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04RANGOON1386 | PUSHING A BIG ROCK UP A STEEP HILL: UNFPA TRIES TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The UNFPA's three-day tour through upper Burma in mid-October for members of the diplomatic community and INGOs presented a microcosm of life today in this country: a graceful, capable people burdened by a Government that takes decisions based on its own interests. End Summary [...] | 2004-10-22 12:37:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV EAID SOCI BM NGO |
04RANGOON1421 | ECHO COMING TO BURMA [...] (U) Summary: The EU plans to open a Rangoon branch of the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO) by the end of this year to monitor and supplement the considerable humanitarian assistance it currently provides for Burma programs from Bangkok and Brussels. According to one Bangkok-bas [...] | 2004-11-04 04:27:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM EAID PREL PGOV BM NGO |
04RANGOON1422 | MAINLAND SE ASIA AND CHINA PLEDGE TIP COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: The Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative against Trafficking (COMMIT) moved forward in Rangoon, October 27-29. All of the participating governments seemed to find a comfortable confluence of political, strategic, and operational elements in the MOU they signed and the sup [...] | 2004-11-04 05:02:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ELAB PGOV EAID BM |
04RANGOON1443 | A VISIT TO PROJECT OLD SOLDIER 101 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: INL-funded Project Old Soldier 101, a crop-substitution program founded by WWII veterans of OSS Detachment 101, appears to be doing an excellent job providing farmers profitable alternatives to raising opium poppies in the rugged hills of northeastern Burma. Approximately 4,000 [...] | 2004-11-09 08:18:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR EAID EAGR PREL MOPS BM NGO |
04RANGOON1445 | SHAN CEASE-FIRE GROUP WARY OF GOB INTENTIONS [...] (S) SUMMARY: In the course of travel to visit an INL-funded project in Shan State, Emboff encountered the leadership of the Shan State Army (SSA),a former insurgent group that has concluded a cease-fire agreement with the GOB. Shan leaders are concerned that the post-Khin Nyunt regime will m [...] | 2004-11-09 09:25:00 | Embassy Rangoon | SECRET | PINS PGOV SNAR EAID BM |
04RANGOON1450 | PRO-DEMOCRACY ETHNIC PARTIES SEEK USG ASSISTANCE [...] (S/NF) Hkun Htun Oo, acting in his capacity as head of the ten-party United Nationalities Alliance (UNA),formally requested USG financial assistance for UNA member parties for "democracy and humanitarian affairs" in a meeting with emboffs November 9th. 2. (SBU) Hkun Htun Oo, besides headin [...] | 2004-11-10 09:50:00 | Embassy Rangoon | SECRET//NOFORN | KDEM EAID PINR PREL BM |
04RANGOON1456 | CAPACITY-BUILDING PROGRAM FOR RISING ETHNIC PARTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Rangoon's Public Affairs Section (PAS) recently initiated a leadership capacity building program (called the "Global English" Program) for 23 representatives from nine ethnic democratic political parties. The program's nine-month curriculum, targeted at rising or curr [...] | 2004-11-12 02:44:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM KPAO EAID PREL BM |
04RANGOON1556 | BURMA: THE EYES HAVE IT [...] (SBU) Summary: A favorite of ASSK's, U.S.-based NGO ORBIS, arrived in Mandalay on December 5th. The flying eye hospital and 11 foreign doctors will spend two weeks providing free operations for patients and education and hands-on training for nearly 100 Burmese medical staff. Despite clear be [...] | 2004-12-09 03:30:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI ECON BM ASSK NGO |
04RANGOON1572 | BURMESE PRO-DEMOCRACY LEADERS REQUEST FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) Congress has appropriated and earmarked millions of dollars to support Burma's pro-democracy movement and those Burmese seeking refuge from the junta's tyranny. While a portion of this funding appropriately supports thousands of Burmese who have fled their country, direct support for th [...] | 2004-12-14 04:59:00 | Embassy Rangoon | SECRET//NOFORN | EAID KDEM PINR BM |
04RANGOON158 | FIELD OBSERVATIONS OF UNICEF BURMA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Thirty-five percent of Burma's children are malnourished, while one out of ten dies by age five, according to UNICEF. Emboff traveled with a UNICEF team to Karen and Mon States recently to observe UNICEF's field operations. Embassy Rangoon is highly supportive of UNICEF's act [...] | 2004-02-04 09:10:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREL BM UNICEF NGO |
04RANGOON167 | STILL NO AVIAN FLU IN BURMA; GOVERNMENT PREPARES [...] (SBU) Summary: Burma does not have any reported cases of avian flu. Though the government is taking precautionary measures (ref B),if an outbreak were to occur the regime would be ill-prepared to face it. However, even if the worst happens, due to current USG Burma policy it's unlikely that [...] | 2004-02-06 02:29:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO ECON EAID AMED KHIV BM |
04RANGOON240 | BURMA: WFP PLANS EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) Summary: The World Food Programme (WFP) plans to initiate on March 1 a one-year program to assist former poppy farmers suffering from food insecurity. The program will cost about $4 million and target about 180,000 beneficiaries in the ethnic Kokang and Wa border areas through food-for-wo [...] | 2004-02-23 10:08:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EAGR PGOV SNAR PREF BM NGO |
04RANGOON369 | BURMA WELCOMES PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY AIDS PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Burma is interested in new program possibilities under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (ref A) and has requested further consultations with the Embassy and USAID Bangkok to examine details of what the emergency plan actually means for Burma. Probably for reasons o [...] | 2004-03-19 08:19:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID SOCI KHIV PHUM PGOV BM NGO |
04RANGOON945 | THE WHO JOINS GOB TO FIGHT HIV/AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS, [...] Summary: Dr. Jack Chow, Assistant Director-General for the World Health Organization for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (HTM),called on the COM on July 21 to discuss his visit to Burma during which he met with the GOB Minister of Health and other health officials, announced 92 million in [...] | 2004-07-26 10:32:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SOCI PGOV EAID PHUM PREL BM NGO |
04RANGOON959 | IRRAWADDY FLOODING DRAWS SCANT INTEREST [...] (SBU) Starting July 18th, heavy rains caused the upper Irrawaddy River to overflow its banks, and flood waters reportedly reached four to ten feet in the Kachin State capital of Myitkyina. Local NGOs in Myitkyina reported the worst flooding since 1997, fouled wells, thousands homeless, and pe [...] | 2004-07-28 10:36:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SENV PGOV BM NGO |
04ROME1010 | CHILE/WORLD FOOD PROGRAM CONFERENCE TO LAUNCH A [...] The World Food Program (WFP),the Chilean Board of Educational Assistance and Scholarships (JUNAEB),and the U.S.-based American School Food Service Association (ASFSA) plan to jointly launch a Latin American independent school- feeding support network at a Conference in Santiago, Chile, March [...] | 2004-03-15 16:24:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF SENV FAO WHO WFP UNESCO |
04ROME1042 | WFP ASSUMES OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR UN [...] AS REPORTED REF A, WFP MADE A COMMITMENT AT THE UN'S FIFTH SESSION OF THE HIGH LEVEL COMMITTEE ON MANAGEMENT (HLCM) HELD IN NEW YORK JUNE 12-13, 2003, TO ACCEPT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ADMINISTERING AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE FOR UN AGENCIES IN HUMANITARIAN, AND "OTHER" ACTIVITIES THAT ARE NOT DIRECT [...] | 2004-03-17 07:30:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AORC PREF KUNR WFP ACABQ UNHCR ICAO AVIATION |
04ROME1057 | PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES TREATY LIKELY TO ENTER [...] (SBU) Summary: According to the FAO Secretariat, 36 countries have now submitted ratification instruments for the International Treaty (IT) for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Anticipated action by EU member states by March 31 would likely take the number of ratifications [...] | 2004-03-17 14:20:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD EAID SENV KIPR AORC FAO |
04ROME1092 | Iraq: Italian-Sponsored Marsh Restoration Program [...] (U) The Italian Ministry of Environment and Territory (MOE) has provided 2.1 million euros (1 euro 1.22 USD) through the Washington-based "Iraq Foundation" for a marshland recovery and water sanitation program called "New Eden." The Italian government will likely provide an additional 10 mil [...] | 2004-03-18 17:56:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SENV IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME121 | IRAQ: ITALY UNLIKELY TO CONTRIBUTE TO SMALL [...] No summary [...] | 2004-01-13 17:00:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN ECON IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME1236 | RIGHT TO FOOD: REPORT OF INTERSESSIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A FORMAL INTERSESSIONAL MEETING (OPEN-ENDED WORKING GROUP [OEWG]) OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL WORKING GROUP (IGWG) FOR THE ELABORATION OF VOLUNTARY GUIDELINES TO SUPPORT THE PROGRESSIVE REALIZATION OF THE RIGHT TO ADEQUATE FOOD IN THE CONTEXT OF NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY MET IN RO [...] | 2004-03-29 12:27:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PHUM EAGR EAID EFIN KUNR FAO |
04ROME1277 | IRAQ: ITALY TO GIVE USD TEN MILLION TO THE UN IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-31 15:32:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PREF IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME1340 | FAO Twenty-Third Africa Regional Conference [...] (SBU) Summary: The subject conference was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 1 - 5, 2004, and was attended by USDA U/S Eric Bost and staff, by Ambassador Mattie Sharpless, and by Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome DCM Michael Cleverley and Agricultural Minister Counselor. Conference h [...] | 2004-04-05 14:35:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC KUNR EAID EAGR ETRD KHIV XA FAO |
04ROME1370 | FAO'S EMERGENCY PROGRAMS: OVERVIEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IN 2003, FAO DELIVERED $211 MILLION IN EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE IN THE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY SECTOR TO CRISIS AREAS AROUND THE GLOBE. FAO PROVIDES SEEDS, TOOLS, FERTILIZER AND FISHING GEAR; ASSISTS IN CROP PROTECTION AND LIVESTOCK REPLENISHMENT; REACTIVATES VETERINARY AN [...] | 2004-04-07 10:36:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID AORC EAGR KUNR FAO |
04ROME1392 | WFP HELPS LAUNCH LATIN AMERICAN SCHOOL FEEDING [...] An international school feeding congress - "Networks Beyond Borders," attracted more than 800 participants from 19 countries. The event included an industry fair with 40 companies from the Americas and workshops on nutrition, food safety and technology, school feeding programming and research [...] | 2004-04-08 08:40:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF SENV FAO WHO WFP UNESCO |
04ROME1399 | UNDP WORLD ALLIANCE OF CITIES AGAINST POVERTY FORUM [...] SUMMARY. THE WORLD ALLIANCE OF CITIES AGAINST POVERTY (WACAP) HELD ITS 4TH FORUM IN ROME FROM MARCH 31 THROUGH APRIL 2, 2004. ITS PURPOSE WAS TO EXAMINE HOW ELECTED MUNICIPAL REPRESENTATIVES MIGHT SHARE AND SEEK WAYS OF ACHIEVING MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGS) AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. ON [...] | 2004-04-08 15:19:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR PREF UNDP WFA |
04ROME1415 | USAID/ROME HUMANITARIAN ATTACHE VISITS WFP PROGRAMS [...] US MISSION/ROME HUMANITARIAN ATTACHE TIM LAVELLE VISITED PERU MARCH 27-31, AND TRAVELED TO THE PERUVIAN ANDEAN REGION OF HUANCAVALICA TO REVIEW WFP OPERATIONS. WFP'S PROGRAM IS RIGHTLY FOCUSED IN THE PERUVIAN HIGHLANDS, WHERE POVERTY RATES ARE NEARLY DOUBLE THAT OF COASTAL REGIONS. WFP'S PROGR [...] | 2004-04-09 11:29:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF SENV FAO WHO WFP UNESCO |
04ROME1417 | PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES TREATY PASSES [...] FAO announced on March 31 that 48 countries had ratified the International Treaty (IT) for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (see ref A). Simultaneous submission of instruments of ratification at the end of March by 12 EU countries and the European Community carried the IT over [...] | 2004-04-09 11:30:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD EAID SENV KIPR AORC FAO |
