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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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06PARIS7109 | FRANCE: WHA DAS MADISON DISCUSSES CUBA [...] (C) Summary: In October 18-19 meetings with WHA DAS Kirsten Madison, MFA A/S-equivalent for WHA affairs Parfait agreed that Cuba was likely entering a period of transition and needed international support in evolving toward democratic governance, while cautioning against interference in Cuban [...] | 2006-10-30 13:10:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CU FR NU VE EAID ETTC PHUM PREL |
06PARIS7118 | ISRAELI DIPLOMAT THINKS WORST IS OVER ON [...] (S) Summary: The Israeli PolCouns told us 10/26 that "the worst is over" in terms of the public spat between France and Israel regarding overflights of Lebanon. The Israeli MFA has advised the Israeli Air Force to "cool it," and the French have assured the GoI that UNIFIL's commander will soon [...] | 2006-10-30 15:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IS LE PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7139 | MINISTER CONVOKES AMBASSADOR OVER COTE D'IVOIRE [...] (C) Summary: Cabinet Minister Girardin convoked the Ambassador October 31 to urge U.S. support for the French draft Security Council resolution on Cote d'Ivoire, pleading that France was in a very difficult situation. After taking into account core U.S. objections, the draft now represented [...] | 2006-10-31 14:20:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC IV FR KPKO |
06PARIS715 | EMBASSY PARIS SUBMISSION TO THE 2005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMON DEFENSE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-03 07:04:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | FR MARR MCAP PREL |
06PARIS7151 | FRANCE SUPPORTS STRONG ENFORCEMENT OF UNSCR 1718 [...] (C) Poloff delivered Under Secretary's letter (reftel) October 30 to Benoit Guidee, IO office director-equivalent at the MFA. Guidee reiterated France's "total solidarity" with the U.S. and agreed that the U.N. Security Council must maintain a firm stance on the North Korean nuclear tests. The [...] | 2006-10-31 17:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL PHSA EWWT EAIR PBTS FR KN |
06PARIS7153 | TOGO: GILCHRIST OLYMPIO'S OCTOBER 23 MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: UFC leader Gilchrist Olympio on October 23 told visiting U.S. Ambassador to Togo David Dunn that the UFC would be willing to participate in Togo's government of national unity under certain conditions, such as naming a UFC member to head a notional new ministry charged with over [...] | 2006-11-02 07:35:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR TO FR |
06PARIS7177 | FRANCE SEES POST-DEBY CHAD APPROACHING [...] (C) Summary: President Chirac's African Affairs Counselor Michel de Bonnecorse admitted to visiting U.S. Ambassador to Chad Marc Wall in an October 20 meeting that Deby's Presidency could be nearing its close, with assassination a growing possibility. The manner and place of Deby's demise - [...] | 2006-11-02 14:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR KPKO SU CD FR |
06PARIS718 | EMBASSY PARIS SUBMISSION TO THE 2005/2006 REPORT [...] (U) Summary: This telegram constitutes Embassy Paris's country submission for the 2005/2006 Report to Congress on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense (requested Ref A). We report on developments that took place during calendar years 2004 and 2005 and offer cost sharing information fo [...] | 2006-02-03 10:20:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MCAP FR |
06PARIS7182 | TOGO: FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR'S OCTOBER 26 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential Africa Advisor Michel de Bonnecorse on October 26 said that the recently announced Togolese government was a "reasonable formula," in a meeting with transiting Ambassador David Dunn. He characterized Gilchrist Olympio, his UFC associates, and other non-participant [...] | 2006-11-03 07:21:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR TO FR |
06PARIS719 | EMBASSY PARIS SUBMISSION TO THE 2005/2006 REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-03 10:20:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MCAP FR |
06PARIS720 | EMBASSY PARIS SUBMISSION TO THE 2005/2006 REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-03 10:20:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MCAP FR |
06PARIS7200 | TOGO/FRENCH MFA: AMBASSADOR DUNN'S OCTOBER 24 [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 24 meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Togo David Dunn, MFA DAS-equivalent Bruno Foucher said that Togo was evolving well. He complained that German caution was impeding the unblocking of EU funding for Togo; resuming economic assistance rapidly would help prevent To [...] | 2006-11-03 13:42:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR TO FR |
06PARIS7201 | PRESIDENT CHIRAC'S VISIT TO CHINA-STRENGTHENING THE [...] (SBU) French President Jacques Chirac's most recent four-day visit to China on October 25th through the 28th was notable due to the signing of trade deals worth approximately 5 billion euro and for his personal efforts to improve Franco-Chinese political ties. 2. (U) "Never have we been s [...] | 2006-11-03 13:45:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EIND EINV ELAB PREL PGOV FR CH |
06PARIS7202 | TOGO/FRENCH MOD: AMBASSADOR DUNN'S OCTOBER 24 [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. Ambassador to Togo David Dunn met with French Ministry of Defense officials on August 24. The discussion focused on Togo's military and how to decrease its involvement in internal security affairs, which should be handled by the police and gendarmerie. However, defining a [...] | 2006-11-03 13:47:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MARR TO FR |
06PARIS7211 | "WE'RE STUCK": FRENCH GLUM ON LEBANON, [...] (S) Summary: In an Oct. 31 meeting with NEA DAS Scott Carpenter, MFA A/S-equivalent for the Middle East and North Africa Jean Felix-Pagagnon said FM Douste-Blazy was unlikely to attend the November 30 session of the Forum For the Future in Jordan. Felix-Pagagnon went on to offer a remarkably [...] | 2006-11-03 16:22:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR KDEM PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7213 | MEDIA WRAP-UP: IRAQ AND U.S. MID-TERM ELECTIONS, NATO'S [...] (SBU) Speculation about the upcoming U.S. mid-term elections and the impact of the war in Iraq elicited widespread conjecture about the prospects for a new U.S. strategy for Iraq. President Talabani's visit to Paris prompted additional discussion of the need for international support for his c [...] | 2006-11-03 16:37:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO OPRC FR |
06PARIS7228 | CHINA AND CHINESE TAIPEI AT THE OECD: RAISING THE BAR? [...] (SBU) Summary and action request: China and Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) continue to spar over Taiwan's participation, as a non-member, in the work of the OECD -- work for which statehood is not a requirement. In recent developments, Chinese Taipei has applied to participate in the activities of t [...] | 2006-11-06 13:48:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL SENV EU CH TW OECD FR |
06PARIS7242 | MFA POLICY PLANNER SEES YEARS OF VIOLENCE AHEAD IN [...] (C) Christian Nakhle, head of the Middle East and North Africa cell at the Centre d'Analyse et de Prevision (i.e., the "CAP," the Quai's S/P-equivalent),shared his views of Lebanon and Iraq with NEA Watcher on 11/3. Nakhle, whose analyses are distributed within the MFA but do not constitute [...] | 2006-11-06 16:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR KDEM PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7243 | UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) In a November 3 meeting, Aurelia Bouchez, MFA DAS equivalent for Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, expressed general support for the U.S.-led UNGA resolution on the human rights situation in Uzbekistan. Bouchez expressed surprise, however, that the U.S. had already sent a demarche t [...] | 2006-11-06 16:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KTIA UN FR |
06PARIS7251 | DAILY NEWSPAPERS: FIRST IN A SERIES ON THE FRENCH MEDIA [...] (SBU) Embassy Paris has been reviewing and recalibrating its media strategy for the 2006-2007 to determine the appropriate attention to keep on traditional print media while pivoting to expand our efforts with radio and TV media, as well as with the new Internet media. This analysis of French [...] | 2006-11-06 16:40:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO OPRC FR |
06PARIS7266 | DEMARCHE ON DISRUPTION OF CHISINAU-MOSCOW RAIL [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel November 3 to Aurelia Bouchez, MFA DAS-equivalent for Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. Bouchez commented that the suspension of the Chisinau rail link came as a surprise to France, which had expected Russia to avoid provocations on Transnistria in order to d [...] | 2006-11-07 14:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ELTN RS MD UP FR |
06PARIS7321 | EGYPTIAN EMBASSY OFFICIAL: NABIH BERRI IS A JOKE, [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Paris NEA Watcher met 11/7 with his Egyptian counterpart, Yahya Oda, and 11/8 with Lebanese Charge d'Affaires Ghady al-Khoury (protect),to discuss political developments in Lebanon. While Oda predicted the current dialogue between the March 14 Group and Hizballah/Aounist [...] | 2006-11-09 11:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7322 | FRENCH PRESIDENCY VIEWS ON IRAQ, LEBANON, AND [...] (C) Summary: A/DCM met 11/8 with Dominique Boche, President Chirac's foreign policy advisor for the Middle East and North Africa and received a short readout of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's visit to France November 1-2. Boche noted that Talabani did not raise France's long-standing offer t [...] | 2006-11-09 11:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IZ KDEM PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7328 | MEDIA WRAP-UP: IRAQ AND U.S. MID-TERM ELECTIONS, VERDICT [...] (SBU) Debate over the impact of the war in Iraq continued to fuel widespread speculation prior to November 7 about a "lame duck presidency," while most commentary on the results concluded that the vote had "punished" President Bush's Iraq policy. Journalists analyzed the verdict in the Saddam [...] | 2006-11-09 13:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO OPRC FR |
06PARIS7335 | TOGO: MEETING WITH ERIC AMERDING (UFC) [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Senior UFC member Eric Amerding on November 8 said that he had discussed Togo with EU Commission members on November 7, in response to an EU request for UFC views on developments in Togo. Amerding told the EU representatives that the Faure regime was not acting in [...] | 2006-11-09 16:08:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR TO FR |
06PARIS7337 | FRANCE/GAERC: GOF MAD ON LEBANON; SKEPTICAL ON [...] (U) We shared reftel points November 7 with MFA DAS-equivalent for the Middle East Herve Besancenot, DAS-equivalent for Iran Franck Gellet, DAS-equivalent for Nonproliferation (Iran) Philippe Errera and Deputy David Bertolotti, and DAS-equivalent for CFSP Emmanuel Cohet. Separately, we raised [...] | 2006-11-09 16:22:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EUN PGOV PHUM UNAUS YI SR BK CG IS |
06PARIS7340 | FRENCH AGREE ON IMPORTANCE OF SUPPORTING REFORM [...] (C) French DAS-equivalent for Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, Aurelia Bouchez, confirmed on November 3 that France would continue strongly to support reform efforts in the Ukraine, particularly in the defense field. Bouchez noted that although France in theory was in favor of a NATO m [...] | 2006-11-09 16:54:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS UP FR |
06PARIS7358 | CSTD PARIS PANEL MEETING ON WSIS OUTCOME PRODUCES GUIDANCE [...] (U) Summary: The November 6-8, 2006 Paris Panel Meeting of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) Panel Meeting on WSIS outcome "Promoting the building of people-centered, development-oriented, and inclusive information society, with a view to enhancing digital oppo [...] | 2006-11-13 16:27:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS TINT KWWW PREL FR |
06PARIS7364 | FRANCE/SUDAN SANCTIONS: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION [...] (C) MFA AF DAS-Equivalent Helene Le Gal provided the following biographical information to Africa Watcher on Khalil Ibrahim, the leader of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) (Ref A). Le Gal confirmed on November 7 that Ibrahim remains in France, where he has been unable to renew his tr [...] | 2006-11-14 10:21:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR PTER PINS CD SU FR |
06PARIS738 | S/CRS DELEGATION FINDS FRENCH IN LISTENING MODE [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: French interlocutors were in active listening mode during 24-25 January briefings by Acting Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) Marcia Wong and NSC Director for Stabilization Clint Williamson. Wong and Williamson invited feedback on the non-pa [...] | 2006-02-03 14:41:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL UNGA CT FR |
06PARIS7393 | COTE D'IVOIRE/FRANCE: INVESTIGATION OF NOVEMBER [...] (C) SUMMARY: France's judicial investigation of the November 6, 2004, bombing of French forces in Cote d'Ivoire by the Ivoirian Air Force may be drawing to a close, according to recent developments reported by the press. Nine French military personnel and an Amcit civilian were killed in t [...] | 2006-11-15 15:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MOPS IV TO BO RS UP FR |
06PARIS7394 | ARMS TRADE TREATY: FRANCE VIEWS IT AS A GOOD [...] (C) Summary: In an informal discussion, an MFA DAS-equivalent contact expressed qualified support for the international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT),even though France believes such a treaty, to be acceptable to all, would be initially weaker than the strong export control regimes already in place [...] | 2006-11-15 15:26:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EIND ETTC KTIA FR |
06PARIS741 | TOGO: EX-MINISTER BOKO DISCUSSES RECENT EVENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Togo's former Interior Minister Francois Boko on January 31 discussed Togo-Cote d'Ivoire arms trafficking (planes piloted by Belarusian mercenaries were involved in the November 2004 bombings in Cote d'Ivoire and had transited Togo, but France did not pursue information Boko says [...] | 2006-02-03 15:36:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MARR PINR TO FR |
06PARIS7417 | FRENCH HOPEFUL ON NABIH BERRI, CAUTIOUS ON [...] (C) On November 15, Damien Loras, Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy's cabinet advisor on the Middle East, said the Quai d'Orsay was encouraged by Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri's role in trying to bridge the gap between Hizballah and the March 14 forces. Loras conceded that the resignati [...] | 2006-11-16 16:35:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7419 | FRENCH RESPONSES TO SUPPORT REQUESTS FOR COUNTRY [...] (C) On November 9 Poloff delivered demarches seeking French support for defeating any procedural moves that could prevent voting on the substance of any resolution before the Third Committee, and defeating retaliatory resolutions brought by Iran and Belarus against Canada and the United State [...] | 2006-11-17 05:05:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC CA FR IR BM KN BO UZ |
06PARIS7422 | FRENCH ENERGY BILL PRIVATIZES GDF, FREEZES ELECTRICITY AND [...] (SBU) On November 14, the European Commission announced that the French energy conglomerate Suez and the 70 percent GOF-owned Gaz de France (GDF) had satisfied concerns about the proposed merger's impact on competition after the two firms promised to sell off some prime assets in Belgium. GDF [...] | 2006-11-17 11:53:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EIND EINV ELAB PREL PGOV FR |
06PARIS7425 | FRANCE: PARIS AIRPORT SECURITY UNDER INCREASING [...] (U) Airport security has come in for increasing public scrutiny with the airing by the Euronews network November 15 of a September videotape purporting to show holes in security arrangements at Paris' Charles De Gaulle airport (CDG). The footage demonstrated how cleared airport baggage handle [...] | 2006-11-17 14:45:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PTER PREL KHLS FR |
06PARIS7435 | MFA ADVISOR WORRIED ABOUT BULGARIAN NURSES, ASKS [...] (C) Francois Touazi, FM Douste-Blazy's Advisor for the Persian Gulf and North Africa, told NEA Watcher November 16 that he was seriously concerned about the outcome of the re-trial of the Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor accused of deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV (some t [...] | 2006-11-17 16:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR LY PGOV PREL |
06PARIS7436 | FRENCH MOD COORDINATOR FOR MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) Summary: Vice-Admiral Jean-Marie Van Huffel, France's Coordinator for Military Assistance to Lebanon, told Emboffs November 17 that he looks forward to cooperating with the USG on meeting the equipment needs of the Lebanese Armed Forces. He spoke highly of his Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) c [...] | 2006-11-17 16:06:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR KDEM LE MARR PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7437 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NOVEMBER 17 EMERGENCY SPECIAL [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA action officers for Middle East UN issues Nicolas Kassianides and Selena Grenet on November 17. Grenet noted that -- due to the opposition of the UK and Germany -- the EU had been unable to come to a common position with respect to the text referred [...] | 2006-11-17 16:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IS PREL UNGA |
06PARIS7439 | MEDIA WRAP-UP: U.S. MID-TERM ELECTIONS/ MIDDLE EAST [...] (SBU) The U.S. mid-term election results fueled speculation about a possible shift in U.S. Middle East policy beyond Iraq. Commentators used the occasion of the Israeli Prime Minister's visit to Washington and the Beit Hanoun incident to discuss Washington's support to Israel in the context of [...] | 2006-11-17 16:38:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO OPRC FR |
06PARIS744 | ISRAELI IO A/S OUTLINES MULTILATERAL PRIORITIES, [...] (C) Summary: Israeli MFA IO A/S-Equivalent Aharon Leshno Yaar briefed Political Minister-Counselor January 26 on his meetings with French counterparts, stressing his warning to the GoF against new initiatives on Shebaa farms. Yaar confided Israel was also interested in organizing a new coor [...] | 2006-02-03 16:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM IZ FR |
06PARIS7445 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DRAFT IRAQ UNSCR TEXT [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on November 17 to Nicolas Kassianides, MFA action officer for UN Middle East issues. Kassianides said that France wanted to be helpful, and that the MFA agreed "almost fully" with the draft text. He noted that the French Mission to the UN had already sugge [...] | 2006-11-17 16:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IZ PARM PREL |
06PARIS7481 | REQUEST FOR PERMISSION TO MEET WITH PLO REP HIND [...] (U) This is an action request; see para 3. 2. (S) During a November 20 conversation with Ambassador Stapleton, French Senator Aymeri de Montesquiou offered to host a lunch for the Ambassador and Ms. Hind Al-Khoury, the PLO General Representative to Paris. Montesquiou argued forcefully that [...] | 2006-11-21 14:11:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR KPAL PREL |
06PARIS7482 | FRANCE: DEMARCHE IN ADVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche November 16 to Eric Berder, Ministry of Transportation Deputy Director for Maritime Safety. Berder noted that the EU had developed a common position on the issue, to which France adhered. They viewed the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and th [...] | 2006-11-21 14:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA EWWT ANET AORC PREL ECPS FR |
06PARIS7483 | URBAN VIOLENCE TAKES A DOWNTURN; POLICE [...] (C) Summary: Violence in France's suburban ghettos, perpetrated primarily by marginalized and underprivileged youth (often but not exclusively of Muslim origin),continues to simmer despite the current calm. A recent downturn in violence appears attributable to widespread shock and horror fol [...] | 2006-11-21 14:30:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER FR |
06PARIS7484 | TRANSNISTRIA: GOF AGREES IN SUBSTANCE ON PCE, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Aurelia Bouchez, DAS-equivalent for Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, explained on November 17 that France did not disagree in substance about the need for a multilateral peacekeeping mission in Transnistria, but was doubtful that the Russians would easily be convinced. She [...] | 2006-11-21 14:30:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE EUN PREL MD RS UP FR |
06PARIS7485 | URBAN VIOLENCE TAKES A DOWNTURN; POLICE [...] (C) Summary: Violence in France's suburban ghettos, perpetrated primarily by marginalized and underprivileged youth (often but not exclusively of Muslim origin),continues to simmer despite the current calm. A recent downturn in violence appears attributable to widespread shock and horror fol [...] | 2006-11-21 14:51:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER FR |
06PARIS7486 | TRANSNISTRIA: GOF AGREES IN SUBSTANCE ON PCE, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Aurelia Bouchez, DAS-equivalent for Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, explained on November 17 that France did not disagree in substance about the need for a multilateral peacekeeping mission in Transnistria, but was doubtful that the Russians would easily be convinced. She [...] | 2006-11-21 15:10:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE EUN PREL MD RS UP FR |
06PARIS7490 | FRANCE: DEMARCHE IN ADVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche November 16 to Eric Berder, Ministry of Transportation Deputy Director for Maritime Safety. Berder noted that the EU had developed a common position on the issue, to which France adhered. They viewed the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and th [...] | 2006-11-21 15:11:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA EWWT ANET AORC PREL ECPS FR |
06PARIS7493 | FORMER SUDANESE FM ISMAIL ASSURES SUDAN ENVOY THAT [...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy for Sudan Andrew Natsios met with Bashir presidential advisor and former Sudanese FM Mustafa Osman Ismail in Paris on November 18. Natsios, who arrived from the Addis Ababa consultations on Darfur, sought an unambiguous public statement of GoS support for the Addis [...] | 2006-11-21 16:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPKO FR SU |
06PARIS7507 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MEETING ON SPAIN'S MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on November 22 to Herve Besancenot, MFA DAS equivalent for the Levant. In response, Besancenot made the following three points: First, the isolation of the Hamas-led PA government is radicalizing the Palestinian population; second, a continuation of the st [...] | 2006-11-22 13:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IS LE PGOV PREL SP SY |
06PARIS7508 | APPROACHING FRANCE ON TURKEY-EU [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION RECOMMENDATION: Widespread public opposition to Turkish EU membership in the run-up to France's presidential elections severely limits the GOF's flexibility in dealing with the Turkey-Cyprus issue, notwithstanding Chirac's foreign policy prerogatives and his long-standi [...] | 2006-11-22 13:49:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EUN NATO TU CY UNO |
06PARIS7523 | ASMARA FACILITATION IS A NON-STARTER, SLM LEADER [...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy Andrew Natsios met SLM Abdulwahid El-Nur on October 18. Nur said he and the SLM felt shunted aside by the U.S. and appealed for a strategic alliance to end the genocide in Darfur. SE Natsios emphasized the need to unify Darfur rebel factions and bring DPA non-sig [...] | 2006-11-24 11:23:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR ER SU FR |
06PARIS7534 | MEDIA WRAP-UP: SYRIA AND IRAN IN MIDDLE-EAST POWER PLAY, [...] (SBU) The media speculated at great length about Syria's role in the assassination of Lebanese Pierre Gemayel and on its broader agenda in the Middle East. By November 24, right-of-center Le Figaro warned that "Washington would pay dearly for Iraq when it turned to Tehran and Damascus to help [...] | 2006-11-24 15:41:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO OPRC FR |
06PARIS754 | CONTROVERSY OVER MUHAMMAD CARICATURES CONTINUES IN [...] (C) Summary: France has joined Denmark, but to a lesser degree, as a target of ire in Muslim countries following a French daily's February 1 publication of Danish-origin Muhammad caricatures (ref A),which have since appeared in other French media. Palestinian militants threw a grenade at the [...] | 2006-02-06 13:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL KPAL XF FR |
06PARIS7541 | FRENCH STRESS REGIONAL FALL-OUT OF DARFUR, PLEAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Special Envoy for Sudan Natsios and Ambassador Stapleton met on November 18 with French Presidential Africa Counselor Bonnecorse and MFA/AF A/S-Equivalent de Gliniasty Bonnecorse stressed French concern at the regional fallout of the Darfur catastrophe. The Sudanese program of [...] | 2006-11-27 08:17:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KPKO PINR CD CT SU FR |
06PARIS7548 | CHAD: FRENCH BELIEVE REBEL OFFENSIVE HAS RUNS ITS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA officials on November 27 said that the rebel offensive in Chad seemed to be subsiding after gains that peaked during the weekend. They believed that rebel elements were withdrawing eastward towards Sudan. President Deby, in contact with French officials in N'djamena, seeme [...] | 2006-11-27 15:13:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR MOPS PGOV PINS CD FR |
06PARIS7549 | RWANDA/FRANCE: "WE'RE BACK TO ZERO" [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-27 15:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR RW FR |
06PARIS7551 | HEAD OF AFGHAN SENATE CONDEMNS PAKISTAN DURING [...] (C) Summary: In private meetings at the French Senate and MFA November 14-16, head of the Afghan Senate Sibghatullah Mujaddedi had only one aim: forcefully and obsessively to denounce alleged Pakistani support of Taliban insurgents and to call for international condemnation of Pakistan. The [...] | 2006-11-27 16:03:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV FR AF PK |
06PARIS7575 | FRANCE: AIR TRANSPORT FOR AFGHANS TO HAJJ DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche November 22 to Nicole Taillefer, Head of the Energy, Transport and Infrastructure Department in the MFA's Economics Directorate. She was unaware of any Government of Afghanistan request for support in transportation of Hajjis, but said she would follow [...] | 2006-11-28 16:42:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID EAIR FR AF |
06PARIS7579 | GOF C/T COORDINATOR,S OVERVIEW OF TERRORISM THREAT [...] (S) Summary: Christophe Chaboud, the Ministry of Interior's counter-terrorism coordinating chief, told us on November 20 that GOF authorities remain extremely concerned about the threat of terrorism on French soil and are actively taking measures to combat current and future threats. Radical Islami [...] | 2006-11-29 11:08:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL FR |
06PARIS7586 | COTE D'IVOIRE: GOF UPSET OVER GBAGBO'S TAKE-OVER [...] (C) MFA Cote d'Ivoire desk officer Charlotte Montel on November 29 said that the GOF was extremely upset over Cote d'Ivoire President Gbagbo's recent actions that in effect represented a take-over of the RTI broadcasting station, Cote d'Ivoire's state-owned and principal radio and television [...] | 2006-11-29 15:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IV FR |
06PARIS762 | FRENCH PROPOSALS FOR AN EU ENERGY POLICY [...] (U) As part of an on-going EU debate on an integrated energy policy, France recently presented a memorandum highlighting the contribution of nuclear power to the security of supply and the fight against climate change. France also stressed the importance of energy-saving initiatives and grea [...] | 2006-02-06 15:36:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET SENV EIND EINV PREL PGOV FR |
06PARIS7635 | WEEKLY MAGAZINES: SECOND IN A SERIES ON FRENCH MEDIA [...] (SBU) Embassy Paris has been reviewing and recalibrating its media strategy for 2006-2007, in order to maintain the appropriate level of focus of print media while building on our contacts with radio and TV media. This analysis of French weekly magazines is the second in a series of cables ana [...] | 2006-12-01 14:40:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC PREL KPAO FR |
06PARIS7636 | MEDIA WRAP-UP: NATO SUMMIT AND AFGHANISTAN; TURKEY--THE [...] (SBU) The NATO Summit in Riga and President Bush's support for a Global Partnership Initiative elicited commentary highlighting divergent French and American views, while discussion on Afghanistan illustrated the "urgent need to help NATO reverse the growing impression it was losing its grip." [...] | 2006-12-01 14:40:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC PREL KPAO FR |
06PARIS7641 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ESS REGISTER OF DAMAGES [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-01 17:52:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNGA FR IS |
06PARIS7642 | PARIS III UPDATE FROM JOUYET [...] (C) Summary: Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Chirac's Special Envoy for the Lebanon Donors' Conference (i.e., Paris III),told us on November 30 that he anticipates holding a Core Group meeting in Paris between January 8 and 10, prior to the conference on January 25. Chirac issued invitations on November [...] | 2006-12-04 05:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN FR KDEM LE PGOV PREL |
06PARIS7657 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PRESERVING THE DEMOCRATICALLY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-04 10:19:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7661 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IRAN'S FLAWED ELECTIONS [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche December 1 to Arnaud Pescheux, MFA desk officer for Iran. Pescheux agreed with our analysis of the circular nature of the Iranian system. He also agreed that the new Iranian elections would likely fail to meet international standards of fairness and openne [...] | 2006-12-04 12:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IR KDEM PGOV PREL |
06PARIS7666 | U/S OF DEFENSE FOR POLICY EDELMAN'S CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Senior French officials agreed with U/S of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman that significant progress had been made at the NATO Riga Summit. The GOF highlighted its recent decision to do more in Afghanistan by ensuring that its Tajikistan-based planes continue to support ISAF and [...] | 2006-12-05 08:47:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL MARR ECPS NATO AF FR |
06PARIS7668 | FRENCH MFA EVER MORE PESSIMISTIC ON LEBANON [...] (S) Summary: Damien Loras, Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy's cabinet advisor for the Middle East, told us December 4 that he was "quite pessimistic" about Lebanon's future and doubtful that PM Siniora's government would survive. Nevertheless, he said the MFA was not inclined at present to favor [...] | 2006-12-05 10:33:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR LE PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7680 | FRANCE'S CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL POSTPONES GDF [...] (SBU) On November 30, the French Constitutional Council indicated that the GOF energy bill was constitutional with two changes: 1) the Suez-Gaz de France (GDF) merger cannot legally take place before July 1, 2007, when GDF loses its monopoly to supply gas to private homes; 2) the GOF energy bi [...] | 2006-12-05 16:12:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EIND EINV ELAB PREL PGOV FR |
06PARIS7684 | DOD U/S EDELMAN'S DECEMBER 1 MEETING WITH CHIRAC'S [...] (S) Summary: In a December 1 meeting with DoD U/S Edelman devoted primarily to Syria/Lebanon, French NSA-equivalent Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) assessed that Syria was the weakest link in the Hizballah-Syria-Iran axis and wondered whether Israel could apply more pressure on Syria, a questi [...] | 2006-12-06 13:08:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR IS KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7698 | LEBANESE DIPLOMAT THINKS HIZBALLAH HAS THE UPPER [...] (C) SUMMARY: LEBANESE A/DCM GHADY EL-KHOURY TOLD US DECEMBER 6 HE BELIEVED HIZBALLAH HAD THE UPPER HAND IN THE CURRENT CRISIS IN LEBANON THANKS IN LARGE PART TO ITS DOMINATION OF LEBANON'S SHI'A COMMUNITY. EL-KHOURY ASSESSED THAT MANY LEBANESE SHIITES WITH NO LOVE OF NASRALLAH'S IDEOLOGY -- IN [...] | 2006-12-07 11:54:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7699 | DOD U/S FOR POLICY EDELMAN'S PARIS CONSULTATIONS: [...] (C) Summary: Senior French officials agreed with U/S of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman that significant progress had been made on Afghanistan at the NATO Riga Summit. The GOF highlighted its recent decisions to ensure that its Tajikistan-based planes continue to support ISAF and OEF through [...] | 2006-12-07 11:54:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL MARR ECPS NATO MNUC AF FR |
06PARIS7712 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PARTICIPATION IN DECEMBER UNSC [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points on December 7 to Salina Grenet, MFA IO action officer for the Middle East. Grenet said that Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy had not yet decided whether to attend the thematic meeting due to a scheduling conflict (he has another engagement in Asia); she hinted t [...] | 2006-12-07 17:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IS PREL UNSC |
06PARIS7714 | FRANCE PROPOSES INTELLIGENCE-SHARING CONTACT GROUP [...] Summary: (C) According to the MFA non-proliferatio officer, France shares the U.S.'s conviction that financial and transportation networks that facilitate North Korea's proliferation activities must be curbed. To that end, the GoF believes there is room for more coordination and intelligence [...] | 2006-12-08 09:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP PREL PGOV KN FR |
06PARIS7716 | NEA DAS GORDON GRAY'S DECEMBER 5 MEETING WITH MFA [...] (C) Summary: In a December 5 meeting with NEA DAS Gordon Gray, Franck Gellet, the MFA DAS-equivalent for the Persian Gulf, observed that the Gulf states were privately alarmed by Iran's nuclear ambitions, although their public discourse was not particularly helpful. He asked whether the U.S. h [...] | 2006-12-08 13:16:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR KDEM PGOV PREL |
06PARIS7727 | ISRAELI FM LIVNI'S DECEMBER 5-6 VISIT TO PARIS [...] (C) Summary: Israeli FM Livni had a fairly terse exchange with FM Douste-Blazy on the status of the Sheba Farms and the need for the Palestinians to explicitly accept the Quartet principles. Douste-Blazy, to the surprise of his MFA underlings, asked Livni to consider entering into secret talk [...] | 2006-12-08 15:57:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR IS LE PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7729 | MEDIA WRAP-UP: CHAVEZ RE-ELECTED, CASTRO FADES; FOREIGN [...] (SBU) The Chavez re-election and Raoul Castro's "gesture" towards Washington illustrated French views on Latin America's relationship with the U.S. during the first part of the week, while a fierce domestic debate raged about Socialist presidential candidate Royal's controversial trip to the Mi [...] | 2006-12-08 16:13:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC PREL KPAO FR |
06PARIS7731 | FRANCE/GAERC: AGREEMENT ON MOST ISSUES EXCEPT [...] (U) We shared refs A and B points December 5 with MFA CFSP Unit Deputy (DAS-equivalent) Emmanuel Cohet (all points),DAS-equivalent for industrial questions and sensitive exports Marc Abensour (China embargo),DAS-equivalent for the Levant Herve Besancenot (Israel-Palestinian conflict and Leb [...] | 2006-12-08 16:30:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EUN PGOV PHUM UN YI SR BK IS LE IR |
06PARIS7755 | A/S FRIED AND FRENCH NSA-EQUIVALENT [...] (S) SUMMARY: EUR A/S Dan Fried's December 7 meeting with presidential diplomatic advisor Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) focused largely on Russia, with France in a defensive posture. MGM raised the aborted Putin-Chirac dinner on the margins of the NATO Riga Summit, saying it had been instigated b [...] | 2006-12-12 13:05:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL FR EUN NATO RS UNO SR YI TU CY |
06PARIS7756 | AMBASSADOR GODEC'S DECEMBER 7 MEETINGS IN PARIS [...] (C) Summary: U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia Robert Godec held bilateral meetings on December 7 with Christian Testo, MFA DAS-equivalent for North Africa, and Jean-Pierre Filiu, Associate Professor at Sciences Po and former French DCM in Tunis. Testo and Filiu each described their Tunisian interlo [...] | 2006-12-12 13:43:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR KDEM PGOV PREL TS |
06PARIS7770 | A/S FRIED AND MFA POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON KOSOVO, RUSSIA, [...] (C) Summary: A/S Fried and MFA Political Director Araud on December 6 discussed whether Russia would wield a veto at the UNSC to thwart Kosovar independence. Araud called for a resolution that would facilitate a Russian abstention. A/S Fried agreed, but insisted there must be a common diplomat [...] | 2006-12-12 17:04:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM RU TU SR FR |
06PARIS7780 | FRANCE SUPPORTS PASSING UNSC RESOLUTION ON BURMA [...] (SBU) We delivered December 13 reftel demarche to Fabrice Mauries, DAS-equivalent for Southeast Asia at the MFA. Mauries said France fully supports a UNSC resolution on Burma and agrees with the U.S. assessment that like-minded members of the Security Council must move forward to pass the res [...] | 2006-12-14 07:05:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM FR |
06PARIS7781 | FRANCE AVAILABLE FOR BILATERAL MEETINGS AT WILTON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-14 07:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT FR |
06PARIS7787 | CHIRAC ADVISER HINTS AT SOFTENING IN FRENCH [...] (S) Summary: In a December 12 meeting, Dominique Boche (President Chirac's Middle East adviser) hinted at a possible softening in France's position on establishing an international tribunal for Lebanon. Boche said that France would support whatever position the Government of Lebanon (GOL) too [...] | 2006-12-14 10:09:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7795 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S MEETING WITH JACQUES [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Fried met with recognized intellectual and long-time Segolene Royal confidant Jacques Attali on December 6. Attali underlined that Royal, even though she is a leading contender for France's presidency in next spring's elections, has had very little experience making and [...] | 2006-12-14 13:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EUN PINR SOCI ECON PREL FR |
06PARIS7800 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM [...] (SBU) Poloff and Russian counterpart delivered reftel to Hughes de Longevialle, French deputy coordinator for the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. Longevialle welcomed the various papers and agreed to initiate an interagency process to develop possible French proposals for the pl [...] | 2006-12-14 15:52:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KGIC KNNP PREL AS CA CH RFE GM IT JA |
06PARIS7803 | HARIRI ALLY SEES MARCH 14 IN STRONG POSITION [...] (C) Basile Yared, Sa'ad Hariri's representative in Paris, told Poloff on December 14 that Arab League SYG Amr Moussa had a "difficult" meeting with Hizballah and Amal officials late December 13. According to Yared, Hizballah stunned Moussa by insisting not only that it obtain a blocking minor [...] | 2006-12-15 05:09:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR LE PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7813 | WEEKLY MEDIA WRAP-UP: PINOCHET'S DEATH; IRAN AND THE [...] (SBU) French Media coverage of ex-Chilean President Augusto Pinochet's death was unanimous in lamenting his "escape from justice" but noted that Chile had "turned a page" with the election of Michele Bachelet. A few commentators argued that overall, Latin America was on the road to democracy. [...] | 2006-12-15 16:25:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC PREL KPAO FR |
06PARIS7847 | S/P KRASNER'S DISCUSSION WITH LEADING FRENCH [...] (SBU) Summary: During a December 13 lunch with Policy Planning Director Stephen Krasner, three of France's leading strategic thinkers worried that, absent tough talk from the U.S., Iran would continue to develop a nuclear weapons program and scorn the IAEA with total impunity. They urged the [...] | 2006-12-20 09:20:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL FR IR |
06PARIS7858 | Terrorist Financing Coordinating Officer [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-20 13:10:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER FR |
06PARIS7873 | UPDATE ON DEPLOYMENT OF FRENCH UAVS TO LEBANON [...] (C) On December 20, we met with Alexandra Novosseloff, desk officer in the MOD's Crisis Management bureau, to clarify the status of France's deployment of reconnaissance drones (SDTI) to Lebanon (reftels). She noted that, contrary to press reports, the drones have not yet been deployed in Leb [...] | 2006-12-20 15:26:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL LE FR |
06PARIS7885 | FRENCH AND AFGHAN FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: Afghan Foreign Minister Ranjeen Dadfar Spanta reacted skeptically to the French proposal for an Afghanistan Contact Group during a meeting December 14 with French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy. Although Douste-Blazy tried to sell the group as an opportunity to rationaliz [...] | 2006-12-21 15:34:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF FR |
06PARIS7898 | WEEKLY MEDIA WRAP-UP: HAMAS ON THE BRINK OF CIVIL WAR; LE [...] (SBU) The threat of civil war in Gaza and Palestinian President Abbas's proposal for new elections led to speculation about the Middle East as a spawning ground for civil strife. France's National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen received widespread attention in the context of an alleged "softer [...] | 2006-12-22 11:08:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC PREL KPAO FR |
06PARIS7918 | FRENCH DOUBT GOA/POLISARIO WILL AGREE TO A REFUGEE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Christian Testo, MFA DAS-equivalent for the Maghreb on December 28. Testo agreed that resolving the number of Sahrawi refugees in Algeria is "a critical question," but doubted that the Polisario would agree to a census outside the context of a final res [...] | 2006-12-28 09:44:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM AG FR PREF PREL |
06PARIS792 | WHA A/S SHANNON'S 2/2 MEETINGS WITH FRENCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: A/S Shannon visited Paris on February 2 to discuss the full range of WHA issues with officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Presidency. On Haiti, Shannon encouraged France to consider symbolic gestures during the election period to demonstrate GOF engagement, an a [...] | 2006-02-08 08:25:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON FR AR VE BL BR CO CA IR HA |
06PARIS7928 | THE FIRST LADY'S JAN 14-17 VISIT TO PARIS [...] (U) The First Lady's visit to France comes at an ideal moment, just as the French are contemplating a generational change in their politics and reassessing their role in the world. The First Lady will be able to highlight our historic friendship, our effective modern-day collaboration, and ou [...] | 2006-12-29 14:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP BUSH LAURA PREL PGOV FR EUN UNO NATO |
06PARIS798 | DEPSEC ZOELLICK REVIEWS INVESTMENT BARRIERS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Deputy Secretary Zoellick reviewed French economic reforms, new GoF restrictive investment rules, and the current state of the Doha Round trade negotiations with Christine Lagarde, France's Minister-delegate for Foreign Trade. Lagarde said France was "open for business", and [...] | 2006-02-08 11:49:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL OTRA ETRD EINV EFIN EUN FR |
06PARIS827 | FRENCH ON TURKISH PLAN FOR CYPRUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: France not only sees nothing new in the January 24 "Gul proposal," but considers it essentially as a step backward, according to MFA DAS-equivalents responsible for Cyprus in the EU and UN. In their view, Turkey is already obliged to fulfill its Ankara protocol commitments on o [...] | 2006-02-08 17:41:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CY TU FR EUN |
06PARIS846 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETINGS WITH SENIOR GOF [...] (C) Summary: The Deputy Secretary met separately on February 3 with Presidential Counselor for African Affairs Michel de Bonnecorse and Chief of Defense General Henri Bentegeat for exchanges on Sudan and Chad. French interlocutors concurred AMIS should transition into a UN mission, while em [...] | 2006-02-09 15:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PREF IV CD SU FR |
06PARIS853 | MFA AFFIRMS COMMON LINE ON PALESTINIAN ASSISTANCE, [...] (C) We discussed reftel points on assistance to Palestinians with MFA desk officer for Palestinian affairs Mariam Diallo, who reaffirmed GoF support for the January 30 Quartet statement. She stressed that the GoF had established clear conditions the next Palestinian government must meet to re [...] | 2006-02-09 18:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL EAID IS FR |
06PARIS854 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH MINISTER-DELEGATE [...] (C) Summary: At a February 3 meeting with the Deputy Secretary, Minister Delegate for European Affairs Catherine SIPDIS Colonna affirmed a vision of an ever-deepening European Union despite recent turmoil, stated that the next enlargement should be limited to the Balkan states, and sketche [...] | 2006-02-10 09:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EUN NATO KNNP IR SU CD CG |
06PARIS862 | MOD BACKGROUND COMMENTS ON FRANCE'S EVOLVING [...] (C) Summary: MOD Diplomatic advisor Camille Grand reiterated Feb 8 that President Chirac had not sought to break significant new ground on France's nuclear deterrence strategy in his January 19 speech, but rather was adapting French deterrence policy to the evolving "strategic environment." F [...] | 2006-02-10 11:00:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MNUC MARR PREL PTER FR |
06PARIS907 | PSI: INTERAGENCY BILATERAL MEETING WITH FRENCH [...] (C) Summary. An interagency delegation met in Paris with French officials on January 16 to discuss the pending export to China of a vibration/centrifuge testing system (vibrafuge) by the U.S. company Data Physics and the French Company Actidyn Systemes. French technical experts disagreed wit [...] | 2006-02-13 14:53:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM MNUC ETTC PREL FR CH |
06PARIS915 | FRENCH MUSLIM PROTESTS OF MOHAMMED CARTOONS GROW [...] (C) Summary: Two weekend protests in Paris and Strasbourg were the largest so far in France on the cartoon controversy, but the gatherings remained peaceful and took place without incident. Both gatherings were initiated by groups outside the mainstream of French Muslim organizations, which h [...] | 2006-02-13 17:49:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL KDEM PTER IR TU FR |
06PARIS945 | MFA CONTACTS STRESS GOF POSITION ON HAMAS [...] (C) In conversations with us February 13, senior MFA contacts stressed that the GoF position on Hamas remained unchanged and they downplayed press reports suggesting that the GoF had endorsed Russia's initiative to invite Hamas leaders to Moscow. MFA DAS-equivalent for Egypt/Levant Herv Besan [...] | 2006-02-14 15:43:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS KPAL PTER FR |
06PARIS955 | EUR PDAS VOLKER'S FEBRUARY 3 MEETING WITH FRENCH [...] (C) Summary: French MOD Diplomatic Adviser Besancenot and deputy Grand gave EUR PDAS Volker February 3 a preview of the points that MOD Alliot-Marie planned to make at the Annual Security Conference in Germany the following day and at the NATO Informal Defense Ministerial at Taormina February [...] | 2006-02-14 17:15:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL NATO EUN AF FR |
06PARIS963 | SUDAN/AMIS RE-HATTING: FRENCH ON BOARD, YET FACE [...] (C) Summary: Visiting IO/PSC Director Anderson and Embassy Africa Watcher shared the non-paper on AMIS re-hatting with the French Presidency and the MFA, encouraging France to engage in a complementary effort with AU partners (reftel). Presidential Advisor Labriolle maintained France was on [...] | 2006-02-14 18:41:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SU FR |
06PARIS986 | COMOROS PRESIDENT UNDERSCORES U.S. FRIENDSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Comoros President Assoumani Azali underscored to the Ambassador his cooperative relationship with the USG, including signature of an Article 98 agreement and counter-terrorism efforts. He regretted the absence of an accredited American ambassador to the Comoros. Azali related [...] | 2006-02-15 18:22:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR PTER CN FR |
06PARTO1 | (U) Secretary Rice's July 27, 2006 conversation [...] (U) July 27, 2006; 4:45 PM; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Amb. Christopher J. LaFleur U/S Karen Hughes A/S Chris Hill NSC Senior Director Dennis Wilder Malaysia Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi Foreign Minister Hamid Amb. Rajmah Hussein MFA Depu [...] | 2006-07-31 10:35:00 | US Delegation, Secretary | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL MY US |
06PESHAWAR108 | ANP CHIEF SCANS THE HORIZON [...] (C) Awami National Party (ANP) Chief Asfandyar Wali Khan would actively support President Musharraf's government, if the GOP embraced three key ANP initiatives: (1) provincial autonomy in health, local government, education, and agriculture; (2) changing the name of the Northwest Frontier Pro [...] | 2006-03-06 15:21:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL PTER KDEM PK |
06PESHAWAR141 | NWFP PML-Q CHIEF PROPOSES A STRATEGY FOR WAZIRSTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-24 10:32:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL PTER KDEM PK |
06PESHAWAR143 | NWFP PML-Q CHIEF PROPOSES A STRATEGY FOR WAZIRSTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-27 06:06:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL PTER KDEM PK |
06PESHAWAR255 | NEW FRONTIER GOVERNOR ON THE WAY [...] (C) Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Khalil ur-Rehman recently confided that Lt. General (retired) Ali Mohammed Jan Orakzai will soon replace him. Embittered by his premature removal, Rehman castigated his replacement, claiming Orakzai was not aggressive enough in 2003-04 tribal op [...] | 2006-05-23 07:35:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV PTER PK |
06PESHAWAR360 | CORPS COMMANDER AND NWFP GOVERNOR ON FATA ISSUES [...] (C) On July 10, 11th Corps Commander Lt. General Hamid Khan told the Ambassador the Pakistan Army will maintain its involvement in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) development, chiefly due to the Governor's lack of civilian capacity. The Army is the only entity with a comprehensive [...] | 2006-07-13 03:57:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER MARR EAID PK AF |
06PESHAWAR413 | 11TH CORPS COMMANDER DISCUSSES JIRGA, DEVELOPMENT ISSUES AND NWFP POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: 11th Corps Commander Lt. General Hamid Khan expressed optimism that the jirga organized by the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Ali Jan Orakzai will be successful. If not, he plans to "hammer" the militants into submission. Khan does not plan to negotiate with foreig [...] | 2006-08-02 12:12:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PK AF |
06PESHAWAR46 | JUI-F OFFICIALS ON GWOT [...] (SBU) At a 1/24 meeting with South Waziristan tribal elders and parliamentarians, Opposition leader and JUI-F President Maulana Fazlur Rehman stressed his party advocated political, not armed struggle to achieve its goals. Following a lengthy closed-door session, he announced the group agreed [...] | 2006-01-26 07:47:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV PINS KISL ASEC PREL AF PK |
06PESHAWAR66 | SECTARIAN VIOLENCE ERUPTS IN THE SOUTH [...] (SBU) After a relatively quiet five years, the Northwest Frontier Province's (NWFP) southern district of Hangu erupted in sectarian violence on February 9, the tenth day of Muharram. Two bomb blasts, reportedly caused by suicide bombers, shattered a Shi'a procession around noon, killing thirt [...] | 2006-02-10 08:35:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC KISL PK |
06PESHAWAR67 | A DEBATE ON WAZIRISTAN SECURITY: FRONTIER CORPS VS. PAKISTAN [...] (C) Two of the Northwest Frontier Province's (NWFP) most experienced journalists covering the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) maintain growing security problems (see reftel) are hampering GOP counter-terrorism efforts in North and South Waziristan. These problems are spilling over [...] | 2006-02-13 11:35:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL PK PTER EAID SNAR KDEM AF |
06PESHAWAR68 | NEW ROLE FOR TRIBAL COUNCILS?: FINDING A VOICE FOR ECONOMIC [...] (C) In response to the deteriorating security situation in North Waziristan (Ref A),11th Corps Commander Hamid Khan has prodded the Political Agent there to work closely with that agency's council on new development projects. Since their establishment in late 2004, agency councils had been [...] | 2006-02-13 11:59:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM EAID PREL ECON MOPS KISL PK |
06PESHAWAR77 | AWAMI NATIONAL PARTY ON TRIBAL AREAS: DEMOCRACY NOW, TALIBAN [...] (SBU) On February 11, the Pashtun-based progressive Awami National Party (ANP) convened a conference of tribal elders in Peshawar to assess the situation in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). ANP National President Asfandyar Wali Khan urged tribal people to rise up against gueri [...] | 2006-02-16 10:32:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL PTER KDEM PK AF |
