both the degradation of Georgia's anti-nuc [...] | 2009-02-27 15:13:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI417 | GEORGIA: THE SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH FM VASHADZE [...] (C) Georgian FM Grigol Vashadze is looking forward to his first opportunity to meet with you on the margins of the NATO-Georgia Commission (NGC) meeting in Brussels on March 5. Your meeting with him, no matter how brief, will be an important signal of U.S. support at a time when some leaders [...] | 2009-03-04 14:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI42 | GEORGIA: REACTION TO U.S.-GEORGIA CHARTER [...] (SBU) Comment/Summary: The January 9 signing of the U.S.-Georgia Charter on Strategic Partnership ("Charter") and its significance dominated weekend news coverage in Tbilisi. The GOG hailed the agreement as a positive step forward in the bilateral relationship, although noted that it should n [...] | 2009-01-12 13:09:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI432 | GEORGIA: POSSIBILITIES FOR A NEW UNOMIG MANDATE [...] (C) Summary and comment. UN Special Representative Verbeke has twice convened the British, French, German and U.S. chiefs of mission to brainstorm ideas for a new UN mission in Georgia. Taking for granted the eventual closure of the OSCE mission, Verbeke argued that the UN and EUMM will ne [...] | 2009-03-05 14:30:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM RU GG |
09TBILISI447 | GEORGIA: MAJOR MILITARY MOVEMENTS IN ABKHAZIA AND [...] (C) Summary and comment. International monitors continue to report to us their observations of significant military assets and movements inside the Abkhaz and South Ossetian administrative boundaries, including tanks, artillery, and personnel. The assets observed exceed the limits the Georgi [...] | 2009-03-06 13:53:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI448 | GEORGIA: FINANCE MINISTER LAYS OUT AID PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Finance Minister Kakha Baindurashvili met the Ambassador February 27 to discuss options for the remaining tranche of pledged USG post-conflict assistance. Baindurashvili repeated that the GOG would prefer direct budget assistance; however, in lieu of budget assistance, Baindu [...] | 2009-03-06 14:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI450 | GEORGIA: MAJOR MILITARY MOVEMENTS IN ABKHAZIA AND [...] (C) Summary and comment. International monitors continue to report to us their observations of significant military assets and movements inside the Abkhaz and South Ossetian administrative boundaries, including tanks, artillery, and personnel. The assets observed exceed the limits the Georgi [...] | 2009-03-06 14:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI451 | GEORGIA: ESTABLISHMENT OF RUSSIAN INTERESTS [...] (SBU) On March 5, Georgia and Russia established interests sections in the Swiss embassies in Moscow and Tbilisi, respectively. In Tbilisi, Russian diplomats will continue to operate in the Russian Embassy building they occupied before the war; however, the building will be under a Swiss fla [...] | 2009-03-06 14:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI453 | GEORGIA: NEW CORRECTIONS MINISTER FACES MANY [...] (C) Summary: New Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance, Dimitri Shashkin told the Ambassador that he faces significant challenges regarding Georgia's current penal system. He said he will focus first on creating a probationary system for the country, noting that the current system is [...] | 2009-03-06 14:53:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI463 | GEORGIA: ALASANIA CALLS FOR PLEBISCITE [...] (U) Summary: Former UN Ambassador Irakli Alasania announced that he and his political team would initiate the process of holding a non-binding plebiscite on the question of the removal of President Saakashvili from office. The announcement follows the March 5 expiration of the ten day peri [...] | 2009-03-09 14:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI468 | GEORGIA: DESPITE CONCERNS, GEORGIA WILL COOPERATE [...] (C) Summary. Senior Georgian officials have raised questions about the objectivity of two members of the EU's independent investigation of the causes of the August 2008 war. They have nevertheless pledged their continued support for and full cooperation with the commission's work. Swiss dip [...] | 2009-03-10 14:54:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI469 | GEORGIA: FORMER AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: Former Georgian Ambassador to Russia, Erosi Kitsmarishvili, who famously told the ad hoc parliamentary committee on the war that the U.S. gave Georgia the green light, discussed with the Ambassador his future plans which include setting up an independent news channel; an econom [...] | 2009-03-10 15:00:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI470 | GEORGIA: NEW CORRECTIONS MINISTER TO TACKLE [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance, Dimitri Shashkin, who oversees Georgia's penitentiary, probation, and legal aid programs (septel),is also charged with coordinating the President's democratic reform agenda with actors inside and outside the government. During a Mar [...] | 2009-03-10 15:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI478 | GEORGIA: SEEKING JUSTICE AT THE ICJ [...] (C) Summary. On March 5, Poloff meet with Deputy Minister of Justice Tina Burjaliani to discuss the status Georgia's response to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and other pending legal cases in international courts. The Deputy Minister noted that Georgia is a state party to the ICC [...] | 2009-03-12 07:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI484 | GEORGIA: INCIDENT PREVENTION MECHANISM STALLED [...] (C) Summary and comment. Despite efforts by the EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM),OSCE and UNOMIG to facilitate implementation of the incident prevention mechanism agreed in Geneva, Abkhaz and South Ossetian de facto authorities have publicly announced their unwillingness tocooperate for now. The [...] | 2009-03-12 13:07:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI488 | GEORGIA: READOUT OF DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO TEHRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Nalbandov told the Ambassador that his March 1-3 visit to Tehran concentrated on issues of bilateral cooperation. In Tehran, Nalbandov, together with Minister for Reintegration Temur Yakobashvili, met with Chair of the Parliamentary [...] | 2009-03-12 15:07:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU GG IR |
09TBILISI502 | GEORGIA: NINO BURJANADZE -- WHAT'S THE GAMEPLAN? [...] (C) Summary: Former Speaker of Parliament Nino Burjanadze, who has a long-cultivated and well-deserved image of moderation both domestically and internationally, has expressed her intentions to play a prominent role in the planned April 9 protests calling for President Saakashvili's resigna [...] | 2009-03-16 13:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI503 | GEORGIA: FORMER PM NOGHAIDELI PREPARING FOR A [...] (C) Summary. Former prime minister and opposition politician Zurab Noghaideli told the Ambassador March 9 that many of Georgia's opposition politicians are incorrectly reading the will of the people. He argued that the time was not right for changing Georgia's government and predicted that [...] | 2009-03-16 13:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI511 | GEORGIA: UNOMIG BEGINS EVALUATING RESPECT FOR [...] (C) Summary and comment. UNOMIG personnel have begun evaluating the degree to which the various sides respect UNSCR 1866. UNOMIG's position is that 1866 re-imposes on all sides the conditions of paragraph 2a of the 1994 Moscow Agreement, which defines a security zone that excludes all milita [...] | 2009-03-17 13:56:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KBTS UNOMIG UNSC RS GG |
09TBILISI522 | GEORGIA: IRI POLL SHOWS THE ECONOMY IS PRIMARY [...] (C) Summary: The much anticipated poll from the USAID funded International Republican Institute (IRI) presented to the Ambassador on March 18, showed polling numbers for President Saakashvili and the United National Movement (UNM) have dropped somewhat from their post-war high in September [...] | 2009-03-19 15:17:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI523 | GEORGIA: ELECTION LEGISLATION WORKING GROUP [...] (SBU) On March 17, 2008, seven political party representatives gathered at the offices of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) for the inaugural meeting of the Election Legislation Working Group (ELWG). Poloff, USAID, the EU/EC, Council of Europe (COE),IFES, and the OSCE observed the meet [...] | 2009-03-19 15:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI525 | GEORGIA: INFORMATION ON GICNT EXERCISE PLANNING [...] Poloff delivered reftel A demarche to Nestan Bejanishvili and Vasil Rubashvili of the MFA's Security Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department on March 16. They thanked poloff for the information and stated that Georgia was unlikely to participate in the meeting due to financial constra [...] | 2009-03-20 06:58:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC GG |
09TBILISI528 | GEORGIA: DEMARCHE ON DUTCH OFFER TO HOST A [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-20 11:51:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI529 | GEORGIA: GOG TAKES OVER KAZTRANSGAZ, OVERWHELMING [...] (C) Summary. On March 16, the Georgian National Electricity Regulatory Commission (GNERC) announced it had appointed a &special administrator8 to manage KazTransGaz-Tbilisi, the Kazakhstani company that owns the Tbilisi natural gas distribution system. KazTransGaz is owned by the Kazakhstani [...] | 2009-03-20 12:42:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI535 | GEORGIA: SAAKASHVILI SEEKS UNAMBIGUOUS SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary. In a wide-ranging discussion, President Saakashvili and EUR DAS Matt Bryza discussed regional developments, U.S. assistance for Georgia and next steps on the Geneva process. The President shared his views on opposition politicians and the planned April 9 protests. President Sa [...] | 2009-03-20 13:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM GG |
09TBILISI537 | GEORGIA: MINISTER OF CORRECTIONS INFORMS DIPCORP [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance (MCLA) Dimitry Shashkin briefed the diplomatic corps March 18 on his ministry's current status and future plans. Shashkin addressed both corrections and democratic reforms, as he did with the Ambassador during a previous meeting (re [...] | 2009-03-20 14:07:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI55 | GEORGIA: RUMOR MILL CHURNING FEEDING A RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Post is closely following what has the markings of a possible Russian disinformation campaign to create distrust and speculation with the United States and President Saakashvili in the Georgian public. Rumors of impending U.S. or other outside action to remove Saakashvil [...] | 2009-01-13 14:03:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI559 | GEORGIA: BURJANADZE SUPPORTERS ARRESTED ON WEAPONS [...] (C) Summary/Comment: At roughly 5am on March 23, a number (roughly six to eight but exact numbers are still unclear) of Nino Burjanadze's supporters were arrested on charges of buying automatic weapons. Burjanadze called the Ambassador to register her outrage and to express concern that sh [...] | 2009-03-23 12:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI560 | GEORGIA: IRAN FEELING INSECURE IN CAUCASUS [...] (C) Summary and comment. In a readout to the Ambassador of his recent visit to Iran, Reintegration Minister Temuri Yakobashvili suggested that the Iranians seemed paranoid about potential threats and rivals for regional influence. Russia had effectively fueled that paranoia with allegations o [...] | 2009-03-23 12:54:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KBTS UNOMIG UNSC RS IR IS GG |
09TBILISI57 | GEORGIA SIGNS MOU ON ENGURI WITH RUSSIAN FIRM RAO [...] (C) SUMMARY: First Deputy Minister of Energy Marika Valishvili confirmed that the Georgian Ministry of Energy and Russian electricity trader InterRAO signed on December 31 a ten-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on joint management of the Enguri Hydropower Plant, located on both sides o [...] | 2009-01-13 14:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI584 | GEORGIA: FRENCH AMBASSADOR'S COMMENTS ABOUT THE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: France's local Ambassador in Tbilisi Eric Fournier was remarkably blunt in his opening remarks at a local conference March 20 about current European Union policy towards Russia, as well as his own difficulties in getting his ministry in Paris to put Georgia on its pr [...] | 2009-03-24 12:35:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RS GG |
09TBILISI585 | GEORGIA: BURJANADZE SUPPORTERS ARRESTED - UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: National Security Secretary Eka Tkeshelashvili called in the Ambassador to further elaborate the government's position on the arrests of Former Speaker Burjanadze's supporters. At the same time, the Ministry of Internal Affairs released a portion of the video evidence they c [...] | 2009-03-24 13:24:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GG |
09TBILISI593 | GEORGIA: OSCE CIO BAKOYANNIS BRINGS LITTLE TO [...] (C) Summary. In a March 23 visit to Tbilisi, OSCE Chairman-in-Office Bakoyannis reviewed progress in negotiating a new OSCE mandate for Georgia with Foreign Minister Vashadze. According to Georgian MFA and OSCE staff, Bakoyannis praised Georgia for its flexibility both privately and publicly [...] | 2009-03-24 14:54:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KBTS GR RS GG |
09TBILISI604 | GEORGIA: EUR DAS BRYZA MEETS WITH PM BAKRADZE, [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Matt Bryza met with Speaker of Parliament David Bakradze and discussed the future of the UNOMIG, OSCE, and EUMM monitoring missions as well as domestic politics. Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance Dimitri Shashkin explained his vision for revamping the penal [...] | 2009-03-26 07:09:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI618 | GEORGIA: APRIL 9 PROTEST MACHINATIONS IN FULL SWING [...] (C) Summary: Both the GOG and non-parliamentary opposition groups are formulating their plans to handle the upcoming April 9 protests at which the opposition will demand the resignation of President Saakashvili and holding new presidential elections. The GOG intends to take a low key appro [...] | 2009-03-26 14:15:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI621 | GEORGIA: ENCOURAGING GEORGIA TO SUBMIT ANNUAL [...] (SBU) On 27 March, Poloff met with Vasil Rubashvili of the Georgian MFA Security Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department to discuss ref points regarding the submission of Georgia's Annual Declaration on its space and ballistic missile policies as required by the Hague Code of Conduct [...] | 2009-03-27 12:29:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA GG |
09TBILISI625 | GEORGIA: TIME TO MOBILIZE ON NEW UN MISSION [...] (C) Summary and comment. UN Special Representative Johan Verbeke offered the U.S., French and German ambassadors additional details on his ideas for a new UN mission in Georgia, as well as a readout of recent trips to Washington, London, Moscow and Prague. He urged western countries to weigh [...] | 2009-03-27 14:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS UNSC UNOMIG KBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI638 | GEORGIA: IEDS KILL ONE, WOUND SEVERAL; TENSIONS [...] (C) Summary. On March 29, two roadside IEDs killed one and wounded six Georgian police officers outside the village of Dvani, in undisputed Georgian territory just outside the South Ossetian administrative boundary. This was the first fatal incident along the South Ossetian and Abkhaz admini [...] | 2009-03-30 14:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI644 | GEORGIA: ALASANIA STILL BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD [...] (C) Summary: Head of the opposition Alliance for Georgia ("Alliance") Irakli Alasania requested a meeting with the Ambassador on March 30 to discuss plans for the April 9 protest. Alasania has been in discussions with the UNM ruling party regarding a possible dialogue to overcome the curre [...] | 2009-03-31 15:39:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI657 | GEORGIA: PATRIARCH CALLS FOR CALM AHEAD OF APRIL 9 [...] (C) Summary. In an April 1 meeting, Georgian Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II expressed concern to the Ambassador that the approaching April 9 opposition protests could escalate into violence. The Patriarch said that President Saakashvili and nearly all the opposition leaders, including Alasania, [...] | 2009-04-02 09:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KIRF RU GG |
09TBILISI658 | GEORGIA REMAINS COMMITTED TO CONTRIBUTION IN [...] (C) DCM relayed ref A requests for contributions to Afghanistan to Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Nalbandov on April 2, noting that Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze had attended the March 31 conference in The Hague and was likely already aware of these requests. Nalbandov reconfirmed Georg [...] | 2009-04-02 14:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF GG |
09TBILISI660 | GEORGIA: GOVERNMENT OFFERS OPPOSITION STRUCTURED [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 1, Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance Dimitry Shashkin presented a GOG proposal for dialogue and cooperation on the "second wave of democratic reforms" to the diplomatic community. Shashkin invited all political parties to discuss the government proposal on [...] | 2009-04-02 15:17:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI670 | GEORGIA OFFERS NON-PAPER ON NEW UN MISSION [...] (C) On April 2, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Nalbandov called in the DCM to provide a non-paper with Georgia's thoughts on a new UN mission in Abkhazia, Georgia (as promised in ref A; see paragraph 2 for text) and asked for U.S. support. He indicated he would also pass it to UN Special R [...] | 2009-04-06 11:51:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI676 | GEORGIA CALLS NORTH KOREAN LAUNCH "CRAZY" [...] (C) On April 6, DCM delivered to Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Nalbandov the points and statement contained in reftel. Excusing himself for the undiplomatic language, Nalbandov called the North Koreans "crazy" for going forward with the launch and expressed full support for the U.S. posit [...] | 2009-04-07 08:50:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KBTS KPKO GG |
09TBILISI679 | GEORGIA: OPPOSITION PLANS FOR APRIL 9 PROTESTS [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Barring unforeseen circumstances, planned protests on April 9 will proceed as scheduled. We expect turnout to be substantial, probably numbering in the tens of thousands, but likely less than the 150,000-200,000 some non-parliamentary opposition figures have estimated. [...] | 2009-04-07 09:22:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI681 | GEORGIA WELCOMES NATO SUMMIT COMMUNIQUE [...] (C) Summary. The Georgian press gave positive media coverage to the NATO Summit, focusing in particular on the detailed and lengthy portions of the communique that dealt with Georgia and its relationship with NATO. In numerous conversations, senior Georgian officials have reached out to inf [...] | 2009-04-07 13:47:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI682 | GEORGIA SEIZED WITH NON-PAPER ON NEW UN MANDATE [...] (C) On April 6, DCM delivered to Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Nalbandov the non-paper on a new UN mandate for Georgia contained in ref A. Although DCM explained that this did not represent a cleared USG interagency, Nalbandov expressed great appreciation for and interest in the document, [...] | 2009-04-07 13:51:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KBTS KPKO GG |
09TBILISI683 | GEORGIAN BUSINESS WORRIES ABOUT APRIL 9 INSTABILITY [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Business leaders, both international and Georgian, are increasingly nervous about the upcoming April 9 protest. Nearly to a one, they highlight that opposition leaders, in their single-mindedness to oust Saakashvili, are slowly destroying the economy and Georgia's a [...] | 2009-04-07 14:17:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI693 | GEORGIA: NON PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION REJECTS [...] (C) Summary/Comment: While public calls for dialogue increase, the non-parliamentary opposition remains adamant that they will only discuss the terms of President Saakashvili's resignation. The Patriarch, the Ambassador, the EU, President Saakashvili, Christian Democrats and business leade [...] | 2009-04-08 13:14:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI694 | GEORGIA: USG CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (SBU) On 06 April poloff passed reftel talking points regarding the USG candidacy for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council to Nana Shonia, First Secretary of the North America Division in the Department of Americas of MFA. Shonia expressed her understanding of the issue and promised to pass [...] | 2009-04-08 13:14:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI697 | GEORGIA: OSCE AND EUMM REPORT RUSSIAN TROOP [...] (C) Summary and Comment. While Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov keeps warning of potential Georgian belligerence on April 9, the view from Tbilsi looks exactly the opposite. OSCE, UNOMIG and EUMM monitors are reporting to us that they do not see a Georgian threat, but they do see a substantial [...] | 2009-04-08 14:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI711 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS PEACEFUL, OPPOSITION TURNOUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The much anticipated April 9 protests proceeded peacefully, lasting about 6 hours from 2pm to 8pm. Non-parliamentary opposition leaders gave President Saakashvili twenty-four hours to resign or they will engage in further actions. The bulk of the protest took place in front [...] | 2009-04-10 14:42:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI715 | GEORGIA: PREVIEW OF FM VASHADZE'S MEETING WITH THE [...] (C) The Secretary's April 14 meeting with Georgian FM Grigol Vashadze will help reassure Tbilisi that efforts to improve relations with Russia will not come at the expense of the U.S.-Georgia relationship. The meeting is an opportunity to recognize the restraint and flexibility Georgia has s [...] | 2009-04-13 12:53:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI716 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS CONTINUE DESPITE WANING INTEREST [...] (C) Summary: Protests waned April 10-12 despite the expiration of the non-parliamentary opposition demand that President Saakashvili resign within 24 hours. On Friday, 5,000-8,000 protesters gathered in front of Parliament and then broke into three groups to block traffic and continue rall [...] | 2009-04-13 13:14:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI717 | GEORGIA: DIP CORPS TOURS TBILISI PRISON [...] (U) Summary and comment: Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance (MCLA) Dimitry Shashkin invited the diplomatic corps to visit Tbilisi's Gldani prison in order to assess the state of Georgia's prison system. The Ambassador, along with multiple ambassadors, diplomats, and NGO representati [...] | 2009-04-13 13:15:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI719 | GEORGIA: INCREASED RUSSIAN MILITARY ACTIVITY IN [...] (C) A non-paper passed to the Ambassador on April 11 from the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicates movements of Russian Black Sea naval forces from Sevastopol into the Black Sea. We believe that this information was passed to the Georgians by the Ukrainians. An April 11 report from [...] | 2009-04-13 14:53:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR RU GG |
09TBILISI723 | GEORGIA: FOREIGN MINISTRY TO FILE A BRIEF WITH ICJ [...] (SBU) Georgian MFA Legal Department Director Irakli Giviashvili called in the DCM April 13 to inform us that Georgia planned to submit a brief to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) arguig against the legality of Kosovo's declaration of independence. Giviashvili said First Deputy Minis [...] | 2009-04-14 08:00:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ECON EFIN GG PREL ICJ |
09TBILISI728 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS TACTICS CHANGE SLIGHTLY, CROWDS [...] (C) Summary: A crowd of roughly 5,000-9,000 gathered in front of Parliament at about 3 pm Monday, April 13 to listen to another round of speeches and take further direction from non-parliamentary opposition leaders. At roughly 5:30 pm, the majority of the crowd (Embassy Observers estimate [...] | 2009-04-14 13:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI735 | GEORGIA: PROTESTERS BLOCK MAJOR THOROUGHFARES, [...] (C) Summary: Protests on April 14 again drew a modest crowd of 4000 - 6000 protesters. About 500 protesters blocked a major avenue in the heavily trafficked Vake district near Tbilisi State University. At the direction of Levan Gachechiladze (former presidential candidate) and David Gamkr [...] | 2009-04-15 13:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI747 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS CONTINUE THOUGH CROWD PALTRY [...] (SBU) Summary: The protests waned further on Wednesday, April 15 with only an estimated 1500-2000 protesters in front of Parliament. A small number of protesters (20-30) remained at the Presidential Residence. Approximately 30-40 protesters gathered at the Public Broadcasters building but [...] | 2009-04-16 12:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI748 | GEORGIA: PUBLIC DEFENDER AND LAWYERS NGO WORK TO [...] (SBU) Summary: As protests drag on in front of Parliament in Tbilisi (ref A),two local organizations continue to monitor the situation. The government's Public Defender's Office (PDO) has maintained its monitoring teams (Ref B) with 24-hour coverage since April 9. The PDO uses uniformd four [...] | 2009-04-16 12:50:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI749 | GEORGIA: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ELECTION [...] (SBU) On 16 April Emboff delivered reftel diplomatic note stating officially the intent of the United States to seek a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, as well as a copy of the United States Human Rights Commitments and Pledges, to First Secretary Nana Shonia of the U.S. and North America [...] | 2009-04-16 12:54:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI750 | GEORGIA: ECONOMY 2003 TO 2008 - A CASE STUDY OF [...] (C) Summary and comment. Although often overshadowed by political crisis and conflict over the separatist territories, the Georgian economy has been reformed and developed since the 2003 Rose Revolution. While the August 2008 war with Russia and the ongoing financial crisis continue to pres [...] | 2009-04-16 13:20:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI751 | GEORGIA: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE MOVING FORWARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 6, 2009, Embassy Resident Legal Advisor (RLA) met with Minister of Justice, Zurab Adeishvili, who stated emphatically that the draft Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) will move forward to second and third readings in the Parliament. Adeishvili stated that despite recent op [...] | 2009-04-16 13:58:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI752 | GEORGIA REVERSES DECISION TO FILE ICJ CASE AGAINST [...] (SBU) Following up the discussion on 14 April between the Secretary and Minister of Foreign Affairs Grigol Vashadze in Washington, the Ambassador was informed on 16 April by Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Nalbandov of Georgia's decision not to submit a brief to the International Court of Jus [...] | 2009-04-16 14:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECON EFIN PREL ICJ GG |
09TBILISI759 | GEORGIA: NON-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION NIXES [...] (C) Summary: Protests were largely halted over the April 17-20 orthodox Easter holiday weekend with only a symbolic number of protesters in the streets. Despite government and EU representative Peter Semneby's efforts to try to engage the non-parliamentary opposition in talks, on Saturday, [...] | 2009-04-21 13:43:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI760 | GEORGIA SEEKS HELP ON TWO POINTS IN UN NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Nalbandov called in the Ambassador April 21 to request U.S. assistance in encouraging the UN Secretary General (UNSYG) to focus on two particular points as he prepares for discussions on Georgia. First, Nalbandov noted the importance of maintaining a reference to G [...] | 2009-04-21 14:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KBTS KPKO GG |
09TBILISI769 | GEORGIA: NON-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION VOWS TO MAKE [...] (C) Summary: As the non-parliamentary opposition promised, rallies resumed on Tuesday, April 22 with roughly 5,000 protesters staging in front of Parliament. Levan Gachechiladze vowed to make Tbilisi a "cell" city and the non-parliamentary opposition brought 50-60 fake jail cells and place [...] | 2009-04-22 11:11:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI770 | TWO VERY DIFFERENT SIDES OF THE SAME COIN - [...] (C) Summary: Ethnic Armenian Georgians living in Samtskhe-Javakheti (S-J) generally want their province to remain as part of Georgia, albeit with tacit recognition by Tbilisi of Armenian as a regional language. For Ethnic Armenian Georgians (or Javakhsi),the grass is indeed not greener on [...] | 2009-04-22 11:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID SCUL KIRF AM GG |
09TBILISI786 | GEORGIA: OPPOSITION PROTESTERS INFLATE REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: April 22 press reports that the radical opposition mustered 600-plus vehicles from the regions to join 30,000 protesters in front of Parliament were exaggerated and incorrect. Embassy observers and Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOIA) officials estimated no more than 5,000 prote [...] | 2009-04-23 13:24:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI787 | GEORGIA: DEFINING THE ROOTS OF OPPOSITION [...] (C) Introduction and Comment: Beyond the constantly changing parties which define Georgia's opposition inside and outside of parliament, there are four core groups that have fundamentally opposed President Saakashvili since the early days of his tenure in 2004. In large part, these are the [...] | 2009-04-23 13:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI793 | GEORGIA INFORMED ON PENDING TRANSFER OF SEIZED HEU [...] (S) Per ref B, on April 24, poloff informed Shalva Burduli, Head of Division for New Threats and Arms Control of the Georgian MFA, of the pending transfer to Russia of a ten-gram sample of the HEU seized in a 2006 nuclear smuggling sting operation in Georgia. Poloff explained that he transfer [...] | 2009-04-24 12:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET | PARM PREL KNNP MNUC RS GG |
09TBILISI795 | GEORGIA: OPPOSITION ERECTS MORE "CELLS," PROTESTS' [...] (SBU) Summary: Radical opposition protests continued on April 23 and leaders called upon their dwindling supporters to maintain their presence throughout the weekend. Despite cold rain and meager numbers, the opposition continued to erect more "cells" in the areas surrounding Parliament, the [...] | 2009-04-24 13:00:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI799 | GEORGIA SUPPORTS US CANDIDACY ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-27 11:52:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI800 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS TO CONTINUE BUT STRAINS ARE [...] (C) Summary: Modest numbers of protesters turned out both on Saturday, April 25 and Sunday, April 26 with crowds numbering around 2-3000 and 500-1000 respectively. "Cells" continued to block traffic in front of the Georgia Public Broadcaster (GPB) Building, Freedom Square, the Ministry of [...] | 2009-04-27 12:40:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI809 | GEORGIA: PROTEST UPDATE - NO IDEAS, NO PROTESTERS, [...] (C) Summary: Protests on Monday, April 27 which were supposed to include announcement of a new action plan consisted of no more than 1000 protesters in front of Parliament and a few more scattered at the Presidential Residence, Public Broadcasters Building, State Chancellery, and Freedom Sq [...] | 2009-04-28 13:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI816 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS TO CONTINUE DESPITE HANDSHAKE - [...] (SBU) Summary: Protests were largely abandoned on Tuesday, April 28 as non-parliamentary leaders attended church services for the day of reconciliation. Crowds in front of Parliament were estimated at 500 or less. At a church service led by the Patriarch, that only Irakli Alasani (Allianc [...] | 2009-04-29 11:04:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI82 | GEORGIA: MOD CLOSE TO SIGNING MOU WITH EUMM [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Summary and comment. On January 14, Deputy Defense Minister Giorgi Muchaidze summoned PolOff and Acting DATT to explain the government's position on a draft agreement with the EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) and seek U.S. comment. T [...] | 2009-01-15 14:30:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KBTS RU GG |
09TBILISI821 | GEORGIA: GREEK AMBASSADOR SEEKS HELP ON OSCE [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) Greek Ambassador Georgios Chatzimichelakis, as a representative of the sitting OSCE Chairman-in-Office, came to see the Ambassador April 29 to relay a request for assistance. He explained that the Greek government is in the p [...] | 2009-04-29 14:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OSCE GR RS GG |
09TBILISI827 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS STAGNANT - SIGNS OF DESPERATION [...] (C) Summary: Protests continued on Wednesday, April 29 although only about 2000-3000 attended, a number of who appeared to be onlookers enjoying a nice day rather than dedicated supporters. Protest leaders have vowed to continue, but have not articulated a concrete plan. GOG representativ [...] | 2009-04-30 13:20:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI83 | GEORGIA: PARLIAMENTARY AND NON-PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) Summary/Comment: The comments of both Parliamentary and non-Parliamentary opposition leaders indicate that their interests and visions for the near and longer term future continue to diverge. Cooperation between the Parliamentary and non-Parliamentary opposition camps is limited at best. [...] | 2009-01-15 14:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI836 | GEORGIA: JOINT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-01 10:08:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM KNNP RS NL PREL PTER MNUC KGIC GG |
09TBILISI838 | GEORGIA WILL ABSTAIN IN VOTE ON KOSOVO'S IMF AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-01 12:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL KV |
09TBILISI840 | MGSF01 GEORGIA'S SWINE FLU RESPONSE [...] (SBU) As of May 1, no cases of swine flu have been reported in Georgia. The EAC convened on April 28, ensured that pandemic tripwires were reviewed, and shared ref A with American employees per ref A. Schools with U.S. Embassy dependents have been notified of the swine flu problem. Appropri [...] | 2009-05-01 13:55:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09TBILISI841 | GEORGIA: EUMM CONFIRMS COMPLIANCE WITH MOU ON [...] (C) Summary and comment. The EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) released a public statement April 28 announcing the automatic renewal of its MOU with the Georgian Ministry of Defense (MOD) and Georgia's continued compliance with its provisions. The statement notes that the EUMM has not been able to [...] | 2009-05-01 14:19:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI842 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS CONTINE TO DWINDLE, BUT NO END [...] (SBU) Summary: Non-parliamentary opposition leaders addressed a crowd of about 1500 in front of Parliament on Thursday, April 30 and announced their plan to picket the Public Broadcasters Building starting at 9:00 am on May 1. Nino Burjanadze stated that the opposition needed to take more e [...] | 2009-05-01 14:19:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI843 | GEORGIA: DFM NALBANDOV ON UN, OSCE [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Nalbandov summoned the Ambassador April 29 to request further U.S. help in encouraging the UN Secretary General to title his report "Situation in Abkhazia, Georgia." He also identified particular redlines for Georgia in the negotiations for a new [...] | 2009-05-01 14:21:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OSCE GR RS KZ GG |
09TBILISI847 | GEORGIA: GOVERNMENT PLEDGES CONTINUED RESTRAINT ON [...] (C) Summary. Minister of Internal Affairs Vano Merabishvili and Deputy FM Giga Bokeria both assured the Ambassador during separate meetings May 1 that the Government would be patient with the demonstrators and that no force would be used against them. Merabishvili also agreed that there wo [...] | 2009-05-04 12:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI849 | GEORGIAN PM SAYS TURKMEN INTERESTED IN WESTERN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-04 14:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PGOV PREL RU AZ GG |
09TBILISI850 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS CONTINUE - NO NEGOTIATIONS FOR [...] (C) Summary: Protests continued through the weekend although crowds only numbered around 500-1500. Roads remained blocked by "cells" and the opposition announced that more disruptions are being planned. A May 2 concert featuring Levan Gachechiladze's brother, Utsnobi ("Unknown" or "Anonym [...] | 2009-05-04 14:28:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI857 | GEORGIAN FORCES IN CONTROL OF MILITARY BASE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOIA) reported that at 1440 local time the mutineers at the Mukhravani military base surrendered. The soldiers involved have surrendered and laid down their weapons and the MOIA is in control of the base. According to the media, President Saak [...] | 2009-05-05 12:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RRB GA |
09TBILISI858 | GEORGIA: ESCALATION OF PROTESTS POSTPONED AFTER [...] (C) Summary: The non-parliamentary opposition told the press that it intends to escalate the protests by blocking major roads into Tbilisi between 4pm and 5pm local time on Tuesday, May 5. Non-parliamentary leaders intend to give President Saakashvili 72 hours to resign or else they will c [...] | 2009-05-05 13:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI865 | GEORGIA: MUTINY DISRUPTS PROTESTS - FALLOUT UNCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: The mutiny of a tank battalion at Mukhrovani base forced the non-parliamentary opposition to scratch plans for a temporary blockade of major roads leading in and out of Tbilisi from 4pm - 5pm May 5. The non-parliamentary opposition, including Irakli Alasania, responded to the m [...] | 2009-05-06 14:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI866 | GEORGIA: FOREIGN MINISTER BRIEFS ON MUTINY [...] (C) Summary. On May 5, Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze briefed the diplomatic corps on the attempted mutiny earlier in the day, which ended peacefully. He offered additional details on the event itself, which he described as designed to disrupt the NATO Partnership for Peace exercise; he and [...] | 2009-05-07 04:59:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI875 | GEORGIA: PROTESTERS TRY TO ENTER POLICE STATION, [...] (C) Summary: Georgian non-parliamentary opposition protests turned violent, May 6 when Giorgi Gachechiladze (a pop singer known as "Utsnobi" - "Anonymous"),his brother Levan Gachechiladze and other radical opposition leaders lead a group of protesters from Parliament to Digomi police stati [...] | 2009-05-07 12:40:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI876 | GEORGIA: IRI FOCUS GROUPS PROVIDE INSIGHT ON [...] (C) Summary: The International Republican Institute (IRI) ran a series of focus groups May 4-5 in Tbilisi to gauge political opinion on the ongoing opposition-led protests and domestic political environment. The groups consisted of eight people each with one group being pro-government ("pr [...] | 2009-05-07 14:40:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI89 | GEORGIA: NINO BURJANADZE FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING [...] (C) Summary/Comment: The transition from being Speaker of Parliament and interim President to being one of many in a marginalized non-Parliamentary opposition has been a difficult one for Nino Burjanadze. Burjanadze has been unable to garner much more than a meager level of public support s [...] | 2009-01-16 13:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI894 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS - OPPOSITION APPEARS TO STEP [...] (C) Summary: On May 7, a day after violence erupted when opposition protesters charged a police station, non-parliamentary opposition leaders indicated a new willingness to engage in dialogue, although they did not present a united message. Irakli Alasania (Alliance) called for dialogue wi [...] | 2009-05-08 13:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI899 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS: NEGOTIATIONS TO BEGIN [...] (C) Summary: Protests continued through the weekend, bu with no major incidents. The one month anniversary of the start of the protests on Saturday, May 9 drew what might have been as many as 15,000 protesters on a beautiful sunny day. On Friday, May 8, Speaker Bakradze met with a group of [...] | 2009-05-11 12:30:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI9 | GEORGIA: THE NETHERLANDS TO HOST FIFTH GLOBAL [...] (U) Dutch Ambassador Onno Elderenbosch and Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Nalbandov on December 31 per reftel instructions. Given the lack of diplomatic relations with Russia following the August conflict, the Russian Embassy did not participate in the de [...] | 2009-01-05 11:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC RS NL GG |
09TBILISI90 | GEORGIA: PRIME MINISTER ILL, AND RUMORED TO BE [...] (C) Summary: After undergoing several weeks of medical treatment in Germany, Prime Minister Grigol Mgaloblishvili returned to Tbilisi following the Georgian Orthodox Christmas holiday. Throughout his absence, rumors circulated in the capitol, despite denials by President Saakashvili, that Mg [...] | 2009-01-16 13:53:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON GG |
09TBILISI906 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS - SAAKASHVILI MEETS WITH [...] (C) Summary: President Saakashvili met separately with both the non-parliamentary and parliamentary opposition May 11. The non-parliamentary meeting reached no public agreement other than a commitment by some in the non-parliamentary opposition to continue to talk. Nonetheless, privately [...] | 2009-05-12 14:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI907 | GEORGIAN ECONOMY WORSENS, BUDGET CRISIS POSSIBLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Buffeted by the global economic crisis and domestic political instability, the Georgian economy is in decline. The economy constricted 6.5 percent in the first quarter of 2009, and initial April numbers are not promising. Remittances from abroad, especially Russia, have decline [...] | 2009-05-12 15:11:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL GG |