04ROME1428 | Joint WFP and FAO Letter regarding deepening cooperation [...] Summary. The US Mission Rome has recently been made aware of a joint letter issued by WFP and FAO on November 27, 2003, that describes how their respective organizations might enhance cooperation and requests all WFP and FAO offices in the field and at headquarters to become engaged in enhance [...] | 2004-04-13 08:25:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR PREF UN |
04ROME1437 | IRAQ: WFP PROCUREMENT/LOGISTICS UPDATE [...] (SBU) The delivery of a minimum of 2.9 million metric tons of food commodities into Iraq, in the period April- September 2004, represents a significant operational undertaking on the part of both World Food Program (WFP) and the Iraqi Ministry of Trade (MOT). This task will require a carefully [...] | 2004-04-13 10:33:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR AORC IZ WFP IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME1488 | FAO Donor Conference on the Desert Locust Emergency [...] Summary. Following up on its February notice (reftel),FAO held a donor conference, on April 8, 2004, regarding the serious on-going outbreak of desert locusts concentrated in Northwest Africa. According to conference presentations, about United States Dollars (USD) 17 million has been spent [...] | 2004-04-15 10:09:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR PREF UN |
04ROME1641 | HMONG RESETTLEMENT: LOW PRIORITY FOR ITALY AND EU [...] (C) MARCO DELLA SETA, MFA SOUTH EAST ASIA OFFICE DIRECTOR STATED THAT ALTHOUGH THE GOVERNMENT OF ITALY IS AWARE OF THE INTERNAL RESETTLEMENT PROBLEM OF THE HMONG PEOPLE AND THE "FAR FROM SATISFACTORY" HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN LAOS, HE DOES NOT FORESEE THE ITALIANS OR THE EU TAKING ANY ACTION A [...] | 2004-04-26 15:38:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM PREL LA IT HUMAN RIGHTS |
04ROME1672 | WORLD FOOD OPERATIONS IN EASTERN CHAD [...] US MISSION ROME STAFF MET WITH THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM'S ASSOCIATE FRIDAY, APRIL 23 TO HIGHLIGHT CONCERNS RAISED IN REFTEL SPECIFIC TO W DURING THE APPROXIMATE HOUR-LONG MEETING, WFP OFFERED ASSURANCES THAT WFP ALSO STATED THAT REFTEL INFORMATION IS OBSOLETE AND OFFERED DETAI -------- OVERVIE [...] | 2004-04-28 10:11:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF EAID CD SU WFP |
04ROME1781 | World Food Program Discussions with Libya on [...] No summary [...] | 2004-05-07 05:18:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF EAID ELTN XA CD SU WFP |
04ROME1805 | IRAQ: ITALY LIKELY TO DISPERSE E30 MILLION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: GIANNI GHISI, DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL OF DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AT THE MFA, TOLD ECONOFFS THAT ITALY WILL DISBURSE EURO 30 MILLION OF ITS EURO 200 MILLION MADRID PLEDGE IN 2004. EURO 10 MILLION WILL GO TO THE INTERNATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION FUND FACILITY, WHILE THE REMAINING 20 MILL [...] | 2004-05-08 10:47:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID IT IZ PGOV PREL IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME1806 | IRAQ: ITALY TRAINS IRAQ TV JOURNALISTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: ITALIAN STATE BROADCASTER RAI HOSTED TEN TELEVISION JOURNALISTS AND TECHNICIANS FROM THE IRAQI MEDIA NETWORK FOR A TWO-WEEK TRAINING SESSION IN JANUARY. THE TRAINING PROVED USEFUL FOR THE IRAQIS, ACCORDING TO LUIGI SAITTA, A RAI NEWSROOM DIRECTOR WHO OVERSAW THE TRAINING. SAITT [...] | 2004-05-08 10:56:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID IT IZ KPAO XF IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME1843 | GROWING THE WFP DONOR BASE [...] WFP CONVENED AN INFORMAL CONSULTATION AT ITS HEADQUARTERS ON MAY 5, 2004, IN ORDER TO DISCUSS WITH MEMBER COUNTRIES ITS PLANS TO EXPAND ITS DONOR BASE. EMERGING (NON- TRADITIONAL) AND NEW DONORS CONTRIBUTED U.S. DOLLARS (USD) 151 MILLION AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR THIS PAST YEAR [...] | 2004-05-12 12:53:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR PREF EFIN AORC WFP |
04ROME1950 | IRAQ ASSISTANCE: MAY 25-26 DOHA MEETING ON IRAQ [...] (SBU) ECONOFF RAISED REF A POINTS WITH GIANNI GHISI, COORDINATOR FOR THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA AT THE MFA'S DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION. ECONOFF ALSO DELIVERED REF A POINTS TO CARLO MONTICELLI, G7 FINANCIAL SOUS-SHERPA AT THE FINANCE MINISTRY. GHISI SAID HE AND GUGLIELMO GIORDANO, [...] | 2004-05-19 14:54:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN PREL IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME1964 | INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LAW ORGANIZATION: [...] Summary: Post would like to bring to Department's attention the International Development Law Organization (IDLO),a Rome-based intergovernmental organization founded twenty years ago by former USAID employees. Through training and technical assistance to the judicial sector of developing nati [...] | 2004-05-20 12:51:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAID KJUS KISL UN |
04ROME2050 | IRAQ: SECURITY CONCERNS PUT E-GOV PROGRAM IN LIMBO [...] (C) Italy's Ministry of Innovation and Technology (MIT) is ready to send a team to Baghdad to start work on a Euro 11 million project to build an Intranet system for the Iraqi government. According to an aide to MIT Minister Lucio Stanca, however, the Italian Foreign Ministry will not approve [...] | 2004-05-26 05:41:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EINT PREL IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME2096 | SUDAN - DARFUR MOVING WFP FOOD [...] Summary. The World Food Programme (WFP) tells us that the two existing supply routes for feeding the hundreds of thousands of Darfur refugees and internally displaced people are in danger of immediate disruption due to the soon-to-begin rainy season. The organization would like to open a ro [...] | 2004-05-27 15:29:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM EAID MOPS PINS SU WFP |
04ROME2125 | POST-CONFLICT ANGOLA FUNDING SHORTFALLS [...] ON MAY 27, 2004, AT THE SECOND ANNUAL SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD, MIKE SACKETT, WFP'S REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR SOUTHERN AFRICA, CONFIRMED THAT PER REFTEL, AN INCREASINGLY SERIOUS FUNDING SHORTFALL IN ITS ANGOLA PIPELINE ARISES FROM THE LACK OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM DONORS. 2. SACKETT ALS [...] | 2004-06-03 08:03:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF AO WFP |
04ROME2196 | ANNUAL SESSION OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM EXECUTIVE [...] The WFP Annual Session for 2004 took place against the backdrop of the positive Sudanese signing of the Naivasha Protocols (GOS-SPLM/A),and an unprecedented level of displacement and violence in Sudan's Darfur region. Coming off a record level of total support in 2003 (U.S. dollars (USD) $2.6 [...] | 2004-06-09 12:50:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR KHIV WFP UNHCR UN |
04ROME2218 | WFP food diversions in Cambodia [...] WFP has uncovered a major case of commodity theft related to food for work (FFW) distributions in Kampong Speu cluster. An external team headed by an international consultant (a former WFP staff member who speaks Khmer),and two engineers seconded by Red R Australia, is carrying out physical v [...] | 2004-06-10 10:33:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR |
04ROME2222 | WFP AIR OPERATIONS [...] Summary. WFP is addressing the findings of the external auditor regarding air operations in advance of its next Executive Board meeting. End summary. 2. Review of the WFP's Air Operations, a Report of the External Auditor, was presented but not discussed at the Annual Session of the WFP E [...] | 2004-06-10 13:29:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AORC PREF EAIR WFP AVIATION |
04ROME2243 | SECOND REGULAR SESSION OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM [...] In an abbreviated Board session (one and a half days),the Executive Board approved country programs for Sierra Leone and Madagascar, a budget increase for WFP's development efforts in Uganda, and protracted relief and recovery operations for Myanmar (Returnees and vulnerable groups in norther [...] | 2004-06-10 15:13:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UN |
04ROME2272 | DARFUR: ITALY COMMITMENT EURO 4.4 MILLION [...] (SBU) Summary: Italy is contributing a total of Euro 4.4 million (approx $5.4 million) to relief efforts related to the crisis in Darfur. Officials at the MFA's Directorate of Development Cooperation told USAID Deputy Administrator Frederick Schieck that Italy does not rule out further contri [...] | 2004-06-14 11:42:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PREF PREL SU IT AF WFP UN |
04ROME2274 | FOOD SECURITY IN GUATEMALA: VISIT OF ALTERNATE [...] Summary: Travel of U.S. Mission Rome's Alternate Permanent Representative to Guatemala provided an opportunity for review of selected projects of the World Food Program (WFP),the UN Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in rural are [...] | 2004-06-14 13:25:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR EFIN AORC SENV GT XK WFP FAO IFAD |
04ROME2277 | FOOD SECURITY IN NICARAGUA: VISIT OF ALTERNATE [...] Summary: U.S. Mission Rome Alternate Permanent Representative traveled to Nicaragua May 2-5 to review efforts by the UN agencies to work with the host government and other donors to address food insecurity in this low- income, food-deficit country that has been hit by recurring natural disa [...] | 2004-06-14 13:27:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR EFIN AORC SENV NU XK WFP FAO IFAD |
04ROME2298 | FAO LAUNCHES SPECIAL FUND FOR EMERGENCY AND [...] Summary: In April 2004, FAO completed arrangements to establish a Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities. The aim of this Special Fund is to enable FAO to respond rapidly to emergency situations, ensuring ready access to funds at the onset of an emergency, before agreement [...] | 2004-06-15 10:59:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AORC EAGR KUNR ABUD FAO |
04ROME2319 | PUBLIC LAW 480 FOOD FOR PEACE PANEL AT ANNUAL [...] USUN-Rome organized (on the margin of the Annual Session of the WFP Executive Board) a panel to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Public Law 480, the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act that was signed into law in 1954 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ambassador Tony Hall h [...] | 2004-06-16 12:42:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UN |
04ROME2331 | 2003 GLOBAL FOOD AID: BARELY COPING WITH [...] WFP has released its annual Global Food Aid report entitled "2003 Food Aid Flows," which highlights, despite a year of extraordinary emergencies, the steady downward trend in total food aid tonnages, particularly since 1999. For 2004, international prices for food aid commodities continue the [...] | 2004-06-17 12:09:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UN |
04ROME2371 | Further World Food Program Discussions with [...] (SBU) WFP received a letter dated June 14 from Mohamed Fakheri El-Kreikshi, Director-General of the Economic Department, regarding the agreement of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya with WFP's request for a waiver for all taxes and fees applicable to WFP cargo in transit. Libya's letter seeks confirm [...] | 2004-06-18 13:16:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF EAID ELTN XA CD SU WFP |
04ROME2395 | ETHIOPIA FOOD SECURITY VISIT: FAO PROJECTS [...] Summary: During an 8-day trip to examine food insecurity in Ethiopia, members of a delegation led by Ambassador Tony P. Hall made field visits to two projects funded by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): (1) a vegetable seed distribution site in Shebedino Woreda, Southern Nation [...] | 2004-06-21 05:54:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EFIN EAID AORC ET FAO |
04ROME2418 | GLOBAL CROP DIVERSITY TRUST: U.S. PRIVATE- [...] Summary: The Global Crop Diversity Trust is an independent international endowment that aims to provide permanent funding for the world's major crop diversity collections, which provide the foundation for future improvements in agricultural productivity. The Trust has garnered firm pledges o [...] | 2004-06-22 12:29:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD EAID SENV KIPR AORC FAO IPGRI |
04ROME2427 | GLOBAL CROP DIVERSITY TRUST: ESTABLISHMENT [...] Provided below, for the record, is the text of a letter from FAO Director General Jacques Diouf, dated February 13, 2004, inviting member governments to sign the Agreement that establishes the Global Crop Diversity Trust. Signature does not imply any financial commitments to the Trust. Reft [...] | 2004-06-22 15:34:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD EAID SENV KIPR AORC FAO IPGRI |