06PESHAWAR79 | THE POLITICS OF UNREST IN PESHAWAR [...] (C) Summary. The anti-cartoon protests in Peshawar and the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) on February 15 resulted in three deaths (including a child),60 injured, and widespread looting and destruction of businesses. The extensive rioting appears to have been ignited by religious fervor [...] | 2006-02-16 14:30:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PGOV PREL CASC PK |
06PESHAWAR82 | GOP/ARMY RELATIONS IN WAZIRISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-17 13:08:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL MARR PK PTER EAID SNAR |
06PESHAWAR86 | CLERIC ISSUES A FATWA AGAINST DANISH CARTOONISTS [...] (SBU) On February 17, Maulana Muhammad Yusuf Qureshi (heading Peshawar's oldest mosque, the Mohabat Khan) offered a bounty in excess of $1 million for the killing of any of the Danish cartoonists who drew the allegedly blasphemous sketches of the Prophet Muhammad. He announced that Mohabat Kha [...] | 2006-02-21 12:56:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL ASEC PREL PGOV CVIS PK |
06PESHAWAR91 | CHIEF MINISTER ON PESHAWAR RIOTS [...] (C) Summary. Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani recently discussed the 2/15 Peshawar protests (Ref A) with us. He said police are currently reviewing television and video footage of the riots and will arrest protestors who broke the law. He outlined a two-pr [...] | 2006-02-23 10:46:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL ASEC PREL PGOV PK |
06PESHAWAR99 | NEW FRONTIER GOVERNOR TO BE NAMED [...] (C) In the shadow of President Bush's imminent arrival, GOP sources have leaked President Musharraf's decision to replace Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Khalil ur-Rehman in the next few days, according to local press reports. Rumors regarding Rehman's departure have been rampant [...] | 2006-03-01 12:14:00 | Consulate Peshawar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR PREL PTER PK |
06PHNOMPENH1036 | WORLD BANK FINDS CORRUPTION IN CAMBODIA PROJECTS [...] (C) Summary: A World Bank (WB) audit has found evidence of procurement fraud in seven out of nine WB programs investigated in Cambodia, involving kickbacks to Cambodian government (RGC) officials and rigged bidding. The WB estimates that 10-15% of $5.0 million already disbursed was skimmed. [...] | 2006-05-31 11:10:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH1050 | CAMBODIA'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO ANNOUNCE FORMATION [...] (SBU) Summary. Recent meetings with members of the National Assembly's Commission on Foreign Affairs suggests the Cambodian body is prepared to announce in early September the formation of a Burma Caucus comprised of MPs from the ruling CPP, FUNCINPEC and opposition Sam Rainsy Party. As a [...] | 2006-06-02 10:54:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH1084 | CAMBODIA: UNSC RESOLUTION ON BURMA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-09 09:47:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PHUM CB |
06PHNOMPENH1086 | TONLE BASSAC LAND DISPUTE CONTINUES [...] (U) Summary: A land dispute in the heart of Phnom Penh is emblematic of the increasing number of land conflicts in Cambodia. On June 6 and 7, local police evicted 500 families from the Tonle Bassac community. Another group of families with land documentation from the UNTAC days is being th [...] | 2006-06-09 10:33:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CB |
06PHNOMPENH1091 | CAMBODIA: IRAN AND NAM STATEMENT [...] (C) Summary. During a June 8 meeting with Acting Foreign Minister Ouch Borith, Charge delivered demarche points contained in reftels. On Iran, Borith said the RGC would consider a public statement, and asked to see Secretary Rice's statement regarding the USG proposal, which the Embassy ha [...] | 2006-06-09 11:18:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AORC CB |
06PHNOMPENH1092 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES CAMBODIAN DPM ON TIP [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 8, the Ambassador delivered the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) demarche to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sar Kheng noting the upgrade from Tier 3 to Tier 2 Watch List. While praising Cambodia's progress during the previous year, he emphasized that law [...] | 2006-06-09 11:22:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CB KWMN |
06PHNOMPENH1118 | Inaugural Meeting of the Friends of the ECCC [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 12, the Japanese and French Ambassadors co-chaired the inaugural Friends of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) meeting. Donors agreed that the Friends group would serve to disseminate information on the ECCC's progress, provide non-judicial adv [...] | 2006-06-15 00:46:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KJUS CB |
06PHNOMPENH1134 | DCM DELIVERS TIP DEMARCHE TO CAMBODIAN POLICE [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 16, the DCM delivered the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) demarche to Cambodian National Police Commissioner Hok Lundy. While praising Cambodian actions to earn the upgrade from Tier 3 to Tier 2 Watch List, the DCM noted that arrests and prosecutions for TIP are down thi [...] | 2006-06-16 10:45:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CB KWMN |
06PHNOMPENH1153 | TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED AND CHARGED IN PEDOPHILE CASE [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 20, accused pedophile Amcit Michael Pepe was charged with rape and debauchery at Phnom Penh Municipal Court. Four local accomplices were also charged. Three women were charged with human trafficking for allegedly supplying underage female victims to the Amcit. Two of [...] | 2006-06-21 08:26:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CB KWMN ASEC |
06PHNOMPENH1165 | AUSTRALIAN PEDOPHILE CONVICTED DESPITE WITNESS WITHDRAWAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Phnom Penh Appeals Court has upheld the conviction of an Australian pedophile despite the withdrawal of complaints against the accused by nine of ten witnesses. We are pleased that the Cambodian court relied on forensic evidence to uphold the conviction and did not let its [...] | 2006-06-22 10:32:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN CB |
06PHNOMPENH1178 | NGOS APPROVE OF CAMBODIA'S TIER UPGRADE ON [...] (SBU) Summary. Anti-trafficking NGOs applauded the decision to upgrade Cambodia to Tier 2 Watch List, based on the Cambodia's performance last year. However, AFESIP and IJM believe that cooperation so far this year has not matched last year's efforts. Mission officers are stressing in thei [...] | 2006-06-27 04:04:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB PREL CB KWMN |
06PHNOMPENH1181 | SCREENED-OUT MONTAGNARD DEPORTED TO VIETNAM [...] (U) Cambodian Immigration police removed a screened-out Montagnard, Y Ngoan Nie, from UNHCR's Site 2 in Phnom Penh on June 27 and escorted him to the border for deportation to Vietnam. Y Ngoan Nie was one of the 31 persons denied refugee status that the embassy referred to the Department as [...] | 2006-06-27 07:42:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM CB VM |
06PHNOMPENH1235 | CAMBODIA: 2ND QUARTER REPORT ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (U) Summary: During the second quarter of 2006, the Cambodian police conducted 17 operations which resulted in the arrest of 26 traffickers and pimps as well as the rescue of 20 trafficking victims. Four foreign nationals, including an American citizen, were arrested for sex crimes against [...] | 2006-07-05 10:42:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KWMN CB |
06PHNOMPENH1268 | PHNOM PENH OFFICE OF UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR [...] (SBU) The Phnom Penh office of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has done a good job of monitoring and publicizing human rights abuses in Cambodia. Its staff has for the most part been responsible and professional. In a sea of NGO and inter-governmental organiza [...] | 2006-07-11 07:28:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH1362 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL BUILDING MOMENTUM [...] (U) Summary. Following initial criticism of a slow start, progress of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal on a variety of fronts has picked up in July, according to the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI). OSJI believes the most significant new development is the court's adoption of the ICC Code o [...] | 2006-07-27 09:03:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH1374 | REACTION TO KHMER ROUGE LEADER'S DEATH [...] (SBU) Summary. Ung Choeun, widely known as Ta Mok, age 82, passed away on July 21 at a military hospital where he had been hospitalized since June 29. Since his passing, government officials, the media, and civil society leaders have discussed the impact of his death on the proceedings of t [...] | 2006-07-31 06:55:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH1385 | G/TIP VISIT PRESSES CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT FOR MORE [...] (SBU) Summary. G/TIP Senior Coordinator Mark Taylor,s July 25-26 visit to Cambodia provided an opportunity to press the Cambodian government to take additional anti-TIP measures. USG recommendations to RGC officials focused primarily on quicker action by police authorities, greater coopera [...] | 2006-08-01 11:01:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB PREL KWMN CB |
06PHNOMPENH1400 | CAMBODIA'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO INAUGURATE BURMA [...] (SBU) Summary. Cambodia's National Assembly will launch its Burma Caucus on August 25, with 25 parliamentarians from the three political parties as members, according to organizing MP Son Chhay of the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP). Other AIPMC (ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus) [...] | 2006-08-03 10:40:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH1404 | PROTESTORS DEMAND REOPENING OF CHEA VICHEA MURDER CASE -- A [...] (U) Summary: On August 1 (the first-year anniversary of the convictions),20 armed police officers dispersed protestors who had gathered in front of the Phnom Penh prison holding the two convicted killers of Chea Vichea to demand that their cases be reopened. Protesters also appealed to King [...] | 2006-08-07 02:38:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB PREL KJUS CB |
06PHNOMPENH1405 | CAMBODIAN COURTS FOCUS DISPROPORTIONATELY ON THE [...] (SBU) Summary. Under the spotlight of NGOs, the media, and the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP),the Kompong Cham Provincial Court on August 2 handed down light sentences to three women accused of stealing waste rubber from the private plantation near their village. The women claimed that they were [...] | 2006-08-07 08:46:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KJUS CB |
06PHNOMPENH1406 | PHNOM PENH'S CHINESE SEX TOURISM INDUSTRY [...] (U) Summary. Typically shrouded behind legitimate businesses, Phnom Penh's sex establishments catering to the Chinese operate relatively discretely. Generally, Chinese men come to Phnom Penh for business reasons, not for the purpose of sex tourism. Chinese clientele refrain from the low-e [...] | 2006-08-07 08:49:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KJUS CB KWMN SNAR |
06PHNOMPENH1424 | AMBASSADOR DELIVERS TIP TIER 2 WATCH LIST ACTION [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 4, the Ambassador delivered the Tier 2 Watch List Action Plan demarche to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sar Kheng, stressing the recommendations outlined in reftel. The Ambassador added that he was concerned that Cambodia would become complacent an [...] | 2006-08-09 07:43:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CB KWMN |
06PHNOMPENH1445 | CORRUPTION IN CAMBODIA'S ANTI-TIP DEPARTMENT [...] (U) Summary. On August 8, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court initiated corruption proceedings against Touch Ngim, former Deputy Director of the MOI's Anti-TIP Department. Ngim confessed to taking bribe money to release brothel owners, but claimed that he was acting upon orders of his superior, [...] | 2006-08-15 08:34:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN KJUS CB |
06PHNOMPENH1452 | LAND DISPUTES IN KANDAL PROVINCE LEAD TO VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary. Two recent land disputes involving Kandal province have resulted in low-level violence. On August 7, 60 armed police officers clashed with a group of 200 hundred villagers from Kandal province who tried to enter Phnom Penh to protest a land dispute in their community. The en [...] | 2006-08-15 09:53:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH1509 | CAMBODIA'S RENEGADE POLICE CHIEF [...] (C) Summary. On August 2, an arrest warrant was issued for Heng Pov, the powerful former Phnom Penh Municipal Police Chief and Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Interior, who reportedly was tipped off of the impending arrest and fled the country by the time the RGC moved to arrest [...] | 2006-08-24 01:11:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCOR KJUS CB |
06PHNOMPENH1519 | CAMBODIA: POLICE CRACKDOWN ON POSSIBLE PEDOPHILE NETWORK [...] (U) Summary: Police from the Phnom Penh anti-Trafficking Unit arrested five individuals, including two German nationals, for their alleged involvement in the sexual exploitation of four underage girls. The German suspects are accused of debauchery; the others, one of whom is the mother of t [...] | 2006-08-24 09:17:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KWMN CB |
06PHNOMPENH1529 | CAMBODIA SEEKS APEC MEMBERSHIP [...] (SBU) On August 22, the Ambassador and A/DCM met with MFA Secretary of State Ouch Borith at the latter's request. Borith provided a letter to the Ambassador from DPM and Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong to the Secretary requesting USG support for Cambodia's bid for APEC membership. T [...] | 2006-08-28 01:22:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH1534 | CAMBODIA'S LEGISLATURE LAUNCHES BURMA CAUCUS [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 25, Cambodia's National Assembly launched its Burma Caucus, which includes 26 members from Cambodia's three political parties. Members of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC),diplomats, and NGOs participated in the inauguration ceremony, as did mem [...] | 2006-08-28 09:56:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL KDEM CB |
06PHNOMPENH1606 | TIP MEETING WITH CAMBODIAN POLICE DEPUTY [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 5, the Acting DCM delivered the Tier 2 Watch List Action Plan demarche to Lieutenant General Neth Savoeun of the Cambodian National Police, emphasizing the recommendations in the reftel. The A/DCM asked that Cambodian police consider the recommendations as a way [...] | 2006-09-06 11:19:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CB KWMN |
06PHNOMPENH1607 | POLICE ACTION AGAINST PROSTITUTION -- CAUSE FOR [...] (U) Summary: Recently, the police of Toul Kork district started a campaign against prostitution, rounding up 47 prostitutes from nine brothels and other venues in the area and referring them to NGO shelters. Twenty-seven customers and two facilitators were arrested during the operations, b [...] | 2006-09-07 00:08:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN KJUS CB |
06PHNOMPENH1613 | CAMBODIA'S SEASON OF POLITICAL SILLINESS: NO [...] (SBU) Summary. Recently, the Cambodian public has witnessed its National Assembly attempt to outlaw adultery as well as limit its members' freedom of speech in return for pensions and other financial benefits. This was followed by the PM vetoing any future Miss Cambodia beauty contests. Th [...] | 2006-09-07 09:47:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KJUS KDEM CB |
06PHNOMPENH1643 | DISINFORMATION/INCITEMENT LAWS: NEW TOOLS TO SUPPRESS [...] (U) Summary: The government's legal means to suppress criticism has not been eliminated despite the partial decriminalization of defamation. Three recent cases, including those of two journalists and a former professor, illustrate that disinformation and incitement laws may be the new tools [...] | 2006-09-12 09:46:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CB KJUS |
06PHNOMPENH1646 | CORRUPTION IN CAMBODIA'S ANTI-TIP DEPARTMENT: THREE [...] (U) Summary: On August 24, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court convicted and sentenced three police officers to five and seven years imprisonment for taking bribes, and ordering them to pay compensation of USD 9,000 to the plaintiffs - brothel owners who bribed the police to release them followin [...] | 2006-09-12 09:59:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN KJUS CB |
06PHNOMPENH1691 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ECCC CO-PROSECUTOR; FUNDING [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 15, the Ambassador and A/DCM met with ECCC international co-prosecutor Robert Petit, who discussed latest developments of the Tribunal staffing as well as funding shortfalls. Specifically, the Tribunal lacks money for public outreach, a proper detention facility, [...] | 2006-09-18 10:19:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS EAID CB PREL |
06PHNOMPENH1694 | A/S HARTY DISCUSSES ADOPTIONS, IVS IN CAMBODIA [...] (SBU) Summary. RGC officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans, and Youth Rehabilitation (MOSAVY) told visiting CA A/S Harty that they support Cambodia's ratification of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption and have added the Conventi [...] | 2006-09-19 01:31:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS CASC PREL PREF CB VN |
06PHNOMPENH1700 | CAMBODIA: MONTAGNARD UPDATE, RESPONSE TO NGO [...] (SBU) Summary. The Cambodian government (RGC) granted permission for a joint UNHCR expedition to Mondolkiri province to rescue Montagnards following approaches from the Ambassador and A/DCM. Separately, 14 Montagnards arrived directly at UNHCR's Phnom Penh office from Mondolkiri on Septembe [...] | 2006-09-19 09:27:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL CB VM |
06PHNOMPENH1723 | C O R R E C T E D C O P Y (PARA. 10): CAMBODIA: [...] (SBU) Summary. The Cambodian government (RGC) granted permission for a joint UNHCR expedition to Mondolkiri province to rescue Montagnards following approaches from the Ambassador and A/DCM. Separately, 14 Montagnards arrived directly at UNHCR's Phnom Penh office from Mondolkiri on Septembe [...] | 2006-09-20 10:44:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL CB VM |
06PHNOMPENH1799 | CAMBODIA: PM SUPPORTS GUATEMALA FOR UNSC SEAT [...] (C) Summary. The Cambodia government recently informed the Embassy that it would support Guatemala in the October 16 election for the GRULAC rotational seat on the UNSC. The Japanese Ambassador raised the issue with PM Hun Sen during an unrelated September 29 meeting. The RGC had hoped for [...] | 2006-10-03 01:58:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC UNGA CB |
06PHNOMPENH1802 | RSO/ICE/NGO MEETINGS ON COMBATTING CRIMES AGAINST [...] Summary. On September 26, the Regional Security Office (RSO) and the Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) Bangkok Attachs of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) organized a meeting with NGOs to discuss the challenges facing NGOs in combating sex crimes against children. The RSO enc [...] | 2006-10-03 10:05:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KWMN CB ASEC |
06PHNOMPENH1803 | RSO/ICE/NGO MEETINGS ON COMBATTING CRIMES AGAINST [...] Summary. On September 26, the Regional Security Office (RSO) and the Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) Bangkok Attachs of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) organized a meeting with NGOs to discuss the challenges facing NGOs in combating sex crimes against children. The RSO enc [...] | 2006-10-04 00:27:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KWMN CB ASEC |
06PHNOMPENH1821 | FUNCINPEC'S POLITICAL PARALYSIS [...] (C) Summary. After nearly two months of continued removals of FUNCINPEC officials and criticism of party leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh by PM Hun Sen, Ranariddhhas sought to stave off further problems by underscoring that FUNCINPEC will remain a partner within the coalition government. The [...] | 2006-10-05 10:07:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH1828 | CAMBODIA ON NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS TEST [...] (C) Pol/Econ officer delivered reftel demarche to Sun Suon, Director of MFA's International Organizations Department, on October 5, emphasizing that a North Korea armed with nuclear weapons was unacceptable to the U.S., that a nuclear weapons test would be "a grave miscalculation" on Pyongyan [...] | 2006-10-06 09:19:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP KN CB |
06PHNOMPENH1845 | CAMBODIA'S ECCC MAKING GOOD PROGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary. During an October 1-5 visit to Cambodia, S/WCI and INR officials met with a wide range of interlocutors concerning the work of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). ECCC officials from the office of Administration underscored budgetary gaps and unfill [...] | 2006-10-10 10:40:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
06PHNOMPENH1860 | CAMBODIAN REACTION TO NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR TEST [...] (SBU) On October 12, then-Charge and Pol/Econ Chief met with MFA Secretary of State Ouch Borith to deliver reftel A demarche points as well as provide a copy of President Bush's October 9 statement. With respect to North Korean actions, Borith assured us that the RGC condemned the nuclear te [...] | 2006-10-12 07:44:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM KNNP CB |
06PHNOMPENH1871 | CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT AND NGOS BEGIN EFFORT TO FORM [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Hun Sen opened a two-day meeting in Siem Riep September 26-27 by asking NGOs to draft legislation to create a national human rights commission in one year. Members of civil society, Cambodian lawmakers, government officials and foreign observers participated in [...] | 2006-10-16 06:33:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH1891 | THAI PM SURAYUD PROMISES CONTINUITY TO CAMBODIA [...] (SBU) Thai interim Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont's one-day visit to Phnom Penh October 15 was intended to reassure the Cambodian government of Thailand's stability and that the Thai government (RTG) would continue to strengthen ties between the two countries despite the change in governmen [...] | 2006-10-18 08:48:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM ENRG CB TH |
06PHNOMPENH1908 | A/S LOWENKRON DISCUSSES BURMA, NORTH KOREA AND [...] (SBU) Summary. DRL A/S Barry Lowenkron met separately with Cambodian PM Hun Sen and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong during an October 14-17 visit to Cambodia. The PM reassured the USG of Cambodia's decision to back Guatemala for the rotational Latin American UNSC seat. Lowenkron thanked Hun [...] | 2006-10-20 11:32:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH1927 | CAMBODIAN RESPONSE ON NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Pol/Econ Chief raised the North Korean refugee issue with MFA Secretary of State Long Visalo on October 19. Visalo said that he would provide the copy of reftel non-paper to the Minister and brief him on the USG request. On the question of sensitivity to [...] | 2006-10-24 08:14:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL ASEC PINR CB |
06PHNOMPENH1930 | CAMBODIA ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, NAM RESOLUTIONS ON [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel A and B demarches to MFA Director for the Department of International Organizations Sun Suon on October 11 and October 24, respectively. On the indigenous peoples demarche, there is no New Zealand Embassy in Cambodia and the Australian Embassy informed [...] | 2006-10-25 06:15:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM CB |
06PHNOMPENH1934 | A/S LOWENKRON MEETS OPPOSITION LEADER SAM RAINSY [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 16 and 17, A/S Lowenkron met with various leaders of Cambodia's civil society, union leaders and labor experts, and opposition party leader Sam Rainsy. Human rights leaders discussed impunity, the difficulties involved in the RGC's proposal to form a human rights [...] | 2006-10-25 11:06:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH1954 | CAMBODIA: 3ND QUARTER REPORT ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (U) Summary. From July through September 2006, the police arrested 24 suspects involved in human trafficking and pimping. Four foreign nationals, including an American, were arrested for sex crimes against children. Police rescued 27 victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation. Six othe [...] | 2006-10-27 11:01:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN CB |
06PHNOMPENH1975 | STAFFDEL GILLEY VISIT EVALUATES USG OBJECTIVES IN CAMBODIA [...] (SBU) Summary. Kristen Gilley, Deputy Chief of Staff for the House Committee on International Relations and Jamie McCormick, Staff Director, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, visited Cambodia on October 20-22 to discuss bilateral relations, USG assistance programs, and USAID partner conce [...] | 2006-11-02 07:21:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KTEX ETRD EAID CB |
06PHNOMPENH1983 | RECENT ECCC DEVELOPMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Recent meetings concerning the Extraordinary Chambers have highlighted funding gaps and the need for additional support from donors. The role of the judicial police is looming as an issue requiring clarification and possible donor intervention with the RGC to ensure that the [...] | 2006-11-02 11:06:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS PREL EAID CB |
06PHNOMPENH2048 | CAMBODIAN MFA OFFICIAL ON HR RESOLUTIONS [...] (C) On November 16, P/E Chief met with Sun Suon, Director of the MFA's International Organizations Department that handles UN affairs, to provide demarche points concerning the proposed Belarus resolutions (reftel a). Suon noted that normal practice is for the Cambodian Permrep in New York [...] | 2006-11-17 07:54:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNGA CB |
06PHNOMPENH2072 | NORTH KOREAN REFUGEE HELD IN MONDOLKIRI PROVINCE [...] (C) Summary. The Cambodian press reported on November 22 that Cambodian provincial police in Mondolkiri province arrested a North Korean man in the past week. According to press reports, a senior Cambodian police official confirmed the arrest, added the North Korean was deported to Vietnam [...] | 2006-11-22 10:16:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PREL KN VM CB |
06PHNOMPENH2096 | CAMBODIAN VIEW OF ASEAN-CHINA COMMEMORATIVE SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary. According to a senior MFA official, the ASEAN-China Commemorative Summit held in Nanning, China on October 30 underscored ASEAN's desire for greater Chinese trade and development assistance. However, ASEAN reportedly remains unimpressed with the level of assistance/loans offer [...] | 2006-11-28 11:06:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEAN EAID CB CH |
06PHNOMPENH2112 | MFA ON USG-PROPOSED AGREEMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary. The MFA has told us that both the USG-proposed bilateral shipboarding and debt agreements remain under RGC consideration. The MFA has circulated among other concerned Ministries the shipboarding agreement and is awaiting comment. The bilateral debt agreement also remains un [...] | 2006-11-30 10:21:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PREL KTIA CB |
06PHNOMPENH2131 | CAMBODIA: TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT REPORT [...] (U) Embassy Phnom Penh submits the following submission as an interim assessment of Cambodia's progress in fighting Trafficking in Persons in 2006. Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions ---------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) During the first nine months of 2006, the Camb [...] | 2006-12-04 08:08:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN CB |
06PHNOMPENH2142 | RGC RESPONSE ON CAMBODIA'S CWC STATUS [...] (SBU) On December 5, post received a preliminary response to the demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding Cambodia's CWC status. The MFA said that in 2006, the RGC established through Royal Decree a National Authority to deal with chemical, biological, and other weapons of mass [...] | 2006-12-05 09:40:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM CWC KTIA PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH2144 | NRP Approved; Ranariddh Loses Assembly Seat [...] (U) Summary. The MOI formally recognized the Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) on November 28. With approval for the Prince to form his own party, FUNCINPEC expelled Ranariddh from the royalist party, which means the loss of Ranariddh's National Assembly seat and parliamentary immunity. The Pr [...] | 2006-12-05 10:11:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KDEM CB |
06PHNOMPENH2172 | PM'S BODYGUARD LEADS MONKS IN PATH TOWARDS HARMONIOUS [...] (SBU) Summary. Hing Bun Heang, the Commander of the Prime Minister's Personal Bodyguard Unit, was appointed in September 2006 as Supreme Consultant to a newly formed Monk Assembly, which is designed to investigate and resolve disputes involving monks across Cambodia. The Royal Government of [...] | 2006-12-11 11:13:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KDEM CB |
06PHNOMPENH2180 | HUMAN RIGHTS DAY IN PHNOM PENH: MULTIPLE [...] (U) Summary. Post participated in three celebrations of International human Rights Day, two of which received partial funding from USAID. On December 8, the Cambodian senate organized its own celebration: focusing on the legislature's role in human rights and highlighting the needs of speci [...] | 2006-12-13 11:24:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH2209 | CAMBODIA: 2006 Country Report on Terrorism [...] (U) Cambodia's ability to investigate potential terrorist activities is limited by a lack of training and resources. An absence of comprehensive domestic legislation to combat terrorism also hinders the ability to arrest and prosecute terrorists. However, Cambodia's political leadership demo [...] | 2006-12-21 01:19:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH2210 | REACTION TO FINNISH VISA FOR CONVICTED CAMBODIAN COP [...] (SBU) Summary. While the Cambodian government has reacted angrily to the Finnish government's decision to offer a visa to convicted senior police official Heng Pov, Cambodian human rights NGOs and the political opposition are pleased with the decision. Following the announcement on December [...] | 2006-12-21 01:20:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KJUS PREF CB |
06PHNOMPENH2212 | UPDATE ON CAMBODIA'S CWC STATUS [...] (SBU) On December 20, Acting DCM met with Lt. General Chau Phirun, Director General of the MOD's General Department of Material and Technique; Major General Chey Son, Chief of the Directorate of Chemical Protection, and his deputy, Lt. Colonel Yin Sothy. Acting DCM reviewed reftel B demarche [...] | 2006-12-21 01:20:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM CWC KTIA PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH2221 | HENG POV'S UNCEREMONIOUS RETURN TO CAMBODIA [...] (SBU) Summary. Returned from Malaysia on December 21 by private charter plane, former Phnom Penh police chief Heng Pov is currently in Prey Sar prison outside Phnom Penh. The RGC tried to keep Heng Pov's arrival under wraps for as long as possible, but the media caught wind of the news in t [...] | 2006-12-22 01:19:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CB KJUS |
06PHNOMPENH2228 | CAMBODIA'S BILATERAL DEBT AND JAPANESE CONCERNS [...] (SBU) Summary. Meetings with the RGC Ministry of Economics and Finance (MEF),the Japanese Embassy, and the IMF suggest that questions surrounding the relevant cut-off date for Cambodia's bilateral debt is creating misunderstandings and possibly preventing the Cambodian government from fina [...] | 2006-12-27 09:18:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PREL ECON CB |
06PHNOMPENH2229 | CAMBODIA AND DRAFT UNSCR ON BURMA [...] (C) On December 27, the Ambassador and Pol/Econ Chief met with MFA Secretary of State Ouch Borith regarding reftel demarche. (Note: P/E Chief had met separately on December 15 with MFA Deputy Director for International Organizations So Soeung Ha and delivered reftel demarche points. At the [...] | 2006-12-27 09:19:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNSC CB |
06PHNOMPENH317 | CAMBODIA AND THAILAND FOCUS ON BORDER ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. Thailand and Cambodia agreed to survey and delimit their land border over the next year and resolve their maritime border claims by the end of 2007. Nearly 90 percent of Thai business claims arising from the 2003 anti-Thai riots have been addressed, but new Thai businesses are [...] | 2006-02-16 10:47:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CB TH |
06PHNOMPENH327 | SAM RAINSY'S POLITICAL STRATEGY: PUSH HUN SEN, [...] (C) Summary. Opposition leader Sam Rainsy says that reconciliation with Hun Sen was the only way to improve his party's position in upcoming national elections and provide hope for the democratic future of Cambodia. Rainsy hopes that his continued ability to move the government towards des [...] | 2006-02-17 09:20:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM CB |
06PHNOMPENH361 | CAMBODIA'S PRIME MINISTER: WORKING FOR THE [...] (C) Summary. During an hour and one-half February 23 meeting with Staffdel Grove, PM Hun Sen outlined his vision for moving Cambodia forward along the path to democratic reform in concert with the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) and civil society, claiming that his dramatic turnaround was [...] | 2006-02-24 04:39:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH396 | PARLIAMENTARY IMMUNITY RESTORED TO THREE [...] (U) Summary: On February 28, the National Assembly reinstated parliamentary immunity for three opposition MPs, including opposition leader Sam Rainsy and approved replacement of a former opposition MP. Two nominees from FUNCINPEC were elected to be Senators. PM Hun Sen called on political [...] | 2006-03-01 10:48:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KDEM CB |
06PHNOMPENH413 | HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN CAMBODIA'S NORTHWEST [...] (U) Summary: A four-day trip to the northwestern provinces of Cambodia revealed a decline in human trafficking due to RGC-NGO cooperation and increased effort to combat the problem. However, mistrust between NGOs and the police hampers anti-trafficking efforts in certain areas. Poverty con [...] | 2006-03-02 08:32:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN CB |
06PHNOMPENH428 | CAMBODIAN PM DISMISSES TWO CO-MINISTERS; [...] (SBU) Summary: Citing the need for greater efficiency in Cambodia's bloated bureaucracy, Prime Minister Hun Sen removed two FUNCINPEC officials as co- ministers of Defense and Interior on March 2. (Since 1993, the PM's Cambodian People's Party and the Royalist FUNCNPEC party have shared co [...] | 2006-03-03 11:32:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KDEM CB |
06PHNOMPENH442 | CAMBODIAN OPPOSITION ON STATUS OF TALKS WITH [...] (C) Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) MP (and Sam Rainsy spouse) Saumura Tioulong -- please protect -- told us March 6 that PM Hun Sen recently offered to take opposition leader Sam Rainsy into the government as a deputy prime minister, possibly with broad authority over various ministries. Rainsy repo [...] | 2006-03-06 11:39:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH460 | CAMBODIA'S ROYALIST PARTY LEADER RESIGNS FROM [...] (U) Summary: FUNCINEPC leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh resigned March 3 as the President of the National Assembly following Prime Minister Hun Sen's dismissal of two FUNCINPEC senior officials from the royal government (reftel). Soon after the resignation, the Prince told FUNCINPEC officia [...] | 2006-03-07 10:58:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KDEM CB |
06PHNOMPENH472 | CAMBODIA: MORE ON RANARIDDH'S RESIGNATION [...] (C) Summary. FUNCINPEC Deputy Secretary General Ung Huot says that Prince Ranariddh's decision last week to resign as National Assembly President was based principally on a desire to concentrate more on strengthening the party, but Hun Sen's personal attacks and the danger that he might be [...] | 2006-03-08 09:43:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM CB |
06PHNOMPENH516 | CAMBODIA: SRP'S INTERNAL REFORM EFFORTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Senior SRP officials recently discussed the challenges of reforming the Sam Rainsy Party, touching on internal elections of party leaders at the grassroots level, intraparty strife, the former Secretary General and Sam Rainsy's lack of consultation with the SRP's steering com [...] | 2006-03-17 09:45:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM CB |
06PHNOMPENH531 | CAMBODIA READY TO DECRIMINALIZE DEFAMATION, BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Prime Minister Hun Sen and Minister of Justice Ang Vong Vathana both expressed their willingness to decriminalize defamation, though actually moving defamation from the criminal code to the civil code is unexpectedly problematic. Ang Vong Vathana has proposed an acceptable if [...] | 2006-03-21 08:23:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH534 | CAMBODIA: TIP ASSESSMENT VISIT [...] Summary: Representatives from G/TIP and EAP/RSP met with Cambodian government officials and NGOs on March 17 to gauge the Cambodian government's efforts to combat TIP. Anti-trafficking NGOs unanimously agreed that the government has significantly increased its efforts and NGOs are receiving [...] | 2006-03-21 09:59:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH585 | CAMBODIA: FUNCINPEC'S ONGOING STRUGGLES [...] (C) Summary. Senior FUNCINPEC official Serey Kosal told us March 23 about the reasons for Ranariddh's resignation from the National Assembly presidency, the struggle within the party to designate candidates for government positions, CPP's role in undermining the royalists, and actions that [...] | 2006-03-27 11:16:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM CB |
06PHNOMPENH598 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS REP BRIEFS COMS ON MARCH 18-28 [...] (SBU) Summary. UN Special Representative for Human Rights Yash Ghai met with COMs on March 24 to provide an outbrief of his meetings during his recent assessment visit. Ghai is not able to fully assess the political changes since his last visit but is willing to proceed on the assumption th [...] | 2006-03-29 11:21:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
06PHNOMPENH600 | CAMBODIA: FOUR FUNCINPEC GOVERNORS SACKED, [...] (SBU) Citing incompetence and corruption, Prime Minister Hun Sen last week removed four FUNCINPEC provincial governors from their posts, and promised to remove any others who permitted illegal logging to continue in their provinces or who could not resolve land disputes. Additional pressure [...] | 2006-03-30 08:01:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM CB |
06PHNOMPENH602 | CAMBODIA: UNIONIZATION EFFORTS STALL IN CASINO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Unionization efforts at a Thai-owned casino on the Cambodian-Thai border were met with alleged management intimidation and firing of union leaders. Management objected to an arbitral award calling on them to re-instate 11 of the 20 terminated workers, has refused to implement [...] | 2006-03-30 09:38:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV ECON PREL CB TH |
06PHNOMPENH643 | CAMBODIA'S FM ON APEC, BURMA, AND [...] (C) Summary. During Ambassador's April 5 meeting with FM Hor Namhong, the FM raised the prospect of APEC membership, PM Hun Sen's desire to participate in the November APEC Summit meeting in Hanoi as part of the ASEAN leaders' meeting with President Bush, and the FM's interest in meeting wi [...] | 2006-04-05 11:51:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC PHUM CB |
06PHNOMPENH657 | CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT HIGHLIGHTS TIP AT [...] Summary: On March 15, the Ministry of Interior (MOI) organized the fifth annual national seminar on law enforcement against sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking of women and children. The issue of human trafficking was the lead seminar topic at the Ministry of Justice's April 5 confer [...] | 2006-04-07 03:49:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KWMN CB |
06PHNOMPENH661 | CAMBODIA: SEX AND SLAVERY IN SIEM REAP [...] Summary. PolOff traveled to Siem Reap to meet with NGOs, government officials, and conduct direct observations and interviews at commercial sex establishments to better assess the trafficking in persons (TIP) problem and the action that is being taken to combat TIP in the province. NGOs una [...] | 2006-04-07 09:02:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN CB |
06PHNOMPENH662 | TIP ON THE COAST OF CAMBODIA [...] (SBU) Summary. PolOff traveled to Cambodia's coastal regions to meet with anti-trafficking NGOs and government officials to assess the human trafficking problem and the efforts being made to combat TIP. NGOs in the port city of Sihanoukville report good cooperation with the government and [...] | 2006-04-07 09:15:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN CB |
06PHNOMPENH665 | CAMBODIAN THOUGHTS ON UPCOMING ASEAN FM MEETING [...] (C) Summary. According to MFA Secretary of State for ASEAN affairs Kao Kim Hourn, ASEAN has several options for moving foward on Burma: a visit to Burma by the Eminent Persons Group (EPG),a visit by the ASEAN Troika, or an invitation from the Philippines President to Than Shwe to attend t [...] | 2006-04-10 07:58:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH671 | Cambodia's National Assembly Approves [...] (U) Summary. The National Assembly approved on April 7 internal reforms that will allow the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) to chair two of nine National Assembly commissions and to have one deputy Secretary General. The Assembly's internal rules were also modified to improve SRP partici [...] | 2006-04-11 07:16:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CB |
06PHNOMPENH696 | CHINESE PM VISITS CAMBODIA, CHINESE ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) Summary. Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visited Cambodia April 7-8 as part of his tour of Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji. The PM announced an assistance package worth approximately USD 600 million, although some projects (the hydro-electric dam project in Kampot province finance [...] | 2006-04-12 09:38:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID CB CH |
06PHNOMPENH699 | What a Difference a Decade Makes: Cambodia Sends [...] On April 12, Prime Minister Hun Sen presided over a ceremony for the 109 Cambodian peacekeeping troops being sent to Sudan to participate in UN sponsored demining operations. (Note: There are a total of 135 but 26 have already departed for the Sudan. End Note.) This is the first time Cambodi [...] | 2006-04-13 02:21:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS CB |
06PHNOMPENH700 | CAMBODIAN OPPOSITION LEADER ON HUN SEN'S RECENT [...] (C) Summary. Opposition leader Sam Rainsy told the Ambassador on April 12 that he remains encouraged by his interactions with Hun Sen on land issues and opposition inclusion in the National Electoral Commission, but the key test of the PM's willingness to implement meaningful reforms will b [...] | 2006-04-13 05:24:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KCOR CB |
06PHNOMPENH742 | SCENESETTER FOR DAS ERIC JOHN'S APRIL 30-MAY 2 [...] (SBU) Your visit will come at a time when things are looking better for Cambodia than they have in a long time and at a time when Prime Minister Hun Sen and his party are feeling comfortable about their performance. The political environment has turned around dramatically, the economy is up [...] | 2006-04-21 10:09:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM CB |
06PHNOMPENH744 | CAMBODIA ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL VOTE [...] (SBU) Cambodia is in the midst of making determinations regarding its support for candidates from all geographic blocs for the new Human Rights Council, according to Sun Suon at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department of International Organizations. Pol/Econ Chief made demarche points in [...] | 2006-04-21 11:13:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AORC PREL PHUM CB |
06PHNOMPENH818 | U.K., AUSTRALIA HOST COUNTER-TERRORISM CONFERENCE [...] (U) The U.K. and Australian governments sponsored a seminar on counter-terrorism for Cambodian government (RGC) officials April 27-28. Intended to exchange information on strategies, arrangements and capabilities for meeting the terrorist threat in Cambodia, the seminar received high-level s [...] | 2006-05-02 09:47:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH869 | LAND DISPUTE IN THE SHADOW OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (U) Summary. On May 2, local authorities began the eviction of a 1,367-family community of squatters living near the Tonle Bassac River near the new National Assembly building in Phnom Penh. The community is due to be relocated to a new site that is 22 kilometers from Phnom Penh and inadequa [...] | 2006-05-05 09:50:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS CB |
06PHNOMPENH887 | KRT JUDGES NAMED: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY [...] (C) Summary. On May 7, the Cambodian Government announced the names of the Cambodian and international judges selected by the Supreme Council of the Magistracy and approved by the King. The results are a mixed bag of good, middling, and poor choices. Initial soundings within the diplomati [...] | 2006-05-09 09:48:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PREL CB |
06PHNOMPENH894 | CAMBODIA: DAS JOHN'S REINFORCES BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary. In a May 4 discussion with visiting DAS Eric John, FM Hor Namhong lauded US-Cambodia bilateral relations and said Cambodia would seriously consider DAS John's request that the RGC support Guatemala's candidacy for the UNSC. The FM was open on Burma and prospects for democratic [...] | 2006-05-10 02:32:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KJUS PHUM EAID CB |
06PHNOMPENH912 | CAMBODIA: QUARTERLY REPORT ON HUMAN [...] (U) Summary: In the first quarter, there were ten police operations and verdicts rendered in five court cases. Fifteen women and girls were either identified as victims of trafficking or removed from brothels; and eight human traffickers arrested. Among the five court cases, 11 human traf [...] | 2006-05-11 07:10:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN CB |
06PHNOMPENH977 | REGIONAL PROGRESS ON COMMIT PROCESS [...] SUMMARY: The Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Trafficking (COMMIT) held the Fourth Senior Officials' Meeting (SOM 4) on human trafficking in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on May 10-12, 2006. Over thirty senior government officials from the six Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) Governm [...] | 2006-05-23 06:55:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KWMN CB |
06PHNOMPENH982 | UN HIGH COMMISSIONER: HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRAL TO [...] (SBU) Summary. During her May 13-19 visit to Cambodia, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour's agenda focused on the consolidation of democracy and rule of law, as well as the independence of the judiciary. She defended the work of UNSYG Special Representative (SRSG) Yash Gha [...] | 2006-05-23 11:48:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KJUS CB |
06PHNOMPENH990 | Land Disputes Draw More Protesters to Phnom Penh [...] (SBU) Summary: In May, over 300 farmers gathered in front of the National Assembly in protest against those authorities alleged to be responsible for usurping their land. The protesters called on Prime Minister Hun Sen, the National Assembly and civil society to help in resolving their cl [...] | 2006-05-25 05:27:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV CB |
06PODGORICA12 | MONTENEGRO - COLLECTION OF TERRORIST DATA OVERSEAS [...] (SBU) Montenegro has a central immigration database kept in the Ministry of Interior headquarters which is used for tracking entries and exits. The database includes the registry of Montenegrin citizens, arrest warrants, etc. Montenegro has still not established a network to connect all border [...] | 2006-11-30 11:47:00 | Embassy Podgorica | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS |
06PODGORICA14 | TERRORIST LISTS - NONE IN MONTENEGRO [...] (SBU) No national terrorist lists, as described reftel, exist in Montenegro. The absence of such lists was confirmed by senior GoM police officials to post on December 1. FERRILL [...] | 2006-12-01 10:53:00 | Embassy Podgorica | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN ETTC KVPR PREL PTER MW |
06PORTAUPRINCE101 | HAITI ELECTIONS: OAS DISTRIBUTES OVER 60 PERCENT [...] According to OAS electoral chief Elizabeth Spehar, the OAS has received all 3.5 million ID cards and had distributed 2,070,369 or 59 percent as of their most recent reports from the field on January 11. Taking into account delayed reporting of distribution outside of Port-au-Prince, Spehar es [...] | 2006-01-13 19:18:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1012 | ROLE OF PM/PRESIDENT IN HAITI [...] (C) Introduction. President Preval is set to swear in Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis, along with his new cabinet, on June 9, whereupon Alexis will officially assume his duties. The authors of Haiti's constitution of 1987 deliberately created a powerful prime minister to serve as a che [...] | 2006-06-08 17:01:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1028 | LAVALAS REUNIFICATION MEETING FAILS [...] (C) A June 2 meeting among Famni Lavalas (FL) leaders in Port-au-Prince ended in acrimony, as the participants failed to select a new ad interim leader (in the absence of former President Aristide). The meeting was reportedly spurred in part by an intense effort by Aristide to orchestrate hi [...] | 2006-06-12 17:30:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC PINR HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1051 | AMBASSADOR CALLS ON PRIME MINISTER ALEXIS [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Alexis called the U.S-Haiti relationship and USG assistance "indispensable" and asked for a full briefing on all assistance programs at the earliest opportunity during his first meeting with the Ambassador since the ratification of his goernment on June 8. The Amb [...] | 2006-06-14 15:44:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1073 | POLICE CHIEF ANDRESOL NOMINATED FOR THREE MORE [...] (C) President Preval on June 15 announced the nomination of current Haitian National Police (HNP) Director General Mario Andresol to continue in his position for three more years. The Senate must now approve the nomination by majority vote. The justice and security committee will begin exam [...] | 2006-06-16 19:12:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1099 | GOH WANTS ALL REMAINING ELECTIONS ON ONE DATE [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Alexis on June 16 told SRSG Mullet and representatives from donor countries that President Preval wished to complete the remaining national runoffs (one senate and 11 deputy races),local, and municipal elections on the same day. Kicking off the meeting, MINUSTAH had p [...] | 2006-06-22 12:11:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE110 | HAITI: DAS PATRICK DUDDY'S ENCOUNTERS WITH FATHER [...] (C) Summary: DAS Patrick Duddy met with both Father Gerard Jean-Juste and former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune at the Pacot Prison Annex during a trip to Haiti on January 11. His visit with Jean-Juste came on the heels of his January 10th examination by a local physician, which resulted in conf [...] | 2006-01-17 13:51:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE111 | WHA/DAS DUDDY'S VISIT TO HAITI, JANUARY 10-11 [...] (C) Summary: WHA/DAS Patrick Duddy during his visit to Port-au-Prince on January 10-11 urged the IGOH, political parties, and UN and OAS officials to hold to the most recent electoral calendar, take action to improve the security environment, and encourage Haitians to participate in the elec [...] | 2006-01-17 14:01:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE112 | HAITI: FM ABRAHAM DISCUSSES DUVALIER PASSPORT [...] (C) Charge took the opportunity of a January 14 meeting with Prime Minister Gerard Latortue to fortify points DAS Duddy and DCM Griffiths raised in opposition to the interim government´s issuance of a passport (diplomatic) to former dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier (reftel). PM Latortue, in Charge [...] | 2006-01-17 20:12:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE113 | HAITI: FATHER JEAN-JUSTE, THE PM, AND THE FOMIN [...] (C) On 14 January Charge stressed to Prime Minister Gerard Latortue the need to transfer Father Gerard Jean-Juste from Haiti for medical treatment in the U.S. for what is clearly a genuine and serious illness (reftel). In Charge's presence, the PM then called Justice Minister Henri Dorleans fo [...] | 2006-01-17 20:25:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1141 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES DEPORTEES WITH INTERIOR [...] Summary: The Ambassador called on the Minister of Interior Paul Antoine Bien-Aime on June 22. They discussed the Minister's priorities, the deportation and rendition programs, and ways to further US-Haitian law enforcement and security collaboration. Bien-Aime stated that internal security, [...] | 2006-06-23 19:13:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KHLS SMIG PINR HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1184 | PREVAL TO GET ORGANIZED SOON [...] (C) Presidential advisor Alix Fils-Aime on July 27 told Polcouns that President Preval would complete the organization of his staff after his return from Europe on July 6, naming a chief-of-staff and moving operations to the national palace. Preval would not replace government staff below th [...] | 2006-06-30 16:47:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1203 | UN SRSG MULLET ON MINUSTAH, SECURITY AND HAITI [...] (S) Summary. I met with UN SRSG Edmond Mullet July 2 to discuss his views of Haiti, the security environment and other issues. Mullet said that MINUSTAH is prepared to take "decisive action" against the gangs when/if President Preval agrees. He reports that an unknown quantity of automatic w [...] | 2006-07-06 20:03:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MASS UN HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1213 | NOT QUITE READY FOR PRIME TIME? THE PREVAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-07 18:06:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1214 | HAITI: LAVALAS PARTISANS SEEK RE-EMPLOYMENT [...] (U) This document is sensitive but unclassified - protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. According to press reports, militant Lavalas partisans have threatened to recommence armed violence after July 9 if the Preval government does not reinstate them to jobs in government ministries and pub [...] | 2006-07-07 19:00:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KHLS SMIG HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1220 | MINUSTAH, GOH ASSESS RENEWED GANG VIOLENCE IN [...] (SBU) Government and MINUSTAH officials are taking stock of the gang shoot-out on July 6-7 which left more than 20 people dead in the "quartier chaud" of Martissant, south of the capital. Government/MINUSTAH meetings are underway to discuss how to manage the fallout from the Martissant inci [...] | 2006-07-10 12:18:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC HA PGOV PREL |