09TBILISI908 | GEORGIA: EU DISCUSSIONS REGARDING EUMM'S FUTURE [...] (C) Summary and comment. According to EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) Head of Mission Haber, EU member states do not have a clear vision of the EUMM in the future. The mission will almost surely be extended for a year, but some elements in the EU would prefer to see it end at that point. Assumi [...] | 2009-05-12 15:13:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI909 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS - SOME BLUSTER, LITTLE ACTION [...] (C) Summary: A small crowd of 2000-2500 appeared in front of Parliament Tuesday May, 12 for what was scheduled to be a major announcement on the non-parliamentary opposition's new action plan in response to their meeting with Saakashvili. No announcement of blocking roads or other near ter [...] | 2009-05-13 13:42:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI91 | CODEL SCHWARTZ (HDAC) VISITS GEORGIA [...] (U) Summary and Comment: In support of its ongoing partnership with Georgia's Parliament on democratic and institutional reform (reftel),CODEL Schwartz and the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC) visited the Republic of Georgia from December 17-19, 2008. CODEL Schwartz met with Parli [...] | 2009-01-20 04:55:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI910 | GEORGIA: SPEAKER BAKRADZE EXPLAINS POSITION ON PROTESTS TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Parliamentary Speaker David Bakradze met May 8 with the members of Codel Davis to discuss the current political situation in Georgia. Bakradze explained the GoG's plans to handle the ongoing protests and to implement political reforms. End Summary. GoG Wants to Break Cycle [...] | 2009-05-14 11:18:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI911 | GEORGIA: ALASANIA LEANS TOWARDS DIALOGUE; [...] (C) Summary: Only about 500 protesters attended the meeting in front of Parliament on May 13. Irakli Alasania (Alliance),who did not attend the meeting at Parliament on Wednesday, announced separately that his supporters would not continue to block the road in front of the Georgian Public [...] | 2009-05-14 11:59:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI912 | GEORGIA: FOLLOW-UP COMMENTS ON CS-137 DISCOVERY [...] (S) As requested in ref A, poloff obtained additional information from the Government of Georgia regarding its response to the discovery of four Cs-137 sources buried near Kopitnari Airport. While not completely ruling out the possibility that the material was abandoned by smugglers, the gove [...] | 2009-05-14 12:00:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET | KNNP MNUC ASEC KCRM PARM PINR PREL GG |
09TBILISI92 | GEORGIA: ANNOUNCEMENT ON RATIFICATION OF U.S.-IAEA [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Division of Americas desk officer Nana Shonia on January 13. She promised to relay the information to the appropriate MFA officials. TEFFT [...] | 2009-01-20 13:45:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IAEA ENRG NPT PREL KNNP TRGY KTIA PARM |
09TBILISI920 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS - NON-PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: The non-parliamentary opposition's pledge to unblock the road in front of the Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) was rescinded, then reinstated and finally implemented early May 14. The back and forth highlighted the now open and obvious rift within the leadership of the non-par [...] | 2009-05-15 11:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI923 | GEORGIA: SOUTH OSSETIA SNUBS INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary and comment. South Ossetian de facto authorities' willingness to cooperate with the international community -- meager as it was -- took several steps backward in recent days. On May 7, they blocked the second meeting of the Incident Prevention Mechanism; on May 5, they blocked a [...] | 2009-05-15 14:23:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI924 | GEORGIA: ARRIVAL OF RUSSIAN BORDER GUARDS IN [...] (C) Summary and comment. Two agreements signed April 30 by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Abkhaz and South Ossetian de facto "presidents" Sergey Bagapsh and Eduard Kokoity on "joint efforts for protection of state borders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia," has further reinforced Russian c [...] | 2009-05-15 14:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PBTS PGOV PREL MARR MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI925 | GEORGIA: CODEL DAVIS DISCUSSES BILATERAL TIES WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: During a May 8-9 visit to Tbilisi, CODEL Davis met with President Saakashvili, Minister of Defense Vasil Sikharulidze, women leaders in the GOG and Parliament, and the Speaker of the Parliament (reported septel). Sikharulidze covered Georgia's ongoing defense reforms and the re [...] | 2009-05-18 04:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG |
09TBILISI93 | GEORGIA: DEMARCHE ON TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Division of Americas desk officer Nana Shonia on January 13. She promised to relay the information to the appropriate MFA officials. TEFFT [...] | 2009-01-20 13:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR LE GG |
09TBILISI932 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS QUIET OVER THE WEEKEND [...] (C) Summary: Only about 1000 protesters showed up on Saturday and Sunday in front of Parliament. The non-parliamentary opposition announced its plans to hold rallies in all of Georgia to prove to President Saakashvili that the whole country demanded his resignation. The non-parliamentary [...] | 2009-05-18 13:56:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI937 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS: NOT MUCH NEW IN OPPOSITION'S [...] (C) Summary: The non-parliamentary opposition responded to the GoG's offer of dialogue on six concrete points with six proposals of its own, with a deadline of May 26 for implementation. The non-parliamentary offer is still calling for new presidential and parliamentary elections this year, [...] | 2009-05-19 14:26:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI94 | GEORGIA: MFA REQUESTS INFO RE U.S. APPROACH TO [...] (U) This is an action request - see paragraph 4. 2. (C) DFM Nalbandov called in DCM January 20, 2009, to request an update on the USG's approach to the upcoming UNOMIG renewal discussion in New York. Joined by former NSC Secretary (and Georgia's next Ambassador to the UN) Lomaia, Nalba [...] | 2009-01-20 13:47:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN GG RU |
09TBILISI940 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS - FURTHER SIGNS OF OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: A small group of protesters blocked the main road to the Tbilisi International Airport in front of the new Ministry of Internal Affairs building for about 45 minutes on May 19. Other protest leaders addressed a small crowd in front of Parliament. Salome Zourabichvili (Georgia [...] | 2009-05-20 13:16:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI942 | GEORGIA: SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT UN REPORT ON [...] (C) Summary and comment. The Georgian Government has made clear, both publicly and privately, its discontent with the UN Secretary General (UNSYG)'s report on Abkhazia, Georgia. It perceives both the title and key elements of the report's substance as a capitulation to Russian pressure, as evi [...] | 2009-05-20 14:09:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI945 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS GEARING UP FOR MAY 26 [...] (C) Summary: Protests remained small on May 20. Utsnobi (Giorgi Gachechiladze) performed a rally concert in Batumi to kick off the non-parliamentary opposition's plan to bring "all of Georgia" to Tbilisi for a May 26 rally (independence day parade). Post heard payments to protesters have r [...] | 2009-05-21 11:08:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI95 | GEORGIA: DEMARCHE ON NONPROLIFERATION SANCTIONS: [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Division of Americas desk officer Nana Shonia on January 13. She promised to relay the information to the appropriate MFA officials. TEFFT [...] | 2009-01-20 13:47:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC GM PREL PARM EFIN GG |
09TBILISI951 | GEORGIA: SHOOT OUT WITH AT-LARGE MUTINY SUSPECTS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-21 13:38:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI956 | GEORGIA: DASD WARLICK'S MEETING WITH DEPUTY [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Mary Warlick, accompanied by the Ambassador, met May 8 with Deputy Foreign Minister Giga Bokeria to discuss bilateral issues and review military assistance programs. The meeting provided an opportunity for Bokeria to discuss the ongoing polit [...] | 2009-05-22 10:24:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG |
09TBILISI957 | GEORGIA PROTESTS: QUIET TALKS ONGOING - WESTERN [...] (C) Summary: A small group of protesters locked the major roads on both sides of the river that flows through downtown Tbilisi for roughly 40 minutes May 21 prompting an angry response from motorists that was widely covered in the press. Non-parliamentary opposition rallies in Zugdidi and [...] | 2009-05-22 11:19:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI96 | GEORGIA: WINTER LULL IN INCIDENTS ABRUPTLY ENDS [...] (C) Summary and comment. After a few weeks of relative calm over the holidays -- which saw several attacks, but no injuries -- a number of serious incidents occurred along the administrative boundaries with South Ossetia and Abkhazia in recent days. On January 16 a Georgan police officer was [...] | 2009-01-20 14:32:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KBTS RU GG |
09TBILISI961 | GEORGIA: INJURED MUTINY ORGANIZERS STABLE, [...] (C) Summary. The two mutiny suspects detained following a firefight yesterday, Levan Amiridze and Koba Otanadze, remain in stable condition in a government-controlled hospital, according to the press. According to the Ombudsman,s Office, Otanadze,s brother Nugzar Otanadze was arrested two w [...] | 2009-05-22 15:39:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI968 | GEORGIA: OPPOSITION PROMISED SURPRISES - PATRIARCH [...] (C) Summary: On Georgian Independence Day, May 26, the non-parliamentary opposition drew its largest crowd since beginning protests on April 9. Between 45,000-50,000 rallied at Dynamo Stadium, where various non-parliamentary opposition leaders spoke to a largely subdued audience. Only sing [...] | 2009-05-27 12:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI97 | GEORGIA: MINISTER OF ENERGY ON ENGURI AO DEAL, [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Energy Alexander Khetaguri provided the Ambassador with more details and his private thoughts on the recent deal to enter into a joint management agreement for the Enguri power facility with Russian firm InterRAO-UES (ref A). Despite the negative press the Minister [...] | 2009-01-20 14:35:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL RU GG |
09TBILISI972 | GEORGIA: PROTESTS SMALL - QUIET [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: On May 27, a day after large scale demonstrations, only a small group of protesters numbering roughly 1000-1500 gathered in front of Parliament. The crowd listened to largely subdued speeches by non-parliamentary leaders who have decided to continue protests in sp [...] | 2009-05-28 11:30:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI979 | GEORGIA: PATRIARCHATE BACKTRACKS - VIOLENCE ERUPTS [...] (C) Summary: A group of about 500 protesters picketed the Mayor's office on May 28 from about noon until 3pm. The rally with about 1000-2000 protesters reconvened for a concert in front of Parliament later that evening. Violence erupted around 9pm local time when protesters allegedly atta [...] | 2009-05-29 12:24:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TBILISI980 | GEORGIA: UK FCO DIRECTOR ON ABKHAZIA TRIP, NEED [...] (C) Summary. During a visit to Tbilisi, Michael Davenport, Director of the Russia, South Caucasus and Central Asia Directorate at the British FCO, urged the United States to set a clear example for the international community on how to move forward on Georgia, in particular with regard to Rus [...] | 2009-05-29 12:39:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC UNOMIG RS GG |
09TBILISI982 | GEORGIA: CONTROVERSY OVER MAY 31 ELECTIONS IN [...] (C) Summary and comment. On the eve of May 31 parliamentary elections in South Ossetia, controversy has erupted over the electoral system and establishment of political parties by the "de facto" administration. While Russian officials and South Ossetian "de facto" administration officials cl [...] | 2009-05-29 14:10:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KBDS RU GG |
09TBILISI984 | GEORGIA: FM VASHADZE UNDERLINES REDLINES ON UN [...] (C/NF) On May 29, Georgian Foreign Minister Vashadze called in the Ambassador to ensure the United States understood Georgia's redlines regarding a new UN mandate. Referring to his May 22 letter to the Secretary, Vashadze emphasized Georgia's absolute commitment to the following minimum requir [...] | 2009-05-29 14:36:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL UNSC UNOMIG RS GG |
09TBILISI999 | GEORGIA: WEEKEND PROTESTS QUIET - CELLS REMOVED AS [...] (SBU) Summary: A small crowd of 1500 rallied on May 29 the day after scuffles along Rustaveli Avenue turned violent injuring 14, including eight policemen. A similarly small crowd rallied May 30; only a crowd of about 400-500 rallied May 31. Cells were cleared from Freedom Square overnight [...] | 2009-06-01 12:05:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TEGUCIGALPA100 | CHILEAN PRESIDENT BACHELET VISITS HONDURAS [...] (U) Amid substantial fanfare, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet made a mostly-commercial visit to Honduras designed to expand ties and cooperation between the two countries. She was accompanied by Chilean businesspeople, members of the Chilean Parliament, cultural figures, FM Alejandro Foxley [...] | 2009-02-17 14:27:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EFIN EAID KCRM KJUS PGOV HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1000 | TFH01: CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT ZELAYA [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador spoke to President Zelaya early on the morning of October 1. They discussed the recent OAS efforts to promote a national dialogue. Zelaya proposed a three-point agenda for the talks, which he hoped could be started next week to coincide with the arrival of the OAS [...] | 2009-10-02 02:10:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1002 | CODEL ROS-LEHTINEN (OCTOBER 5-6) [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy welcomes the October 5-6 visit of Codel Ros-Lehtinen to Honduras. Honduras, a close ally of the United States, is currently in the throes of a severe political crisis. Honduran society is severely polarized and reconciliation of the Honduran people will be essential fo [...] | 2009-10-02 15:48:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM EAID ECON CASC ASEC |
09TEGUCIGALPA1008 | PRO-ZELAYA RESISTANCE MEETS G-16 [...] (SBU) Summary. A delegation of the pro-Zelaya Pacific Resistance told the G-16 on October 1 that they are opposed to violence and that any violence that has occurred during pro-Zelaya demonstrations was carried out by provocateurs. They described the de facto regime as being composed of membe [...] | 2009-10-03 01:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1010 | TFH01: AMBASSADOR MEETS OAS POLITICAL SECRETARY [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador and Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary for Political Affairs Victor Rico, in an October 3 meeting, discussed parties to include in the OAS-sponsored negotiations that will be held in Tegucigalpa the week of October 5. Rico told the Ambassador that the [...] | 2009-10-05 18:04:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1011 | TFH01: OAS REPRESENTATIVE BRIEFS G-16 [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador John Biehl of the Organization of American States (OAS) told the G-16 donors group on October 2 that a delegation of OAS Foreign Ministers will visit Honduras on October 7. Biehl said he is optimistic that progress is being made toward finding a solution to Honduras' [...] | 2009-10-05 19:37:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1014 | TFH01: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES NEGOTIATIONS WITH [...] (C) Summary: Summary: On October 5, the Ambassador spoke to President Zelaya and reviewed the status of efforts to kick-start negotiations with the Micheletti side. Somewhat more upbeat than in the recent past, Zelaya said he hoped talks could be started this week. He expressed a willingness [...] | 2009-10-06 00:58:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1020 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES BRIEF G-16 [...] (C) Summary. Presidential candidates Elvin Santos of the Liberal Party, Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo of the National Party, Felicito Avila of the Christian Democratic Party and Bernard Martinez of the Social Democratic Innovation and Unity Party (PINU) all told the G-16 donors' group that the internati [...] | 2009-10-08 00:51:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1034 | TFHO1: OAS FOREIGN MINISTERS DELEGATION BRINGS TWO [...] (C) Summary: The visit to Honduras of a high-level delegation of OAS member country foreign ministers and other high-level member state government officials, including WHA A/S Tom Shannon, on October 7-8 provided a space for negotiations to resume between teams representing deposed President Z [...] | 2009-10-09 19:05:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1035 | TFH01: DIALOGUE OF GUYAMURAS: UPDATE ON OAS [...] (C) Summary: The formal negotiations launched by the OAS Foreign Ministers have gotten off to a smoother start than expected. Beginning on October 7, both commissions, with support from an OAS secretarial team, have held daily sessions and have been able to achieve agreement or concurred on m [...] | 2009-10-09 21:30:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1037 | (C/NF) AFTERMATH OF PRESIDENT ZELAYA'S RETURN TO [...] (S) This message is in response to questions posed in section A of reftel. 2. (C/NF) Liberal Party candidate Elvin Santos and National Party candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo's reactions to President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya was initially negative, but improved after meeting jointly with him. Sant [...] | 2009-10-09 23:30:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1038 | TFH01: OAS BRIEFS G-16 ON FM DELEGATION VISIT [...] (C) Summary. Organization of American States (OAS) Special Envoy Ambassador John Biehl told the G-16 donors' group on October 8 that earlier in the day the commission of President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya to the ongoing OAS-sponsored negotiations had threatened to pull out of the talks. The [...] | 2009-10-09 23:49:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1042 | TFH01: DIALOGUE OF GUYAMURAS: UPDATE EVENING OF [...] (C) Summary: On October 12, Minister of Governance Victor Meza who headed President Zelaya's negotiating team in the OAS supported Guaymuras Dialogue, briefed the Ambassador on their planned strategy for the talks. He said that the Zelaya side would continue to seek a consensus on the basic [...] | 2009-10-13 21:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1048 | TFH01: GUAYMURAS DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary. The commissions representing the de facto regime and President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya at the Guaymuras dialogue reached agreement on all articles of the San Jose Accord on October 14, which would require Congress to decide on restoration of officials to their pre-coup positions [...] | 2009-10-15 19:14:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1049 | TFH01: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES' COMMITMENT TO [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador urged the Liberal and National party presidential candidates on October 15 to issue a statement in support of the decision by the commissions to the Guaymuras negotiations to refer the Guaymuras Agreement to the Congress, which would be able to consult with other i [...] | 2009-10-16 15:16:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1051 | ZELAYA NEGOTIATORS BELIEVE AGREEMENT NEAR [...] (C) Summary. Negotiators for President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya expressed optimism that an agreement on the Guaymuras accords would be reached October 16, in a meeting that morning with the Ambassador and DCM. Zelaya negotiators Minister of Governance Victor Meza and Rodil Rivera Rodil told the A [...] | 2009-10-16 17:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1053 | TFHO1: PRIORITY ECONOMIC TASKS FOR UNITY [...] (SBU) Summary: If the negotiations now underway between representatives of President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and the Micheletti regime lead to a political settlement, a new unity cabinet will be appointed to lead the government through the November elections until a new administration takes over [...] | 2009-10-16 18:34:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD PGOV PREL PHUM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1057 | TFH01: GUAYMURAS UPDATE [...] (C) Summary. There is agreement on all provisions of the Guaymuras Accord, except for the restoration of President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya. The Zelaya commission to the negotiations tabled a proposal on October 16 providing that the agreement would be sent to the Congress for approval, but [...] | 2009-10-20 00:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1058 | TFH01: BUSINESS LEADERS LUKEWARM ON POSSIBLE [...] (C) Summary: At an October 17 meeting, leading members of the business community told the Ambassador and OAS Ambassador John Biehl that they had reservations about a proposed political accord that was agreed upon by representatives of both President Zelaya and the de facto regime before bei [...] | 2009-10-20 00:32:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON KDEM PREL PHUM HO OAS |
09TEGUCIGALPA1071 | ZELAYA'S CHIEF NEGOTIATOR SAYS DE FACTOS JUST [...] (C) Summary. Victor Meza, Minister of Governance and Justice, told the Ambassador on October 20 that he is pessimistic that a negotiated solution will be found, but that the Zelaya camp has not given up and remains open to dialogue. Meza said that while chances for signature of the Guaymuras [...] | 2009-10-21 15:22:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1073 | TFH01: AMBASSADOR AND PRESIDENT ARIAS DISCUSS [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador and President Arias discussed the Honduran crisis on October 21. They REVIEWED the temporary suspension of the talks. The Ambassador blamed the recent failure on the last minute intransigence of Roberto Micheletti. The Ambassador expressed the hope that both side [...] | 2009-10-22 18:48:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1078 | TFH01: AMBASSADOR AND G-16 MEET WITH FRIENDS OF [...] (C) Summary. A delegation of the Friends of the Democratic Charter are visiting Honduras October 22-24. The Ambassador and members of his staff met with the delegation on October 22. The Ambassador hosted the G-16 donors group at his Residence the same day for a meeting with the delegation [...] | 2009-10-23 19:40:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1080 | TFH01: AMBASSADOR AND PRESIDENT ZELAYA DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador and President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya spoke the evening of October 22. They discussed the status of the negotiations. Zelaya blamed regime leader Roberto Micheletti for the failure of the Guaymuras Dialogue. The Ambassador agreed that Micheletti had not engaged in g [...] | 2009-10-23 20:42:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1083 | TFH01: EMBASSY TEGUCIGALPA SUPPORTS BRAZILIAN [...] (C) Summary: Brazilian Charge expressed gratitude for USG intervention to stop the loud music and animal sounds targeted at Brazil's Embassy in Tegucigalpa. Since ousted Honduran President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya took residence at their Embassy on September 21, Embassy Tegucigalpa has been provi [...] | 2009-10-24 00:17:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1085 | TFH01: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF WHA A/S THOMAS [...] (SBU) Embassy Tegucigalpa warmly welcomes the October 28-29 visit of Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Craig Kelly, and National Security Council Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs and Special A [...] | 2009-10-27 21:35:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL SOCI HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1087 | TFH01: FRUSTRATED PRO-ZELAYA RESISTANCE OPPOSES [...] (C) Summary. Pro-Zelaya resistance movement leaders told the Ambassador on October 23 that, although the Guaymuras negotiations seem to have run their course, they remain open to proposals to resolve the country's crisis. They said resistance movement members are frustrated and some want to [...] | 2009-10-28 02:34:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1090 | Merida 2.0 in Honduras [...] The following is Mission Honduras' input for the revised Merida Initiative strategy. ------------------------------------ I. Security Environment - Assessment ------------------------------------ 2. Citizen security has become an increasing problem for Honduras over the past decade, a [...] | 2009-10-29 15:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL PGOV PHUM EAID MASS MARR KJUS HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1095 | TFHO1: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH CONGRESSIONAL [...] Summary: The Ambassador met with Cesar Ham, congressional representative and presidential candidate for the Democratic Union Party (UD) on October 27. Ham was accompanied by other UD leaders. Ham reasserted his support for the restitution of President Zelaya. While expressing concern for som [...] | 2009-10-30 22:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1101 | TFH01: WHA A/S SHANNON'S OCTOBER 28 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: A/S Shannon, accompanied by WHA PDAS Craig Kelly, NSC's Dan Restrepo and the Ambassador, held a frank, open exchange of views on the current state of negotiations in Honduras with deposed President Zelaya at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa October 28. A/S Shannon emphasized [...] | 2009-11-03 20:48:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1102 | MEETING WITH A/S SHANNON: BUSINESS LEADERS EXPRESS [...] (C) Summary: At a breakfast with A/S Shannon and his delegation, business leaders expressed support for a negotiated political settlement. They said that Honduras had been hard-hit by the global economic downturn and that the crisis had exacerbated the situation. While the business leader [...] | 2009-11-03 23:01:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1103 | TFH01: TEGUCIGALPA/SAN JOSE AGREEMENT SIGNED [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Craig Kelly, and National Security Council Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs during an October 28-30 trip to Honduras met with President Jose Manu [...] | 2009-11-03 23:56:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1107 | TFHO1: WHA A/S SHANNON MEETINGS WITH DE FACTO [...] (C) Summary. Assistant Secretary of State (A/S) for Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA) Thomas Shannon, accompanied by WHA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) Craig Kelly, National Security Council Senior Advisor for Western Hemisphere Affairs Daniel Restrepo, and the Ambassador met on O [...] | 2009-11-05 14:44:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1118 | SECRETARY SOLIS VISITS HONDURAS TO INAUGURATE [...] (C) Summary: The inauguration of the Verification Commission to monitor Honduras's political accord took place on November 3 during a two-day visit by its two international commissioners, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and former President of Chile Ricardo Lagos. The visit took place under [...] | 2009-11-06 21:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM PHUM HO US CI OAS |
09TEGUCIGALPA1122 | TFH01: GETTING TEGUCIGALPA/SAN JOSE AGREEMENT BACK [...] (SBU) Summary. Implementation of the Tegucigalpa/San Jose Agreement derailed on November 5 when President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya insisted on immediate restoration to office before creation of a national unity and reconciliation government and then modified this demand to having the Verifica [...] | 2009-11-06 21:34:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1124 | EFFORTS TO GET TEGUCIGALPA/SAN JOSE AGREEMENT BACK [...] (C) Summary. President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya announced on November 6 that de facto regime leader Roberto Micheletti had violated the letter and spirit of the Tegucigalpa/San Jose Accord and that it was defunct due to the failure to establish a government of national unity and reconciliation [...] | 2009-11-07 02:00:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1130 | TFH01: A/S SHANNON URGES PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES [...] (C) Summary. Assistant Secretary of State (A/S) for Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA) Thomas Shannon urged the presidential candidates at an October 28 dinner to play a leading role in the quest for a solution to their country's political crisis. Organization of American States (OAS) Politica [...] | 2009-11-10 00:35:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1131 | TFH01: (S/NF) MICHELETTI RESIGNATION PROPOSAL [...] (S/NF) Summary. Former President Carlos Flores and Verification Commissioner Arturo Corrales told the Ambassador and DCM that they were pushing for the de facto regime head Roberto Micheletti to resign and be replaced by a government of national unity, whether or not President Manuel "Mel" Ze [...] | 2009-11-10 00:54:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1138 | TFHO1: ZELAYA UNWILLING TO RETURN TO SAN JOSE - [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador and DCM met with President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya November 9 in an attempt to convince him to continue to participate in the process set up by the San Jose - Tegucigalpa Accord (TSJA),specifically to participate in the naming of a government of national unity. Zelaya [...] | 2009-11-12 18:26:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1139 | TFH01: FINANCIAL INVESTIGATORS DISCUSS DISMISSALS [...] (C) Summary: In recent weeks, two former senior government financial investigators have approached us separately to tell us that they had been dismissed by the de facto regime. Both of them attributed their dismissal at least in part to the regime's lack of interest in investigating financ [...] | 2009-11-12 18:56:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV PREL ECON PHUM ELAB EAID HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1140 | TFHO1: ZELAYA UNWILLING TO RETURN TO SAN JOSE - [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-12 20:25:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1155 | TFH01: INVESTMENT MANAGER SAYS HONDURAS IS [...] (C) Summary: A representative of the British investment management company Ashmore Investment Management Ltd. told the Economic Counselor that his company is considering issuing the de facto regime a $100 million bridge loan, which would be tied to the issuance of a USD 500 million dollar-d [...] | 2009-11-14 00:07:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM EAID HO UK |
09TEGUCIGALPA1166 | HONDURAS-EL SALVADOR TRADE BARRIER DISPUTE LEADS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Honduran agricultural association is planning to hold a demonstration aimed at disrupting traffic through the Honduras-El Salvador border crossing point at El Amatillo on November 17. The association, the National Federation of Farmers and Ranchers of Honduras (FENAGH),is [...] | 2009-11-17 16:09:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ECIN ELTN ETRD PBTS PREL CASC BEXP |
09TEGUCIGALPA1183 | TFHO1: PDAS KELLY PRESSES BUSINESS LEADERS TO URGE [...] (C) Summary: During a November 18 meeting, business leaders Amilcar Bulnes and Norman Garcia told Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Craig Kelly and the Ambassador that they had attended a meetings the week before at which leading Hondurans had urged de fact [...] | 2009-11-19 21:09:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL ECON HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1184 | TFH01: WHA PDAS KELLY'S NOVEMBER 17 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: WHA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Craig Kelly and Ambassador Llorens met with Honduran President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and his close advisors during a November 17-18 visit to Honduras in support of Tegucigalpa - San Jose Accord implementation. With restitution before el [...] | 2009-11-19 21:29:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1189 | TFH01: MICHELETTI ANNOUNCES TEMPORARY ABSENCE [...] (C) Summary: De facto regime leader Roberto Micheletti announced on November 19 his intention to temporarily step aside for the period November 25-December 2 in order to give the country time to reflect. Micheletti urged all Hondurans to vote in the general election scheduled for November 29. [...] | 2009-11-20 02:07:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1195 | TFH01: EFFORTS TO FORM UNITY GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary. Organization of American States (OAS) Envoy Octavio Bordon, along with Zelaya advisors Jorge Arturo Reina, Victor Meza, Rodil Rivera, and Mayra Mejia told the Ambassador on November 20 that the best solution to the political crisis at this juncture would be re-engagement in the s [...] | 2009-11-21 00:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1199 | TFHO1: BORDER BLOCKADE PROMPTS HONDURAS AND EL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A blockade at a Honduras-El Salvador border point on November 17, organized by a Honduran farmers' association to protest El Salvadoran restrictions on food imports (reftel),significantly disrupted cross-border traffic. In response, Honduran and El Salvadoran officials met t [...] | 2009-11-23 14:05:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ECIN ELTN ETRD PBTS PREL CASC BEXP |
09TEGUCIGALPA1200 | TFH01: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MEXICAN A/S FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-24 00:50:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1201 | TFH01: ZELAYA WILL NOT ACCEPT UNITY GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Four senior advisors to President Manuel &Mel8 Zelaya told the Ambassador, DCM and OAS negotiator Ambassador Octavio Bordon that Zelaya would not accept a unity government until he was reinstated as president, in a November 21 meeting. The four advisors, Arturo Reina, Rodil Rivera Rodil, [...] | 2009-11-24 17:14:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1202 | TFH01: UD PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE STAYS IN RACE [...] (C) Summary. The small UD party, which has 120 candidates for congress and 265 candidates for mayor, held an assembly on November 21 at which it decided overwhelmingly not to withdraw its candidates from the general election to be held on November 29. Cesar Ham, the UD's presidential candidat [...] | 2009-11-24 23:42:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1203 | PRO-ZELAYA RESISTANCE FEARS ELECTIONS MAY BE [...] (C) Summary. The pro-Zelaya resistance movement has told its supporters not to vote in the general election scheduled for November 29 if President Zelaya is not restored to office. The resistance does not believe it will be possible to hold credible elections while the de facto regime remains [...] | 2009-11-25 01:15:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1206 | TFHO1: POSITIONS OF MULTILATERALS ON REENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Following the signing of the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord on October 30, the U.S. Treasury Resident Advisor met with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank representatives to learn their perspectives on reengagement with a possible government of national unity [...] | 2009-11-26 00:09:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1209 | TFHO1: NATIONAL PARTY ECONOMIC ADVISORS OUTLINE [...] (C) Summary: Members of the National Party economic team met with Embassy officers on November 24 to discuss the economic policies of the party, which led in the polls as the November 29 election approached. Job creation programs and assistance to poor families are key priorities, but the p [...] | 2009-11-27 17:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV SOCI PREL KDEM |