04ROME2436 | FAO SPEAKS OUT ON BIOTECHNOLOGY [...] (U) Summary: FAO's recent report on the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) concludes that agricultural biotechnology has the potential to benefit small, poor farmers in developing countries. It cautions, however, that biotechnology is no panacea, and that socio-economic impacts, food saf [...] | 2004-06-23 09:54:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD SENV EAID KIPR AORC FAO |
04ROME2442 | LETTER TO CAROL BELLAMY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, [...] FOLLOWING IS THE TEXT OF A LETTER TO CAROL BELLAMY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, UNICEF, DATED JUNE 23, 2004, FROM TONY P. HALL, AMBASSADOR, U.S. MISSION TO THE UN AGENCIES, ROME. BEGIN LETTER: "MS. CAROL BELLAMY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, UNICEF UNICEF HOUSE 3 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA NEW YORK CITY, NEW YO [...] | 2004-06-23 11:32:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AORC PREF EAGR WI AG WFP UNICEF |
04ROME2463 | "UNTIED FOOD AID" - WFP STUDY FOR UNCTAD [...] (SBU) The WFP Secretariat has shared with the US Mission a paper prepared for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) entitled: "Food Aid and the Untying of Aid: Opportunities and Challenges for the Least Developed Countries." The key premise for the untying of food aid [...] | 2004-06-24 15:29:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR AORC PREF ETRD WFP UN UNCTAD |
04ROME2464 | IRAQ POST-HANDOVER: GOI SUPPORT STRONG AND [...] This message contains an action request in paragraph 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Citing the parallel goals of strengthening Iraqi security services and forging an overarching Iraqi national identity from a highly regionalized reality, the GOI has described a comprehensive plan to provide assistance t [...] | 2004-06-24 15:30:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ECON EAID IT IZ PREL IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME2487 | USAID DEPUTY ADMINSTRATOR SCHIECK VISITS THE [...] Summary: during his trip to Rome for the World Food Program Executive Board meetings, USAID Deputy Administrator Frederick W. Schieck met with International Development Law Organization (IDLO) Director General William Loris. Loris reviewed the organization's current programs, including those [...] | 2004-06-25 15:36:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AORC KJUS KISL IDLO |
04ROME2493 | GOI BUDGET SUPPORT FOR HAITI UNLIKELY WITHOUT [...] SUMMARY: THE GOI IS OPEN TO THE POSSIBILITY OF PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE INTERIM GOVERNMENT OF HAITI (IGOH),PROVIDED THIS ASSISTANCE IS ADMINISTERED THROUGH AN INTERNATIONAL TRUST FUND BY AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION THAT CAN MONITOR ITS EFFECTIVENESS. IT IS UNLIKELY THAT ITALIA [...] | 2004-06-28 10:47:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN PREL HA IT |
04ROME2643 | UPDATE ON WFP DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION [...] THE FIELD PHASE OF THE JOINT EVALUATION OF THE UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAM'S (WFP) ENABLING DEVELOPMENT POLICY (EDP) IS NEARLY COMPLETE. THE NEXT AND FINAL PHASE OF THE EVALUATION IS TO BE CONCLUDED IN DECEMBER 2004. DESPITE PROGRESS TO DATE ON THE EVALUATION ITSELF, AS WELL AS MISSION EFFORTS TO [...] | 2004-07-07 13:26:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ADRC WFP |
04ROME2657 | BIOTECHNOLOGY: WFP INTERNAL GUIDANCE ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IN AN INTERNAL "CORPORATE MESSAGE" RECENTLY DISTRIBUTED TO ITS STAFF WORLDWIDE, SENIOR MANAGEMENT OF THE UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAM (WFP) STRESSED THAT THE ORGANIZATION IS NEUTRAL IN THE DEBATE ON GENETICALLY MODIFIED (GM) FOODS. EMPLOYEES ARE INSTRUCTED TO EMPHASIZE THAT (1) WFP [...] | 2004-07-08 07:25:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ETRD SENV AORC WFP |
04ROME2659 | WORLD FOOD PROGRAM REPORTS ON USAID-FUNDED JUNIOR [...] FOLLOWING HER MEETING IN WASHINGTON, DC, WITH USAID FOOD FOR PEACE OFFICER CARELL LAURENT, WFP HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER ANNA COPE REPORTED TO US PROGRESS IN WFP'S EFFORTS TO SECURE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM USAID TO FUND ADDITIONAL WFP JPOS. THE MEETING, WHICH OCCURRED ON JULY 1, 2004, WAS A [...] | 2004-07-08 07:32:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ADRC WFP |
04ROME2746 | World Food Program Update on Opening New [...] (SBU) As requested ref A, Mission spoke 07/12 with WFP and conveyed information. WFP has not been considering the shipment of commodities from Libya (Al Kufrah) by road directly into northern Sudan down to Darfur because of serious security constraints, which would require substantive Sudanese [...] | 2004-07-14 15:42:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID ELTN LY CD SU WFP |
04ROME2768 | WFP'S VIEW ON THE PRESENT STATUS OF IRAQ'S PUBLIC [...] (SBU) US Mission/Rome met with WFP senior officials on Iraq food commodity operations on June 27 and July 2. If current ration levels are maintained, the Iraq Public Distribution System (PDS) is likely to experience shortages in a number of commodities throughout the coming months, according t [...] | 2004-07-16 07:24:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR AORC IZ WFP IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME2781 | WFP BRIEFING ON DARFUR AND SOUTHERN SUDAN - JULY 13 [...] (SBU) WFP conducted a Sudan humanitarian needs briefing for Rome-based permanent representatives at its Headquarters on July 13. Security remains a profound concern, with examples of humanitarian workers being detained anywhere from a few hours to a few days. WFP estimates that 1.2 million peo [...] | 2004-07-16 15:47:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR AORC PREF SU WFP UNHCR |
04ROME2810 | RIGHT TO FOOD: INTERGOVERNMENTAL WORKING GROUP [...] (U) Summary: The third (and supposedly final) session of the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) for the Elaboration of Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security met in Rome from 5 to 10 July 2004. [...] | 2004-07-20 12:59:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PHUM EAGR EAID EFIN FAO |
04ROME2839 | WFP AND FAO EFFORTS TO IMPROVE WORLDWIDE EMERGENCY [...] Summary. The recent G8 summit at Sea Island, Georgia, ended with a pledge by G8 leaders that their governments would coordinate with FAO and WFP to improve worldwide emergency assessment and response systems. FAO and WFP continue to work with stakeholders to improve emergency needs assessmen [...] | 2004-07-22 10:08:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR PREF UN |
04ROME2845 | UPDATE ON USG/WFP CARGO PREFERENCE EXEMPTION FOR [...] Summary. WFP, USAID and USDA are close to reaching an agreement on a mechanism to implement separate tracking of US cargo preference premium payments to conform to WFP auditor recommendations and ensure that WFP does not apply its indirect support cost (ISC) rate against the cargo preference [...] | 2004-07-22 11:08:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC EWWT WFP ACABQ MARITIME |
04ROME2854 | JAPANESE DONATION OF 250,000 METRIC TONS FOR WFP'S [...] (SBU) WFP advised US Mission that Japan will donate 250,000 tons of cereals to WFP's 2004 emergency operation (EMOP) in North Korea, with delivery over the period August- September/October 2004. The value of the donation is up to U.S. $80 million. Final details of the transaction have been sen [...] | 2004-07-23 04:21:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL PREF EAGR ECON KN KS UN |
04ROME2867 | WORLD FOOD PROGRAM CONSIDERS INSURANCE-BASED [...] WFP convened an informal briefing at its headquarters on the topic of hunger insurance on July 13. The purpose of the briefing was to gauge donor sentiment towards the idea of funding such insurance through premiums in an effort to shift risks associated with natural disasters away from crisi [...] | 2004-07-23 14:25:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ADRC WFP |
04ROME2872 | World Food Program/Libya Memorandum of [...] (SBU) US Mission has received copy of the World Food Program/Libya Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) related to the transit of humanitarian assistance through Libya into Chad, Sudan and other African countries, signed in Tripoli on July 15, 2004. The MOU permits all forms of humanitarian assis [...] | 2004-07-23 15:24:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID ELTN LY CD SU WFP |
04ROME2933 | WFP'S SCHOOL FEEDING EFFORTS IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) WFP's school feeding programs in Iraq are ongoing. During the academic year 2003-2004 in the three northern governorates, WFP provided technical assistance to the local authorities to guarantee a smooth continuation of school feeding activities targeting over 700,000 students. Between Ma [...] | 2004-07-29 04:33:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR AORC EFIN IZ WFP |
04ROME2935 | UNHCR/WFP JOINT DONOR BRIEFING [...] Summary. UNHCR and WFP held a joint donor briefing in Rome on July 22, 2004. UN staff discussed troubling funding problems that limit WFP's ability to deliver food aid to refugees in Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Chad, Eritrea, Georgia, Kenya, Nepal, and elsewhere; provided an update [...] | 2004-07-29 07:41:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR PREF AO AF CD CG SU WFP UNHCR |
04ROME2967 | WFP EMERGENCY APPEAL FOR KENYA [...] Summary. WFP is soliciting contributions for its new emergency operation (EMOP),"Food Assistance to Drought-affected People in Kenya," covering the period from August 1, 2004 through January 31, 2005. The estimated cost of $42.9 million would provide 166,000 metric tons of commodities for 2. [...] | 2004-07-30 15:23:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR PREF KE WFP UNHCR |
04ROME2969 | WFP SCHOOL MILK PROPOSAL FOR CHINA [...] WFP plans to phase out its operations in China at the end of 2005, and remains hopeful that China will become a major food aid contributor in the future. In 2001, WFP approached USDA related to a one-time 100,000 metric ton donation of Dry Skimmed Milk powder to support Chinese school feeding [...] | 2004-07-30 15:38:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AORC PREF EAGR CH WFP UN |
04ROME3105 | PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES: MATERIAL TRANSFER [...] Summary: The Expert Group on the Terms of the Standard Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) will hold its first meeting on 4-8 October in Brussels, hosted by the European Commission (EC). The standard MTA will specify the terms for access and benefit sharing under the multilateral system envis [...] | 2004-08-11 12:40:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ETRD EAID SENV KIPR AORC FAO |
04ROME3477 | ITALIAN CONTRIBUTION TO GLOBAL FUND FOR AIDS [...] (SBU) Information received by the Office of the Global Fund (GFF) for AIDS has raised questions about whether the Government of Italy will fulfil its 2004 pledge of a E 100 million contribution to the fund. Post has been actively working with contacts throughout the Government to find out th [...] | 2004-09-10 15:38:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID TBIO IT UN |
04ROME3527 | PROPOSED SUPPORT TO JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY [...] Embassy Rome strongly supports Johns Hopkins University's request on behalf of the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center for an FY 2005 ASHA grant of $100,000 to procure books and journals and to pay the salaries of three professors (reftel). ConGen Florence and Embassy Rome have long had a [...] | 2004-09-14 14:52:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID IT |
04ROME3541 | SPECIAL TRUST FUND FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PLANT [...] Summary and Recommendation: U.S. Mission received a letter dated 26 August 2004 from FAO's Assistant Director for Technical Cooperation, soliciting USG support for the newly established Special Trust Fund for the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC). The concept of a voluntary f [...] | 2004-09-15 13:03:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD AORC ABUD IPPC FAO |
04ROME3570 | MAJOR DONORS DISCUSS FAO EVALUATION, KEY [...] (U) Summary: At a "Geneva Group" meeting for Rome- based representatives of major donor governments convened by the U.S. Mission on 14 September, participants strongly supported a U.S.-led proposal for an independent external review of FAO, although they expressed some differences on tactic [...] | 2004-09-17 11:31:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC EAGR EAID PREL KUNR FAO |