06PORTAUPRINCE124 | HAITI ELECTIONS: FEBRUARY 7 ON TRACK, WITH BUMPS [...] (SBU) Summary: MINUSTAH and OAS officials in a January 13 meeting with donors explained that while some significant problems need to be resolved, the February 7 first round is technically possible. Political party complaints about the number of voting centers and voting center assignments have [...] | 2006-01-18 20:00:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1241 | HAITIAN OFFICIALS COMMENT ON QUIET SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-10 20:03:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE125 | PREVAL'S CAMPAIGN OFFICE BURNED IN ST. MARC [...] (U) According to Radio Metropole, unidentified individuals burned the campaign office of L,Espwa presidential candidate Rene Preval in St. Marc (lower-Artibonite) on January 18. The demonstrators also reportedly burned a vehicle and a large poster of Preval and placed flaming barricades and [...] | 2006-01-18 20:47:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1258 | PREVAL TRIES TO DODGE ISSUE OF VENEZUELA AND UNSC [...] (C) In our early morning meeting July 10 (other topics reported septel),President Preval carefully circumvented any detailed discussion of CARICOM support for Venezuela's bid for a UNSC seat. He outright refused to say if Haiti would join a CARICOM consensus. Noting that Haiti took no active [...] | 2006-07-12 14:20:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | HA PGOV PREL UNSC |
06PORTAUPRINCE1265 | "REPORTS OF MY DEATH ARE GREATLY [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Haiti's infamous gossip network went into overdrive Tuesday and Wednesday as reports circulated widely that President Preval had died of a heart attack July 11 while working at the Presidential Palace. Pre [...] | 2006-07-13 16:38:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1266 | GOH PREPARES FOR JULY 25 DONORS, CONFERENCE [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified: please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The GOH is beginning to get into high gear for the July 25 Donors' Conference. Minister of Finance Daniel Dorsainvil outlined the GOH's priorities for the Conference: closing the financing gap, [...] | 2006-07-13 17:34:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1267 | IMF: HAITI URGENTLY NEEDS 06-07 BUDGET SUPPORT [...] Summary: Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Ugo Fasano raised a red flag concerning Haiti's fiscal year 2006-2007 financing gap. If the GOH cannot find budget support for the estimated USD 45 to 60 million deficit that will not be covered by multilateral pledges [...] | 2006-07-13 17:36:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1277 | HAITI: PREVAL APPOINTS NEW SECRETARY OF STATE FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-14 19:19:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KHLS SMIG ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1278 | LAVALAS PARTISANS PLAN PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS [...] This document is sensitive but unclassified - protect accordingly 2. (SBU) Summary. Lavalas parliamentarians say that they want to participate in the political process peacefully. Operation Pa Ka Tann and the demonstrations marking Aristide's birthday are meant to be peaceful demonstration [...] | 2006-07-14 19:21:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KHLS SMIG ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1279 | PREVAL ON SECURITY, POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT: "I [...] (C) Summary and comment. I met with President Preval early morning July 11 to discuss the current security environment, political issues, and his development priorities. I also pressed him on Haiti's position regarding Venezuela's bid for the UNSC seat (reported septel.) Preval contends Haiti [...] | 2006-07-14 20:14:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ETRD EAID HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE128 | HAITI ELECTIONS: FURTHER ON ANTI-L'ESPWA ATTACK IN [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified-- protect accordingly. 2. (U) Further details emerging from St. Marc regarding the January 18 attack on Preval campaign preparations indicate that a dispute over the location of the event precipitated the incident. According to press reports, Pre [...] | 2006-01-19 19:29:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM AA HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE129 | VOTING CENTERS CENTER OF CRITICISMS OF HAITIAN [...] (C) Summary: Political Parties and some Provisional Electoral Council employees continue to assert there are widespread problems with voting centers. MINUSTAH and the OAS reject their claims as politically and financially motivated. They have worked throughout January to rectify voting cente [...] | 2006-01-19 19:48:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE130 | TOUR D'HORIZON WITH UN ASG FOR PEACEKEEPING [...] (C) Ass't Sec'y Gen'l Hedi Annabi (strictly protect) of DPKO came over for dinner a deux at the Residence 18 January to talk the issues: a Deputy SRSG position still MIA; Haitian pressure on SRSG Valdes to perform better; weakness in Jordanian military performance and possible U.S. actions t [...] | 2006-01-19 19:55:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINS PINR PHUM HA JO |
06PORTAUPRINCE1303 | HAITI: PREVAL APPOINTS NEW SECRETARY OF STATE FOR [...] (U) Speaking at the Haitian Diaspora conference on Wednesday evening (July 12),Preval announced his choice for secretary of state for public security, Luc Eucher Joseph. SIPDIS Joseph is the former chief inspector general of the Haitian National Police. Over the past 2 years, he has worked [...] | 2006-07-19 15:44:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KHLS SMIG ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1336 | GOH AND MINUSTAH PREPARE TO TAKE ON GANGS; MANUEL [...] (C) Summary. Although July 21 has been quiet, these days of violence along Airport Road have prompted President Preval to invite MINUSTAH to take firm military action against the gangs. But Preval refuses to go public with this request and is reluctant to authorize MINUSTAH to go into the he [...] | 2006-07-21 19:23:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1343 | HAITI ELECTIONS: CHALLENGES AND RISKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Although no date has been set for remaining national level elections or the municipal and local contests, Prime Minister Alexis has informally suggested that all be held together by the end of November. Both Electoral Commission Director General Jacques Bernard and MINUSTAH e [...] | 2006-07-25 11:18:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE136 | HAITI ELECTIONS: USG-FUNDED NGO ACTIVITIES UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: Representatives from four USG-funded NGOs (UNOPS, IRI, NDI, and IFES) met with USAID project manager and poloff to review status and activities of election support projects. The meeting, held weekly, serves to ensure coordination and information sharing between projects funded [...] | 2006-01-20 13:52:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1371 | WHA A/S SHANNON'S JULY 25 VISIT TO HAITI - OVERVIEW [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-28 12:43:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | HA KPKO PGOV PREL |
06PORTAUPRINCE1374 | HAITI: THE PROVISIONAL RELEASE AND STATUS OF YVON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Haitian judicial authorities granted former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune a provisional release from prison yesterday, July 27, at approximately 1530 hours on medical grounds. MINUSTAH transported Neptune via ambulance to its field hospital near the Port-au-Prince airport, where [...] | 2006-07-28 18:28:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1376 | HAITI: DONORS REAFFIRM COMMITMENT TO HAITI AT JULY [...] Summary: The Haitian Government (GOH) hosted a Donors' Conference July 25 in Port-au-Prince that resulted in international commitments totaling USD 750 million over the next fifteen months (July 2006 to September 30, 2007). The GOH compiled a "pie in the sky" budget for this time frame of U [...] | 2006-07-28 18:42:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1379 | PREVAL SAYS CARICOM WILL SUPPORT VENEZUELA FOR [...] (C) Summary: President Preval asserted to A/S Shannon July 25 that CARICOM had adopted a common position in support of Venezuela's bid for a UNSC seat. Preval judged that Guyana had softened its opposition to Venezuela, clearing the way for a CARICOM consensus. Shannon explained that Guat [...] | 2006-07-31 14:18:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | GT HA PREL |
06PORTAUPRINCE1386 | HAITI: PM ASKS WHA A/S FOR HELP ON SECURITY, [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis told Assistant Secretary Thomas Shannon July 25 that the Donors' Conference was a success and proves Haiti is ready to assert its leadership and take back nation-building responsibilities from the international community. Alexis said the gove [...] | 2006-07-31 17:07:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAID HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1387 | PREVAL SAYS CARICOM WILL SUPPORT VENEZUELA FOR [...] (C) Summary: A/S Shannon used the opportunity of a July 25 meeting with Haitian President Preval to urge Haiti to support Guatemala for the GRULAC UNSC seat. President Preval asserted that CARICOM had adopted a common position in support of Venezuela's bid for a UNSC seat. Shannon noted th [...] | 2006-07-31 18:42:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC VZ GT HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1392 | WHA A/S SHANNON'S JULY 25 VISIT TO HAITI - OVERVIEW [...] (U) WHA A/S Thomas Shannon led the U.S. Delegation to the July 25 Haiti Donors' Conference, at which the USG pledged $210 million for the coming 12 months -- the largest amount from any donor. During his one-day visit, A/S Shannon held bilaterals with President Preval, Prime Minister Alexis, [...] | 2006-08-01 11:35:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | HA KPKO PGOV PREL |
06PORTAUPRINCE1393 | PREVAL DISCUSSES SECURITY, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND THE [...] (C) Summary. Assistant Secretary Shannon pressed President Preval on July 25 to demonstrate ways the Government of Haiti, with international assistance, could address the lack of security in Port-au-Prince. Preval said that Haiti needed to take control of its ports (where illegal arms enter [...] | 2006-08-01 11:46:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE14 | HAITI'S CENTRAL PLATEAU POOR AND ISOLATED [...] Summary: Hinche is the capital of the Centre department and only 50 miles north of Port-au-Prince, but mountains and bad roads conspire to keep it extremely isolated. Since early 2004 when the former Haitian Army (ex-FAd'H) used it as a staging ground, there has been little violence in Hinche. [...] | 2006-01-04 14:42:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA ECON EAGR EAID |
06PORTAUPRINCE1407 | HAITI: A/S SHANNON'S MEETING WITH MINUSTAH SRSG [...] (C) Summary: UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Edmond Mulet warned A/S Shannon on July 25 that provocations by former president Aristide and his supporters could erode Haiti's post-electoral stability. Mulet said that President Preval's public silence about security pro [...] | 2006-08-02 19:01:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS EAID HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE142 | OAS ESTIMATES 80 PERCENT OF HAITIAN ELECTORAL IDS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-20 20:02:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1425 | ANNAN AVOIDS PARLIAMENTARY BOYCOTT [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified - protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary. United Nations Secretary General (UNSYG) Kofi Annan canceled his scheduled visit to parliament on August 3, avoiding a boycott by what could have been a substantial number of parliamentarians. In the chamber [...] | 2006-08-04 19:32:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1426 | UNSG ANNAN VISITS HAITI, AUGUST 3-4 [...] (SBU) Summary. United Nations Secretary General (UNSYG) Kofi Annan successfully concluded his visit August 3-4 to Port-au-Prince, meeting with President Preval, Prime Minister Alexis and selected cabinet Ministers. Weather difficulties forced the UNSYG to overnight in Port-au-Prince, giving h [...] | 2006-08-04 21:06:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KUNR KPKO UNSC UN HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1476 | GOH ASKS FOR SLOWER RATE OF DEPORTATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOH requested a reduction in the number of criminal deportees to 25 every two weeks, down from the 50 previously agreed to, citing the need to better enable the GOH to absorb and process them following the escape of 27 deportees after last week,s repatriation (REF B). In lig [...] | 2006-08-10 14:28:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1481 | PPREVAL TO GANGS: DISARM OR DIE [...] (C) Six days after announcing he preferred "dialogue" to a military solution, President Preval on August 9 publicly demanded that gangs "surrender their arms or die" in a surprise visit to Cite Militaire, a Port-au-Prince slum adjacent to the gang stronghold of Cite Soleil. Preval's visit a [...] | 2006-08-10 16:27:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1487 | HAITI'S WEAK LEGISLATURE [...] Summary. The Haitian parliament as of June 12 is in regular session for the first time in nearly three years. Hampered by inadequate facilities, lack of technical support, and institutional weakness, legislators have carried out their basic functions but have failed as yet to develop a legisl [...] | 2006-08-11 15:53:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1493 | HAITI: A REACTIVE LEGISLATURE [...] (U) Summary. Haitian parliamentarians have worked within a democratic framework, forming coalitions across party lines to raise awareness to certain issues and negotiating with non-governmental organizations to start projects in their districts. Unfortunately, their agenda is largely driven b [...] | 2006-08-11 19:04:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1510 | DEMARCHE ON UNSC LEBANON RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-16 14:58:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER MOPS UNSC UN IS LE HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1514 | PRIME MINISTER TO PARLIAMENT ON INSECURITY [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified, please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: Prime Minister Jacques Eduoard Alexis on August 10-11 appeared before the parliament with the Superior Council for the National Police (CSPN) to discuss the government's plan to combat gang violence i [...] | 2006-08-16 18:57:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1522 | ARISTIDE COLLABORATORS RELEASED [...] (C) The presiding judge on August 14 released Aristide allies and Lavalas activists Anette Auguste, aka So Anne, Paul Raymond, and Yvon Antoine, aka Yvon Zapzap, and dismissed the charges against them for lack of evidence. Over the course of their roughly 18-month detention, prosecutors fai [...] | 2006-08-17 18:07:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS PHUM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1543 | PREVAL REVIVES DDR [...] (SBU) Summary. President Preval has asked MINUSTAH to develop and prepare to implement a Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration ((DDR) plan to serve as the carrot in his "carrot and stick" policy to combat Port-au-Prince's armed gangs (reftel). MINUSTAH's DDR department is preparing [...] | 2006-08-21 12:26:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR ASEC KCRM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1597 | PREVAL COMING TO DC/PENSIVE WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador met with President Preval on August 24 to review the bilateral agenda on the eve of her departure for leave and Washington consultations. Preval plans to visit Washington on September 18-19 in advance of the UN General Assembly meeting: he told the Ambassador dur [...] | 2006-08-25 18:24:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD ECON UNSC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE16 | POST'S ASSESSMENT OF MINUSTAH PERFORMANCE [...] (C) Summary: MINUSTAH's performance has been mixed. The mission has failed to make significant progress on the security front in Cite Soleil, the police mission is only partially integrated into the Haitian National Police (HNP),its elections program has been mismanaged (leading to addit [...] | 2006-01-04 20:39:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | SECRET | KPKO PREL PGOV HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1605 | MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS ON DECEMBER 3 [...] (U) The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) through its President Mr. Max Mathurin announced that the next round of elections, comprising the remaining parliamentary elections and the municipal (mayoral) and local elections, would be held on December 3. Mathurin also announced that the United S [...] | 2006-08-29 19:10:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1608 | GOH PARTICIPATION IN UNGA, REQUESTS FOR MEETINGS [...] Per ref A, Post provides the following information regarding GoH officials at the 61st UN General Assembly. A. President Preval informed the Ambassador on August 24 that he would attend the UNGA and planned to include a visit to Washington in his travel plans (ref B). -- Rene Garcia Prev [...] | 2006-08-29 19:31:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1668 | MUNICIPAL/LOCAL ELECTIONS DELAYED [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified -- protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) The Secretary General's Special Representative (SRSG) in Haiti Edmond Mulet and President Preval on September 7 agreed to delay the date of municipal, local, and pending national elections until February 7. The CEP [...] | 2006-09-08 13:35:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE169 | OAS ESTIMATES 88 PERCENT OF HAITIAN IDS DISTRIBUTED [...] The OAS reported January 23 that it has distributed 2,846,793 or 81 percent of the 3.5 million Haitian ID cards. However, taking into account delayed reporting (most of the OAS figures date from January 18 - 20) the OAS estimated it had actually distributed over 3.1 million or 88 percent of th [...] | 2006-01-24 18:53:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1755 | MINUSTAH CLOSES IN ON CITE SOLEIL [...] (C) Summary. Under continued prodding from President Preval (ref A),MINUSTAH and the HNP over the past week have taken significant steps to secure the access routes areas immediately adjacent to Cite Soleil and the major north-south artery within the district, route 9. According to MINUSTAH [...] | 2006-09-15 18:19:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR ASEC KCRM KJUS HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1789 | THE ROLE OF THE MINISTER OF PARLIAMENTARY RELATIONS [...] Sensitive but unclassified - please protect accordingly. 2. Summary: (SBU) Joseph Jasmin, a member of President Preval's Lespwa party and former deputy, serves as minister of parliamentary relations. The Preval administration created the position in hopes of improving the tumultuous relati [...] | 2006-09-21 13:14:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1798 | PM ON COOPERATION/SECURITY/ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis on September 19 reviewed with the Ambassador recent developments in the bilateral agenda. The Ambassador congratulated the PM on the previous day's signing of the bilateral aid agreement and pledged to coordinate our assistance with the GoH. [...] | 2006-09-22 13:49:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNGA ASEC KCRM KJUS HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE180 | CEP GENERATES POSITIVE PRESS COVERAGE OF HAITIAN [...] Summary: Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) Director General Jacques Bernard initiated a public awareness campaign to debunk misinformation about elections in a series of press appearances beginning January 18. Bernard appeared first in a TV interview to explain the current process and differ [...] | 2006-01-25 16:23:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE184 | A/S SHANNON ATTENDS MINUSTAH/OAS MEETING IN [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified -- protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. WHA Assistant Secretary Thomas A. Shannon represented the United States. at a meeting of senior MINUSTAH, OAS, and donor countries in Port-au-Prince on January 20. The participants agreed that election of [...] | 2006-01-25 20:40:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1846 | CEP AND MINUSTAH DISAGREE ON ELECTION DATE [...] (C) Summary: The GoH has issued the decree, dated August 31, establishing municipal, local, and the remainder of legislative elections on December 3. MINUSTAH staff and Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) staff sharply disagreed, however, on the state of elections preparations at a September [...] | 2006-09-27 17:21:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE185 | A/S SHANNON'S MEETING WITH HAITIAN INTERIM PRIME [...] (C) Summary: On January 20, Haitian interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue told WHA Assistant Secretary Thomas A. Shannon that Haiti is prepared to hold elections February 7 and March 19, and their success would be determined by Haitians' confidence in the voting structure. The PM expects [...] | 2006-01-26 12:12:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1881 | ROCKY START FOR DDR [...] (C) Summary. Forty-seven gang members from Cite Soleil on September 26 finished a week-long orientation program for the revamped Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) program (ref A),though follow-on activities remain in doubt as MINUSTAH DDR staff attempt to ensure with the [...] | 2006-09-29 18:34:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR ASEC KCRM KJUS HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE1918 | CONSENSUS ON DECEMBER 3 ELECTION DATE [...] (U) Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis invited members of the Cabinet, the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP),MINUSTAH, OAS, and the donors to an October 3 meeting to obtain a consensus on the feasibility of a December 3 election. CEP Director General Jacques Bernard presented a timeline [...] | 2006-10-06 12:25:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE194 | The Press on the Jean-Juste Case [...] Several recent radio reports have drawn attention to the evolving judicial case against Gerald Jean-Juste. The Prime Minister recently weighed in to deny reports that Caricom had refused to observe Haitian elections until all political prisoners were released. The following is an informal t [...] | 2006-01-26 19:30:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM HA PREL |
06PORTAUPRINCE2014 | UNSC DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO MFA [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified -- protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Per Ref A, Polcouns delivered the demarche regarding the UNSC vote to the minister of foreign affairs' chief of staff, Anthony Dessources, on the afternoon of October 19. (Note: With the Ambassador visiting Cap Hai [...] | 2006-10-20 16:03:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC HA GT VE |
06PORTAUPRINCE2031 | MINUSTAH/HNP ATTACKED IN CITE SOLEIL [...] (C) Summary. A MINUSTAH operation to clear rubble from an area near a Cite Soleil checkpoint on October 19 generated fierce protests from local residents. The operation ultimately resulted in an armed battle between Cite Soleil gang members and HNP/MINUSTAH forces. Attackers firing three [...] | 2006-10-24 15:31:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2065 | STUDENT PROTEST CALLS FOR THE DEPARTURE OF MINUSTAH [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified -- protect accordingly. 2. (U) Approximately 75 students from the State University of Haiti School of Human Sciences protested the &occupation of MINUSTAH8 on October 24, the day commemorating the 61st anniversary of the United Nations. The stud [...] | 2006-10-27 16:45:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2087 | CITE SOLEIL RESIDENTS PROTEST MINUSTAH [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified: protect accordingly. 2. (U) Cite Soleil residents on October 29, conducted a peaceful march protesting the presence of MINUSTAH, chanting anti-MINUSTAH slogans as they walked by a MINUSTAH outpost in the Port-au-Prince slum. Various news reports [...] | 2006-10-31 15:22:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2103 | LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN 33 DAYS: KEY TASKS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-03 14:25:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2104 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF INL A/S ANNE W. [...] (C) With your visit approaching, Haiti remains in a kind of suspended animation as its population awaits to see what lasting results are produced by President Preval's initiative to control criminality emanating from the slum area of Cite Soleil and break the power of the Cite Soleil gangs. P [...] | 2006-11-03 14:28:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR KCRM KJUS HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2105 | LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN 33 DAYS: KEY TASKS [...] This message describes the main logistical tasks to be done in preparation for the local, municipal and the remainder of the legislative elections on December 3. 2. Ballots Jacques Bernard, Director General of the Provisionary Electoral Council (CEP),reported on October 20 that ballot [...] | 2006-11-03 14:36:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE211 | HAITI ELECTIONS: SECURITY PLAN READY [...] (C) Election Day security plans remain on track, according to MINUSTAH's Chief of Elections Security and Planning, Neil Warriner. Despite rumors to the contrary, MINUSTAH UNPol and the Haitian National Police (HNP) will jointly patrol all voting centers, including those in Cite Soleil. Wa [...] | 2006-01-27 20:48:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC MARR PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2122 | CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES UNABLE TO OBTAIN QUORUM [...] (U) In the past three weeks, the chamber of deputies has found it difficult to obtain a quorum often enough to act on proposed legislation. President Preval on October 3 called an extraordinary session of the chamber of deputies to consider legislation on the structure of the judiciary, the n [...] | 2006-11-07 12:38:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2169 | A/S PATTERSON PUSHES FOR COOPERATION WITH GOH [...] (C) Summary. INL A/S Anne W. Patterson urged increased cooperation on law enforcement and intelligence gathering to combat narcotics trafficking through Haiti during her meetings on November 3 with President Preval and senior GoH and MINUSTAH officials. Repeatedly referring to the 1997 ill [...] | 2006-11-13 12:09:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR KJUS ASEC KCRM HA SNAR |
06PORTAUPRINCE217 | HAITI ELECTION DAY PROCESS AND PLANS [...] Introduction: This cable outlines the process for election day including: opening and closing of voting centers; public transportation; the steps to casting a vote; transporting the results to Port-au-Prince for tabulation; and releasing the results to the public. End Introduction. 2. Sche [...] | 2006-01-30 17:28:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2171 | ELECTIONS UPDATE [...] Summary. Elections preparations are on track and the Provisionary Electoral Council (CEP) is completing its checklist of remaining tasks, according to CEP Director General Jacques Bernard. CEP has taken over the primary role of implementing the elections but remain in daily contact with MINU [...] | 2006-11-13 14:48:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2202 | MARTISSANT VIOLENT, BUT NOT "OPERATION BAGHDAD" [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified -- protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Gang violence has increased in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Martissant during recent weeks, and local radio has given a forum to gang members who claim they are launching "Operation Baghdad II," [...] | 2006-11-15 17:54:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC HA KCRM MARR |
06PORTAUPRINCE221 | LAVALAS DEPUTIES GEAR UP FOR ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Former Fanmi Lavalas (FL) Deputy Franky Exius and Rogavil Boisguene, both current Lavalas candidates for the Haitian Parliament's lower house Chamber of Deputies, met with poloff to assert that the issue of security as a bar to elections is a "faux" problem and to voice concerns [...] | 2006-01-30 20:05:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE222 | HAITI ELECTIONS: 30 SENATORIAL SEATS AT STAKE [...] (U) Summary. Voters will elect thirty members to the Haitian senate in the upcoming elections, three each from the country's ten departments. No single party is likely to gain a majority in either the senate or the chamber of deputies, thus the new President and parliament will likely have [...] | 2006-01-30 20:24:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2230 | COLLEAGUE CHRONICLES CORRUPTION OF YOURI LATORTUE [...] (C) Summary: Senator Youri Latortue may well be the most brazenly corrupt of leading Haitian politicians, according to a colleague. The XXXXXXXXXXXX recently shared with poloffs his concerns regarding Latortue's illegal or otherwise unsavory activities in the port city of Gonaives and other ar [...] | 2006-11-20 18:20:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2233 | ANTI-MINUSTAH PROTESTS COMMEMORATE NATIONAL HOLIDAY [...] (U) This message sensitive but unclassified: please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: A spasm of anti-Minustah sentiment surfaced in Port-au-Prince leading up to and on November 18, a national holiday commemorating the 203rd anniversary of the Battle of Vertieres which led to Haitian [...] | 2006-11-20 20:38:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2243 | GOH OPEN TO RENEWED CRIMINAL TRANSFERS? [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador, accompanied by Santo Domingo-resident LEGATT and ALEGATT and Consul General, met with Justice Minister Rene Magloire and State Secretary Eucher-Luc Joseph on November 7 to discuss resumption of the transfer of Haitian criminal suspects to the United States for pros [...] | 2006-11-21 19:35:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI SNAR CASC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2244 | HAITI NON-COMMITTAL ON PROPOSED CHANGES TO [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified: please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Per ref, poloff delivered the demarche on November 17 to director of political affairs Weiner Jean Baptiste in the ministry of foreign affairs. Jean Baptiste said that this resolution was very important [...] | 2006-11-22 13:22:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2246 | HAITI ELECTIONS: ROLES OF THE NEWLY ELECTED [...] (U) Summary: The December 3 election moves Haiti closer to the decentralized governmental structure outlined in the 1987 constitution. Haitians will vote for candidates for the communal section administrative councils (CASECs),communal section assemblies (ASECs),municipal councils and town [...] | 2006-11-22 20:05:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2273 | YOUNG WOMAN'S VIOLENT MURDER SPARKS OUTRAGE; PM [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified -- please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: The kidnapping and murder of a young woman, Natasha Dessources, has shocked and angered the population of Port-au-Prince over the past two weeks. The story has caused a strong reaction from the p [...] | 2006-11-29 14:51:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2277 | HAITI'S LOCAL ELECTIONS ON TRACK FOR DECEMBER 3 [...] Summary: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) and representatives of the UN mission to Haiti (Minustah) reported that elections preparations are in the final stages, with no unscheduled loose ends remaining. In preparation for post-electoral disputes, Director General of the CEP Jacques B [...] | 2006-11-29 18:50:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2289 | PREVAL II: THE HONEYMOON'S OVER [...] (C) Summary. There is increasing talk among Haitians these days about malaise and government inertia. President Preval, now seven months into his term, i seen as isolated and distracted. Reports of dissntion within his inner circle, a poor legislativ record to date, and a failed disarmament po [...] | 2006-11-30 19:46:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2306 | ELECTIONS TAKE PLACE IN RELATIVE CALM [...] (U) Summary: Voting for municipal and local candidates proceeded smoothly with a few hiccups. Political party observers outnumbered the electorate in many voting centers and a small number of voters were turned away from the polling stations because their names did not appear on the voter reg [...] | 2006-12-03 22:38:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2320 | HAITI WILL NOT ATTEND SUMMIT IN KHARTOUM [...] (SBU) Director of political affairs Wiener Jean Baptiste told poloff December 5 that Haiti does not plan to send an envoy to the African Caribbean Pacific Group of State's Summit in Khartoum, Sudan. The GoH had considered sending their UN envoy to Khartoum, but decided that this summit was n [...] | 2006-12-05 20:02:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2323 | PREVAL TRAVELING TO CUBA FOR FURTHER MEDICAL TESTS [...] (C) President Preval will depart for Cuba on the afternoon of December 6 for further medical tests, according to Disarmament Commission President Alix Fils-Aime and President Preval's executive assistant in the palace. Fils-Aime on December 6 told Polcouns during a meeting on other topics [...] | 2006-12-06 19:58:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HA CU |
06PORTAUPRINCE2338 | ELECTIONS: 4 DAYS AFTER [...] (U) Four days following Haiti,s 3rd round of elections, Provisionary Electoral Council,s (CEP) officials are closely holding all results because, according to CEP Director General Jacques Bernard, several races are extremely close and he wants to be certain of the results. According to OAS, t [...] | 2006-12-07 20:20:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2339 | PREVAL WELCOMES SENATOR DEWINE AND REPRESENTATIVE [...] (C) Summary: President Rene Preval met with Senator DeWine (R-OH),Representative Schakowsky (D-IL) and the Ambassador at the National Palace November 29 in advance of a cocktail reception Preval held in honor of DeWine. Preval stressed that insecurity in Port-au-Prince is not due to politica [...] | 2006-12-08 12:32:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2341 | PM ELATED FOLLOWING MADRID CONFERENCE, BLAMES [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis met with WHA Deputy Assistant Secretary Patrick Duddy, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and the Ambassador December 3 for a cheerful meeting after returning from the donors, conference in Madrid. PM Alexis stressed the importance of the [...] | 2006-12-08 18:45:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE235 | HAITI ELECTIONS: FEBRUARY 7 OR BUST [...] (C) Summary: In a January 27 elections meeting with the OAS, MINUSTAH, and donors, Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) Director General Jacques Bernard stated that the only obstacle to the February 7 election date is fear; logistical matters will not keep the people from voting. He assured t [...] | 2006-02-01 15:53:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2359 | PM ON INSECURITY AND DEPORTEES [...] (U) Prime Minister Jacques Eduoard Alexis on December 7 appeared before the chamber of deputies with the Superior Council for the National Police (CSPN) to discuss the government's continued efforts to combat gang violence in Port-au-Prince. The PM answered questions for several hours, justif [...] | 2006-12-11 16:25:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2364 | GOH NONCOMMITTAL ON SUDAN RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-11 19:55:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA PHUM PREL SU UN HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2367 | MARTISSANT HOTSPOT FOR GANG VIOLENCE [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified -- please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: The murder of a Haitian National Police officer during the December 3 elections sparked a new wave of gang violence in the Martissant neighborhood in the south of Port-au-Prince. MINUSTAH presenc [...] | 2006-12-12 19:38:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC KCRM MARR HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2371 | STUDENTS ARE REVOLTING [...] (U) Summary: Recent student protests culminated on December 5 with a demonstration in front of the Prime Minister's office that devolved into confrontations between MINUSTAH personnel and students who threw rocks and vandalized MINUSTAH vehicles. Three groupings appear to have generated the [...] | 2006-12-13 12:39:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2373 | GOH TO ANNOUNCE NEW CARICOM OFFICE [...] Summary: President Rene Preval appointed a new advisory council on external relations consisting of financial specialists Marie Michelle Rey, Charles Clarmant, and Preval's financial advisor (and presumed fiancee) Elizabeth Delatour. He created the advisory council in September to review rel [...] | 2006-12-14 17:17:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2374 | JACQUES BERNARD RESIGNING FROM CEP TODAY [...] (C) Summary. Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) Director General Jacques Bernard called on the Ambassador on the morning of December 14 to inform her that he was submitting his resignation to CEP President Max Mathurin later in the day. Bernard stated that with the completion of the local [...] | 2006-12-14 18:34:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2385 | PREVAL TELLS MINUSTAH TO TARGET THE GANGS [...] (C) President Preval on December 15 directed SRSG Mulet to have MINUSTAH forces conduct targeted operations against known leaders in Cite Soleil and other Port-au-Prince slums, according to MINUSTAH political staff. Senior MINUSTAH civilian staff present at a birthday party for Mulet's chief [...] | 2006-12-15 17:02:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR ASEC KCRM HA BR |
06PORTAUPRINCE2387 | SENATORS PRESS PM ON INSECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis, acting in his capacity as chief of the High Council of the National Police (CSPN),testified December 13 in front of the senate commission on defense, justice and security, pledging to undertake actions against the bandits responsible for t [...] | 2006-12-15 18:27:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE239 | NATIONAL DIALOGUE CHAIRMAN ANTICIPATES DESMOND [...] (U) Haiti's Ambassador at Large for National Dialogue Monsignor Gayot, Bishop of Cap-Haitien, met with the Charge on January 31 to discuss the arrival of South African Bishop Desmond Tutu on February 12-13. Bishop Tutu will be in Haiti to work with the National Dialogue in its effort to prom [...] | 2006-02-01 20:48:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2396 | GOH UNAWARE OF DECEMBER 19 VOTE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-18 19:05:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE240 | DDR IN HAITI: EMMANUEL ARISTIDE'S LEGACY [...] Summary: The recent arrest of Disarmament, Demobilization and Re-Insertion (DDR) participant Emmanuel Aristide provoked renewed questioning of MINUSTAH's DDR strategy targeting armed gang members in the violent slums of Port-au-Prince. Without some kind of peace accord or an amnesty agreement [...] | 2006-02-01 20:53:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2409 | UN TAKING ACTION AGAINST INSECURITY [...] (C) MINUSTAH plans to execute one targeted operation in Port-au-Prince every other day with the goal of arresting gang members, according to Mike Center (strictly protect),deputy chief of MINUSTAH's Joint Mission Analysis Centre (JMAC). Center told Poloff on December 18 that JMAC is selectin [...] | 2006-12-19 16:21:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM KPKO MARR ASEC MOPS HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2424 | MINUSTAH/HNP TO MOVE ON CITE SOLEIL [...] (C) Summary: MINUSTAH and the HNP are finalizing plans to move against specific gang leaders in Cite Soleil. Acting UNPol Commissioner Richard Warren and Haitian Police (HNP) Director General Andresol completed an operational plan on December 20 and hope to conduct an operation by December 2 [...] | 2006-12-21 16:59:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR ASEC KCRM KJUS HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2433 | HIGH ANXIETY OVER SECURITY [...] (C) The recent spate of high-profile kidnappings and the GoH's stumbling response has become the singular issue in Haitian politics and public discourse. While panic has not yet set in, the Port-au-Prince population has begun to alter their work and private routines and much of daily life aga [...] | 2006-12-21 20:13:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR ASEC KCRM KJUS HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2448 | UN STABILIZATION PROGRAM: FILLING THE GOH GAP [...] Summary: The United Nations announced on December 18 an appeal for USD 97.9 million in support of the economic and social stabilization of Haiti over the next 18 months (January 2007 -- June 2008). The plan proposes 55 separate programs run by the various UN organizations in the areas where [...] | 2006-12-22 17:17:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2453 | POLICE CHIEF CRITICIZES JUSTICE SYSTEM [...] (C) Summary: Director General of the Haitian National Police (HNP) Mario Andresol denounced Haiti's corrupt justice system December 15 at a graduation ceremony for 567 cadets. He claimed the justice system "consists of a dictatorship of some judges who arbitrate based on their own interpretati [...] | 2006-12-26 18:34:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2459 | MINUSTAH BEGINS TARGET OPERATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and the Haitian National Police (HNP) carried out a joint operation in Cite Soleil on the morning of December 22, beginning at approximately 4 a.m. (ref A). MINUSTAH,s A/Deputy Commissioner OPS Neil Warriner is pleased [...] | 2006-12-26 20:52:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE246 | HAITI: FATHER JEAN-JUSTE FLIES TO MIAMI FOR [...] (C) Summary: The Haitian Court of Appeals issued an order on January 29 authorizing Father Gerard Jean-Juste to fly to Miami to seek treatment for leukemia. Initially, the IGOH attempted to let the case wind its way through the Haitian judicial system, but eventually bowed to weeks of pressure [...] | 2006-02-02 19:55:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2471 | ARISTIDE'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE TO HAITIANS [...] (U) Former President Jean Bertrand Aristide sent his third Christmas message from South Africa to the Haitian people since his departure in February 2004. Aristide writes in "Daki," or Creole parables, to send messages to his partisans. This year, Aristide urged his followers to stay mobili [...] | 2006-12-28 20:00:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2474 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: 25 DAYS AFTER [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified -- protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) has published 99 percent of all election results from the December 3 round. Of the published results, candidates have contested 15 percent. Following resolution of th [...] | 2006-12-29 14:40:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE2476 | STUDENTS CONTINUE TO PROTEST INSECURITY [...] (U) Summary: December 26 and 28 were marked by student protests in Port-au-Prince. In accordance with what has become the central issue across all sectors in Haiti in recent weeks, demonstrators took to the streets and organized a sit-in protesting violence and kidnappings and demanding that [...] | 2006-12-29 14:56:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HA KDEM |
06PORTAUPRINCE2477 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT REFLECTS ON THE 48TH [...] (SBU) Summary: The first session of the 48th Legislature concluded on December 28. National Assembly President Joseph Lambert believes that the legislators laid the foundation for a stronger democratic institution with the prospect of greater productivity in the future despite the paucity of [...] | 2006-12-29 15:21:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE249 | HAITI VOTE TABULATION CENTER [...] Summary: On January 27 and 29 PDAS Jonathan Farrar and Charge Carney separately visited the Vote Tabulation Center (VTC),which will be the nerve center of Haiti's election results tabulation. The VTC is located roughly one km from the MINUSTAH base at the Port-au-Prince airport. MINUSTAH ha [...] | 2006-02-02 20:48:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE251 | OAS REPORTS 89 PERCENT BUT ESTIMATES 94 PERCENT OF [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-02 21:03:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE252 | HAITIAN ELECTIONS TECHNICALLY READY, BUT POLITICAL [...] Introduction: In a meeting with the donors and international elections partners February 1, Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) Director General gave a readout from the January 29 elections simulation. The simulation tested distribution of materials, the status of the Voting Centers (VC),and [...] | 2006-02-03 18:23:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE253 | SIMEUS URGES HAITIANS TO VOTE; NOT SUPPORTING ANY [...] (C) Summary: Charge met with disqualified AmCit presidential candidate Dumarsais Simeus February 1. Simeus said he would hold a press conference February 2 to encourage people to vote. He further explained that he would not publicly back any presidential candidate, but would fully support [...] | 2006-02-03 18:41:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE259 | WILL HAITI HOLD CREDIBLE ELECTIONS? [...] (C) Summary: Haitian and international election authorities face uncertainties as they prepare to conduct the first round of Haiti's elections on February 7. The most serious of these are the competence and performance of poll workers, particularly at rural and isolated voting centers, and t [...] | 2006-02-04 19:33:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE260 | CAMPAIGN ENDS PEACEFULLY IN HAITI [...] This message is sensative but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Campaigning in Haiti officially ended Saturday, February 4. Presidential Charles (Charlito) Henri Baker was the only candidate to hold a mass rally in Port-au-Prince. Front-runner Rene Preval cance [...] | 2006-02-05 21:32:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC PKAO KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE261 | HAITI ELECTIONS OBSERVATIONS #2 [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Haiti remained calm on election day minus two. Election Observation Teams (EOTs) in Port-au-Prince reported that the streets were quiet and that elections authorities continued to finalize preparat [...] | 2006-02-05 21:52:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC PKAO KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE266 | HAITI ELECTIONS OBSERVATIONS 1 [...] Summary: As of 1530 local/EST five of six teams dispatched to the countryside had arrived safely at their cities of observation except for Election Observation Team (EOT) Hinche, which is still on the road. EOT Hinche estimates it should arrive by 1830 local/EST. Three EOTs are on the grou [...] | 2006-02-06 12:37:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ASEC PKAO KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE275 | HAITI ELECTIONS OBSERVATIONS #3 [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: All six provincial Election Observation Teams (EOTs) unanimously report calm in their areas. Port-au-Prince EOTs and Embassy staff report light traffic but normal commercial activity. MINUSTAH pol [...] | 2006-02-06 21:01:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC PKAO KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE282 | HAITI ELECTIONS: UN SAYS HNP DID GREAT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-08 19:17:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE283 | HAITI ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY A SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: From all accounts, Haitian Election Day concluded successfully on February 7. Few Bureaux de vote (BVs) opened on schedule but once voting began and after the initial rush into the Voting Centers, the majority of the crowds assumed orderly lines and displayed remarkable patie [...] | 2006-02-08 20:34:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ASEC PKAO KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE284 | HAITI ELECTIONS: LATORTUE OPTIMISTIC, LOOKING TO [...] SUMMARY. In a meeting with DAS Duddy, four Congressional staffers and Charge on 6 February, Interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue expressed confidence about the upcoming elections but noted that the days following the election would be critical. He expected that results would be available [...] | 2006-02-09 13:45:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE29 | HAITIAN PRIVATE SECTOR LEADERS CALL FOR GENERAL [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Leaders of the Haitian business community told Charge that they would call a general strike for Monday, January 9 to protest MINUSTAH,s ineffectiveness in countering the recent upswing of violence and kidnappings. Represe [...] | 2006-01-06 12:07:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON ELAB EFIN HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE299 | LATORTUE'S PLAN FOR HAITI'S FUTURE, THOUGHTS ON [...] SUMMARY. In a 6 February meeting with DAS Duddy, four Congressional staff and Charge, Interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue laid out his views on the continuing challenges in Haiti as well as the keys to breaking the cycle of failure. His frank yet optimistic assessment echoed similar messa [...] | 2006-02-10 18:25:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE304 | HAITIANS PONDER A PREVAL PRESIDENCY [...] (SBU) Summary: With the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) having announced preliminary results on the evening of February 9 showing that Rene Preval had a considerable lead, Haitians across the political spectrum are concluding that Rene Preval has won the presidency and coming to grips wit [...] | 2006-02-10 20:24:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE31 | HAITI ELECTIONS: MINUSTAH LOGISTICS IN PLACE, [...] (C) Summary: The MINUSTAH head of elections operations and logistics reported that MINUSTAH will be prepared logistically to administer elections, but that Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) must take some policy decisions to avoid additional delays. MINUSTAH is ready to begin training poll [...] | 2006-01-06 12:45:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE311 | PREVAL LEADS, BUT UNLIKELY TO EXCEED 50 PERCENT [...] (S) Summary: Rene Preval continues to lead the Haitian race for president with 48.73 percent of the vote. As of 6:30 a.m. February 13, the CEP had entered 8281 of the 9208 or 89 percent of the proces verbaux (PV) into its database. The remaining roughly 1000 are either being examined before t [...] | 2006-02-13 20:12:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE312 | PRO-PREVAL DEMONSTRATIONS COVER PORT-AU-PRINCE [...] (C) Summary: Preval supporters are staging demonstrations as small as 50 people and as large as 4000-5000 at the SONAPI Voting Tabulation Center. The demonstrators are chanting in support of Preval and are calling for the announcement of a first-round victory. Post is concerned that demons [...] | 2006-02-13 20:13:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE314 | HAITI ELECTIONS: WHY UNDERVOTES COUNT, WHY THE NDI [...] Article 185 of the Haitian electoral law, created by Presidential decree on February 11, 2005 in consultation with the international community, stipulates that any ballot that is either properly filled out or left blank must be counted as a vote once placed in a ballot box. This stipulation [...] | 2006-02-14 18:20:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE315 | HAITI ELECTIONS: WHY UNDERVOTES COUNT, WHY THE NDI [...] Article 185 of the Haitian electoral law, created by Presidential decree on February 11, 2005 in consultation with the international community, stipulates that any ballot that is either properly filled out or left blank must be counted as a vote once placed in a ballot box. This stipulation [...] | 2006-02-14 18:24:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE316 | HAITI ELECTIONS: PROVINCES DID NOT GIVE PREVAL A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While Presidential front-runner Rene Preval holds a clear majority in the West department and a very slight majority in the Southeast, he has not established a majority in the remaining eight departments. However, he is leading in all departments except the Northwest, where [...] | 2006-02-14 20:03:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE317 | PREVAL SPEAKS: CONTINUE PROTESTS, BUT DO SO [...] (SBU) Summary: Presidential candidate Rene Preval held a press conference February 14. Preval insisted that his party stands for peace. However, he said that the party is convinced that massive fraud took place and that if results are published in their current state, L'Espwa would legally [...] | 2006-02-15 14:52:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE321 | HAITI ELECTIONS IMPASSE [...] (C) Summary: Ninety-two percent of the vote tally sheets (Proces Verbaux or PVs) had been recorded before the CEP ordered counting stopped February 14. Based on internal projections, MINUSTAH officials do not believe that the uncounted PVs would push Rene Preval over the fifty percent mark [...] | 2006-02-15 20:22:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE324 | Haiti: Anti-TIP Proposal for ESF Funds, FY 2006 [...] Please find a proposal submitted by the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) Haiti for anti-trafficking in persons ESF funding for FY 2006. Post fully supports this proposal as the submission best tailored to combat trafficking in persons in Haiti. The proposal tar [...] | 2006-02-16 20:09:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN KCRM PHUM ELAB PREL SMIG ASEC |