09TEGUCIGALPA1213 | TFH01: ATTEMPT TO REACTIVATE VERIFICATION [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador attempted to informally gather together on November 26 the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord negotiators for both President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and de facto regime leader Roberto Micheletti, along with representatives of the Organization of American States (OAS) in [...] | 2009-11-27 19:34:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1223 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTIONS WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya discussed the results of the general elections. Zelaya believes turn out was minimal and that the process had not been credible. The Ambassador countered by passing on the data available suggesting that the process had been free [...] | 2009-11-30 20:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1226 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HONDURAN ELECTIONS WITH [...] (C) On the morning of November 30, the Ambassador spoke to Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and discussed the results of the Honduran elections. The Ambassador told Arias that the election process had gone smoothly and praised the Supreme Elections Tribunal for an outstanding organizational [...] | 2009-11-30 22:39:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1229 | TFH01: CANADA CALLS FOR PEACEFUL ELECTIONS IN [...] (C) Summary. Non-resident Canadian Ambassador to Honduras Neil Reeder told the Ambassador on November 28 that Canada will monitor the November 29 general election to determine if it is free and fair and will observe the events that transpire the week of November 30 before deciding whether to [...] | 2009-11-30 22:56:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1231 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PRESIDENT-ELECT PEPE LOBO [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and President-elect Lobo met on November 30. Both discussed the positive results of the elections. The Ambassador briefed Lobo on the continued U.S. approach post-election that included implementation of the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord. They reviewed prospects fo [...] | 2009-12-01 00:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1235 | TFH01:ELECTION RESULTS [...] (U) Summary. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) announced unverified results from the rapid transmission of preliminary results (TREP) system on election day, November 29. The TREP figures have now been subject to verification and indicate a voter turnout rate of 50 percent. National Pa [...] | 2009-12-02 00:46:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1236 | TFHO1: DONORS PRAISE ELECTIONS AND DISCUSS NEXT [...] (C) Summary: Participants in a November 30 meeting of the G-16 donor group were uniformly impressed by how well the November 29 elections had gone. In a briefing to the group, a representative of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) said that he had monitored every election since 1993 an [...] | 2009-12-02 14:17:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL ECON PGOV PHUM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1241 | TFH01: CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE ON RESTITUTION BEGINS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Congress began its discussion of the restoration of President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya around 13:00 local time on December 2. The Executive Committee of the Congress read the relevant portions of the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord, the letter to the Congress from the commissi [...] | 2009-12-03 00:23:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1244 | TFH01: SPEAKING TO PRESIDENT-ELECT LOBO [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador spoke to President-elect Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo on November 3. They discussed the results of the congressional vote rejecting President Zelaya's restoration. Both agreed that the process, despite U.S. disappintment, was done in a transparent and open way. Lobo cite [...] | 2009-12-03 20:31:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1245 | TFH01: AMBASSADOR AND CARDINAL RODRIGUEZ DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Cardinal Andrews Rodriguez met on December 1 and discussed the current situation in Honduras. Both agreed that the Honduran elections had been free, fair and transparent, and that both the Supreme elections Tribunal and the Honduran people deserved great credi [...] | 2009-12-03 21:12:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1249 | TFHO1: WATER RATIONING IN TEGUCIGALPA [...] (U) Summary: Local water authorities in Tegucigalpa predict shortages during the dry season of this drought year, and have begun rationing city water services. The manager of the water company hopes that the combination of rationing and drilling new wells will enable the city to continue prov [...] | 2009-12-03 23:14:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON SENV PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1253 | THE AMBASSADOR AND PRESIDENT-ELECT LOBO DISCUSS [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador and President-elect Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo met on November 4 to discuss the situation in the wake of the elections and the congressional vote rejecting President Manual "Mel" Zelaya's restitution. Lobo discussed his support for the full implementation of the Tegucig [...] | 2009-12-04 20:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1264 | TFH01: THE AMBASSADOR AND PRESIDENT-ELECT LOBO [...] (S) The Ambassador discussed the latest political developments with President-elect Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo on December 7. Lobo confirmed to the Ambassador that he will be traveling to San Jose at the invitation of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias tomorrow, December 8. Lobo said he would be tr [...] | 2009-12-07 22:54:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1265 | TFH01: THE AMBASSADOR AND PRESIDENT ARIAS DISCUSS [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador and Arias discussed the Honduran situation on December 7. Arias remains committed to a negotiated solution to the Honduran crisis and expressed his willingness to stay engaged and provide leadership. He added that the holding of free and fair elections provides a [...] | 2009-12-08 17:25:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1268 | TFH01: COUNTER-NARCOTICS CHIEF ASSASSINATED [...] (U) Summary: Retired General Julian Aristides Gonzales Irias, Director of the National Directorate of Counter-Narcotics (DLCN),was shot to death in his vehicle shortly before 07:00 local time on December 8 in Tegucigalpa. The assailants were two pairs of armed men, each pair on a motorcycle, [...] | 2009-12-08 23:37:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1269 | HONDURAS: November 2009 INL Monthly Report [...] Summary. With the Ambassador's approval, Regional Corrections Advisor has resumed working-level contact with Honduran prisons officials and is advising the architect/project manager of the maximum security building project. Post followed up on the interim report of an at-risk youth program gra [...] | 2009-12-08 23:42:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KJUS EAID PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1270 | TFH01: THE AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HONDURAN SITUATION [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador held a series of conversations with President Arias, President Zelaya and President-elect Lobo. Arias provided a briefing on the results of Lobo's visit to San Jose. Arias stressed that he and Martinelli had a common vision -- consistent with the U.S. position. Th [...] | 2009-12-09 21:33:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1278 | TFH01: THE AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ZELAYA'S FAILED [...] (S) Summary: On the morning of December 10, the Ambassador briefed President-elect Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo and President Oscar Arias on the failed Mexican attempt to secure safe passage for President Zelaya to Mexico. The Ambassador noted that the U.S. had not been informed by either Mexican or [...] | 2009-12-10 17:15:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA128 | IRANIAN VISIT TO HONDURAS CANCELED BY PRESIDENT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-27 16:49:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1280 | TFH01: ZELAYA'S ABORTED DEPARTURE FROM HONDURAS [...] (S) Summary: President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya told the Ambassador late on the afternoon of December 9 that he had obtained safe passage out of Honduras from the de facto regime and would depart that evening on an airplane provided by Mexican President Felipe Calderon and be given "guest of [...] | 2009-12-10 19:38:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1282 | TFH01: PROPOSED RESPONSE TO INCREASED DRUG [...] (U) Summary: The Mission suspended some aspects of joint counternarcotics activity with the GOH as a result of the June 28 coup d'etat. Over the course of calendar 2009, narcotics trafficking through Honduras has significantly increased compared to 2008, a trend that had begun well before the [...] | 2009-12-11 21:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR ASEC PREL MASS HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1289 | STATE OF PLAY ON ZELAYA'S DEPARTURE [...] (C) Summary: Efforts are ongoing to find a solution permitting the departure of President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya from Honduras. Some regime hard-liners are urging de facto regime leader Roberto Micheletti to extract as many concessions as possible from Zelaya before allowing his departure. [...] | 2009-12-15 00:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1290 | ZELAYA ADVISORS UPDATE ON ACTIONS REGARDING [...] (S) Summary: Liberal Party leader Carlos Montoya told the Ambassador that he contacted Armed Forces Chief of Staff Romeo Orlando Vasquez, former President of Honduras Carlos Flores, and Micheletti representative on the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord Verification Commission Arturo Corrales and all [...] | 2009-12-15 00:23:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1296 | AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH DE FACTO REGIME FM [...] (C/NF) The Ambassador met with de facto regime foreign Minister Carlos Lopez Contreras at the private residence of a mutual friend on December 14. While the purpose of the meeting was to discuss completing implementation of the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord, they also spoke at length about the [...] | 2009-12-16 01:21:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1302 | PRESIDENT-ELECT'S GOVERNMENT PLAN [...] (U) Summary: President-elect Lobo's plan for his government aims to achieve sustainable development that will improve the lives of his fellow citizens. His plan is based on three pillars: creating jobs and reducing poverty, expanding the reach and quality of education, and ensuring security. [...] | 2009-12-17 00:41:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1310 | UD LEADERS SEEKS SOLUTION FOR PRESIDENT ZELAYA [...] (C) Summary: Cesar Ham, the Democratic Unification (UD) party's candidate for president in the November 29 general election, would be willing to consider joining president-elect Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo's cabinet if Lobo helps find a solution that allows President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya to leav [...] | 2009-12-18 22:41:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1312 | THE AMBASSADOR AND PRESIDENT-ELECT LOBO DISCUSS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-18 23:10:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1313 | THE AMBASSADOR AND PRESIDENT-ELECT LOBO DISCUSS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met with Honduran President-elect Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo and discussed a full range of pertinent political and policy matters on December 17. Lobo told the Ambassador he remains committed to the implementation of the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord and supported the [...] | 2009-12-18 23:17:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1317 | HONDURAS: 2009 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] On June 28, President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya was removed from office in a coup d'etat. The de facto government that took power was not recognized by the U.S. or any other country, and Honduras was suspended from the Organization of American States. Honduras's resulting international isolati [...] | 2009-12-21 23:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC KCRM KJUS EFIN SNAR PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1321 | LOBO ECONOMIC ADVISOR SEEKS INFORMAL TALKS WITH [...] (C) Summary: Maria Elena Mondragon, an economic advisor on President-elect Pepe Lobo's transition team, told the Economic Counselor on December 17 that the new government will urgently need international assistance, including budget support and technical advice. She said that informal talks [...] | 2009-12-23 17:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV PREL HO IMF |
09TEGUCIGALPA1328 | LETTER FROM PRESIDENT-ELECT LOBO TO PRESIDENT OBAMA [...] (U) The Ambassador on December 28 received a letter dated December 22 from President-elect Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo to President Obama. An informal Embassy translation of the letter is provided in paragraph 2. Embassy will fax the original Spanish text to WHA/CEN and to the NSC. 2. (SBU) Begi [...] | 2009-12-28 22:16:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | OPDC PGOV PREL KDEM OVIP HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1329 | HONDURAS: December 2009 INL Monthly Report [...] Summary: Regional Corrections Advisor visited the correctional training facility in Xalapa, Mexico and attended the Third International Graduating Class in New Mexico Correction Department's Training Academy located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Frontier Police captured six members of a dangerous [...] | 2009-12-29 14:49:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KJUS EAID PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA1333 | ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY DOGS HONDURAS [...] (SBU) Summary: Uncertainty at home and abroad dogged the Honduran economy throughout 2009. With two-thirds of its exports destined for the U.S., the country was hard hit by the U.S. recession. On top of the crumbling international situation, President Jose Manual "Mel" Zelaya created a clima [...] | 2009-12-29 23:46:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA149 | PRESIDENT ZELAYA MEETS FIDEL AND SPEAKS OUT [...] (SBU) Summary: President Zelaya concluded his three-day visit to Cuba March 4 with a reported meeting with Fidel Castro, who he described as lucid and well. Zelaya traveled to Cuba to attend the 11th International Encounter of Economists on Globalization and Development problems, before which [...] | 2009-03-06 20:42:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD EFIN CU HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA15 | HONDURAS: SUPREME COURT SELECTION PITS CIVIL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Honduran Congress will select the fifteen magistrates who will constitute the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) for the next seven years on January 25, after a process that, while by no means perfect, will have been the most open, transparent selection process for high governmen [...] | 2009-01-08 22:42:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL SNAR HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA164 | HONDURAS RECEIVES TALKING POINTS REGARDING REVIEW [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-11 23:22:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ MOPS PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA176 | Mission Honduras Merida Priorities for FY 2009-10 [...] Summary: As Merida budgets are laid out for FY 2009 and FY 2010, Post seeks a shift away from a focus on expensive, high-tech equipment toward support that host governments with limited resources, such as the GOH, can sustain beyond the Merida mandate, rather than burdening them with recurring [...] | 2009-03-16 14:26:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SNAR PGOV KJUS EAID MOPS MARR HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA180 | COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT URIBE RECEIVED WITH HIGHEST [...] (U) Summary: President of Colombia Alvaro Uribe's arrived in Honduras amongst great fanfare with his plane being escorted to the landing strip in San Pedro Sula by Honduras' squadron of F-5s. He was honored by the Mayor with the keys to the city and received the highest possible decorations b [...] | 2009-03-17 01:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG ECON ETRD CO HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA181 | Scenesetter for Assistant Secretary Shannon's Visit to [...] (SBU) Summary: We warmly welcome you to Tegucigalpa. Your visit provides an excellent opportunity to hold substantive discussions with President Zelaya, senior GOH officials, as well as with the two leading presidential candidates. The political situation continues to be stable as we move for [...] | 2009-03-17 01:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON SOCI OVIP HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA187 | (U) 2009 SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS (C-AL9-00153) [...] (U) This cable is in response to reftel demarche regarding Honduras' participation in the Summit of the Americas. 2. (U) Poloff met with Jose Lorenzana, the Director of Multilateral Affairs at the Honduran Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to discuss GOH's aspirations and plans for the Summit of [...] | 2009-03-18 14:42:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PGOV PREL |
09TEGUCIGALPA203 | Ambassador Llorens Makes First Visit to Bay Islands [...] Summary: The Ambassador emphasized the positive cooperation between Honduras and the USG during his first visit to the Honduran Bay Islands on March 12-13. The Ambassador's wide-ranging schedule included participation in community and development assistance events related to a U.S. Navy ship v [...] | 2009-03-24 22:34:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV CASC MOPS HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA222 | HONDURAS CONSIDERS U.S. CANDIDATE FOR OAS HUMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-30 22:22:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL OAS XM CA IAHRC HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA226 | PRESIDENT ZELAYA DISCUSSES THE DOMESTIC SCENE [...] (C) Summary: At lunch on March 30, the Ambassador and President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya discussed a range of issues including current political developments. Zelaya briefed the Ambassador on his plans to consult Hondurans on the holding of a constituent assembly for the purpose of seeking modif [...] | 2009-04-01 00:15:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA227 | PRESIDENT ZELAYA DISCUSSES REGIONAL ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: On March 30 the Ambassador met with President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya to review regional developments and the current state of bilateral relations. Zelaya continued to attempt to blame the Costa Ricans for his non-attendance at the meeting with Vice President Biden in San Jose. Ho [...] | 2009-04-01 00:20:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA231 | HONDURAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS VICE MINISTER ON VICE [...] (C) Summary. Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Eduardo Rosales raised Honduran participation in the San Jose Central American meeting with Vice-President Biden, President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya's desire to have a referendum on holding a constituent assembly to reform the constitution, and Hondura [...] | 2009-04-01 19:44:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IR CH TW HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA245 | HONDURAS CONSIDERS SUPPORTING USG CANDIDACY FOR UN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-03 17:34:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA249 | Drug confiscations in Honduras for 2009 already exceed 2008 [...] (SBU) Summary: During the first quarter of 2009 USG-supported joint Honduran antinarcotics forces have confiscated more drugs and vehicles than in all of calendar year 2008. Many of the cases have garnered broad press attention, and have sparked increased discussion of the trafficking issue in [...] | 2009-04-06 11:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL PGOV KJUS EAID MOPS MARR HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA250 | HONDURAS: March 2009 INL Monthly Report [...] The following summarizes Post's INL-supported activities in March 2009. 2. Donations: Four hard drives and cartridges were donated to the Polygraph Unit to increase their memory capacity to store polygraph sessions. Two air conditioners were donated to the San Pedro Sula Prison, one for t [...] | 2009-04-06 11:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KJUS EAID PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA270 | WHA ASSISTANT SECRETARY SHANNON'S MARCH 19 VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas A. Shannon visited Honduras on March 19. He met with Honduran President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, Foreign Minister Patricia "Paty" Rodas, and the two major-party presidential candidates. President Zelaya praised U.S [...] | 2009-04-15 22:36:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID SNAR HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA3 | HONDURAN CABINET CHANGES: NO MAJOR POLICY SHIFT [...] (C) Summary. President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya announced a cabinet realignment, moving several key players into different positions, but making no changes that will rearrange the direction of his government. The most noteworthy change was moving Liberal Party President, leader of its leftist fac [...] | 2009-01-06 20:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA327 | HONDURAS: April 2009 INL Monthly Report [...] The following summarizes Post's INL-supported activities in April 2009. ------------------------- 2. Trafficking in Persons ------------------------- - POL NAS staff and the Military Information Support Team (MIST) met with Strategic Planning and Coordination Director from the Ministry [...] | 2009-05-07 17:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KJUS EAID PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA353 | Mission Integrated Strategy to Fight Crime and Illicit [...] Summary and Background: The Mosquitia is a huge swath of territory accounting for nearly 20 percent of Honduras' land mass on the eastern border with Nicaragua. The area is swampy, undeveloped, difficult to access and virtually uninhabited (only 60,000 people),which over the centuries has mad [...] | 2009-05-15 00:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SNAR PREL SOCI KCRM KJUS EAID MOPS MARR HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA355 | NATIONAL PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PEPE LOBO'S [...] (C) National Party (NP) Presidential candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo travels to Washington at a delicate moment in Honduras. Democracy has been successful in Honduras over the past 28 years, but the system remains institutionally weak and fragile. Although we maintain a strong working relatio [...] | 2009-05-15 00:17:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM SMIG EFIN HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA358 | PRESIDENT ZELAYA GIVES USD12.5 MILLION TO THE [...] (C) Summary: On May 11 the Honduran government announced that President Zelaya had tasked the Honduran Military (HOAF) with the project of building a commercial terminal adjacent to the Honduran air force base at Soto Cano, which is home to the U.S. Joint Task Force-Bravo. The public announcem [...] | 2009-05-15 22:21:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV MOPS MARR SNAR PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA366 | HONDURAS REVIEW OF CUBAN RELATIONS FOR THE [...] (C) Summary: Investment activity between Honduras and Cuba remain limited, and the Government of Honduras does not appear to exert political influence over Cuba. President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya stated on May 8 that one of the OAS General Assembly,s (OASGA) key orders of business at its session [...] | 2009-05-20 00:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL |
09TEGUCIGALPA379 | YOUR TRIP TO SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS, FOR THE OAS [...] (C) Summary: We warmly welcome you to San Pedro Sula, Honduras. San Pedro is the business capital of the country, but not the seat of government, so both the Government of Honduras and the U.S. Embassy will be working out of temporary facilities there. Your visit provides an excellent opport [...] | 2009-05-22 20:01:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR ECON EAID KCRM KCOR HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA381 | FOREIGN MINISTER RODAS - AMBASSADOR DISCUSS OASGA [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador discussed the upcoming Organization of American States General Assembly (OASGA) over breakfast with Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas on May 23. The Ambassador conveyed the Secretary's keen interest in visiting Honduras and participating in a successful and constructi [...] | 2009-05-25 21:48:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KSUM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA382 | FOREIGN MINISTER RODAS - AMBASSADOR DISCUSS OASGA [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador discussed the upcoming Organization of American States General Assembly (OASGA) over breakfast with Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas on May 23. The Ambassador conveyed the Secretary's keen interest in visiting Honduras and participating in a successful and constructi [...] | 2009-05-25 21:49:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KSUM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA395 | FOURTH URN UPDATE: COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF [...] (C) Judge Jorge Zelaya Zaldana of the Administrative Court of First Instance, ruled on May 27 in favor of the Attorney General in the case he brought against the government (ref A). The Attorney General's case alleged that the government's planned use of the National Statistical Institute (IN [...] | 2009-05-28 22:58:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA405 | HONDURAS NOT YET TO COMMON GROUND ON CUBA AND OAS, [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Ambassador hosted President Zelaya and Foreign Minister Patricia Rodas for lunch on May 29 to discuss the issue of Cuba in the upcoming Organization of American States General Assembly (OASGA) meeting on June 1-3 in San Pedro Sula. The Ambassador stressed the domestic back [...] | 2009-05-30 02:33:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL OAS KSUM CU HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA409 | FOURTH URN UPDATE: PRESIDENT ZELAYA ORDERS ARMED FORCES TO [...] (SBU) Summary: President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya interrupted regularly-scheduled programming on May 29 to declare that the public opinion poll to canvass support for the addition of a Fourth Urn on the holding of a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution set for June 28th would go forward [...] | 2009-06-01 21:47:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL SOCI HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA424 | FOURTH URN UPDATE: CONGRESS CENSURES THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-04 22:04:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA431 | ZELAYA SHARES DETAILS ON OAS CUBA RESOLUTION [...] (C) President Manuel &Mel8 Zelaya shared details in a June a 7 meeting with the Ambassador, accompanied by the DCM, on his negotiations with ALBA members and Cuba over the negotiations on Cuba at the Organization of American States General Assembly in San Pedro Sula June 2 and 3. Zelaya said that h [...] | 2009-06-08 23:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL OAS KSUM CU HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA438 | ZELAYA AND THE FOURTH URN [...] (U) This is an action request message. Please see para 10. 2. (C) Summary: In a lengthy meeting on June 7, the Ambassador conveyed our concerns to President Manuel &Mel8 Zelaya over the increasingly polarized political situation in Honduras, attributing much of the blame on his recent actio [...] | 2009-06-09 23:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA439 | ZELAYA AND THE FOURTH URN [...] (U) This is an action request message. Please see para 10. 2. (C) Summary: In a lengthy meeting on June 7, the Ambassador conveyed our concerns to President Manuel &Mel8 Zelaya over the increasingly polarized political situation in Honduras, attributing much of the blame on his recent actio [...] | 2009-06-09 23:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL OAS KSUM CU HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA445 | MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT OBAMA [...] The major locally-generated media reaction to President Obama's speech in Cairo is the following Editorial in the San Pedro Sula-based liberal newspaper, Tiempo by Billy Pena. San Pedro Sula has the largest population of people who trace their family roots to the Middle East. Begin text: [...] | 2009-06-11 11:39:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP PREL KPAO HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA451 | HONDURAS CONSIDERS OPPOSITION TO INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-11 20:15:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA461 | HONDURAS: May2009 INL Monthly Report [...] The following summarizes Post's INL-supported activities in May 2009. ----------------------------- Police/Prosecutor Training ----------------------------- 2. Post sent seven police officers and three customs agents from the Honduran Internal Revenue Office (DEI) to the ILEA course: Bo [...] | 2009-06-15 18:37:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KJUS EAID PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA464 | PRESIDENT ZELAYA'S LIMOSINE RECEIVES TWO IMPACTS [...] (C) In the evening of June 12, local media reported a possible attack against President Manual "Mel" Zelaya after the front windshield of the motorcade vehicle in which he was riding in Tegucigalpa received two impacts from objects of unknown origin. The unknown objects cracked the windshield [...] | 2009-06-16 00:33:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC HO PGOV PREL SOCI |
09TEGUCIGALPA465 | LIBERAL PARTY SEEKS CONSENSUS WHILE A FRUSTRATED [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and DCM met with Former President and Liberal Party stalwart Carlos Flores and Liberal Party presidential candidate Elvin Santos to discuss the current political crisis over President Manuel &Mel8 Zelaya's push for a poll to seek support for a referendum to have a const [...] | 2009-06-16 00:47:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA474 | AMBASSADOR WARNS HONDURAN MILITARY ON COUP RUMORS [...] (C) Ambassador, accompanied by DCM, hosted Honduran Military Joint Chief Romeo Vazquez Velasquez and Deputy Chief Miguel Garcia Padgett for breakfast on June 18 and conveyed in the strongest terms USG concerns about rumors that the military would move against the government if Honduran politic [...] | 2009-06-18 17:17:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA479 | HONDURAN POLITICAL CRISIS UPDATE AND PERSPECTIVE [...] (C) Summary: Honduras may be racing towards a political train wreck that could threaten its 28 year old democracy. The crisis has been caused by President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya's reckless drive to hold a referendum (Fourth Urn) in the November general elections on whether to convene a constituen [...] | 2009-06-19 22:20:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA489 | HONDURAN POLITICAL CRISIS UPDATE AND PERSPECTIVE [...] (C) Summary: Honduras may be racing towards a political train wreck that could threaten its 28 year old democracy. The crisis has been caused by President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya's reckless drive to hold a referendum (Fourth Urn) in the November general elections on whether to convene a constituen [...] | 2009-06-23 14:33:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA492 | PROTESTS AGAINST THE FOURTH URN [...] (U) The Alliance for Peace and Democracy, led by religious, private sector and professional organization leaders, marched in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, second largest city and business center, on June 23 in support of democracy and to protest President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya,s attempt to hold a Ju [...] | 2009-06-24 20:20:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA495 | HONDURAN PRESIDENT FIRES MILITARY JOINT CHIEF; [...] (C) Summary. President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya fired the Military Joint Chief General Romeo Vasquez the evening of June 24 after the latter refused to carry out an order to provide support for the June 28 poll to support a November referendum on constitutional reform, a poll ruled illegal by a Honduran [...] | 2009-06-25 16:51:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA496 | IMPLEMENTING UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-25 19:44:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MNUC |
09TEGUCIGALPA501 | CONGRESS PULLS BACK FROM THE BRINK ON REMOVING [...] (C) Summary: On the evening of June 25, the National Congress came close to bringing to the floor a vote on the removal of President Zelaya from office. The Ambassador strongly advised Congress President Micheletti against such hasty action that could plunge Honduras into a deeper constitutio [...] | 2009-06-26 20:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA502 | HONDURAS: POLITICAL AND LEGAL STANDOFF CONTINUES [...] (U) Summary: Presented with widespread defiance from the Military, Congress, the Justice system, pro-democracy protesters and the private sector, President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya has been forced to rely on loyal social activists, labor unions, the police and government bureaucrats for his attempt [...] | 2009-06-26 20:55:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA503 | HONDURAN ARMED FORCES LEADERSHIP CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: The political stir over President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya,s proposed opinion poll regarding a constituent assembly (Ref A) has precipitated an even more substantive crisis over the country,s military leadership. While the poll serves as a major political distraction, it is the questi [...] | 2009-06-26 23:52:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS MARR PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA513 | IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1874 FINANCIAL PROVISIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-29 20:35:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP ECON EFIN PARM PREL |
09TEGUCIGALPA515 | ZELAYA DISCUSSES CURRENT SITUATION WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador spoke to President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya on June 29. Zelaya briefed the Ambassador on the current diplomatic initiatives being undertaken by the OAS, UN and SICA in support of his government. He expressed appreciation for the clear U.S. response to the coup. The Am [...] | 2009-06-29 22:20:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA516 | GUIDANCE REQUEST: DEALING WITH MICHLETTI REGIME IN [...] (C) Summary: Per reftels, President of the Congress Roberto Micheletti was sworn in yesterday at 14:15 local as President of Honduras. By 17:00, the Embassy had already been invited to the Congress to a celebration of the new Administration. The Embassy refused the invitation and immediately [...] | 2009-06-30 01:13:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS EFIN SNAR ECON EAID MARR PBTS |
09TEGUCIGALPA544 | AMBASSADOR SPEAKS WITH PRESIDENT ZELAYA AND [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke today to President Zelaya. Zelaya informed the Ambassador that he was in Managua and said he was scheduled to fly to Washington at 1900 hrs. He thanked the Ambassador for hosting members of his family at the Residence. He also expressed appreciation for the strong su [...] | 2009-07-07 01:42:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA566 | THE RED TEAM: WHO WANTS ZELAYA BACK? [...] (C) Summary: The groups demonstrating since June 28 for the return of President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, which for want of a better term we will henceforth call the "Red Team," are primarily comprised of labor unions, peasant groups, teachers and leftist students and social activists. The movement [...] | 2009-07-09 01:09:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA580 | AMBASSADOR URGES RECONCILIATION TO NATIONAL PARTY [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador strongly urged Honduran National Party Leaders Ricardo Alvarez and Maria Antonieta Belgran to support the Arias process to reach a negotiated agreement for the restitution of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. The Ambassador noted the President's and Secretary's supp [...] | 2009-07-11 02:29:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA581 | PRESIDENT ARIAS ON MEDIATION [...] (C) President Arias called the Ambassador to inquire as to the status of his efforts to soften the position of the de facto regime. The Ambassador informed him that the meeting with regime leadership was scheduled for today at 3pm. The Ambassador promised Arias that he would brief him after t [...] | 2009-07-13 13:27:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA587 | ZELAYA OPENS COMMUNICATIONS WITH CARLOS FLORES [...] (C) Summary: President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and former President Carlos Flores, meeting in New Orleans July 12, agreed to remain in informal contact to help resolve the political crisis engulfing Honduras since the June 28 coup. Zelaya pledged to stay engaged in discussions hosted by Costa Rica [...] | 2009-07-13 23:59:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA593 | AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT ZELAYA [...] (C) Summary: In a conversation with the Ambassador, Zelaya said he was focused on reaching a negotiated settlement using the channel opened up in New Orleans in conversations with former President Carlos Flores. He said Flores had the clout and influence, which along with the Embassy and USG [...] | 2009-07-15 00:27:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA596 | AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT ARIAS [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke to Costa Rican President Oscar Arias yesterday afternoon. Arias reiterated his position that the Saturday mediation session in San Jose will be critical to his efforts. He said he planned to put on the table the core issues that need to be dealt with soon if a soluti [...] | 2009-07-15 19:27:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA610 | AMBASSADOR'S JULY 16 CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: Arias stressed that substantive progress needed to made during Saturday's talks in San Jose. Key South American countries such as Argentina and Brazil were not satisfied with progress thus far and were pressing SYG Insulza to re-insert himself into the process. Pressure from the [...] | 2009-07-17 18:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA615 | TFHO1: THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH DEFENSE CHIEF [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Ambassador and DATT met with Honduran Chief of Defense (CHOD) MG Romeo Vasquez Velasquez to press the importance of the de facto regime's serious participation in the Arias-led negotiations on July 18, as well as the repercussions if the talks do not show substantive progres [...] | 2009-07-17 21:58:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET//NOFORN | AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT PGOV |
09TEGUCIGALPA616 | TFH01: AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) President Arias called the Ambassador at approximately 2:30 pm our time. The Ambassador briefed him on a series of meetings that we have held in the past 30 hours in support of his mediation effort. The Ambassador discussed the productive sessions he had had with the business community, [...] | 2009-07-17 22:48:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA619 | TFH01: FULL-COURT PRESS TO BRING MICHELETTI AROUND [...] (C) Summary: During the week of July 13 the Ambassador and Embassy officers met with numerous Micheletti supporters to press for the reinstatement of President Zelaya through the Arias process. The Ambassador emphasized the USG's strong support for the process and outlined the serious and lo [...] | 2009-07-18 01:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA623 | TFHO1: HONDURAN COUP SITREP #23 (UNCLASSIFIED) AS [...] (U) As of 10:30 local (13:00 EDT),no protests have been reported in Tegucigalpa or other cities, and roads and highways connecting Tegucigalpa to the rest of the country are open. Pro-Zelaya demonstration leaders are meeting at Zelaya's "Popular Bloc" movement headquarters near Toncontin Air [...] | 2009-07-19 17:48:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC CASC KDEM MARR HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA627 | TFH01: AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT [...] (C) President Arias called the Ambassador on July 21. He said he was concerned with the hard line positions taken by both the Zelaya and Micheletti sides. The Ambassador agreed adding that de facto regime President Roberto Micheletti's public statements were particularly unhelpful, including [...] | 2009-07-21 20:35:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA632 | TFH01: HONDURAN COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 07/21/09 [...] (U) Summary: This is another in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. End Summary. -------------------------------------------- Micheletti Remains Firm in his Public Stance -------- [...] | 2009-07-22 01:10:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA635 | TFH01: ARIAS DISCUSSES MEDIATION EFFORT [...] (S) Early afternoon on July 22, the Ambassador spoke to President Arias. Arias confirmed that the de facto regime of President Roberto Micheletti had made a sudden decision to attend the afternoon session in San Jose. Arias was very pleased. He said the meeting is now pushed back to 4:00 p.m [...] | 2009-07-22 22:51:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | AEMR AMGT ASEC CASC KDEM PGOV PINR PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA637 | TFH01: PRESIDENT ZELAYA AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS [...] (S) Summary: President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya told the Ambassador that he believes that the Arias process is close to failure. He blamed the de facto regime's intransigence for the near collapse of the mediation. He urged the U.S. to take stronger punitive measures against the Micheletti regim [...] | 2009-07-23 17:13:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PREL PGOV AEMR ASEC CASC KDEM MARR PINR HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA638 | TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #27 07/23/2009 AS OF [...] (SBU) RSO contacts have indicated there will be an increase in activity today, July 23. As of 09:15 local (11:15 EDT),approximately 1,500 peaceful pro-Zelaya demonstrators blocked traffic on the road to the Soto Cano base at the El Durazno post. At this time, 100 military and police were st [...] | 2009-07-23 18:09:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ASEC CASC KDEM MARR AEMR PINR |
09TEGUCIGALPA64 | HONDURAS CATCHES PLANE LADEN WITH COCAINE IN [...] (C) Summary. Honduran armed forces and law enforcement personnel captured a Venezuelan-registered airplane bearing over 1500 kilograms of suspected cocaine and two go-fast boats in a USG supported joint Honduran operation in the early hours of January 28. The operation demonstrated the abili [...] | 2009-01-29 20:01:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR MOPS PREL KJUS HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA647 | TFH01: HONDURAN COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 07/23/09 [...] (U) Summary: This is another in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. End Summary. ----------------- San Jose Proposal ----------------- 2. (U) Arias' new eleven point proposal [...] | 2009-07-24 15:51:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA648 | TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #28 07/24/2009 AS OF [...] (SBU) Early Friday morning, July 24, due to the rumored arrival of President Zelaya, pro-Zelaya supporters gathered around the off-ramp to Danli on Tegucigalpa's peripheral highway with plans to caravan to the Las Manos border crossing with Nicaragua. As of 09:30 local (11:30 EDT),police and [...] | 2009-07-24 17:51:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC CASC KDEM MARR AEMR PINR |
09TEGUCIGALPA649 | TFHO1: OUR FULL COURT PRESS TO REACH A RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: Post continues to apply pressure on all fronts to bring the conflicting sides to a resolution of the political crisis through the Arias process. The Ambassador and Embassy Officers have met with private sector leaders, civil society representatives, political figures and other fi [...] | 2009-07-24 17:55:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ASEC CASC KDEM MARR HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA658 | TFH01: HONDURAN COUP: POLITICAL WRAP-UP 07/24/09 [...] (U) Summary: This is another in a series of daily round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. End Summary. ------------------------------------------ Three Branches Analyzing San Jose Proposal ------------ [...] | 2009-07-27 16:26:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AEMR ASEC CASC MARR PREL PINR HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA659 | TFHO1: HONDURAS COUP SITREP #29 07/27/2009 AS OF [...] (U) Over the weekend, most activity was concentrated in southern Honduras due to the arrival of President Zelaya at the Las Manos border crossing with Nicaragua on Friday, July 24. RSO reports there were several military and police roadblocks that prohibited most pro-Zelaya supporters from r [...] | 2009-07-27 18:38:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC CASC KDEM MARR AEMR PINR |
09TEGUCIGALPA663 | PRESIDENT ARIAS DISCUSSES HIS MEDIATION EFFORTS [...] (S) President Arias called the Ambassador the evening of July 27 to get an update on the situation in Honduras and our efforts to support his mediation efforts. The Ambassador responded that the situation was mixed. On the positive side, the Honduran military was now moving in the direction [...] | 2009-07-28 15:37:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PREL PGOV AEMR KDEM MARR PINR HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA686 | TFH01: AMBASSADOR'S JULY 30 CONVERSATION WITH [...] (S) The Ambassador spoke with President Arias on the evening of July 30 to brief him on his meeting earlier in the day with President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya in Managua. The Ambassador noted that in the three-hour round of meetings he had urged Zelaya to "put on his presidential suit," take the d [...] | 2009-07-31 20:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PREL ASEC KDEM MARR PGOV PINR AEMR CASC |
09TEGUCIGALPA692 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES NEXT STEPS WITH MEDIATION [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador hosted a dinner on August 1 with former President Carlos Flores and Micheletti team members to the Arias mediation, Arturo Corrales and Vilma Morales (neither are members of the Micheletti regime; see Bio notes para 7). Morales and Corrales said they remained comm [...] | 2009-08-03 19:20:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR KDEM MARR PGOV PINR PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA731 | TFH01: Drug Trafficking Activity Before and After the [...] (SBU) Summary: After a series of successful seizure operations in the first half of 2009, the political crisis in Honduras, triggered by the ouster of President Jose Manuel Zelaya on June 28, is already showing its effects by degrading the ability of the Honduran National Police to engage in co [...] | 2009-08-11 19:13:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL PGOV KJUS EAID MOPS MARR HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA741 | TFH01: STATUS OF USG ASSISTANCE TO HONDURAS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Following the events of June 28 the United States Government has halted communications with high-level GOH officials and has been steadily suspending programs with the GOH in compliance with USG policy guidance. The following is a summary of the current status of actions taken b [...] | 2009-08-13 18:58:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID EAGR ETRD MASS OEXC PGOV PREL SCUL |