04ROME3590 | IRAQ: ITALIAN PLANS FOR TOKYO DONORS' MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: Italy may not be able to make its planned Euro 10 million disbursement to the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFFI) prior to the Tokyo meeting due to chronic budget difficulties. Our judgment is that this is a matter of timing, and that the 2004 pledge is [...] | 2004-09-20 04:32:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN PREL IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME3669 | Sparring with FAO over Locusts [...] (U) Summary. Over the past several weeks we have been active in promoting a better international response to the Sahel desert locust emergency. On September 10, 2004, USUN Rome invited permanent representatives of potential donor countries and countries affected by the current outbreak of d [...] | 2004-09-22 15:52:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AF PREF UN FAO |
04ROME3681 | Exchanging Letters with FAO over Locusts [...] (SBU) Per reftel, the text of Ambassador Hall's letter to FAO DG Diouf on September 16, 2004 follows: "I am writing to express the United States' concern over FAO's response to the locust plague in the Sahel. While I know that other donors share aspects of this concern, these views are not [...] | 2004-09-23 11:15:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AF PREF UN FAO |
04ROME3767 | PEACE CORPS FAO COOPERATION: DIRECTOR GENERAL'S [...] The U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome received a response letter to its September 10th, 2004 letter (reftel) regarding the termination of the 1962 Agreement between the United States and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on the Use of Peace Corps Volun [...] | 2004-09-29 14:12:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAGR KTIA EAID FAO |
04ROME3841 | 30TH SESSION OF THE FAO COMMITTEE ON WORLD FOOD [...] Summary. The annual session of FAO's Committee on World Food Security (CFS) discussed the world food security situation and follow-up to the World Food Summit (WFS),noting uneven progress among countries and regions. The Committee: -- asked that a working group of experts be convened to [...] | 2004-10-05 08:35:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR AORC ETRD EAID PHUM FAO |
04ROME3862 | G8 SUMMIT COMMITMENTS TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY [...] Summary. USUN-Rome organized a panel discussion entitled, "Planting the Seeds for Africa's Future: G8 Partnerships to Raise Agricultural Productivity Through Capacity Building," on Sept. 21 in the margins of the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Committee on World Food Security (CFS). [...] | 2004-10-05 15:33:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID AORC ETRD KPAO KSUM XA FAO |
04ROME3885 | 30TH SESSION OF THE FAO COMMITTEE ON WORLD FOOD [...] Summary. The annual session of FAO's Committee on World Food Security (CFS) discussed the world food security situation and follow-up to the World Food Summit (WFS),noting uneven progress among countries and regions. The Committee: -- asked that a working group of experts be convened to [...] | 2004-10-06 11:27:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR AORC ETRD EAID PHUM FAO |
04ROME3979 | LOCUST EMERGENCY: DONORS' MEETING AT FAO, [...] Summary: At FAO Headquarters on 13 October, Director General Jacques Diouf and FAO Secretariat staff briefed representatives of donor governments and affected states on progress in bringing the locust emergency under control. FAO reported that the locust plague is "the worst in fifteen year [...] | 2004-10-15 11:57:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC MASS SENV XI XY FAO |
04ROME401 | IRAQ: ITALY AND THE IFC SMALL BUSINESS FACILITY [...] (U) IN RESPONSE TO REF B, EMBASSY REPORTED THAT THE GOI WAS NOT LIKELY TO CONTRIBUTE ITS MADRID-PLEDGED IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION FUNDS TO THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION'S SMALL BUSINESS FINANCE FACILITY FOR IRAQ (REF E). WE HAVE ALSO DESCRIBED ITALY'S OVERALL RECONSTRUCTION PRIORITIES [...] | 2004-02-04 17:27:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME4058 | FAO FINANCE COMMITTEE SEPTEMBER 2004 SESSION [...] No summary [...] | 2004-10-20 15:17:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAID EAGR KUNR FAO WFP |
04ROME4106 | FAO FINANCE COMMITTEE SEPTEMBER 2004 SESSION [...] No summary [...] | 2004-10-25 09:37:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAID EAGR KUNR FAO WFP |
04ROME4186 | 127TH FAO COUNCIL, 22-27 NOVEMBER 2004: LOOKING [...] (U) Summary: The upcoming FAO Council will provide an opportunity principally for members to review the world's food and agricultural situation, to track progress in the activities of FAO and the World Food Program (WFP),and to discuss FAO program, budget and administrative issues. The we [...] | 2004-10-29 09:21:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAGR EAID SENV KUNR KPAO FAO |
04ROME4296 | FAO COUNCIL DISCUSSIONS: COMPREHENSIVE INDEPENDENT [...] Summary. Over the past several months one of this Mission's highest priorities has been to achieve Permrep and Secretariat agreement to launch a comprehensive independent SIPDIS external evaluation of the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Through such an evaluation, we hope to [...] | 2004-11-09 10:05:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAGR EAID SENV KUNR KPAO FAO |
04ROME430 | IRAQ: UPDATE ON ITALY AND THE IFC SMALL BUSINESS [...] (C) ECONOFF MADE REF B POINTS FEBRUARY 5 TO LUIGI MACCOTTA, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE MFA IRAQ TASK FORCE, URGING GOI SUPPORT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION'S SMALL BUSINESS FINANCING FACILITY FOR IRAQ. MACCOTTA NOTED THAT WHILE THE GOI WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL- [...] | 2004-02-06 10:26:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME4582 | AMBASSADOR TONY P. HALL'S TRIP TO DARFUR [...] Ambassador Tony Hall led a delegation of staff and journalists to Sudan's Darfur states on November 18 through 20. The purpose of the visit was to witness first-hand the dire situation and to observe U.N. operations, principally those of the World Food Program (WFP) and the Food and Agricul [...] | 2004-12-02 14:37:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF EAGR PHUM AORC WFP FAO |
04ROME4620 | IN THE DESERT OF LIBYA, AMBASSADOR TONY P. HALL [...] During a visit to al-Kufrah on November 22, Ambassador Tony Hall witnessed the first shipment of U.S. food assistance moving through the "Libyan Corridor" on its way to Sudanese refugees in Chad. The first 40 truckloads of an estimated 350 made their way on the 2,800 kilometer journey start [...] | 2004-12-06 14:37:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF EAGR PHUM AORC WFP FAO |
04ROME4673 | USUN-ROME CAPTURES GLOBAL AUDIENCE ON POSITIVE [...] Summary. Facing off in a world media environment dominated by themes like Iraq and terrorism, USUN-Rome mounted a month-long blitz that promoted a positive American story. The Ambassador's tour through Sudan and Libya, coupled with several local successes in Rome, focused world media attenti [...] | 2004-12-09 13:47:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO OPRC EAGR AORC PHUM EAID PREF SU LY XA FAO WFP |
04ROME4769 | FAO/NETHERLANDS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON [...] At a Briefing Session at the FAO on December 15, 2004, member countries were invited to send participants to the "FAO/Netherlands International Conference on Water for Food and Ecosystems: Make it Happen!", to be held in The Hague,January 31 -February 5, 2005. The stated conference aim is the [...] | 2004-12-16 17:10:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID AORC EAGR NL FAO |
04ROME4796 | FOLLOW-UP WITH ITALY AFTER MEETING OF IRAQI DONORS [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOI has disbursed approximately Euro 65 million ($86.3 million) in humanitarian and reconstruction assistance to Iraq for 2003-2004, according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials responsible for Iraq reconstruction aid. This total includes Italy's long-delayed 2004 paym [...] | 2004-12-17 17:39:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME4856 | IRAQ: SUMMARY OF ITALIAN RECONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY [...] Luigi Maccotta, Deputy Director of the Iraq Task Force at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, provided Econoff with the following summary, in English, of Italian humanitarian and reconstruction assistance to Iraq. This document updates a previous summary Maccotta passed to Econoff in Jan [...] | 2004-12-22 14:41:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME4872 | CARTAGENA PROTOCOL ON BIOSAFETY - ITALY [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Per ref A, on December 10, SCI Specialist discussed Italy's views on biosafety with Marco Vetrano, Director of the Biosafety Division of the Italian Ministry of Environment. Vetrano stated that Italy ratifi [...] | 2004-12-27 06:16:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR ETRD TBIO EAID IT |
04ROME4908 | TFXO01: EARLY WFP RELIEF EFFORTS - CREATION OF [...] USUN Rome Humanitarian Affairs Counselor Earl Gast and Program Specialist Philip Lamade were briefed by senior World Food Program (WFP) management on December 28, 2004. WFP apprised USUN Rome of its active engagement in mobilizing a task force in response to the disastrous tsunami following th [...] | 2004-12-29 15:11:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF MOPS EAGR XO WFP |
04ROME610 | GOI PLANS TO PROVIDE LIMITED FUNDS FOR SIERRA [...] (C) SEBASTIANO FULCI, MFA WEST AFRICA OFFICE DIRECTOR INFORMED POST THAT ITALY PLANS TO PROVIDE APPROXIMATELY 150,000 EURO FROM ITS PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS BUDGET FOR THE SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT. ITALY PROVIDED 180,000 EURO IN 2001 AND 260,000 EURO AT THE END OF 2003. 2. (C) FULCI EXPLAI [...] | 2004-02-18 16:26:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MARR PINS EAID SL IT KWCI UNSC |
04ROME638 | ITALIAN SENATE APPROVES FUNDING FOR MILITARY [...] ON FEBRUARY 18, THE ITALIAN SENATE APPROVED THE GOVERNMENT DECREE EXTENDING UNTIL JUNE 30, 2004, FUNDING FOR ITALY'S PARTICIPATION IN ALL THE MILITARY MISSIONS IN WHICH IT IS CURRENTLY ENGAGED ABROAD, INCLUDING IRAQ. WHILE APPROVAL OF THE DECREE WAS ASSURED BY THE GOVERNING COALITION'S SOLID [...] | 2004-02-20 14:43:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV MOPS EAID MCAP IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME668 | MFA U/S BONIVER ON AFGHANISTAN: PRT, RESPONSE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 20 meeting with Charge, MFA U/S Boniver conveyed the GOI's irritation at the USG's last-minute request that Italy lead a PRT in Afghanistan somewhere other than Ghazni, despite months of planning prompted by a specific U.S. request. She said Italy hoped to mainta [...] | 2004-02-24 05:46:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MOPS AF IT EUN AFGHANISTAN |
04ROME770 | ITALIAN HEALTH MINISTER POSITIVE ON PRESIDENT'S [...] IN RESPONSE TO REFTEL DEMARCHE TO SENIOR OFFICIALS OF THE ITALIAN MOH, MINISTER OF HEALTH GIROLAMO SIRCHIA WROTE TO EMBASSY SCIENCE COUNSELOR ON FEBRUARY 25, REGARDING THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF. 2. BEGIN TEXT (INFORMAL TRANSLATION): I WAS PLEASED TO SEE THE RECE [...] | 2004-02-27 17:57:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV EAID PREL IT |
04ROME815 | FIRST REGULAR SESSION OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM [...] The WFP Board first regular session for 2004 took place against the backdrop of an unprecedented level of emergency needs. In 2003, WFP received U.S. dollars (USD) 2.6 billion in donor contributions in support of its operations worldwide (plus an additional USD 1.2 billion from the Oil- for-Fo [...] | 2004-03-03 10:53:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR KHIV WFP UNHCR |
04ROME818 | GEORGIAN FOOD PIPELINE CONCERNS [...] SUMMARY: WFP HAS PROVIDED A FUNDING PROPOSAL TO THE US MISSION ROME THAT PROPOSES AN EXCEPTIONAL FOOD DISTRIBUTION TO GEORGIAN HOUSEHOLDS SEVERELY AFFECTED BY RISING WHEAT FLOUR AND BREAD PRICES. WITH THE PRICE OF BREAD KEPT ARTIFICIALLY LOW AND THE SUPPLY OF SMUGGLED FLOUR DWINDLING, A SHORT [...] | 2004-03-03 12:35:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR PREF GG WFP |
04ROME849 | WFP BOARD APPROVES INDONESIA PROTRACTED RELIEF AND [...] The WFP Executive Board, at its first regular session (February 23-26),approved a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation for Indonesia. The project 10069.1, entitled Assistance to Recovery and Nutritional Rehabilitation, is for three years (July 2004-June 2007),and covers 2.1 million benef [...] | 2004-03-04 12:39:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR |
04ROME868 | WFP BOARD APPROVES ARMENIA PROTRACTED RELIEF AND [...] The WFP Executive Board, at its first regular session (February 23-26),approved a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation for Armenia. The project 10053.1, entitled Relief and Recovery Assistance for Vulnerable Groups, is for two years (July 2004-June 2006),covering 110,000 beneficiaries pe [...] | 2004-03-05 08:51:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR |
04ROME876 | WFP BOARD APPROVES SUDAN (ERITREAN REFUGEES) [...] (SBU) The WFP Executive Board, at its first regular session (February 23-26),approved a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation for Sudan (Eritrean refugees). The project 10122.1, entitled Food Assistance for Eritrean Refugees, is for two years (April 2004 - March 2006) with a total cost to [...] | 2004-03-05 10:47:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR |
04ROME879 | WFP BOARD PPROVES NEPAL PROTRACTED RELIEF AND [...] The WFP Execuive Board, at its first regular session (Februar 23-26),approved a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation for Nepal. The project 10058.3, entitle Food Assistance to Bhutanese refugees in Nepal,is for twelve months (July 2004-June 2005),and overs 99,600 beneficiaries. Total cos [...] | 2004-03-05 12:40:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR |
04ROME896 | WFP BOARD APPROVES CAMBODIA PROTRACTED RELIEF AND [...] The WFP Executive Board, at its first regular session (February 23-26),approved a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation for Cambodia. The project 10305.0, entitled Assisting People in Crisis, is for thirty months (July 2004- December 2006),and covers 2,491,710 beneficiaries. Total cost to [...] | 2004-03-08 13:30:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR |
04ROME897 | WFP BOARD APPROVES REPUBLIC OF CONGO PROTRACTED [...] The WFP Executive Board, at its first regular session (February 23-26),approved a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation for the Republic of the Congo (ROC). The project 10312.0, entitled Assistance to Populations Affected by Conflicts, is for two years (July 2004 - June 2006) with a total [...] | 2004-03-08 13:31:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR |
04ROME936 | ITALIAN LOWER HOUSE SET TO APPROVE FUNDING FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-10 14:10:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL PGOV MOPS EAID MCAP IZ IT AFGHANISTAN IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME952 | WFP BOARD APPROVES BENIN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT VALUED [...] The WFP Executive Board, at its first regular session (February 23-26),approved Benin's development project 10308.0 entitled Promotion of Formal and Non-Formal Education of Children and Youth. The project is for five years (July 2004-June 2009),with a total cost to WFP of USD 16.5 million, a [...] | 2004-03-11 12:09:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR |
04ROME955 | WFP BOARD APPROVES THE GAMBIA DEVELOPMENT PROJECT [...] The WFP Executive Board, at its first regular session (February 23-26),approved The Gambia development project 10311.0 entitled Support to Basic Education in Rural Vulnerable Regions. The project is for three years, with a total cost to WFP of USD 6.92 million. Beneficiaries are estimated at [...] | 2004-03-11 14:25:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR |
04ROME960 | ITALIAN RESPONSE: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON [...] (SBU) POST DELIVERED REF A POINTS TO ITALY'S SPECIAL ENVOY FOR AFGHANISTAN, AMB. ENRICO DE MAIO, AND ALSO DISCUSSED THEM WITH ASIAN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE DIRECTOR, COUNS. ALESSANDRO GAUDIANO. WE ALSO DELIVERED THE POINTS TO THE OFFICE OF MFA UNDER SECRETARY FOR ASIA MARGHERITA BONIVER. ITALY S [...] | 2004-03-11 15:31:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV AF IT NATO AFGHANISTAN |
04ROME969 | ITALY: FUNDS FOR MILITARY MISSIONS ABROAD APPROVED [...] AS EXPECTED, THE ITALIAN CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES MARCH 10 APPROVED EXTENDING UNTIL JUNE 30, 2004, FUNDING FOR ITALY'S PARTICIPATION IN ALL ITS MILITARY MISSIONS ABROAD, INCLUDING IRAQ (REF. B). THE CHAMBER DID NOT MAKE ANY AMENDMENTS TO THE TEXT THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE SENATE ON FEBRUARY 18 (RE [...] | 2004-03-11 16:28:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL PGOV MOPS EAID MCAP IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM |
04ROME973 | IRAQ: WFP WARNS OF POSSIBLE BREAKS IN FOOD PIPELINE [...] (SBU) Summary: During February 26 meetings in Rome with the Coordinator for Iraq Reconstruction, Ambassador Robin L. Raphel, officials of the World Food Program (WFP) warned that difficulties in the management and coordination of food contracts and deliveries with authorities in Baghdad, if [...] | 2004-03-12 07:47:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR AORC IZ WFP IRAQI FREEDOM |
04SANAA1178 | DPM SOFAN: YEMEN WILLING TO HOST PROPOSED G-8 [...] No summary [...] | 2004-05-16 14:09:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID PGOV YM COM |
04SANAA1492 | YEMEN: PRIORITIZATION OF CT PROGRAMS [...] (c) Embassy Sana'a welcomes the opportunity to engage with AF Bureau on counter-terrorism issues and on developing a more comprehensive CT strategy for the region. Post is concerned with border and maritime security as well as the movement of people and arms between Yemen and East Africa, par [...] | 2004-06-20 11:36:00 | Embassy Sanaa | SECRET | PTER EAID EFIN PREL PGOV PARM YM COUNTER TERRORISM MARITIME SECURITY TRAFFICKING PERSONS |
04SANAA1721 | ECONOMIC REFORMS STALLED; IMF DELIVERS TOUGH [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Senior Ministry of Planning official Nabil Shaiban confirmed that President Saleh has decided to delay economic reform, but reiterated the ROYG's long-term committment to implementation. The decision comes in spite of the recent IMF mission headed by Senior Economist Saad [...] | 2004-07-19 08:58:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID AADP YM COM |
04SANAA2344 | YEMEN REQUEST - FY05 USDA FOOD ASSISTANCE, PL480 [...] Summary: USDA food assistance in Yemen is enhancing infrastructure, funding agricultural research projects, and teaching horticultural marketing and livestock management skills. Since 2000, USDA assistance constituted the bulk of USG development aid to Yemen. In conjunction with USAID techni [...] | 2004-09-01 13:41:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ASEC YM ECON COM |
04SANAA2389 | DPM SOFAN WARMLY WELCOMES AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Planning and International Cooperation warmly welcomed Ambassador to Yemen on 9/6. After reviewing recent progress in development cooperation and touching on the negative economic effects of the al-Houthi problem, Sofan and Ambassador discusse [...] | 2004-09-08 05:33:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | KMCA EAID ECON LE YM COM |
04SANAA2940 | TRANSPARENCY OF MILITARY SPENDING IN YEMEN [...] (SBU) Summary. According to the standards defined by the 1997 Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, the military budgets in Yemen is not transparent. The MOD is not accountable to any civilian auditing authority, and has only limited control over revenues and expenditures within branches [...] | 2004-11-24 10:47:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID YM |
04SANAA3099 | YEMEN BIOSAFETY STATUS - CARTAGENA PROTOCOL ON [...] Ref A asked posts to help identify a small number of countries in order to engage them in more detailed bilateral discussions over the coming months over issues related to the Cartagena Protocol. Since the conclusion of the February 2004 First Meeting of Parties (MOP-1) to the Cartagena Proto [...] | 2004-12-18 05:15:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD EAGR EAID TBIO YM ENVIRONMENT |
04SANAA506 | FM QIRBI ON ARAB LEAGUE, GREATER MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador called on ROYG Foreign Minister 3/7 to discuss developments with Arab League reform and the Greater Middle East Initiative upon the FM's return from the Cairo AL ministerial. Qirbi highlighted the drafting of a charter committing the Arab League to political and econo [...] | 2004-03-07 12:51:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ECON EAID KISL YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM |
04SANAA680 | 3/20/04 ABIZAID MEETING WITH SALEH: CT OPS IN [...] (C) Summary. During his 3/20/04 visit to Sanaa, GEN Abizaid, accompanied by Ambassador and senior staff, called on President Saleh. Saleh asked about ongoing Pakistani CT operations in Waziristan. He asserted that good intelligence and money to spread around were more effective in tribal re [...] | 2004-03-24 08:13:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PTER EAID IZ AF PK YM COUNTER TERRORISM |
04SANAA718 | MEPI FY 2004 FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS [...] (u) Post welcomes the MEPI FY 04 funding recommendations (ref a) and appreciates the opportunity to comment. Post is pleased to see the continuation of a number of successful programs, including MEET the U.S., WTO accession training, and political parties strengthening. Reftel a requests com [...] | 2004-03-31 11:13:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | KMPI KPAO EAID ECON PREL YM COM DEMOCRATIC REFORM |
04SANAA726 | NEA/ARP DEPUTY DIRECTOR WILLIAMS 3/13-15 VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: During his 3/13-15 visit to Yemen, Deputy Director of NEA/ARP Tom Williams discussed the Greater Middle East Initiative (GMEI) and Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) with the Deputy Foreign Minister, who critiqued the MCA process and indicators. The DFM also noted his primary con [...] | 2004-03-31 13:36:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID PARM PHUM KMPI YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM |
04SANAA80 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO ROYG ON FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2004-01-10 11:10:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN KPAL KWBG YM DEMARCHE |
04SANAA956 | GMEI: SUPPORT COMBINED WITH ADVICE FROM DFM NOMAN [...] (c) Summary: On 4/21, Pol/Econ Chief delivered talking points (ref b) and GMEI paper package (ref c) to DFM Noman. While pledging to support the reforms, Noman's initial reaction included a reminder that the USG's credibility vis a vis reform is being adversely impacted by the Administration's [...] | 2004-04-27 05:22:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | KMPI PREL EAID XF PK YM |
04SANTODOMINGO406 | DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #16: OAS OBSERVER MISSION IN [...] (SBU) Following is number 16 in our Dominican presidential election series: OAS PROPOSES ELECTION OBSERVER MISSION OAS Special Adviser Santiago Murray, from the Secretariat General's Unit for the Promotion of Democracy, on January 15 called on the Central Election Board (JCE) and thi [...] | 2004-01-20 17:06:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR PGOV EAID |
04SANTODOMINGO473 | DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #18: UN, EU AND OAS REPS [...] (SBU) Following is number 18 in our Dominican presidential election series: UN, EU and OAS Reps Engage Dominican Electoral Authorities A UN Mission, Soon - - - - - - - - - - UN Resident Representative Niky Fabiancic informed the Ambassador and poloff on January 12 that the UN El [...] | 2004-01-23 23:04:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR PGOV EAID EU |
04SANTODOMINGO483 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: USTR ZOELLICK LAUNCHES FTA [...] (U) Summary. U.S. Trade Representative Amb. Robert Zoellick told Dominicans on January 15 that bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations offer an opportunity for new engagement, economic growth and strengthened institutions. He stressed that an FTA, free and fair presidential electio [...] | 2004-01-27 16:39:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR ETRD EAID EFIN PGOV PREL OVIP OREP |
04SANTODOMINGO6524 | U.S. COMS' HIV/AIDS CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS [...] Summary: In a packed three days in early October, the U.S. Government's senior HIV/AIDS team and Caribbean-based U.S. Ambassadors, with the help of Dominican President Leonel Fernandez, his health team and the winners of an HIV/AIDS song contest for youth, threw the spotlight on HIV/AIDS in a [...] | 2004-12-06 17:19:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SOCI EAID DR |
04SANTODOMINGO6564 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: TRANSPARENCY OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Dominican Republic,s military budget is determined in the national budget process overseen by the Office of the Budget, resulting in an annual national government budget bill considered and voted by Congress and signed and promulgated by the President. The military budget [...] | 2004-12-07 20:57:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | DR EAID EFIN MARR |
04TAIPEI3430 | MOFA ON THE DEFENSIVE OVER CENTRAL AMERICA AID [...] (C) Summary. Taiwan officials are on the defensive in the wake of press allegations that MOFA funneled US$1.4 million to former Costa Rican president Miguel Angel Rodriguez. MOFA officials claim only $400,000 was given to Costa Rica for training programs and that Rodriguez apparently misuse [...] | 2004-11-01 07:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID TW |