06PORTAUPRINCE335 | Haiti: Anti-TIP Proposal for INCLE Funds, FY 2006 [...] Please find a proposal submitted by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for anti-trafficking in persons INCLE funding for FY 2006. Post fully supports this proposal as the submission best tailored to combat trafficking in persons in Haiti from a law enforce [...] | 2006-02-17 20:17:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN KCRM PHUM ELAB PREL SMIG ASEC |
06PORTAUPRINCE336 | PRESIDENTIAL VOTE COUNT ENDED, OTHER COUNTING [...] Summary: MINUSTAH reports that it has stopped counting presidential ballots, and Provisional Electoral Council Director General Jacques Bernard says the CEP will formally announce results soon. Meanwhile, vote counting for the deputy and senate races began February 16; MINUSTAH has already fi [...] | 2006-02-17 20:51:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE337 | REACTION TO PREVAL'S FIRST-ROUND VICTORY [...] Summary: Political and civil society leaders have largely resigned themselves to the CEP's decision to declare Rene Preval's victory with 51.15 percent of the vote in the first round of voting. Leslie Manigat declared the decision a "coup d 'etat," but said that he would do nothing against [...] | 2006-02-17 20:55:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE348 | CEP PRESSURED TO ANOINT PREVAL UNTIL HIS [...] (C) Summary: Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) General Director Jacques Bernard and members of the CEP report that they came under extreme pressure from the executive to "throw the election" to Rene Preval as vote counting for the Haitian presidential race came to a close February 12 and 13. [...] | 2006-02-22 13:53:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE355 | MINUSTAH PROJECTS ONE WEEK DELAY FOR SECOND ROUND [...] MINUSTAH officials project a delay of one week from the previously announced date of March 19 for the second round run-off election. They blame the slippage primarily on the delay in vote tabulation, caused by public demonstrations in reaction to the presidential vote count (ref B). They als [...] | 2006-02-22 20:40:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO EAID HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE36 | PM LATORTUE ON ELECTIONS, NEPTUNE AND JEAN-JUSTE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue told Charge January 5 that the interim government (IGOH) does not object to examination and diagnosis of imprisoned priest Gerard Jean-Juste by the physician of his choice. Before options for treatment would be explored, however, Latortue [...] | 2006-01-06 21:12:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE361 | HAITI: MANIGAT'S WIFE WITHDRAWS FROM SENATE RACE [...] (U) Myrlande Manigat, the Assembly of Progressive National Democrats (RDNP) senatorial candidate for the West (Port-au-Prince),abruptly withdrew from the race February 21 despite having won enough votes to qualify for the second round run-off election. With all senatorial ballots counted ( [...] | 2006-02-24 15:30:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL PGOV HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE365 | MAJORITY OF CEP PLEDGE SUPPORT FOR BERNARD [...] (C) Summary: Six of nine members of Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) reaffirmed their support for the CEP's Director General Jacques Bernard in a public letter February 23. CEP president chief of staff Duchatelier told poloff February 22 that Jacques Bernard was indispensable for [...] | 2006-02-24 17:14:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO EAID HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE366 | FINAL RESULTS IN HAITI SENATE RACES [...] (SBU) MINUSTAH elections chief Gerardo Lechevallier provided polcouns a copy of the final vote tally for the senate and deputy races on the evening of February 23. Lechevallier reported that the CEP had completed the tabulation on February 20, but had ordered the results embargoed, at least [...] | 2006-02-24 19:02:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL PGOV HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE37 | JUSTICE MINISTER ON JEAN-JUSTE, NEPTUNE AND ARMS [...] (SBU) In a January 5 meeting with Charge, interim Minister of Justice Henri Dorleans said he had no problem with imprisoned priest Gerard Jean-Juste receiving medical examinations from the doctor of his choice at Canape Vert hospital under MINUSTAH security. The minister also discussed releas [...] | 2006-01-06 21:13:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE38 | BAKER CAMPAIGN WORKER SHOT AND KILLED [...] (C) On the evening of January 5, three unidentified assailants shot and killed Emmanual Corneille, Charles Henri Baker's campaign director for the South and Southwest. According to DCPJ Michel Lucius, Corneille was leaving his house in Petionville and was shot in his car after resisting robb [...] | 2006-01-06 21:16:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE397 | L'ESPWA ADVANCES 37 DEPUTY CANDIDATES TO SECOND [...] (SBU) Based on the most recent information available to post from the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) and partial results provided by MINUSTAH staff last week, post provides the following summary of results. The top two candidates in each of the 99 districts advance to the second round, [...] | 2006-03-03 16:15:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE410 | HAITI ELECTIONS: DATE FOR SECOND ROUND UNDER [...] (U) The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) is meeting this afternoon, March 3, to discuss when to hold the second round parliamentary elections. Only one seat in the Chamber of Deputies of the total 129 legislative seats contested was won in the February 7 general election. Following the de [...] | 2006-03-03 20:12:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO EAID HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE418 | CEP DIRECTOR GENERAL RETURNS TO HAITI [...] (C) Summary: After two weeks of uncertainty, Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) Director General (DG) Jacques Bernard returned to Haiti on March 5 to re-assume his position. A delegation of CEP members headed by CEP President Max Mathurin met him at the airport. In Bernard's absence, six [...] | 2006-03-06 15:47:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO EAID HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE45 | NEW DATES FOR HAITIAN ELECTION SET, FIRST ROUND [...] Summary: After a weekend of political maneuvering, the first round of national elections is set for February 7, the second round for March 12, the inauguration for March 29, and the local and municipal elections for April 30. Elections machinations began January 6 when the Provisional Electora [...] | 2006-01-09 20:33:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE459 | UN'S POLICE AGREEMENT CAUSES FUROR [...] (C) Summary. The Supplemental Agreement on Haitian National Police (HNP) reform (SA),signed by Prime Minister Latortue and the SRSG Valdes in New York on February 22 and has caused a political firestorm in recent days. Haitian objections center on clauses of the accord that could subordinat [...] | 2006-03-08 20:34:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE467 | HAITI ELECTIONS: DONORS PUSH FOR EARLY SECOND [...] Summary: Donors met March 7 with CEP and Minustah representatives to urge that the calendar for the second round legislative elections be established as soon as possible. Minustah and the CEP discussed a possible timeline for completion of the contestation process and necessary logistical p [...] | 2006-03-09 18:07:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO EAID HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE476 | HAITI ELECTIONS: ANNOUNCEMENT OF SECOND ROUND [...] (C) Charge d'Affaires met with Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) President Max Mathurin and CEP Councilor Josefa Gauthier over breakfast March 10. Mathurin confirmed that a press conference was scheduled for noon March 10 to announce the electoral calendar. The CEP has already prepared a [...] | 2006-03-10 17:10:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO EAID HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE479 | HAITI: FORMER PM YVON NEPTUNE SIGNALS WILLINGNESS [...] (C) Summary: Former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune appears ready to negotiate a humanitarian release with the IGOH, after months of numerous attempts by emboffs and other representatives of the international community. During a visit by poloff on March 9, Neptune enumerated three conditions fo [...] | 2006-03-12 17:47:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE500 | ARRIVAL AT POST - AMBASSADOR JANET A. SANDERSON [...] Ambassador Janet A. Sanderson arrived at post on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 at 12:57 p.m. local time and assumed charge. 2. The Certificate of Transfer relinquishing charge of Embassy Port-au-Prince from Charge Griffiths to Janet A. Sanderson was signed and is filled with post's permanent [...] | 2006-03-15 18:12:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE511 | HAITI ELECTIONS: EMBASSY TURNS OFF NATIONALITY [...] (C) Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) President Max Mathurin told Charge on March 9 that "the executive" had prepared a letter from the nationality committee, an ad hoc group of cabinet members convened to prevent candidates holding foreign citizenship to run for office (ref A),requesting t [...] | 2006-03-17 16:36:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE543 | HAITI ELECTION NEWS ROUND-UP [...] (C) Summary: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) is completing review of claims arising from the February 7 General Election and should finalize candidate lists for second round Senate and Chamber of Deputy candidates by March 20. According to CEP Director General Jacques Bernard, at l [...] | 2006-03-23 19:50:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO EAID HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE559 | PREVAL IN WASHINGTON: SEEKING STATUS [...] (C) President elect Rene Garcia Preval's goal for his visit to the White House and State Department is to send an unequivocal message to Haitians at home and observers abroad that the USG is fully committed to supporting his government. He believes that a meeting with President Bush (and the [...] | 2006-03-26 16:19:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE595 | USAID-MINUSTAH PARTNERSHIP ADVANCES PEACE IN [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified: please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary. This message summarizes the Haiti Transition Initiative (HTI),the USAID sponsored program to reduce violence and restore stability in Port au Prince's most volatile slums. USAID's Office of Transition [...] | 2006-04-03 14:12:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PKAO MARR ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE612 | UNDER SECRETARY SHINER,S VISIT TO HAITI [...] Summary. Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, Josette S. Shiner, visited Haiti March 24 - 25 as part of a review of UN assistance programs. She traveled to a rural township in northeast Haiti where the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) assists with [...] | 2006-04-04 17:46:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE637 | HAITI ELECTIONS: PLANNERS APPLY LESSONS LEARNED [...] (C) Summary. UN Mission (MINUSTAH) officials are confident they will be much better prepared to conduct the second round of national elections and working to apply lessons learned from the first round. MINUSTAH has ordered its military planners to develop the overall security plan, taking o [...] | 2006-04-07 17:32:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM MARR ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE666 | RESUMPTION OF CRIMINAL DEPORTATIONS REMAINS STALLED [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified: please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Poloffs delivered the Resumption of Criminal Deportations non-paper to Interim Minister of Interior Paul Magloire on April 7. Magloire made no firm commitments to resume the program but asked for USG [...] | 2006-04-12 13:11:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KHLS SMIG HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE669 | HAITI: NEPTUNE CASE STALEMATED [...] (C) Summary: Embassy reports indicate that the health of former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune continues to decline as both he and Interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue remain locked in a stalemate. The interim government is willing to broker a humanitarian release deal, provided that the gover [...] | 2006-04-12 15:46:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE718 | HAITI ELECTIONS: ALL SET FOR SECOND ROUND [...] (C) Summary. The Director General of Haiti's CEP, Jacques Bernard, and MINUSTAH elections chief Gerardo LeChevallier expressed confidence on April 18 that elections preparations were in place and that the second round would proceed smoothly on Friday, April 21. MINUSTAH military leaders als [...] | 2006-04-21 12:29:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE719 | INVITATION TO PREVAL INAUGURATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-21 17:02:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE720 | HAITI ELECTIONS: ORDERLY WITH LIGHT TURNOUT [...] (SBU) Summary. Voting for the second round of parliamentary elections is proceeding smoothly with light turnout as of 1330. Estimates range from 10 to 20 percent participation so far. The CEP has taken to the airwaves to encourage voting, emphasizing better organization at voting centers and [...] | 2006-04-21 19:13:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE721 | HAITIANS SUCCESSFULLY CONCLUDE SECOND ROUND OF [...] The vote for Haiti's parliament concluded in an orderly fashion at 1600 on April 21, and Embassy teams reported a quick conclusion of vote tallying at the voting centers they observed. MINUSTAH officials at the vote tabulation center in Port-au-Prince informed the Ambassador on the morning of [...] | 2006-04-24 17:11:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ASEC KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE722 | HAITI ELECTIONS: NATIONAL TURNOUT 30.6% [...] CEP officials informed Emboff the morning of April 24 that with 98% of results tallied, voter turnout for the second round on April 21 was 30.6 nationally. The West Department, including Port-au-Prince and representing roughly one third of the total population, registered 20% turnout. The No [...] | 2006-04-24 17:58:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ASEC KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE755 | FUSION'S GAILLARD OPTIMISTIC ABOUT PREVAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Fusion party spokesman Micha Gaillard believes that Haitian politics have entered a new era of negotiation and compromise as a direct result of President-elect Rene Preval,s conciliatory approach and endeavors to build a coalition government. Gaillard and his party are enthusi [...] | 2006-04-27 20:22:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE756 | PRESIDENT ALEXANDRE RESISTS RELEASING NEPTUNE [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified -- protect accordingly. Â [...] | 2006-04-27 20:43:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE807 | HAITI: NSC-DIRECTED COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY REVIEW [...] Despite their close geographical proximity, there is little or no Haitian direct investment in Cuba. 2. Haiti has no bilateral trade agreements with Cuba. 3. Haiti hosts approximately 500 Cuban doctors who provide medical services to the country. During an April 12-14, 2006 visit by [...] | 2006-05-05 18:22:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | CU ETRD ETTC PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE819 | FOREIGN MINISTER GIVES MIXED SIGNALS ON RETURN OF [...] Summary: Foreign Minister Herard Abraham agrees that Haitian criminal deportees must return to Haiti but asked for more time to develop a process for their reintegration into Haitian society. Without such a system, Haiti would be vulnerable to increased crime. Abraham acknowledged that the A [...] | 2006-05-08 21:01:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KHLS SMIG HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE828 | LEGISLATIVE ELECTION RESULTS FINALIZED [...] (U) The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) certified the results of the April 21 Parliamentary elections on May 6. The results are official with their May 8 publication in the official government gazette, Le Moniteur. As finalized, the results include 27 Senators and 86 Deputies and differ l [...] | 2006-05-11 11:31:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE832 | LAVALAS FEELS LEFT OUT BY PREVAL [...] (C) Summary: Newly-elected Lavalas parliamentarians Rudy Heriveaux, Coffy Jonas, and Sorel Francois complain that Preval has excluded Lavalas in his outreach to other political parties and the development of his 25-year plan. Lavalas is, nevertheless, still ready to work with Preval on mutual [...] | 2006-05-11 20:12:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE851 | PRESIDENT PREVAL PREPARES A CAUTIOUS START [...] (C) Summary. President-elect Rene Preval has articulated the broad outlines of an economic and political development plan for Haiti, but has not put himself in a position to launch a detailed set of programs or legislative agenda in his first days in office. USG interlocutors will likely have [...] | 2006-05-12 19:56:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE854 | PREVAL SUCCESSFULLY INAUGURATED PRESIDENT OF HAITI [...] (U). President Preval took the oath of office before the Haitian parliament and Haitian and international dignitaries on May 14. The ceremonies also included a mass celebrated at Port-au-Prince's Catholic cathedral and concluded with President Preval's address to the nation at the presidenti [...] | 2006-05-15 14:17:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE865 | HAITI: INAUGURATION DAY PRISON RIOT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Prisoners in the maximum security section of the national penitentiary (known as "Titanic") began rioting hours before President Preval assumed office on the morning of May 14. The prisoners broke the locks on the prison cells and mounted the inner prison walls shouting pro-Pr [...] | 2006-05-15 19:49:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE867 | PREVAL'S CHIEF FOREIGN POLICY FORECASTS PRAGMATISM [...] (C) Summary: Fritz Longchamp, Rene Garcia Preval's foreign policy advisor provided a circumspect review of the major foreign policy issues facing the new administration to Emboffs May 8. Longchamp claimed that the Preval team had yet to focus on external relations and develop a foreign pol [...] | 2006-05-15 20:03:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE880 | HAITI: FORMER POPULAR ORGANIZATION LEADER RENE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-17 17:45:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE881 | CRIMINAL DEPORTATIONS ARE SCHEDULED TO RESUME [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-17 18:04:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KHLS SMIG HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE900 | HAITI ELECTIONS: WHERE ARE WE AND WHAT NEXT [...] (C) Summary: With the successful presidential inauguration and nearly 90 percent of legislators seated, Haiti's electoral process is almost completed. Municipal (mayoral) and local elections remain requiring only a relative majority and therefore just one round. Additionally, three remaini [...] | 2006-05-19 18:51:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM EAID HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE901 | GOVERNOR BUSH'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT PREVAL [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified -- protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) President-elect Rene Preval met with Florida Governor Jeb Bush, head of the official U.S. delegation including the Ambassador and Florida State Secretary for Health Dr. Rony Francois, on the morning of his May 14 i [...] | 2006-05-19 18:53:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE92 | HAITIAN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES ELECTIONS COMMITTEE [...] (U) Interim government President Boniface Alexandre announced January 11 the Committee of Guarantee (COG) for Elections. In part reading from the executive order that will create the COG, Alexandre explained that the committee, comprised of members of political parties (five) and civil societ [...] | 2006-01-12 21:31:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PKAO HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE93 | HAITI: PM´S RESPONSE TO DUVALIER PASSPORT ISSUANCE [...] (C) Charge d´Affaires Griffiths and DAS Duddy raised reftel points with Prime Minister Latortue during a meeting on January 11. DAS Duddy expressed USG concern over former president Duvalier´s application for a Haitian passport which would facilitate his return to Haiti. Duddy asked Latortue [...] | 2006-01-12 21:31:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE936 | PARLIAMENT TO CONSIDER ALEXIS NOMINATION FOR PM [...] (C) Summary: Parliament is set to open discussion on President Preval's nomination of Jacques Edouard Alexis today, May 24. Most observers expect a vote on Alexis by the end of this week. Political leaders have voiced objection to Alexis, but appear to be positioning themselves to negotiate [...] | 2006-05-24 17:51:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PINR HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE940 | PROSECUTOR ASKS APPEALS COURT TO DISMISS CHARGES [...] The appeal hearing for the 30 La Syrie defendants ended on the afternoon of May 23 in Gonaives. Thierry Fagart, the director of MINUSTAH,s Human Rights Section (which has been monitoring the trial),informed poloff that the prosecutor recommended to the court that it overrule the decision of th [...] | 2006-05-25 13:58:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE941 | HAITI: BRAZILIANS ASSUME CONTROL OVER CITE SOLEIL [...] (C) Per reftel B, the Brazilian Battalion of MINUSTAH has assumed Cite Soleil as its area of responsibility (AOR),replacing the Jordanian Battalion as of 23 May. The MINUSTAH memo ordering the change stated that the new Brazilian AOR will take advantage of the strengths of both battalions whi [...] | 2006-05-25 14:17:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE945 | SENATE APPROVES ALEXIS, DEPUTIES VOTE PENDING [...] (SBU) The senate on the afternoon of May 25 approved the nomination of Jacques Edouard Alexis by a vote of 20 to 4. The OPL bloc of four voted against Alexis, according to press reports. The vote in the chamber of deputies is pending. Alexis told the Ambassador today (May 25) that he was con [...] | 2006-05-25 20:04:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE952 | DEPORTEES RETURN TO HAITI [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-31 13:22:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KJUS KCRM HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE968 | SRSG MULET SEEKS USG MEETINGS IN SANTO DOMINGO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-31 18:32:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HA DR |
06PORTAUPRINCE973 | DEMARCHE ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-01 18:39:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HA IR |
06PORTAUPRINCE983 | NEW SRSG STIRS POT ON JUDICIAL REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary. Remarks by the incoming SRSG, Guatemalan Edmond Mulet, suggesting he favored integrating foreign judges in Haiti's judiciary to implement judicial reform have caused a nationalist backlash. Leaders from the political, judicial, and human rights communities have protested against [...] | 2006-06-02 18:13:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL HA |
06PORTLOUIS210 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - AFRICAN CANDIDACIES [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-14 07:57:00 | Embassy Port Louis | UNCLASSIFIED | KUNR PHUM OPDC PREL UNGA UNCHR UN MP |
06PORTLOUIS290 | MAURITIUS, SEYCHELLES SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON IRAN [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel demarche to Mauritius' Minsiter of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, and Cooperation Madan Dulloo, and to Seychelles' Minister of Foreign Affairs Patrick Pillay on June 1. Charge underscored the importance of the U.S. move in pursuit of a diplomatic solution to [...] | 2006-06-01 10:29:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR MP SE |
06PORTLOUIS291 | MAURITIUS, SEYCHELLES SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON IRAN [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel demarche to Mauritius' Minsiter of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, and Cooperation Madan Dulloo, and to Seychelles' Minister of Foreign Affairs Patrick Pillay on June 1. Charge underscored the importance of the U.S. move in pursuit of a diplomatic solution to [...] | 2006-06-01 10:29:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR MP SE |
06PORTLOUIS311 | MAURITIUS: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) On June 12, Charge delivered reftel demarche on the opening session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) to Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Cooperation Madan Dulloo and subsequently to Secretary for Foreign Affairs Anand Neewoor. Dulloo said Mauritius wanted the HRC to s [...] | 2006-06-13 06:52:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL MP |
06PORTLOUIS587 | MAURITIUS BACKS GUATEMALA FOR UNSC [...] (C) During a brief tour d'horizon (septel) with Charge October 3, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Regional Cooperation Madan Dulloo said that Mauritius would support Guatemala's candidacy for the UN Security Council. He said Mauritius had established diplomatic relations with Guatemala [...] | 2006-10-04 09:58:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET UNSC VE GT MP |
06PORTLOUIS598 | MAURITIAN PRIME MINISTER ON BILATERAL RELATIONS, [...] (C) Summary: Mauritian Prime Minister told Charge October 6 that he has no particular problem with U.S. foreign policy, despite comments to the contrary broadcast on Mauritian radio. Ramgoolam emphasized that he has tried hard to maintain consistent principles in foreign affairs and denounced [...] | 2006-10-06 13:42:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER VE GT MP |
06PORTLOUIS627 | MAURITIUS SUPPORTS GUATEMALA FOR UNSC [...] (C) Charge d'Affaires, a.i. delivered UNSC demarche (ref A) to Mauritian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Regional Cooperation Madan Dulloo on October 17. The Minister confirmed Mauritius will continue to support Guatemala's candidacy for the Security Council in subsequent rounds of bal [...] | 2006-10-17 13:12:00 | Embassy Port Louis | SECRET | PREL EPET UNSC VE GT MP |
06PORTLOUIS628 | SUPPORT OF GUATEMALA FOR UNSC - SEYCHELLES RESPONSE [...] (C) Charge d'Affaires, a.i. delivered UNSC demarche (ref A) to Seychelles Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Claude Morel on October 17. Morel declined to comment on GOS position regarding the vote and only stated he wishes Guatemala success. SEMILOTA [...] | 2006-10-17 13:21:00 | Embassy Port Louis | SECRET | PREL EPET UNSC AA GE VT SE |
06PORTLOUIS634 | MAURITIUS INQUIRIES ON BREAKING IMPASSE [...] (SBU) Mauritian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Regional Cooperation Madan Dulloo contacted post to inquire as to the U.S. position on the impasse and asked if Uruguay is being considered as alternate to break the impasse. Charge d'Affaires expressed points made in Ref A and requested G [...] | 2006-10-19 13:31:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET UNSC VE GT MP |
06PORTLOUIS675 | SUCCESSFUL EID DINNER IN MAURITIUS [...] Ambassador Cabrera hosted a very successful dinner with Mauritian Muslim leaders on November 6 to mark Eid al Fitr. Among the record number of guests were Acting President Raouf Bundhun, most of the Muslim members of parliament (MP) from all parties, the Deputy Supreme Court justice, many top [...] | 2006-11-07 11:43:00 | Embassy Port Louis | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SCUL MP KISL KPAO |
06PORTLOUIS720 | AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS IN SEYCHELLES [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Cesar Cabrera presented his credentials to Seychelles President James Michel on November 21. During his visit the Ambassador had productive meetings with the President, Vice-President, and Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Health. He visited two CJTF-HOA construction pr [...] | 2006-11-28 13:14:00 | Embassy Port Louis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ODIP PREL CJAN CASC CVIS MASS SE |
06PORTLOUIS743 | MAURITIUS MOVES TOWARDS GREATER PEACEKEEPING ROLE [...] (SBU) Summary. Top Mauritian security officials committed publicly to increasing participation in international peacekeeping efforts. U.S. military officers training Mauritians say their constabulary Special Mobile Force is ideal for PKOs. Additional Mauritian attributes are the population,s [...] | 2006-12-11 10:29:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PINR MP AU UN SADC |
06PORTLOUIS752 | MAURITIUS DENIES PLAN TO CEDE AGALEGA ISLANDS TO INDIA, BUT ISSUE SHOWS MAURITIAN SUBORDINATION [...] (C) Summary: Mauritian officials deny any intention to cede Agalega islands to India, as alleged in an Indian newspaper report. They have said that India agreed to help with economic development and infrastructure improvement but they were unable to deny categorically that India has no ulterior mot [...] | 2006-12-15 08:26:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EPET PBTS ECON PHSA PINS IN MP IO |
06PORTMORESBY126 | MCC - LEVERAGE ON GOVERNANCE IN PNG [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-22 06:43:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PP |
06PORTMORESBY144 | GOVERNANCE BE DAMNED! ITS AN ELECTION YEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-04 06:21:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PP |
06PORTMORESBY154 | ELECTIONS MARK MODEST IMPROVEMENT IN SOLOMON ISLANDS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-10 07:15:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BP |
06PORTMORESBY162 | SOLOMON ISLANDS/GUATEMALA/CHINA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-13 01:30:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BP |
06PORTMORESBY188 | SOLOMONS GETS DICEY - TIME FOR A U.S. STATEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-26 07:02:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR BP |
06PORTMORESBY200 | NEW SOLOMON ISALNDS PM WALKS ON THE WILD SIDE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-04 06:12:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BP |
06PORTMORESBY203 | SOLOMON ISLANDS - TOUGHER TIMES FOR AUSTRALIA AND RAMSI [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-08 03:11:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BP |
06PORTMORESBY237 | SOLOMON ISLANDS: CLOSING PEACE CORPS SAVES LITTLE, MAY COST [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-09 04:23:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BP |
06PORTMORESBY274 | PONZI POLITICS [...] (C) COMMENT: Steeped in traditional magic and innocent of modern economies, PNG's citizens prove easy marks for Ponzi schemes which proliferate throughout the country. Now it's election time (May 2007) and the politicians are dusting off their bottles of snake oil. Viewed from afar, or from a [...] | 2006-07-07 05:27:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PP |
06PORTMORESBY319 | SAREI VS. RIO TINTO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-09 03:04:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PP |
06PORTMORESBY338 | SOLOMON ISLANDS - RAMSI FACES A BLEAK TIME [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-22 06:28:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BP |
06PORTMORESBY351 | SOLOMON ISLANDS NOT DECIDED ON UNSC SEAT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-29 01:45:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC BP |
06PORTMORESBY361 | PNG UNDERSTANDS BUT CAN'T COMMIT ON VENEZUELA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-01 04:02:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PP |
06PORTMORESBY368 | VANUATU REMAINS SUPPORTIVE ON UNSC SEAT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-06 01:24:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC NH |
06PORTMORESBY369 | VANUATU - POSSIBLE FATF CONCERNS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-06 01:30:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL NH |
06PORTMORESBY370 | SOMARE COMMITS TO VENEZUELA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-06 01:50:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PP |
06PORTMORESBY376 | BRACING PNG ON SUPPORT FOR VENEZUELA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-08 06:55:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PP |
06PORTMORESBY381 | SOLOMON ISLANDS: PM KICKS AUSTRALIA IN THE SHIN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-13 07:13:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR BP |
06PORTMORESBY385 | SOLOMON ISLANDS: EXPRESSING USG CONCERNS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-14 06:50:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR BP |
06PORTMORESBY400 | TIME TO SPEAK ON SOLOMON ISLANDS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-22 06:00:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR BP |
06PORTMORESBY401 | FOREIGN POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF SAREI VS. RIO TINTO [...] (SBU) Summary: The PNG government of the day has taken and communicated a decision to the Embassy that it does not want to be seen as standing in the way of the hearing of the subject case in California courts. Accordingly, we must assess that there are no compelling foreign policy objections [...] | 2006-09-25 00:22:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PP |
06PORTMORESBY460 | SOLOMON ISLANDS: PRIME MINISTER SOGAVARE VS RAMSI [...] (U ) SUMMARY: Ambassador traveled to the Solomon Islands to present her credentials and met with Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare. Discussion centered on Sogavare's continued dissatisfaction over RAMSI presence and in particular the ongoing row between the Solomon Islands Government (SIG) an [...] | 2006-11-20 07:17:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BP |
06PORTMORESBY479 | PAPUA NEW GUINEA PRIME MINISTER ON MOTI AND BILATERAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador made her introductory office call on Prime Minister (PM) Sir Michael Somare on November 27. Somare said that he has instructed Foreign Minister Paul Tiensten to meet with Australia Foreign Minister Downer next week to resolve the current stalemate over the Moti affair [...] | 2006-11-30 08:11:00 | Embassy Port Moresby | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PP |
06PORTOFSPAIN1040 | MANNING CRITICIZES USG FOR IGNORING CARIBBEAN [...] (U) GOTT Prime Minister Patrick Manning yesterday criticized the USG for ignoring the Caribbean region in general and its security, counter narcotics and trade needs in particular. Speaking at a September 5 luncheon before an audience largely comprising energy industry executives and members [...] | 2006-09-07 16:04:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM SNAR TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1070 | DEMARCHE ON UN PEACEKEEPING FORCE IN DARFUR DELIVERED TO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-14 14:55:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNSC KDEM SU TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1080 | T&T HOMICIDE BUREAU CHIEF: DEPORTEES NOT MAJOR CRIME [...] In an extended interview with the daily Trinidad Guardian newspaper on September 12, Head of the Homicide Bureau, Assistant Commissioner of Police Maurice Piggott discussed many of the current shortfalls in T&T's policing efforts and the steps that the police force is taking to rectify the sit [...] | 2006-09-15 20:11:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1125 | PM MANNING SAYS T&T IS A RELIABLE ALLY, SO U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: Reprising public remarks from several days earlier (reftel),PM Manning characterized T&T as a reliable ally and energy supplier that was not receiving sufficient attention from the U.S. during a September 8 meeting with DOE A/S Harbert and State/WHA DAS Duddy. He praised bilater [...] | 2006-09-22 21:10:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD EPET MARR SNAR EAID TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1126 | PM MANNING FRUSTRATED OVER CARICOM RESPONSE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a September 8 meeting with DOE A/S Karen Harbert and WHA DAS Patrick Duddy, PM Manning voiced frustration with CARICOM colleagues over their stance on Petrocaribe but at the same time said he would go along with a "CARICOM decision" to support Venezuela's bid for a UNSC seat. [...] | 2006-09-22 21:14:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET UNSC PREL PGOV VE TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1152 | AMBASSADOR DEMARCHES NEW T&T FM ON VENEZUELA'S [...] (C) During an October 3 courtesy call on new T&T Foreign Minister Arnold Piggott to congratulate him on his appointment, the Ambassador raised Venezuela,s candidacy for the 2007/2008 Latin American and Caribbean non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, drawing on the talking points in S [...] | 2006-10-04 20:27:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC GT VZ TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1161 | MANNING: LIFTING IMET RESTRICTIONS VINDICATES T&T [...] (U) As reported septel, Prime Minister Patrick Manning,s October 4 budget speech, was, for the most part, devoted to a discussion of T&T,s largely energy-driven revenues and of proposed expenditures on infrastructure development, manufacturing diversification and agriculture promotion, as wel [...] | 2006-10-06 20:07:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KCRM MARR PGOV PREL TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1214 | OPPOSITION LEADER: PM HAS TERRORIST LINKS, IS [...] (C) On October 3, the Ambassador met with Opposition United National Congress (UNC) Deputy Political Leader Senator Wade Mark, at Mark,s request. Mark said his purpose was to express to the Ambassador the UNC,s shock at the &sudden assault8 on the United States unleashed by Prime Minister Pat [...] | 2006-10-20 14:11:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PGOV PREL PTER SNAR VZ TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1230 | DEMARCHE: DECLARATION IN OAS ON U.S. BORDER SECURITY [...] On October 23, we verbally presented the talking points contained Reftel to MFA Americas Division Director Margaret Rousseau who also handles the OAS portfolio. 2. In response to a question from Rousseau, we assured her that the US delegation has worked long and hard in an effort to craft [...] | 2006-10-23 20:08:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | OAS PHUM PREL PTER SMIG MX XM TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1262 | RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON ISRAEL AT UNGA - OPPOSING [...] Polchief delivered the talking points contained in Reftel, on November 1, to MFA Multilateral Division Director Susan Gordon. He emphasized especially the inconsistency between the unbalanced resolutions calling for a renewal of the mandate of the three Palestine-related bodies, on the one han [...] | 2006-11-02 15:19:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1263 | RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS ON THE SITUATION [...] Polchief delivered the talking points contained in Reftel, on November 1, to MFA Multilateral Division Director Susan Gordon. 2. Gordon was clearly uncomfortable in her justification of certain aspects of the two NAM resolutions, particularly the omission from the resolutions of any mentio [...] | 2006-11-02 15:19:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA LE IS PHUM PREL PTER TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1270 | INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION ELECTION [...] Polchief contacted MFA Multilateral Division Director Susan Gordon, on November 3, and reminded her of the talking points contained in Reftel B presented by Poloff on August 29 to MFA Multilateral Division officer Roanna Gopaul. Department will recall that post had reported Gopaul's response [...] | 2006-11-03 19:59:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA ILC TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1273 | T&T TO USOAS AMBASSADOR MAISTO: BRING ON THE SOA [...] (C) SUMMARY: USOAS Permanent Representative Maisto met with T&T PM Manning and FM Piggott on October 20 to discuss the 2009 Summit of the Americas. Manning signaled that the country will be ready for the summit, and hopes to have a successful event that highlights the Caribbean as well as T [...] | 2006-11-06 17:13:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1299 | T&T WILL REEVALUATE LONG STANDING ABSTENTION POLICY ON SOME [...] Polchief delivered the talking points contained in Reftels, on November 9, to MFA Multilateral Division Director Susan Gordon. 2. Gordon reiterated T&T's long standing policy of abstaining on country specific resolutions. She argued that such resolutions are too selective and lack objecti [...] | 2006-11-09 20:17:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UNGA TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1317 | T&T NEGATIVE ON MICHAEL MATHESON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-15 16:20:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA ILC TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1328 | T&T UNLIKELY TO OPPOSE BELARUS'S RETALIATORY RESOLUTIONS [...] The Ambassador made a number of attempts on November 15 to schedule an immediate meeting and/or make telephone contact with Foreign Minister Arnold Piggott in order to present Reftel talking points. When we received no response, Polchief faxed the talking points to the MFA and followed up on [...] | 2006-11-16 17:52:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL BO TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1331 | T&T REJECTS U.S. POSITION ON EMERGENCY SPECIAL SESSION [...] Polchief delivered Reftel talking points and accompanying resolution, on November 17, to MFA Multilateral Division Director Susan Gordon. 2. Gordon told Polchief that T&T would neither oppose this resolution nor abstain on it. She reminded Polchief that 10 out of 15 members of the Securi [...] | 2006-11-17 18:55:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA IS TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1333 | T&T WILL NOT "SOFTEN" RESOLUTION ON ABOLITION OF [...] In a planned double-pronged approach to the MFA, Polchief shared the U.S. preferred language for preambular paragraph 8, on November 17, with MFA Multilateral Division Director Susan Gordon. The Ambassador then raised the issue with Minister of Foreign Affairs Arnold Piggott, the order of con [...] | 2006-11-20 18:00:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA XL TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1344 | MANNING AND CHERTOFF: CLOSER COLLABORATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: T&T Prime Minister Manning hosted DHS Secretary Chertoff for a bilateral meeting on October 26, SIPDIS prior to a multilateral meeting with CARICOM representatives (reported septel). In the meeting, Manning assured Secretary Chertoff on Cricket World Cup security preparations [...] | 2006-11-22 17:58:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID XL TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1349 | SECRETARY AND CARICOM: BROAD DIALOGUE NEEDED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Secretary Chertoff,s October 26 meeting with CARICOM representatives highlighted the potential for greater cooperation building on existing structures for Cricket World Cup 2007. CARICOM is happy to receive assistance for Cricket World Cup, and further collaboration on interdic [...] | 2006-11-24 10:31:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID XL TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN137 | T&T PM MANNING SUPPORTIVE OF HAITI IN CARICOM; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Austin met Interim Haitian Prime Minister Latortue and informed him of the desirability of immediately releasing Father Jean-Juste from prison. Ambassador also asked about the outcome of Latortue's meeting with Prime Minister Manning. Latortue stated that he would ca [...] | 2006-01-27 15:53:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM HA TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1394 | DEALINE LOOMING ON APIS LEGISLATION [...] On December 5, Ambassador Austin delivered Reftel talking points to Minister of National Security Martin Joseph, regarding the urgent need for enactment of legislation relative to the Advance Passenger Information System before December 25. In addition, the Ambassador raised the issue earlie [...] | 2006-12-07 18:25:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR KJUS PGOV PREL TD XL |
06PORTOFSPAIN1431 | TRINIDAD & TOBAGO - LIBERTAD ACT TITLE III REVIEW [...] (C) QUESTION: What is the nature of investments that host country businesses have in Cuba? ANSWER: Post is aware of no Trinidad & Tobago companies or individuals with significant presence or investments in Cuba. 2. (C) QUESTION: Are there any bilateral trade agreements between host countr [...] | 2006-12-18 18:22:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1432 | TRINIDAD & TOBAGO - LIBERTAD ACT TITLE III REVIEW [...] (C) QUESTION: What is the nature of investments that host country businesses have in Cuba? ANSWER: Post is aware of no Trinidad & Tobago companies or individuals with significant presence or investments in Cuba. 2. (C) QUESTION: Are there any bilateral trade agreements between host countr [...] | 2006-12-18 18:22:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN1445 | PROPOSED CHANGES TO APIS UNFEASIBLE:T&T RESPONSE [...] Ambassador Austin delivered the points contained in Reftel to Minister of National Security Martin Joseph, discussing them with the minister on three separate occasions. The Ambassador emphasized to Joseph the technical impossibility, at this late stage in the development of the software for [...] | 2006-12-21 14:17:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAIR KJUS XL TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN152 | TRINIDAD: BI-WEEKLY POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] PM MANNING MEETS WITH HAITI'S INTERIM PRIME MINISTER 2. JAMAAT-AL-MUSLIMEEN LEADER TO STAND TRIAL FOR TERRORISM 3. OPPOSITION CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL ELECTION OBSERVERS 4. PRISONS OFFICER CHARGED 5. PRESIDENT APPOINTS NEW CHAIRMAN OF THE ELECTION AND BOUNDARIES COMMISSION (EBC) -- [...] | 2006-02-01 12:19:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER KCRM KJUS TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN164 | T&T'S FOREIGN MINISTER PREVIEWS CARICOM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Gift previewed the agenda for the February 9-10 CARICOM Intersessional meeting. Gift expects PetroCaribe will generate significant debate at the meeting. He also anticipates that CARICOM's relations with Haiti will warm some after the meeting. Gift inquired ab [...] | 2006-02-02 19:29:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET XL TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN165 | T&T FM GIFT POSITIVE ON UN REFORM [...] (U) Ambassador Austin met with Foreign Minister Knowlson Gift on February 1 to deliver the talking points on UN reform contained reftels. Poloff attended as notetaker, as did three representatives from the MFA's Multilateral Department. Out of the numerous points contained reftels, the discu [...] | 2006-02-02 19:34:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN204 | CARICOM ON CRICKET WORLD CUP PREPARATIONS [...] (U) Prime Minister Keith Mitchell of Grenada provided a mid-morning press briefing on February 9 during the CARICOM Inter-Sessional meeting on the state of play of Cricket World Cup (CWC) preparations and the status of West Indies cricket more generally. Mitchell opened by noting that West I [...] | 2006-02-13 19:50:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECIN XL TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN217 | CARICOM INTER-SESSIONAL WRAP-UP: PETROCARIBE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the final press conference of the 17th CARICOM Inter-sessional Heads of Government meeting, members announced that they had resolved two of the most contentious issues, Haiti's status in CARICOM and PetroCaribe. On PetroCaribe, T&T decided to support suspension of the common [...] | 2006-02-14 20:11:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD EPET XL TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN267 | T&T FM AMENABLE TO SC MEMBERSHIP FOR GUATEMALA [...] (C) Ambassador called on Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) Foreign Minister Knowlson Gift, on March 1, to present him with Reftel talking points regarding Guatemala,s and Venezuela,s competing candidacies for election to the UN Security Council. The Ambassador began by acknowledging T&T,s own recent e [...] | 2006-03-01 20:03:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC GT VE UN TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN272 | T&T FM NONCOMMITTAL ON US-RECOMMENDED BEHAVIOR [...] (C) Ambassador called on Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) Foreign Minister Knowlson Gift, on March 1, to present him with Reftel talking points regarding official contact with representatives of the newly-elected Hamas government of the Palestinian Authority. The Ambassador noted the US and EU desi [...] | 2006-03-02 18:36:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL |
06PORTOFSPAIN337 | GOTT'S CICTE VI DELEGATION [...] DCM and Political Officer delivered demarche contained reftel to Laura West, Head of the Americas Department in the MFA on March 6. Ms. West is our primary point of contact on CICTE issues in the MFA. The DCM emphasized USG support for the comprehensive nature of the draft Declaration of San [...] | 2006-03-16 11:16:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER OAS TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN356 | T&T FRUSTRATED BY VENEZUELA BREAKING CICTE [...] (S) Ambassador delivered talking points contained reftel to Minister of National Security Martin Joseph. Joseph is the outgoing chair of CICTE, and head of Trinidad and Tobago's CICTE delegation to the upcoming Bogota talks. Joseph (protect) spoke very candidly and expressed his extreme frus [...] | 2006-03-20 20:56:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | SECRET | PTER PREL ECON MARR MASS OAS TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN405 | AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH DOOKERAN ON CRIME, [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-31 16:29:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN445 | EMBASSY PORT OF SPAIN REVIEW OF CRICKET SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Trinidad and Tobago is starting to seriously prepare for the 2007 Cricket World Cup (CWC). Although we would like to assist, post operates in a complex assistance environment. The government is wealthy enough to purchase technology, but needs to invest further in its human reso [...] | 2006-04-10 19:54:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR KCRM TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN462 | DHS CWC ASSESSMENT TEAM JUMP-STARTS T&T [...] (C) The Department of Homeland Security-funded Cricket World Cup assessment TEAM highlighted the need for the Government of Trinidad and Tobago (GOTT) to coordinate better with the International Cricket Council (ICC) in the form of its Local Organizing Committee (LOC). Fortunately, this trip [...] | 2006-04-13 17:29:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM SNAR TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN486 | FM EVASIVE ON DEMARCHE REQUEST REGARDING [...] (C) In an April 21 meeting with Trinidad and Tobago,s Foreign Minister, Knowlson Gift, Ambassador Austin delivered reftel demarche requesting T&T to support the US protest against the Venezuela government-inspired attacks on US Ambassador Brownfield. 2. (C) Gift was emphatic in his response [...] | 2006-04-24 20:12:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PGOV PREL PTER CARICOM VZ TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN501 | TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT - TRINIDAD & TOBAGO [...] (c) Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) and Cuba enjoy cordial relations, and are co-members of the Association of Caribbean States. There are no substantial T&T investments in Cuba, and post is aware of no/no examples of trafficking in confiscated property or other assets. 2. (c) In the six months si [...] | 2006-04-26 15:18:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL TD CU |