09TEGUCIGALPA770 | TFH01: PRESIDENT ARIAS' CALL TO AMBASSADOR LLORENS [...] (SBU) Costa Rican President Arias called the Ambassador late on Friday, August 14. He seemed to be recovering well from the flu and was at his home resting. The Ambassador briefed him on how he saw the situation in Honduras and stressed the importance of a successful visit by the OAS Foreign [...] | 2009-08-17 21:51:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR AMGT ASEC CASC KDEM MARR PGOV PINR PREL |
09TEGUCIGALPA802 | TFH01: MEDIA REACTION HONDURAN POLITICAL CRISIS 8-21-09 [...] (U) Editorial in the Tegucigalpa-based conservative paper El Heraldo (8-21-09): "Time passes and there does not seem to be a way out of the political crisis. The isolation from the regime continues and with the suspension of some funds for key projects such as the Dry Channel; this last case i [...] | 2009-08-24 18:48:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA811 | TFH01: MEDIA REACTION OAS FOREIGN MINISTERS VISIT [...] (U)Editorial in the San Pedro Sula-based conservative paper La Prensa (8-24-09): "The arrival... of seven Hispanic-American foreign Ministers is announced for today; perhaps they will listen and later ponder on the situation as the Inter-American Human Rights Commission did that stuck to an ag [...] | 2009-08-24 23:32:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA813 | TFH01: MEDIA REACTION OAS FOREIGN MINISTERS VISIT [...] (U)Editorial in the San Pedro Sula-based conservative paper La Prensa (8-24-09): "The arrival... of seven Hispanic-American foreign Ministers is announced for today; perhaps they will listen and later ponder on the situation as the Inter-American Human Rights Commission did that stuck to an ag [...] | 2009-08-25 13:14:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA831 | TFH01: FOREIGN MINISTER DELEGATION FACES DE FACTO [...] (C) Summary: The OAS delegation of foreign ministers and OAS Secretary General which visited Honduras August 24-25 to press all parties to accept the San Jose Accord as the peaceful solution to the current political crisis concluded without a concrete result, due primarily to inflexibility on [...] | 2009-08-27 02:05:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA832 | TFH01: HONDURAN COUP POLITICAL WRAP-UP 08/26/09 [...] (U) Summary: This is another in a series of round-ups of political news in the aftermath of the June 28 forcible removal and exile of President Manuel Zelaya from Honduras. End Summary. 2. (SBU) Representatives of the G-16 donor community met at the World Bank office on August 26 to discuss [...] | 2009-08-27 14:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA843 | TFH01: MEDIA REACTION US VISA SUSPENSION, OAS VISIT AND [...] (U) Editorial in the Tegucigalpa-based liberal newspaper (8-26-09): "The U.S. government suspended the issuance of visas starting August 26, for non immigrants and non emergency cases, which implies almost the (entire) totality of these documents for Hondurans that want to travel to the U.S. S [...] | 2009-08-27 21:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL CVIS SMIG HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA844 | HONDURAS PRESS COVERAGE OF INSULZA READOUT TO OAS [...] (U) Summary. All four major dailies covered the August 26 presentation to the OAS by Secretary General Insulza. They highlighted the failure of the August 24-25 mission of OAS Foreign Ministers, but noted that Insulza remains hopeful that a negotiated settlement to Honduras' political crisis [...] | 2009-08-27 21:16:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA845 | TFH01: MEDIA REACTION U.S. POLICY AND OAS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-27 21:55:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA847 | TFH01: MEDIA REACTION [...] (U) Op-ed by Rafael Delgado Elvir in the San Pedro Sula-based conservative paper La Prensa (8-19-09): "The circumstances surrounding the coup d'tat are keeping us in a state of high social upheaval. Day by day we witness marches and protests that indicate the existence of deep wounds and in th [...] | 2009-08-28 14:24:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA849 | TFH01: MEDIA REACTION [...] (U)Editorial in the San Pedro Sula-based liberal paper Tiempo (8-27-09): "The Under Secretary for Andean and Southern Affairs, Christopher McCullen, has said in Montevideo that the U.S. government will put more pressure on the de facto government because it is very important to restore the inst [...] | 2009-08-28 20:08:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA851 | TFH01: NATIONAL PARTY LEADERS ON THE CRISIS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with Poloffs, National Party (NP) leaders Federico "Fred" Breve and Oscar Alvarez laid out the current Nationalist position on the Honduran political crisis, prospects for a resolution and their views on how the crisis will affect Honduran politics and society in the [...] | 2009-08-31 14:26:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA862 | TFH01: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ZELAYA [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke to President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya the evening of August 31. Zelaya said he was happy to be back in Washington and noted that this was the fifth time he had visited the U.S. since the June 28 coup. He said he looked forward to the opportunity to meet key players in the [...] | 2009-09-01 17:05:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR AMGT ASEC CASC KDEM MARR PGOV PINR PREL |
09TEGUCIGALPA870 | TFH01: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SANTOS SEES [...] (C) Summary. Liberal Party presidential candidate Elvin Santos told the Ambassador on September 1 that a solution to the Honduran political crisis must come before the November 29 election. The Ambassador said that supporters of de facto regime head Roberto Micheletti, particularly those on t [...] | 2009-09-02 17:41:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA871 | TFH01: AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH FORMER [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with former president and Liberal Party "godfather" Carlos Flores on August 31 to discuss the political crisis and the state of relations within the Liberal Party. While Flores acknowledged his opposition to the coup had placed distance between himself and de f [...] | 2009-09-02 18:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL EAID HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA880 | TFHO1: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANK FACES PRESSURE TO [...] (U) Summary: The board of governors of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) will deliberate on September 18 on whether to formally suspend lending to Honduran entities, which it placed on hold following the coup. In response to the pause in lending, the de facto Hondur [...] | 2009-09-02 23:44:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN HO KDEM PGOV PREL |
09TEGUCIGALPA882 | G-16 REVIEWS MEMBER POSITIONS AND DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary. The G-16 donors' group, currently chaired by Canada, met on September 2 to review meetings held on September 1 by the EU and OAS regarding Honduras' political crisis. There was discussion of the advisability of meetings between the G-16 and electoral candidates and the concern t [...] | 2009-09-03 20:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV KDEM XG HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA884 | TFHO1: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LOBO SAYS ELECTION [...] (C) Summary. National Party presidential candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo told the Ambassador on September 2 that he is concerned that forcing the return of President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya now entails the risk that elections will not be held. Lobo believes the period following the election may be [...] | 2009-09-03 21:48:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA885 | G-16 REVIEWS MEMBER POSITIONS AND DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary. The G-16 donors' group, currently chaired by Canada, met on September 2 to review meetings held on September 1 by the EU and OAS regarding Honduras' political crisis. There was discussion of the advisability of meetings between the G-16 and electoral candidates and the concern t [...] | 2009-09-03 22:12:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PGOV KDEM XG HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA892 | PRO-COUP BUSINESSMAN CLAIMS LECH WALESA PLANS VISIT [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. See para 4. 2. (C) Prominent businessman Adolfo (Fito) Facusse, who opposes the return of President Zelaya, told EconCouns on September 3 that he and others were involved in planning for a visit to Honduras by former Polish president Lech Wales [...] | 2009-09-04 22:35:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL HO PL |
09TEGUCIGALPA90 | SOUTHCOM COMMANDER'S HONDURAS VISIT REINFORCES [...] (U) SUMMARY: Taking place on the heels of a near constitutional crisis over the election of the Supreme Court (Ref A),the visit of SOUTHCOM Commander Admiral James Stavridis on January 29-30 could not have been better timed to reinforce our message of democracy and civilian control of the mil [...] | 2009-02-10 18:30:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MARR MOPS EAID KDEM SNAR HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA900 | TFH01: AMBASSADOR URGES REGIME SUPPORTERS TO [...] (C) Summary. A small group of de facto regime supporters, who met with the Ambassador on September 7 at his request, were in agreement that Honduran society is deeply polarized and that a solution to the country's crisis must be found within the framework of the San Jose Accord. However, sev [...] | 2009-09-08 23:46:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA901 | TFHO1: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NATIONAL PARTY FIGURES [...] (C) Ambassador and DCM met with former Honduran president and National Party leader Rafael Callejas and Honduran business mogul and National Party financier Miguel Facusse for lunch September 7 to press for their support to pressure the Micheletti regime to accept the San Jose Accord. Callejas [...] | 2009-09-09 00:30:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA902 | TFH01: AMBASSADOR AND PRESIDENT ARIAS DISCUSS [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador and President Arias reviewed the Honduran situation on September 9. They discussed the Secretary's meeting with President Zelaya last week in Washington, as well as the U.S. position on economic assistance, visas and the elections. The Ambassador also briefed Aria [...] | 2009-09-09 20:59:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA904 | TFH01: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES PROPOSE JOINT [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador urged, in a September 8 dinner at his residence, presidential candidates Elvin Santos, Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, and Bernard Martinez and presidential designate Adela Echeverria, to tell de facto regime leader Roberto Micheletti that for the good of Honduras he needs t [...] | 2009-09-10 00:48:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA908 | TFHO1: IMF REPRESENTATIVE OUTLINES PLAN FOR [...] (C) Summary: In a September 9 meeting with EconCouns, International Monetary Fund (IMF) representative Mario Garza said that the IMF is conducting a vote of its members on what government to recognize in Honduras. The vote count will probably take place on September 18. If there is no quorum [...] | 2009-09-10 23:23:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IMF HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA909 | THF01: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH G-16 DONORS [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador briefed the G-16 donors' group, in a September 9 meeting at his residence, on U.S. policy. According to the UNDP representative, some UN member states are calling on the UN to halt its technical electoral assistance in Honduras. He encouraged nations who disagree [...] | 2009-09-11 13:19:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PGOV KDEM XG HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA910 | TFH01: DE FACTOS INFLEXIBLE ON ZELAYA RETURN [...] (S) Summary. Two participants in a September 7 meeting the Ambassador held with de facto regime supporters (reftel) met on September 7 and 8 with de facto regime head Roberto Micheletti and urged that he submit to President Arias a list of proposals to ensure the compliance of President Manuel [...] | 2009-09-11 20:06:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA920 | TFH01: ZELAYA CABINET COMMITTED TO SAN JOSE, BUT [...] (C) Summary. Cabinet officials of President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya told the Ambassador on September 15 that their government is committed to the San Jose process. However, they expressed concern that their supporters are losing patience and are starting to advocate adoption of extreme meas [...] | 2009-09-17 02:36:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA921 | TFHO1: REACTION TO U.S. VISA REVOCATIONS, NIV [...] (C) Summary: Public statements from de facto regime members and supporters in response to the September 10 revocation of their U.S. visas have in general been understated, with a few attacks directed at the Ambassador. In private meetings, however, the response has been a mix of anger and conf [...] | 2009-09-17 16:17:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CASC HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA922 | TFH01: ARIAS MEDIATION [...] (C) Summary: On the evening of September 16, President Arias briefed the Ambassador on the results of his meetings with the Presidential candidates in San Jose. Overall, Arias believes these meetings were positive and resulted in the issuance of a public statement by four of the five candidat [...] | 2009-09-17 17:35:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA924 | BUSINESS COMMUNITY LEADERS SAY DE FACTO OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: At a September 14 meeting with three business community leaders, the Ambassador urged them to continue to press all concerned parties to support the San Jose Accords. Amilcar Bulnes, who heads a leading Honduran business association, said that he and his colleagues had unsuccess [...] | 2009-09-17 21:04:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ECON HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA930 | TFHO1: RURAL REGION SUFFERING FROM MULTIPLE [...] (U) Summary: During a September 2 visit to two towns in the southeastern province of El Paraiso, embassy officers found that political tension, police actions, and consumer uncertainty following the June 28 coup have caused short-term damage to the local economy. El Paraiso is a primarily a [...] | 2009-09-17 23:53:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID ETRD HO KDEM PGOV PREL |
09TEGUCIGALPA940 | TFHO1: PHONE CONVERSATION WITH DE FACTO FINANCE [...] (C) Summary: Consul General (CG) received a phone call September 17 from Gabriela Nunez, de facto regime Minister of Finance. Nunez was calling to find out if her U.S. visa had been revoked, as she anticipated being invited to Washington, D.C. by the World Bank for consultations. CG confirmed [...] | 2009-09-18 23:04:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CVIS HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA941 | TFH01: PROSPECTIVE SCENARIOS FOR HONDURAS [...] (C) Signature of the San Jose Accord by Honduran President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and de facto regime leader Robert Micheletti is the optimal solution to the political crisis besetting Honduras since the June 28 coup, and the Department and the Mission has worked hard to achieve this objecti [...] | 2009-09-18 23:46:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA947 | TFH01: NEED FOR COMMISSION [...] (C) Honduran authorities can no longer handle their deteriorating political situation and need the intervention of an international commission, preferably headed by senior UN and OAS officials accompanied by regional foreign ministers. The current situation is rapidly deteriorating. There is [...] | 2009-09-22 15:49:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL SOCI HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA948 | TFH01: NEED FOR COMMISSION - CORRECTED CABLE [...] (C) Summary: Honduran authorities may no longer be able to handle their deteriorating political situation and need the intervention of an international commission, preferably headed by senior UN and OAS officials accompanied by regional foreign ministers. The current situation is rapidly dete [...] | 2009-09-22 16:17:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL SOCI HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA95 | (C) IRANIAN OUTREACH TO LATIN AMERICA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-11 17:42:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PINR ETRD MARR PREL PTER SNAR |
09TEGUCIGALPA950 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES DRAFTED GUARANTEES FOR [...] (C) Summary. Presidential candidates Elvin Santos of the Liberal Party, Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo of the National Party, Felicito Avila of the Christian Democratic Party (DC),and Bernard Martinez of the Social Democratic Innovation and Unity Party (PINU),along with former Presidents Ricardo Madu [...] | 2009-09-22 23:41:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS PHUM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA951 | TFH01: POLITICAL WRAP-UP [...] (C) Summary. President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and a group of supporters remain in the Brazilian Embassy. The Armed Forces have allowed food and water to be delivered to the Embassy compound and are permitting the departure of Zelaya supporters and local Embassy staff. Rumors are circulatin [...] | 2009-09-23 00:01:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC PHUM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA954 | TFHO1:AMCHAM BOARD SAYS POLITICAL CRISIS IS [...] (C) Summary: Members of the Honduran American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham Honduras) said that the political crisis is seriously affecting their businesses and the economy as a whole, at a September 17 meeting with Embassy economic officers. One company has barred American employees from trav [...] | 2009-09-23 00:25:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | BBSR CASC CVIS EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL |
09TEGUCIGALPA959 | TFH01: ZELAYA'S NEW CONTROL CENTER: THE SITUATION [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador spoke on the phone with Brazilian Charge d'Affaires Francisco Catunda the morning of September 23. Catunda remains host to President Zelaya and a large number of supporters in his embassy. Catunda thanked the Ambassador for the extensive USG assistance in facilita [...] | 2009-09-24 01:22:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL HO BR |
09TEGUCIGALPA960 | TFH01: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SANTOS AND LOBO [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met on September 23 with the four presidential candidates who had signed a communique expressing support for the San Jose Accord after a September 16 meeting with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias. The candidates told the Ambassador that they are scheduled to meet [...] | 2009-09-24 16:20:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA961 | TFH01: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TO TELL ZELAYA AND [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met on September 23 with the four presidential candidates who had signed a communique expressing support for the San Jose Accord after a September 16 meeting with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias. The candidates told the Ambassador that they are scheduled to meet [...] | 2009-09-24 16:26:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA962 | TFH01: TALKING TO GENERAL VASQUEZ AND PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: We have been working with Chief of Defense General Romeo Vasquez Velasquez to improve conditions for President Zelaya's party and Brazilian diplomats in the Brazilian chancery. Vasquez is willing to help but has also insisted that Zelaya be more active in encouraging his supporte [...] | 2009-09-24 19:28:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA966 | TFHO1: DE FACTO FINANCE MINISTER EXPRESSES CONCERN [...] (C) Summary: In a series of phone calls to the Consul General (CG) September 24, de facto Finance Minister Gabriela Nunez expressed worry over the deteriorating security situation since the unexpected return to Honduras of President Manuel &Mel8 Zelaya. She also angrily questioned the decis [...] | 2009-09-25 00:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM CVIS HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA977 | TFH01: CHIEF OF DEFENSE ON THE SIEGE AT THE [...] (C) Within the framework of Department guidance regarding contact with Honduran officials and military, the Ambassador spoke by telephone with de facto regime Chief of Defense MG Romeo Vasquez Velasquez on two occasions September 25 to discuss the situation at the Brazilian Embassy and the cur [...] | 2009-09-26 00:26:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM MOPS PREL HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA982 | TFH01: CANDIDATES MEET ZELAYA AND MICHELETTI AND [...] (U) Summary. The four presidential candidates who on September 16 traveled to Costa Rica to meet with President Arias met on September 24 with de facto regime head Roberto Micheletti and later the same day with President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya at the Brazilian Embassy. There was widespread [...] | 2009-09-28 20:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL SOCI HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA985 | TFH01: DEPORATATION OF FOUR OAS STAFF MEMEBERS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Four of the five members of the OAS delegation that arrived in Tegucigalpa on September 27 were denied entry into Honduras and deported on commercial flights to Miami and San Jose, Costa Rica. Poloffs were present at the airport to provide ground transportation to the delegatio [...] | 2009-09-28 23:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL CASC HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA986 | TFH01: ALLEGED GAS ATTACK AGAINST BRAZILIAN [...] (C) Summary. Embassy received reports on September 25 that a gas attack had been carried out against the Brazilian Embassy and that persons inside the Embassy, including President Zelaya, had become ill. Embassy investigated the allegations. The Brazilian Charge told Embassy that he believe [...] | 2009-09-29 13:07:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS ASEC HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA988 | TFH01:THE AMBASSADOR HOSTS COFFEE TO SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador hosted a coffee at the Residence on September 27 to promote dialogue between the pro and anti-Zelaya camps. The presidential candidates discussed their meeting with President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and de facto regime leader Roberto Micheletti on September 24. T [...] | 2009-09-29 22:48:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HO |
09TEGUCIGALPA99 | COURTESY VISIT WITH NEW FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador paid a courtesy call on newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs Patricia Rodas, February 11. Discussion centered on upcoming Summit of Americas and the OAS General Assembly as well as President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya's upcoming trip to the Washington and Denver. [...] | 2009-02-13 21:59:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KSUM KDEM AORC ICJ KV |
09TEGUCIGALPA991 | TFH01: MICHELETTI AGREES TO A NATIONAL DIALOGUE IN [...] (C) De facto regime head Roberto Micheletti told OAS Secretary Jose Miguel Insulza that he would convoke a meeting with President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya's cabinet members and other political actors in a national dialogue to promote reconciliation, at the end of a meeting held by the two September [...] | 2009-09-30 01:33:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HO |
09TELAVIV100 | GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE, JANUARY 13, 1700 HRS [...] (SBU) As of 1700 local on January 13, 102 truckloads of humanitarian supplies, including 2 tankers of industrial diesel, were transferred into the Gaza Strip via Kerem Shalom. The Nahal Oz fuel terminal was closed today because of nearby military operations. The Karni crossing, open yesterday [...] | 2009-01-13 16:52:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET//NOFORN | EAID PTER EFIN PREL MOPS PHUM PINS KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1016 | ISRAELI GICNT PLENARY DELEGATION TO BE DETERMINED [...] (SBU) Per reftel, the GOI reiterated plans to attend the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) Plenary in The Hague in June 2009. According to MFA Arms Control Advisor Israel Tikochinski, the GOI has not yet decided at what level the GOI will attend the plenary. He noted that [...] | 2009-05-07 12:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM KNNP PREL PTER MNUC KGIC RS NL IS |
09TELAVIV1017 | ISRAEL LIKELY TO POSTPONE GICNT WORKSHOP [...] (SBU) Per reftels, the GOI will likely postpone its proposed Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) expert-level workshop tentatively scheduled for November 2009. According to MFA Arms Control Advisor Israel Tikochinski, the GOI was not aware of competing GICNT events also sch [...] | 2009-05-07 12:16:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PINR XF KGIC PREL IS |
09TELAVIV1034 | NETANYAHU'S PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS SPARK POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's cabinet on May 3 approved the 2009-2010 budget framework that seeks to shrink Israel's annual budget deficit in part through cuts in expected expenditures. Details on those cuts were released later in the week, sparking the first major politi [...] | 2009-05-08 16:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN IS |
09TELAVIV104 | GAZA SITUATION REPORT, JANUARY 14, 1200 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Operation Cast Lead continues with IDF troops moving forward, very slowly, towards the center of Gaza City as talks over a ceasefire, and its terms, continue. Approximately 20 rockets landed in southern Israel overnight, although there were no reports of any damage. Two rocke [...] | 2009-01-14 10:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER EAID EFIN PREL MOPS PHUM PINS CASC KWBG |
09TELAVIV1041 | GOI REJECTS COOPERATION WITH GOLDSTONE MISSION [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director General for UN and International Organizations Affairs Evyatar Manor told Pol Couns May 11 that the GOI has definitively decided not to cooperate with the Goldstone Mission to investigate allegations of war crimes during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. Manor stressed tha [...] | 2009-05-11 12:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UN KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV106 | GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE, JANUARY 13, 1700 HRS [...] (SBU) Kerem Shalom was the only crossing open between Gaza and Israel on January 14, except for limited humanitarian evacuations through Erez. Kerem Shalom transferred 102 truckloads of humanitarian supplies, including three tankers of diesel destined for Gaza hospital generators. The GOI's [...] | 2009-01-14 15:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PTER EFIN PREL MOPS PHUM PINS KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1060 | REP. WEXLER DISCUSSES IRAN WITH IDF INTELLIGENCE [...] (S) Representative Robert Wexler (D, Florida),accompanied by Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Rogin and DCM Moreno, met with Israel Defense Forces Intelligence Chief, MG Amos Yadlin, on Sunday 10 May 2009. MG Yadlin focused his discussion on the preparations for the upcoming visit of Prime Min [...] | 2009-05-13 12:20:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL MPOS KNNP IR IS |
09TELAVIV1069 | REP. WEXLER DISCUSSES NATO WITH ISRAELI NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Opinions vary widely within the GOI regarding an enhanced relationship with NATO. According to National Security Adviser Uzi Arad, there are those within PM Netanyahu's administration who view an enhanced relationship as a real opportunity, including FM Avigdor Lieberman. Others [...] | 2009-05-13 13:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PROG KWBG IR UK IS |
09TELAVIV1070 | CODEL WEXLER'S MEETING WITH DEPUTY FM AYALON [...] (C) Summary. Representative Robert Wexler met with Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon on May 10. Looking toward PM Netanyahu's May 18 meeting with President Obama, Wexler advised that Netanyahu should support President Obama's engagement with Iran. Wexler said he was confident that the tw [...] | 2009-05-13 13:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IR SA SY EG TU IS |
09TELAVIV1122 | PAPAL VISIT TO ISRAEL UNDERSCORES DIVISIONS MORE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Pope Benedict XVI's May 11-15 visit to the Holy Land, while billed as a pilgrimage of reconciliation and peace, served perhaps more to underscore ongoing divisions between Jews and Christians, Muslims and Christians, Israelis and Palestinians, and Israel and the Vatican. Coming [...] | 2009-05-20 10:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KIRF KPAL VT IS |
09TELAVIV1125 | MG SHAMNI REPRIMANDS KFIR BRIGADE COMMANDER FOR [...] (SBU) MG Gadi Shamni, commander of the IDF Central Command, publicly reprimanded the commander of the West Bank's Kfir Brigade, Col. Itai Virov, on May 19 for statements Col. Virov made to a military court in which he defended the use of violence when detaining Palestinian suspects. (Note: Th [...] | 2009-05-20 12:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1138 | GOI DEMARCHE ON PA LETTER TO THE INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) MFA Director General Yossi Gal convoked the Charge May 21 to deliver a demarche on the Palestinian Authority's letter of January 21 to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, in which the PA requested that the Prosecutor "extend his jurisdiction to cover claims against Israel" [...] | 2009-05-21 13:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KAWC KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1141 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON STABILIZING GAZA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-22 10:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV115 | GAZA SITREP, JANUARY 15, 1230 - GAZA ON FIRE [...] Summary: (S//REL USA, ACGU) Israeli-fired artillery rounds struck a warehouse on the UNRWA compound in Gaza City between 0900 and 1000 local on January 15, sparking a fire that threatens fuel storage sites and wounding three. The Embassy has been in contact with IDF Southern Command to urge [...] | 2009-01-15 11:11:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL MOPS PINS PINR KWBG EG IS KPAL CASC PHUM |
09TELAVIV1163 | GOI SAYS IT IS READY TO EVACUATE OUTPOSTS [...] (C) Since Prime Minister Netanyahu's May 18 meeting with POTUS, the GOI has publicly announced and demonstrated its intent to dismantle illegal West Bank outposts. On May 20, Ha'aretz reported that Minister of Defense Barak told the YESHA settlers council that the GOI was ready to evacuate ill [...] | 2009-05-28 10:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1167 | STABILIZING GAZA [...] (C) Ambassador met with Israeli MFA Director General Yossi Gal on May 27 to follow up on reftel, the main points of which we passed to MFA and the Prime Minister's Office on May 23 as a non-paper, given that GOI offices were closed for the weekend. Gal said he took as point of departure that t [...] | 2009-05-28 14:12:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL KWBG PREL EAID |
09TELAVIV1176 | NETANYAHU OFFICIALLY REJECTS U.S. POSITION ON [...] (U) On June 1, Israeli press reported that PM Netanyahu officially rejected the USG position against Israeli expansion of West Bank settlements, including construction to facilitate "natural growth." Speaking to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Netanyahu reportedly declared t [...] | 2009-06-01 15:33:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1177 | CODELS CASEY AND ACKERMAN MEET WITH DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: Post hosted two CODELS during the week of May 25: one from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee led by Senator Casey, the other from the House Committee on Foreign Affairs led by Congressman Ackerman. Both delegations met with Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who conveyed similar [...] | 2009-06-02 06:19:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV MOPS IR KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1182 | ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS MEET ON GAZA RECOVERY [...] (SBU) MFA Deputy Director Irit Ben Abba called EconCouns evening of June 2 to give a readout of the GOI-PA meeting on end-use assurances and Gaza recovery. Ben Abba said the meeting had been led by she and Karim Nashashibi and had gone very well from the GOI perspective. So well, in fact, tha [...] | 2009-06-02 10:28:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN PREL KPAL IS |
09TELAVIV1184 | CODELS ACKERMAN AND CASEY MEETINGS WITH PRIME [...] (S) Summary. CODEL Ackerman and Casey met separately May 26 and 27 with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The Prime Minister discussed his visit to Washington, focusing on his discussions of Iran, a regional approach in support of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, and his approach to the P [...] | 2009-06-02 13:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV KNNP IR KWBG EG IS |
09TELAVIV121 | GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE, JANUARY 15, 1700 HRS [...] (SBU) The Joint Coordination Room (JCR) convened a 9:30 meeting to introduce the newly appointed Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Yitzhak Herzog, to the diplomatic and international organizations communities in order to demonstrate the GOI's priority on maintaining humanitarian aid for Gazan [...] | 2009-01-15 17:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PTER EFIN PREL MOPS PHUM PINS KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1218 | IDF WEST BANK COMMANDER SHAMNI BRIEFS THE [...] (C) Summary. Major General Gaddi Shamni, the commander of the IDF's Western Command, briefed the Ambassador June 4 on what he termed the development of relations of cooperation and mutual trust between his coammnd and the PA Security Forces at all levels over the past year. Shamni described [...] | 2009-06-05 12:27:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER ECON KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1220 | RIGHT-WING KNESSET MEMBERS PROPOSE LOYALTY BILLS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Israel's Knesset is in various stages of considering several bills introduced by right-wing Knesset Members (MKs) intended to counter manifestations of anti-Israeli politics among Israeli Arabs. The measures include criminalizing participation in annual protests characterizing [...] | 2009-06-05 13:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM IS |
09TELAVIV1237 | ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN MEETING ON BANKING ISSUES [...] (SBU) Bank of Israel (BOI) Assistant Supervisor of Banks David Zaken called EconOff on June 8 to express BOI satisfaction with the June 7 Israeli-Palestinian meeting on anti-money-laundering and counter-terror-finance (AML/CTF) practices in West Bank and Gaza banks. The BOI arranged the meet [...] | 2009-06-09 07:28:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL KPAL IS |
09TELAVIV124 | GAZA SITREP, JANUARY 16, 1200 [...] (S) As of 1100 local on January 16, the USDAO had reported that Israeli heavy armor and mechanized forces were moving into southern Gaza from the Sufa and Kerem Shalom crossings, moves which suggest a ground operation is in the making in the vicinity of the Philadelphi corridor. The Israeli [...] | 2009-01-16 10:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MOPS PINS PINR KWBG EG LE IS KPAL CASC |
09TELAVIV1246 | GOI INTERIOR MINISTER WANTS SETTLEMENT EXPANSION [...] (SBU) In a June 8 radio interview, Interior Minister and Shas Party head Eli Yishai publicly committed to using his Ministry's funds to promote expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Prompted by reports that no settlement construction tenders have been issued since PM Netanyahu took [...] | 2009-06-09 12:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1250 | EGYPTIAN EMBASSY ALLEGES YA'ALON COMMENT INDICATES [...] (C) Egyptian DCM Sameh El Souefi briefed members of the diplomatic community including Pol Couns May 28 on the May 24-25 visit of MFA spokesman and director of Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit's office Hossam Zaki. El Souefi provided a readout along predictable lines of Zaki's discussions with De [...] | 2009-06-09 13:44:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EG KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1273 | GOI FOLLOW-UP REQUESTS FROM JUNE 7 [...] (S) In follow-up to the June 7 Israeli-Palestinian meeting on anti-money-laundering and counter-terror-finance (AML/CFT practices in West Bank and Gaza banks (REFTEL) GOI officials reviewed with EconOff next steps and additional information they have sought from the Palestinian side. In sepa [...] | 2009-06-12 14:11:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | EAID EFIN PREL KPAL IS |
09TELAVIV1295 | NETANYAHU'S "BAR ILAN ADDRESS" REFLECTS EMERGING [...] (C) Summary. PM Netanyahu's June 14 speech was a balancing act to deal with widely-perceived U.S. pressure without causing the collapse of his coalition. By announcing his acceptance of a demilitarized Palestinian state beside Israel, Netanyahu moved to the center and embraced positions sup [...] | 2009-06-15 13:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1306 | GOI REITERATES DESIRE FOR INCREASED [...] (S/NF) Yehuda Shaffer, head of the Israel Money Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority (IMPA),reiterated GOI desire for increased bilateral Israeli-Palestinian cooperation on anti-money-laundering and counter-terror-financing (AML/CFT) enforcement in a meeting with EconOff and [...] | 2009-06-16 14:32:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | EAID EFIN PREL KPAL IS |
09TELAVIV1324 | GOI DISCUSSES LEBANON AND SYRIA WITH HOF [...] (C) SUMMARY. On June 10, Fred Hof, Special Advisor for Regional Affairs in the office of Special Envoy Mitchell, held a series of meetings with GOI officials from the MFA and MOD to discuss the situation in Lebanon and Syria and the possibilities for progress towards opening negotiations with each. [...] | 2009-06-18 08:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL LE SY UN IS |
09TELAVIV1336 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON CRITICAL UN ELECTION: U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-19 12:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA |
09TELAVIV1337 | OPPOSITION LAWMAKERS BOYCOTT KNESSET TO PROTEST [...] (U) The Kadima-led opposition this week united to oppose the government's attempts to pass several measures aimed at increasing the long-term stability of Israeli governments, but also specifically intended to assist Prime Minister Netanyahu. Opposition leader Livni pushed to have the six op [...] | 2009-06-19 13:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IS |
09TELAVIV1338 | VICE PRIME MINISTER SHALOM ON HIS NEW REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador met with VPM and Minister for Regional Development Sylvan Shalom on June 18 to discuss the latter's coordinating role in the GOI interministerial committee on West Bank economic development. Shalom outlined his role, which is limited at this point to trying to coordin [...] | 2009-06-19 13:59:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL KWBG KPAL IS |
09TELAVIV1340 | LIBERMAN'S VISIT TO MOSCOW AND MINSK PART OF GOI [...] (S) Summary. The MFA's readout on Foreign Minister Liberman's June 2-3 visit to Moscow closely tracked with Embassy Moscow reftel, but with some interesting differences of nuance: the Israelis stated that Liberman's outreach to the Russians represents a new foreign policy priority for Israe [...] | 2009-06-19 14:32:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV ECON MASS RU IR IS |
09TELAVIV135 | GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE, JANUARY 16, 1700 HRS [...] (SBU) Only the Kerem Shalom crossing was open on January 16; it handled 76 truckloads of supplies and three fuel tankers. In the wake of yesterday's firefight around the UNWRA compound in Gaza and destruction of its main warehouse, UNWRA did not operate its usual cargo convoys from Kerem Sha [...] | 2009-01-16 16:11:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PETER EFIN PREL MOPS PHUM PINS KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1355 | ISRAELI HEAD OF CIVIL ADMINISTRATION DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 21 meeting in Bet El, Head of the Civil Administration in Hebron, Brigadier General Yoav "Poli" Mordechai (please protect),told U. S. Security Coordinator (USSC) Chief of Operations and Plans, Colonel Stephen Moniz, that improved security coordination with the Palestinia [...] | 2009-06-24 13:55:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG MCAP PGOV PREL ECON IS |
09TELAVIV1373 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMPLEMENTING UN SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-25 12:56:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MNUC MTCRE IS UN KS |
09TELAVIV1374 | GOI STRUGGLES TO FIND WAY FORWARD IN GAZA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-25 13:46:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM PREL KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1379 | MOD READOUT ON BARAK'S MEETINGS IN CAIRO [...] (S) Summary. Defense Minister Ehud Barak visited Cairo June 21 and met one on one with President Mubarak, Intelligence Minister Soliman, and Defense Minister Tantawi. MOD Arab Affairs Adviser David Hacham, who was part of Barak's delegation, provided PolCouns with a readout June 23 based on [...] | 2009-06-26 13:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS EG KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1382 | MOD READOUT ON BARAK'S MEETINGS IN CAIRO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-29 04:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS EG KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1437 | MOFAZ CHALLENGING LIVNI WHILE NETANYAHU COURTS BOTH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Former Defense Minister and current Kadima Knesset Member (MK) Shaul Mofaz in recent weeks has been more vocal and direct in challenging party leader Tzipi Livni's leadership. Mofaz's recent statements -- in which he questioned her ability to lead, faulted her for not joining [...] | 2009-07-02 15:45:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IS |