04TAIPEI3522 | TAIWAN CONFIDENT OVER VANUATU SWITCH [...] (C) Summary. MOFA officials say they are certain that the Vanuatu government will formalize the switch in recognition from Beijing to Taipei announced by Prime Minister Serge Vohor and Foreign Minister Mark Chen on November 3 in Taipei. Taiwan officials acknowledge that Vohor's decision doe [...] | 2004-11-08 22:20:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID TW CH NH |
04TAIPEI3666 | ICDF: TAIWAN'S USAID [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan's International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF) is one of the foreign policy tools used to advance Taiwan's standing with nations that recognize Taipei. Taiwan publicly parades the ICDF as a global humanitarian organization which seeks to combat poverty and provid [...] | 2004-11-17 07:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID TW |
04TEGUCIGALPA1200 | EMBASSY TEGUCIGALPA HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY FUND [...] Post believes that the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor initiative to address programs that promote human rights and democracy can greatly aid Mission efforts to strengthen the human rights practices in Honduras, particularly in the area of investigating and prosecuting extrajudicia [...] | 2004-05-24 22:50:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM EAID KDEM KCRM KJUS PGOV HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA125 | FOREIGN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING, [...] Summary: The purpose of this cable is to notify Washington legal offices of USAID, the Department of State and the Department of Justice of an administrative labor claim filed by a Honduran National. Also, this cable seeks Department guidance on stopping a GOH pattern of repeatedly transmittin [...] | 2004-01-20 22:15:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KLIG KTIA AMGT HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA1490 | Millennium Challenge Corporation Visit to Honduras [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),visiting Honduras from June 8- 16, held a productive set of meetings with Honduran government officials, members of civil society and the private sector, and representatives of other donor organizations and nation [...] | 2004-07-06 16:17:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EINV SOCI PREL PGOV HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA1508 | Review of the Consultative Group meeting in [...] Summary: The Honduran Consultative Group (CG) meeting was held on June 10-11 with more than 300 participants from the GOH, civil society, and the international donor community. President Maduro made a key-note presentation on the importance of this meeting to report on the progress made on a [...] | 2004-07-07 12:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EINV SOCI PREL PGOV HO MCC NSC |
04TEGUCIGALPA1554 | CODEL SHELBY DISCUSSES BANKING, MONEY LAUNDERING, [...] Summary: Codel Shelby's June 28-30 visit underscored the close economic and political relationship between the U.S. and Honduras, while providing a welcome focus on financial regulation and prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing. In meetings with GOH officials and business an [...] | 2004-07-13 21:42:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN ETRD KJUS PREL PTER OREP HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA1599 | Maduro Reaches $33 Million Deal with Teachers; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 10, President Ricardo Maduro and representatives of teachers' unions signed an agreement reinstating certain salary benefits which had been cut in December, thus bringing an end to the 33-day teachers' strike. The GOH did not offer an across-the-board salary increase, [...] | 2004-07-20 17:25:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID ELAB SOCI PINR HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA1969 | PROPOSED SUPPORT BY ASHA TO THE PAN AMERICAN [...] Increase the storage capacity of a reservoir used for irrigation from 30,000 cubic meters to 340,000 cubic meters. 2. Increase the cultivated area under irrigation by adding 96 hectares. 3. Increase the plantation forest area under irrigation by adding 45 hectares. 4. Purchase timbe [...] | 2004-09-02 17:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA2057 | UNDER SIEGE FOR MONTHS, HONDURAN MINISTER OF [...] (U) During a national press conference on September 13, Honduran President Ricardo Maduro announced the resignation of the embattled Minister of Education Carlos Avila Molina. Maduro praised Avila's accomplishments and noted that Avila was leaving strictly for personal reasons. Replacing Avila [...] | 2004-09-14 22:11:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB EAID ECON SOCI PINR HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA2123 | THE DEMISE OF HONDURAS' ANTI-CORRUPTION COUNCIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Once heralded by President Ricardo Maduro as a success story in the fight against corruption, Honduras' National Anti-Corruption Council (Consejo Nacional Anti Corrupcion - CNA) is about to fade from existence. The Maduro Administration plans to coopt the CNA's operations by plac [...] | 2004-09-22 21:21:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR ASEC EAID HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA2299 | Honduras: Progress Toward an MCC Compact [...] (SBU) Summary: MCC representatives visited Honduras October 4-8 to continue due diligence investigations in preparation for evaluating and signing a Compact agreement in the next several months. This visit is the 5th visit since May, when Honduras was short-listed as a country invited to app [...] | 2004-10-14 13:49:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID EAGR KMCA HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA232 | HONDURAS IMF AGREEMENT FULL STEAM AHEAD -- PRIOR [...] (C) Summary. The Honduran government has fully completed the prior conditions listed in the preliminary Letter of Intent (LOI) for a three-year Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Program (PRGF) agreed to with the IMF mission on November 25. In addition, the GOH has put to rest two new IMF [...] | 2004-01-30 21:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV EAID ETRD EINV EPET ELAB HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA2356 | HONDURAN PUBLIC MINISTRY DROPPING CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: While other countries in the region have taken steps to arrest and/or prosecute high-level corrupt individuals, Honduras appears to be moving in the opposite direction. On October 18, the Public Ministry officially dropped all pending corruption charges against ex-president (and [...] | 2004-10-20 22:28:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR EAID HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA2357 | HONDURAN PUBLIC MINISTRY DROPPING CORRUPTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: While other countries in the region have taken steps to arrest and/or prosecute high-level corrupt individuals, Honduras appears to be moving in the opposite direction. On October 18, the Public Ministry officially dropped all pending corruption charges against ex-president (and [...] | 2004-10-21 12:43:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR EAID HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA239 | USAID/HONDURAS' RECOMMENDED PL 480, TITLE II [...] Concurrence. As requested in DCHA/FFP's PL 480 Title II guidelines for Cooperating Sponsor Results Reports and Resource Requests (CSR4),this is to provide recommended funding levels, Bellmon certification, certification of financial capabilities of the cooperating sponsor, and environmental [...] | 2004-02-02 17:14:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID |
04TEGUCIGALPA2434 | AMBASSADOR URGES GREATER ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS; [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 27, Ambassador and DCM raised U.S. concerns with President Maduro about perceptions that Honduras is backsliding on anti-corruption efforts, its potential impact on MCC eligibility, and the recent decision by the Public Ministry (PM) to dismiss corruption cases against [...] | 2004-10-29 20:26:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR EAID HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA2496 | HONDURAN AG NAVARRO SEEKS SOLUTION TO PARALYSIS AT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Negotiations continue at the Public Ministry (PM) between Attorney General Ovidio Navarro and federal prosecutors (fiscales) after many fiscales walked off the job October 19 following Navarro's termination of ten and transfer of six others for their public criticism over the P [...] | 2004-11-04 19:37:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM ECON PHUM PINR EAID HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA2724 | HONDURAS: TRANSPARENCY OF BUDGETS/MILITARY SPENDING [...] The following answers are keyed to the questions in reftel: A. General Overview of Auditing Procedures: 1,2,3,4: Responsibility for auditing Honduran military expenditures lies with a civilian Auditor who is named by the President and works for the Ministry of Defense (MOD). Underneath [...] | 2004-12-06 17:13:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA2757 | CAFTA Debate Heats Up Ahead of Possible December 15 [...] Summary: As the Honduran Congress considers CAFTA and moves closer to a vote, both supporters and opponents of the agreement have been making their views known in public fora and through the press. In recent weeks CAFTA has been publicly denounced by Roman Catholic Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez [...] | 2004-12-10 12:10:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PGOV EAID KIPR EAGR ELAB PINR HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA315 | Honduras: Supporting Human Rights and Democracy [...] The following is Post's submission for the "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2003-4" for Honduras. 2. Begin Text Honduras' constitutional government is headed by President Ricardo Maduro, elected in November 2001 in elections that domestic and international observe [...] | 2004-02-11 20:57:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ELAB PGOV PREL SMIG EAID KDEM KJUS HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA461 | USAID/HONDURAS' RECOMMENDED PL 480, TITLE II [...] Concurrence. As requested in DCHA/FFP's PL 480 Title II guidelines for Cooperating Sponsor Results Reports and Resource Requests (CSR4),this is to provide recommended funding levels, Bellmon certification, certification of financial capabilities of the cooperating sponsor, and environmental [...] | 2004-02-27 22:33:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID |
04TEGUCIGALPA671 | HONDURAS UNABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO HUMANITARIAN AID [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-19 20:16:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PREF PGOV EAID HA HO |
04TEGUCIGALPA934 | CY-2003 END USER MONITORING REPORT FOR [...] Since May 2000, the Political Section (POL) has managed and provided support for INL funded counternarcotics (CN) projects in Honduras. In April 2003, the assistance of a resident law enforcement advisor was added to the POL/INL section for more focused support of the projects. Current opera [...] | 2004-04-22 21:26:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PREL KCRM EAID PHUM HO |
04TELAVIV1362 | WERTHEIMER APPARENTLY GIVING UP ON "MARSHALL PLAN" [...] (SBU) Israeli industrialist Stef Wertheimer told visiting NSC Director Adnan Kifayat and Embassy Econoff on Feb. 24 that he will no longer seek USG financial assistance for his "New Marshall Plan" for the Middle East. Using the phrase "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't force him to [...] | 2004-03-04 14:43:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ETRD PREL KWBG TU JO IS GOI EXTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAEL RELATIONS |
04TELAVIV1452 | POLITICAL/INSITUTIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF A GAZA [...] (C) SUMMARY: We assess that a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is unlikely to result either in substantial security turmoil or significant improvement in PA governance in the short-to-medium term. Unlike in the West Bank, the IDF does not maintain a presence within Gaza popul [...] | 2004-03-09 07:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG KPAL KDEM EAID ECON PGOV PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV1643 | HOME DEMOLITIONS IN GAZA - HIGH HUMANITARIAN TOLL [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Humanitarian conditions in Rafah rank among the worst in the Palestinian territories. In the past three years, over 10,000 persons in Rafah have been made homeless by IDF home demolitions. The donor community has spent millions of dollars responding to this ongoing huma [...] | 2004-03-17 10:42:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON GZ IS KWBG PHUM PREF PREL PTER ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