06PORTOFSPAIN529 | JAMAICAN PRIME MINISTER VISITS TRINIDAD [...] SUMMARY: Energy dominated the visit of Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller to Trinidad April 24-26. Regional crime, drug trafficking and security concerns relating to the 2007 Cricket World Cup also figured in discussions she had with T&T PM Patrick Manning. No new agreements came [...] | 2006-04-28 19:06:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ETRD PREL TD XL |
06PORTOFSPAIN562 | POST AGAIN RAISES SOFA REQUEST WITH MFA [...] (SBU) During a May 3 meeting on other topics with Foreign Minister Knowlson Gift, Charge again raised Embassy Port of Spain's longstanding and often-repeated request to the GOTT for a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the USG. Charge told Gift that the US is well aware of the GOTT's opp [...] | 2006-05-05 16:59:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN670 | U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN DELIVERED TO TRINIDAD [...] (C) Ambassador conveyed reftel message to Prime Minister Manning in a June 1 meeting. A/DCM accompanied Ambassador. We had attempted to get time with the PM on May 31 without success. Ambassador did not share text of points, but gave Manning a copy of the Secretary's statement from the State [...] | 2006-06-02 13:53:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN671 | OAS: HELMS-BURTON RESOLUTION AND SANTO DOMINGO [...] (SBU) A/DCM made reftel demarche early on June 1 with Kathleen Seenarine, MFA Americas Department acting director. Seenarine said she was familiar with both issues, having prepared the briefing book for Foreign Minister Knowlson Gift. She committed to convey our request at once via email to t [...] | 2006-06-02 13:53:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL XL TD MX |
06PORTOFSPAIN672 | OAS: HELMS-BURTON RESOLUTION AND SANTO DOMINGO [...] (SBU) A/DCM made reftel demarche early on June 1 with Kathleen Seenarine, MFA Americas Department acting director. Seenarine said she was familiar with both issues, having prepared the briefing book for Foreign Minister Knowlson Gift. She committed to convey our request at once via email to t [...] | 2006-06-02 13:53:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL XL TD MX |
06PORTOFSPAIN677 | GUATEMALA'S UNSC CANDIDACY - APPROACH TO TRINIDAD [...] (C) Ambassador called on Prime Minister Manning June 1 to discuss ref A. A/DCM accompanied the Ambassador at the meeting. No paper was left behind. 2. (C) Ambassador informed Manning that we had heard earlier (ref B) that T&T had a favorable view of Guatemala's qualifications to be a cand [...] | 2006-06-02 15:42:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN698 | CARICOM URGES PRESIDENT BUSH TO SPEED [...] Acting Foreign Minister Danny Montano summoned the Ambassador to a meeting on June 6 to deliver a letter from Prime Minister Patrick Manning to President Bush (text of letter below). Political Officer accompanied the Ambassador. The letter echoes the sentiments of the letter sent by Barbado [...] | 2006-06-07 16:39:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID PTER SNAR TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN735 | T&T ACTIVELY CONSIDERING STATUTE AMENDMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-13 19:37:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL ICRC TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN807 | T&T MFA ON UPCOMING UN ISSUES [...] (C) Political Officer and Political Assistant/Reader met with Deputy Director of Multilateral Affairs, Ms. Roanna Gopaul, on July 5 to discuss the UN Security Council election. Gopaul indicated that T&T had not yet decided between Guatemala and Venezuela, and was well aware of the U.S. posit [...] | 2006-07-06 12:58:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA SMIG XL TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN809 | EXTRAORDINARY COOPERATION FROM T&T ON MOVING [...] (C) On June 29, Suriname expelled Guyanese national Roger Shaheed Khan from prison. Suriname arrested Khan for drug and weapons charges, but determined to expel him from the country after determining that he was in the country illegally and that their case against him was "insufficient." Th [...] | 2006-07-06 15:32:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR KCRM TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN810 | T&T PRESIDENT'S JULY 4 MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-06 17:13:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPDC TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN814 | ANOTHER SUCCESS FOR T&T CANINE ACADEMY [...] The Trinidad and Tobago Homicide Squad put a canine- in-training at the INL-supported T&T Canine Academy through his paces on July 6. After watching "Red" perform training exercises at the academy, the Squad requested that he search a wooded, mountainous area near Morvant, to the east of Por [...] | 2006-07-07 19:35:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SNAR MCAP TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN841 | T&T MFA ON CARICOM'S UNSC CANDIDATE CRITERIA [...] (C) Political Officer met with Ms. Sandra Honore, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs CARICOM division on July 13. She stated, in no uncertain terms, that the CARICOM communique issued after the St. Kitts Heads of Government Meeting in early July outlines a clear set of criteria that any [...] | 2006-07-14 19:51:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC XL TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN849 | IMPLEMENTATION AGENCY DETAILS CARICOM CWC [...] (C) According to Lancelot Sellman, Director of CARICOM's Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS),the decisions made at the July 3 Heads of Government meeting will allow Cricket World Cup (CWC) security preparations to move forward at full speed. He clarified the establishment o [...] | 2006-07-18 11:37:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SNAR CVIS KCRM CARICOM XL TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN863 | TRINIDAD/VENEZUELA CLOSER TO TREATY ON USE OF [...] (U) The June 19 edition of daily paper "Trinidad & Tobago Newsday" reported on a Ministry of Foreign Affairs release that addressed a future agreement between the governments of T&T and Venezuela on shared gas reserves. Full text of the release follows in next paragraph. 2. (U) Begin Text [...] | 2006-07-21 19:42:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ECIN PREL TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN920 | SCENESETTER FOR DHS SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S VISIT TO T&T [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Secretary Chertoff, my team and I look forward to welcoming you to Trinidad and Tobago. T&T is a major political and economic player in the region, and your visit will help underscore the importance we plac [...] | 2006-08-03 18:18:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER OVIP ASEC CARICOM TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN957 | GOTT SILENT ON UNSC 1701 [...] On August 14, we faxed to MFA Multilateral Affairs Director Susan Gordon UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and accompanying talking points, as specified in the August 12 demarche request. When we asked Gordon on August 15 for her reaction, she said she had not had an opportunity to read the [...] | 2006-08-16 18:12:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER MOPS UN UNSC IS LE TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN972 | T&T NOT AFTER CARICOM SEAT ON SECURITY COUNCIL; [...] (C) SUMMARY: The MFA has corrected a recent press report implying a T&T push for a regional Caricom seat on the Security Council. However, we believe a T&T bid to fill an upcoming UNSC vacancy would not be surprising. According to the Guatemalan Charge here, T&T has decided to support Guate [...] | 2006-08-17 12:55:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CARICOM TD |
06PRAGUE1032 | CZECH POLITICS: CSSD DUMPS ODS AT THE ALTAR AND [...] SUMMARY. (SBU) Talks between the leaders of the two main Czech political parties, the Civic Democrats (ODS) and the Social Democrats (CSSD),broke down August 24, hours after both sides had publicly stated that an agreement was in sight and expected within days. Immediately after outgoing Prim [...] | 2006-08-25 16:21:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1049 | CZECHS SHARE U.S. CONCERNS ON UNHRC [...] (C) Polec Counselor and Poloff met with MFA Human Rights Department Acting Director Martin Boucek on August 28 to discuss U.S. concerns that the UNHRC may be unable to credibly address serious human rights situations around the world, and to deliver Ref A. Boucek said the Czechs share U.S. con [...] | 2006-08-29 14:46:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC EZ |
06PRAGUE1053 | CZECHS SUPPORT INDEPENDENCE FOR KOSOVO, EU [...] (C) Summary. The Czechs agree with the U.S. position on Kosovo and Serbia on every material point. While the Czechs support the status talks, they are pessimistic about the outcome: Serbs will never willingly agree to an independent Kosovo. Czech MFA officials plan a visit to the Balkans the w [...] | 2006-08-30 12:34:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNAUS UNMIK PGOV YI EU EZ |
06PRAGUE1054 | CZECHS PREPARING LETTER OF INTENT ON NATO'S [...] (C/NF)DATT delivered reftel talking points to MOD Defense Policy and Strategy Division Deputy Director Radomir Jahoda on August 29th. Jahoda reiterated the Czech Ministry of Defense support for the Strategic Airlift initiative. He said a Letter of Intent was currently awaiting signature by Depu [...] | 2006-08-30 12:41:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MARR MOPS PREL NATO EZ |
06PRAGUE1056 | LEADERSHIP OF CZECH CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT PARTY [...] SUMMARY (SBU) Just days after the fiercely anti-Communist Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) joined a surprising coalition with the Social Democrats (CSSD) that would have relied on the tacit support of the Communist Party (KSCM),the party chair Miroslav Kalousek, and three of the party's five Dep [...] | 2006-08-30 14:02:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1060 | CZECHS COMMIT AID TO LEBANON, TROOPS UNDER [...] (C) Summary and comment. The Czechs have continued to indicate a willingness to support the U.S. position throughout the Lebanon/Israel crisis, and are now committed to providing aid to Lebanon. The Czech MFA confirmed on August 28 that the Czechs will offer $1 million for Lebanon at the Stock [...] | 2006-08-31 09:28:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR LE MARR MOPS SY XG EZ |
06PRAGUE1065 | CZECHS AT GYMNICH: SUPPORT SANCTIONS FOR IRAN; [...] (C) Summery. MFA Director of the CFSP Department said EU foreign ministers will informally discuss Iran, Lebanon, and EU-Russian relations at the upcoming Gymnich meeting. No final conclusions are expected to be made. On Iran, the Czechs will support sanctions against Iran if it fails to compl [...] | 2006-08-31 14:40:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL EU IR KNNP PARM PGOV UN EZ |
06PRAGUE1074 | CZECH EX-PRIME MINISTER PUTS U.S. AND MISSILE [...] (C) Summary: Former Czech PM Jiri Paroubek took advantage of a farewell call by Ambassador to punctuate his political battle with the new government, and specifically with new Foreign Minister Vondra with whom Paroubek has had difficult relations. Ambassador used the farewell call to sound ou [...] | 2006-09-05 09:17:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR EZ |
06PRAGUE1075 | CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT TAKES POWER IN PRAGUE - [...] SUMMARY (C) Czech President Klaus appointed formally appointed a minority government led by incoming Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek on Monday, September 4, bringing to an end eight years of Social Democrat-led government and thirteen weeks of uncertainty following the June 2-3 elections. Topo [...] | 2006-09-05 11:11:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EZ |
06PRAGUE1093 | LOW-KEY CZECH REACTION TO NEW DETAINEE INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) Ambassador briefed Czech PM Topolanek September 7 on the new USG initiative related to detainees in the war on terrorism (reftel). Topolonek had no substantive reaction but asked for additional details (we are providing his office with transcripts and tailored points). Separately, visit [...] | 2006-09-08 11:59:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM EZ |
06PRAGUE1100 | CZECHS REQUEST CLARIFICATION OF U.S. POSITION ON [...] (U) This is an action request for the Department. Please see paragraph 9. 2. (C) Summary: The Czech Government is hesitant to use its upcoming meetings with Serbia to deliver a tough message on ICTY compliance because it is hearing mixed messages on how significant ICTY compliance will be i [...] | 2006-09-11 05:05:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ICTY SR YI EZ |
06PRAGUE1106 | DAS PEKALA IN PRAGUE: MISSILE DEFENSE THE MAIN [...] (C/NF) Summary: Missile defense dominated discussions in Prague during DAS Mark Pekala's meetings. Pekala explained in public and private that a USG decision on MD site(s) in Central Europe should come in the fall; that the MD assets have no offensive capability; and that the USG welcomes a v [...] | 2006-09-11 14:39:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR PHUM EZ |
06PRAGUE1119 | CZECHS ON THE CD MINISTERIAL [...] (SBU) Poloff spoke with Czech MFA Director of the UN Department Jan Kara on September 12 to discuss reftel concerning the Communities of Democracies (CD) Ministerial scheduled to take place during UNGA on September 20. Kara thanked the U.S. for providing advance information about issues to be [...] | 2006-09-13 13:11:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EZ |
06PRAGUE112 | CZECH OPINION ON RUSSIA-UKRAINE GAS NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) PolOff Feb 2 conveyed reftel points to Tomas Szunyog MFA Director for South Eastern and Eastern Europe. Szunyog responded that the Czechs had been following the issue with concern for some time. Additionally, he knew that concern was growing both in the EU and in NATO. Vladimir Muller, Dep [...] | 2006-02-02 14:48:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EZ PREL UP RS |
06PRAGUE1120 | SECOND UPDATE: CZECH HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT UNGA [...] (U) Poloff spoke with Czech MFA Director of the UN Department Jan Kara on September 12 to update information previously reported on Czech high-level attendance at UNGA (Ref A). Kara provided the following information: A. Head of State President Vaclav Klaus will not/not attend. B. Hea [...] | 2006-09-13 13:11:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA EZ |
06PRAGUE1121 | CZECHS HAVE NON-PARTICIPATING OBSERVER AT NAM [...] (SBU) Czech MFA Cuba Desk Officer Jarmila Povejsilova told Poloff on September 12 that, contrary to previous indications, the Czechs have decided to have an observer attend the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Havana. The observer will be the new Charge d'Affaires of the Czech Mission in H [...] | 2006-09-13 13:11:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CU EZ |
06PRAGUE1124 | CZECHS: STILL NO DECISION ON UNIFIL TROOPS (BUT [...] (C) Summary. The Czechs remain undecided on whether to commit troops to UNIFIL (the MFA still supports it, but MOD sources say budgetary constraints make troop commitment "highly unlikely"). Nevertheless, the Czechs have committed or spent nearly $1 million in humanitarian aid and assistance i [...] | 2006-09-13 13:33:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR LE MARR MOPS SY XG EZ |
06PRAGUE1134 | CZECHS ON SEPTEMBER 15 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. At the September 15 GAERC, the Czechs expect the focus to be on the Middle East (Iran, Israel, Lebanon, and Iraq),the Balkans, and Africa. The Czechs support sanctions for Iran, although they hope for international consensus. On Palestine, the Czechs will urge the EU to issue GAE [...] | 2006-09-14 15:16:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV UN EUN SR LE IS KPAL EZ |
06PRAGUE1140 | THIRD UPDATE: CZECH HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT UNGA [...] (U) Poloff spoke with Czech MFA Director of the UN Department Jan Kara on September 15 to update information previously reported on Czech high-level attendance at UNGA. Kara said the travel plans of Czech FM Alexandr (Sasha) Vondra have changed. Specifically, FM Vondra now plans to make two tr [...] | 2006-09-15 11:27:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA EZ |
06PRAGUE1142 | CZECH PARLIAMENT MAKES COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS, AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Nearly 15 weeks after the June 2-3 general election, the Czech parliament has finalized committee assignments. The Social Democrats (CSSD),which came in second in the election behind the Civic Democrats (ODS) arguably took the best assignments. The smaller parties have fewer c [...] | 2006-09-15 13:51:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1167 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Cabaniss met with new Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek on September 21. Topolanek offered thanks for the Ambassador's efforts to promote bilateral relations, and expressed a desire to continue close ties in the fields of joint security, intelligence sharing and bus [...] | 2006-09-22 11:33:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EZ |
06PRAGUE1173 | CZECH REPUBLIC: 2007 DRAFT BUDGET PUTS EURO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: For the first time since joining the EU, the Czech Republic will miss its Maastricht convergence program target for the budget deficit, thanks to legislation passed in the run-up to the June 2006 general elections that significantly increases social spending. Compared [...] | 2006-09-25 10:41:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL MARR EZ |
06PRAGUE1183 | CZECHS SUPPORT GUATEMALA FOR SEAT ON UNSC [...] (SBU) Poloff met with Czech MFA Director of the UN Department Jan Kara on September 1 to discuss Guatemala's candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the UNSC. Kara confirmed the Czech Republic strongly supports Guatemala. Kara met with Guatemalan officials at UNGA in New York the week of Septemb [...] | 2006-09-25 15:45:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC GT UN VE EZ |
06PRAGUE1187 | CZECHS: NO SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR CUBA IN UNHRC [...] (SBU) Poloff spoke with Czech MFA Deputy Director of the Human Rights Department Martin Boucek on September 26 to discuss Cuba's efforts to eliminate the UNHRC's mandate on Cuba. Boucek said the Czechs share U.S. concerns, and think the UNHRC's handling of human rights abuses in Cuba and Belar [...] | 2006-09-26 14:28:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CU EZ |
06PRAGUE12 | CZECH FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary. Czech FM Cyril Svoboda visited Moscow December 20 for meeting with Russian FM Lavrov in Moscow. The two agreed that Russian President Putin may visit Prague in the spring, but only if the Czechs agree (under pressure) to sign IPR license agreements for Soviet-era military technolo [...] | 2006-01-04 17:49:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM MARR RU PL EZ |
06PRAGUE121 | CZECH MFA SPEAKS ON LATEST CUBA CLASH: CZECH NGO [...] (C) Summary and comment. A recent incident involving two Czech NGO workers, who were arrested in Cuba by secret police and detained for 11 hours without access to the Czech Embassy, has further cooled the already chilly relations between the Czech and Cuban governments. The Czech MFA demanded [...] | 2006-02-07 12:51:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM CA CU EZ |
06PRAGUE1227 | U.S.-CZECH S&T AGREEMENT: TIME TO COME TO CLOSURE [...] This is an action request, see para 4. 2. The U.S. and the Czech Republic have been negotiating a new Science and Technology Agreement since 2003. The sole unresolved issue is language covering taxation of assistance funds. EU regulations do not permit the Czechs to conclude an agreemen [...] | 2006-10-04 13:18:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA KSCA PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1237 | CZECH VIEWS ON POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] (C) DCM presented reftel points to Czech Deputy Foreign Minister Tomas Pojar on October 4. Pojar immediately expressed his support for our position. He noted that the Czechs had already decided to tell the North Koreans that bilateral talks (planned for November 7) would not be possible un [...] | 2006-10-04 15:12:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL PARM KN EZ |
06PRAGUE1252 | CZECHS ON UNGA AND CUBA RESOLUTION [...] (U) Polec Counselor and Poloff met October 6 with Czech MFA UN Department Director Jan Kara to discuss Czech impressions of UNGA to date, and specifically Ref A proposal on the Cuba embargo resolution (note that Ref B was received subsequent to our meeting. Several issues in Ref B were cover [...] | 2006-10-09 11:11:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA PREL PHUM EUN CU UN EZ |
06PRAGUE1257 | CZECH RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] (C) Embassy delivered reftel points to Czech MFA at OOB on October 10. In absence of more senior officials in Prague, DCM spoke October 10 with Director of UN Department Jan Kara. Kara referred us to the statement issued by the MFA on October 9 (text below) condemning the nuclear test. In te [...] | 2006-10-10 13:24:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL PARM KN EZ |
06PRAGUE1267 | CZECHS ON OCTOBER 12 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. At the October 12 GAERC, the EU will focus on the Middle East, the Russia-Georgia conflict, the Balkans, Sudan, and North Korea. On the Middle East, the EU will likely support sanctions for Iran, support President Abbas in Palestine, and address the security situation in Lebanon. T [...] | 2006-10-12 16:45:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN EUN SR LE IS KPAL RU EZ |
06PRAGUE1297 | CZECH SENATE AND LOCAL ELECTIONS - POSSIBLE IMPACT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. One third of the Czech Senate,s 81 seats will be contested in two rounds of voting October 20-21 and 27-28. The right-of-center Civic Democrats (ODS),which won the June 2-3 general election, will defend ten seats, more than any other party. While it has the most to lose, ODS is [...] | 2006-10-18 14:46:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1306 | AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL WITH CZECH DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador made his introductory call on Czech Defense Minister Jiri Sedivy October 17. Topics discussed included missile defense, U.S. assistance for Czech defense reform, and Czech aircraft manufacturer AeroVodochody. Sedivy, just a month in the job, displayed an interest in [...] | 2006-10-19 14:41:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ NATO EAIR MARR MOPS |
06PRAGUE1308 | CZECH RESPONSE TO UNGA ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: The Czechs generally support USG priorities for UNGA. They support tough sanctions on Iran and North Korea. They continue to support Guatemala for the UNSC seat, although they believe that there is now little that countries outside of Latin America can do to influence the outcom [...] | 2006-10-20 11:34:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNGA EZ |
06PRAGUE1318 | CZECHS VIEWS ON AMENDMENT TO CUBA EMBARGO [...] (C) Summary: The Czech Republic will support a proposed amendment to the UN resolution on the Cuba embargo that would highlight Cuban human rights abuses. They continue to question the wisdom of the move, and are certain that procedural concerns will prevent many countries who are sympathet [...] | 2006-10-20 16:23:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNGA CU EZ |
06PRAGUE1319 | CZECH VIEWS ON NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary: The Czechs support a tough stance on North Korea following the nuclear test. The Foreign Minister this week published a strongly worded op-ed stating that the DPRK has confirmed its position within the axis of evil. The MFA confirms that all elements of UNSCR 1718 will be adopte [...] | 2006-10-22 12:14:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP PHUM KN EZ |
06PRAGUE1322 | PRO-AMERICAN CIVIC DEMOCRATS WIN BIG IN CZECH [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The October 20 - 21 municipal elections and the first round of Senate elections resulted in a stronger than expected victory for the right-of-center Civic Democrats (ODS),considered the most pro-American among Czech political parties. This will likely strengthen Prime Mi [...] | 2006-10-23 16:03:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1331 | MISSILE DEFENSE: VISIT OF DASD BRIAN GREEN TO [...] (C) Summary and comment: DASD Brian Green made a well received presentation on 19 October to a Czech Foreign Ministry co-sponsored conference on missile defense. Both supporters and opponents of possible Czech participation in a U.S. missile defense system attended the event. Following the con [...] | 2006-10-24 15:29:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ MARR MOPS |
06PRAGUE1333 | CZECH REPUBLIC: CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS' SLIDE TOWARDS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Separate sources within the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) speak of a party in crisis with no resolution in sight. Results from the October 20-21 local and Senate elections, in addition to an October 23 opinion poll, show the party continues to lose support and could before long fa [...] | 2006-10-25 08:13:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1334 | RFE/RL ENERGY FORUM REFLECTS LACK OF EUROPEAN [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) hosted a two-day Energy Forum in Prague October 23-24. The Forum addressed a wide range of tough issues related to European energy security, including Iran, how companies influence energy policy, the role of the European Commission [...] | 2006-10-25 10:25:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON ETRD PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1335 | CZECHS OPPOSE UN RESOLUTIONS ON SITUATION IN [...] (SBU) The Czechs will oppose the two resolutions on the situation of human rights and children in Lebanon sponsored by Non Aligned Movement (NAM) members in the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly. Poloff discussed the resolutions and reftel talking points with Czech MFA Director of the [...] | 2006-10-25 12:06:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA LE IS PHUM PREL PTER EZ |
06PRAGUE1340 | AMBASSADOR GRABER'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's October 23 introductory call, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek (ODS) expressed his satisfaction with bilateral cooperation in the fields of security and democracy promotion, his concern about energy security in Europe, and his hope that the Ambassador w [...] | 2006-10-26 14:39:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1343 | CZECH GOVERNMENT ALLOWS AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURER TO [...] (C/NF) Summary: The Czech Government has given L-159 subsonic fighter manufacturer Aero Vodochody permission to begin discussions about Venezuelan financing for the production of a new version of the L-159, which would have no U.S. content. This decision by Czech authorities stems from heavy d [...] | 2006-10-26 14:52:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ NATO EAIR MARR VE |
06PRAGUE1349 | PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN CLOSED SOCIETIES: LESSONS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Czechs are well-known for their spirited and effective promotion of democracy and human rights in closed societies, such as Belarus, Cuba, Burma, Iraq, and elsewhere. This cable highlights examples of Czech public diplomacy efforts in these countries. The goal of these Czech [...] | 2006-10-30 11:31:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM EZ |
06PRAGUE1350 | U.S. COMPANY BUYS MANUFACTURER OF VERA-E PASSIVE [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive business information. Please protect accordingly. 2. (C/NF) Summary: Representatives of Rannoch Corporation, a Virginia-based company specializing in air traffic control (ATC) technology, purchased Czech company ERA A.S. on October 26. The new owners plan [...] | 2006-10-30 12:26:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL EZ MARR MASS MCAP |
06PRAGUE1356 | CZECH SENATE RACE - ODS WINS BIG, AS EXPECTED, BUT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-30 15:32:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1369 | CZECH REPUBLIC: AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL [...] (C) Summary: During the Ambassador,s November 1 introductory call on Civic Democrat (ODS) leader and Minister of Finance Vlastimil Tlusty, Tlusty commented on recent political developments concerning the formation of a government and conceded his party,s mistakes. Tlusty discussed growing defi [...] | 2006-11-03 13:51:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1371 | CZECH SENATE WINNER RELOCATES ROMA SETTING OFF [...] SUMMARY. The forced relocation of Roma families from the city of Vsetin -- by a popular mayor who just won election to the Czech Senate -- has generated strong public debate over Roma rights that has impacts for the Czech Christian Democratic party. The mayor, Jiri Cunek, had been considered [...] | 2006-11-04 13:41:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1373 | CZECH REPUBLIC: AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON [...] (C) Summary: During the Ambassador's November 3 courtesy call on Czech Foreign Minister Alexandr (Sasha) Vondra, the primary topics were visa waiver and missile defense. FM Vondra expressed skepticism for the visa roadmap, but agreed to co-host the next Bilateral Consular Working Group (BCWG) [...] | 2006-11-06 08:57:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV CVIS EZ |
06PRAGUE1375 | CZECH REPUBLIC: AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON [...] (SBU) Summary: During the Ambassador,s introductory call on Antimonopoly Office Chairman Martin Pecina on October 25, Pecina discussed antitrust issues, energy independence and the government tender review process. Pecina remains worried about EU dependence on Russian energy and monopolies wi [...] | 2006-11-06 13:05:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ENRG EPET ECON EZ |
06PRAGUE1376 | CZECH REPUBLIC: AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALLS ON [...] SUMMARY. (SBU) Ambassador Graber paid courtesy calls on the heads of the upper and lower chambers of the Czech legislature on November 1. The two men, through from rival political parties on opposite sides of the political spectrum, shared similar views on foreign policy issues of interest to [...] | 2006-11-06 13:38:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV MARR CVIS PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1379 | CZECH REPUBLIC: AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON [...] (C) SUMMARY During an October 30 courtesy call by Ambassador Graber, former Prime Minister and current Chairman of the Social Democrats (CSSD) Jiri Paroubek said U.S.-Czech ties were very good, "with the exception of a few minor issues, such as visas." Paroubek called himself "a friend of the [...] | 2006-11-06 15:57:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1384 | CZECH REPUBLIC: TOPOLANEK TO MAKE SECOND ATTEMPT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Czech President Klaus will give outgoing Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek the second chance at forming a government. Klaus will make the announcement on November 8. Topolanek, whose minority government lost a vote of confidence in early October, has said he will focus again on a [...] | 2006-11-07 16:29:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1386 | CZECHS WILL SUPPORT AMENDMENT TO CUBA EMBARGO [...] (C) Czech MFA UN Director Jan Kara confirmed that the Czech Republic would support the amendment to the UN Cuba Embargo resolution highlighting Cuban human rights abuses that Australia intends to sponsor. Kara told Acting DCM during a conversation late on November 7 that he welcomed the news t [...] | 2006-11-08 13:28:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA UN CU EZ |
06PRAGUE1387 | CZECHS AGREE KOSOVO IS NOT A PRECEDENT FOR OTHER [...] (C) Summary. The Czechs strongly agree Kosovo is not a precedent for frozen conflicts, but are concerned that Russia and some EU member states already view Kosovo (and even Montenegro) that way. For this reason, drafting an UNSC resolution on Kosovo's final status may be tricky: the language c [...] | 2006-11-08 13:52:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL AL BH GG MK PBTS RO SR UP EZ |
06PRAGUE1388 | CZECHS AGREE WITH THE U.S. ABOUT THE [...] (C) Czech MFA Director of Eastern Europe Department Tomas Szunyog told Poloffs on November 3 that the Czechs share U.S. concerns about the disruption to the Chisinau-Moscow rail link. Szunyog said the Czechs have already discussed the issue with Ukrainian officials and within the EU, and will [...] | 2006-11-08 13:52:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ELTN RS MD UP EZ |
06PRAGUE1398 | CZECH MFA SOLICITS INFORMAL U.S. OPINION ON FOUR [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Czech Government is considering granting permission for Czech export companies to begin to negotiate sales of several radar and similar systems to Indonesia, Ecuador, Nigeria, and Vietnam. If future applications are made for export licenses for the VERA, the Czech MFA inten [...] | 2006-11-09 12:04:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL EZ MARR MASS MCAP NI EC ID VM |
06PRAGUE1400 | NORTH KOREAN LABORERS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC [...] (C) Currently, 408 North Korean laborers (almost exclusively female) are working in numerous factories throughout the Czech Republic. A Czech government taskforce of seven government agencies and an NGO conducts regular joint inspections into the work conditions of the DPRK workers. These r [...] | 2006-11-09 12:23:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KN EZ |
06PRAGUE1405 | INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROLS REPORT (INCSR) [...] SUMMARY. I. Illegal narcotics are imported to, manufactured in, and consumed in the Czech Republic. Locally produced pervitine is also exported to neighboring countries. Marijuana, grown locally and imported from Holland, is used more than any other drug. Consumption of recreational drugs, su [...] | 2006-11-09 14:53:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1406 | CZECHS ON NOVEMBER 13-14 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. At the November 13 GAERC the Czechs expect the focus to be on the Middle East (Iran, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon),Russia, and the Balkans. Czech policy closely mirrors U.S. policy in these regions/countries. Specifically, the Czechs support: (1) a strong UNSC resolution with sancti [...] | 2006-11-09 15:48:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNAUS EUN YI SR BK CG IS LE |
06PRAGUE1407 | CZECHS ON UNGA COUNTRY RESOLUTIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Czechs support the U.S. position on the five UNGA Third Committee country resolutions, but are considering negotiating on some of the Belarus-sponsored retaliatory resolutions. End summary. 2. (C) Acting DCM discussed UNGA Third Committee country resolutions and retaliato [...] | 2006-11-13 05:59:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UN EZ |
06PRAGUE1417 | CZECHS COMMENT ON CURRENT CRISIS IN LEBANON [...] (C) Summary. Czech Ambassador to Lebanon Jan Cisek fears violence could erupt as early as November 18 if Hizballah and PM Fouad Siniora's government fail to reach a compromise. In addition to Syrian meddling, the Ambassador noted additional factors contributing to the current instability: Israe [...] | 2006-11-16 07:13:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM MOPS LE EZ |
06PRAGUE1423 | CZECHS ON NATO IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) DCM raised reftel points with Czech Defense Minister Jiri Sedivy on November 15. Pol-Econ Counselor also discussed November 16 with Director of MFA Security Policy Department. Both stressed Czech commitment to success of Riga summit and success for NATO's mission in Afghanistan. To that [...] | 2006-11-16 16:14:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS NATO PINS AG EZ |
06PRAGUE143 | CUBA STRIKES BACK: CZECH NGO DENIED ECOSOC [...] (C) Summary. Czech NGO People in Need (PIN) was recently denied ECOSOC consultative status because of strong Cuban opposition. According to a PIN representative, the denial will have no impact on PIN democracy promotion activities in Cuba or elsewhere. End summary. 2. (SBU) Poloff met Ivana [...] | 2006-02-10 16:49:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN CU EZ |
06PRAGUE1430 | CZECH REPUBLIC: TOPOLANEK GETS A QUALIFIED OK FOR [...] (SBU)SUMMARY. The Civic Democrats (ODS) held their annual party Congress November 17-18, and gave Party Chair Mirek Topolanek the support he was looking for to begin negotiations with the party's main rival, the left-of-center Social Democrats (CSSD),on a coalition that would also include one [...] | 2006-11-20 15:25:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EZ |
06PRAGUE1432 | CZECH REPUBLIC: UNLIKELY ATTENDANCE AT [...] In response to reftel, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department of Multilateral Economic Relations Deputy Director Jaroslav Stepanek said the Czechs do not normally send a representative to the committee meetings of the International Maritime Organization (IMO),and Stepanek himself only attends [...] | 2006-11-21 15:18:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA EWWT ANET AORC PREL ECPS IMO INMARSAT EZ |
06PRAGUE1437 | CZECHS SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON TURKEY/EU ACCESSION [...] (C) Czech Deputy Foreign Minister Tomas Pojar told DCM November 24 that the Czech Republic supports the USG position that the upcoming European Council meeting not reach any conclusions that could lead to a break in Turkish-EU accession negotiations. Pojar noted that Foreign Minister Vondra h [...] | 2006-11-24 11:24:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN EZ |
06PRAGUE1448 | CZECHS SUPPORT U.S. APPROACH TO GEORGIA/MOLDOVA [...] (SBU) The Czech delegation to the upcoming OSCE Ministerial in Brussels on December 4-5 will support the U.S. position on the resolution of conflicts in Georgia and Moldova. MFA Deputy Director of the Eastern Europe Department Martina Tauberova told Poloff on November 24 that Czech FM Alexandr [...] | 2006-11-29 14:05:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS EUN NATO OSCE MO MOPS GG RU EZ |
06PRAGUE1450 | SCENESETTER FOR U/S DOBRIANSKY'S VISIT TO PRAGUE [...] (C) Summary: Czechs marked the 17th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in November. As you will see during your visit, the country has embraced a pro-transatlantic foreign policy, with the Czech government and NGOs playing a significant role in efforts to promote democratic transformation in [...] | 2006-11-29 15:23:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EZ |
06PRAGUE1466 | PLANNED CZECH MILITARY DEPLOYMENTS FOR 2007 [...] (U) Summary: The Czech Chamber of Deputies will vote in December on a bill authorizing proposed foreign military deployments for 2007. The bill is likely to pass without serious opposition. Increased numbers of troops are planned for Afghanistan and the Balkans, while Iraq troop levels will re [...] | 2006-12-01 13:15:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ MARR MASS IZ AF YI BK LE |
06PRAGUE1471 | CZECHS ON EU-TURKEY DIALOGUE [...] (C) PolCouns met December 4 with Czech MFA Director General of the European Union Section Libor Secka to discuss Czech views on Turkey-EU negotiations over coming days. Secka emphasized that the Czech Republic strongly supports continued negotiations with Turkey; this stance had been confirmed [...] | 2006-12-04 16:02:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EZ TU EUN |
06PRAGUE1474 | CZECH'S RESPOND TO PSI LETTER ON UNSCR 1718 [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified, please protect accordingly. This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Czech MFA Political Director has written to Under Secretary Joseph to recommend two PSI improvements. Post requests a formal response to the Czech propos [...] | 2006-12-06 07:01:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM PREL EWWT EZ |
06PRAGUE1483 | PRAGUE HAS LOW-KEY RESPONSE TO AUSTRIAN BORDER [...] SUMMARY. (U) Austrian opponents of nuclear power blocked two border crossings with the Czech Republic on Sunday, December 3, to protest the November 3 administrative licensing of the Temelin Nuclear Power Plant. The anti-nuclear protest was one of the largest since the plant began trial opera [...] | 2006-12-06 14:12:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PREL PGOV EZ |
06PRAGUE1487 | CZECH PARLIAMENT APPROVES MILITARY DEPLOYMENTS FOR [...] On November 5th the Czech Chamber of Deputies approved a bill authorizing proposed foreign military deployments for 2007 (Note: Reftel provided full details of the plan. End note). The legislation now goes to the President for signature. 2. The bill approved by the lower chamber, and previo [...] | 2006-12-06 15:34:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EZ MARR MASS IZ AF YI BK LE |
06PRAGUE1488 | CZECH REPUBLIC REVIEW FOR WAIVER OF TITLE III OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The USG applauds the Czech Republic for its strong support of democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. The Czechs do not recognize the transfer of power to Raul Castro, and continue to advocate for a tougher EU common position on the Castro regime that emphasizes [...] | 2006-12-07 09:01:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETRD ETTC PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1489 | CZECH REPUBLIC: TERRORIST LISTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-07 09:02:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN ETTC KVPR PREL PTER EZ |
06PRAGUE1491 | CZECHS ON THE DECEMBER 11-12 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. At the December 11-12 GAERC, the Czechs expect the focus to be on the Balkans, the Middle East, Afghanistan, China, and Turkey. Czech policy continues to closely track U.S. policy in these regions/countries. At the upcoming GAERC, the Czechs will support (1) ICTY compliance and th [...] | 2006-12-07 16:09:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNAUS EUN YI SR BK IS LE IR |
06PRAGUE1502 | CZECH POLITICS: STRUGGLING CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-12 14:47:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1505 | CZECHS PLAN INCREASED SUPPORT FOR ISAF: MILITARY [...] (C/NF) Summary: On December 20 the Czech government is likely to formally adopt a plan to create a Czech PRT at Pol-e-Khomri, Afghanistan, to take over from Hungary in 2008. Many of the details such as civilian component, financing, and partners still need to be worked-out, but the Czechs will [...] | 2006-12-13 11:32:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL EZ MARR MASS AF NATO |
06PRAGUE1508 | GWOT INFORMATION EXCHANGE: SEEN AS LINKED TO THE [...] (C) The Czechs have a modern immigration database available at all ports-of-entry, a comprehensive watchlist is in use, and they began issuing biometric passports in early September 2006. Biometric systems will be introduced at ports-of-entry once the Czech Republic joins the Schengen zone. [...] | 2006-12-13 14:39:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CMGT CVIS EZ KVPR PGOV PINR PREL PTER |
06PRAGUE1509 | CZECHS SUPPORT SINIORA, APPROVE TROOPS FOR UNIFIL, [...] (U) Czech MFA Head of the Near East Group in the Middle East and Africa Department Jaromir Marek told Poloff on December 1 that the Czechs fully support the government of Lebanese PM Faud Siniora, and continue to closely monitor the situation in Lebanon. In a separate meeting, Director of the [...] | 2006-12-13 14:47:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM MOPS LE EZ |
06PRAGUE1513 | CZECHS AGREE THAT IRANIAN ELECTIONS ARE FLAWED [...] (SBU) Poloff met with Czech MFA Middle East Department official Silvia Sulaimanova on December 1 to discuss the upcoming Iranian elections and deliver reftel. Consistent with the Czech government's consistent support for U.S. policy on Iran generally, Sulaimanova confirmed that the Czechs reg [...] | 2006-12-14 15:44:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM IR EZ |
06PRAGUE1518 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST FOR JOINT COMBINED [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. Post has carefully reviewed the human rights record of the below named Czech military unit and unit commander. Post finds no record or evidence of any human rights violations. a) Name of Unit ) 601st Special Forces Group, Czech Mini [...] | 2006-12-15 12:10:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1519 | CZECH REPUBLIC DISMISSES AUSTRIAN RESOLUTION ON [...] SUMMARY: (U) The Austrian Parliament passed a resolution December 14 asking the government to pursue legal action against a nuclear power plant in the neighboring Czech Republic. Prague has responded with a mixture of tough talk and dismissive shrugs. The resolution received coverage on the fr [...] | 2006-12-15 13:03:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG SENV PREL PGOV EZ |
06PRAGUE1524 | CZECHS SUPPORT U.S. VIEWS ON SECURITY, DEMOCRACY, [...] (C) Summary. Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky traveled to Prague December 5-6 to address security issues at the Global Futures Forum. In addition, Dobriansky met with Deputy Foreign Minister Tomas Pojar to thank the Czechs for their cooperation with the United [...] | 2006-12-18 08:54:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KDEM HR EZ |
06PRAGUE1529 | CZECH POLITICS: DEJA VU AS TOPOLANEK READIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The meandering and unpredictable negotiations on the formation of a new Czech government took another strange turn December 14 when nearly completed talks on a partnership between the Civic Democrats (ODS) and Social Democrats (CSSD) collapsed. Prime Minister-designate Mirek Top [...] | 2006-12-18 16:02:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1539 | LEBANESE ISF DISCUSSING ASSISTANCE WITH CZECHS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Lebanese Internal Security Force is discussing training and equipment needs with the Czechs. Following a visit to Prague this month, the GOCR is waiting for the GOL to provide a list of requirements, and will then determine what can be provided within the context of Czech a [...] | 2006-12-21 15:26:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MASS KDEM LE EZ |
06PRAGUE154 | CZECH REPUBLIC'S ROBUST HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: 2005 was a big year for Czech humanitarian assistance with a record total disbursement of USD 8.5 million, up from USD 2.2 million in 2004. In addition to the humanitarian assistance budget, the MFA has discretionary authority to allocate up to about USD 200,000 per proje [...] | 2006-02-14 09:17:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EZ PREL |
06PRAGUE1543 | CZECH CONTRIBUTIONS TO IRAQ [...] Summary. This is the first in a series of cables summarizing significant Czech contributions (military, security, democracy promotion, development assistance, and humanitarian aid) in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans. The Czech Republic has maintained troops in Iraq since 2003 and provided tr [...] | 2006-12-22 08:27:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID MASS IZ EZ |
06PRAGUE1545 | CZECHS AFFIRM SUPPORT FOR U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary. During a visit to Prague December 10-11, NEA PDAS James F. Jeffrey met with MFA officials and members of the Czech Parliament Foreign Relations Committee to discuss Iran, recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, and Middle East issues generally. The Czechs responded favorably [...] | 2006-12-22 09:01:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ IR EZ |
06PRAGUE1548 | CZECH PRESIDENT REJECTS PROPOSED GOVERNMENT, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Czech President Vaclav Klaus has rejected the government put forward by Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek (ODS),prolonging at least temporarily the half-year search for a new government. Klaus's decision is only a delaying measure as under the Constitution he has no choice but to [...] | 2006-12-22 12:30:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1549 | CZECH REPUBLIC: RUSSIAN GAS SUPPLY CONTRACT [...] (SBU) The German-owned RWE Transgas issued a press release on December 21 announcing that it has renewed its contract with Gazprom Export Ltd. to supply the Czech Republic with natural gas until 2035. The contract is for 9 billion cubic meters per year. As for the price, Spokesman for RWE Tr [...] | 2006-12-22 13:15:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON ETRD PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE166 | CZECH REPUBLIC: 2005-2006 REPORT ON ALLIED [...] The following information is provided in response to reftel. Note that one dollar equals approximately 23 Czech crowns (CZK). 2. General Assessment. The Czech Republic is a close ally of the United States, operating in support of U.S. objectives both in Europe and farther afield. The Czechs [...] | 2006-02-15 13:49:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP PREL NATO EZ |
06PRAGUE170 | CZECHS OPPOSE VENEZUELA'S UNSC AMBITIONS; THOUGHTS [...] (U) A/DCM February 16 delivered reftel demarches on (a) Venezuela's UNSC ambitions, and (b) U.S. thoughts on the next UN Secretary General, to Jan Kara, Director of the Czech MFA's United Nations Department. 2. (C) Kara shared that the Czech Republic is similarly opposed to Venezuela's camp [...] | 2006-02-16 17:45:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UN UNSC GT VE EZ PL |
06PRAGUE171 | CZECHS WARN OF EU PROBLEMS AHEAD AS A RESULT OF [...] (C) In a February 16 meeting Czech MFA UN Department Director Jan Kara warned A/DCM that he was seeing signs the EU would become more hostile to the United States as a result of the UN Special Rapporteurs Report on Treatment of Detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Reflecting on discussions he had held [...] | 2006-02-16 17:48:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAO EUN EZ |
06PRAGUE184 | CZECHS VIEWS ON EVOLVING EU CUBA POLICY [...] (C) A/DCM met February 17 with Jakub Skalnik, Czech MFA Director for the Americas, to discuss a range of issues, including Cuba policy. Skalnik, a self-professed hardliner on Cuba, said he hoped the Czechs would join with Poland, Slovakia, and possibly the Germans and the Dutch, in making the [...] | 2006-02-17 15:55:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM EUN CU EZ |
06PRAGUE192 | CZECH MEDICAL AID TO THE MIDDLE EAST: "A SIGNAL TO [...] (U) Summary: U.S. Ambassador Cabaniss, the Iraqi Ambassador, and the Pakistani Charge d'Affaires visited Iraqi and Pakistani children recuperating in Prague from surgery on February 21. The purpose of their visit was to thank the Czech government for its "medevac" program, which brings critica [...] | 2006-02-22 13:47:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL IZ PK EZ |
06PRAGUE195 | MTAG: CZECHS TO INVESTIGATE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY [...] (S) Poloff February 22 delivered reftel demarche on WEOG mention of "next generation agents" to MFA UN and Nonproliferation Director Jan Kara (Note: Reftel reported the Czech Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) had made several inappropriate comments at the February 8 WEOG meeting [...] | 2006-02-22 17:35:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC NL AU EZ |
06PRAGUE199 | CZECHS ON FEB 27 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. At the February 27 GAERC, the top priorities will be the Balkans, the Middle East, and Belarus. The Czechs stress the importance of observing international standards in Kosovo, and of managing the impact in Belgrade of any permanent solution for Kosovo. The Czechs strongly support [...] | 2006-02-24 07:53:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN YI MW SR BK BO IR IZ KPAL CG |
06PRAGUE204 | CZECH DIPLOMATS MAY FACE EXPULSIONS FROM BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: Chilly relations between the Czech Republic and Belarus have nearly frozen in the aftermath of a Belarusian television broadcast that accused the Czech Embassy in Minsk of subversive activities and distributing propaganda to extremist groups. (Note: the document is actually a UN h [...] | 2006-02-24 14:38:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM BO EZ |
06PRAGUE222 | CZECHS HOST COUNCIL OF EUROPE CONFERENCE ON BELARUS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Czech MFA hosted a Council of Europe (COE) Conference on Belarus February 22. The Conference was attended by Belarusian democratic opposition members, delegates of numerous CE member states, and NGOs active in Belarus. The COE delegates discussed the value of (1) increasing [...] | 2006-03-02 12:08:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM BO EZ |
06PRAGUE225 | CZECHS WILL SEEK U.S. HELP TO CREATE PRT IN [...] (C) Summary: The Czech MFA hopes to have joint agreement with a reluctant MOD by the end of May to field a Czech-led PRT mission in Afghanistan. Approval for the mission would fall to a post-June-election government, but keeping to the May target would protect the mission from political tamperi [...] | 2006-03-02 16:21:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | AF EZ NATO PARM PREL PTER |
06PRAGUE237 | CZECHS ALSO OPPOSE OSCE CHAIRMAN'S SEPARATE [...] (C) Poloff March 1 delivered Ref A points on the OSCE Chairman's proposed three-person team to Karel Tesar, of the MFA's OSCE Unit. Tesar responded that the Czechs have been harboring similar fears about the fielding of the proposed team and agree with U.S. concerns. He noted the work of ODHIR [...] | 2006-03-06 14:28:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EZ KSTC PARM PREL PTER VM |
06PRAGUE257 | CZECHS WELCOME COORDINATION ON [...] (C) A/DCM March 10 delivered reftel points on reacting to the Belarus election to Deputy Foreign Minister Thomas Pojar. Pojar welcomed the U.S. desire to ensure unified action. 2. (C) Czech officials have been positive on the idea of coordinating the international response to the election. [...] | 2006-03-10 18:36:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV EUN BO EZ |