09TELAVIV1462 | INCENTIVES TO WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS MAY PERSIST [...] (U) On 5 July, the Knesset Finance Committee broadened the criteria by which the government will grant National Priority Area (NPA) status, which could allow the continuation and a potential increase of incentive benefits for West Bank settlers. The NPA bill gives the GOI the legal authority to [...] | 2009-07-06 14:11:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1471 | NEW TAKE ON BUILDING ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN BANKING [...] (SBU) Irit Roth, Director of Country Legal Counsel and Compliance Division Head for Citi Israel, described operational difficulties as the main impediment to increased business between Israeli and Palestinian private banks in a meeting with EconOff on 6 July. While echoing some of the AML/CF [...] | 2009-07-07 08:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL KPAL IS |
09TELAVIV15 | GAZA SITUATION REPORT, JANUARY 5, 16:00 [...] (S) Summary: IDF ground operations continued January 5 with heavy artillery fire and troop advances on Gaza City. After bisecting the Gaza Strip, IDF ground forces are methodically closing in on Gaza City. IDF leadership describes a "root canal" ground operation aimed at preventing rocket fi [...] | 2009-01-05 17:03:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET//NOFORN | KWBG MOPS PREL PTER PINR EAID ASEC IS |
09TELAVIV1507 | STAFFDELS MAKOVSKY AND BENAIM'S MEETING WITH MOD [...] (S) Summary. Congressional Staffdels Makovsky and Benaim, accompanied by PolCouns, met with MOD Chief of Staff BG Mike Herzog July 2. Their discussion covered improved Egyptian counter-smuggling performance, Egypt's efforts to promote Palestinian national reconciliation, the Arab role in th [...] | 2009-07-08 14:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV KWBG EG IS |
09TELAVIV1562 | PRESIDENT PERES VISITS ASTANA AND BAKU [...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli President Shimon Peres, along with 3 ministers and a 60 person commercial delegation, visited Astana and Baku June 29 - July 1. The stated purpose was to advance the Israeli industrial and business agenda in these countries not traditionally considered close diplomati [...] | 2009-07-16 10:43:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IR AJ KZ IS |
09TELAVIV1565 | MFA COMMENTS ON MEETINGS WITH MOROCCAN AND OMANI [...] (C) Summary. Senior MFA officials recently met in Europe with the Moroccan MFA Director General and the Omani Foreign Minister. While the meetings were positive, the Israeli impression is that moderate Arab states are looking for Israeli steps on final status issues, not a settlements freez [...] | 2009-07-16 14:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAIR MO MU MR IS |
09TELAVIV1579 | POLICE REPORTEDLY CLOSE TO RECOMMENDING INDICTMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Israeli press reported on July 15 that police are nearing a decision to recommend to Attorney General Menachem Mazuz that he indict Foreign Minister and Yisrael Beitenu Chairman Avigdor Liberman on money laundering and fraud charges. Following such a recommendation, we expe [...] | 2009-07-17 10:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS |
09TELAVIV1640 | GENERAL GILAD DEBRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON EGYPT MEETINGS [...] (S/NF) During their July 23 meeting, Ministry of Defense PolMil Bureau Director Amos Gilad updated the Ambassador on Gilad's recent meetings with senior Egyptian security officials. Gilad said he had met with Intelligence Minister Soliman's deputy, Mohammed Ibrahim over breakfast for three ho [...] | 2009-07-24 07:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL EG IS |
09TELAVIV1656 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES GAZA/WEST BANK ISSUES WITH AMOS [...] (SBU) Ambassador met with Ministry of Defense PolMil Bureau Director Amos Gilad on July 23 to get an update on Gilad's meetings with senior Egyptian officials (septel),to underscore USG support for phase one of the UN Gaza reconstruction plan, to urge continued expansion of the flow of commod [...] | 2009-07-24 13:57:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1657 | MOD SAYS NO MASS OUTPOST EVACUATION PLANNED, [...] (SBU) On 23 July, Amos Gilad, director of the MOD's Political Military Bureau, told Ambassador that recent Israeli press reports inaccurately stated that the MOD is planning a one-day mass evacuation of outposts (reftel). From 21-22 June, Ha'aretz reported that the MOD had formulated a plan, a [...] | 2009-07-24 14:20:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1688 | PM A/S SHAPIRO'S JULY 22-23 VISIT TO ISRAEL [...] (S) Summary: Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro met with a number of GOI officials on July 22-23 to stress the importance of the U.S.-Israeli political-military relationship, and to discuss among other issues Israel's Qualitative Military Edge (QME). GOI interlocutors [...] | 2009-07-30 10:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV MOPS PTER EG CH IR SA LE IS |
09TELAVIV1717 | POLICE FORMALLY RECOMMEND INDICTMENT OF FOREIGN [...] (SBU) Israeli police on August 2 recommended to Attorney General Menachem Mazuz that he indict Foreign Minister Avidgor Liberman on charges of bribery, money laundering, obstruction of justice, fraud, and breach of trust. The recommendation followed an eight-year investigation into Lieberman' [...] | 2009-08-03 14:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IS |
09TELAVIV1718 | POLICE FORMALLY RECOMMEND INDICTMENT OF FOREIGN [...] (SBU) Israeli police on August 2 recommended to Attorney General Menachem Mazuz that he indict Foreign Minister Avidgor Liberman on charges of bribery, money laundering, obstruction of justice, fraud, and breach of trust. The recommendation followed an eight-year investigation into Liberman' [...] | 2009-08-03 14:31:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IS |
09TELAVIV1726 | GOI, NGO ASSESSMENT OF JORDAN-ONLY RED SEA PROJECT [...] (SBU) Summary. The consensus among GOI officials and Israeli NGOs is that the Jordan Red Sea Development Project (JRSP) will not proceed independently of the Red Sea-Dead Sea Conveyance Project (RDS) due to funding and/or legal concerns. GOI interlocutors asserted that Israel has sufficient d [...] | 2009-08-05 03:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PREL IS JO KWBG |
09TELAVIV1831 | ISRAELI REACTION TO FATAH CONGRESS MIXED [...] (C) Summary. We have noted a mixed Israeli reaction to the Sixth Fatah Congress and the elections to the Fatah Central Committee. Repeated references to the legitimacy of "resistance" and "popular struggle" in Congress speeches have raised concern among many Israelis, yet at the same time, t [...] | 2009-08-18 07:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1838 | LIEBERMAN INDICTMENT SCENARIOS [...] (C) Reftel reported that the Israeli police recommended August 2 that Attorney General Mazuz indict Foreign Minister Lieberman on bribery, money laundering, obstruction of justice, and other charges. Political insider and media commentator Alon Pinkas (protect) reviewed the legal process wi [...] | 2009-08-18 15:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IS |
09TELAVIV1842 | MINISTERS PUBLICLY SPLIT ON SETTLEMENTS [...] SUMMARY: Government ministers are sending mixed signals in the press on Israel's position regarding settlements ahead of the expected meeting next week between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Special Envoy Mitchell. Political tensions are growing as several influential ministers visited illegal o [...] | 2009-08-19 11:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV1854 | NETANYAHU'S RIGHT GETS LOUDER, BOLDER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Following a tour of illegal outposts by four cabinet ministers on August 17 (reftel),and ahead of Netanyahu's expected meeting in London next week with Senator Mitchell, some right wing members of the government have continued to up their rhetoric in support of settlements and [...] | 2009-08-21 08:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IS |
09TELAVIV186 | HIGH COURT REVERSES ELECTION COMMITTEE BAN ON ARAB PARTIES [...] SUMMARY: Amidst growing tension between Israeli Jews and Arabs over hostilities in and around the Gaza Strip, two right-wing parties and a now-defunct centrist party successfully petitioned the Knesset's Central Elections Committee (CEC) to exclude two Israeli Arab political parties from cont [...] | 2009-01-21 17:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM IS |
09TELAVIV1863 | GOI OUTLINES POSSIBLE U.S. GESTURES TO IRAN [...] (S) On August 17th, Israeli Defense Intelligence (IDI) gathered a round-table of in-house experts to discuss possible gestures to Iran that the U.S. and international community could utilize during negotiations over Iran's nuclear program and the resumption of relations. The panel consisted o [...] | 2009-08-25 06:48:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | ECON PREL IR IS |
09TELAVIV1867 | ISRAEL SPACE AGENCY HAS HIGH AMBITIONS [...] (SBU) Post ESTOff met with Zvi Kaplan, Director General of the Israel Space Agency (ISA),on August 25, who outlined an ambitious agenda for Israel in space sciences, and in particular for the ISA's showcase conference in January. This message is background and heads-up for likely engagement b [...] | 2009-08-25 12:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA PREL IS |
09TELAVIV1880 | ISRAELI MFA ASKS USG TO BROKER OPENING TO INDONESIA [...] (C) Summary: In an August 26 meeting with PolCouns senior MFA officials Kahanoff and Ben-Abba asked for U.S. help, prior to the scheduled November visit of President Obama to Indonesia, in facilitating the development of Israeli-Indonesian relations. Specifically, they asked if President O [...] | 2009-08-27 14:16:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IN JA IS |
09TELAVIV1895 | ISRAEL'S PRESENTATION FOR UNRWA AT 60 [...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to MFA Deputy Director General for the UN and International Organization Evyatar Manor August 31. PolCouns reviewed U.S. efforts in support of Israel's request for a speaking role at the UNRWA at 60 event, and stressed our view that if Israel is invited [...] | 2009-08-31 12:12:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF UNGA IS KPAL |
09TELAVIV1918 | FORMER PRIME MINISTER INDICTED, FORMER MINISTERS [...] (SBU) The past few days have highlighted, for better and for worse, corruption and ethical conduct among Israel's political elite. Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was indicted on August 30 on charges breach of trust and fraudulent conduct. Meantime, Olmert's former Finance Minister Avraha [...] | 2009-09-02 14:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS |
09TELAVIV1933 | ISRAEL: NEXT MONTH PIVOTAL REGARDING IRAN [...] (S) Summary: The GOI views a number of important meetings in September -- including the P5 1 Foreign Ministers, the IAEA Board of Governors, the UN General Assembly and the G-20 -- as pivotal in determining the next course of action regarding Iran's nuclear program. According to MFA Director [...] | 2009-09-03 12:32:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL KNNP PGOV IAEA IR RU CH IS |
09TELAVIV1955 | LIKUD RIGHT WING FLEXES ITS MUSCLES [...] (C) Summary. Israeli media reports claiming that Prime Minister Netanyahu's has agreed to a temporary freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank has mobilized opposition within elements of the Likud party. A small but vocal group of junior Knesset Members (MKs) announced plans for a [...] | 2009-09-04 14:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS |
09TELAVIV1957 | ISRAELI UPDATE ON JORDANIAN ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. A senior Israeli NSC official told us September 4 that National Security Adviser Arad's August 31 visit to Amman was a good opportunity to exchange views but did not produce any results. Contrary to Jordanian expectations reported reftel, Israel does not intend to allow a visit [...] | 2009-09-04 14:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG JO IS |
09TELAVIV1975 | ISRAEL WANTS GREATER BMENA ROLE [...] (SBU) ESTH officer met with MFA Magreb Director Eynat Shlein-Michael on September 3 to follow up at her request on the BMENA demarche presented August 18 (ref A). She underscored that Israel remains quite interested in BMENA progress, and she personally believed it was one of the Bush administ [...] | 2009-09-08 12:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL KMPI KDEM IS |
09TELAVIV198 | LIFTING OF SANCTION ON NON-MISSION-CRITICAL TRAVEL [...] This is a joint Embassy Tel Aviv and Consulate General Jerusalem message. 2. With a cease fire now in effect in the Gaza Strip, Embassy Tel Aviv and Consulate General Jerusalem are lifting the request to defer all non-Mission-critical travel to either post (reftel). 3. Official USG tr [...] | 2009-01-23 07:44:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AMGT ASEC OVIP KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2003 | ISRAEL: PA'S NON-RESPONSE THROUGH BANKING DIALOGUE [...] (C) GOI officials have expressed concern over the lack of sustained engagement by the Palestinians through the bilateral banking dialogue (see reftel). The GOI is still waiting for information and responses to questions posed to the Palestinians before the last banking meeting, which was held [...] | 2009-09-10 13:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL KPAL IS |
09TELAVIV2004 | THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH DEPUTY FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador called on Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon September 9 and raised the Goldstone report, the UNGA event marking the 60th anniversary of UNRWA, possible problems with the AHLC, the Wataniya project and the Lebanese border village of Ghajar. The Ambassador noted [...] | 2009-09-10 13:41:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UN KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2019 | GLOBAL NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT [...] (C) PolCouns delivered the President's invitation regarding a global nuclear security summit (reftel) to PM Netanyahu's National Security Advisor Uzi Arad on September 13. Arad described press speculation that Israel would not attend the conference as "nonsense," adding that he could see no [...] | 2009-09-14 14:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PTER PREL IAEA IS |
09TELAVIV2020 | RESPONSE TO MEETING REQUEST WITH EGYPTIANS ON [...] (C) Summary: Per reftel, polmiloff on September 14 raised with MFA Director for Arms Control Rodica Radian-Gordon the possibility of meeting with Egyptian officials shortly following the IAEA General Conference (GC) in order to initiate discussion on advancing a Middle East free of weapons of [...] | 2009-09-14 15:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PARM PREL KNNP IAEA EG IS |
09TELAVIV2028 | THE GOLDSTONE REPORT AND ISRAELI INVESTIGATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Israel has undertaken investigations of approximately 100 complaints it received concerning the activities of the IDF during Operation Cast Lead. The GOI has published a report called The Operation in Gaza: Factual and Legal Aspects, which details the context in which the war [...] | 2009-09-15 12:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM IS |
09TELAVIV2045 | OPPOSITION LEADER LIVNI TALKS PEACE PROCESS, IRAN [...] (C) Summary. Sen. Gillibrand met on September 3 with Kadima Chairman and Knesset opposition leader Tzipi Livni. Livni told Gillibrand that Israel must reach a two-state solution with the Palestinians that represents an end to the conflict and does not include a right of return for Palestinia [...] | 2009-09-16 10:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG PTER IR SY IS |
09TELAVIV2050 | IDF SOUTHERN COMMAND AND SHIN BET BRIEFINGS ON [...] (S) Summary. CODEL Gillibrand received separate briefings on the Gaza security situation by the IDF Southern Command and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) September 2 and 3. Major General Yoav Gallant told the CODEL that the Southern Command's role is to manage the threat from Gaza, but [...] | 2009-09-16 10:33:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PTER OREP KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV206 | ISRAELI THINKING ON LEBANON ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: From January 1-10, Poloff and visiting NEA Lebanon desk officer Matthew Irwin discussed Lebanon in meetings with Israeli MFA, MOD, and NSC officials, as well as local academics and journalists. Overall the meetings confirmed that Israel shares the goal of supporting Lebanese mod [...] | 2009-01-23 16:42:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PTER LE SY IR IS |
09TELAVIV208 | ISRAELI CONCERNS ABOUT UPCOMING GAERC MEETING ON [...] (C) MFA Policy Advisor Tal Becker called the Ambassador to express concern about the upcoming GAERC meeting in Brussels on the Middle East scheduled for Monday, January 26. According to Becker, the French are pushing hard to change the GAERC document in ways that will make things more flexi [...] | 2009-01-25 15:48:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL AORC KWBG PHUM IS EU FR |
09TELAVIV2098 | CODEL ROHRABACHER DISCUSSES PEACE PROCESS, [...] (C) Summary. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) visited Israel August 19-21 for a series of meetings with Israeli officials, primarily focused on the peace process, regional security issues, and arms sales. Rohrabacher met with Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon, Deputy Foreign M [...] | 2009-09-22 14:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV KWBG IR IS |
09TELAVIV2099 | WHY THE GOLDSTONE REPORT MATTERS SO MUCH TO ISRAEL [...] (C) Summary. The Israeli leadership is deeply alarmed by the Goldstone Report on many levels. Their initial reaction was to deplore the report for accusing much of Israel's military and political leadership of intentionally targeting the civilian population of Gaza during Operation Cast Lea [...] | 2009-09-22 14:44:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2102 | THE GOLDSTONE REPORT AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns and Deputy PolCouns met September 22 with MFA Legal Advisor Ehud Keinan and Principal Deputy Legal Advisor Daniel Taub to follow up on Israel's reactions to the Goldstone Report and seek more specificity concerning the IDF investigatory process. Keinan and Taub stresse [...] | 2009-09-23 14:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2147 | ISRAEL TO RELEASE WOMEN PRISONERS IN RETURN FOR [...] (SBU) The Prime Minister's Office released a statement September 30 confirming media reports that the security cabinet has decided to release twenty Palestinian women prisoners in return for "updated and unequivocal proof regarding the well-being and status of Gilad Shalit." Prime Minister N [...] | 2009-09-30 14:55:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PHUM EG KWBG GM IS |
09TELAVIV2166 | GOI HARDENS LINE ON PA WTO OBSERVER STATUS [...] (SBU) MFA's Middle East Economic Bureau Director Yael Ravia called EconCouns late Wednesday evening to inform Embassy of the hardened GOI position on a potential Palestinian Authority request for permanent WTO observer status. Ravia said the current GOI position, which she confirmed had been [...] | 2009-10-01 14:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG ETRD ECON PREL IS |
09TELAVIV2167 | GOI REJECTS FORMING GAZA INVESTIGATORY COMMITTEE, [...] (C) Summary: Reports in the Israeli media September 30 announced that Defense Minister Barak had proposed the formation of an independent commission to conduct a separate investigation of incidents of civilian deaths in Operation Cast Lead, but MFA later denied the media report, noting that [...] | 2009-10-01 14:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2168 | ARAD COMMENTS ON SILWAN DINNER, ASSURES USG OF GOI [...] (C) On September 30, Embassy heard from NGO and Consulate General Jerusalem colleagues that Elad, a right wing religious Zionist group dedicated to asserting Jewish claims to Jerusalem was hosting a tunnel opening ceremony and dinner that evening at a new tunnel site. According to these rep [...] | 2009-10-01 14:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2187 | WHY THE GOI IS SO CONCERNED WITH KEEPING THE [...] (C) Summary. The past week's discussions with GOI officials about the Goldstone Report have revealed a neuralgic Israeli concern about preventing the report from moving from Geneva to New York. Israeli officials all the way up to PM Netanyahu have insisted that Israel is dead set against re [...] | 2009-10-05 11:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV UN KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2227 | ISRAELI, JORDANIAN, AND EGYPTIAN VIEWS ON [...] (C) Summary: An Israeli official provided the official view of the October 4 rise in tensions connected to the Temple Mount, citing deliberate Palestinian escalation despite advance understandings between the Waqf and Israeli National Police. The Egyptian and Jordanian DCMs provided contrastin [...] | 2009-10-09 14:33:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG KISR JO EG IS |
09TELAVIV2234 | MFA CLAIMS POLICE VIDEO PROVES LACK OF SETTLER [...] (C) In light of the Palestinian Authority's decision to request a special session of the UN Human Rights Council linking the Goldstone Report to "events at Al-Aqsa," Foreign Minister Lieberman convinced the Israel National Police to authorize MFA to use a police video of disturbances on the T [...] | 2009-10-13 14:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KIRF KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2245 | ISRAELIS MULL RESPONSE TO TURKISH "HUMILIATIONS" [...] (S) Summary. Turkey's decision to cancel Israel's participation in the joint Turkey-U.S.-Italy-NATO-Israel Anatolian Eagle air exercise received heavy media coverage here October 11-13. Although the IDF adhered to agreed language on the international portion of the exercise being postponed [...] | 2009-10-13 15:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL MOPS MASS TU KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2255 | GENEVA INITIATIVE ANNEXES SEEK TO RESTORE VISION [...] (SBU) Summary. Since releasing its annexes last month, the Geneva Initiative (GI) is continuing to look for ways to promote its model peace agreement, the Geneva Accord, and to generally support peace efforts. Representatives of the Geneva Initiative told PolOff on October 6 that while they [...] | 2009-10-14 15:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2256 | ISRAELI UAV FOOTAGE OF EXPLOSION IN LEBANON [...] (SBU) On October 13, the Israel Air Force publicly released video footage taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) shortly following the October 12 explosion of an apparent arms cache in the Lebanese village of Tayr Filsi. The IAF UAV footage show Hizballah operatives removing rockets and oth [...] | 2009-10-14 15:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE SY UN IS |
09TELAVIV2283 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF USUN AMBASSADOR SUSAN [...] (S) Summary. Israelis are even more anxious than usual these days as the Goldstone Report is being discussed in Geneva and New York. Israeli leaders have developed a virtually obsessive reaction to the report, which they see as both an assault on the State of Israel and it's democratic inst [...] | 2009-10-16 12:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV PHUM KWBG IR TU IS |
09TELAVIV2343 | BOI-PMA BANKING MEETING HELD [...] (C) Dudu Zaken, Assistant Supervisor of Banks at the Bank of Israel (BOI),informed EconOff that a bilateral Israeli-Palestinian banking meeting was held on 21 October. Surplus cash in Palestinian banks was a primary topi of discussion. In mid-August, the BOI allowed deposit of 300 million [...] | 2009-10-23 14:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL KPAL IS |
09TELAVIV2365 | AMBASSADOR RICE,S OCTOBER 21ST MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Susan E. Rice met with Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on October 21. Ambassador Rice emphasized that it is in both U.S. and Israeli national interests that serious negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians must begi [...] | 2009-10-27 11:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KWBG IR IS CY AF PK |
09TELAVIV2375 | AMBASSADOR RICE,S OCTOBER 20 MEETING WITH ISRAELI [...] (C) Summary: During U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Rice,s October 20th meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres, Peres said he planned to meet with Abu Mazen early the week of Oct. 26. He said Israel should fully investigate the actions of its soldiers, as well as the s [...] | 2009-10-28 12:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPAL IS |
09TELAVIV2379 | BOI TO ACCEPT EXCESS SHEKELS, STILL SEEKS [...] (SBU) The Bank of Israel (BOI) will accept another tranche of surplus shekels from the West Bank "by the end of the week (i.e. 31 October)," according to Dudu Zaken, Assistant Supervisor of Banks. The sum of the deposit will be approximately NIS 400 million. BOI Governor Stanley Fischer is a [...] | 2009-10-28 15:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL KPAL IS |
09TELAVIV2388 | GOI LEGAL TEAM REVIEWING GOLDSTONE INVESTIGATION [...] (U) The GOI issued a communique October 27 on PM Netanyahu's decision to appoint a top-level legal team, headed by Attorney General Meni Mazuz, to "formulate recommendations on possible alternatives" regarding Israel's response to the Goldstone Report. Other members of the team include IDF A [...] | 2009-10-30 15:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2409 | MOD SETTLEMENTS STRATEGY DEPENDENT ON US-ISRAEL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The MOD is taking a wait-and-see approach on both settlements and outposts, pending the outcome of USG-GOI negotiations on a moratorium, according to Oded Herman, Senior Advisor to MOD Pol-Mil Director Amos Gilad. On settlements, Herman noted that any MOD attempts to restrict th [...] | 2009-11-02 16:09:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG |
09TELAVIV2420 | ISRAEL PROPOSES JUNE 2010 GICNT WORKSHOP [...] (SBU) Per reftels, the GOI remains interested in hosting a Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) workshop focusing on legal aspects and the forensics involved with combating nuclear and radiological terrorism. Per ref C, the GOI had agreed to postpone the workshop until a later [...] | 2009-11-03 13:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PTER KGIC IS |
09TELAVIV2425 | SENIOR MFA AND MOD OFFICIALS DESCRIBE COMPLEX [...] (S) Summary. In separate meetings October 28 and 29, MOD Pol-Mil Director Gilad and MFA Deputy Director General Hadas described different aspects of Israel's complex relations with Jordan. Gilad effusively praised security cooperation with Jordan, calling it the "main pillar" of Israel's se [...] | 2009-11-04 12:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV KISL KWBG JO IS |
09TELAVIV2443 | GOI BRIEFS DIPLOMATIC COMMUNITY ON M/V FRANCOP [...] (C) Summary: During a carefully orchestrated public relations event on November 5, the GOI briefed ambassadors, defense attaches and members of the diplomatic corps at the Nahal Soreq Ammunition Center on the arms shipment confiscated from the M/V Francop. Participants, including polmiloff, w [...] | 2009-11-06 11:59:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PTER PARM IR LE SY IS |
09TELAVIV2445 | ISRAELI ARABS: PARTNER OR POWDER-KEG? [...] (C) The Israeli Arab community plays a role in domestic stability and Israeli engagement with the Palestinians and Arab world. However, as it continues to lag behind the majority Jewish population in most social, political, and economic indicators, leaders of the community sense a growing dis [...] | 2009-11-06 12:43:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL IS |
09TELAVIV2465 | SHAUL MOFAZ BRIEFS THE AMBASSADOR ON HIS PEACE PLAN [...] (C) Summary/Comment. Member of Knesset (Kadima) and former Deputy PM, Defense Minister and IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. General (retired) Shaul Mofaz briefed the Ambassador November 9 on the peace plan that he announced at a press conference the previous day. Mofaz' plan provides for the [...] | 2009-11-10 15:28:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2466 | LABOR PARTY REBELS INCHING TOWARD A SPLIT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Labor Party Knesset Members (MKs) opposed to Defense Minister Ehud Barak's leadership of the party continue to try to recruit the crucial fifth member to their ranks to enable them to formally split from the party. Labor MK Daniel Ben Simon, who had earlier this year sided with [...] | 2009-11-12 05:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS |
09TELAVIV2473 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (S) Summary. Israel is deceptively calm and prosperous. The security situation inside Israel is the best since the outbreak of the Second Intifada, the economy has weathered the storms of the international economic crisis, and Netanyahu's governing coalition is stable, for the time being at le [...] | 2009-11-12 15:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER MOPS KWBG IS IR |
09TELAVIV2482 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE VERSHBOW MEETS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 1 and 2, Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD) for International Security Affairs, Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, met with a number of senior Israeli defense officials in Israel including: Ministry of Defense (MOD) Director General (DG) Pinchas Buchris; Head of MOD Poli [...] | 2009-11-16 08:55:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MOPS PTER KWBG EG SY IR SA LE TU |
09TELAVIV2498 | GOI/IDF ADDRESS SOLDIER INSUBORDINATION [...] (C) Summary: The Israel Defense Force (IDF) and GOI responded quickly to yet another soldiers' demonstration on November 16 protesting against outpost evacuations in the West Bank. Israeli media outlets report that the IDF may examine further the "hesder" program combining yeshiva religious [...] | 2009-11-17 15:27:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2500 | 40TH JOINT POLITICAL-MILITARY GROUP: EXECUTIVE [...] (S) Summary: During the Executive Session of the 40th Joint Political Military Group (JPMG),U.S. and Israeli counterparts continued discussion on the creation of four new Qualitative Military Edge (QME) working groups. GOI interlocutors continued to raise concerns regarding the F-15 sale to [...] | 2009-11-18 14:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV MOPS PTER EG CH IR RU SA LE TU IS |
09TELAVIV2501 | 40TH JPMG: COUNTERSMUGGLING TECHNICAL DISCUSSION [...] (S) Summary: Concurrent to the Joint Political Military Group (JPMG) Executive Session, IDF J5 and Israel Defense Intelligence (IDI) officers briefed U.S. JPMG delegation members on current arms transfers and weapons smuggling into Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. IDF J5 and IDI officers first focused o [...] | 2009-11-18 14:32:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV MOPS PTER KWBG EG IR LE IS |
09TELAVIV2502 | 40TH JPMG: NEA REGIONAL DISCUSSION (PART 3 OF 4) [...] (S) Summary: As part of the 40th Joint Political Military Group (JPMG),U.S. and GOI counterparts discussed security issues in the Near East region. GOI officials expressed support for the P5 plus 1 engagement process with Iran, but doubted the process would lead to any change in Iranian behavior - [...] | 2009-11-18 14:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV MOPS PTER KWBG EG IR SA LE IS |
09TELAVIV2503 | 40TH JPMG: INTERNATIONAL, EXPORT CONTROL AND JSAP [...] (S) Summary: As part of the 40th Joint Political Military Group, U.S. and Israeli interlocutors discussed Russia, Afghanistan/Pakistan, and East Asia, focusing specifically on China. On Russia, both U.S. and GOI officials stressed the importance of maintaining a balanced relationship with Mos [...] | 2009-11-18 14:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV MOPS PTER CH IR RU IS |
09TELAVIV2505 | ENGAGING THE GOI ON PROCEDURES AT WEST BANK [...] (SBU) EconCouns took advantage of a previously scheduled meeting with Ministry of Defense Advisor Oded Herman to raise ref A talking points and to discuss a further incident at the Jalameh crossing on November 13 (Ref B). Herman explained that there are three organizations that handle security [...] | 2009-11-18 15:04:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KREC KTIA KWBG ODIP ASEC EAID PREL IS |
09TELAVIV2506 | ISRAELI COMPLAINTS ABOUT TURKEY'S ROLE WITH IRAN [...] (S) Reftel reported that the French MFA readout to Embassy Paris on the Israeli-French Strategic Dialogue included Israeli claims that Turkey, with the full knowledge of PM Erdogan, has facilitated the supply of weapons-related materials for Iran's nuclear program. MFA Director of Political [...] | 2009-11-19 09:45:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL KNNP EFIN TU IR FR IS |
09TELAVIV2514 | ISRAELI REACTIONS TO GILO CONTROVERSY [...] (C) Summary: Israelis across the political spectrum have lined up in support of Israeli expansion in Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem following the controversy over plans for new construction next to the existing neighborhood of Gilo (reftel). Many Israelis feel a strong connection to [...] | 2009-11-19 12:48:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2519 | DEPUTY SECRETARY RAISES TRANSIT OF GAZA STUDENTS [...] (C) In a November 15 meeting with Yuval Diskin, head of the Shin Bet, Deputy Secretary Steinberg raised USG concern about the Israeli requirement that Palestinian students needing to exit Gaza and travel through Israel to apply for U.S. visas and/or transit to the Allenby Bridge be accompanie [...] | 2009-11-20 10:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS |
09TELAVIV2525 | CODEL LIEBERMAN'S NOV 16 MEETING WITH PRIME [...] (C) Summary. While in Israel participating in the Saban Forum, CODEL Lieberman met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on November 16 in Jerusalem. They discussed the PM's recent meeting with President Obama in Washington, restarting negotiations with the Palestinians, and regional issues [...] | 2009-11-20 15:31:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR SY TU KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2526 | GOI INTERAGENCY DISCUSSION ON TURKEY [...] (S) SUMMARY. On November 15, Israeli officials told NSC Senior Director Dan Shapiro during a GOI interagency briefing hosted by National Security Advisor Uzi Arad, that they believe Turkey is engaged in an ongoing strategic realignment towards the Middle East and away from the West, and that t [...] | 2009-11-23 13:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL MARR TU IS |
09TELAVIV2542 | ISRAELI SUPPORT FOR U.S. POSTURE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: The GOI appreciated reftel message regarding the U.S. posture on Iran's nuclear program. According to MFA Director for Nonproliferation Haim Waxman, the GOI remains interested in next steps, including in the immediate time period U.S. plans for the IAEA November 26 Board of Gover [...] | 2009-11-25 12:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IR IS |
09TELAVIV2543 | ISRAELI SUPPORT FOR U.S. POSTURE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: The GOI appreciated reftel message regarding the U.S. posture on Iran's nuclear program. According to MFA Director for Nonproliferation Haim Waxman, the GOI remains interested in next steps, including in the immediate time period U.S. plans for the IAEA November 26 Board of Gover [...] | 2009-11-25 12:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IR IS |
09TELAVIV2544 | ISRAELI SUPPORT FOR U.S. POSTURE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: The GOI appreciated reftel message regarding the U.S. posture on Iran's nuclear program. According to MFA Director for Nonproliferation Haim Waxman, the GOI remains interested in next steps, including in the immediate time period U.S. plans for the IAEA November 26 Board of Gover [...] | 2009-11-25 12:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IR IS |
09TELAVIV2545 | ISRAELI SUPPORT FOR U.S. POSTURE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: The GOI appreciated reftel message regarding the U.S. posture on Iran's nuclear program. According to MFA Director for Nonproliferation Haim Waxman, the GOI remains interested in next steps, including in the immediate time period U.S. plans for the IAEA November 26 Board of Gover [...] | 2009-11-25 12:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP IR IS |
09TELAVIV2554 | NATO DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL BRIEFS DIPLOMATIC [...] (SBU) Summary: In a November 24 briefing to the diplomatic corps held at the Canadian Embassy, NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero described positive meetings with GOI interlocutors in which both NATO and the GOI expressed interest in enhancing the NATO-Israel relation [...] | 2009-11-27 09:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MASS NATO CA IS |
09TELAVIV2560 | INITIAL ISRAELI REACTIONS TO NETANYAHU'S [...] (C) Summary. PM Netanyahu's November 25 announcement of the "suspension of new (building) permits and new construction" in the West Bank for a period of 10 months appears to be generally well received in Israel even while generating virulent opposition on the far right and with the settler m [...] | 2009-11-27 13:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2568 | ISRAEL BEGINS PREPARATION FOR GICNT WORKSHOP [...] (SBU) On November 25, Polmiloff passed to GOI officials reftel points regarding Washington support for the GOI's proposal to host a Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) workshop in Jerusalem, June 7-8, 2010. On November 27, Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) Senior Direc [...] | 2009-11-30 12:10:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PTER KGIC RU IS |
09TELAVIV2577 | GOI ALARMED BY EU DRAFT COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS ON [...] (C) Summary. MFA Senior Deputy Director General Barak briefed PolCouns December 1 on the Israel's "alarm" at the Council of the European Union's draft text on the Middle East Peace Process. Barak stressed that the EU draft, if adopted by the EU foreign ministers December 7, would seriously [...] | 2009-12-02 09:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2585 | ARAD CLAIMS RELATIONS WITH EGYPT "NEAR ALL-TIME [...] (S) Summary. National Security Adviser Arad, in the course of a discussion of non-proliferation issues with visiting U/S Tauscher December 1, commented on the Netanyahu government's relations with Egypt, calling them regional "good news" and suggesting that ties to at least key sections of [...] | 2009-12-02 12:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV MOPS EG IS |
09TELAVIV2604 | SETTLEMENT FREEZE: YEDIOTH REPORT ON IDF CONCERNS REGARDING [...] (U) Influential journalist Alex Fishman, lead military correspondent for Yedioth Ahronoth, published an article on Friday, December 4 (Note: this is the equivalent to the Sunday paper) in which he conveyed IDF concerns about the extent of GOI political support for IDF efforts to uphold the law [...] | 2009-12-04 11:42:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2617 | SETTLEMENT FREEZE: YEDIOTH REPORT ON IDF CONCERNS REGARDING [...] (U) Influential journalist Alex Fishman, lead military correspondent for Yedioth Ahronoth, published an article on Friday, December 4 (Note: this is the equivalent to the Sunday paper) in which he conveyed IDF concerns about the extent of GOI political support for IDF efforts to uphold the law [...] | 2009-12-04 12:20:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2627 | GHAJAR DISCUSSIONS WITH UNIFIL TO RESUME DECEMBER [...] (C) Summary. According to a briefing by MFA IO A/S-equivalent, the GOI inner cabinet voted in favor of the MFA's proposal that Israel accept the UNIFIL "temporary" plan for the divided village of Ghajar on the border between Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied Golan. MFA Director General Gal b [...] | 2009-12-04 14:39:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN LE IS |
09TELAVIV2678 | REPORTED MESSAGE FROM KING ABDULLAH TO NETANYAHU [...] (C) Yair Hirschfeld, the director general of the Economic Cooperation Foundation, a respected Israeli NGO that is very active in track two peace efforts, briefed PolCouns December 2 on renewed Jordanian pressure on the GOI over Jerusalem. According to Hirschfeld, King Abdullah recently sent [...] | 2009-12-10 10:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL JO KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2682 | TWWG: ISRAEL AND PA GRAPPLE OVER WATER PROJECTS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-10 13:44:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV PREL IS PS |
09TELAVIV2683 | MORATORIUM: GOI ADDRESSING EXCEPTIONS, RELIEF [...] (U) Summary/Comment: Nearly two weeks into settlement construction moratorium enforcement, the GOI is addressing the difficult issues of exceptions and compensation, while facing increased opposition from the settler movement. The MOD has established an exceptions committee to consider petitio [...] | 2009-12-10 14:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2684 | KNESSET APPROVES RESUMED CONSIDERATION OF [...] (U) A majority of Knesset members voted December 9 in favor of continuing legislative discussions on a bill that passed its first reading last year. The bill would require a referendum on any GOI decision to withdraw from territories occupied in 1967 over which Israel has asserted sovereignty [...] | 2009-12-10 14:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG SY IS |
09TELAVIV2685 | GOI'S PROPOSED NATIONAL PRIORITIES [...] (U) ZFR CANCEL ENTIRE MESSAGE. MESSAGE WAS RETRANSMITTED UNDER NEW MRN: TEL AVIV 2686. CUNNINGHAM [...] | 2009-12-10 14:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2686 | GOI'S PROPOSED NATIONAL PRIORITIES AREA TO INCLUDE [...] (U) On the evening of 9 December, PM Netanyahu's office announced that it will seek cabinet approval on 13 December for a redrawn National Priority Area list that would include 90 settlements, most of which are outside of the settlement blocs and east of the separation barrier. NPA status would [...] | 2009-12-10 14:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2701 | Global Context Section of the QDDR - ISRAEL [...] Embassy Tel Aviv offers the following responses to queries posed in ref A regarding the trends in Israel that will most likely affect the conduct of diplomacy and the execution of development programs over the next ten to twenty years. The challenges that Israel will face diplomatically will [...] | 2009-12-11 13:56:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID PREL SOCI IS |
09TELAVIV2702 | DEPUTY SECRETARY RAISES TRANSIT OF GAZA STUDENTS [...] (C) Following up on DepSec Steinberg's discussion with Shin Bet on transit of Gazan students through Israel (reftel),EconCouns discussed possible options with Shin Bet's head of international relations, Alan Moss. Moss said he had met with his COGAT counterpart, Uri Singer, and they had revi [...] | 2009-12-11 15:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2707 | DEFENSE MINISTER BARAK BRIEFS THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS [...] (SBU) Summary. Defense Minister Ehud Barak briefed members of the diplomatic corps December 11 on the role of the Labor Party in Netanyahu's coalition government. Barak noted Labor's role in moderating the coalition's right-wing tendencies, and stressed the GOI's commitment to move forward [...] | 2009-12-14 10:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KWBG SY IS |