04TELAVIV1909 | PALESTINIANS ANSWER "NO" TO QUESTION, "ARE YOU [...] (C) Summary: Starting in October 2003, the World Bank and Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) have conducted a series of monthly surveys to measure Palestinian attitudes and expectations concerning their economic and humanitarian circumstances. An average of 1253 households and 5 [...] | 2004-03-29 14:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID SOCI ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ECONOMY AND FINANCE |
04TELAVIV1911 | UN AGENCIES FED UP WITH GAZA RESTRICTIONS; BUT NO [...] (C) Summary: Following a series of terrorist attacks at or near the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel, the GOI began requiring UN personnel to walk through the crossing point. The GOI also restricted movement of all containers at Karni crossing following information suggesting that the t [...] | 2004-03-29 16:57:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF EAID ECON PHUM KWBG GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV2042 | COGAT SAYS UNRWA-IDF CONTAINER DISPUTE MAY BE SOON [...] (C) Summary: UNRWA April 1 announced the suspension of its emergency food distribution program in the Gaza Strip. UNRWA Deputy Director of Operations in Gaza, Krister Nordahl confirmed to Poloff April 2 that UNRWA, frustrated by what it sees as the IDF's refusal to find any interim measures to [...] | 2004-04-02 16:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON KWBG PREF PREL GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS HUMANITARIAN AID |
04TELAVIV2056 | RECOMMENDATIONS ON MAJOR GAZA/WEST BANK USAID [...] (C) Summary/Recommendations: On January 30, Chiefs of Mission in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and the West Bank/Gaza USAID Mission Director decided jointly to put an eight-week hold on four USAID projects to allow time to: 1) measure progress in the investigation of the October, 2003 murder of our [...] | 2004-04-05 09:09:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KPAL KWBG ASEC IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS HUMANITARIAN AID |
04TELAVIV2353 | ROLE OF WORLD BANK IN GAZA DISENGAGEMENT PLAN [...] (C) Summary: On Tuesday, April 20, USAID/West Bank and Gaza Director Garber and Deputy Director Ellis, met with Nigel Roberts, World Bank Country Director. The meeting focused on the Bank's current thinking regarding Gaza disengagement and the Bank's specific plans for organizing an assessm [...] | 2004-04-23 13:19:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID PGOV KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
04TELAVIV6049 | AIDS STILL AT LOW LEVELS, BUT HEPATITIS C VIRUS [...] Summary: The incidence of HIV/AIDS remains low in Israel, with about half of new cases from sexual transmission. Most cases of infection from intravenous drug use are among immigrants from the former Soviet Union. At the same time, the incidence of Hepatitis C is high among drug users, and [...] | 2004-12-01 14:43:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV TBIO SNAR SOCI ECON EAID IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISRAELI SOCIETY |
04TELAVIV6103 | ISRAEL CONCERNED ABOUT ILLEGAL WATER WELLS ON WEST [...] (C) Summary: Israeli officials are concerned about water wells on the West Bank that have not been approved by the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Commission. They see the illegal wells as a bad precedent for Gaza disengagement, West Bank withdrawal, and eventual negotiations on water issues [...] | 2004-12-03 15:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID IS KWBG PGOV PREL SENV ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
04TELAVIV6500 | TRILATERAL WATER TALKS MOVE FORWARD COOPERATION, [...] (C) Summary: Palestinian and Israeli water chiefs and their staffs held a thorough exchange focusing on water supply issues for Gaza and the West Bank during U.S.-Israeli-Palestinian Trilateral Water Talks at USAID offices in Tel Aviv December 9. The Israeli and Palestinian officials agreed [...] | 2004-12-22 10:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID IS KWBG PREL SENV ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL |
04THEHAGUE1021 | DUTCH SUPPORT EU PRESSURE ON LAOS [...] (C) PolOff delivered Ref A demarche to Eric Verwaal, Head of the Southern Asia and Oceania Division, and Hein Copper, Laos Desk Officer. The GoNL maintains concern about the human rights situation in Laos, and is prepared to support EU action on ref A if the presidency puts forth a proposal. [...] | 2004-04-23 06:44:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL EAID LA NL |
04THEHAGUE1142 | DUTCH CANNOT FUND SSR IN LIBERIA [...] (SBU) As reported in ref b, the Dutch are unable to provide any funding for security sector reform (SSR) due to political and financial commitments elsewhere in Africa. The Netherlands previously supported efforts in Liberia by stationing the Dutch Navy's LPD HrMs Rotterdam off the coast of [...] | 2004-05-10 11:57:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID MASS ASEC LI NL |
04THEHAGUE1200 | LIBERIA SSR - DUTCH TO MEET U.S. OFFICIALS IN [...] No summary [...] | 2004-05-14 16:00:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID MASS ASEC LI NL |
04THEHAGUE14 | IRAQ: DUTCH PROVIDE MILITARY CARGO AIRCRAFT FOR [...] The Netherlands will deploy one Dutch Air Force Fokker "60" transport aircraft and a 20-man crew to the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS),part of the World Food Program (WFP). The plane and crew will be based in Amman for use in operations in Iraq. It will be available February 1 to A [...] | 2004-01-06 10:51:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID IZ JO NL WFP |
04THEHAGUE1537 | DUTCH ENGAGED ON DARFUR CRISIS [...] Emboffs delivered ref A demarche June 4-9 to development and Africa policy counterparts in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. Since late last year the Dutch have contributed 13 million Euros ($15.7 million) for Sudan assistance. In September 2003 the GONL gave 1.8 million Euros ($2 mil [...] | 2004-06-21 16:22:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID PHUM NL |
04THEHAGUE1639 | SUBJECT: DUTCH/CUBA: STRONG ON HUMAN RIGHTS; [...] (C) The EU Common Position forms Dutch policy toward Cuba. While the Dutch prefer a policy of engagement to one of isolation, they are resolute that Cuba must first improve human rights before any thaw in EU-Cuban relations -- even to pre-2003 "constructive engagement" as usual. Besides this t [...] | 2004-06-30 07:08:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | CU EAID ETTC NL PHUM PREL EUN |
04THEHAGUE1717 | DUTCH/EU: FM BOT ON IRAQ, CHINA, ASEM, SUDAN, AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: Ambassador Sobel met with Dutch Foreign Minister Ben Bot on July 7 to preview the agenda for the July 12-13 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) in Brussels. Bot anticipated that the GAERC would agree to take positive steps with regard to Iraq and Sudan, although [...] | 2004-07-09 12:36:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PREL PARM EAID NL IZ CH SU EUN |
04THEHAGUE1776 | HAITI: PROSPECTIVE EC ASSISTANCE, DUTCH [...] No summary [...] | 2004-07-15 15:08:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PREL NL |
04THEHAGUE1816 | HAITI:PROSPECTIVE EC ASSISTANCE, DUTCH [...] No summary [...] | 2004-07-19 18:43:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PREL NL |
04THEHAGUE1840 | DUTCH AGREE TO PARTIAL DEBT CANCELLATION FOR IRAQ; [...] DUTCH DEVELOPMENT AID MINISTER AGNES VAN ARDENNE ANNOUNCED JULY 16 THAT CANCELLATION OF PART OF IRAQ'S 245 MILLION EURO (APPROX USD 300M) DEBT TO THE NETHERLANDS WOULD BE NECESSARY. MINISTER VAN ARDENNE'S STATEMENT, WHICH CAME IN RESPONSE TO A PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY, NOTED THAT THE IMF'S DEBT [...] | 2004-07-21 16:01:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID NL IZ |
04THEHAGUE1897 | DUTCH WILL ASK U.S. TO JOIN FRIENDS OF SUDAN GROUP [...] Dutch Director for Africa Roeland van de Geer and Marieke van Renssen, Acting Sudan desk officer, told emboffs in separate meetings today that the GONL intends to invite the US to join a "Friends of Sudan" group to assist in the post-crisis reconstruction of the Darfur region. The Dutch wil [...] | 2004-07-28 14:02:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL SU NL |
04THEHAGUE1898 | SETTING THE AGENDA FOR SEPTEMBER'S AHLC MEETING - [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Gerard Steeghs, MFA Deputy Director for the UN and IFIs, on July 28. Steeghs quickly focused on the large role for the World Bank outlined in the points. Characterizing the Palestinian/Israeli disengagement project as "hyperpolitical," he observed bo [...] | 2004-07-28 14:23:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG EAID PREL NL UN |
04THEHAGUE2208 | DUTCH CONSIDERING CONTRIBUTIONS TO IFC'S PRIVATE [...] ECONCOUNS and Econoff delivered September 2, 2004, reftel points to Gita Salden, Head of the International Economy and Financial Institutions Division within the Foreign Financial Relations Directorate of the Dutch Finance Ministry. (POLCOUNS delivered points separately on August 31 to Michiel [...] | 2004-09-03 14:14:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID PREL ECON EINV NL |
04THEHAGUE2303 | DUTCH RESPONSE: AFGHAN OOC VOTING AND G-8 AFGHAN [...] (C) Poloff spoke to Wilfred Mohr, Head of South Asia Division, on September 13 to inquire about Dutch/EU plans for monitoring out of country registration and voting in Iran and Pakistan (ref A). Mohr responded that the EU expected to involve its embassies in the process, but had not yet estab [...] | 2004-09-13 12:46:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PK AF NL EAID MOPS MARR NATO NAC |
04THEHAGUE2453 | IRAQ: TOKYO DONORS' MEETING [...] We delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper on 14 September to Adri van Loopik, head of the Gulf States Division of the Dutch MFA's North Africa and Middle East department, as well as Willemein Kallenberg, Iraq desk officer. They had no substantive response at that time. 2. On September 22 [...] | 2004-09-25 08:30:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN PREL NL |
04THEHAGUE2871 | DUTCH VIEWS ON U.S.-EU DPRK HUMANITARIAN AID [...] (C) Emboffs met with Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for Humanitarian Affairs Joost Andriesson and DPRK desk officer Robert Dressen. They thanked emboffs for sharing reftel talking points and welcomed the possibility of further discussions on humanitarian assistance to North Korea. [...] | 2004-11-05 15:48:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL KN NL WFP |
04THEHAGUE462 | IRAQ: UPDATE ON DUTCH MADRID PLEDGES AND ABU [...] (SBU) The Dutch have not yet delivered their EUR 10 million Madrid pledges but are in the process of doing so. They expect to release EUR 5 million to the UN/World Bank Trust fund in April 2004. The other EUR 5 million, which was pledged for humanitarian assistance, is expected to be disp [...] | 2004-02-23 15:22:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN IZ |
04THEHAGUE469 | DUTCH RESPONSE TO UNRWA EMERGENCY APPEAL [...] The Netherlands does not plan to contribute to the 2004 Emergency Appeal for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA). Ms. Marwiencke Tillema of the MFA's UN Directorate (Political and Judicial Division) said the Dutch decision is based on two factors. First, the Du [...] | 2004-02-24 14:42:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KPAL NL PREF UNRWA |
04THEHAGUE562 | AFGHANISTAN: DUTCH PLANS FOR BERLIN CONFERENCE [...] (U) EconOff delivered ref A demarche to Martin Koper, Director of the MFA's Peacebuilding and Good Governance Division, and Wouter Biesterbos, Afghan Desk Officer. 2. (SBU) At this time, the Dutch have no plans to announce new pledges for Afghanistan at the March 31 donors conferenc [...] | 2004-03-08 07:55:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AF EAID NL PGOV PREL |
04THEHAGUE596 | HAITI HUMANITARIAN AID: DUTCH CONSIDERING APPEALS [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-10 15:27:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID HA NL PHUM PREF PREL |
04THEHAGUE615 | HAITI HUMANITARIAN AID: DUTCH WILL SUPPORT ICRC [...] No summary [...] | 2004-03-12 13:03:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID HA NL PHUM PREF PREL |
04THEHAGUE835 | SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: ADVANCING U.S.-DUTCH [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. Summary. The Dutch have been strong and consistent allies in global discussions on sustainable development. Post has a strong interest in advancing U.S.-Dutch cooperation in this area. Recent meetings between Ambassador Sobel and senio [...] | 2004-04-01 07:53:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SENV NL |
04THEHAGUE92 | LIBERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) On January 13, EconOff delivered ref demarche regarding the Feb. 5-6 Liberia reconstruction conference to Roel van den Veen of the MFA's West Africa Division. Van den Veen will share the points with colleagues from the MFA Directorate of Peacebuilding/Human Rights (which oversees the D [...] | 2004-01-14 16:04:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC EAID ECON LI NL PREL |