06PRAGUE258 | CZECH POLICY IS NOT TO MEET WITH HAMAS [...] (C) During a March 9 meeting with A/DCM, Czech MFA Political Director Martin Povejsil confirmed the Czech position on Hamas remains unchanged: they are a terrorist organization and high-level meetings are not appropriate. Povejsil suggested that the issue now be clarified within the Quartet. [...] | 2006-03-13 06:55:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS PGOV EZ |
06PRAGUE259 | CZECHS WELCOME INDIA NUCLEAR DEAL, ASK ABOUT [...] (C) A/DCM March 9 met with Czech MFA Political Director Martin Povejsil to solicit Czech support for the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative. Povejsil warmly welcomed the deal, congratulating the United States on successfully completing a difficult negotiation. He shared that the C [...] | 2006-03-13 06:55:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG KSCA IN PARM KNNP ETTC EZ |
06PRAGUE260 | PUTIN CONDUCTS FRIENDLY VISIT TO PRAGUE, LIGHTLY [...] (C) Summary. The March 1-2 visit of Vladimir Putin to Prague was aimed at throwing the best possible light on the relationship between Russia and the Czech Republic. Economic concerns were the main focus, but few agreements were signed. Difficult issues were either raised gently, or ignored. D [...] | 2006-03-13 06:55:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG EZ RS |
06PRAGUE283 | CZECH DEFENSE MINISTER ON VERA-E, AFGHAN PRT, AND [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador met March 14 with Czech Defense Minister Karel Kuehnl to present the letter from SECDEF Rumsfeld on the positive results of U.S. testing of the VERA-E passive surveillance detection system. Afghanistan and missile defense were also discussed. Kuehnl welcomed the SECDEF' [...] | 2006-03-17 15:51:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET | AF EZ NATO PARM PREL PTER ETTC KSTC MASS |
06PRAGUE284 | CZECH GREENS: A REFRESHING CHANGE FROM THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In recent weeks the Czech Green Party has, for the first time ever, jumped above 5% in opinion polls, indicating that the party could enter parliament in the June 2-3 general election. A fifth party in the new parliament would change the calculations for the forming a new gover [...] | 2006-03-17 16:02:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE285 | CZECHS ON MARCH 20 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. The Czechs predict that the Balkans, Palestine, and Belarus will be the top priorities at the March 20 GAERC. On the Balkans, progress is being made, but some EU member states may be losing their appetite for admitting the Balkan states to the EU in the foreseeable future. On Pale [...] | 2006-03-17 16:30:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD EUN YI MW SR BK BO IR IZ SU |
06PRAGUE295 | CZECHS EXPRESS CONCERN FOR FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY IN [...] Summary ---------- (C) On March 16, WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro met with representatives of Czech NGO People in Need (PIN),parliamentarians, MFA officials, and private citizens actively engaged in democracy promotion in Cuba. The Czechs expressed their commitment to Cuba and Latin America gene [...] | 2006-03-22 14:54:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM CU VE XM EZ |
06PRAGUE298 | CZECHS ASK WHETHER THE USG WILL REFUSE TO [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA Eastern Europe Director Tomas Szunyog March 23 to discuss the Czech response to the elections in Belarus. Szunyog said the Czechs favor strong transatlantic cooperation in response to the fraudulent election and asked whether the U.S. will refuse to recognize Lukashenko [...] | 2006-03-22 16:52:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM BO EZ |
06PRAGUE304 | CZECHS WILL SOON SIGN THE THIRD ADDITIONAL [...] (U) Poloff met Milan Dufek, Czech MFA International Legal Department, on March 9 to discuss reftel demarche on the Third Additional Protocol. Dufek reiterated strong Czech support for the Protocol and said it would be signed as soon as official authorization is obtained. On March 23, a represe [...] | 2006-03-23 14:23:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ICRC PHUM PREF PREL SZ EZ |
06PRAGUE305 | CZECHS PROMISE TO LOOK INTO ROMANIAN ADOPTION [...] (SBU) Poloff met Dagmar Hovohradska, MFA's Human Rights Department, March 22 to discuss reftel demarche on Romanian intercountry adoption. Hovohradska said the Human Rights Department will research the issue and provide a response within a week. However, Hovohradska was unsure what the Czech p [...] | 2006-03-23 14:23:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CASC EU RO EZ |
06PRAGUE306 | CZECHS TEACH IRAQIS IMMIGRATION CONTROL [...] (U) Summary. The Czechs are helping the Iraqi government learn how to manage Iraq's borders. In February, the Czechs brought ten senior Iraqi government officials to Prague to learn best practices in asylum and migration policy. The visit -- sponsored by a partnership between the Czech governm [...] | 2006-03-23 14:25:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM IZ EZ |
06PRAGUE309 | CZECHS STRONGLY SUPPORT TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS FOR [...] (C) In a meeting on March 23, MFA Eastern Europe Director Tomas Szunyog told Poloff the Czechs support travel restrictions for top Belarusian government officials, ref A. On MQch 24, Poloff called Szunyog to confirm the Czechs support travel restrictions for Belarusian President Aleksandr Luka [...] | 2006-03-24 17:03:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM CVIS EUN BO EZ |
06PRAGUE319 | MTAG: CZECHS MUZZLE ADVISORY BOARD CHAIRMAN ON [...] (S) Poloff March 23 spoke with Ivan Pinter of the MFA UN and Nonproliferation Department. Pinter was happy to relate that his office had successfully instructed Jiri Matousek, Czech Chairman of the WEOG Scientific Advisory Board (SAB),not to publicly discuss next generation agents in the futur [...] | 2006-03-28 14:21:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET | PARM PREL CWC NL AU EZ |
06PRAGUE343 | CZECHS SUPPORT NATO INTENSIFIED DIALOGUE WITH [...] (C) Poloff April 04 discussed reftel demarche concerning NATO "Intensified Dialogue on Membership Questions" with Vaclav Balek, Deputy Director of the MFA's Security Policy Department. Balek said the Czech Republic welcomed the idea of Intensified Dialogue for Georgia with a single caveat -- t [...] | 2006-04-05 05:41:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO MARR PREL GG EZ |
06PRAGUE360 | CZECH REPUBLIC AND MISSILE DEFENSE: SUPPORTIVE, [...] (S) Summary: The Czech Republic may be a good candidate to host ground-based ballistic missile defense (BMD) interceptors and/or a BMD radar. However, Czech involvement in the project will be contingent on careful handling of the issue in the domestic political arena. The too-close-to-call Jun [...] | 2006-04-07 05:42:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET | MARR PREL PL EZ UK RS |
06PRAGUE388 | CZECH DIPLOMAT EXPELLED FROM CUBA - MORE [...] (C) Summary. On April 13, the Castro regime announced it would not renew the visa of Czech diplomat Stanislav Kazecky, effectively expelling him. The Czechs believe another Czech diplomat may be expelled next week. The Cuban Charge d'Affaires in Prague said the GOC expelled Kazecky because his [...] | 2006-04-17 13:17:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM CU EZ EUN |
06PRAGUE389 | CZECH DIPLOMAT EXPELLED FROM CUBA - MORE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-18 06:09:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM CU EZ EUN |
06PRAGUE390 | CZECH DIPLOMAT EXPELLED FROM CUBA - MORE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-18 06:10:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM CU EZ EUN |
06PRAGUE395 | CZECHS EXPEL CUBAN DIPLOMAT, DO NOT EXPECT FURTHER [...] (C) Petr Kavan, Czech MFA Desk Officer for the Department of Americas, confirmed on April 18 that the Czech government has expelled Cuban Diplomat Manuel Angel Baltar Charnicharo, First Secretary of the Cuban mission in Prague. The decision not to renew Charnicharo's visa, which will expire on [...] | 2006-04-18 12:04:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM CU EZ |
06PRAGUE425 | CODEL DAVIS IN CZECH REPUBLIC: TRANSATLANTIC [...] (C) Summary. On April 21, 2006, a delegation of eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives met with Czech Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek and President Vaclav Klaus. Both leaders stressed the importance of strong U.S.-Czech relations; Representatives expressed strong appreciation for thes [...] | 2006-04-24 16:16:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CVIS EUN EZ |
06PRAGUE427 | MARTIN BURSIK, MEAN GREEN CHAMELEON, POSSIBLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. It looks increasingly likely that the Czech Green Party will cross the 5% threshold in the June 2-3 parliamentary elections, and have a say in the formation of the next coalition government. Martin Bursik, who became Chairman of the party six months ago, and who is given credit [...] | 2006-04-25 10:46:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EZ PGOV PINR PREL |
06PRAGUE432 | CZECHS SUPPORT NATO GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE [...] (C) Poloff April 24 discussed reftel demarche concerning the NATO "Global Partnership" initiative with Veronika Kuchynova Smigolova, Director of the MFA's Security Policy Department. Smigolova said the Czech Republic welcomed the initiative and had no significant concerns relating to the conte [...] | 2006-04-25 15:15:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO MARR PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE433 | CZECHS OPPOSE ANY KIND OF ADAPTED CFE TREATY [...] (C) Poloff April 24 discussed the rumored CFE roadmap initiative for the Sofia NATO Ministerial with Veronika Kuchynova Smigolova, Director of the MFA's Security Policy Department. Smigolova shared that the Political Counselor at the German Embassy will call on the MFA April 25 to discuss "a C [...] | 2006-04-25 15:15:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL RS EZ |
06PRAGUE434 | CZECHS AGREE THAT KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE IS INEVITABLE [...] (C) Summary: The Czech Republic agrees that independence for Kosovo is an inevitability. The GOCR believes UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari must make more rapid progress if he is to have any chance of completing his work within the envisaged timeframe. They believe the hope of EU accession wi [...] | 2006-04-25 15:18:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO MARR PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE44 | CZECH REPUBLIC: AFGHANISTAN COMPACT DONOR PLEDGING [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel talking points to Czech MFA Afghan desk officer Michal Svoboda January 12. Svoboda said the Czech Republic most likely would not be able to make a donor pledge to form part of the Afghanistan Compact. He did say, however, that at the Jan 31 - Feb 1 Compact meeti [...] | 2006-01-13 11:52:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AF EAID PGOV PREL KDEM EFIN ECON EZ |
06PRAGUE445 | CZECH COUNTRY REVIEW FOR WAIVER OF TITLE III OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Czech Republic has been applauded by the USG for its strong support of democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. The Czechs are actively seeking a tougher EU common position on the Castro regime, in contrast to the policy sought by Spain of increased engagemen [...] | 2006-04-28 08:50:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | CU ETRD ETTC PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE456 | CZECHS OPPOSE IRAN UNHCR CANDIDACY AND G-77 [...] (U) Poloffs met with Jan Kara, Czech MFA Director of the United Nations Department, to deliver demarches on Iran's candidacy for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR) (Ref C),the G-77 resolution on UN Management Reform (Ref A),and the UN Democracy Fund Invitation for Grant Proposals ( [...] | 2006-04-28 15:52:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KDEM UNGA UN KUNR UNHCR EZ |
06PRAGUE46 | CZECHS IN ASIA: CONTINUED FOCUS ON CHINA, BUT [...] (C) Summary. The Czech Republic plans active engagement with East and South Asia in the first half of 2006, with most attention focused on China. During a visit to Prague in December, the Chinese PM closed an investment agreement that, according to critics, noticeably favors Chinese interests [...] | 2006-01-13 18:04:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EINV EZ CH BM IN PK AF VM CB |
06PRAGUE473 | SCENESETTER FOR MAY 10 U.S.-CZECH POL-MIL TALKS [...] (SBU) The objective of the May 10 Political-Military talks is to strengthen and nurture the Czech Republic's already-strong transatlantic instincts, and achieve forward momentum on key areas of mutual concern. While the entire range of topics for discussion will advance this agenda, the talks [...] | 2006-05-04 17:28:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR NATO PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE498 | CZECHS EXPAND DEMOCRACY PROMOTION EFFORTS IN [...] (C) Summary. Promoting democracy and human rights in Belarus remains a top foreign policy priority for the Czech government. Following the fraudulent presidential elections in Belarus in March 2006, the Czech Parliament voted to increase funding to support democracy promotion in Belarus from $ [...] | 2006-05-10 15:46:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM BO EZ |
06PRAGUE504 | CZECHS SAY CUBA CONFERENCE A SUCCESS [...] (C) Summary. The Czech MFA, in cooperation with Czech NGOs, recently hosted a Conference on Cuba in Prague to search for common ground with other EU member states active in Cuba, and share the best practice of European NGOs working there. The Conference participants included MFA representative [...] | 2006-05-11 14:17:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM CU EZ EUN |
06PRAGUE505 | SCENESETTER FOR CZECH FM SVOBODA'S MAY 16 MEETING [...] (SBU) Madame Secretary, This is your first bilateral meeting with Czech Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda. I have found him to be a strong and committed supporter of transatlantic relations. Under Svoboda's leadership, the Czechs have become trailblazers in supporting democracy and promoting hu [...] | 2006-05-11 14:52:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EZ OVIP PGOV PREL |
06PRAGUE506 | CZECHS SUPPORT CUBA DEMOCRACY FUND; SEARCH FOR [...] (C) Summary. Gretchen Birkle, DRL/FO Senior Coordinator for Global Democracy Strategies, and Paul Bonicelli, USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Bureau of Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, met with Czech MFA officials and Czech NGO representatives April 10. They discus [...] | 2006-05-11 14:54:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM CU EZ |
06PRAGUE508 | CZECHS ON MAY 15 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. At the May 15 GAERC, Czechs expect the focus will be on the Balkans, the Middle East, and Africa. On Serbia, the Czechs agree with the EU decision to suspend accession talks for failure to comply fully with ICTY. They urge Montenegro to use the Czech-Slovak "Velvet Divorce" as a m [...] | 2006-05-12 08:41:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM UN EUN MW SR BO IR IZ CG SU LI |
06PRAGUE509 | CZECH DIPLOMAT EXPELLED FROM CUBA: CAUTIONARY TALE? [...] (C) Summary. Poloff met April 28 with Stanislav Kazecky, the Czech diplomat recently expelled from Cuba (ref A). Kazecky observed that the human rights situation in Cuba appears to be worsening, and shared tips on effective "public diplomacy" in a closed society. End summary. 2. (C) Kazecky [...] | 2006-05-12 12:28:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM CU EZ EUN |
06PRAGUE527 | CZECH REPUBLIC: BCWG MEETING ON THE VISA ROADMAP [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S.-Czech Bilateral Consular Working Group (BCWG) met May 11 to discuss progress on the Visa Roadmap toward eventual membership in the U.S. Visa Waiver Program. The Czechs confirmed that all passports issued in September 2006 and after will contain biometric chips. They ann [...] | 2006-05-16 14:35:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE531 | CZECHS: EU SHOULD DESIGNATE TAMIL TIGERS AS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-17 12:15:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EUN PGOV PREL CE EZ |
06PRAGUE535 | CZECH ELECTIONS - THE FADING STIGMA OF COMMUNIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The stigma of having some form of association with either the pre-1989 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, or with its post-1989 successor, seems to be fading. A growing number of Czechs, though still in the minority, do not seem to mind the Communist Party. One major turning po [...] | 2006-05-18 17:10:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE536 | CZECHS HAVE NO POSITION ON DECLARATION OF RIGHTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-19 07:37:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | HUM PREL PGOV EZ |
06PRAGUE539 | CZECHS CONCERNED ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS IN SYRIA [...] (SBU) A/DCM and Poloff met May 17 with Veronika Stromsikova, Czech MFA's Director of the Human Rights Department, to discuss reftel on human rights abuses in Syria. Stromsikova said the Czechs are concerned about deteriorating human rights conditions in Syria, and were aware of the abuses iden [...] | 2006-05-19 12:23:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL SY EZ |
06PRAGUE540 | CZECH FOREIGN MINISTER CALLS IN AMBASSADOR ON [...] (SBU) Czech FM Cyril Svoboda called in the Ambassador on the morning of May 19 to discuss the recently approved Senate amendment to immigration reform legislation that would extend the visa waiver program (VWP) to Poland, but not to the Czech Republic. Svoboda, who faces re-election in two wee [...] | 2006-05-19 13:55:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CVIS PGOV EUN PL EZ |
06PRAGUE544 | U.S.-CZECH POL-MIL TALKS A SUCCESS [...] (S) The first joint State-DOD pol-mil talks with the Czech Republic took place in Prague on May 10. Discussions were productive and the mood positive. Highlights included: -- GWOT AND CZECH OVERSEAS DEPLOYMENTS (paras 5-7): The Czechs intend to maintain their 100 military police presence i [...] | 2006-05-22 13:08:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET | MARR NATO PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE549 | CZECH ELECTIONS: ODS, THE WOBBLY FRONT RUNNER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Polls have consistently shown that the center-right, pro-U.S., pro-business Civic Democrats (ODS) are likely to receive more votes in the upcoming June 2-3 general election, and consequently more seats in the next parliament, than any other party. However, ODS leadership of the ne [...] | 2006-05-23 13:44:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE570 | CZECH REPUBLIC WELCOMES FORMATION OF IRAQI [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-26 12:31:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ EZ |
06PRAGUE571 | CZECHS CONTRIBUTE 50,000 EURO TO NATO TRAINING [...] (U) MFA Deputy Director for Security Policy Vaclav Balek informed Poloff that in response to NATO Secretary General Jaap De Hoop Scheffer's appeal, the Czech government on May 17 approved a donation of EUR 50,000 (USD 70,625) to support the NTM-I Trust Fund. These funds follow a Czech donation [...] | 2006-05-26 13:34:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO MOPS PREL EZ IZ |
06PRAGUE574 | CZECH ELECTIONS: DECISIVE VICTORY UNLIKELY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. There are a number of trends, and idiosyncrasies in the Czech political system that will influence the June 2-3 general election, and politics for the foreseeable future. These include: (1) the semi-outlaw status of the Communist Party, which holds more than 20% of the seats in [...] | 2006-05-26 16:50:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE58 | CZECHS EMBRACE TRANSFORMATION DIPLOMACY AND [...] (U) Summary and comment. Democracy promotion is at the heart of Czech foreign policy. Because GOCR efforts complement U.S. transformational diplomacy efforts, the Czechs are natural partners for cooperation in countries such as Cuba, Belarus, and Iraq. January 25-27, 2006, Gabriela Dlouha, Dir [...] | 2006-01-23 06:50:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM EZ |
06PRAGUE591 | CZECH ELECTIONS: THE SHORT, BRUTISH, NASTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With the June 2-3 election only a day away, political pundits are still waffling on their predictions and a significant number of voters remain uninspired and unsure of whom to support. The choices made by this large block of still undecided voters, as high as 25% according to s [...] | 2006-06-01 10:11:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE597 | CZECH PM SUPPORTS NEW U.S. IRAN POLICY [...] (U) Summary: Czech Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek pledged his support for the Secretary's announcement on Iran during his June 1 meeting with the Ambassador. At a press conference with the Ambassador immediately following the meeting, the Prime Minister announced that the Czech Republic support [...] | 2006-06-01 14:52:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EZ IR |
06PRAGUE602 | CZECHS VIEW RUSSIAN ACTIONS IN SOUTH OSSETIA WITH [...] (C) Poloff May 31 delivered reftel demarche on Russian action in South Ossetia to Vaclav Balek, Deputy Director of the MFA Security Policy Division. Balek replied that the Czechs had drawn similar conclusions. According to Balek, the EU is currently discussing how to address its approach, perh [...] | 2006-06-02 13:39:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL EZ GG RU |
06PRAGUE603 | CZECHS AGREE ACCESS TO MANAS AIRFIELD IS CRUCIAL [...] (C) Poloff May 31 delivered reftel demarche on renewal of the access agreement for Manas airfield to Vaclav Balek, Deputy Director of the MFA Security Policy Division. Balek responded that, as an active coalition ally with forces deployed in Afghanistan, the Czechs would address similar concer [...] | 2006-06-02 13:40:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL EZ AF KG |
06PRAGUE610 | CZECH ELECTIONS: NEXT STEPS ACCORDING TO THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: In spite of the weekend electoral stalemate resulting in an evenly-divided Parliament, with the right and the left camp each holding 100 seats in a 200-seat Chamber of Deputies (lower house of Parliament),the Czech constitution gives clear guidelines on the way forward. The Presi [...] | 2006-06-05 13:29:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE621 | CZECHS: STILL NO POSITION ON UN DECLARATION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-07 08:32:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | HUM PREL PGOV EZ |
06PRAGUE635 | CZECHS ON JUNE 12 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. At the June 12 GAERC, the Czechs expect the focus to be on Cuba, the Middle East, and the Balkans. On Cuba, the GAERC conclusions are expected to contain strong language on Cuba (already negotiated by the Czechs and the Spanish) denouncing the human rights conditions in Cuba and o [...] | 2006-06-09 14:56:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN EUN YI MW SR BO IR IZ KPAL EZ |
06PRAGUE636 | TALKS ON ODS MINORITY COALITION CONTINUE: CHANCES [...] SUMMARY. The Civic Democrat party (ODS),which won the largest number of votes in the June 2 - 3 elections, is pushing forward with its plan to form an ODS-led minority government with the Christian Democrats and the Green Party, although the Greens do not yet seem fully on board. Meanwhile, [...] | 2006-06-09 16:14:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE66 | CZECH DEMOCRACY PROMOTION: CUBA [...] (U) Summary and comment. This is the second in a series of cables highlighting Czech democracy promotion efforts (ref A),and provides details about the critical assistance provided by the Czechs in Cuba. A peaceful transition to democracy in Cuba remains a top foreign policy priority for the [...] | 2006-01-24 12:55:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET | PREL KDEM CU EZ |
06PRAGUE663 | CZECHS TO LICENSE SALE OF FIVE PASSIVE [...] (S/NF) Summary: The GOCR is about to license the export of five ASDD-01 passive detection surveillance systems to Pakistan. The Czech MFA gave its approval to the deal June 14. They explained that after a year of discussions with the USG on exports of the system to Pakistan, they already unde [...] | 2006-06-15 16:23:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ETTC KSTC PARM EZ PK |
06PRAGUE664 | CZECHS WILL SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON RED CRYSTAL [...] (U) Poloff discussed reftel on June 15 with Petr Valek, Legal Officer in the Czech MFA International Law Department. Valek said the Czechs fully support the U.S. as articulated in the talking points, including the need to amend the statute now to permit national societies to use the Red Crysta [...] | 2006-06-15 16:33:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL PHUM ICRC IS EZ |
06PRAGUE665 | CZECHS AGREE PROCEDURAL ISSUES SHOULD BE FOCUS OF [...] (C) Summary. The Czech MFA Director of Human Rights said the Czechs plan to make procedural reform the focus of their one-year term on the Council, and further agree that the focus of the first UNHRC session should be procedural issues. However, they are open to discussing specific country issu [...] | 2006-06-15 16:40:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE67 | CZECH FM SVOBODA: CZECHS ARE COMMITTED PARTNERS ON [...] (C) Summary. Czech FM Cyril Svoboda warmly received Ambassador Cabaniss on January 23, 2006, and confirmed the Czechs are closely aligned with the U.S. on UN Human Rights Commission reform, UN management reform, and the need to report Iran to the UN Security Council. Other topics discussed inc [...] | 2006-01-24 13:02:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR UN IR EZ |
06PRAGUE692 | CZECHS SUPPORT EU CRITICISM OF VENEZUELAN NGO LAW, [...] (C) Poloff met with Petr Janousek, Czech MFA Desk Officer of the Americas Department, June 19 to discuss Venezuela's draft NGO law. Janousek said a delegation of EU Ambassadors in Caracas met in early June with Saul Ortega, President of the Permanent Commission for External Policies in the Ven [...] | 2006-06-21 12:56:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV VE EAID EZ |
06PRAGUE719 | CZECH REPUBLIC: COALITION AGREEMENT REACHED [...] (U) The Civic Democrats (ODS),Christian Democrats (KDU- CSL),and the Green Party (SZ) signed a coalition agreement and finalized ministerial nominations late June 23. ODS, which won the largest number of votes in the June 2 - 3 election, will hold 10 posts including that of the Prime Minist [...] | 2006-06-26 14:36:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE723 | CZECH NGO STAGES RALLY TO GAIN SUPPORT FOR UNSC [...] (U) Poloff met Maria Perinova, Senior Program Director for Czech NGO People in Need (PIN),to discuss a rally on Burma organized by PIN in Prague on June 19 (the birthday of the Burmese democratic leader Aung San Syi Kyi). Perinova said the peaceful rally was to urge UNSC members to approve a [...] | 2006-06-28 06:33:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PHUM PREL BM EZ |
06PRAGUE737 | CZECH REPUBLIC: IMPLICATIONS OF NEW GOVERNMENT FOR [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The center-right coalition that will take office perhaps as early as next week, pending resolution of Lower House leadership negotiations, will be generally positive for U.S. interests in the Czech Republic. Although the date of a vote of confidence in the Topolanek [...] | 2006-06-28 15:52:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE744 | CZECHS SEE EYE-TO-EYE WITH U.S. ON KOSOVO STATUS [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo and Kosovo Desk Officer Joshua Black visited Prague May 23-24 to meet with Czech government officials to discuss the status of Kosovo. The Czech MFA predicts an independent Kosovo (but ackno [...] | 2006-07-01 09:00:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM YI ZL EZ |
06PRAGUE745 | RADIO FARDA DISPUTE AT CENTER STAGE IN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-01 09:48:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC ENRG PGOV PINR CVIS EZ IR |
06PRAGUE746 | CZECH POLICY ON IRAN: PROLIFERATION ISSUES AND [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-01 09:59:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL ETTC MNUC IAEA EZ IR |
06PRAGUE747 | PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE CZECH POLICY TOWARD IRAN, AND [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-01 10:12:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC MNUC PGOV EUN EZ IR |
06PRAGUE754 | RADIO FARDA DISPUTE AT CENTER STAGE IN [...] (C) INTRODUCTION and SUMMARY: This is the first of three cables on Czech-Iranian relations. This message looks at several aspects of current ties, notably the impact of Prague-based broadcasting to Iran. The other two cables will focus more directly on non-proliferation. Czech-Iranian r [...] | 2006-07-03 15:13:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC ENRG PGOV PINR CVIS EZ IR |
06PRAGUE755 | PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE CZECH POLICY TOWARD IRAN, AND [...] (C) Summary and comment: This is the final of three cables on Czech-Iranian relations. The Czech Government is likely to remain solidly aligned with the USG on Iran. Czech mainstream parties whose platforms are supportive of USG positions vis-a-vis the Iranian nuclear issue will occupy 174 o [...] | 2006-07-03 15:14:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC MNUC PGOV EUN EZ IR |
06PRAGUE756 | CZECH POLICY ON IRAN: PROLIFERATION ISSUES AND [...] (S) SUMMARY. This is the second of three cables on Czech-Iranian relations. The Czech Republic's Iran policies and non-proliferation practices strongly support U.S. positions. Concerns have been raised about the impact of acquisition of Czech firms involved in nuclear technologies by Russian [...] | 2006-07-03 15:17:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL ETTC MNUC IAEA EZ IR |
06PRAGUE757 | CZECHS REQUEST VISIT OF U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE SITE [...] (U) Action request in para 9. 2. (C/NF) Summary: Czech officials have extended an invitation, effective immediately, for the U.S. to begin surveying potential missile defense (MD) sites within the Czech Republic. They are grateful for U.S. patience in delaying the arrival of the survey tea [...] | 2006-07-05 07:51:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MARR PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE771 | CZECH ELECTIONS: IMPASSE UNBROKEN BUT TWO MAIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Five weeks after Czech general elections resulted in a draw, the winning party, the right-of-center Civic Democrats (ODS),has yet to form a coalition government. The current Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek, whose left-of-center Social Democrats (CSSD) came in second, is using vari [...] | 2006-07-11 13:52:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE803 | CZECHS: WE ARE LIKELY TO OFFER A BASE, WITH NO [...] (S/NF) Summary and comment: Czech Deputy FM Pojar and his Political Director briefed the Ambassador July 13 on their strategy to manage political and public opinion regarding the possible basing of a U.S. missile defense (MD) site in the Czech Republic. They stressed that the GOCR would not/not [...] | 2006-07-14 12:31:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE806 | CZECHS ON JULY 17 GAERC [...] (C) Summary: At the July 17 GAERC, the Czechs expect the focus to be on the Middle East and the Balkans. The Czechs are strong supporters of USG policy in both regions. Of particular note, outgoing Czech FM Cyril Svoboda plans to take a tough stand in support of Israel during the debate on the [...] | 2006-07-14 12:54:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL UN EUN YI MW SR BO IR IZ KPAL SU CG |
06PRAGUE822 | CZECH GOVERNMENT APPROVES MILITARY DEPLOYMENT TO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-20 12:19:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPPS PREL EZ LA |
06PRAGUE823 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH CZECH PM ON MISSILE [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Ambassador met July 20 with Czech PM Jiri Paroubek to discuss the Czech candidacy to host a U.S. missile defense (MD) site. Paroubek was well prepared, sharing his opinion that the fall Senate and mayoral elections would make political handling of the MD issue more difficu [...] | 2006-07-20 12:21:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR PREL MASS MARS EZ |
06PRAGUE828 | CZECHS DISCUSS STRATEGY WITH U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (S/NF) Summary: Senior Czech officials July 19 hosted a joint OSD-Missile Defense Agency (MDA) policy team led by DASD Brian Green. Discussions were positive, with Czech questions focusing on information that could be used to manage the domestic political and public affairs dynamics of the Cz [...] | 2006-07-21 10:03:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR PREL MASS MARS EZ |
06PRAGUE85 | CZECH DEMOCRACY PROMOTION: BURMA AND NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary. This is the fourth in a series of cables highlighting Czech democracy promotion efforts. The Czechs plan to launch new Czech democracy promotion projects in Burma and North Korea in 2006. These projects are motivated by the GOCR's interest in helping these countries peacefully ove [...] | 2006-01-26 16:36:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM BM KN EZ |
06PRAGUE851 | CZECHS SUPPORT PHARE ASSISTANCE, BUT ONLY UNDER [...] (C) Poloff discussed the Czech position on PHARE assistance for the Turkish Cypriot Community on July 25 with MFA Director of Southeast and Eastern Europe Department Tomas Szunyog, and MFA Director of Coordination and Institutions of EU Tomas Ulicny. Szunyog said the Czechs support the PHARE a [...] | 2006-07-25 15:05:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID LH EUN CY EZ |
06PRAGUE853 | CZECH HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT UNGA: PRELIMINARY [...] (U) Poloff spoke with MFA Deputy Director of the UN Department Ivan Pinter on July 25 to discuss Czech high-level attendance at UNGA. Pinter said the Czechs have not yet designated their representatives to UNGA. They are unlikely to do so before August 7, when the necessary decision makers are [...] | 2006-07-26 09:50:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA EZ |
06PRAGUE861 | CZECHS CONFIR THEY LICENSED SALE OF FIVE PASSIVE [...] (/NF) Poloff and DATT on July 28 met with MFA CFSP Director Vaclav Balek to discuss the Czech Republi's sale of five ASDD-01 passive surveillance detction systems to Pakistan (Ref A). There had bee rumors that the license for the sale had been refused at the insistence of the Czech Ministry of [...] | 2006-07-28 13:09:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC EZ STC PARM PGOV PK PREL |
06PRAGUE894 | CZECHS DO NOT RECOGNIZE RAUL CASTRO AS A [...] (C) Poloff met with Czech MFA Director of the Americas Department Jakub Skalnik on August 2 to discuss Czech views on Fidel Castro's temporary transfer of power to Raul Castro. Skalnik said the Czechs share the U.S. view that only a democratically elected leader would be the legitimate success [...] | 2006-08-03 09:03:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PREL VT XM XS CU EU JA EZ |
06PRAGUE898 | CZECHS OFFER SURGICAL CARE FOR SERIOUSLY-INJURED [...] (SBU) Summary. The Czech government has launched a medevac program to help critically injured women and children in Lebanon. This program is modeled on the successful Czech medevac programs for Iraq and Pakistan, and typifies the GOCR's modest yet extraordinarily active and adaptable disaster [...] | 2006-08-03 12:45:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL MOPS IS LE EZ |
06PRAGUE9 | CZECHS ON JOINT U.S.-EU STATEMENT TO LUKASHENKO: [...] (C) CDA and Poloff met January 3 with Tomas Szunyog, Czech MFA's Director of the Eastern Europe Department, to discuss the proposed U.S.-EU joint statement to Belarus President Lukashenko urging him not to run in the presidential election. Szunyog said the Czechs' support the U.S. position 100 [...] | 2006-01-03 16:07:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM EUN BO OSCE EZ |
06PRAGUE921 | CZECHS STRONGLY SUPPORT UNSC RESOLUTION ON LEBANON [...] (C) Poloff met with Czech MFA Director of the UN Department Jan Kara on August 7 to deliver reftel and discuss the draft UNSC resolution on Lebanon. He said the Czechs support the principles and elements set forth in the text of the draft resolution. Kara called the draft "an excellent piece o [...] | 2006-08-09 05:11:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS UNAUS IS EZ LE |
06PRAGUE923 | FIRST UPDATE: CZECH HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT UNGA [...] (U) Poloff spoke with Czech MFA Director of the UN Department Jan Kara on August 7 to update information previously reported on Czech high-level attendance at UNGA (Ref A). Kara said the Czechs have not finalized their plans, but provided the following information: A. Head of State Presi [...] | 2006-08-09 05:11:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA EZ |
06PRAGUE925 | CZECH REPUBLIC: GOVERNMENT WITH TWO BIG PARTIES [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Two months after winning the June 2-3 general elections and unsuccessfully trying to form a new government with a three-party right-of-center coalition that holds exactly half of the seats in Parliament, the Civic Democrats (ODS) have finally declared the coalition dead [...] | 2006-08-09 10:29:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS EZ |
06PRAGUE934 | CZECH PUBLIC DEBATE ON MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Since reftel report on July 19, Czech media coverage has intensified, with a steady stream of editorials and news coverage about a potential siting of a U.S. missile defense facility in the Czech Republic. Pro-MD commentators continue to make the arguments that an MD [...] | 2006-08-11 08:44:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV EZ |
06PRAGUE94 | CZECHS ON JAN 30 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. At the January 30 GAERC, the Czechs will urge the EU not to engage with the newly elected Hamas government unless it renounces violence, recognizes Israel, and accepts the two-state process. On Iran, the Czechs will support referral to the UNSC, and will continue to hope for a dip [...] | 2006-01-27 16:53:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN EZ |
06PRAGUE944 | CZECHS DO NOT SUPPORT TEXT OF UNHRC'S DRAFT [...] (SBU) Poloff met with Czech MFA Deputy Director of the Human Rights Department Jan Kamenik to discuss the UNHRC special session and deliver reftel demarche. Kamenik said the Czechs support the mechanism for the special session, but do not/not support the current text of the draft UNHRC resolut [...] | 2006-08-12 07:46:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KPAO UNRCR EZ |
06PRAGUE95 | VERA-E SYSTEM: CZECH MOD HARDLINERS WANT TO TALK [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraphs 13 and 14. 2. (S/NF) Summary. In a significant change from previous practice, the Armaments Division of the Czech Ministry of Defense has broken its silence towards the U.S. on its views about sales of the VERA-E passive surveillance dete [...] | 2006-01-27 17:21:00 | Embassy Prague | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC EZ KSTC PARM PREL PTER |
06PRAGUE96 | A CZECH PRT IN AFGHANINSTAN? CURRENT THINKING IN [...] (C/NF) PolOff met with Vaclav Balek (please strictly protect),Deputy Director of the MFA's Security Policy Department Jan 27. Balek shared that he had attended a recent meeting where FM Svoboda had approved a proposal from the working level that the Czechs should lead a Provincial Reconstruct [...] | 2006-01-27 17:33:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AF EZ NATO PARM PREL PTER |
06PRAGUE964 | AGREEMENT ON SPEAKER OF CZECH PARLIAMENT PAVES WAY [...] (U) SUMMARY. More than 10 weeks after the deadlocked June 2-3 general election, the five parties in the Czech Parliament have agreed on a Speaker and five Deputy Speakers, allowing the new parliament to formally begin work, and removing one of the key issues that has blocked progress toward th [...] | 2006-08-16 05:08:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE966 | CZECHS CONSIDER TROOP CONTRIBUTION TO UNIFIL; [...] (C) Poloff and Army Attache met with Czech MFA Director of the UN Department Jan Kara, and Czech MOD Deputy Director of the Defense Policy Department, NATO and EU Section, Lt. Col. Petr Cech, on August 16 to discuss the possibility of Czech troop contributions to UNIFIL. Kara said the Czechs ar [...] | 2006-08-16 14:45:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL LE EZ |
06PRAGUE97 | CZECH DEMOCRACY PROMOTION: IRAQ [...] (U) Summary and comment. This cable, the fifth in a series highlighting Czech transformational diplomacy, describes Czech democracy promotion projects in Iraq. These projects are motivated by the Czech interest in rebuilding Iraq, and promoting democracy and regional stability throughout the M [...] | 2006-01-27 17:57:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM IZ EZ |
06PRETORIA1290 | SAG ON HAMAS, PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS, AND IRAQI DEBT [...] (C) Summary: The SAG is likely to continue to engage Hamas, including a visit by Intelligence Minister Kasrils and Deputy Foreign Minister Pahad to the Middle East region next week and a visit by Hamas leadership to South Africa at an undetermined date. DFA Chief Director for the Middle East [...] | 2006-03-30 16:45:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN KPAL IR IZ IS SF |
06PRETORIA1299 | SOUTH AFRICA SHINES FATF SPOTLIGHT ON DEVELOPING [...] (SBU) Summary. The Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) demonstrated its commitment to Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) as observers during the February Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meetings in Cape Town. South Africa, as the c [...] | 2006-03-31 10:21:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KFTN PTER ETTC PREL PGOV KCRM PINR SF |
06PRETORIA1397 | SOUTH AFRICA: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified; Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) Welcome to South Africa. In the twelve years since the end of apartheid, the South African government (SAG) has taken major steps toward establishing a democracy and market-based economy. Despite problems of income [...] | 2006-04-07 04:38:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL EFIN EINV ETRD ECON KHIV SF |
06PRETORIA2022 | SOUTH AFRICA: DEPUTY PRESIDENT MEETS OPIC DURING [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 4, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka met with OPIC President and CEO Robert Mosbacher, Jr. and Executive VP John Simon to discuss how OPIC could assist with the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (ASGISA). The meeting focused on two potential [...] | 2006-05-16 15:11:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN PGOV PREL EAID SF |
06PRETORIA2138 | PRESIDENT MBEKI ANNOUNCES CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] (U) President Mbeki announced a minor cabinet reshuffle on May 22, following the May 7 death of Public Works Minister Stella Sigcau. Four serving ministers, all women, were appointed to new positions, and one deputy ministerial position was left vacant. 2. (U) Most notable was the appoin [...] | 2006-05-25 11:51:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL SF |
06PRETORIA2746 | SOUTH AFRICA: POLITICS STALLING LOW-INCOME HOUSING [...] (SBU) Summary. The ANC's Tripartite Alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) has slowed down low-income housing finance initiatives, according to the Banking Association. The Housing Ministry sidelined a bilateral MOU conc [...] | 2006-07-06 13:51:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV PGOV PREL EAID SF |
06PRETORIA2873 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ACOTA - WILLIAM G. (CHIP) [...] Embassy Pretoria welcomes and grants country clearance to ACOTA Coordinator William G. (Chip) Beck and John Sevold from July 15-22, 2006. The purpose of the visit is follow-up on the JUN DEFCOM meeting requirements and for a site visit to Bloemfontein Mission Readiness Training center and ot [...] | 2006-07-14 04:35:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PREL MARR ASEC SF TZ |
06PRETORIA3182 | SOUTH AFRICA EXPANDING COOPERATION IN BOLIVIA [...] (C) Summary. South Africa plans to expand its cooperation with Bolivia, particularly in the mining and energy sectors, according to DFA Director Swanepoel. Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad led a high-level delegation to Bolivia July 17-20 to discuss a South African-Bolivian bilateral c [...] | 2006-08-02 15:02:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BO SF |
06PRETORIA3195 | (C) ARISTIDE "COMFORTABLE" IN SOUTH AFRICA; SAG [...] (C) Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide remains "comfortable" in Pretoria at the University of South Africa (UNISA),according to Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Director for Mexico, Central America, The Andean Community and the Caribbean, Ambassador Pieter Swanepoel (protect). [...] | 2006-08-03 15:11:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL HA SF |
06PRETORIA3339 | SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR OBAMA'S VISIT TO SOUTH [...] (SBU) Welcome to South Africa, an anchor country in our Africa policy. Since the end of apartheid in 1994, the African National Congress (ANC)-led South African Government (SAG) has made major progress toward establishing a vibrant democracy and market-based economy. The SAG has focused on p [...] | 2006-08-15 14:57:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV ECON KHIV SF |
06PRETORIA3342 | (C) SOUTH AFRICA UNLIKELY TO PUSH FOR DEMOCRATIC [...] (C) SUMMARY. The ANC-led South African Government remains intensely loyal to the Castro regime and is unlikely to support calls for a democratic transition in Cuba, according to DFA Director Pieter Swanepoel (strictly protect). The tone and tenor of the South African-Cuban relationship will [...] | 2006-08-15 15:14:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM CU SF |
06PRETORIA3420 | BURUNDI SUMMIT POSSIBLE IN LATE AUGUST [...] (C) SUMMARY. Regional leaders may convene a high-level Burundi summit August 29 or 30 in Dar es Salaam to witness the signature of an FNL-GOB cease fire agreement, according to ISS Analyst Jan van Eck. Van Eck, a long-time Burundi watcher with close connections to the FNL, says that the FNL [...] | 2006-08-18 14:43:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BU |
06PRETORIA3462 | SOUTH AFRICAN MEDIA SAYS PRESS FREEDOM IMPERILED BY [...] (U) A government proposal to amend South African's Films & Publications Act has been met by howls of protest from media groups who say it would bring back pervasive censorship not seen since the apartheid era. Currently, the Act exempts newspapers from the publications covered by its censorshi [...] | 2006-08-23 07:14:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SCUL KDEM KPAO SF |
06PRETORIA3720 | SOUTH AFRICA NUCLEAR STATUS: R&D AGREEMENTS AND [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified; Protect Accordingly. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) Incoming and outgoing Econ M/C's and Econoff met 31 August with Tseliso Maqubela, Chief Director: Nuclear at the South African Department of Minerals and Energy (DME). Maqubela reported that the Re [...] | 2006-09-07 13:38:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP PARM PREL SF |
06PRETORIA3722 | NUCLEAR FUEL SUPPLY ASSURANCES [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified; Protect Accordingly. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) Incoming and outgoing Econ M/C's and Econoff presented August 31 reftel points and concept paper to Department of Mineral and Energy's Tseliso Maqubela, Chief Director, Nuclear Energy and Mahlatsi [...] | 2006-09-07 13:53:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP PARM PREL SF |
06PRETORIA3888 | EUFOR COMMANDER OPTIMISTIC ABOUT DRC ELECTORAL [...] SUMMARY. European Union Force Commander in the DRC General Viereck told a Pretoria think tank audience that he was "optimistic" that the second round of the DRC elections would proceed smoothly. Viereck emphasized that EUFOR's mandate is limited to supporting MONUC, and the mission will end on [...] | 2006-09-18 16:02:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL CG SF |
06PRETORIA3889 | SOUTH AFRICA MEDIATOR VISITING BURUNDI AND TANZANIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. The South African Facilitator of the Burundi Peace Process, Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula, will travel to Burundi and Tanzania September 19-20 to "remove obstacles" to the implementation of the September 7 FNL peace agreement. Nqakula will seek international donor [...] | 2006-09-18 16:17:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SF BU |
06PRETORIA3952 | (C) DFA OFFICIAL SUGGESTS SUDAN UNLIKELY TO AGREE [...] (C) Sudan is unlikely to agree to a UN force in Darfur, suggested Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Horn of Africa Director Graham Maitland (protect). Maitland told PolOff September 21 that the working levels of DFA are discussing the possibility of a "greatly enhanced" AMIS operation if Kh [...] | 2006-09-22 09:45:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MOPS KPKO KDEM SU SF |
06PRETORIA3965 | (C) SOUTH AFRICA OFFERS TO ASSIST LRA MEDIATION [...] (C) South Africa has offered to serve as a "friend of the mediator" in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)-Government of Uganda peace process, according to Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Horn of Africa Director Graham Maitland and East Africa Director Rasheeda Adam. Maitland and Adam sepera [...] | 2006-09-22 12:43:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM UG SF |
06PRETORIA4074 | INDIAN PM VISITING SOUTH AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Indian PM Singh will visit South Africa September 30 - October 3 to discuss political and economic issues, as well as to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence. South African President Mbeki hopes to deepen his political partners [...] | 2006-09-29 14:55:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ENRG IN SF |
06PRETORIA4208 | SOUTH AFRICA CONDEMNS NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] (U) The Government of South Africa (SAG) expressed "deep concern" about North Korea's reported nuclear test and urged Pyongyang to "terminate any nuclear weapons program" (full text of statement at para 5). The October 9 statement also encouraged all parties to "intensify efforts" to return to [...] | 2006-10-11 05:08:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP PARM KN SF |
06PRETORIA4513 | SOUTH AFRICAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION CIRCLES ITS WAGONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The embattled South African Broadcast Corporation (SABC) took another hit to its credibility with the unauthorized release of a report confirming the Managing Director of its News and Current Affairs Division banned certain commentators, in some cases for politically motivated [...] | 2006-10-31 08:43:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KPAO SF |
06PRETORIA4553 | SOUTH AFRICANS LOOK BACK ON THE FTA AND WONDER [...] (U) Summary. A recent conference organized by South Africa's leading business group produced a variety of views on what caused the collapse of free trade talks with the U.S. earlier this year. Some speakers blamed a failure of vision in the South African government. Others blamed an inflexi [...] | 2006-11-02 13:58:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL SF |
06PRETORIA4593 | SHAIK APPEALS UNANIMOUSLY DISMISSED [...] (SBU) On 6 November, the Supreme Court of Appeal unanimously rejected Schabir Shaik's appeals against his June 2005 fraud and corruption charges, almost guaranteeing that Shaik will begin his 15-year prison term within the next 72 hours. (Note: Shaik was sentenced to 15 years in prison on eac [...] | 2006-11-06 13:01:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KJUS SF |
06PRETORIA4597 | NEXT STEPS FOR U.S./SOUTH AFRICA AGREEMENT TO TAKE [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. South African government approval will be more likely for a project to take back U.S.-origin nuclear fuel assemblies once a technical feasibility study has been revised by the Department of Energy (D [...] | 2006-11-06 14:34:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP IAEA PARM PREL SF |
06PRETORIA4619 | SHAIK APPELLATE DECISION PAVES ROAD FOR ZUMA [...] (C) SUMMARY. US Department of Justice Intermittent Legal Adviser (ILA) believes that the Supreme Court of Appeal's (SCA) 7 November verdict upholding Schabir Shaik's conviction is legally sound, provides little to nothing for Shaik to credibly challenge, and further bolsters the State's cas [...] | 2006-11-07 15:48:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KJUS SF |
06PRETORIA4632 | (C) IDASA'S MASAMVU SAYS SOUTH AFRICA PUSHING [...] (C) SUMMARY: South Africa wants Zimbabwean President Mugabe to annouce at the upcoming ZANU-PF congress that he will retire in 2008, according to IDASA analyst Sydney Masamvu. Masamvu says that former President Mandela met privately with Mugabe October 23 to encourage him to retire. Senior A [...] | 2006-11-08 12:38:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR ECON ZI SF |
06PRETORIA4658 | INT'L MARITIME ORGANIZATION'S MARITIME SAFETY COMM [...] (SBU) Per Reftel, on November 8 talking points were delivered to Department of Transportation's Director, Safety, Security and Bilateral Affairs Mr. Andrew Maswanganye, Department of Foreign Affairs' Ms. Nokwazi Mtshali, and South African maritime Safety Authority's General Manager of Operatio [...] | 2006-11-09 15:13:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA EWWT ANET AORC PREL ECPS |
06PRETORIA4710 | MORALES HOPES TO VISIT SOUTH AFRICA IN EARLY 2007 [...] (C) Bolivian President Morales is seeking to travel to South Africa in early 2007 for the first meeting of the South African-Bolivian Joint Consultative Mechanism (JCM),according to Annelize Schroeder, DFA Deputy Director for the Andes and Cuba. Schroeder said that Bolivia hopes to open an e [...] | 2006-11-14 15:25:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BO SF |