09TELAVIV2712 | CABINET APPROVES NEW MAP OF PRIORITY ZONES THAT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-14 15:12:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV273 | ISRAEL'S REACTION TO MORTAR AND ROCKET FIRE [...] (SBU) Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza have exchanged numerous salvos over the past week, but the unilateral cease-fires that brought an end to major hostilities in the Gaza Strip on January 18 have not fully unraveled. Tensions flared on January 27 when a roadside bomb struck an Isr [...] | 2009-02-02 15:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER MOPS LE KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2734 | STAFFDEL KUIKEN-CAMMACK'S MEETING WITH PM ADVISOR [...] (S) Summary: During a December 14 meeting with Senate staff members (Michael Kuiken, Senate Armed Services Committee, and Perry Cammack, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations),the Prime Minister's Director for Policy Planning Ron Dermer confirmed a solid U.S.-Israeli relationship that weather [...] | 2009-12-18 08:45:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2756 | HAPOALIM VP: BANK'S DECISION ON CORRESPONDENT [...] (U) This is an action cable (see para 7). 2. (C) Summary: Bank Hapoalim Executive Vice President Boaz Raday highlighted ongoing concerns about re-establishing correspondent banking relations with Palestinian banks in a 17 December meeting with Econoffs. Raday discussed an internal review t [...] | 2009-12-22 09:10:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL KPAL IS |
09TELAVIV2757 | U/S TAUSCHER'S DECEMBER 1-2 VISIT TO ISRAEL [...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Ellen Tauscher visited Israel December 1-2. U/S Tauscher focused her visit on setting the stage for a successful Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference (RevCon) in May 2010. She consulted with GOI int [...] | 2009-12-22 09:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PARM MNUC KNNP EG IR |
09TELAVIV2777 | CODEL SKELTON'S MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. CODEL Skelton met with Prime Minister Netanyahu November 16 at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem. Their discussion covered Netanyahu's meeting with President Obama the previous week, Netanyahu's interest in resuming negotiations with the Palestinians, the Iranian nuclear [...] | 2009-12-23 10:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP MASS SY TU FR KWBG IR IS |
09TELAVIV2778 | CODEL SKELTON'S MEETING WITH IDF CHIEF OF GENERAL [...] (S) Summary. CODEL Skelton met with Lt General Gabi Ashkenazi at the MFA November 15. Their discussion covered U.S.-Israeli cooperation on missile defense and cyber warfare, the Iranian threat, Syria and Lebanon, Israeli-Palestinian relations, the Goldstone Report, and IDF training and readiness. L [...] | 2009-12-23 10:35:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL MOPS MASS KWBG SY IR IS |
09TELAVIV28 | REQUEST TO DEFER NON-MISSION CRITICAL TRAVEL [...] This is a joint Embassy Tel Aviv and Consulate General Jerusalem message. 2. Due to ongoing military activities in the Gaza Strip, and ongoing rocket fire at southern Israeli cities (including a strike on the south Tel Aviv suburb of Rehovot on January 6),and regular demonstrations in th [...] | 2009-01-06 15:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AMGT ASEC OVIP KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV2813 | IS KADIMA ABOUT TO SPLIT? [...] (C) Summary: The Israeli media is reporting extensively on efforts by PM Netanyahu to split the opposition Kadima party, which currently has one more seat in the Knesset than Netanyahu's Likud. Dissatisfaction with Tzipi Livni's leadership of Kadima has been an open secret for some time, but [...] | 2009-12-24 11:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS |
09TELAVIV2830 | ISRAEL DEFENDS DECEMBER 26 NABLUS RAID [...] (S) Summary: Following the murder of Rabbi Meir Avshalom Hai on December 24, senior MOD and IDF officials strongly expressed the GOI's obligation to protect its citizens in response to acts of terrorism -- as demonstrated by the December 26 Nablus raid which resulted in the deaths of three Pa [...] | 2009-12-29 15:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL MOPS KWBG KPAL IS |
09TELAVIV2846 | KADIMA NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE ON WHETHER TO JOIN [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Netanyahu met December 28 with Kadima head Tzipi Livni to discuss the possibility of Kadima joining a coalition government, and Kadima held an internal meeting to review its options. Kadima MKs Ronit Tirosh and Otniel Schneller, who are both identified in press r [...] | 2009-12-30 13:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IL |
09TELAVIV29 | GAZA SITUATION REPORT, JANUARY 6, 1800 [...] (S//NF) SUMMARY: Israel continues to press forward intensely with Operation Cast Lead while Israeli officials rebuff diplomatic entreaties to enter into a short-term cease-fire with Hamas that would restore the status quo ante. Prime Minister Olmert reiterated Israel's demands that Hamas ceas [...] | 2009-01-06 16:55:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PREF PINR KWBG PINS MOPS IS LE EG |
09TELAVIV294 | ONE WEEK UNTIL GENERAL ELECTIONS - BIBI OUT IN [...] (C) Summary: One week ahead of general elections, the polls, pundits and politicians are nearly unanimous in their assessment that Binyamin Netanyahu will be the next Prime Minister. Polls have consistently given his Likud Party about thirty seats, and the overall balance of the 120-member [...] | 2009-02-03 16:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV314 | BARAK WARNS HIZBALLAH, GOL AND SARG OF "PAINFUL" [...] (C) Summary. Minister of Defense Barak issued a series of tough warnings earlier this week intended to deter an expected Hizballah attack on Israel or Israeli interests abroad. Barak also sent signals to the governments of Lebanon and Syria that the IDF would target Lebanese state interests [...] | 2009-02-05 12:12:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS SY LE IS |
09TELAVIV350 | GOI ESTABLISHES COMMISION ON ILLEGAL BEDOUIN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-09 16:20:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV SOCI PREL EFIN ELAB EIND IS |
09TELAVIV352 | ELECTION DAY SCENESETTER AND THE LIEBERMAN DARK [...] (C) Summary: On the eve of elections to the 18th Knesset, the electorate, the analysts and the candidates are grappling with the confusion of a race that the final polls predict has narrowed significantly between the Likud and Kadima parties to the point where it is anyone's guess which party [...] | 2009-02-09 18:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KWBG PINS IS |
09TELAVIV36 | SENATOR SPECTER DISCUSSES GAZA, SYRIA, AND IRAN [...] (S) SUMMARY. Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) and the Ambassador on December 29, 2008 met with Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu and senior Likud Party Knesset Members Silvan Shalom and Yuval Steinitz. Netanyahu conveyed his support for Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, adding that the long-r [...] | 2009-01-07 13:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PTER KWBG SY IR IS |
09TELAVIV363 | LIKUD CHAIRMAN NETANYAHU TALKS IRAN, PALESTINIANS, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu met with members and staff of the House Armed Services Committee and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on January 30 to discuss Iran, peace talks with the Palestinians, and the possibility of conducting negotiations with Syria. Ne [...] | 2009-02-11 15:31:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV IR KWBG SY IS |
09TELAVIV380 | PRIME MINISTER OLMERT DISCUSSES HAMAS, PALESTINIAN [...] (S) SUMMARY. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with Ambassador Cunningham and members and staff of the House Armed Services Committee and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on January 29 to discuss Israel's recent military operation in Gaza, peace talks with the Palestinia [...] | 2009-02-13 10:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PTER MOPS TU SY KPWG IS |
09TELAVIV384 | MFA COMMENTS ON UNFREEZING RELATIONS WITH QATAR [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director General for the Middle East (NEA A/S-equivalent) Yacov Hadas briefed PolCouns February 12 on Israel's efforts to normalize relations with Qatar and Mauritania which were frozen during the Gaza operation. Regarding Qatar, Hadas said the Qataris had offered Israel to reo [...] | 2009-02-13 13:32:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PTER QA MR KWBG IR IS |
09TELAVIV402 | GOI INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP PREPARING TO RESPOND [...] (C) Alon Ushpiz, Chief of Staff to MFA Director General Aharon Abramovich, contacted Pol Couns February 18 to review the GOI's preparations for Secretary General Ban's Board of Inquiry (BOI) on IDF actions in Gaza. Ushpiz noted that the BOI is a "potential source of concern" for Israel due to [...] | 2009-02-18 14:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KAWC UN KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV42 | GAZA SITUATION REPORT, JANUARY 7, 1900 [...] (C) Summary: IDF operations were suspended from 1300 to 1600 local to allow Gaza residents to collect food, water, and other humanitarian supplies; pauses are likely to continue at least every other day. A spokesman for PM Olmert "welcomed" Egyptian President Mubarak's truce proposal and anno [...] | 2009-01-07 18:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL MOPS PHUM PINS KWBG IS EG FR |
09TELAVIV420 | SENIOR U.S. AND ISRAELI OFFICIALS DISCUSS EFFORTS [...] (S) SUMMARY. Stephen Mull from the Office of the Under Secretary for International Security Affairs and his delegation met with senior Israeli MFA officials on February 6 to discuss meetings held earlier in the week in Copenhagen that focused on ways to counter the smuggling of weapons prima [...] | 2009-02-19 14:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PHUM PTER PINR MASS MOPS EG KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV422 | IDF DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF DISCUSSES GAZA OPERATION [...] (S) SUMMARY: Israel Defense Force (IDF) Deputy Chief of Staff MG Dan Harel in a meeting with Ambassador Cunningham and senior U.S. officials said Egyptian and U.S. assistance is critical to slowing the flow of weapons and munitions into Gaza. Cooperation against smuggling is better with Egyptian [...] | 2009-02-19 14:53:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER PINR MASS MOPS EG KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV437 | COORDINATING THE GAZA EVACUATION: TEL AVIV'S ACCOUNT [...] SUMMARY: U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv coordinated a multinational evacuation from the Gaza Strip during 19-22 Jan 2009. More than 500 foreign nationals, representing citizens from 36 countries, were successfully evacuated. Among them were over 150 American citizens and their immediate family member [...] | 2009-02-24 07:11:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CMGT PINS PREL IS |
09TELAVIV44 | GAZA SITUATION REPORT, JANUARY 8, 1500 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Three Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel early on January 8 and lightly injured three civilians; Israeli forces responded with artillery fire. Military officials suspect Palestinian groups operating in Lebanon conducted the attack and sought to avoid e [...] | 2009-01-08 13:44:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL MOPS PHUM PINS KWBG IS EG FR |
09TELAVIV452 | CODEL CARDIN'S MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER OLMERT [...] (C) Summary. CODEL Cardin called on Prime Minister Olmert at his Jerusalem office February 16. Olmert and the CODEL discussed the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, Turkey's role in the indirect negotiations with Syria, the Iranian nuclear threat, and Olmert's peace offer to Palestinian President [...] | 2009-02-25 15:09:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KWBG IR SY TU IS |
09TELAVIV457 | CODEL CARDIN DISCUSSES IRAN, SYRIA, PALESTINIANS, [...] (C) SUMMARY During their trip to Israel, CODEL Cardin discussed Iran, Syria, Israel-Palestinian negotiations, and the Israeli elections with Likud Party leader and candidate for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu described a nuclear Iran as the greatest threat facing Israel, and u [...] | 2009-02-26 12:19:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL IS IR SY |
09TELAVIV468 | US PARTICIPATION IN UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND [...] Pol Couns delivered reftel points to MFA Deputy Director General for International Organizations (IO A/S equivalent) Eviatar Manor February 27. Manor expressed appreciation for the U.S. decision not to continue to participate in the Durban Review Conference based on the current draft outcome [...] | 2009-02-27 15:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UN IS |
09TELAVIV471 | GOI WILLING TO PASS THE BUCK BUT NOT THE SHEKEL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-27 16:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KNNP KTFN KPAL PTER PREL IS |
09TELAVIV48 | FRENCH-EGYPTIAN PROPOSAL "POSITIVE" BUT NOT [...] (C) Despite press reports press reports quoting an Elysee announcement to that effect, Israel has not accepted the ceasefire proposal made by President Mubarak of Egypt and President Sarkozy of France on January 7. MOD and PMO sources confirmed that Israel still has serious concerns regardin [...] | 2009-01-08 17:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS KWBG UNAUS FR EG IS |
09TELAVIV5 | GAZA SITUATION REPORT, JANUARY 2, 15:00 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Local and international media highlighted FM Livni,s January 1 comments in Paris that a ceasefire was unnecessary and would give Hamas time to regroup. Israeli troops deployed around Gaza have relaxed their posture, but remain prepared for ground incursions. Rocket and mortar st [...] | 2009-01-02 15:09:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | KWBG MOPS PREL PTER PINR EAID IS |
09TELAVIV509 | EGYPT/ISRAEL: READOUT OF 16TH QUARTERLY MEETING OF [...] Egypt and Israel met on two separate occasions for the 16th quarterly Joint Committee meeting of the Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ) - February 19 and 26 in Jerusalem. The first meeting on February 19 was suspended by the Egyptians, who indicated at the time that their action was in response [...] | 2009-03-03 12:19:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL EG IS |
09TELAVIV53 | GAZA SITUATION REPORT, JANUARY 08, 1230 [...] (S) SUMMARY: As of 1215 local, the security cabinet is meeting following a three hour meeting of PM Olmert, FM Livni, and DM Barak in which they were to discuss how to respond to the UNSCR resolution for a ceasefire and whether to recommend beginning phase 3 of Operation Cast Lead, which woul [...] | 2009-01-09 10:48:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PTER EAID EFIN PREL MOPS PHUM PINS KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV58 | CORRECTED: GAZA SITUATION REPORT, JANUARY 09, 1230 [...] (S) SUMMARY: As of 1215 local, the security cabinet is meeting following a three hour meeting of PM Olmert, FM Livni, and DM Barak in which they were to discuss how to respond to the UNSCR resolution for a ceasefire and whether to recommend beginning phase 3 of Operation Cast Lead, which woul [...] | 2009-01-09 12:18:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PTER EAID EFIN PREL MOPS PHUM PINS KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV60 | GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE, JANUARY 9, 1700 [...] (SBU) As of 1700 local, 41 truckloads of food and medical supplies had transited the Kerem Shalom crossing, all of it commercial. Pickup and distribution on the Gaza side is still limited, in part by UNWRA's decision not to ask its contractor to operate until the IDF has a better coordination [...] | 2009-01-09 16:11:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PTER EFIN PREL MOPS PHUM PINS KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV600 | GOI PROPOSES INTERNATIONAL MECHANISM FOR FUNDS TO [...] Channeling funds to enable the re-building of Gaza whilst ensuring the money is not misdirected to destabilizing elements. 2. Empowering the Palestinian Authority (PA) and other institutions in Gaza committed to peaceful co-existence in the region. 3. Developing a mechanism for money [...] | 2009-03-11 15:32:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | EFIN KNNP KTFN KPAL PTER PREL IS |
09TELAVIV601 | THE AMBASSDOR BRIEFS EU AMBASSADORS ON THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-12 09:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EU KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV605 | ACTING A/S FELTMAN,S DISCUSSIONS WITH MFA FOCUS ON [...] (C) Summary: NEA Acting Assistant Secretary Jeffrey Feltman met with MFA officials on March 4 to discuss his upcoming visit to Syria, the GOI talks on Ghajjar with the UN, the status of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, and Israel's relations with Mauritania and the Gulf states. Deputy Dire [...] | 2009-03-12 13:16:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV KWBG EAID EG QA MR MU JO LE IS |
09TELAVIV617 | PROBABLE NEW ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER'S HARDLINE [...] (S) Summary. Former IDF Chief of General Staff Boogie Ya'alon is widely expected to be Bibi Netanyahu's Defense Minister in the government that Netanyahu will likely announce next week. Ya'alon is something of a political enigma in Israel since he has roots in the left but has become known [...] | 2009-03-13 16:12:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KWBG EG IR SY IS |
09TELAVIV64 | GAZA SITREP, JANUARY 12, 1200 [...] (SBU) Summary: Political debate continues within Israel about the future of Operation Cast Lead, with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, most of the security cabinet, and some senior leaders in the Israeli military successfully pushing forward with the campaign, while Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and [...] | 2009-01-12 10:31:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PINS KWBG CASC EG IS SY KPAL EAID |
09TELAVIV646 | NETANYAHU GETTING TO CRUNCH TIME [...] (C) SUMMARY. Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu is nearing the first "deadline" he faces in forming a governing majority in the Knesset. The Likud leader prefers to have coalition pacts signed prior to Sunday, March 22, which would guarantee him a majority in the Knesset, but he co [...] | 2009-03-18 16:39:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS |
09TELAVIV654 | ISRAEL'S RELATIONS WITH THE GULF STATES FOCUS ON [...] (S) Summary. MFA Deputy Director General for the Middle East Yacov Hadas provided PolCouns March 16 with an overview of Israel's relations with several of the Gulf states. Hadas described Israel's relations with the Gulf as a function of the Gulf Arabs' fear of Iran, but also as due to the A [...] | 2009-03-19 14:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV KWBG IR IS |
09TELAVIV662 | AGENDA FOR NETANYAHU'S FIRST 100 DAYS AND FIRST [...] (C) Summary. In a March 11 meeting with the Ambassador and PolCouns, PM-designate Bibi Netanyahu's transition team laid out their agenda for the first one hundred days of the new government, which Netanyahu is expected to announce March 18. The top item on their agenda is passing a budget, [...] | 2009-03-20 11:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV675 | NETANYAHU REQUESTS EXTENSION IN EFFORT TO BRING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On March 20 President Shimon Peres granted Prime Minister-Designate Binyamin Netanyahu's request for a 14-day extension to form a coalition. Netanyahu's request stemmed from the agreement he reached the evening of March 18 with Labor party chief and Defense Minister Ehud Bara [...] | 2009-03-20 14:35:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IS |
09TELAVIV698 | RESPONSE TO GICNT WORKSHOP AND EXERCISE PLANNING [...] (C) Summary: The GOI takes its obligations as a partner nation of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) seriously, and is interested in participating in the GICNT workshop and Exercise Planning Group (EPG) meeting hosted by the Republic of Korea in Seoul, April 14-16. Howev [...] | 2009-03-24 16:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC MCAP PARM PINR PREL PTER KGIC KS IS |
09TELAVIV704 | NETANYAHU SECURES A COALITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Prime Minister-Designate Binyamin Netanyahu saw his coalition cemented the evening of March 24 when the Labor party's Central Committee voted to join the next government. Netanyahu also has agreements with Yisrael Beitenu (YB) and SHAS, giving him a 66-seat coalition. Netanya [...] | 2009-03-25 15:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IS |
09TELAVIV723 | MOD MASKING SANSANA SETTLEMENT AS ESHKOLOT [...] (SBU) Summary: On 23 March, Ha'aretz reported and the MOD confirmed that MOD Barak recently approved a plan to declare the non-GOI recognized settlement of Sansansa as a neighborhood of the Eshkolot settlement. Based on this approval, the Civil Administration deposited a detailed outline for c [...] | 2009-03-27 12:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV730 | ISRAELI VIEW OF HAMAS IN GAZA: UNDER PRESSURE, [...] (C) A senior Israeli journalist with close ties to Defense Minister Barak and the IDF offered PolCouns March 27 what he described as the security establishment's assessment of Hamas' situation in Gaza. Far from the big political boost they anticipated following Operation Cast Lead, Hamas fee [...] | 2009-03-27 14:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV EAID KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV753 | GOI WILL NOT ATTEND GICNT WORKSHOP AND EXERCISE [...] (C) Due to the Passover Holiday, the GOI has opted not to attend the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) workshop and Exercise Planning Group (EPG) meeting hosted by the Republic of Korea in Seoul, April 14-16. According to MFA Arms Control Department Officer Israel Tikochins [...] | 2009-03-31 10:55:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC MCAP PARM PINR PREL PTER KGIC KS IS |
09TELAVIV766 | MFA BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON TURKISH INTEREST IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Acting Director General Yossi Gal briefed the Ambassador March 31 on Gal's visit to Turkey. Gal, who had returned from Turkey March 30, explained that a strong thread of U.S.-related material ran through his discussions. The visit was to follow up on FM Livni's meeting with [...] | 2009-04-01 12:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON TU IR SY IZ KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV799 | NORWEGIAN MIDDLE EAST SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE [...] (C) Summary: In an April 2 meeting with the Ambassador, Norwegian Special Representative for the Middle East Jon Hanssen-Bauer and Ambassador to Israel Jakken Biorn Lian said Norway, as chair of the Ad-Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC),continues to press donors to live up to pledges made at confe [...] | 2009-04-02 16:11:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG KPAL EG SA NO IS |
09TELAVIV80 | GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE, JANUARY 12, 1700 HRS [...] (SBU) As of 17:00 local on January 12, 97 truckloads of humanitarian goods had transited Kerem Shalom crossing (63 truckloads of food, 1 of medical equipment, and 33 of other goods). An additional 27 truckloads of grain passed through the Karni crossing, which was open this afternoon; Karni is [...] | 2009-01-12 18:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PTER EFIN PREL MOPS PHUM PINS KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV803 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MCCONNELL'S VISIT TO ISRAEL, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your upcoming visit to the region comes during a time of transition in Israeli politics. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took office April 1 after assembling the largest government in Israeli history, and apparently one of the largest in the world. The government of 30 Minist [...] | 2009-04-03 12:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAL IS |
09TELAVIV825 | MINISTERS OF ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, [...] (SBU) Summary. Israel's new government under Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was sworn in last week with the largest cabinet in Israel's history. Gilad Erdan of Likud was appointed to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, and he appears to be taking an activist stance early in his tenu [...] | 2009-04-08 10:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IS PGOV PREL SENV OECD |
09TELAVIV863 | ISRAEL PROPOSES TO HOST GICNT WORKSHOP IN NOVEMBER [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOI has proposed hosting an expert-level Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) workshop in November focusing on legal aspects and forensics issues related to combating nuclear and radiological terrorism. According to MFA Director for Arms Control Rodica Rad [...] | 2009-04-17 08:55:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC IS |
09TELAVIV865 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ELECTION DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-17 11:59:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL |
09TELAVIV887 | LOWEY DISCUSSES PEACE PROCESS AND IRAN WITH [...] (C) Summary. On April 16, CODEL Lowey met with Deputy Foreign Minister (DFM) Danny Ayalon to discuss the peace process and Iran. Foreign Minister (FM) Lieberman also joined for part of the meeting. Ayalon and Lieberman both emphasized that Iran is the biggest threat to Israel, the region, [...] | 2009-04-21 08:32:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OREP PGOV KWBG IR IS |
09TELAVIV895 | CODEL LOWEY DISCUSSES ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE WITH [...] (C) Summary. CODEL Lowey discussed peace with the Palestinians April 16 with senior GOI officials, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Barak, Foreign Minister Lieberman, IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. General Ashkenazi, Minister for Strategic Affairs Yaalon, and Deputy Foreign [...] | 2009-04-22 08:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KWBG IS EG JO IR |
09TELAVIV897 | ISRAEL ASKS RUSSIAN DFM TO POSTPONE UNSC [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 21, PolOff met with Russian Embassy Political Counselor Alexey Skosyrev to discuss the recent visit to Israel by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov. Saltanov's main meetings were with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Lieberman, and National Secu [...] | 2009-04-22 10:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG RU UN IS |
09TELAVIV90 | GAZA SITREP, JANUARY 13, 1200 [...] (S) Summary: Israeli media reports PM Olmert indicated to foreign leaders January 12 that he was prepared to give Egyptian-sponsored cease-fire talks a chance prior to a decision on a third phase of Operation Cast Lead. At the same time, Olmert stated in a speech to Israeli southern city may [...] | 2009-01-13 10:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL MOPS PINS KWBG CASC EG IS JO KPAL EAID |
09TELAVIV919 | MOD ADVISOR COMMENTS ON EGYPTIAN INTELLIGENCE [...] (S) Summary. Egyptian Intelligence Minister Soliman visited Israel April 22 and met separately with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Barak, and Foreign Minister Lieberman. According to MOD Arab affairs advisor Hacham, who participated in Soliman's meeting with Barak, they discussed [...] | 2009-04-23 15:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PTER KWBG EG JO IS |
09TELAVIV920 | RENEWAL OF EU/ISRAEL ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT COULD [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to an EU contact, the EU has not made a formal decision to suspend talks on a potential relationship upgrade because of the foreign policy of the new Israeli government, despite a front page article in the April 23 Ha'aretz to the contrary. However, some EU member state [...] | 2009-04-23 15:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG EU IS |
09TELAVIV931 | MFA CITES MAJOR PROGRESS ON TAXATION ISSUES IN [...] (C) Summary: MFA Director for Religious Affairs Bahij Mansour told Poloff April 27 that the most recent (April 24) working-level talks between Israel and the Vatican resulted in significant progress on several outstanding taxation issues, including an agreement in principle that the Vatican w [...] | 2009-04-27 14:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KIRF IS |
09TELAVIV935 | DEFENSE MINISTER BARAK: EXPERIENCED ASSET FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. As Binyamin Netanyahu's government settles in, it benefits from the continuity provided by Defense Minister and Labor party leader Ehud Barak, who served the same role in former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government. Barak brings valued military experience and leadership at a [...] | 2009-04-28 08:11:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IS |
09TELAVIV936 | CODEL KYL'S MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: [...] (S) Summary. CODEL Kyl, accompanied by the Ambassador, called on Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu April 6 in the first official U.S. meeting with Netanyahu since he formed a government. The main topics of discussion were stopping Iran's nuclear program and Netanyahu's approach to peace-makin [...] | 2009-04-28 08:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV KNNP KWBG IR IS |
09TELAVIV94 | NATO SYG DE HOOP SCHEFFER DISCUSSES GAZA CONFLICT [...] (C) Summary: During his January 11-12 visit to Israel, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer discussed the Gaza conflict with Defense Minister Barak, Foreign Minister Livni, Prime Minister Olmert, and Likud Party leader Netanyahu. De Hoop Scheffer said Barak suggested the duration of [...] | 2009-01-13 12:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS NATO PINS KWBG KPAL EG JO IS |
09TELAVIV948 | GOI BRIEFS CODEL LOWEY ON EGYPTIAN EFFORTS TO HALT WEAPONS [...] (S) Summary. During CODEL Lowey's April 16 meetings with the Israeli leadership (other subjects reported reftels),Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Barak and IDF Chief of General Staff Ashkenazi commented on Egypt's role in stopping the smuggling to weapons and explosives into Gaza. [...] | 2009-04-28 14:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PTER MOPS EG KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV952 | GOI BRIEFS CODEL LOWEY ON EGYPTIAN EFFORTS TO HALT [...] (S) Summary. During CODEL Lowey's April 16 meetings with the Israeli leadership (other subjects reported reftels),Prime Minister Netanyahu, Defense Minister Barak and IDF Chief of General Staff Ashkenazi commented on Egypt's role in stopping the smuggling to weapons and explosives into Gaza [...] | 2009-04-28 16:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PTER MOPS EG KWBG IS |
09TELAVIV958 | MGSF01: ISRAEL H1N1 INFLUENZA A UPDATE [...] (SBU) Deputy Health Minister Ya'acov Litzman announced in a radio interview today that the two men diagnosed with swine influenza A/H1N1 in Israel are recovering and would likely be discharged to their homes later today or tomorrow. As of 1600 local time, there are no further confirmed cases, [...] | 2009-04-30 15:10:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09TELAVIV969 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: VOTING FOR KOSOVO'S IMF AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-01 14:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL IS |
09TELAVIV976 | MINISTER OF STRATEGIC AFFAIRS MOSHE YA'ALON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu named Lt. Gen. (res.) Moshe (Boogie) Ya'alon to serve as Minister of Strategic Affairs. Ya'alon, whom pundits predicted would serve as Defense Minister before Labor joined the governing coalition, brings to Netanyahu's cabinet extensive military [...] | 2009-05-04 04:45:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KWBG IR IS |
09TELAVIV986 | MGSF01: TWO ADDITIONAL H1N1 CASES CONFIRMED IN ISRAEL; [...] (SBU) Over the weekend two additional cases of H1N1 were confirmed in Israel, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the nation up to four. To date, all reported H1N1 infections in Israel have been in people who have recently visited Mexico; no secondary transmission has been observed [...] | 2009-05-05 04:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
09TELAVIV99 | LEFT-WING GENERALS ON GAZA SITUATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Retired IDF General Daniel Rothschild, President of the Council for Peace and Security, briefed the diplomatic corps on January 12 at Peace Now on the background and future of the Gaza operation. Rothschild believes that Operation Cast Lead has achieved deterrence, and Israel is [...] | 2009-01-13 16:44:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS PTER IS KPAL KWBG PINR |
09THEHAGUE104 | CWC: MEETING WITH IRAQI DELEGATION [...] (SBU) Delreps met with Iraqi Ambassador Siamand Banaa and Iraqi delegate Abbas Al-Khafaji on February 12. Delreps offered congratulations, as this was the official day the Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force for Iraq. Delreps then inquired about Iraqi plans for participation in t [...] | 2009-02-18 10:07:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE107 | CWC: GOVERNMENT EXPERTS MEETING TO CONSIDER THE [...] (U) This cable reports on subject meeting held in The Hague 11-13 February 2009, and is organized along the lines of the meeting agenda. Ref A is U.S. guidance for the meeting. US officials attending the meeting were Richard D'Andrea (Department of State ISN/CB) and Larry Denyer (Department [...] | 2009-02-19 15:43:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE116 | NETHERLANDS: PREPARATION FOR EU AND G20 SUMMITS [...] Summary: Dutch MFA officials noted that the financial crisis will feature prominently in the February meeting of the EU General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) and will be the central focus of the March 16-17 GAERC. The EU will use both meetings to prepare for the European Coun [...] | 2009-02-23 16:47:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE128 | CWC: DEMARCHE FOR ALLIES REGARDING AN IRANIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-25 10:04:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC IR |
09THEHAGUE129 | CWC: MEETINGS ON IRAQ'S ACCESSION TO THE CWC ON [...] (SBU) On the margins of the 55th Executive Council (EC) session of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW),Delreps met with representatives of Iraq, the United Kingdom, and the Technical Secretariat. Although the tone of EC-55 toward Iraq was congratulatory, Iraqi o [...] | 2009-02-25 12:52:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC IZ |
09THEHAGUE132 | FOREIGN TAKEOVERS OF DUTCH ENERGY COMPANIES [...] SUMMARY: Following the Essent takeover by Germany's RWE on January 22, Nuon announced February 23 that it had agreed to a takeover bid by Sweden's Vattenfall. Two other large Dutch energy companies have been linked in the media to takeover discussions. In addition to competition issues, Esse [...] | 2009-02-25 15:20:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE134 | NETHERLANDS/HUMAN RIGHTS: VIEWS ON DURBAN, HRC [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch share U.S. concerns about the Durban Review Conference and see the U.S. approach as "decisive" for their future participation. The Dutch are also considering their future participation in the Human Rights Council and strongly encourage U.S. participation. END SUMMARY. [...] | 2009-02-25 15:32:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL NL UN |
09THEHAGUE135 | NETHERLANDS/EU: VIEWS ON FEBRUARY GAERC [...] (U) Summary: The Dutch MFA reviewed the GAERC agenda for February 23-34, including Afghanistan, the Middle East, Sudan, the EU's Eastern Partnership, the Western Balkans, and the economic crisis. Dutch plans for the March 2 Middle East conference are covered in reftel A, and Dutch views on the [...] | 2009-02-26 07:15:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU AF NL ZL |
09THEHAGUE137 | NETHERLANDS/PAKISTAN: SEEKING AID PLANS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-26 08:10:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PK NL |
09THEHAGUE138 | NETHERLANDS/UN: UNDECIDED ON APPEALS TRIBUNAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-26 12:10:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | KAWC KJUS KUNR AORC APER PREL UNGA NL |
09THEHAGUE141 | CWC: QUESTIONS REMAINING ON LIBYA'S CONVERSION [...] (SBU) This is an action request; see para 4. 2. (SBU) On February 20, Delreps Clagett, Ferguson, Prather, and Robinson met with the new Libyan Permanent Representative to the OPCW Ambassador Ahmed Al Walid and Mr. Mohadeb Gheton of the Libyan delegation to try to obtain more specific infor [...] | 2009-02-26 16:10:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC LY |
09THEHAGUE143 | CWC: EC-55 DESTRUCTION INFORMALS [...] (SBU) On February 16, the Destruction Informals session before the 55th Executive Council (EC-55) was opened by the EC Chairperson, Ambassador Oksana Tomova of Slovakia. The meeting consisted of presentations in two parts: details on verification/ implementation by the Technical Secretariat, [...] | 2009-02-27 10:36:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE144 | CWC: MEETINGS ON THE MARGINS OF EC-55 [...] (SBU) On the margins of the 55th session of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons' Executive Council, the U.S. Del met with a number of other delegations to discuss OPCW affairs, including the selection of a new Director- General, which will be a priority for the delegation [...] | 2009-02-27 11:32:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE149 | NETHERLANDS/NATO ENLARGEMENT: PROTOCOLS ON TRACK [...] (U) The Dutch expect to deposit the protocols for accession of Albania and Croatia to NATO by mid-March. End Summary. 2. (U) Policy Advisor Anouk Vos, from the Dutch MFA's NATO Affairs Security and Defense Policy Division, noted that Queen Beatrix signed the law accepting the NATO protoco [...] | 2009-03-02 16:59:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIA MARR NATO PARM PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE153 | NETHERLANDS - CABLE 1 OF 2: DUTCH POSITIONS IN ADVANCE OF [...] Summary: This is the first of two cables providing post's answers to questions in Ref A about Dutch plans for the G20 summit and responses to the financial crisis. At the G20 summit, the Dutch are likely to recommend using a slightly expanded, more representative G20 format to strengthen the [...] | 2009-03-04 16:16:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE154 | NETHERLANDS - CABLE 2 OF 2: DUTCH POSITIONS IN ADVANCE OF [...] This is the second of two cables providing post's answers to questions in Ref A about Dutch plans for the G20 summit and responses to the financial crisis. -------------------------------- III. THE BROADER ECONOMIC CRISIS -------------------------------- 2. Response H: The global econom [...] | 2009-03-04 16:18:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE167 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR FEBRUARY 23 - MARCH 6 [...] (SBU) The two weeks following EC-55 were relatively quiet, marked by a nearly complete absence of OPCW meetings and/or consultations. The general WEOG assessment of EC-55 was positive, with many delegations noting Iran's unusually cooperative attitude. ABAF reform remains on the agenda, as [...] | 2009-03-10 15:33:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE174 | NETHERLANDS/SYRIA: EU ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: The Dutch welcomed recent U.S. meetings in Syria. They agree an EU association agreement with Syria is inappropriate at this time and believe the EU is unlikely to approve such an agreement in the near term. End summary. 2. (C) Poloff shared reftel A points with key MFA contac [...] | 2009-03-11 17:17:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU SY NL |
09THEHAGUE175 | NETHERLANDS: SUPPORT FOR GAZA INTERDICTION PROGRAM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch support the Gaze interdiction program and will propose (1) a "matrix" of possible actions by member states under their laws, (2) preambular language about Allies' overall efforts to promote peace in the Middle East, and (3) a clarification that participating nations make [...] | 2009-03-11 17:23:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS NATO PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE179 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR OPCW EXECUTIVE COUNCIL SESSION, [...] (SBU) The 55th Session of the Executive Council (EC-55) went more smoothly than expected (Ref B),with the Iranian delegation a much lower profile. Led by the Head of Iran"s National Authority, the Iranians deferred a substantial number of agenda items during the week but allowed most to prog [...] | 2009-03-13 14:32:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE180 | (S) NETHERLANDS/IRAN: EXPORT CONTROL AUTHORITY TO [...] (S) EmbOff met March 10 with Kees Jan Steenhoek, Senior Policy Advisor, Ministry of Economic Affairs, to discuss reftel points. Steenhoek is responsible for the GONL's export control process. He appreciated the information as he said the GONL had not been aware of AMT Netherlands' exports to Iran. [...] | 2009-03-13 15:29:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC ETTC MTCRE NL IR |
09THEHAGUE181 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR MARCH 9-13, 2009 [...] (SBU) The Western European and Others Group (WEOG) met March 10 to prepare for a meeting of the WEOG representatives to the Executive Council (EC) requested by the Chair to discuss the selection process for a new Director-General (DG). Only two formal candidatures have been announced, Algeria [...] | 2009-03-16 13:17:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE193 | NETHERLANDS: COMPANIES SUFFER FROM ECONOMIC DOWNTURN, [...] SUMMARY: The Netherlands Bureau for Economic Analysis (CPB) released its updated forecast March 17 for a Dutch economy in "deep recession." GDP is predicted to decline 3.5 percent in 2009. Businesses across a number of sectors report they are facing decreasing revenue, fewer orders, and lower [...] | 2009-03-20 13:19:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE196 | SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S MARCH 31 MEETING [...] (S) Your participation in the Afghanistan conference and the March 31 meeting with Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen is well-timed to advance key U.S. priorities, particularly in securing Afghanistan. Verhagen and the whole Dutch government remain among our strongest allies, but Dutch domestic [...] | 2009-03-23 10:38:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PREL OVIP PINR MOPS PHUM AF NL |