06PRETORIA4726 | VAN ECK SAYS FNL LOSING FAITH IN CEASEFIRE [...] (C) SUMMARY. ISS Burundi Analyst Jan van Eck says the Palipehutu-FNL is losing faith in the Burundi peace process and is "at the point of declaring the ceasefire agreement dead." At an ISS seminar in Pretoria November 14, van Eck outlined the FNL's major concerns: problems with the immunity [...] | 2006-11-15 14:17:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BU SF |
06PRETORIA4751 | AMBASSADOR BOST'S COURTESY CALL ON MINISTER OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. The United States wants to strengthen economic ties with South Africa, even though some voices on Capitol Hill are beginning to ask hard questions about the bilateral trade relationship. South Africa believes [...] | 2006-11-17 14:43:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL SF |
06PRETORIA4790 | SOUTH AFRICA'S UN SECURITY COUNCIL PRIORITIES [...] (C) Post-apartheid South Africa begins its first stint as a non-permanent UNSC member on 01 January with an ambitious agenda. The SAG naturally will promote its "Africa agenda" and will seek to keep the Council focused on efforts to resolve the continent's conflicts. But, South Africa also c [...] | 2006-11-21 15:54:00 | Embassy Pretoria | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL UNSC SF |
06PRETORIA4993 | MINISTER OF SAFETY AND SECURITY INTERESTED IN MORE [...] (U) Summary. Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula was interested in more U.S. training opportunities for the South African Police Service (SAPS) and was surprised to hear that SAPS had refused previous offers for training by the U.S. Nqakula, who commented that U.S. assistance had [...] | 2006-12-11 10:37:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KJUS PHUM PREL ASEC SF |
06PRETORIA5005 | SOUTH AFRICA: INTERNATIONAL NUCELAR SAFEGURDS [...] (SBU) This is an Action Cable -- See paragraphs 6 and 8. 2. (SBU) Summary. South Africa Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) Nuclear Chief Tseliso Maquebela requested that the two R&D agreeements under consideration be separated so that South African approval for one of the agreements can [...] | 2006-12-12 13:16:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG PARM PREL ETTC MNUC AORC KNNP KTIA IAEA |
06PRETORIA5017 | SOUTH AFRICA TO PROVIDE MILITARY TRAINING IN CAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: South Africa plans to provide military training and technical assistance to the Government of the Central African Republic (CAR). Minister of Defense Lekota traveled to Bangui December 8 to discuss the possible military training program. A SANDF military team departed for CAR D [...] | 2006-12-14 04:31:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR CT SF |
06PRETORIA560 | SOUTH AFRICA: DEMARCHE IN SUPPORT OF U.S. [...] (SBU) Per Ref A, Post delivered January 31 demarche talking points in support of U.S. Candidate for ICAO Secretary General William Voss to the South Africa Department SIPDIS of Transport (DOT). DOT Deputy Director General for Transport Regulation and Public Entity Oversight, Ms. Nonkulule [...] | 2006-02-09 08:20:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ICAO PREL SF |
06PRETORIA581 | SOUTH AFRICA DENIES ZIMBABWE POWER, FUEL CUTS [...] (U) The South African power utility Eskom reduced its supply of electricity to Zimbabwe during January, according to February 6-8 South African press reports. Eskom spokesman Fani Zulu said that the power utility provided less power than required to Zimbabwe because of planned "maintenance ou [...] | 2006-02-09 15:04:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ZI SF |
06PRETORIA582 | MBEKI PUBLICLY DETAILS SAG EFFORTS TO FORGE NEW [...] (U) President Mbeki publicly described South Africa's past role in "informal talks" about a new Zimbabwean Constitution, during a February 5 South African Broadcasting Corporation television interview. Mbeki said the Zimbabwean parties had completed negotiations and provided him with a copy of [...] | 2006-02-09 15:12:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ZI SF |
06PRETORIA640 | SOUTH AFRICA SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PELOSI VISIT [...] (SBU) Welcome to South Africa, an anchor country in our Africa policy. Since the end of apartheid in 1994, the African National Congress (ANC)-led South African Government (SAG) has made major progress toward establishing a vibrant democracy and market-based economy. The SAG has focused on [...] | 2006-02-15 07:35:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PREL ECON MARR KHIV SF |
06PRETORIA782 | SOUTH AFRICA TO DEPLOY 400 TROOPS TO COMOROS FOR [...] (C) In response to an AU request, South Africa will deploy 400 troops to Comoros for the upcoming elections, according to Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Deputy Director for Peacekeeping, Wooter Zaayman. Zaayman told PolOff February 23 that the AU wants to send a 436-person force to Comoro [...] | 2006-02-23 13:33:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CN SF |
06PRETORIA801 | SOUTH AFRICA ASKED TO MEDIATE CHAD-SUDAN DISPUTE, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Chad asked President Mbeki to mediate the dispute with Sudan at the AU Summit in Khartoum in January, according to DFA Director Graham Maitland (protect). Both Sudan and Chad were to send "experts" to South Africa to continue discussions, but since the summit nothing has happene [...] | 2006-02-24 15:01:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SU SF |
06PRETORIA960 | SOUTH AFRICA: PROGRESS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The United States and South Africa have made significant progress in implementing the June 10, 2005 Presidential Joint Statement. The two countries signed the ACOTA agreement in August 2005 to enhance South Africa's peacekeeping capacity, and training programs will begin this [...] | 2006-03-08 13:02:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD MASS PHUM SF |
06PRETORIA964 | SOUTH AFRICA: INPUT FOR PRESIDENT'S 2006 REPORT ON [...] (U) This cable responds to the request for post input to the President's 2006 Report on AGOA, drawing on instructions provided in Ref A. Market Economy, Economic Reform, and the Elimination of Barriers to U.S. Trade ---------------------------------------- 2. (U) The South African govern [...] | 2006-03-08 14:13:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PHUM USTR AGOA PREL SF |
06PRISTINA1015 | KOSOVO: SECOND MOBILE TENDER PROCESS COMPLICATED [...] (C) Summary. Nenad Popovic, the Government of Serbia's (GOS) economic advisor to the Kosovo final status negotiations team and Serbian CCK representative, has requested that UNMIK stop the Kosovo Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) from dismantling equipment owned by Telecom Serbia [...] | 2006-11-28 17:57:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ECON PREL YI |
06PRISTINA1016 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO KOSOVO DESK OFFICER JOSHUA [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Kosovo Desk Officer Joshua Black to visit Pristina December 1-December 6, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to join EUR DAS Rosemary DiCarlo on a joint U.S./EU visit. Control Officer for this visit will be Deputy Political/Economic C [...] | 2006-11-29 09:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SI |
06PRISTINA1019 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO EUR DAS ROSEMARY DICARLO, [...] US Office Pristina warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to EUR DAS Rosemary DiCarlo to visit Pristina December 2-December 5, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to join a joint U.S./EU visit. Control Officer for this visit will be Deputy Political/Economic Chief, David Whiddon, who can [...] | 2006-11-29 16:02:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC AMGT PREL IT SR BE |
06PRISTINA1052 | KOSOVO: KOSOVO SERBS SKEPTICAL ABOUT PROPOSED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Croatian MP Dr. Milorad Pupovac is discretely working at the behest of Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku to organize an all-Kosovo Serb Congress to unify Kosovo Serbs and help them better represent themselves. Kosovo Serbs are skeptical about this endeavor, and key leaders are spl [...] | 2006-12-09 12:12:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA1053 | 'TIS THE SEASON ... SERB CCK OBSTRUCTION FORCES [...] (C) Summary: A newly appointed hard-line Serb CCK leader in Gjilane/Gnjilane reportedly exerted strong pressure on the parents of Serb children who were allowing their children to sing in a USOP holiday concert. The Serb children from the Gjilane area are members of Kosovo's only mixed-ethnic [...] | 2006-12-09 12:29:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL PINR KDEM YI |
06PRISTINA1063 | KOSOVO: DAS DICARLO AND EU COLLEAGUES REASSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: DAS Rosemary DiCarlo and her European colleagues reassured Kosovo Albanians on status process timing and told Kosovo Serbs that Ahtisaari,s proposal will take into account their concerns. In private meetings with President Sejdiu, Prime Minister Ceku, Kosovo Assembly president B [...] | 2006-12-12 15:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA1071 | KOSOVO: COM DELIVERS STRONG MESSAGE TO KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: COM used the inauguration of a USAID-funded school renovation project in Serb-majority north Mitrovica to underscore the U.S. commitment to the continued presence of a vibrant Serb community in Kosovo, with full legal rights and special protections for its cultural and religio [...] | 2006-12-15 10:43:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PGOV SOCI PREL UNMIK YI PHUM |
06PRISTINA1072 | KOSOVO: GORANI EDUCATION DISAGREEMENT ILLUSTRATES [...] (SBU) A long-simmering disagreement between Gorani leaders, Kosovar education officials, and Belgrade's Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija (CCK) highlights the complex situation of the Gorani, a Muslim minority who live in the southern part of Dragas municipality and speak a dialect o [...] | 2006-12-15 10:43:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI YI UNMIK |
06PRISTINA1091 | KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS: OMPF REQUESTS USG FUNDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) has asked the USG to pay the salaries up to three forensic specialists to assist with ongoing exhumations, autopsies and identifications of war victims. OMPF is very concerned about the lack of local capacity to carry out [...] | 2006-12-20 16:10:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK SOCI |
06PRISTINA1095 | KOSOVO: TRANSITION WORKING GROUPS BEGIN IN EARNEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a slow start, the five working groups on transition meeting since late November and bringing together representatives of UNMIK, the preparation team for the post-status International Civilian Office, U.S. representatives, and the Kosovo government have picked up their pace. [...] | 2006-12-22 12:26:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA1096 | KOSOVO: WORKING GROUP ON PUBLIC OUTREACH HOLDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USOP called and hosted the organizing meeting of a new Working Group on Public Outreach, created under the ICO/UNMIK/U.S./PISG transitional framework now in place. (Note: Progress on overall transition efforts are reported septel.) Representatives from the Unity Team, govern [...] | 2006-12-22 13:06:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA1099 | KOSOVO: NEW MISSING PERSONS COMMISSION NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Kosovo Government's new missing persons commission met for the first time on December 13 to discuss its composition and competencies. While the establishment of the commission is a positive step on a political level, the government is currently unprepared to take on the h [...] | 2006-12-22 17:12:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM |
06PRISTINA1117 | KOSOVO ASHKALI LEADERS THREATEN TO WITHDRAW FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Pristina District Court sentenced Kosovo MP and President of the Ashkali Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDAK) Sabit Rrahmani to five months in prison for fraud. Fellow PDAK party leaders do not deny the charges, but told us that Ashkali are being targeted for prosecution, an [...] | 2006-12-28 13:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM |
06PRISTINA211 | AHTISAARI'S KOSOVO VISIT: PROGRESS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. The second visit to Kosovo of Martti Ahtisaari, UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Final Status Talks, focused on creating an improved political situation for Kosovo's minority populations. He demanded progress on property rights, prosecution of crimes against Kosovo Serbs, and concre [...] | 2006-03-10 09:54:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA216 | KOSOVO: AGIM CEKU APPROVED AS NEW PRIME MINISTER; [...] (U) The Kosovo Assembly approved outgoing Kosovo Protection Corps commander General Agim Ceku as Kosovo's new Prime Minister and his slate of ministers with 65 votes in favor; 33 opposed and 5 abstentions. The vote followed along party lines with coalition members Democratic League of Kosovo [...] | 2006-03-10 17:21:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA218 | KOSOVO: AGIM CEKU APPROVED AS NEW PRIME MINISTER; [...] (U) The Kosovo Assembly approved outgoing Kosovo Protection Corps commander General Agim Ceku as Kosovo's new Prime Minister and his slate of ministers with 65 votes in favor; 33 opposed and 5 abstentions. The vote followed along party lines with coalition members Democratic League of Kosovo [...] | 2006-03-10 17:21:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA219 | LAST CHANCE FOR UN TO FIX KOSOVO TELECOM MARKET [...] (C) SUMMARY. UNMIK has long ruled out any reconsideration of its October 2004 annulment, on grounds of serious procedural irregularity, of the award of Kosovo's second mobile phone operating license to the Mobikos consortium. The outgoing government of Bajram Kosumi has defiantly insisted on [...] | 2006-03-10 19:26:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS ETRD PGOV PREL YI UNMIK |
06PRISTINA229 | KOSOVO: CEKU OFF TO GOOD START IN HIS FIRST DAYS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In his acceptance speech on March 10 and interviews over his first weekend as prime minister, former Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) commander General Agim Ceku stressed Kosovo's future as a multiethnic state, but affirmed there can be no solution for Kosovo other than independence [...] | 2006-03-14 16:34:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA232 | SCENESETTER FOR MARCH 24 VISIT OF CODEL VOINOVICH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Kosovo has a new, stronger government, and is starting to get serious about the compromises needed to ensure that status negotiations result in the independence they so desire. The Kosovo Albanian negotiating team has made a well-received proposal on decentralization, but need [...] | 2006-03-15 18:19:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA240 | KOSOVO'S NON-SERB MINORITIES LOOKING FOR MORE CLOUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Kosovo's non-Serb minorities are trying to increase their role in the new Kosovo government and solidify their participation on Kosovo's delegation to status negotiations. Non-Serb minorities currently control the health ministry, fill a rotating seat in the Assembly Presidenc [...] | 2006-03-16 16:10:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA242 | NEW KOSOVO PRIME MINISTER ROARS OUT OF THE GATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In two meetings this week, COM found new Kosovo Prime Minister Ceku already deeply immersed in policy and quickly getting up to speed on economic issues that demand rapid resolution. He has gained the attention of his cabinet by announcing that the tenures of all ministers will [...] | 2006-03-17 13:41:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA259 | KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS TO TAKE ON GREATER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During their March 12-15 visit to Kosovo, Department representatives agreed to provide up to USD 110,000 in funding through the Slovene International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victim's Assistance (ITF) for badly-needed replacement equipment for the Kosovo Protection Corp [...] | 2006-03-22 16:22:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS MARR PREL EAID PGOV UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA265 | KOSOVO: PROGRESS NEEDED ON MISSING PERSONS CASES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Pristina and Belgrade delegations at the March 9 meeting of the working group on missing persons agreed that progress on the identification and return of remains from the 1999 conflict is too slow. Kosovo's delegation demanded the immediate return of the 180 remaining bodi [...] | 2006-03-24 10:05:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA274 | KOSOVO: POLICE TRYING TO CURB INTERETHNIC VANDALISM [...] (U) Since March 2004 no ethnic Serbs have returned to live in Zhiti/Zitinje, a village in multi-ethnic Viti/Vitina municipality in southeastern Kosovo. In September 2005 Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Government completed the reconstruction of 33 houses in Zhiti/Zininje, 29 for eth [...] | 2006-03-28 15:27:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA282 | RETURNS AND MISSING PERSONS FOREVER LINKED IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Many ethnic Albanians from parts of Kosovo that were subjected to violent ethnic cleansing during the war do not give much thought to the return of their ethnic Serb neighbors, and they doubt that any of the Serbs want to come back. For these Albanians any reconciliation with [...] | 2006-03-29 14:52:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ICTY KCRM KDEM KJUS PGOV PREF PREL SI YI |
06PRISTINA283 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DAS ROSEMARY DICARLO [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to EUR DAS Rosemary A. DiCarlo and Kosovo Desk Officer Joshua Black to visit Pristina April 6 - April 8, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to attend Contact Group meetings. Control officer will be Deputy Econ/Pol Chief David Whiddon, wh [...] | 2006-03-30 08:48:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ASEC AMGT PREL UK AU GR YI |
06PRISTINA285 | KOSOVO PRESIDENT SEJDIU REACHES OUT TO MINORITIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Fatmir Sejdiu visited Dragas/Dragash and Orahovac/Rahovec municipalities and discussed (in Serbian) standards implementation, freedom of movement, inter-ethnic relations and economic development in public meetings with minorities. He plans to make more outreach trip [...] | 2006-03-30 14:22:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA290 | KOSOVO SERB PUBLIC SERVANTS FORCED TO CHOOSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On March 21, Belgrade-based chief of the Kosovo Coordination Center (CCK) Sanda Raskovic-Ivic told public sector Kosovo Serbs that Serbia will no longer pay salaries to employees who also receive salaries from Pristina. Many Kosovo Serbs believe that if they choose Pristina, [...] | 2006-03-31 16:42:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA299 | KOSOVO STANDARDS DELIVERABLE: PROPERTY RIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK and the Provisional Institutions of Self Government (PISG) have created the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA) as a quasi-judicial forum for resolution of private real estate disputes. The KPA will replace the Housing and Property Directorate (HPD),the independent agency that [...] | 2006-04-04 15:14:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA302 | NEW KOSOVO GOVERNMENT PUSHES STANDARDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: New Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku has produced a 91 item "to do" list for the next three months on standards implementation. UNMIK's Office of the Strategy Coordinator has drafted a complementary list of 25 standards-related action items and tasked the Provisional Institutio [...] | 2006-04-05 17:14:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA308 | KOSOVO: STAKES HIGH AS LDK CHOOSES NEW LEADER [...] (C) SUMMARY. The next president of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (LDK) could reconfigure the government, the Assembly leadership, and a good part of the makeup of Kosovo's final status negotiating team. With the passing of Ibrahim Rugova, the LDK leadership has no organizational center and [...] | 2006-04-07 17:19:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA310 | SCENESETTER FOR APRIL 14-15 VISIT OF SPECIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Coming on the heels of the April 6-7 visit of the Contact Group and the April 3 Vienna meeting on decentralization, Ambassador Wisner's April 14-15 visit presents an opportunity to push Kosovo Albanian leaders to come to closure on some decentralization issues (municipal partnersh [...] | 2006-04-10 10:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA333 | VISIT OF SENATOR VOINOVICH TO KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In meetings with Prime Minister Agim Ceku and President Fatmir Sejdiu during his March 24 visit to Kosovo, Senator George Voinovich urged the new leaders to reach out to Kosovo Serbs and to show them and leaders in Belgrade that Kosovo's government is serious about creating a K [...] | 2006-04-19 15:23:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA335 | KOSOVO: A UNIFIED CONTACT GROUP PRESSES STANDARDS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representatives of the Contact Group (CG) visited Kosovo April 6-7 to highlight CG unity and deliver a focused message about the importance of the standards and elements of an eventual future status settlement; by prior agreement, the CG did not address the status outcome itself. [...] | 2006-04-20 14:13:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA336 | AMBASSADOR WISNER URGES KOSOVARS TO BEAR DOWN ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. During an April 14-16 visit to Kosovo, U.S. Special Representative Frank Wisner congratulated the revamped Kosovo Albanian leadership team for its serious engagement in the Vienna final status process and for its outreach to the Kosovo Serb community. He urged the team to build [...] | 2006-04-20 14:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA338 | UNMIK FACILITATES OUTREACH TO NORTH KOSOVO SERBS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On April 19 UNMIK hosted the first meeting of the Mitrovica Focus Group to encourage engagement between northern Kosovo Serb leaders and the international community. The regional CCK representative, the mayors of the three northern Serb-majority municipalities and the UNMIK adv [...] | 2006-04-21 13:42:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA352 | KOSOVO PRESIDENT SEJDIU CONTINUES MINORITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On the first ever visit by a Kosovo President to Decani Monastery, President Fatmir Sejdiu toured the grounds and church on Orthodox Easter Sunday, and then discussed the protection of Kosovo's Serbian Orthodox heritage sites with Bishop Teodosije in Serbian. Other visitors in [...] | 2006-04-26 13:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI YI UNMIK |
06PRISTINA363 | KOSOVO: CEKU LAYS OUT STANDARDS PROGRAM TO AN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In an address to the Kosovo Assembly, Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku laid out the government's progress on standards implementation. The opposition vociferously accused the government of non-fulfillment of standards and accused the government of endemic corruption. Still indi [...] | 2006-04-28 14:13:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA364 | UNMIK LOOKING FOR ELUSIVE CONSENSUS ON MUNICIPAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The SRSG and the OSCE head of office hosted an April 27 meeting of Kosovo political party representatives and interested international parties, including COM, to discuss whether Kosovo's municipal elections should take place in October 2006 as scheduled. Most political party p [...] | 2006-04-28 14:13:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA365 | BERISHA LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT BALANCE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In his first several weeks as president of Kosovo's Assembly, Kole Berisha has made great progress in making it more fiscally and procedurally democratic and less autocratic. Berisha has taken public steps to distance himself from the questionable fiscal practices and domineeri [...] | 2006-04-28 14:14:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA366 | CONTACT GROUP DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] (SBU) COM delivered reftel points to Contact Group (CG) heads of Pristina missions on April 28. COM's CG counterparts had been similarly instructed by their capitals. The group agreed to coordinate action with UNMIK as soon as possible following SRSG Soren Jessen-Petersen's return to Kosovo [...] | 2006-04-28 16:10:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA369 | KOSOVO: TERRORISM FINANCE LIST 77 (JI-4) DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On April 28 E/P Deputy Section Chief delivered reftel talking points and background information to Robert Jordan, the new head of UNMIK's Advisory Unit on Security in the Office of the SRSG and Deputy Head Jared Rigg. Jordan promised to check the name against the Banking and Payments Au [...] | 2006-05-02 15:36:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN PTER EFIN PREL CVIS KVPR KSEP YI |
06PRISTINA384 | KOSOVO SERB POLITICIANS VIE FOR POWER IN PRISTINA; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After several tumultuous months, the Serbian Democratic Party -- the only Kosovo Serb party actively participating in the Kosovo government -- held an extraordinary party assembly on April 29 and re-elected Slavisa Petkovic as party president over the protests of a strong mino [...] | 2006-05-05 16:38:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KCRM PINR UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA392 | KOSOVO'S DRAFT LAW ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM STILL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Drafted by Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi's government in 2004, Kosovo's draft law on religious freedom remains a point of contention between the government and religious communities in Kosovo. Kosovo's Islamic Community opposes the internationally approved draft because it arg [...] | 2006-05-09 16:52:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA410 | BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES: KOSOVO PAST AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) removed Nexhat Daci as Kosovo Assembly president on March 10, 2006, and replaced him with Kole Berisha. Both will visit the United States in the coming week. Their diametrically-opposed leadership styles engender continued criticism for Da [...] | 2006-05-12 17:18:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM PINR UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA421 | KOSOVO: UNMIK ISSUES GENERALLY FAVORABLE TECHNICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNMIK's latest formal assessment of Kosovo Government efforts to implement the Standards for Kosovo program, covering the period ending April 30, is generally favorable. The report lauds the quick initial engagement of Kosovo's new government on Standards which will provide a ba [...] | 2006-05-16 17:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA426 | KOSOVO: FINAL THREE PERCENT OF MARCH 2004 [...] (SBU) Most reconstruction of homes damaged in the March 2004 violence has long since been completed, albeit with some complaints about the quality of construction and frictions about the terms of reconstruction of outbuildings. Most of what has not been rebuilt is in the historic center of [...] | 2006-05-18 15:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI PREF |
06PRISTINA427 | KOSOVO: NON-SERB MINORITIES AMBIVALENT ABOUT [...] (SBU) Kosovo's non-Serb minority leaders are glad to be involved in the status negotiations in Vienna and generally pleased with the work of the Communities Consultative Council, but are concerned about what they see as Belgrade's efforts to manipulate non-Serb minority issues for its own adv [...] | 2006-05-18 15:55:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA437 | KOSOVO SCENESETTER FOR MAY 21-23 VISIT OF SPECIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Wisner's visit finds Kosovo Albanian final status negotiators struggling to cope with the new shuttle phase of talks on decentralization. They are quickly learning that they are not as well prepared for the give-and-take of bargaining as they were for developing broad [...] | 2006-05-19 14:58:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR PREL YI |
06PRISTINA439 | KOSOVO: COM WARNS AAK AND PDK ON INTERFERENCE IN [...] (C) Chief of Mission passed the messages contained in reftels separately to Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) president Ramush Haradinaj and Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) president Hashim Thaci on May 18. Haradinaj said that he had not heard of the presence of any Kosovo Albanian pol [...] | 2006-05-19 17:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA448 | RELATIONS BETWEEN DECANI MONASTERY AND LOCAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In the month since SRSG Jessen-Petersen extended the controversial protection zone around Decani Monastery, relations between the Monastery and the local Kosovo Albanian community have improved. KFOR has removed the fixed checkpoint outside the monastery and replaced it with [...] | 2006-05-24 15:10:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA449 | KOSOVO: CHANGES IN HARADINAJ'S POLITICAL PARTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ramush Haradinaj was handily re-elected president of the party he founded, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK),during the party's May 20 convention. Other prominent AAK members lost votes as compared with their standing at the party's last convention in 2004, namely M [...] | 2006-05-24 16:18:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA450 | SCENESETTER FOR MAY 26 VISIT OF CODEL INHOFE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The new Kosovo government, formed in March after the death of President Ibrahim Rugova in January, is focused on status negotiations, implementation of the "Standards for Kosovo" program, and the transfer of governing competencies as UNMIK winds down its presence in Kosovo. Alt [...] | 2006-05-24 18:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA457 | AMBASSADOR WISNER TELLS KOSOVO ALBANIANS THEIR [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a May 21-23 visit to Kosovo, Special Representative Frank Wisner starkly disabused Kosovo Albanian leaders of any notion that Kosovo independence can be considered a foregone conclusion. In plain-speaking meetings, Ambassador Wisner told the president, prime minister, and [...] | 2006-05-26 15:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA461 | KOSOVO: ICTY DEFENSE TEAM VISIT TO MASSACRE SITE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The unannounced visit of two Serbian ICTY defense lawyers to a rural village that was the site of a 1999 Serb-on-Albanian massacre caused an uproar among village residents, virtually all of whom are relatives of the victims. Kosovo Albanians blocked the main village road and s [...] | 2006-05-30 06:29:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA480 | FUNDING FOR MISSING PERSONS AND FORENSICS IN KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As the recent confrontation between police and families of the missing in Krushe e Vogel/Mala Krusa demonstrates, missing persons remains a volatile issue in Kosovo (Ref A). The USG has helped fund both UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) and the Kosovo oper [...] | 2006-06-05 16:45:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA481 | KOSOVO: EU FINALLY GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT KOSOVO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The European Union has developed a draft discussion paper for an International Civilian Mission in Kosovo (ICM) that would form the basis for implementation of the final status settlement. The plan calls for a much smaller footprint than UNMIK's current presence, and places heav [...] | 2006-06-06 13:23:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA484 | KOSOVO SERB HARDLINERS CALL FOR SELF DEFENSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. According to the OSCE, 500-700 people participated in a June 5 demonstration in Zvecan against recent acts of violence against Kosovo Serbs. Local leaders announced a resolution by the Zvecan municipal assembly to end contact with the Kosovo government until the crimes are s [...] | 2006-06-06 16:38:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA491 | KOSOVO: PM CEKU ALREADY AT WORK ON CONTACT GROUP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a June 8 meeting with Contact Group (CG) heads of mission in Pristina, Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku received the 13 points of priorities for standards implementation as something that will help the Kosovo government focus its current efforts, not as criticism of its e [...] | 2006-06-08 16:59:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PREF UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA493 | KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY LEADERSHIP REVEALS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Kosovo Assembly formally unveiled a new work plan on June 7 designed to improve procedural and budgetary transparency. International advisors, including USAID, have been very involved in the development of this plan and heads of diplomatic liaison offices, including COM, p [...] | 2006-06-09 14:52:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA495 | RIFT WIDENS BETWEEN HARD-LINE AND MODERATE SERBIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ever since moderate Bishop Teodosije welcomed Kosovo President Sejdiu to Decani Monastery on Orthodox Easter, the rift between Teodosije and hard-line Bishop Artemije has widened. After the visit, Artemije blasted Teodosije in the media, and the hardline Serbian National Coun [...] | 2006-06-09 17:07:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR SOCI KIRF KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA498 | UNMIK HEAD OF MISSION RESIGNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Soren Jessen-Petersen has resigned as Kosovo's Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) and head of the U.N. Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK),effective June 30. Principal Deputy SRSG (PDSRSG) Steven Schook will become acting SRSG if a replacement is not in place by the e [...] | 2006-06-12 17:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA506 | KOSOVO: SPECIAL ENVOY AHTISAARI HOPES TO BEGIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Status Talks Martti Ahtisaari told Contact Group (CG) liaison office heads on June 10 that he expects to brief the UNSC in early July and then hopes to host the first direct talks between senior Pristina and Belgrade officials the week of July 17. He [...] | 2006-06-13 15:26:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA507 | KOSOVO: PROTOCOL ON RETURN WITH SERBIA SIGNED AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After almost two years of negotiations, the Provisional Institutions of Self Government in Kosovo (PISG),the Government of Serbia and UNMIK signed a Protocol on Voluntary and Sustainable Return on June 6, 2006. UNMIK pressed hard to get the protocol signed before SRSG Soren J [...] | 2006-06-13 16:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA513 | KOSOVO: THACI OK WITH ELECTION DELAY IF HIS PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Hashim Thaci, the head of the opposition Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK),met on June 9 with heads of Contact Group diplomatic liaison offices in Pristina. He outlined his thoughts on what he called the failure of the current government to accomplish its domestic tasks, in part [...] | 2006-06-15 15:26:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA518 | SECURITY HEIGHTENED IN NORTH AFTER SERB [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Municipal assemblies in all three of Kosovo's northern Serb-majority municipalities have passed resolutions calling for a cessation of existing minimal ties with the central government in Pristina. The resolutions express dissatisfaction with the Kosovo Police Service (KPS) a [...] | 2006-06-16 17:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA519 | KOSOVO: KFOR RE-ESTABLISHES PERMANENT PRESENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 13 the French contingent in charge of Multi-National Task Force-North (MNTF-N) reactivated a former Belgian KFOR camp in the northern Kosovo municipality of Leposavic. The camp will be manned by different national contingents on two-week rotations, beginning with the Fren [...] | 2006-06-16 17:34:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PGOV UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA520 | KOSOVO: BAD POLL NUMBERS FOR THACI SIGNAL REQUEST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A new public opinion poll of non-Serb Kosovars suggests plummeting popularity for opposition leaders Hashim Thaci and his Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK). The poll, taken by a nominally apolitical local consulting company, was issued days before Thaci made a rare request for [...] | 2006-06-16 17:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA525 | KOSOVO: UNMIK POSTPONES MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Outgoing SRSG Soren Jessen-Petersen announced June 17 his decision to postpone municipal elections scheduled for this autumn for a period not to exceed twelve months. Jessen-Petersen's decision provides that elections cannot be held earlier than three months or later than six [...] | 2006-06-19 13:59:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA531 | KOSOVO: KOSOVO SERB MODERATES FLOAT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Moderate Kosovo Serb politicians, led by Oliver Ivanovic, are floating a decentralization plan calling for seven new Serb-majority municipalities and the enlargement of an eighth. Briefing Contact Group representatives on June 16, Ivanovic said his plan differs from the proposal [...] | 2006-06-20 17:04:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA532 | SALI BERISHA TELLS KOSOVO ALBANIANS TO RECONCILE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During an emotional June 15-17 visit to Kosovo, Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha reiterated his support for Kosovo's independence, voiced his confidence in Kosovo's current leadership and asked Kosovo Albanians to reconcile with Serbs. He also attempted to mend fences with [...] | 2006-06-20 17:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PREF UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA534 | KOSOVO: VIOLENT DEATH OF ELDERLY SERB RAISES FEAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. An elderly Kosovo Serb returnee was found dead on June 20 from a gunshot wound to the head in western Kosovo's Klina municipality. Police tell us informally that the path of the bullet (entry through the front of the neck and exit through the top of the head) would ordinarily [...] | 2006-06-21 18:37:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PREF PREL PGOV PINR SCUL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA539 | KOSOVO'S NEXT UN ADMINISTRATOR: THACI WEIGHS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Opposition party leader Hashim Thaci requested a meeting June 19 with COM to convey his concern that current UNMIK economic pillar head, Joachim Rucker, is rumored as a leading candidate to fill the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) position from which curren [...] | 2006-06-22 17:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA545 | KOSOVO: PISG AND WORLD BANK AGREE ON A WAY FORWARD [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified; protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. The Provisional Institutions of Self- Government (PISG) and the international community, led by the World Bank, have reached agreement on a way forward for development of Kosovo's energy sector. The parties have resolv [...] | 2006-06-23 09:55:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON EFIN EINV PREL YI |
06PRISTINA554 | KOSOVO: CONTROVERSY CONTINUES OVER ICTY VISIT; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Several widows from the Krushe e Vogel/Mala Krusa massacre say they first assisted a visiting UN convoy on May 25, but then grew suspicious when the convoy showed interest in the local Serb graveyard and the homes of former Serb residents. One widow expressed no remorse over [...] | 2006-06-27 16:03:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KCRM KDEM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK |
06PRISTINA561 | KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY AUDIT REVEALS FISCAL MALFEASANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. An external audit of the Kosovo Assembly's budget under former Speaker Nexhat Daci has revealed serious fiscal irregularities. The audit states that Daci and his Assembly staff used Assembly finances for expensive armored vehicles, a convention/conference center in a suburb of P [...] | 2006-06-29 15:24:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KDEM PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA564 | KOSTUNICA VISIT TO KOSOVO SPARKS ONLY ISOLATED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica visited Gracanica monastery in Kosovo on June 28 to commemorate Vidovdan. Despite receiving UNMIK permission to visit Kosovo only for personal, religious reasons, Kostunica used the opportunity to make a provocative speech in which he [...] | 2006-06-29 16:30:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA567 | KOSOVO: PM CEKU UP-BEAT ON FULFILLMENT OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Agim Ceku gave Contact Group representatives a largely positive interim report June 27 on progress on the 13 priorities for standards implementation delivered to Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Governance (PISG) on June 8 (reftel). While the report sho [...] | 2006-06-30 17:03:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PREF UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA575 | NORTH MITROVICA LEADERS CLARIFY MUNICIPAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Two influential Kosovo Serbs from north Mitrovica clarified recent declarations issued by Kosovo's three northern Serb-majority municipalities and the Mitrovica advisory board ostensibly cutting off ties with the government in Pristina. UNMIK representatives say the declarati [...] | 2006-07-07 13:55:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI PREF |
06PRISTINA576 | KOSOVO: NEGOTIATION TEAM RECEPTIVE TO POST-UNMIK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to an invitation from President Fatmir Sejdiu, COM and Torbjorn Sohlstrom, the head of the EU mission in Kosovo, briefed the Kosovo negotiating team July 5 on initial thinking on a post-status, post-UNMIK international civilian mission. They stressed that any future [...] | 2006-07-07 16:27:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA584 | SERBIA REPATRIATES FINAL SETS OF HUMAN REMAINS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In an emotional handover on June 30, Serbia repatriated to Kosovo the final sets of human remains found in known mass grave sites in Serbia. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) is now working to perform autopsies on the remains and return the few that were i [...] | 2006-07-11 17:52:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI KJUS EAID |
06PRISTINA587 | TENSIONS BUILDING OVER NORTHERN KOSOVO [...] (C) SUMMARY. As all concerned enter the Kosovo final status home stretch, the north of Kosovo is increasingly coming into focus as the area where preferred status outcomes potentially collide. UNMIK officials say they have credible reports that Kosovo Serbs in the north are attempting to rei [...] | 2006-07-12 18:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA598 | NORTHERN KOSOVO SERB MAYORS NOT MASTERS OF THEIR [...] (C) SUMMARY. The mayor of the Serb-majority northern Kosovo municipality of Zvecan insisted to USOP that his decision to cut ties with the Kosovo Government was a reasonable expression of frustration with the failure of the Kosovo police to solve crimes against Serbs. The mayors of the other [...] | 2006-07-17 17:36:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA600 | KOSOVO: PISG PROGRESS ON CG STANDARDS PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self Government (PISG) continue to make progress on fulfilling the Contact Group's 13 priorities for standards implementation. Prime Minister Agim Ceku announced July 11 that two of the 13 had already been fulfilled and the PISG completed ano [...] | 2006-07-17 18:50:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA608 | KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS FORENSICS HAMPERED BY LACK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) is faces severe staffing and funding shortages which are hampering its ability to resolve cases of missing persons. Despite fewer leads on potential new grave sites, OMPF is still very busy with a few ongoing exhumations [...] | 2006-07-19 18:00:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI KJUS EAID |
06PRISTINA609 | KOSOVO: REVIEWS OF PM CEKU'S FIRST 100 DAYS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The first 100 days of the government of Kosovo Prime Minister Ceku have been on balance very successful. Ceku has focused his personal attention on Standards-related portfolios -- outreach to minorities, minority-focused legislation, property rights, security -- given priority [...] | 2006-07-19 18:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA611 | KOSOVO: DETAILS OF SLKM PROPOSAL ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Oliver Ivanovic views his Serbian List for Kosovo and Metohija (SLKM) plan for seven new Serb-majority municipalities and the enlargement of an eight existing municipality (Novo Brdo) as a bridge between the current proposals on new municipalities by the Serbian and Kosovo gove [...] | 2006-07-20 16:49:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA614 | MODERATE KOSOVO CHURCH LEADERS, UNOSEK AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Father Sava told PolOff that he personally supports UNOSEK proposals for the protection of cultural heritage. He said the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC),however, cannot support the proposals publicly so long as the government in Belgrade continues to oppose them. Sava critic [...] | 2006-07-21 16:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA617 | KOSOVO SCENESETTER FOR JULY 26-28 VISIT OF SPECIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Wisner's visit, following almost immediately on the so-called Elephants' Meeting between Serbian and Kosovar senior leaders, will present an opportunity to help shape the approach of Kosovo Albanian leaders to what they expect will be the culmination of the final status [...] | 2006-07-24 17:30:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PHUM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA630 | KOSOVO: PM CEKU VISITS THE NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a July 22 visit to majority ethnic Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo, Prime Minister Agim Ceku declared that northern Mitrovica "is and will always be a part of Kosovo." He also requested that KFOR and UNMIK "insulate this region politically and practically from Serb [...] | 2006-07-28 15:42:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETTC UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA631 | KOSOVO: PROTEST OVER VIENNA NEGOTIATIONS FIZZLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Only around 250-300 protesters showed up for a July 24 demonstration in Pristina called by Albin Kurti, the activist leader of the Self-Determination Movement (SDM),against participation by Kosovo government officials that same day in final status negotiations in Vienna with s [...] | 2006-07-28 16:06:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA637 | KOSOVO: UNMIK BELIEVES UK HOLDS INFORMATION TO [...] (C/NF) Summary: The UN in Kosovo believes that the British SIS has in its possession of 700-page report with information that could lead to the conviction of four suspects in the murder of Serb civilians in 2001. UNMIK,s Department of Justice has asked the UK Office to make the report availa [...] | 2006-08-01 15:45:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA639 | COM URGES MODERATE KOSOVO SERB LEADERS TO ENGAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During introductory meetings with moderate Kosovo Serb leaders Oliver Ivanovic, Bishop Teodosije and Father Sava, COM echoed recent comments by Ambassador Wisner about the importance of active and direct engagement in status negotiations during the coming weeks. Ivanovic, Teod [...] | 2006-08-02 16:22:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA640 | WISNER TO KOSOVARS: SIX WEEKS TO COME TO CLOSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings on July 27 with President Fatmir Sejdiu and the entire Kosovo negotiating team, U.S. Special Representative for the Kosovo Status Talks Ambassador Frank Wisner stressed the need to stay unified and to use the next six weeks to bring Kosovar Albanian negotiati [...] | 2006-08-02 16:29:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA645 | KOSOVO: CONTACT GROUP MESSAGE TO PRISTINA WELL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Keeping to the language worked out in Contact Group capitals, COM led other CG representatives (along with the heads of the local EU and European Commission missions) in a demarche on the Kosovo negotiating team (the "Unity Team") on the results of the July 24 high-level meeting [...] | 2006-08-04 13:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA647 | MODERATE OLIVER IVANOVIC CLAIMS TO BE LAUNCHING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Moderate Kosovo Serb leader Oliver Ivanovic has filed papers with the OSCE to establish a new political party and has requested funding for a new NGO designed to reduce the influence of Belgrade political parties on Kosovo Serbs. However, his new party is a local branch of a [...] | 2006-08-04 15:23:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA648 | KOSOVO: CHIEF OF MISSION STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In her initial calls on Kosovo's leaders, COM urged them to stay united and not let personal differences interfere with their seriousness of purpose in the Vienna status negotiations. President Fatmir Sejdiu vented his frustration at the antics of opposition leaders on the negot [...] | 2006-08-04 16:27:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA653 | KOSOVO: SERB RELUCTANCE TO RETURN TO SVINJARE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The return of Serbs to the village of Svinjare is more complex than the rebuilding of houses destroyed and damaged by ethnic Albanians in the riots of March 2004. The rebuilding/repair effort is underway, though according to the UNMIK office that advises the Kosovo Protection [...] | 2006-08-08 12:04:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA658 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DEMIAN SMITH [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Demian Smith to visit Pristina August 14-17, 2006. The purpose of the visit is for meetings with local officials. Control Officer is Political Officer Heidi Barrachina, who can be reached at: office 381-38-549-516 ext. 3104; GSM 377 [...] | 2006-08-09 17:05:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PREL AMGT ASEC SR YI |
06PRISTINA661 | KOSOVO: LDK ASSERTS PRIMARY POSITION IN GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. A July 6 letter sent by the LDK party presidency to Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku continues to make news over a week after its existence was leaked to the press. The key issues in the letter were the assertion by the LDK that the party -- and not Ceku -- would have authority o [...] | 2006-08-10 09:00:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA663 | KOSOVO: SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN BABIN MOST [...] (SBU) On August 6, the priest in the ethnic-Serb majority village of Babin Most (Obiliq/Obilic municipality) reported that unknown perpetrators vandalized and robbed his church. He said that several icons were damaged or stolen, along with 800 euros in church funds. On August 6 the Acting Chi [...] | 2006-08-11 09:00:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI PHUM KRIF |
06PRISTINA664 | KOSOVO: COM TO UNITY TEAM MEMBERS: TIME'S UP [...] (C) Summary: COM met individually with members of Kosovo's Unity Team (UT) August 9-11 to lay down a direct and unambiguous marker: the time is now to come to closure with UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Marti Ahtisaari on the issues of decentralization and minority rights. COM underscored USG [...] | 2006-08-11 15:51:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK DPKO YI |
06PRISTINA674 | KOSOVO: PM CEKU UPBEAT ON COMPLETION OF CG [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Agim Ceku told heads of mission from the Contact Group (CG),EU and EC liaison offices August 15 that the Kosovo government has completed five of the CG's 13 priorities for Standards implementation and is on track to finish the remaining eight by October. He asses [...] | 2006-08-17 15:49:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA689 | KOSOVO: COM URGES NORTHERN MAYORS TO STAY ENGAGED, [...] (C) Summary: COM travelled to northern Kosovo August 18 to meet with the mayors of the three predominantly Serb municipalities and utilize press opportunities to convey the benefits of the decentralization process to Serb residents of the north. All three mayors were definitive in rejecting a [...] | 2006-08-22 12:42:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK DPKO YI |