09THEHAGUE198 | NETHERLANDS: DUTCH POSITION ON ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-23 12:18:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD ECON EAID ADB NL |
09THEHAGUE2 | NETHERLANDS: SHELL DISCUSSES BUSINESS IN IRAN [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The Dutch government agrees that doing business with Iran poses risks for Dutch companies, and it will continue to discourage new investments there. Shell has again pushed back its investment decision on the Persian LNG project, this time until late 2010. However, Shell's go-slo [...] | 2009-01-02 09:03:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG EPET ETTC PREL NL IR |
09THEHAGUE200 | NETHERLANDS/NATO/KFOR: DUTCH SHARE U.S. CONCERNS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-23 16:14:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO KPKO KV NL |
09THEHAGUE204 | NETHERLANDS: COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING EASTERN AND CENTRAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of the Netherlands (GONL) supported the increase of EU's Balance of Payments facility to assist Central and Eastern European economies hit hard by the economic crisis. The GONL also favors doubling the size of IMF's New Arrangements to Borrow (NAB) and is willing [...] | 2009-03-25 15:29:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EFIN PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE205 | (S) CWC: INQUIRIES IN THE HAGUE ABOUT MIRZAYANOV [...] (U) Action requested para 5. 2. (S) On March 25, in a private conversation, Canadian delegate asked U.S. and UK Delreps whether they had heard of the Mirzayanov book "State Secrets: An Insider's View of the Russian Chemical Weapons Program." Canadian Rep added that Mirzayanov now appeared [...] | 2009-03-26 09:08:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE206 | NETHERLANDS: ING SEEKS LEVEL PLAYING FIELD IN U.S. [...] This is an action request for State and Treasury; see paragraph 9. 2. Summary: The head of ING's insurance operations in the United States said the significant presence of U.S. mortgage-backed securities on ING's books necessitated a Dutch government bailout and layoffs. Although ING's ba [...] | 2009-03-26 13:39:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE208 | NETHERLANDS: SOLVING GUANTANAMO LEGAL ISSUES [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Dutch MFA has hired Leiden University to organize a study to address the legal issues surrounding Guantanamo. Study leader Professor Nico Schrijver told post that Dutch FM Verhagen has a personal interest in this issue. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) The study includes three panels [...] | 2009-03-27 06:54:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINR PHUM PTER NL |
09THEHAGUE210 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR MARCH 16-26, 2009 [...] (SBU) After Iraq's delivery of its initial declaration, Delreps met with the Iraqi Ambassador and delegate on March 17 to discuss preparation for Iraq's presentation at the April destruction informals and the importance of having Iraqi experts arrive in The Hague in advance of that meeting. [...] | 2009-03-27 08:51:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE212 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: NO DELIVERABLES FOR NATO, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch do not expect to announce new "deliverables" on Afghanistan and Pakistan during the upcoming NATO and EU summits. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Poloff shared reftel A points with key contacts at the Dutch MFA, MOD, and PM's office. Maarten Boef, head of the Dutch MFA Uruzgan [...] | 2009-03-27 14:43:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MOPS NL PK AF MARR |
09THEHAGUE228 | Media Reporting: Secretary Clinton's at the Afghanistan [...] The visit of Secretary Clinton to the Netherlands to attend the Afghanistan Conference was headline news days before her arrival. Questions about whether the Dutch offered to host the conference or whether the U.S. asked them to had died down before the conference actually began. All media car [...] | 2009-04-04 06:14:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP PREL EAID AF PK IR KPAO NL |
09THEHAGUE236 | CWC: SCENE-SETTER FOR OPCW EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 56TH [...] (SBU) The two main topics that are likely to dominate Executive Council (EC) debate and informal discussions are the search for a new Director General and Iraq's recent submission of its declaration. On the DG search, candidates continue to emerge - most notably from the Western European an [...] | 2009-04-09 15:16:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE238 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: DUTCH SUPPORTIVE OF MOST [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH 6. 2. (S/NF) Summary: The Dutch strongly appreciated U.S. support for the March 31 Afghanistan conference in The Hague. The Dutch can probably support most of the requests ("Afghanistan Asks") in reftel A, but the list should be presented as [...] | 2009-04-11 11:47:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET//NOFORN | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF NL |
09THEHAGUE242 | DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW,S MARCH 31, 2009 [...] (U) March 31, 2009; 6:10 pm; The Hague, Netherlands. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. Jacob Lew, Deputy Secretary of State James Bever, Director for Afghanistan-Pakistan Task Force USAID Piper Campbell, Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary Rebecca Callaway (Embassy Notetaker) Netherland [...] | 2009-04-14 09:17:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL EAID NL AF PK |
09THEHAGUE243 | (C) NETHERLANDS: SUPPORTING U.S. FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch will strongly support the U.S. candidacy for the Human Rights Council (Council or HRC). The Dutch are critical of the HRC and have suggestions to improve it. Jacobi also noted close cooperation on the Durban Review Conference declaration and a possible joint initiative [...] | 2009-04-14 12:04:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE244 | CWC: INDUSTRY CLUSTER MEETINGS, APRIL 1-2, 2009 [...] (U) SUMMARY: Two of the three Industry Cluster consultations at the OPCW on April 1-2 saw a continuation of discussions from the last Industry Cluster in February (ref A). Little progress was made on either Schedule 2A/2A* low concentrations or enhancements to declarations of Other Chemical [...] | 2009-04-14 15:05:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE245 | CWC: URGENT LEGAL QUESTIONS ON U.S. SUPPLEMENTAL [...] (U) This is an action message -- see para 9. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 14, Delreps met with OPCW Technical Secretariat (TS) Legal Advisor Santiago Onate, Director of Verification Horst Reeps, Chemical Demilitarization Branch Head Dominique Anelli and other TS [...] | 2009-04-14 17:09:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KTIA CWC IZ |
09THEHAGUE247 | SCSL’S TAYLOR TRIAL MEETS KEY MILESTONE, BUT SCSL [...] (SBU) On February 27, 2009, the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL or Court) took another step toward completing its work when the Prosecution rested its case against former Liberian President Charles Taylor -- the last SCSL case at the trial stage. The Court could potentially complete its work b [...] | 2009-04-15 15:00:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KAWC |
09THEHAGUE253 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR APRIL 6-17, 2009 [...] (SBU) Following the industry cluster consultations (Ref A),the Chairperson of the Executive Council (EC) held informal consultations on the status of preparations for EC-56 (reported in ref B). Informal consultations were also held on Article X Assistance and Protection on April 7, and on r [...] | 2009-04-17 18:35:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE261 | NETHERLANDS: RISK TO COALITION GOVERNMENT OVER JSF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-22 10:47:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV NL |
09THEHAGUE263 | CWC: UNSCR 1540 WORKSHOP IN THE HAGUE [...] (U) On March 26-27, 2009, the Dutch Foreign Ministry, Clingendael Institute for International Relations and VERTIC co-hosted a workshop on UN Security Council Resolution 1540 in The Hague. Participants included representatives from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPC [...] | 2009-04-22 13:39:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EUN PARM PREL PTER CWC KPAO UNSC |
09THEHAGUE264 | NETHERLANDS/JSF FLYING INTO THE PERFECT STORM [...] (C) Summary: The philosophical opposition of Labor Party members, the economic crisis, and unfavorable U.S. reports have brought Dutch support of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program to the political breaking point. Parliament is in a stalemate as it goes into a second day of emotionally charged [...] | 2009-04-23 14:58:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PINS PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE268 | (S/NF) NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: "AFGHANISTAN ASKS" [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-24 15:41:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET//NOFORN | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF NL |
09THEHAGUE270 | NETHERLANDS/EU: DUTCH VIEWS ON APRIL GAERC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-24 16:13:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EU NL |
09THEHAGUE271 | NETHERLANDS/JSF: COMPROMISE WINS [...] (C) Summary: Political grandstanding by parliamentarians opposed to the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program gave way to a late-night announcement of a compromise during the second day of debates. At the invitation of Parliament, cabinet members, including PM Balkenende, responded to questions on the [...] | 2009-04-24 16:29:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PINS PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE277 | NETHERLANDS/ANTILLES-ARUBA SOFA: EXTENSION ACCEPTED [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of the Netherlands is in agreement with the U.S. proposal to extend the current bilateral Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) by exchange of diplomatic notes. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) On May 1 POLMIL Officer received the GoNL diplomatic note response to Department' [...] | 2009-05-01 09:34:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS MOPS PREL AA NA NT XL NL |
09THEHAGUE278 | NETHERLANDS/ANTILLES-ARUBA SOFA: EXTENSION ACCEPTED [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of the Netherlands is in agreement with the U.S. proposal to extend the current bilateral Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) by exchange of diplomatic notes. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) On May 1 POLMIL Officer received the GoNL diplomatic note response to Department' [...] | 2009-05-01 09:34:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS MOPS PREL AA NA NT XL NL |
09THEHAGUE279 | NETHERLANDS/SUDAN: LOGISTICS SUPPORT PROPOSAL "TOO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-01 11:53:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID MOPS SU NL |
09THEHAGUE286 | CWC: MEETINGS ON IRAQ ON THE MARGINS OF EC-56 [...] (SBU) Having submitted its initial declaration in March, Iraq made its debut as a "possessor state" at Executive Council (EC)-56. U.S. representatives in Washington, Baghdad and The Hague worked closely with counterparts to set up a series of preparatory meetings with Iraq, the UK, and membe [...] | 2009-05-06 11:51:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE287 | CWC: MEETING WITH OPCW LEGAL ADVISER ON U.S. [...] (C) On April 23, U.S. Executive Council Representative Robert Mikulak and Delreps met with senior Secretariat officials to follow up on the updated U.S. submission on recovered chemical rounds in Iraq. In accordance with REF B instructions, U.S. Delreps had delivered the updated letter to th [...] | 2009-05-06 12:29:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE288 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR OPCW 56TH EXECUTIVE COUNCIL [...] (SBU) Executive Council (EC) 56 was characterized by a high interest in the search for a new Director-General (DG),an extensive agenda of routine business and increasingly obstructive behavior by the South African delegation. Iraq's presentation of its former chemical weapons (CW) program t [...] | 2009-05-06 17:40:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE295 | CWC: MEETINGS ON THE MARGINS OF EC-56 [...] (SBU) On the margins of the 56th session of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons' Executive Council (ref A),the U.S. Del met with a number of other delegations to discuss OPCW affairs as well as the Algerian and Turkish candidates to be next Director-General (DG). Meeting [...] | 2009-05-08 18:03:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE296 | CWC: EC-56 DONORS MEETING AND DESTRUCTION INFORMALS [...] (SBU) On the day before the formal opening of the 56th session of the Executive Council (EC),U.S. Del participated in the Donor Coordination Meeting (hosted by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and the Destruction Informals (chaired by EC Chairperson Amb. Oksana Tomova). The Donors Mee [...] | 2009-05-08 18:51:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE301 | NETHERLANDS/BURMA: SUPPORTING SUU KYI'S RELEASE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch will continue to support the release of Ang Sang Suu Kyi. The Dutch welcome U.S. views as they reassess efforts to improve the situation in Burma. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) SUPPORTING CONTINUED SANCTIONS AND SUU KYI'S RELEASE: Poloff discussed reftel A points with Seni [...] | 2009-05-14 11:25:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL NL BM |
09THEHAGUE307 | NETHERLANDS/EU: DUTCH PRIORITIES FOR MAY 2009 GAERC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY/BACKGROUND: The Dutch views on Russia, Iran, counter piracy, EU proceedings, Bosnia and development aid are described in the following paragraphs. The Dutch MFA reviewed its positions in a letter to parliament (ref A),and MFA officials Rochus Pronk and Cees Bansema briefed local [...] | 2009-05-18 12:46:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID PHUM EU IR RU NL |
09THEHAGUE312 | CWC: MISSING THE 2012 CONVENTION DEADLINE: [...] (SBU) On May 22, Delreps Beik and Robinson delivered reftel demarche on projected U.S. destruction dates beyond the 2012 extended Convention deadline to the Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW),Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, and the new Chairman of [...] | 2009-05-22 17:12:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE313 | NETHERLANDS: REASSESSMENT OF DUTCH DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Despite the economic crisis, the Netherlands continues to comply with the UN recommendation of spending 0.7 percent of GDP on official development assistance (ODA) with an additional 0.1 percent for other overseas projects. Faced with sharp criticism of Dutch aid policy's effectiv [...] | 2009-05-26 07:20:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL EAID NL |
09THEHAGUE315 | NETHERLANDS: UNSC 1718 COMMITTEE DESIGNATION OF [...] (S/NF) On May 13, Econoff shared with the Dutch Foreign Ministry's Terrorism/New Threats Unit and the Finance Ministry's Integrity Division reftel points concerning the UNSC 1718 Sanctions Committee designation of DPRK entities. The Foreign Ministry's terrorism finance coordinator Wendela Hari [...] | 2009-05-27 15:41:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN ETTC KNNP PREL PARM NL |
09THEHAGUE322 | NETHERLANDS/CUBA: LIBERTAD ACT REVIEW [...] (U) In response to Ref A, following is an analysis of Dutch relations with Cuba in the first half of 2009. (Note: Ref B reports on Dutch relations with Cuba in the second half of 2008. End note.) ----------------------------- Political Relations with Cuba ----------------------------- [...] | 2009-05-29 16:06:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL EU NL CU |
09THEHAGUE324 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR MAY 11-29, 2009 [...] (SBU) Official meetings at OPCW are still few and far between, with the exception of this week's industry cluster (reported septel). In accordance with Refs A and B, the Del continues to inform key individuals of the recently published chemical demilitarization schedule. This has evoked conc [...] | 2009-05-29 17:28:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE328 | NETHERLANDS/SCENESETTER; SECRETARY,S JUNE 1OTH [...] (S) Your participation in the Regional Command-South RC-South) meeting and the bilateral with Dutch Minister of Defense Emert van Middelkoop comes at a critical time for the advancement of key U.S. priorities. Van Middelkoop and the Dutch government as a whole remain among our strongest allies, but [...] | 2009-06-02 16:18:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL NATO MOPS MARR AF PAK NL |
09THEHAGUE33 | NETHERLANDS/GEORGIA: INCLINED TO SUPPORT U.S. "WAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch are inclined to support the U.S. proposal of "carrots and sticks" to encourage separatist regions in Georgia to give up their aspirations of independence. However, the West's first goal should be restoring international access to the regions and addressing any humanit [...] | 2009-01-14 15:45:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GG RU NL |
09THEHAGUE333 | NETHERLANDS PRESSING FOR INVITATION TO PITTSBURGH [...] (U) This cable contains an action request; see para 5. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Dutch Prime Minister Balkenende is already pressing for confirmation that the Netherlands will be invited to the September 2009 G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh. The Dutch know their perseverance paid off with invitations to [...] | 2009-06-05 11:36:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE338 | SCENESETTER FOR JUNE 16-17 GICNT VISIT TO THE HAGUE [...] (U) Welcome to The Hague. Your visit to The Hague can strengthen ties with a proven ally on many issues, especially on nonproliferation and counterterrorism. As co-chair of the 5th Plenary Meeting of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT),your focus will be on multi-lateral [...] | 2009-06-10 03:20:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC NL |
09THEHAGUE339 | NETHERLANDS/UN: UNDECIDED ON MYERS CANDIDACY FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-10 09:26:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KAWC KJUS KUNR AORC APER PREL UNGA NL |
09THEHAGUE340 | NETHERLANDS/EU: DUTCH VIEWS ON THE JUNE GAERC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY/BACKGROUND: The Dutch views on the economic crisis, EU institutions, climate change negotiations, Russia-Ukraine gas, the Western Balkans, the Middle East Peace Process, Syria, Cuba, and Sudan are described in the following paragraphs. MFA officials Rochus Pronk and Peter Jan Kl [...] | 2009-06-10 09:37:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EU NL |
09THEHAGUE35 | NETHERLANDS/SYRIA: EU UNLIKELY TO ACT QUICKLY ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch believe the EU is unlikely to move forward quickly on the association agreement with Syria. FM Verhagen would be unlikely to approve such an agreement at this time. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Embassy delivered reftel A points to Peter van der Bloemen, Dutch MFA senior poli [...] | 2009-01-15 15:48:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU SY NL |
09THEHAGUE352 | CWC: WRAP UP FOR WEEK ENDING JUNE 12, 2009 [...] (U) Over the past two weeks, the two main topics of discussion at the OPCW have been the search for a new Director General (DG) and recent news of the current U.S. chemical weapons destruction schedule. On the DG search, the Western European and Others Group (WEOG) heard presentations by three [...] | 2009-06-15 16:48:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE362 | CWC: INDUSTRY CLUSTER MEETINGS, MAY 25-27, 2009 [...] (U) SUMMARY: Two of the three Industry Cluster consultations at the OPCW on May 25-26 saw a continuation of discussions from the previous Industry Cluster consultations in February and April (refs A and B). Little progress was made on either Schedule 2A/2A* low concentrations or enhancement [...] | 2009-06-22 16:14:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE368 | CWC: MEETINGS OF SENIOR U.S. EXPERTS IN THE HAGUE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Between June 23 and 25, two senior-level U.S. experts visited The Hague to brief key stakeholders at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on the U.S. program for destroying its chemical weapons (CW) stockpile (ref A),including projected operating sche [...] | 2009-06-25 17:31:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE371 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR JUNE 15-22, 2009 [...] (SBU) As instructed in Ref A, U.S. Delreps met with Mohadeb Gheton of Libya on June 22 to deliver the U.S. non-paper detailing specific requests for greater transparency and information about Libya's conversion of its former Chemical Weapons Production Facility (CWPF) at Rabta and the destruc [...] | 2009-06-26 11:04:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE375 | NETHERLANDS/IRAN: JULY 4 INVITES RESCINDED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-26 15:48:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | ODIP PREL IR PINR |
09THEHAGUE376 | NETHERLANDS/IRAN: MFA REPORTING FROM TEHRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Iranian and EU governments have exchanged protests, including a second formal protest by the Dutch MFA to the Iranian Charge d'Affaires in The Hague. Tehran is looking for splits in the EU position. The Dutch proposed and expect an EU meeting on June 26 to maintain unity. Si [...] | 2009-06-26 15:52:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON IR NL |
09THEHAGUE387 | NETHERLANDS/BIOTECH: DUTCH PROPOSAL TO CONSIDER [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified; please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 22 and 23, Embassy officers met with representatives of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature, and Food Quality and the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning to discuss the Dut [...] | 2009-07-02 16:01:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ETRD PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE39 | NETHERLANDS: HR VETTING CENTCOM SOVEREIGN [...] The following individual has been selected to attend a CENTCOM Sovereign Challenge Training Conference 16-19 March 2009. Consistent with Leahy Amendment vetting requirements, there is no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by this individual. NAME - Colonel Hans Van der [...] | 2009-01-16 15:32:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KCRM SNAR KJUS ASEC NL |
09THEHAGUE395 | NETHERLANDS: OVERVIEW FOR THE PRESIDENT'S JULY 14 [...] (C) Your July 14 meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Jan Pieter Balkenende provides an opportunity for us to urge the Dutch to continue as part of NATO in Afghanistan and to enlist PM Balkenende in solving Guantanamo issues. For his part, Balkenende will seek to continue the Dutch role in the G20 and [...] | 2009-07-06 12:08:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PREL OVIP ECON EFIN PINR MOPS NL |
09THEHAGUE398 | NETHERLANDS: POTENTIAL TOPICS FOR PRESIDENT'S JULY [...] (SBU) Reftel provided some background on Prime Minister Balkenende and the challenges he faces. The second cable examined the four main topics likely to come up in your July 14 meeting. This cable concludes with short summaries on other topics that might arise (energy security, human rights, [...] | 2009-07-06 15:30:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | ENRG OVIP PHUM PREL RU NL |
09THEHAGUE399 | NETHERLANDS: LEAD TOPICS FOR PRESIDENT'S JULY 14 [...] (C) As indicated in our overview cable, Dutch Prime Minister Balkenende hopes to limit discussion to four major topics during his meeting with the President: Afghanistan/Pakistan; the economic crisis/G20; Middle East Peace Process/Iran; and climate change. He will also mention the New York 400 cele [...] | 2009-07-06 15:30:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | ECON EFIN MOPS OVIP PINR PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE40 | CWC: IRAQ'S ACCESSION TO THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS [...] (U) Action requested ) see para 6. 2. (SBU) After the news of Iraq's delivery to the United Nations of its accession documents to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC),U.S. Delegates to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) met with OPCW Acting Director General, [...] | 2009-01-16 17:02:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE402 | CWC: SCENE-SETTER FOR OPCW EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 57TH [...] (U) This is an action request, see para 19. ------------------------ SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION ------------------------ 2. (SBU) As for the previous two Executive Councils (EC),the selection of the next Director-General (DG) for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ( [...] | 2009-07-07 10:57:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE404 | NETHERLANDS: WHA PDAS KELLY'S JUNE 25, 2009 [...] (U) June 25, 2009; 8:45 am; The Hague, Netherlands. 2. (U) Participants: United States ------------- Craig Kelly, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, WHA Eric Falls (Embassy notetaker) Netherlands ----------- Laurent Stokvis, MFA Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs Peter Potman, [...] | 2009-07-07 13:50:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NL BL NU CU VE |
09THEHAGUE410 | CWC: MEETINGS OF SENIOR U.S. EXPERTS IN THE HAGUE [...] (SBU) During their June 23-25 visit to The Hague, Robert Mikulak (ISN/CB Director and U.S. Representative to the OPCW's Executive Council (EC)) and Tom Hopkins (Principal Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs) briefed representativ [...] | 2009-07-08 15:45:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE411 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR JUNE 23 TO JULY 3, 2009 [...] (SBU) Senior Washington experts Tom Hopkins (Principal Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs) and Bob Mikulak (ISN Director of Chemical and Biological Weapons Threat Reduction) visited The Hague June 23-25 to discuss the U.S. progra [...] | 2009-07-08 18:33:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE415 | CWC: OPCW'S PROPOSED INITIAL VISIT TO IRAQ AND [...] (U) This is an action message: see paras 10-12. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will not send its advance team to visit Baghdad July 12-16, but will postpone this visit until the question of the team's security is clearl [...] | 2009-07-10 17:12:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PARM PREL KTIA CWC IZ |
09THEHAGUE418 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: ENROUTE TO YES ON MOST [...] (U) This cable follows up on post's ""Netherlands /Afghanistan: Getting to YES post-2010"" (reftel C). 2. (S/NF) SUMMARY: The Dutch consensus-based political process for post-2010 commitments in Afghanistan remains on track for a Cabinet decision in the fall followed by a parliamentary review in l [...] | 2009-07-13 15:45:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PGOV PREL NATO AF NL |
09THEHAGUE419 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: ENROUTE TO YES ON MOST [...] (U) This cable follows up on post's "Netherlands /Afghanistan: Getting to YES post-2010" (reftel C). 2. (S/NF) SUMMARY: The Dutch consensus-based political process for post-2010 commitments in Afghanistan remains on track for a Cabinet decision in the fall followed by a parliamentary review [...] | 2009-07-13 16:01:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PGOV PREL NATO AF NL |
09THEHAGUE421 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR JULY 6-10, 2009 [...] (SBU) As will happen during the upcoming Executive Council (EC) session, discussions this week were dominated by the search for a new Director-General (DG). After additional consultations with a number of delegations, including with a small group of western and like- minded states in which h [...] | 2009-07-14 07:17:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE422 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR JULY 6-10, 2009 [...] (SBU) As will happen during the upcoming Executive Council (EC) session, discussions this week were dominated by the search for a new Director-General (DG). After additional consultations with a number of delegations, including with a small group of western and like- minded states in which h [...] | 2009-07-14 07:43:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE436 | CWC: INDUSTRY CLUSTER MEETINGS, JULY 9, 2009 [...] SUMMARY: Both industry consultations on July 9 included presentations and discussion of new technical data gathered to aid consultations, along with a continuation of discussions from the May consultations on low concentration limits for Schedule 2A/2A* chemicals and enhancements to the OC [...] | 2009-07-20 11:05:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL EIND OPCW CWC |
09THEHAGUE437 | CWC: SUMMARY WRAP-UP FOR OPCW EXECUTIVE COUNCIL [...] (SBU) Led by its new Chairman, Ambassador Jorge Lomonaco Tonda (Mexico),the 57th Executive Council (EC-57) ran smoothly, ended early, and moved forward its most important issue -- the selection process for a new Director-General (DG) for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapo [...] | 2009-07-20 11:38:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC OPCW |
09THEHAGUE443 | CWC: IRAQ ISSUES DURING OPCW EXECUTIVE COUNCIL [...] (C) In a series of bilateral meetings surrounding Executive Council 57 (EC-57) the week of July 13, members of the U.S. delegation met with Iraqi Ambassador Siamand Banaa, new Iraqi delegate to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Muhanned Al-Miahi, Iraqi Foreign Mi [...] | 2009-07-21 18:54:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL OPCW CWC IQ |
09THEHAGUE444 | NETHERLANDS: DUTCH CONCERNS ABOUT ROTOR BLADE [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The Dutch export control authority has denied an export license for power plant turbine blades destined for Iran. Dutch officials have formally asked other European countries with companies that produce similar parts to block their export to Iran. The Dutch have asked us informally [...] | 2009-07-22 15:01:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC PARM PREL ENRG NL IR |
09THEHAGUE446 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: DUTCH AFTER ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Dutch consideration of military contributions following the Afghan August elections are intertwined with their decision on post-2010 commitments (ref B). Senior leaders remain dedicated to an active contribution posture after the elections and confirm their commitment to sustain p [...] | 2009-07-23 13:33:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET//NOFORN | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF NL |
09THEHAGUE450 | NETHERLANDS: DUTCH POSITIONS IN ADVANCE OF JULY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In advance of the July 27-28 GAERC meeting, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials briefed EMBOFFS on Dutch positions on the Swedish Presidency, the Baltic Sea Cooperation plan, Iceland, Somalia, Iran, and the EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) in Georgia. Few concrete de [...] | 2009-07-24 10:45:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV EFIN EUN NL |
09THEHAGUE451 | CWC: PRESENTATIONS BY DG CANDIDATES, JULY 15, [...] (SBU) The seven candidates to succeed Rogelio Pfirter (Argentina) as the next Director-General (DG) of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) each presented themselves to the Executive Council (EC) on July 15. During the day-long closed session presided over by EC Ch [...] | 2009-07-24 15:52:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL AU FI GM ID TU UK AG |
09THEHAGUE452 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR OPCW EXECUTIVE COUNCIL SESSION, [...] (SBU) The 57th session of the Executive Council (EC) of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) successfully concluded, and on schedule, with a full day devoted to the presentations by the candidates for Director General (July 15) and major agreement in the Council by [...] | 2009-07-24 16:24:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE455 | CWC: MEETINGS ON THE MARGINS OF THE OPCW [...] (SBU) During the Executive Council, July 14-17, the U.S. delegation met bilaterally with the Chinese, Libyan, Japanese and French delegations to discuss a variety of issues. The Indian delegation convened a meeting of interested delegations to present its views on industry issues, and U.S. C [...] | 2009-07-27 13:45:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE462 | CWC: DESTRUCTION INFORMALS, JULY 13, 2009 (EC-57) [...] (SBU) On July 13 before the formal opening of the Executive Council (EC),the new EC Chairperson, Ambassador Jorge Lomonaco (Mexico),convened the customary informal consultations on chemical weapons destruction issues. In addition to the usual presentations by the Technical Secretariat (TS) [...] | 2009-07-30 07:43:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE463 | CWC: DESTRUCTION INFORMALS, JULY 13, 2009 (EC-57) [...] (SBU) On July 13 before the formal opening of the Executive Council (EC),the new EC Chairperson, Ambassador Jorge Lomonaco (Mexico),convened the customary informal consultations on chemical weapons destruction issues. In addition to the usual presentations by the Technical Secretariat (TS) [...] | 2009-07-30 07:43:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE476 | NETHERLANDS/IRAN: MFA REPORTING FROM TEHRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch describe a "cleansing" in Iran, with massive arrests of civil society networks. Vocal protests continue in Tehran. At the inaugural activities, the Dutch opted to send their DCM to the procedure in the Iranian parliament, and no representative to the ceremony at which [...] | 2009-08-07 14:56:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON IR NL |
09THEHAGUE481 | CWC: U.S.-CHINA CONSULTATIONS: RESPONSE FROM [...] (C) On August 7, Delreps Granger and Smith met with Chinese Deputy PermRep Chen Kai and Chinese delegate Xu Feng to deliver reftel points. Delrep informed Chen of Washington's positive response to China's standing invitation for bilateral discussions in Beijing and site visits to Nanjing and [...] | 2009-08-10 16:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC OPCW CH JA |
09THEHAGUE485 | NETHERLANDS/UN 1267 SANCTIONS: DUTCH REQUEST [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-12 09:04:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC NL |
09THEHAGUE498 | NETHERLANDS: ASSESSMENT OF JORDAN-ONLY RED SEA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-18 12:52:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PREL IS JO NL KWBG |
09THEHAGUE499 | GICNT: 2009 GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] (C) Fifty-nine of 75 partners sent high-level representation to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) Plenary Meeting held in The Hague, Netherlands, June 16-17, 2009. Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen hosted the meeting. U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary (AA/S) Eliot [...] | 2009-08-18 15:18:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PTER KGIC RS |
09THEHAGUE500 | GICNT: 2009 GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-18 15:18:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PTER KGIC RS |
09THEHAGUE501 | GICNT: 2009 GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-18 15:18:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PTER KGIC RS |
09THEHAGUE514 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: POST-2010 DEPLOYMENT [...] (C) This cable continues reporting on post's efforts to get the Dutch to ""yes"" on a post-2010 deployment in Afghanistan (reftels). 2. (S/NF) SUMMARY: Labor Party leader Bos told the Ambassador in confidence (STRICTLY PROTECT) the Dutch will likely stay in Afghanistan post-2010 but not in Uruzgan [...] | 2009-08-25 14:59:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL AF NATO NL |
09THEHAGUE518 | CWC: CONSULTATIONS ON THE SELECTION OF A NEW [...] (SBU) Dr. Robert Mikulak, ISN/CB Director and U.S. Representative to the Executive Council (EC),visited The Hague August 27-28 to consult with key delegations on the selection of a new Director- General (DG) for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Accompanied by [...] | 2009-08-31 15:24:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE52 | NETHERLANDS/TERRORISM FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-22 15:49:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | EFIN ETTC PINR PREL PTER KTFN IR NL |
09THEHAGUE526 | CWC: STATUS UPDATE ON IRAQ'S DESTRUCTION PLANS, [...] (U) This is an action request -- see paras 16 and 22. ------------------------ SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION ------------------------ Â [...] | 2009-09-03 07:05:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | IZ LY PARM PREL RS CWC |
09THEHAGUE537 | NETHERLANDS HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT 64TH UN [...] The Dutch Foreign Ministry confirmed delegates to the 64th UN General Assembly (UNGA) General Debate are as follows: -- Jan-Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister -- Maxime Verhagen, Minister of Foreign Affairs -- Bert Koenders, Minister for Development Cooperation -- Jacquelin [...] | 2009-09-04 15:59:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KSEP OTRA OVIP PREL UNGA NL |
09THEHAGUE54 | NETHERLANDS/EU: DUTCH PRIORITIES FOR JANUARY GAERC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Dutch are looking to reactivate the EU border mission in support of Israel-Palestine peace negotiations. On Guantanamo, the EU will consider a common position, but the Dutch are not willing to accept detainees. On Ukraine/Russia, the Dutch will support continued negotiatio [...] | 2009-01-23 11:34:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU NL CZ |
09THEHAGUE543 | AMBASSADOR DAALDER PRESSES DUTCH TO STAY THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO, Ambassador Ivo Daalder, argued for the extension of the Netherlands, military deployment and aid to Afghanistan beyond 2010 during high-level meetings, a speech, press interviews, and a reception in The Hague on September 3, 2009. This cable cove [...] | 2009-09-10 14:35:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PREL PGOV NATO NL AF |
09THEHAGUE547 | UPDATE ON NETHERLANDS HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-11 14:10:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KSEP OTRA OVIP PREL UNGA NL |
09THEHAGUE549 | CWC: INDUSTRY CLUSTER MEETINGS, SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 [...] (U) SUMMARY: There were meetings on September 8 of the two ongoing Industry Cluster consultations. The consultation on enhancements to declarations for other chemical production facilities (OCPFs),facilitated by South African Delegate Marthinus van Schalkwyk, was uneventful and made no progr [...] | 2009-09-11 17:59:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL EIND CWC |
09THEHAGUE556 | NETHERLANDS: LOOKING FOR CFE GUIDANCE [...] (C) The Dutch welcome more information about U.S. plans to resolve the impasse between Russia and the United States regarding the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). PolDep shared reftel discussion points with Erica Schouten, MFA Head of NATO Affairs, MFA Senior Policy Advisor [...] | 2009-09-14 15:57:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE PARM PREL NATO NL |
09THEHAGUE557 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR SEPTEMBER 1-11, 2009 [...] (SBU) The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has returned to work in full force, with delegations and Technical Secretariat (TS) staff alike back from the August recess. The Geneva Group met September 4 with a briefing by Mary Blanca Rios (U.S.) on that week's meeting [...] | 2009-09-14 16:35:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL AORC CWC |
09THEHAGUE559 | NETHERLANDS/NATO: VIEW ON U.S. FORCE REDUCTIONS IN [...] (S/NF) Summary: U.S. Embassy The Hague strongly endorses USNATO's concerns about proposed U.S. force reductions in Europe (ref A). At a time when we are asking the Dutch to remain committed to NATO operations, additional reductions in U.S. NATO forces will undercut our appeal. Additionally, [...] | 2009-09-15 15:26:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MOPS NATO PINS PREL PTER NL |
09THEHAGUE560 | NETHERLANDS: PUSHING SRI LANKA ON FREEDOM OF [...] (C) The Dutch support U.S. efforts to encourage the GSL to permit the free movement of IDPs. On September 14, post delivered ref A points to MFA Senior Policy Officer Andrea Nederlof, in the Department for Asia and Oceania. Nederlof responded that the Dutch ambassador in Colombo has been "ver [...] | 2009-09-15 16:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER MASS SOCI EAID NL |
09THEHAGUE564 | CWC: GUIDANCE REQUEST FOR CONTACT WITH THE [...] (U) This is an action request: see para 3. 2. (SBU) During the July session of the OPCW's Executive Council (EC),Delrep Granger was elected to chair consultations on financial matters (ref A). Also with the new leadership of the Executive Council that began in July, Iran, representing the [...] | 2009-09-17 14:32:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IR OFDP PARM PREL OPCW |
09THEHAGUE565 | NETHERLANDS: DUTCH POSITIONS IN ADVANCE OF G20 SUMMIT [...] Summary: At the Pittsburgh G20 summit, the Dutch will: - highlight their new Banking Code (which includes a cap on bank directors' bonuses of one year's salary) as an example of improved corporate governance and risk management; - strongly support the German Charter for Sustainable Economi [...] | 2009-09-17 17:09:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE566 | CWC: WRAP UP FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 14- 18, [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 5. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The only official meeting at OPCW this week was the budget consultation on September 17. The Western European and Others Group (WEOG) held its regular weekly meeting on September 15. Meanwhile, multiple rece [...] | 2009-09-18 14:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE567 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: ENGAGING LABOR PARTY [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Post requests a senior USG official (ideally NSA General Jones) engage Dutch Finance Minister and Labor Party leader Bos in a pull-aside at the Pittsburgh G20 Summit to emphasize continued Dutch participation in such fora is based on their active international role, not their econom [...] | 2009-09-18 15:03:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL AF NATO PGOV NL |
09THEHAGUE568 | NETHERLANDS/JSF: CONCERN ABOUT SECOND ENGINE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Netherlands Minister of Defense (MOD) has expressed concern over the JSF second engine (F-136) being omitted from the U.S. 2010 Defense Budget. Dutch industry has high-value contracts supporting the development of the F-136 engine. The MOD has struggled to retain the necessary supp [...] | 2009-09-21 07:38:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PINS PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE569 | NETHERLANDS' 2010 BUDGET: SPEND NOW, TOUGH CHOICES LATER [...] Summary: The Dutch government presented its 2010 budget to parliament on September 15. There were no surprises - the government agreed in March to maintain current spending levels in the 2010 budget in an effort to stimulate economic recovery. The government used the occasion to caution that [...] | 2009-09-21 08:09:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE571 | NETHERLANDS/UNGA: DUTCH CONFIRM EU CONSIDERING [...] (C) SUMMARY: EU political directors have agreed to use common language to respond to offensive statements by President Ahmadinejad during the UNGA high-level event. The Dutch support U.S. redlines and are urging EU agreement on common redlines. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Post sent reftel A point [...] | 2009-09-21 14:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA NL IR |
09THEHAGUE572 | NETHERLANDS/HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: SUPPORT FOR U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch generally share U.S. views on the agenda items for the 12th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC). The Dutch are concerned about how to respond to Judge Goldstone's report on Israel and Russia's proposal to review the HRC process. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) DUTCH SUPPORT [...] | 2009-09-21 14:13:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | UN PHUM PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE577 | GENERAL PETRAEUS STRAIGHT TALK TO DUTCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: General Petraeus, Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM),had a frank and open dialogue with select Dutch Members of Parliament (MPs) September 21. The MPs appreciated the unvarnished truth of General Petraeus in his assessment of the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. [...] | 2009-09-22 17:17:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PREL PGOV NATO AF NL |
09THEHAGUE578 | CWC: LIBYA DESTRUCTION DEADLINE EXTENSION [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 4. -------------------------- SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST -------------------------- 2. (S) Libya formally submitted its national paper to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on August 24 requesting an extension to its Che [...] | 2009-09-23 15:38:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | LY PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE582 | NETHERLANDS/HRC: SUPPORTING U.S. ON GOLDSTONE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch MFA supports the U.S. position on the Goldstone report, but some members in the Dutch Parliament will try to pressure FM Verhagen to take a more skeptical approach toward Israel. The MFA intimated there is a split on Israel policy between FM Verhagen and Development Mini [...] | 2009-09-25 07:22:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | IS KISL KPAL PREL PHUM PTER NL |
09THEHAGUE584 | CWC: UPDATE ON DIRECTOR-GENERAL (DG) SELECTION [...] (SBU) Dr. Robert Mikulak, ISN/CB Director and U.S. Representative to the Executive Council (EC),visited The Hague September 24 to consult with key delegations on the selection of a new Director- General (DG) for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Accompanied by [...] | 2009-09-28 07:38:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL OPCW CWC |
09THEHAGUE59 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 19-23, 2009 [...] (SBU) The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is slowly returning to life after the holidays, with the first informal meetings this year of the Western European and Others Group (WEOG) on January 20, and Article X on January 22. Delreps also met with the Algerian delegate to [...] | 2009-01-26 14:25:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | AG IZ PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE595 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: PARLIAMENTARY OBSTACLES [...] (S) SUMMARY. After four months of private discussions over whether and how to extend Dutch military commitment to Afghanistan beyond 2010, the divide within the ruling coalition went public with a late night parliamentary debate September 30. Coalition-members Labor Party (PvdA) and Christia [...] | 2009-10-02 12:49:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PREL PGOV NATO AF NL |
09THEHAGUE596 | NETHERLANDS: SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL ENVOY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post warmly welcomes you to The Hague to convene the 2009 Regional Energy Officers Conference. During your stay, you will also meet the Foreign Minister, Economic Affairs Minister, Royal Dutch Shell's Executive Director responsible for Russia/Central Asia, and address Dutch energy in [...] | 2009-10-02 16:00:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE597 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR TWO WEEKS FROM SEPTEMBER 21 TO [...] (SBU) In the run-up to the 58th Executive Council (EC-58),the frequency and number of meetings at the OPCW has increased. This cable covers the two weeks from September 21 to October 2 including the regular weekly meeting of the Western European and Others Group (WEOG); a range of budget co [...] | 2009-10-02 18:45:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OPCW CWC |
09THEHAGUE60 | NETHERLANDS: ING'S FINANCIAL WOES DEEPEN [...] Summary: ING, the largest Dutch financial services and insurance provider, announced January 26 that it will cut 7,000 jobs and replace Chief Executive Officer Michel Tilmant after reporting a second consecutive quarterly loss. ING also will accept additional support from the Government of th [...] | 2009-01-26 16:26:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE601 | CWC: SELECTION OF THE NEXT OPCW DG: RESULTS OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The selection for the next Director-General (DG) of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) moved forward today after the first informal straw poll of Executive Council (EC) members. Results of the straw poll indicate a distinction between three candid [...] | 2009-10-05 15:47:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE604 | CWC: SCENE-SETTER FOR OPCW EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 58TH [...] (U) This is an action request -- please see paras 16-18. ------------------------ SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION ------------------------ 2. (SBU) While the selection of a new Director- General is consuming all the attention of delegates (ref A),the agenda for Executive Council 58 (EC- 58) [...] | 2009-10-06 18:10:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL AORC OPCW CWC |
09THEHAGUE607 | NETHERLANDS/BURMA: CAUTIOUS REACTION TO NEW U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-09 14:32:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV BM NL |
09THEHAGUE609 | NETHERLANDS/BURMA: CAUTIOUS REACTION TO NEW U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Dutch reaction to the new U.S. Burma policy is cautious, noting that the United States should emphasize its continuing resolve to encourage reform in Burma. The Dutch would welcome further updates and clarifications. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) On October 8, the Dutch MFA Burm [...] | 2009-10-09 17:07:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV BM NL |
09THEHAGUE615 | NETHERLANDS: DUTCH SUPPORT ON GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch generally support the U.S. approach on the Goldstone report in New York and Geneva. The Dutch MFA hopes for additional information from the U.S. on next steps on the Goldstone report and on Middle East peace negotiations. There is a high-level political conflict between [...] | 2009-10-15 10:17:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | IS KPAL PREL PHUM PTER NL EU |
09THEHAGUE617 | CWC: AMHET UZUMCU OF TURKEY NOMINATED BY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Ahmet Uzumcu (Turkish Perm Rep to the UN Office in Geneva) received a consensus nomination by the 41-member Executive Council to be the next Director- General (DG) of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The nomination occurred on Friday, [...] | 2009-10-16 21:29:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL AORC AU FI GM ID TU UK AG |
09THEHAGUE619 | NETHERLANDS TO VOTE YES ON BIOTECH MAIZE APPLICATIONS AT [...] Emboffs delivered Ref A points to Bart van den Assum, Coordinator for Biotechnology at the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature, and Food Quality, and Frans Koster, Policy Officer at the Dutch Product Board for Margarine, Fats, and Oils. According to these contacts, Dutch Minister of Agriculture Ge [...] | 2009-10-19 12:08:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR ETRD PREL TBIO NL |
09THEHAGUE62 | NETHERLANDS: SECOND ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE CRITICIZED AS [...] SUMMARY: Just as the European Commission released its forecast that Dutch GDP would shrink by 2 percent in 2009 (more than the EU average),the Government of the Netherlands (GONL) announced on January 16 a second package of measures to strengthen Dutch credit markets and the larger economy. [...] | 2009-01-27 12:21:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL NL |
09THEHAGUE627 | CWC: SCHEDULE 2A/2A* LOW CONCENTRATION LIMITS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Following the Canadian proposal (ref A) and the subsequent reinvigoration of discussions on Schedule 2A/2A* low concentrations, a series of consultations were held in The Hague prior to and during the 58th session of the Executive Council (EC-58). While consensus emerged around [...] | 2009-10-21 14:36:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL EIND OPCW CWC |
09THEHAGUE628 | CWC: DESTRUCTION INFORMALS, DONOR COORDINATION [...] (SBU) On October 12 before the formal opening of the 58th Session of the Executive Council (EC-58),the EC Chairman, Ambassador Jorge Lomonaco (Mexico),convened the customary informal consultations on chemical weapons (CW) destruction issues. In addition to the usual presentations by the Te [...] | 2009-10-21 17:24:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE632 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR OPCW EXECUTIVE COUNCIL SESSION, [...] (SBU) The 58th session of the Executive Council (EC) of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was a remarkable success. The Council approved by consensus a recommendation to the Conference of States Parties (CSP) to appoint Ahmet Uzumcu of Turkey to be the next Direc [...] | 2009-10-22 18:01:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL AORC EIND OPCW CWC AU FI GM ID TU |
09THEHAGUE634 | CWC: U.S.-CHINA NOVEMBER CONSULTATIONS DISCUSSED [...] (SBU) Delreps met separately with members of the Chinese and Japanese delegations in an effort to seek further clarification on the scope of the scheduled visit to Beijing (November 4-7, 2009) for CWC bilateral consultations on implementation and compliance issues (refs A and B). In an effort [...] | 2009-10-23 09:43:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OPCW CWC CH JA |
09THEHAGUE638 | CWC: LIBYA'S REQUEST TO EXTEND THEIR DESTRUCTION [...] (C) The Libyan request to extend their intermediate and final deadlines for the destruction of their declared chemical weapons (CW) was approved by the Executive Council (EC) on October 16, but only after questions were raised privately by the U.S. and the UK, and publicly by the European Uni [...] | 2009-10-26 08:32:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL OPCW CWC LY |
09THEHAGUE639 | CWC: LIBYA'S REQUEST TO EXTEND THEIR DESTRUCTION [...] (C) The Libyan request to extend their intermediate and final deadlines for the destruction of their declared chemical weapons (CW) was approved by the Executive Council (EC) on October 16, but only after questions were raised privately by the U.S. and the UK, and publicly by the European Uni [...] | 2009-10-26 08:32:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL OPCW CWC LY |
09THEHAGUE651 | NETHERLANDS: SUPPORTING MYERS FOR UN ICSC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-28 13:23:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC KJUS KUNR AORC APER PREL UNGA NL |
09THEHAGUE659 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR OCTOBER 19-30, 2009 [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 14. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Following the 58th Executive Council (refs A-F),no official meetings have yet been held. The Western European and Others Group (WEOG) met on October 20 and 27, with little discussion. Delreps met privatel [...] | 2009-10-30 17:57:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE663 | NETHERLANDS/AFTHANISTAN: NEXT STEPS AFTER [...] (S) SUMMARY: A large majority of the Dutch Parliament recently sent a clear message to the Cabinet they are opposed to a follow-on mission in Uruzgan. The Cabinet continues to deliberate on the nature of its post-2010 involvement in Afghanistan. It will be difficult, but not impossible, for [...] | 2009-11-02 16:49:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PREL PGOV NATO AF NL |
09THEHAGUE668 | NETHERLANDS/GOLDSTONE: SAME REDLINES AS IN GENEVA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-04 10:16:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | IS KPAL PREL PHUM PTER NL |
09THEHAGUE671 | NETHERLANDS/BELARUS: SUPPORTING CONTINUED SANCTIONS [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The Dutch support a "double rollover" of EU sanctions and travel restrictions for Belarus but are not optimistic about the EU supporting their view. The Dutch openness to compromise on Belarus may reflect concern about the Netherlands' image among member states. END SUMMARY. [...] | 2009-11-04 16:32:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM NL BO EU |
09THEHAGUE673 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: VIEW FROM THE PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch are unlikely to make a decision on post-2010 Afghanistan deployment until March of next year. END SUMMARY. 2. (C/NF) Pol/Econ Counselor met with Jeroen de Graaf, political advisor to Dutch Prime Minister Balkenende, Nov. 6 and reviewed internal discussions on continue [...] | 2009-11-06 17:10:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NATO AF NL |
09THEHAGUE674 | NETHERLANDS/SERBIA: REQUEST FOR FBI REPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch MFA has requested information on the FBI report on Serbia's efforts to apprehend alleged war criminal Ratko Mladic. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Ard van der Vorst, Coordinator for Political Affairs for the Western Balkans, requested a meeting with PolDep November 3 and request [...] | 2009-11-06 17:12:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM NL KAWC ICTY SR |
09THEHAGUE677 | NETHERLANDS/IRAN: A YOUNG DIPLOMAT,S REPORT FROM [...] (C) SUMMARY: A junior Dutch diplomat working in Tehran gave Post her views on human rights, the economy, public diplomacy, and diplomatic life in Tehran. Most notably, Iran is now arresting family members of dissidents. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) HUMAN RIGHTS: On November 3, Kim De Jong, Dutch [...] | 2009-11-10 08:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | IR NL PHUM PREL |
09THEHAGUE686 | NETHERLANDS: SUPPORTING U.S. BHUTANESE REFUGEE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-12 08:46:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREF PREL BT NL |
09THEHAGUE692 | NETHERLANDS/SERBIA: "CONSTRUCTIVE" APPROACH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-13 16:49:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM NL KAWC ICTY SR |
09THEHAGUE693 | EUR/PGI WEINSTEIN'S VISIT TO THE NETHERLANDS FOR EUROPEAN [...] EUR/PGI's Ivan Weinstein, who heads EUR's policy formulation on engaging with Muslims and other minorities in Europe, visited The Netherlands September 21-23, 2009, to attend a conference on the intercultural policies of European cities, consult with Embassy The Hague, and meet with the America [...] | 2009-11-16 08:22:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL PGOV PHUM PREL KPAO SCUL SOCI NL |
09THEHAGUE701 | NETHERLANDS: IDEAS ON BHUTANESE REFUGEE CORE GROUP [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-18 11:43:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV BT NL |
09THEHAGUE705 | NETHERLANDS/MACEDONIA: SUPPORTING EU ACCESSION [...] (U) The Dutch support beginning EU accession negotiations with Macedonia. Post delivered reftel points to Dominique Kuhling, head of the EU enlargement division at the Dutch MFA, on November 19. Kuhling said the Netherlands was "quite pleased" with Macedonia's progress on meeting the eight b [...] | 2009-11-19 15:38:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NL MK EU |
09THEHAGUE706 | CWC: ARTICLE X ASSISTANCE AND PROTECTION WORKSHOP [...] (U) Delrep attended the Eleventh Annual Workshop on Coordination of Article X Assistance and Protection held November 1-3 in Doha, Qatar. The workshop was co-sponsored by the OPCW Technical Secretariat (TS) and the Qatari National Committee for the Prohibition of Weapons, Qatar's CWC Nationa [...] | 2009-11-20 14:45:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OPCW CWC |
09THEHAGUE707 | NETHERLANDS/ISRAEL: "DISMAYED" [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The Dutch will support EU consensus on the anti-Israel resolutions at UNGA, having negotiated a strong Explanation of Vote (EOV) by the EU. FM Verhagen was dismayed by the latest Israel decision on settlements in Gilo, and angered by the surprise announcement of new settlements [...] | 2009-11-20 15:37:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL UNGA IS PINR KPAL NL EU |
09THEHAGUE71 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 26- 30, 2009 [...] (SBU) Speculation on the process to select a new Director General (DG) for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is beginning in earnest, with a formal agenda item now on the calendar for the next Executive Council (EC- 55) in February. The Western European and Othe [...] | 2009-01-30 15:58:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | AG IZ PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE716 | NETHERLAND/IRAN NUKES: SUPPORTING NEXT STEPS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch continue to support a firm approach with Iran but also continue to seek details on possible new sanctions. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Key Dutch MFA contacts -- MFA Iran Desk Loek Ten Hagen and Deputy Head of Nuclear Affairs and Non-Proliferation Christoffer Jonker -- welcom [...] | 2009-11-24 14:00:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MNUC PARM NL IR |
09THEHAGUE718 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: NEXT STEPS [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Senior Dutch officials report that Dutch decision-making on an Afghanistan deployment post-2010 is frozen, but President Obama's new plan provides an opportunity to engage D/PM Bos, who remains the most difficult figure in the Dutch political decision. END SUMMARY. 2. (C/ [...] | 2009-11-24 17:19:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL NATO MOPS MARR NL AF |
09THEHAGUE719 | CWC: SCENE-SETTER FOR THE 14TH CONFERENCE OF THE [...] (SBU) The 14th Conference of the States Parties (CSP) should smoothly wrap up the year's worth of activities of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW),as intended in the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). This year, unlike many in the past, the Executive Council (EC) [...] | 2009-11-27 17:07:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EIND OPCW CWC |
09THEHAGUE72 | NETHERLANDS/NATO ENLARGEMENT: EXPECT MID MARCH [...] (U) Summary: The Dutch expect to deposit the ratification for the protocols accession of Albania and Croatia to NATO by mid-March. End Summary. 2. (U) Policy Advisor Anouk Vos, from the Dutch MFA's NATO Affairs Security and Defense Policy Division, confirmed the First Chamber of the Par [...] | 2009-02-02 07:52:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR NATO PARM NL PREL |
09THEHAGUE725 | NETHERLANDS/IRAN SANCTIONS ACT: SHELL CONFIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Royal Dutch Shell executives told EconOff December 2 the company's activities should not trigger action under the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA). The Department's review process has grabbed Shell's attention. With in-house counsel looking on, Shell executives described the status of the [...] | 2009-12-02 17:29:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ETTC PREL IR NL |
09THEHAGUE726 | NETHERLANDS: REACTIONS TO PRESIDENT'S AFGHANISTAN [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Dutch Defense Minister van Middelkoop and the leader of the largest coalition party in parliament told Ambassador they expected the Government to find a way to stay in Afghanistan after 2010, albeit with a significantly reduced presence. Press coverage of the President's address was [...] | 2009-12-03 08:05:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PREL NATO AF NL |
09THEHAGUE727 | NETHERLANDS/BURMA: SUPPORTING U.S. APPROACH [...] (C) The Dutch will support the U.S. approach of urging the GOB to engage in dialogue with the opposition and minority groups, to permit dialogue between Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) and her political leadership, and to encourage Asian governments in this effort. Pol Deputy raised reftel points wit [...] | 2009-12-03 09:39:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BM NL |
09THEHAGUE729 | NETHERLANDS: NOMINEES FOR PRESIDENTIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP [...] Post is pleased to submit 10 nominees to attend the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship in Washington in early 2010 (see paragraph 3). This initiative complements a wide range of activities already underway at this Mission to promote diversity and outreach to the Netherlands' large Muslim [...] | 2009-12-04 17:02:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID PREL SOCI NL |
09THEHAGUE731 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: SWAYING THE DUTCH [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: All evidence suggests the Dutch will not/not retain a significant number of troops in Uruzgan, and the coalition government could fall over this issue. Pushing the government to collapse on this matter is not in our interest. Accepting Dutch compromise proposals is to our advantage. [...] | 2009-12-04 17:54:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL NATO AF NL |
09THEHAGUE734 | CWC: THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF OPCW NATIONAL [...] (U) The eleventh annual meeting of the National Authorities was held at the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague on 27-29 November 2009. As in previous meetings, this one focused on providing those National Authorities that are working o [...] | 2009-12-08 10:34:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE738 | CWC: PATH FORWARD ON REPORTING RECOVERED CHEMICAL [...] This is an action request -- see paras 17, 20, 26, 29, 34, and 35. ------------ INTRODUCTION ------------ 2. (SBU) This cable reports on a series of meetings between the U.S. Delegation and the Iraqi Delegation held on November 29 - December 3 on the margins of the 14th Session of the [...] | 2009-12-09 15:59:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC IZ |
09THEHAGUE745 | CWC: DISCUSSION WITH GENERAL KHOLSTOV ON STATUS [...] (SBU) The 14th Session of the Conference of States Parties was held at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague from November 30 through December 4. On November 30, Victor Ivanovich Kholstov, serving as Head of the Russian Delegation, delivered the National [...] | 2009-12-11 13:10:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL RS CWC |
09THEHAGUE746 | CWC: WRAP-UP FOR THE CONFERENCE OF THE STATES [...] (SBU) The 14th Conference of the States Parties (CSP) unanimously approved the appointment of Ambassador Ahmet Uzumcu of Turkey as the next Director-General (DG) for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW),to begin his four-year term in July 2010. The Conference was [...] | 2009-12-11 15:05:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE754 | CWC: OPCW WORKSHOP ON OTHER CHEMICAL PRODUCTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: In conjunction with its annual meeting for National Authorities (ref A),the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) hosted a workshop on other chemical production facilities (OCPFs) in The Hague on November 25. Washington experts from State/VCI and Commerce [...] | 2009-12-17 11:00:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EIND PARM PREL OPCW CWC |
09THEHAGUE755 | CWC: TRILATERAL MEETING BETWEEN LIBYA, UK AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-17 12:10:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | LY PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE757 | CWC: MEETINGS ON THE MARGINS OF THE CONFERENCE OF [...] (U) This contains an action request: see para 13. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On the margins of the 14th Conference of the States Parties (CSP) (ref A),the U.S. Delegation met bilaterally with the observer Israeli delegation, with the Indian delegation to discuss industry issues, and with the Alge [...] | 2009-12-18 13:17:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE759 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: CABINET DELIBERATING - [...] (S) SUMMARY: Dutch cabinet deliberations on Afghanistan are stalled going into the holiday break, with no clear indication when the impasse will be broken. Dutch post-2010 commitments to Afghanistan are being held hostage to the Labor Party's (PvdA) uncompromising stance. Ambassador's engagement wi [...] | 2009-12-21 16:28:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PREL PGOV NATO AF NL |
09THEHAGUE764 | CWC: ASD WEBER DELIVERS PRESENTATION ON U.S. [...] (U) This is an action request: see paras 12, 18 and 24. ------------ INTRODUCTION ------------ 2. (SBU) Senior Department of Defense representative Andrew Weber (Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs) visited The Hague November 30 - D [...] | 2009-12-22 15:40:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL OPCW CWC |
09THEHAGUE768 | CWC: TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT PLANS FOR EXPERTS [...] (C) On December 22, Delreps met with senior Technical Secretariat (TS) officials to discuss plans for the trilateral meeting with Iraqi and U.S. experts January 12-13, 2010, on the status of the Iraqi chemical weapons bunkers (reftel). Senior TS staff had met with the Director-General (DG) an [...] | 2009-12-23 16:25:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL OPCW CWC IZ |
09THEHAGUE78 | NETHERLANDS: RENEWING OUR STRATEGIC ALLIANCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Through high level visitors and expanded Mission outreach in 2009, we have perhaps the opportunity of a generation to re-invigorate our strategic partnership with the Dutch. End summary. 2. (SBU) The Need: The Dutch are one of our closest allies in Europe; we work together o [...] | 2009-02-03 14:14:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON NL |
09THEHAGUE79 | Iraq phantom haunts Dutch government [...] (SBU) Summary: Long resistant to calls for a parliamentary inquiry into the Dutch government's support for the U.S. intervention in Iraq, Prime Minister Balkenende surprisingly proposed the establishment of an independent investigation by a blue-ribbon panel on February 2. This will buy time [...] | 2009-02-03 16:33:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV NL |
09THEHAGUE86 | NETHERLANDS/IRAQ: HUMAN RIGHTS AND BUSINESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch are promoting human rights and business in Iraq. The Dutch MFA has been affected by the parliamentary discussion of the Netherlands' response to the Iraq war. End summary. 2. (C) On February 3, Herman Quarles van Ufford, Director of the MFA's Gulf State Division, dis [...] | 2009-02-09 10:09:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PHUM NL IR |
09THEHAGUE87 | NETHERLANDS/IRAN: PHILIPS NOT ACTIVE IN IRAN'S ENERGY [...] (U) This cable contains proprietary company information. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: In response to questions regarding its possible licensing of LNG technology to Iran, Royal Philips Electronics emphasized that it has no activities whatsoever in the LNG field, especiall [...] | 2009-02-09 10:43:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ETTC ETRD PREL NL IR |
09THEHAGUE88 | CWC: SCENE-SETTER FOR OPCW EXECUTIVE COUNCIL [...] (SBU) With few scheduled meetings the past few weeks, OPCW has been buzzing with corridor conversations on the aftermath of the Conference of the States Parties (CSP) in December and whether Iran will request a special session of the Conference, and on potential candidates for the office of Di [...] | 2009-02-09 15:42:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE91 | NETHERLANDS/IRAN: DUTCH ASSESSMENT FROM TEHRAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: A senior Dutch official posted to Tehran emphasized that the regime is still seeking nuclear weapons, is increasing oppression, and is facing pressure due to a sagging economy. The diplomat offered suggestions for U.S. diplomacy and intelligence work, and he described the diffic [...] | 2009-02-11 14:48:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PREL ECON PARM KNNP PINR IR NL |
09THEHAGUE92 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: GETTING TO YES POST-2010 [...] (S) SUMMARY: Dutch plans for Afghanistan post-2010 are evolving. Many in Parliament and the public think the Dutch should withdraw completely in 2010 since their forces have been on the ground with the U.S. since December 2001. Despite confidence in their own efforts, the Dutch perceive there is no [...] | 2009-02-11 14:57:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PGOV PREL NATO AF NL |
09THEHAGUE93 | CWC: CWC: WRAP-UP FOR FEBRUARY 2-9, 2009 [...] (SBU) As delegations prepared for the upcoming marathon of meetings -- the Industry Cluster February 10, the experts' meeting on the Scientific Advisory Board report February 11-13, and the Executive Council (EC-55) February 17-20 -- conversations in at OPCW swirled around the search for a ne [...] | 2009-02-11 15:32:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC |
09THEHAGUE94 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] (C) Summary: On February 10, State representatives met bilaterally with Russian MFA (Rozhkov) and then trilaterally with Netherlands MFA (van der Kwast) to discuss the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) Fifth Plenary Meeting scheduled for June 16-17, 2009 in The Hague. It [...] | 2009-02-12 07:25:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PTER KGIC RS NL |
09THEHAGUE99 | CWC: INDUSTRY CLUSTER MEETINGS, FEBRUARY 10, 2009 [...] (U) SUMMARY: Discussions during the two Industry Cluster meetings on February 10 continued from those held in November 2008 (ref A) with little movement on the two issues on the agenda, enhancements to declarations for Other Chemical Production Facilities (OCPFs) and low concentrations for S [...] | 2009-02-16 13:14:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
09THESSALONIKI1 | NOTHERN NOTES DECEMBER 2008 [...] (U) Riots sparked by the fatal police shooting of a 15-year-old schoolboy in Athens damaged over 100 downtown Thessaloniki businesses, including a about 20 banks. Ref A.) Some businesses, including a Starbucks, a Benetton and several banks, were completely destroyed. Anarchists and other an [...] | 2009-01-08 10:44:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINT PGOV PREL PTER SMIG SOCI GR |
09THESSALONIKI12 | THESSALONIKI: INVITATION TO TRANSBORDER COOPERATION [...] ConGen Thessaloniki is pleased to announce a training seminar for southeast European police officers and prosecutors on "Trans-border Law Enforcement Cooperation to Combat Cyber Crime" in the northern Greek border city of Drama on June 1-4, 2009. ConGen Thessaloniki is organizing the seminar [...] | 2009-03-16 19:56:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON ECPS SMIG SNAR SOCI GR TU |
09THESSALONIKI16 | THESSALONIKI: NORTHERN NOTES - MARCH 2009 [...] (U) On March 9, the President of the Exporters Association of Northern Greece Vassilis Thomaidis stated that local businesses have implemented reduced work hours in order to avoid substantial lay-offs. On March 17, Alumil S.A. President Giorgos Milonas announced that employees in his company [...] | 2009-04-04 13:37:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG SNAR SOCI GR TU MK |
09THESSALONIKI17 | THESSALONIKI: PROPOSAL FOR BALKAN - EASTERN MED [...] SUMMARY: The Thessaloniki-based Balkan Environment Center would like to initiate cooperation on water management and renewable energy with the northern Israel-based Galilee Society, beginning with a video-teleconference discussion with scientists from both organizations on Earth Day, April 22. [...] | 2009-04-08 20:31:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG SENV PGOV PREL IS GR |
09THESSALONIKI18 | THESSALONIKI: BOMBS IN CHURCHES FAIL TO DETONATE BUT RAISE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An anarchist group claimed responsibility for planting three explosive devices with timing mechanisms in two of Thessaloniki's most well-known churches on April 9. Tipped off by an anonymous caller, police found the devices before they had detonated. One of the devices caused [...] | 2009-04-10 17:45:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC GR |
09THESSALONIKI23 | THESSALONIKI: SUBWAY CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES NEAR OLD JEWISH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During an April 1 visit to Thessaloniki, Ambassador J. Christian Kennedy, Special Envoy for the Office of Holocaust Issues, visited a subway construction site at the edge of the old Jewish cemetery that has attracted the attention of American and European Rabbis. The head of met [...] | 2009-04-16 05:52:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM GR |
09THESSALONIKI24 | THESSALONIKI: GREECE IMPLEMENTING PROMISED MEASURES FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Greek Government continues to implement several measures it announced in February 2007 (Ref A) aimed at addressing concerns of the Turkophone Muslim minority in Thrace, northeastern Greece. While the GoG has made progress in hiring imams and cancelling taxes on Musli [...] | 2009-04-27 10:16:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI GR TU |
09THESSALONIKI27 | NORTHERN NOTES - APRIL 2009 [...] (U) On April 1, the Thessaloniki Port Authority announced the cancellation of an earlier tender for the privatization of the port's Cargo Station. The decision followed weeks of deliberations on how to proceed, after the winning bidder Hutchison Whampoa withdrew its bid which was valued [...] | 2009-05-08 07:29:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG SNAR SOCI GR TU |
09THESSALONIKI29 | NORTHERN NOTES MAY 2009 [...] (U) On May 05, local media reported that the port of Thessaloniki's international role is gradually diminishing. Media stated that in the first quarter of 2009, only 8% of the containers handled by the Cargo Station were in transit for other countries, compared to 19% the year before. How [...] | 2009-06-10 20:41:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG SNAR SOCI GR |
09THESSALONIKI30 | THESSALONIKI: STRENGTHENING BALKAN COOPERATION ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post's fourth annual regional seminar on Trans-border Law Enforcement Cooperation, which focused this year on Cyber crime, confirmed strong regional interest in tackling Balkan transnational crime. Police and prosecutors from Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Gre [...] | 2009-06-30 15:35:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON ECPS SMIG SNAR SOCI GR TU |
09THESSALONIKI31 | NORTHERN NOTES [...] (SBU)In the June Euro-parliament elections, the governing center-right New Democracy party suffered its biggest losses ever in the traditional stronghold of northern Greece, declining by more than 10% since the last Euro-elections of 2004. Commentators attributed the result to rising popularit [...] | 2009-07-02 12:42:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL SMIG SNAR SOCI GR |
09THESSALONIKI33 | THESSALONIKI: HOW NORTHERN GREECE CAN CONTRIBUTE TO BALKAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Location, history, infrastructure, economy and multi-ethnic character make northern Greece a natural engine and source of ideas for Balkan stability and prosperity. Unfortunately, inertia, corruption and lack of leadership have sometimes made Greek Macedonia seem like mo [...] | 2009-07-27 14:20:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON GR TU |
09THESSALONIKI34 | NORTHERN NOTES - JULY 2009 [...] (SBU) On July 29, local media reported the arrest of a Greek Muslim on charges of espionage for Turkey. The arrested man, who comes from Thrace, was allegedly approached by two Turkish people who were unknown to him and asked to photograph Greek military installations alongside a series of [...] | 2009-08-05 06:02:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL SMIG SNAR SOCI GR TU |
09THESSALONIKI36 | ANTI-TANK ROCKETS FOUND BURIED OUTSIDE THESSALONIKI [...] (SBU) On Wednesday, 02 September 2009 at 13:30 hours, eight U.S. anti-tank rockets were discovered buried in the mountains of Nea Vrasna in the Northern Greek prefecture of Thessaloniki by the Special Financial Investigation Service (YPEE) regional headquarters for Northern Greece. The rocket [...] | 2009-09-04 14:06:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ASEC KCRM GR |
09THESSALONIKI4 | NORTHERN NOTES - JANUARY 2009 [...] Since January 20, farmers around Greece have kept national roads blocked in protest against the low prices they receive for their produce and their high production costs. In Northern Greece, farmers have also blocked the borders with Bulgaria and Turkey. Their actions infuriated truck dr [...] | 2009-02-05 13:29:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EIND ODIP OPRC PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR |
09THESSALONIKI41 | NORTHERN NOTES - SEPTEMBER 2009 [...] (U) The following summary of last month's major developments in Northern Greece contains items on the following topics: Political: o Muslim Election Campaign Dynamics in Thrace o Poll Data on Importance of Macedonia Name Issue o Eastern Macedonia and Thrace SecGen Hosts Ifta [...] | 2009-10-15 09:19:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SMIG SNAR ECON KCRM GR TU |
09THESSALONIKI45 | THRACE COURT REJECTS "TURKISH UNION OF XANTHI'S" APPEAL FOR [...] (U) On 30 September, the Appeals Court in Thrace rejected an application by local Muslim community organization "Turkish Union of Xanthi" to reverse earlier decisions by national courts prohibiting it from being recognized and registered under that name. The Union's appeal was based on a 27 M [...] | 2009-10-21 12:08:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI GR TU |
09THESSALONIKI46 | BUS HIJACKING INTENATIONAL SEMINAR IN THESSALONIKI [...] (SBU) From September 28 through October 2, 2009 Greek police authorities conducted an international bus-jacking seminar at their new police training center in the northern Greece city of Veria (36 miles west of Thessaloniki.) The seminar was organized by the Greek police and was conducted for [...] | 2009-11-06 15:29:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ASEC KCRM GR |
09THESSALONIKI47 | NORTHERN NOTES OCTOBER 2009 [...] (U) Winner of this month's Greek national election PASOK (Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement) made substantial gains in traditionally conservative Northern Greece, too. In Thrace, the two current Muslim MPs were re-elected with PASOK, while the decision by the far-right LAOS leader Georgios K [...] | 2009-11-06 16:13:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL SMIG SNAR SOCI GR |
09THESSALONIKI52 | NOMINATION: THE 2010 SECRETARY'S AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-11-30 17:19:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN KPAO PREL PHUM GR |
09THESSALONIKI54 | NEW INTERIOR DEPMIN TO FOCUS ON LEGAL IMMIGRATION AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: New Interior DepMin Tzakri expects to be given national policy responsibility for integration of immigrants as well as regional responsibility for legal immigration, implementation of new decentralization initiatives, and general administration. Her role and duties will be def [...] | 2009-12-01 15:00:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SMIG PINR PHUM CACS SOCI GR |
09THESSALONIKI57 | NORTHERN NOTES -- NOVEMBER 2009 [...] (U) The following summary of last month's major developments in Northern Greece contains items on the following topics: Political: o Local Reactions to New Opposition Leader Samaras o Papandreou Hosts Trilateral Environmental Meeting o Rainbow Party Opens Second Office o [...] | 2009-12-29 15:28:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER SMIG SNAR ECON KCRM GR TU |
09THESSALONIKI8 | THESSALONIKI: HEAVY AMMUNITION FOUND IN JUNKYARD NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Police and military officials report that two anti-tank missiles and five mortars found in an illegal landfill in Thrace, northern Greece on February 26 had been stolen from a northern Greek military storage facility installation on the border with Turkey in November 2008. [...] | 2009-03-02 14:16:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL PTER GR |
09THESSALONIKI9 | NORTHERN NOTES - FEBRUARY 2009 [...] (SBU) In Komotini, a Muslim woman challenged successfully a decision by the local mufti to give custody of two of her four children to her husband, reportedly an alcoholic suffering from psychological problems. On February 18, the Greek first instance Court of Rhodopi gave the woman custody [...] | 2009-03-05 15:35:00 | Consulate Thessaloniki | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ODIP OPRC PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG SOCI GR TU |
09TIJUANA883 | REPORT FROM LA FRONTERA: BORDER PATROL'S BATTLES WITH [...] (U) SUMMARY: Migrant and drug trafficking patterns along the Mexico-U.S. border vary from sector to sector and are difficult to pin down because the routes and tactics used by traffickers are in constant flux. Most traffickers prefer to avoid confrontation with U.S. law enforcement, and the ab [...] | 2009-08-22 00:24:00 | Consulate Tijuana | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI KCRM PREL MX |
09TILISI1526 | GEORGIA: NATIONAL FORUM - QUIETLY BECOMING A PLAYER [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-11 11:46:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL GG |
09TIRANA104 | Embassy Tirana Weekly Report [...] The Financial Crimes Task Force of the Tirana Prosecutor's Office has concluded the investigation of a major property related fraud case that involved the illicit transfer of land titles to a major Albanian builder. The list of those charged includes the Head of Property Restitution Commissio [...] | 2009-02-17 14:51:00 | Embassy Tirana | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ENRG EFIN PREL PHUM KCRM KCOR AL |
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