06PRISTINA725 | KOSOVO: UNITY TEAM BRIEFS KOSOVO ASSEMBLY ON [...] (U) SUMMARY: Unity Team (UT) members briefed the Kosovo Assembly in an open, televised session on the ongoing final status negotiations. The presentation was generally well received by MPs, although some expressed opposition to negotiated independence. Late distribution of the UT's material [...] | 2006-09-01 17:55:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA726 | KOSOVO: SERB LEADERS CLOSE THEIR EYES TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Kosovo Serb leaders, particularly in the north, are abundantly aware that the likeliest outcome of the status process is independence. Nevertheless, they continue to deny that a status decision will apply to them. Some express hard-line views on secession and violence if indep [...] | 2006-09-01 18:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA727 | KOSOVO: EU RULE OF LAW PLANNING PROGRESSING, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Casper Klynge, head of the EU Planning Team (EUPT),told us recently he is grappling with mixed messages from Brussels and EU capitals on his follow-on rule of law mission's size and scope. Brussels favors a limited footprint, while capitals increasingly argue for a more operatio [...] | 2006-09-02 10:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ETTC KCRM PREL YI UNMIK DPKO |
06PRISTINA728 | KOSOVO: UNMIK KPC COORDINATOR OFFERS THOUGHTS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNMIK Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) Coordinator Major General Chris Steirn (UK) offered COM his thoughts on the future establishment of a Kosovo defense force in a meeting September 1. Not surprisingly, Steirn argued that a future Kosovo security force was needed, both to avoid [...] | 2006-09-02 13:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA729 | KOSOVO: CONSTITUTION DRAFTING AND ELECTIONS TIMING [...] (C) SUMMARY. Discussion has begun, both locally and in UNOSEK and Contact Group venues, on the important post-status issues of constitution drafting and timing of elections. UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari expressed to COM and EU reps in Pristina his view that the constitution must be drafted with [...] | 2006-09-02 14:17:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA734 | KOSOVO: PRESIDENT SEJDIU NOMINATED FOR POSITION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a fast moving series of events over the Labor Day weekend, the influential presidency of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK),Kosovo's largest party, decided September 5 to nominate President Fatmir Sejdiu as its candidate for the position of party president. Sejdiu is [...] | 2006-09-05 20:02:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA736 | KOSOVO: INCREASED VOLUME OF ALBANIAN ATTACKS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The recent appearance of the Kosovo negotiating team before the Kosovo Assembly and public criticism of key elements of the final status talks have resulted in protests against decentralization in the affected municipalities, as well as attacks by political "pundits" in the media [...] | 2006-09-06 17:38:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA748 | KOSOVO: SCENESETTER FOR SEPTEMBER 13-14 VISIT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the Unity Team still fractious and a growing tide of public criticism against the decentralization provisions of the UNOSEK plan, we are anticipating a rough political season in advance of the eventual status decision. What would normally have been a heated debate over the m [...] | 2006-09-09 12:15:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA765 | KOSOVO: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF AMBASSADOR AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo is in an important transition period with a decision on final status looming and the EU poised to assume UNMIK's Rule of Law (RoL) mission. Ambassador Williamson's September 15-17 visit offers a good opportunity to review current prosecution efforts and to shape the EU's a [...] | 2006-09-12 16:53:00 | Embassy Pristina | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA766 | KOSOVO: SOUTHERN SERB MUNICALITY OF STRPCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Kosovo Serb leaders of Strpce municipality complain that despite running "the only real multi-ethnic municipality in Kosovo," their efforts are severely hampered by dwindling resources from Pristina. While admitting that they also receive financial transfers from Belgrade, these [...] | 2006-09-12 16:53:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA778 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO EXBS ASSESSMENT TEAM, SEPT [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to EXBS Assessment Team, Paul Van Son, Jason McClellen and Jim Kelly to visit Pristina September 18 - September 22, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to discuss possible areas of cooperation with the USOP and key UNMIK ministries. Point [...] | 2006-09-15 16:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL ETT YI MIK |
06PRISTINA779 | KOSOVO: STANDARDS IMPLEMENTATION PROCEEDS, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kosovo government claims to have fulfilled nine of the Contact Group's 13 priorities for Standards implementation. Our estimate is lower, though overall implementation has moved forward. We can expect that progress on the remaining outstanding priorities will be slower as t [...] | 2006-09-16 09:49:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA780 | KOSOVO: ORDINARY SERBS IN KOSOVO'S NORTH SAY THEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo,s Serbs face an existential question: stay on in post-status Kosovo or start over somewhere else. USOP officers traveled recently to Zvecan in northern Kosovo to try to gauge the views of ordinary Serbs. Most of our interlocutors predicted that Serbs would flee en masse i [...] | 2006-09-16 09:57:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA781 | KOSOVO: TURKISH LANGUAGE LAW MOTION REJECTED BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: A motion to make Turkish an official language of Prizren municipality and change the population requirement for official languages from 6% to 5% was rejected September 14 in a 48-41 vote of the Kosovo Assembly. Though Assembly votes are anonymous, all signs indicate the majority [...] | 2006-09-16 15:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA782 | KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS DIALOGUE: SLOW PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Families of the missing gathered in Pristina and Gracanica on August 30 to commemorate the International Day of Missing Persons, protest lack of progress in resolving cases and bring public attention to the almost 2,300 persons still missing from the Kosovo conflict. Although [...] | 2006-09-18 12:24:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA788 | KOSOVO: WHY A SPEEDY RESOLUTION OF STATUS MATTERS [...] (C) Having read Embassy Belgrade's excellent cable (reftel) on the compelling reasons to stick to the planned timetable for resolution of Kosovo's status, we wanted to offer a few thoughts from the Pristina perspective on why a status decision this year remains critical to our objectives of s [...] | 2006-09-19 06:57:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA802 | KOSOVO: SCENESETTER FOR SEPTEMBER 26-28 VISIT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The successful September 20 Contact Group ministerial with Secretary Rice at the helm was viewed here as further indication that the U.S. government will press for a timetable that delivers a status determination by the end of 2006. This remains the sole and almost obsessive foc [...] | 2006-09-22 11:53:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA803 | KOSOVO: SMALL NEW SERB PARTY DARES TO POSIT A [...] (C) SUMMARY. The newly-formed Autonomous Liberal Party (SLS) seeks to represent Kosovo Serbs who want to stay and integrate into Kosovo institutions and society, regardless of the outcome of the status process. Party President Slobodan Petrovic told us the SLS is more concerned with the impa [...] | 2006-09-22 14:46:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA808 | KOSOVO: DAS DICARLO AND EU REP LEHNE BRIEF ON ICO, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Pristina September 12-14, EUR DAS Rosemary DiCarlo and EU rep Stefan Lehne briefed Kosovo Albanian and Serb leaders on the International Civilian Office (ICO) that will be established to supervise implementation of the status settlement. DiCarlo and Lehne underscored that plann [...] | 2006-09-26 08:07:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA811 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO JOHN ERATH, EUR/SCE DEPUTY DIRECTOR [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to EUR/SCE Deputy Director for Kosovo John Erath to visit Pristina September 28-30, 2006. The purpose of the visit is for consultations with US Office Pristina staff and with local and international officials. Point of contact is Polit [...] | 2006-09-26 14:31:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA PREL EUN AU SE NATO US |
06PRISTINA813 | KOSOVO: AMB. WILLIAMSON URGES COOPERATION AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: In meetings with both international and Kosovar actors in the justice and political sectors, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson stressed the need for continued Kosovar and international focus on addressing outstanding war crimes cases. In a two-day visit [...] | 2006-09-27 09:04:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA833 | KOSOVO: A/S FRIED PRESSES KOSOVO LEADERS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Pristina September 26-28, EUR A/S Fried met separately with PM Ceku, President Sejdiu and the Unity Team and assured them of the USG's seriousness in pursuing the status process to its logical end, but stressed that the Kosovar Albanian leadership must show itself worthy of in [...] | 2006-10-02 18:29:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA842 | KOSOVO: COM TELLS GJILAN OFFICIALS TO END THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: COM condemned recent violence and urged support for decentralization in a meeting with Gjilan municipal officials from four political parties. She also delivered a message to the fractious ruling LDK party in Gjilan to stop its unhelpful (and violent) infighting. The Albanian [...] | 2006-10-04 18:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA846 | KOSOVO: PM CEKU "LOOKING TOWARDS STATUS" WHILE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku briefed Pristina liaison office heads October 5 on his plans over the next several months for managing Kosovo Albanians' expectations for, and Kosovo Serbs' fear of, final status. Ceku said that implementation of Standards for Kosovo, particularly [...] | 2006-10-06 16:07:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA847 | KOSOVO: COM URGES CALM, CAUTION AMONG KOSOVAR [...] (C) With rumors swirling of a delay in the status process and statements by EU High Representative Solana and UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari appearing to confirm these speculations, COM counseled calm among Kosovar Albanian leaders the week of October 2. Meeting with the Prime Minister, the parl [...] | 2006-10-08 11:27:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA853 | FERIZAJ LEADERS AGREE TO REPAIR ROOF ON VANDALIZED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On October 6 Ferizaj/Urosevac Municipal leaders promised visiting poloff and a U.S. sergeant involved in civil-military operations in the area that they would pay for the August theft of the copper roof of the St. Uros church. (The thief, who was apprehended shortly after the [...] | 2006-10-10 14:33:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA875 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO AMBASSADOR FRANK WISNER, MRS. [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Frank G. Wisner, Special Representative of the Secretary of State to the Kosovo Status Talks, his wife, Mrs. Christine Marie Wisner, and his assistant, Stephen J. Gee to visit Pristina October 24 - October 26, 2006. The pu [...] | 2006-10-20 12:59:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OTRA AU CR FI PREL SR |
06PRISTINA905 | KOSOVO: REFERENDUM ON SERB CONSTITUTION PROCEEDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Polling in the October 28-29 referendum on the new Serbian constitution proceeded peacefully throughout Kosovo. The Belgrade-based Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID) reported after the polls closed that 90,036 voters in Kosovo (90.1 percent of the estimated 101,546 [...] | 2006-10-30 11:59:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA909 | KOSOVO: EUR/SCE DIRECTOR HOH PRESSES KOSOVAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Visiting EUR/SCE Office Director Chris Hoh reassured anxious Kosovo Albanian leaders that the USG still supports resolution of Kosovo's final status by the end of the year, but asked them to help manage expectations within the population if Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari decides a [...] | 2006-10-30 16:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA924 | KOSOVO: KOSOVO SERB PROPOSES ALL-SERB ASSEMBLY, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Apart from his work as owner and director of TV Mir, former Kosovo Serb politician Nenad Radosavljevic has suggested several mechanisms that he says will ensure that Kosovo Serbs can effectively participate in post-status institutions. In a recent meeting with USOP, he proposed [...] | 2006-11-03 14:52:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM PREF UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA930 | KOSOVO: LDK INTERNAL BATTLE PORTENDS CONTINUING [...] (C) Summary: The internal LDK struggle for power between two factions continues, with the process of party elections now in full swing. Though former Assembly speaker Nexhat Daci appeared to take the early momentum with low-level party victories in eastern Kosovo, the LDK "old guard" under K [...] | 2006-11-06 12:34:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA947 | KOSOVO: UNMIK GETTING OUT OF THE RETURNS BUSINESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Unlike the rest of UNMIK, which is planning its departure without undue haste, the Office for Communities, Returns and Minorities (OCRM) hopes to transfer all of its competencies except for responsibility for forced returns by the end of the year, a very positive development in o [...] | 2006-11-11 13:20:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV EAID PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA948 | KOSOVO: PLANNING FOR POSSIBLE SERB REFUGEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the leak to Serbian media in May 2006 of UNHCR's draft contingency planning on possible population movements after a decision on Kosovo's final status, UNHCR has continued to refine its thinking. Planning assumptions vary wildly, with estimates ranging from 10,000 to 112,00 [...] | 2006-11-11 13:24:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF EAID PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA952 | KOSOVO: KOSOVAR ALBANIAN LEADERSHIP ACCEPTS DELAY [...] (C) Summary: Though apprehensive about the political repercussions of a delay in the status process, Kosovar Albanian leaders represented in the Unity Team (the negotiating team participating in Vienna negotiations) uniformly accepted the announcement by UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari that his p [...] | 2006-11-13 10:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA965 | KOSOVO: EVOLVING EU POLICE AND JUSTICE PLANNING [...] (C) Summary: The emerging outlines of the EU police and justice plan for post-status Kosovo make it apparent that security and law enforcement in Kosovo will be conducted on a fundamentally different basis after the settlement than under UNMIK administration. EU planning is painfully slow an [...] | 2006-11-14 18:30:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA985 | KOSOVO: BELGRADE'S COORDINATION CENTER VIEWED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Several prominent Kosovo Serbs shared with us their disdain for the Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija (CCK),the Serbian state institution established ostensibly to take care of their needs. Moderates and hardliners alike called the CCK a "money laundering" operation, [...] | 2006-11-20 14:09:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA989 | KOSOVO: CONTROVERSIAL AND WEALTHY EXPAT FORMS NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bexhet Pacolli's Alliance for a New Kosovo (AKR) recently held its first convention in Pristina, evolving from a U.S.-based lobbying group for Kosovo independence into a registered political party. Pacolli, a wealthy Kosovar Albanian who lives in Switzerland, has plastered the K [...] | 2006-11-20 14:36:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM EAID KDEM INR YI |
06QUEBEC13 | QUEBECKERS SAY "YES" TO CANADA [...] (c) Summary: In perhaps one of the biggest surprises of the election, Stephen Harper's Conservative Party picked up ten seats in Quebec, up from zero. While the Conservatives managed to grab votes from both the Liberals and the Bloc Quebecois, it is the Bloc that will have the most soul-searc [...] | 2006-01-25 22:43:00 | Consulate Quebec | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CA ECON |
06QUEBEC24 | QUEBEC BUREAUCRATS UPBEAT ABOUT HARPER GOVERNMENT [...] (c) Summary: CG hosted a lunch for Quebec Ministry of International Relations (MRI) Deputy Minister Denis Bedard and other MRI officials February 22, one month following the election of Stephen Harper's Conservatives in Ottawa. Ministry officials were upbeat about the Tory victory, heralded b [...] | 2006-02-23 22:20:00 | Consulate Quebec | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CA ECON |
06QUEBEC31 | PM HARPER SUPPORTS QUEBEC ROLE ON INTERNATIONAL SCENE [...] (SBU) Summary: PM Harper and Quebec Premier Charest met in Quebec City March 8 and announced they are tasking their respective officials to work together to assure that "Quebec's unique voice" will be heard at UNESCO. PM Harper also said he would attend the Francophonie summit in Bucharest t [...] | 2006-03-08 22:45:00 | Consulate Quebec | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL PGOV CA |
06QUEBEC39 | MALAISE IN THE PQ [...] (SBU) Summary: Parti Quebecois (PQ) veteran Pauline Marois, 57 year old MNA for Taillon and three time party leadership aspirant, announced March 20 she was quitting politics after 25 years of public service. Marois is the second veteran PQ member to resign over the last few days and more re [...] | 2006-03-24 15:12:00 | Consulate Quebec | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EFIN ECON PREL CA |
06QUEBEC41 | BLOC QUEBECOIS INTERNALLY DIVIDED OVER AFGHANISTAN [...] (c) Summary: A Bloc Quebecois (BQ) MP told CG March 22 that Bloc members fiercely debated BQ leader Gilles Duceppe's decision not to object in the coming parliamentary session to Canada's military presence in Afghanistan. Discussion within the party on Afghanistan is not yet closed. Other pri [...] | 2006-03-28 14:58:00 | Consulate Quebec | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR ECON PGOV CA |
06QUITO1042 | PALACIO DISAPPOINTS MANY ONE YEAR ON [...] (C) Summary: This week marked the one-year anniversary of Alfredo Palacio's ascension to the Presidency. He ducked the opportunity to tout the accomplishments of his first year in office or set forth a positive agenda for his remaining months. Instead, ministers were trooped before the press [...] | 2006-04-27 19:20:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EC |
06QUITO1106 | IRAN: GOE DISTRACTED BY ITS OWN HRC CANDIDACY [...] (C) PolChief delivered RefTel points on May 3 to MFA U/S for Multilateral Affairs, Mauricio Montalvo, conveying U.S. and international concerns over Iran's bid for a seat on the Human Rights Council (HRC). Montalvo said no decision had been taken on the issue but said he did not believe that [...] | 2006-05-04 16:59:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PHUM UNHRC PREL EC |
06QUITO1107 | GOE UNLIKELY TO ENDORSE PSI [...] (C) PolOff delivered RefTel points in a diplomatic note on April 11, and PolChief followed up on May 3 with MFA U/S for Multilateral Affairs Mauricio Montalvo, conveying U.S. hope that Ecuador would endorse PSI principles so that it may participate in the Warsaw meeting. Montalvo said that he [...] | 2006-05-04 17:00:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP |
06QUITO1157 | Ecuador Election Update--Six Months Out [...] (U) Summary: Six months away from national elections in October, and three months before candidates formally register, more than 20 aspirants already crowd the presidential field and that number is likely to rise. Former VP Leon Roldos holds a consistent lead in early polling, but most Ecuad [...] | 2006-05-10 19:06:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL EC |
06QUITO1249 | OXY DEMARCHE DELIVERED--FM REJECTS GOE SHIFT [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador conveyed USG regret (per instructions RefTel) over the GOE decision against Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) to FM Francisco Carrion on May 22. Carrion said he would convey the U.S. position to President Palacio later the same day. Carrion rejected press speculation th [...] | 2006-05-22 22:09:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV OAS ETRD PREL EC |
06QUITO126 | PRESIDENT'S CONCILIATORY STATE OF THE NATION SPEECH [...] (SBU) Summary: In the president's annual "report to the nation" speech widely interpreted as conciliatory, President Palacio averted further confrontation with Congress over his reform agenda. Instead, Palacio thanked his critics and praised the role of a loyal opposition, inviting Congress [...] | 2006-01-17 23:01:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM ECON EC |
06QUITO1274 | GOE DEFENDS LEGALITY OF OXY SEIZURE [...] (C) Summary: WHA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Charles Shapiro on May 16 told FM Francisco Carrion the USG was disappointed by the GOE's decision to cancel Occidental Petroleum's contract, a violation of the bilateral investment treaty that would have a chilling effect on FTA talks. Ca [...] | 2006-05-24 16:45:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO128 | ECUADOR: FM SUPPORTS UNSC REFORM [...] (SBU) The Ambassador discussed reftel points with FM Francisco Carrion in a one-on-one meeting on January 13, requesting GOE support for management reforms and emphasizing the need for a more credible Human Rights Council. 2. (SBU) FM Carrion said that the UN has great importance to Ecua [...] | 2006-01-17 23:35:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM EC |
06QUITO1284 | AMBASSADOR PROMOTES SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador visited the remote Carchi province on May 18 to highlight USG investment in security and development on Ecuador's northern border with Colombia. While there, the Ambassador met with military and police officials, toured a customs and immigration post, hosted a lu [...] | 2006-05-24 21:07:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO1304 | NAM/G-77 ADVANCE DEMARCHES DELIVERED: GOE [...] (C) PolOff met with Acting Director for Multilateral Affairs Dennys Toscano on May 25 to deliver RefTel A and B points. PolOff expressed USG concern that the long-established practice of consensus decision-making on budgetary matters in the UN not be broken, and that the GOE consider pushing [...] | 2006-05-30 12:56:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC AMGT IAEA KNNP UNSC UNGA EC |
06QUITO1320 | ECUADOR: POSITIVE REACTION TO U.S. STATEMENT ON [...] (C) Summary: In the absence of the Ambassador (on internal travel),DCM made demarche points (RefTel) to Acting Foreign Minister Diego Ribadeneira on May 31. Ribadeneira welcomed the USG Iran initiative, pledged continued GOE support for holding Iran accountable for its nuclear program, and [...] | 2006-05-31 19:51:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1326 | CHAVEZ LOVEFEST; A "PRAGMATIC" EMBRACE [...] (C) Summary: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited Quito May 30 to sign energy accords (RefTel) and signal political support for the GOE. Chavez was warmly welcomed by President Palacio, who basked in Chavez's praise for defending Ecuador's energy resources. Chavez held an extended one- [...] | 2006-05-31 22:40:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1386 | GOE INCLINED TO SUPPORT UN INDIGENOUS DECLARATION [...] (SBU) PolOff presented reftel points to Augusto Saa, Director of Human Rights and Social and Environmental issues at the MFA, on May 22, emphasizing the USG view that the Chair's draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is fundamentally flawed. Saa said the GOE is inclined to su [...] | 2006-06-06 22:09:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL EC |
06QUITO1394 | CANDIDATE CORREA OPEN TO DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met on June 6 with Rafael Correa, the controversial former finance minister and leftist presidential candidate. While noting disagreement in several areas of USG interest, the meeting was cordial, with the candidate generally perceived as Chavez' likely favorite [...] | 2006-06-07 20:14:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1395 | AMBASSADOR VISITS MACHALA AND EL ORO PROVINCE [...] (U) Summary. In a trip to the southern border province of El Oro, the Ambassador visited U.S. company Machala Power's gas platform and electricity generation facilities and heard about their plight in trying to collect nearly $50 million in unpaid bills from GOE-related entities. She inaugura [...] | 2006-06-07 20:22:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ENRG SNAR ECON PREL EC |
06QUITO1400 | ECUADOR-COLOMBIA BORDER PROGRESS REPORT - JAN-MAY [...] (C) Summary: Ecuadorian northern border military and anti-drug police units scored several successes against narco-terrorists in the first half of 2006. The Ecuadorian military made multiple FARC camp busts, seizing arms, communication devices, and military equipment, as well as capturing tw [...] | 2006-06-07 22:12:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO1401 | GOE DEFENDS NAM IRAN DECLARATION, BUT PLEDGES [...] (C) PolChief and PolIntern delivered RefTel demarche on June 7 to Ambassador Fernando Yepez, Acting U/S for Multilateral Affairs, expressing USG dismay over the recent declaration on Iran issued by the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). Ambassador Yepez noted that the GOE Ambassador in Vienna had a [...] | 2006-06-07 22:21:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ EC |
06QUITO1427 | GOE RESCINDS NAM IRAN ENDORSEMENT, PLEDGES SUPPORT [...] (C) PolChief delivered Ref A demarche to Ambassador Fernando Yepez, Acting U/S for Multilateral Affairs on June 8. Yepez response could not have been more different from his reception a day earlier (Ref B). Yepez agreed that Iran should be given time to reconsider its position, and was very [...] | 2006-06-09 17:04:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KNNP IAEA PREL MNUC IR EU |
06QUITO1436 | SUPREME COURT ALLOWS FORMER PRESIDENT MAHUAD TO [...] (U) Summary: The Supreme Court ruled on June 7 that criminal charges against ex-president Jamil Mahuad would be put on hold for lack of evidence, permitting Mahuad to return to Ecuador without facing an arrest warrant. Ex-president Mahuad, widely blamed for the country,s severe financial cr [...] | 2006-06-12 18:27:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1438 | ECUADOR SOLICITS OIL HELP FROM ABROAD [...] (C) Summary. There are nearly daily press reports that the GOE is about to get assistance from a variety of countries to manage or invest in Ecuador's oil sector, especially the fields previously managed by Occidental Petroleum. Private reports we have received indicate the rush to invest in [...] | 2006-06-12 21:31:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET EINV ECON PREL EC |
06QUITO1470 | CAN LEADERS MEET IN QUITO [...] (U) Summary: Presidents from Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia met at the Andean Community (CAN) conference in Quito on June 13 to publicly demonstrate their commitment to the troubled regional organization, discuss areas for cooperation with the European Union (EU),and to issue a joint let [...] | 2006-06-14 22:21:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1477 | CAN LEADERS MEET IN QUITO [...] (U) Summary: Presidents from Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia met at the Andean Community (CAN) conference in Quito on June 13 to publicly demonstrate their commitment to the troubled regional organization, discuss areas for cooperation with the European Union (EU),and to issue a joint let [...] | 2006-06-15 15:45:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1547 | AMB RENEWS DIALOGUE WITH PRESIDENT PALACIO [...] (C) The Ambassador met with President Palacio on June 21, at her request, for the first time since the Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) decision was announced on May 15. Palacio appeared nervous but eager to re-establish direct dialogue. The Ambassador stressed the importance of GOE cooperation wi [...] | 2006-06-23 19:02:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EINV ETRD EC |
06QUITO1549 | MIGRATION: ECUADORIANS STILL LOOKING NORTH [...] (U) Summary: At least since the severe economic crisis in 1999, the two certainties in Ecuador have been death and emigration. A steady stream of 30,000 to 40,000 undocumented migrants takes to the sea and skies annually from Ecuador in pursuit of their own American dreams. Periodic reports [...] | 2006-06-23 19:30:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SMIG PHUM PREL EC |
06QUITO1558 | THE AMBASSADOR'S JUNE 21 MEETING WITH VICE [...] (C) Summary: Vice Presidential candidate Ramiro Gonzalez told the Ambassador on June 21 that he and Presidential candidate Leon Roldos (currently ahead in polls) plan to reform the educational system, the electrical sector, and repair the investment climate crippled by the recently-passed hyd [...] | 2006-06-26 15:39:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1578 | ECUADOR: ASIAN DIPLOMATS EAGER FOR DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Our recent outreach to diplomatic counterparts from China, Japan and Korea found them highly aware of USG coordination efforts (described RefTel),and eager to engage in dialogue about the political and economic situation in Ecuador and the region. In deference to USG concerns [...] | 2006-06-27 21:11:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECON LA CH JA KS EC |
06QUITO1588 | INDIGENOUS HEARTLAND DIVIDED ON ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The indigenous heartland provinces of Chimborazo and Cotopaxi are predominantly indigenous strongholds of the Pachakutik Movement. Despite Pachakutik's dominance, the indigenous movement is fractured internally over whether to run its own candidate or support Rafael Correa, an [...] | 2006-06-28 16:19:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1590 | FM CARRION URGES USG SIGNAL ON ATPDEA RENEWAL [...] (C) Summary: Ecuadorian FM Francisco Carrion told the Ambassador on June 27 that he hoped the USG would positively signal support for extension of ATPDEA benefits to support regional economic stability and "keep Bolivia in the fold." He was far from certain that an oil refining deal would be [...] | 2006-06-28 19:08:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1612 | ECUADOR SIGNS MORE ENERGY AGREEMENTS WITH VENEZUELA [...] (U) Summary. Ecuador's and Venezuela's state energy companies PetroEcuador and PDVSA yesterday signed a pair of energy agreements, following a series of technical meetings this month. Venezuela's Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez and acting PetroEcuador President Walter Lopez were joined by Ec [...] | 2006-06-30 20:03:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EC EPET ETRD PREL VZ EINV |
06QUITO1657 | AFRO-ECUADORIAN HEARTLAND RIPE FOR POPULIST APPEAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The province of Esmeraldas is the largest of two centers of the minority Afro-Ecuadorian population. The province is also marked by high unemployment and underdevelopment, fueling populist electoral appeal. Since 2002, the Popular Democratic Movement (MPD),a Marxist populist [...] | 2006-07-06 22:34:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EC |
06QUITO1669 | PALACIO REPLACES TWO MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary: President Palacio on July 6 called for the resignations of all his cabinet ministers. On July 7, Palacio accepted the resignations of Minister of Economy Diego Borja -- who seems to have been the primary target of this move -- and Minister of Trade Joaquin Zevallos. Borja was r [...] | 2006-07-07 19:34:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1671 | ALAN GARCIA WOWS QUITO [...] (C) Summary: Peruvian President-elect Alan Garcia and his FM-designate Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde visited Ecuador on July 6 to affirm positive bilateral relations and promote further regional economic integration between Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, and Brazil. Garcia publicly expressed [...] | 2006-07-07 20:05:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PE EC |
06QUITO1680 | PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARY STEPS DOWN [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Secretary Jose Modesto Apolo resigned on July 10. Apolo, who was viewed by many as the power behind the power, said that his image had suffered considerably from "unfounded allegations" launched by ex-Minister of Economy Diego Borja. Apolo claimed to be concerned t [...] | 2006-07-10 21:27:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1681 | NOBOA DROPS OUT OF PRES. RACE [...] (U) Summary: Alvaro Noboa, Institutional Renewal Party of National Action (PRIAN),withdrew from the presidential race on July 9, citing low showings in the polls. PRIAN deputy Vicente Taiano told us his party would either seek an alliance or support an independent, and ruled out the possib [...] | 2006-07-10 21:32:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1702 | NEW MINGOV NAMED [...] Summary: As part of an ongoing cabinet reshuffle on July 11, President Palacio replaced Minister of Government Felipe Vega with Antonio Andretta and Minister of Public Works Derlis Palacios with Pedro Lopez Torres. While Vega, Palacio's fifth Minister of Government, has been linked to charg [...] | 2006-07-13 11:41:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EC PINR PREL |
06QUITO1707 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH LUCIO GUTIERREZ [...] (SBU) Summary: After appearing in constitutional court to defend his right to run in upcoming elections, Gutierrez met with the Ambassador on July 12. Gutierrez summarized the legal charges against him, seeking to show their arbitrary nature. While the charges are obviously politically mot [...] | 2006-07-13 20:35:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1772 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: GUTIERREZ BARRED, POPULIST [...] (U) Summary: The Constitutional Court on July 18 ruled that ex-President Lucio Gutierrez could not run for public office until 2007. With Gutierrez blocked from running, a PRIAN-PSP alliance is a strong possibility and could produce a strong showing in this year's elections. In the interim, [...] | 2006-07-19 22:33:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1773 | MINISTER OF TRADE REPLACEMENT NOT YET NAMED [...] (C) Summary. President Palacio accepted Minister of Trade Roberto Illingworth's resignation on July 13, after only a week in office for the latter. Illingworth had been facing pressure from the Guayaquil Chamber of Commerce since being named on July 7 (reftel). Teodoro Maldonado, Executive [...] | 2006-07-19 22:38:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL |
06QUITO1803 | ECUADOR,S NEW ECONOMIC CZAR: SCUFFED GOODS, [...] (C) Summary: New Ecuadorian Economy Minister Armando Rodas recently presented a sober six-month economic plan, lending a technocratic polish to an appointment painted in politics. End summary. 2. (C) On July 17, Ecuadorian Minister of Economy and Finance Armando Rodas (for biodata, see reft [...] | 2006-07-21 17:57:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EC EFIN ENRG EPET ETRD PGOV PINR PREL |
06QUITO1813 | 61ST UNGA: PALACIO & CARRION LIKELY TO ATTEND [...] PolOffs met with Director General for Multilateral Affairs Lourdes Puma on July 20 to discuss RefTel points. Puma told us that President Alfredo Palacio and Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion would likely attend the 61st UNGA General Debate September 19-29, but said that she could not yet con [...] | 2006-07-24 19:12:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA EC |
06QUITO1837 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: PSP-PRIAN FORM ALLIANCE; [...] (U) Summary: Lucio Gutierrez, PSP and Alvaro Noboa's PRIAN announced on July 26 that the two parties would form an alliance for the presidential ticket. Gutierrez publicly asked Noboa to reenter the presidential race at the top of the PRIAN-PSP ticket. Noboa, however, has not responded pub [...] | 2006-07-27 19:15:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1860 | WHO'S ON FIRST? PALACIO NAMES FIFTH TRADE MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Two weeks after the embarrassment of Roberto Illingworth,s hasty resignation ended his tenure of less than one week (which in turn had followed the very brief turn in the office by Joaquin Cevallos),Ecuadorian President Alfredo Palacio named relative unknown Tomas Peribonio as his [...] | 2006-07-28 19:11:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EC EFIN ETRD PGOV PINR PREL |
06QUITO1867 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: CANDIDATE POSITION PROFILE [...] (U) Summary: In Ecuador,s presidential race, only two of the four front runners have concrete political platforms. Leon Roldos and Rafael Correa present well-defined stances on the issues. Correa,s stance is particularly anti-U.S. Cynthia Viteri and the PRIAN/PRI alliance have not yet defi [...] | 2006-07-31 19:48:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1869 | ECUADORIAN PRISONS IN CRISIS - UNDERFUNDED AND [...] Summary: President Palacio on June 7 declared a state of emergency in Ecuador's prisons to address faulty infrastructure, overpopulation, violence and meager resources that had led to ongoing prisoner and worker strikes. Despite an $8 million budget increase in April, the majority of the fun [...] | 2006-07-31 21:55:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1887 | MINISTER OF LABOR CHIRIBOGA NAMED HEAD OF [...] (U) President Palacio replaced the board of directors of Petroecuador, and named Labor Minister Galo Chiriboga president of the state energy company on July 31. The decision comes after the failed July 27 auction of 17 million barrels of crude oil from Occidental's former concession, Block 1 [...] | 2006-08-01 21:10:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1905 | GOE RATIFIES INTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION AGAINST [...] (U) The Ecuadorian Congress ratified the Inter-American Convention Against Terrorism (IACAT) on May 9. The Convention was subsequently signed by President Palacio, and was sent to OAS headquarters on July 14. Ecuador is awaiting confirmation from its OAS delegation of the date of deposit of [...] | 2006-08-02 20:57:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER EC |
06QUITO1909 | ECUADOR ELECTION: VITERI PICKS RUNNING-MATE [...] (C) Summary: Presidential candidate Cynthia Viteri (Social Christian Party-PSC) announced on August 1 that Ernesto Davalos Salazar would be her vice presidential running-mate in the October elections. The choice of Davalos, a businessman from Quito with experience in the finance and petrole [...] | 2006-08-02 23:01:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1910 | WELCOME BACK, GENERAL CRADDOCK [...] (C) Summary: Please accept my warm welcome on your final visit to Ecuador, General Craddock. It has been a pleasure and privilege for all of us at U.S. Mission Ecuador to work with you to cement and deepen productive U.S.-Ecuador military relations. Your visit comes at a time when U.S.-Ecu [...] | 2006-08-02 23:15:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC |
06QUITO1919 | ECUADORIAN PRISONS IN CRISIS, PART II: CONDITIONS [...] Summary: An Ecuadorian prison system plagued by overpopulation and a lack of resources has led to riots, worker strikes, and a state of emergency. A slow justice system characterized by long sentences, appeals that take up to four years, harsher drug laws, the elimination of shortened sente [...] | 2006-08-03 22:45:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1922 | ECUADOR WILL MAINTAIN MINUSTAH COMMITMENT [...] (SBU) PolOffs met with MFA Director General for Multilateral Affairs Lourdes Puma on August 2 to deliver reftel talking points. Puma said the GOE will maintain its current support to MINUSTAH. Puma indicated the GOE will fully support an extension of the MINUSTAH mandate and that the GOE [...] | 2006-08-03 22:46:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO PREL HA UNSC |
06QUITO1924 | CHARGE MEETING WITH NEW ECONOMY MINISTER RODAS [...] (C) Summary: The Charge met with Ecuador's new Minister of Economy and Finance Armando Rodas August 3. The atmosphere was quite positive. Choosing to speak English and proud to note his Fulbright study in the U.S., Rodas seemed genuinely committed to improving the bilateral economic relatio [...] | 2006-08-04 15:03:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL |
06QUITO2002 | PRESIDENT PALACIO SEEKS WHO DIRECTOR GENERALSHIP [...] (SBU) President Alfredo Palacio has instructed the MFA to lobby WHO board capitals in favor of his candidacy for the WHO Director Generalship. A MFA mission headed by U/S for Multilateral Affairs Gonzalo Salvador Holguin might visit Washington during the week of August 14 or 21 seeking meeti [...] | 2006-08-09 17:12:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO2007 | ECUADOR MAY BE ALLY ON LEBANON [...] (C) In response to Ref A points, MFA U/S Gonzalo Salvador told PolChief on August 9 that the GOE supports any effort to achieve a cease-fire in Lebanon, including the draft resolution pending in the Security Council. 2. (C) On the Human Rights Council special session (Ref B),after initia [...] | 2006-08-09 21:56:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS LE MOPS PHUM UN PTER EC |
06QUITO2011 | ECUADOR'S BACHELET PARTY [...] (U) Summary: Chile's president, Michelle Bachelet, made her inaugural visit to Ecuador August 7-8. She announced several initiatives to deepen trade relations and offer assistance to Ecuador's petroleum sector, while promoting a well-received message of hope, democratic strengthening, econom [...] | 2006-08-10 12:58:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD ENRG EC |
06QUITO2025 | ECUADOR TO PUSH FOR BALANCE ON LEBANON [...] (C) PolChief conveyed Ref A points to MFA U/S for Multilateral Affairs Gonzalo Salvador on August 10, urging the GOE to speak up in the session to point out the imbalance of the current resolution. Salvador said he would instruct Ecuador's Ambassador in Geneva to attempt to introduce balance [...] | 2006-08-10 21:13:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO2041 | PALACIO AND EHLERS RE-IGNITE REFORM DEBATE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a ceremonial speech on August 10 President Palacio renewed his call for a public referendum to force political reforms. The surprise proposal would be non-binding and administered in conjunction with the second round of presidential elections on November 26. It would incl [...] | 2006-08-14 23:32:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EC |
06QUITO2050 | ECUADOR REITERATES SUPPORT FOR SECURITY COUNCIL ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-15 21:17:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER MOPS UNAUS UNSC IS LE |
06QUITO2064 | ECUADOR ELECTION: THEN THERE WERE SEVENTEEN [...] (SBU) Summary. The registration period for all candidates running for office in October 15 elections closed on August 15, attracting an unprecedented seventeen presidential aspirants. Eccentric billionaire candidate Alvaro Noboa announced his reentry, oddly declaring himself "a hero of God w [...] | 2006-08-16 21:14:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EC |
06QUITO2078 | CARRION'S MFA REFOCUSES ECUADOR'S FOREIGN POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary: Since taking office in October 2005, Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion, Ecuador's top career diplomat, has attempted to restore credibility to the ministry by reversing the politicization and decline of the diplomatic corps under his immediate predecessors. Part of this proc [...] | 2006-08-17 20:16:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO2082 | NEW COLOMBIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS ECUADOR [...] (U) Summary: Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Araujo made her first official visit to Ecuador on August 16. In meetings with Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion and Vice President Alejandro Serrano she discussed the need for safeguarding bilateral relations in the face of problems along the c [...] | 2006-08-17 22:49:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO2094 | NORTHERN BORDER PROVINCES TILTING TOWARD ROLDOS [...] (U) Summary: The northern provinces of Imbabura and Carchi are strongholds of the Democratic Left (ID) party and, in Imbabura, the indigenous movement. Predictably, Leon Roldos is the acknowledged front runner in presidential elections. There is little agreement among key actors over which [...] | 2006-08-21 21:30:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO2131 | ECUADOR ELECTIONS: NOW THERE ARE TEN...OR ELEVEN? [...] (SBU) Summary: The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) on August 22 announced that it had approved the candidacies of 10 of the original 17 presidential hopefuls, and reported that five independents failed to secure required signatures and would be disqualified. PSP candidate Gilmar Gutierrez [...] | 2006-08-24 21:29:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO2138 | A THOUSAND CHARIOTS IN THE FIELDS: CHINESE PLAYERS [...] (C) Summary: With their $1.4 billion acquisition of Canadian EnCana, China's state oil companies announced their entrance as major players in Ecuador's and the region's petroleum industry. Now with active participation in at least five of Ecuador's petroleum blocks, and with further investmen [...] | 2006-08-25 12:31:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET PINR PREL ETRD EC CN |
06QUITO2148 | COLOMBIAN SHOTS LEAVE ECUADORIANS WOUNDED [...] (SBU) Colombian military units and FARC rebels exchanged heavy gunfire late in the evening on August 23 in the southern Colombian border town of Tetye, Putumayo. Ecuadorian 19th Jungle Brigade Commander (based in Lago Agrio, Sucumbios province) Colonel Ramiro Caceres confirmed the live fire i [...] | 2006-08-25 18:47:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO2150 | ECUADOR ELECTION: WHAT'S AT STAKE [...] (C) Summary: With the candidates finally defined and the formal campaign period to open on August 29, more Ecuadorians are undecided than have a presidential favorite for first-round elections on October 15. In the past, public disenchantment with the political party elite has favored outsi [...] | 2006-08-28 17:02:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL EC |
06QUITO2151 | NEW DEFENSE POLICY ADDRESSES NARCOTICS THREAT [...] (U) Summary: Since taking office in August 2005, Defense Minister Oswaldo Jarrin has attempted to shift the focus of Ecuador's defense posture away from its traditional rivalry with Peru towards more current national security threats, including that of narco-terror on Ecuador's northern border [...] | 2006-08-28 19:53:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO2152 | COLOMBIAN SHOTS LEAVE ECUADORIANS WOUNDED [...] (SBU) Colombian military units and FARC rebels exchanged heavy gunfire late in the evening on August 23 in the southern Colombian border town of Tetye, Putumayo. Ecuadorian 19th Jungle Brigade Commander (based in Lago Agrio, Sucumbios province) Colonel Ramiro Caceres confirmed the live fire i [...] | 2006-08-28 19:55:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO2173 | MINDEF'S RESIGNATION SURPRISES MANY [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Defense Oswaldo Jarrin resigned on August 28, citing disagreement with unspecified aspects of relations with Colombia and defending Ecuadorian military participation in the anti-narcotics fight. Jarrin's surprise departure has generated much speculation about the rea [...] | 2006-08-30 19:41:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO2185 | GOE SIGNS MLE; NAVY STRONG U.S. PARTNER IN DRUG [...] (C) Summary: U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Wayne Justice and Ecuadorian Rear Admiral Eduardo Navas signed a Maritime Law Enforcement Agreement (MLE) in Quito on August 30. The MLE standardizes a series of operational procedures for the interdiction and boarding of suspect Ecuadorian vessels, [...] | 2006-08-31 21:30:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO2223 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ROLDOS AND VITERI [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met recently with the top two presidential candidates, according to current polls. Both alleged that dark horse candidate Rafael Correa was receiving support from Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, and Viteri lamented that Correa could reach the second round runoff el [...] | 2006-09-06 21:21:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ETRD ECON PREL EC |
06QUITO2225 | TITUANA IDENTIFIES WITH PRAGMATIC FACTION OF [...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador's recent visit to the indigenous-majority city of Cotacachi highlighted USG interest in municipal best practices in Ecuador, and opened a dialogue with a key national indigenous leader, Cotacachi mayor Auki Tituana. A counterweight within the main national indige [...] | 2006-09-06 21:51:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO2242 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: 13 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FINAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Constitutional Court on September 6 authorized the candidacies of Lenin Torres (Popular Participation Revolution Movement) and Bolivarian candidate Marcelo Larrea (Third Republic Alliance Movement),while denying two other appeals, bringing down the final number of preside [...] | 2006-09-07 22:07:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO2252 | GOE MIXED ON NAM AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: PolChief and PolOff met with MFA Director General for Multilateral Affairs Lourdes Puma on September 7 to deliver RefTel talking points. Puma has attended NAM summits in the past and will also accompany President Palacio to Havana. Puma maintained the GOE is still undecided on [...] | 2006-09-08 15:43:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA PTER PHUM CU EC |
06QUITO2259 | GOE SUPPORTS PERMANENT UN MIGRATION FORUM [...] (U) Summary: Foreign Minister Carrion will represent the GOE at the UN High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development (HLD) in New York. The GOE delegation will support a permanent forum. End Summary. 2. (U) On September 7, PolOff met with MFA Ambassador Carlos Lopez, A [...] | 2006-09-08 18:43:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PREF EAID SMIG UNGA |
06QUITO2262 | AMB'S TOUR D'HORIZON WITH FM CARRION [...] (C) Summary: In a one-on-one meeting with the Ambassador on September 7, FM Francisco Carrion said the UNSC decision is pending with President Palacio; relations with Colombia have been smoothed over after the recent errant mortar incident; shared his positive impressions of Bolivian FM Davi [...] | 2006-09-08 18:57:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC MOPS CO EC |
06QUITO2275 | GOE PLEDGES SUPPORT OF IRAN AT NAM [...] (C) The DCM delivered RefTel points on September 12 to Vice Foreign Minister Diego Ribadeneira, conveying USG concerns that some governments may use the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Havana to adopt a common position in support of Iran's nuclear program. The DCM stressed the importance of t [...] | 2006-09-12 22:32:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR PHUM PREL PTER IAEA UNSC EC |
06QUITO2276 | GOE PLEDGES SUPPORT ON IRAN AT NAM [...] (C) The DCM delivered RefTel points on September 12 to Vice Foreign Minister Diego Ribadeneira, conveying USG concerns that some governments may use the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Havana to adopt a common position in support of Iran's nuclear program. The DCM stressed the importance of t [...] | 2006-09-13 13:05:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR PHUM PREL PTER IAEA UNSC EC |
06QUITO2289 | MINDEF COMMITS TO NARCOTICS AGENDA, DISSES MANTA [...] (C) Summary: In her initial call on newly appointed Minister of Defense Marcelo Delgado on September 8, the Ambassador stressed the importance of continued USG-GOE counter-narcotics and northern border cooperation and urged progress on security reforms initiated under Delgado's predecessor. [...] | 2006-09-13 21:54:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO2294 | NAM:GOE STUDIES DARFUR REQUEST [...] (SBU) The DCM delivered RefTel points on September 13 to Acting Foreign Minister Diego Ribadeneira, conveying USG concern that Sudan might use the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Havana to undermine international efforts to deploy a UN peacekeeping mission to Darfur. The DCM stressed the urgen [...] | 2006-09-14 16:00:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PINS KPKO UNSC KDEM PGOV EC SU |
06QUITO2309 | ELECTION UPDATE: CORREA MOVES INTO SECOND PLACE [...] (C) Summary: Radical populist candidate Rafael Correa surged ahead of Social Christian candidate Cynthia Viteri in recent polls, moving into second place after front-runner Leon Roldos. With first round presidential elections just a month away on October 15, undecided voters have declined to [...] | 2006-09-15 20:17:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KDEM PGOV PREL MARR EC |
06QUITO2315 | GOE'S UNGA PRINCIPALS: EXPERIENCED PERMREP, [...] (C) Summary: This report on the GOE's UNGA principals responds to questions posed by the Department in Ref A. The GOE has an experienced and capable UN PermRep in Diego Cordovez. Relations between President Alfredo Palacio and FM Francisco Carrion are generally close, but include tensions [...] | 2006-09-15 20:52:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR UN EC |
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