04THEHAGUE98 | IRAQ: EMBASSY RE-DELIVERED IFC DEMARCHE TO THE [...] (SBU) Post re-delivered talking points on the IFC Small Business Fund for Iraq to Netherlands Ministry of Finance Official Ammarens Bruggenkamp. Ms. Bruggenkamp said she still does not have a definite GONL position on IFC funding but would re-submit the request for consideration at the MO [...] | 2004-01-15 16:34:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN IZ NL |
04VATICAN2767 | HAITI: HOLY SEE AWAITS NEW NUNCIO [...] (SBU) Holy See Country Director for Haiti Monsignor Giorgio Lingua told us July 15 the Vatican was eager for new Papal Nuncio (Ambassador) Mario Giordano to take the reins in Port au Prince. Giordano was just ordained an archbishop and is due to begin work in Haiti "any day now." Lingua was [...] | 2004-07-16 04:38:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CU EAID EFIN ETRD EU HA PHUM PREL VT |
04VATICAN2890 | NORTH KOREA: CATHOLIC RELIEF AGENCY BUILDING [...] (C) The Holy See's North Korea Country Director told us July 9 that Caritas has reinforced its traditional emergency food aid programs with training programs for local North Korean officials. The Vatican is cautiously optimistic that this focus on relationship building will create a greater [...] | 2004-07-26 13:17:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID PGOV KN VT KS KIRF |
04VATICAN3318 | Vatican Conference Lends Support to Gordon Brown's [...] (U) A July 9 Vatican seminar on "Poverty and Globalization: Financing for Development gave an implicit Holy See blessing for UK Chancellor Gordon Brown's International Finance Facility (IFF). Brown sold the IFF as an innovative finance mechanism that could increase funding to meet the UN Mill [...] | 2004-08-30 09:35:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN VT UK |
04VATICAN3564 | CARITAS OPERATIONS TO CONTINUE IN IRAQ DESPITE [...] No summary [...] | 2004-09-16 12:34:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM EAID IZ VT |
04VATICAN3810 | MOVING THE VATICAN ON BIOTECHNOLOGY: EMBASSY [...] (U) To build support within the Holy See and overcome opposition within the Catholic Church, Embassy brought together scientists, ethicists, and developing nation farmers to address a one-day conference on the moral imperative of using biotechnology to feed the world's hungry. Scientists from [...] | 2004-10-01 15:20:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM TBIO EAGR EAID SOCI VT |
04VATICAN4882 | "OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD:" POPE URGES GLOBAL [...] No summary [...] | 2004-12-27 13:53:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM ECON EAID VT VTPREL |
04WELLINGTON1010 | NEW ZEALAND AIDS CASES MINIMAL, BUT CONCERN [...] (U) While the number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in New Zealand remains relatively small, the numbers have risen sharply in the past two years, with homosexual cases (53%) outnumbering heterosexual (21%) modes of transmission. NZ Aids Foundation executive director Rachael Le Mesurier po [...] | 2004-12-06 04:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI TBIO PGOV EAID NZ |
04WELLINGTON798 | NEW ZEALAND'S VIEWS ON WORLD HUNGER SUMMIT [...] Post on September 16 delivered reftel demarche regarding the World Leaders Meeting on Action Against Hunger and Poverty to Phillip Taula of the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID). The demarche shared U.S. concerns about a draft declaration and a technical paper released [...] | 2004-09-16 04:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN ECON PREL NZ |
04WELLINGTON840 | NEW ZEALAND ON IRAQ ASSISTANCE AND OCTOBER 13-14 [...] The New Zealand government is not yet able to report whether it has disbursed the remainder of the NZ $5.5 million (U.S. $3.3 million) that it had pledged for Iraq assistance at the Madrid Donors' Conference, according to Matt Dalzell of the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZ [...] | 2004-10-05 03:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ NZ |
04WELLINGTON924 | APEC: NEW ZEALAND PM SAYS NZ WILL DEMARCHE CHINA [...] (C) Ambassador Swindells met with Prime Minister Clark on November 2. He asked that New Zealand urge China to support inclusion of the remaining APEC security deliverables at the upcoming summit. He stressed that despite China's statements to the contrary, the deliverables belong in APEC. W [...] | 2004-11-03 23:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP KSTC PARM ECIN PTER ETTC EAID NZ |
04YEREVAN1107 | POLICE AND EDUCATORS JOIN FORCES IN ARMENIAN [...] SUMMARY. Project Harmony implemented an INL funded legal socialization project that has helped to build bridges between Armenian students, educators and law enforcement officials. The "ZANG" project brought together secondary teachers and policemen to create off- line and on-line curricula o [...] | 2004-05-07 12:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1115 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED: SOLICITING ASSISTANCE FOR IRAQ [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On May 7, 2004 we discussed talking points in refs A and B with America's desk officer Lilit Toutkhalian. She replied that she would look into whether Armenia had any appropriate people to send to the workshops, and indi [...] | 2004-05-10 07:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KSCA SENV TSPL IZ AM |
04YEREVAN1179 | SPRING 2004 DIASPORA ROUNDTABLE FOCUSES ON [...] The May 5-7 meetings of the Ambassador's Diaspora Roundtable held in Yerevan focused on encouraging private investment in Armenia and increasing partnership between Diaspora-based groups and the USG with ongoing assistance projects. Thirty-seven prominent Armenian-Americans representing the e [...] | 2004-05-20 02:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1194 | MCA: THE VIEW FROM YEREVAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------------------------ PROGRESS IN RECENT YEARS ------------------------ 2. (SBU) Over the past 12 years since independence Armenia has moved from a state of open conflict with one of its neighbors to a stable, if occasionally [...] | 2004-05-21 12:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID PGOV PHUM AM |
04YEREVAN1208 | REVIEW OF UNICEF IN ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Post applauds UNICEF's efforts in partnering with many agencies in Armenia to improve the capacity of government agencies working with socially disadvantaged children, and to advocate on behal [...] | 2004-05-25 06:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON AM AID |
04YEREVAN1238 | KOCHARIAN DISCUSSES REFORMS, ARMENIA'S ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) EUR/ACE Ambassador Carlos Pascual, accompanied by the Ambassador, met with President Robert Kocharian May 18 following the meetings of the U.S.-Armenia Task Force on Economic Cooperation (USATF). The meeting focused on the potential role for Armenia as an example of progress and freedom [...] | 2004-05-27 10:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID |
04YEREVAN1239 | REVIEW OF UNDP PROGRAM IN ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) UNDP provides a valuable service to Armenia and supports U.S. goals. UNDP's current country program and goal statements are based on realistic assessments of Armenia's needs and reflect a kno [...] | 2004-05-27 12:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON AORC AM UNDP |
04YEREVAN1293 | KOCHARIAN ESTABLISHES MCA BOARD, DISCUSSES COMPACT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The GOAM has formed a Board of Trustees under the authority of the Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan with Chief Economic Adviser of the President of the Republic of Armenia Vahram Nercissiantz a [...] | 2004-06-07 12:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1298 | AMBASSADOR INAUGURATES FIRST COMMUNITY SELF-HELP [...] (U) Ambassador Ordway, accompanied by regional GOAM representatives and local press, inaugurated the newly completed Noyemberyan Sport School facility June 2 in Armenia's northeastern Tavush region. The ceremony marked the completion of the first project sponsored by the USG's "Community Self [...] | 2004-06-08 11:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON AM |
04YEREVAN1337 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES CITIZEN CONCERNS IN ARMENIA'S [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Ordway discussed USG assistance programs and current events with Armenians living in the southern province of Syunik during a town hall meeting June 8 in the provincial capital of Kapan. The meeting was part of a broader schedule of USG assistance site visits and poli [...] | 2004-06-14 12:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1339 | MFA INITIAL RESPONSE TO 2004 TIP REPORT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) We delivered TIP report language and accompanying fact sheet and press release information to Special Advisor Salpi Ghazarian and Human Rights Desk Officer Karine Soudjian June 14 per reftel instructions. Both reported th [...] | 2004-06-14 12:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1343 | ARMENIA MCA BI-WEEKLY REPORT -- JUNE 15, 2004 [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. --------------------------------------------- ------- GOAM MCA BOARD CONVENES FIRST "CONSULTATIVE" MEETING --------------------------------------------- ------- 2. (U) Minister of Finance and Economy Vardan Khachatryan hosted th [...] | 2004-06-15 12:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1352 | RELATIONS WITH TURKEY BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The last-minute decision by the Turkish delegation not to attend a conference on regional archaeological and tourism issues, a report in the Armenian press regarding visa regimes and a widely ci [...] | 2004-06-17 12:21:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1411 | PRESIDENTIAL DECREE PUTS GOAM ON THE HUNT FOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) President Kocharian signed a decree June 1, stating the GOAM's intent to free five million dollars from the GOAM budget over the next two years for refugee housing assistance and authorizing t [...] | 2004-06-24 09:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID AM PMR |
04YEREVAN1439 | YEREVAN REACTION TO KOCHARIAN'S JUNE 24 COUNCIL OF [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Local media reaction was mostly positive in Yerevan following President Robert Kocharian's June 24 address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The address, which was c [...] | 2004-06-25 12:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1507 | ARMENIA MCA BI-WEEKLY REPORT -- JULY 2, 2004 [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. -------------------------------- GOAM MCA BOARD MEETINGS CONTINUE -------------------------------- 2. (SBU) GOAM sources tell us that the GOAM MCA Board has met a total of seven times to date. This number, however, includes fi [...] | 2004-07-02 12:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1556 | GOAM'S MCA MANAGEMENT AND CONSULTATIVE PROCESS IN [...] (U) Ministry of Finance and Economy officials tell us that the consultative process in advance of the GOAM's upcoming MCA compact proposal submission has moved to the country's regions and is on schedule. The GOAM has begun compiling a matrix of all concept papers and/or comments received fro [...] | 2004-07-13 10:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN158 | GOAM UNVEILS ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY WITH [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenian Prime Minister Andranik Markarian unveiled the GOAM's first anti-corruption strategy Jaunary 16 during a public hearing that included an impressive array of ministers, legislators and [...] | 2004-01-16 12:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1641 | MCA BI-WEEKLY REPORT -- JULY 26, 2004 [...] (U) The GOAM has indicated that it may be ready to present its MCA compact proposal to the GOAM's MCA Board by September 1, and to follow this with a consultative process that we understand will include the donor community here. A recent consultative session in Armenia's Syunik region was a f [...] | 2004-07-26 09:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1745 | ARMENIA'S BANKING SECTOR: IT NEEDS MORE THAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. Not for internet distribution. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's Central Bank (CBA) has outlined a new reform program to strengthen the banking sector. But bank officials caution that legal and regulatory reforms al [...] | 2004-08-05 13:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1771 | MCA BI-WEEKLY REPORT -- AUGUST 9, 2004 [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Various ministries, state agencies, NGOs, educational institutions, and individuals submitted a number of new MCA proposals as a result of the consultative process initiated by the Government [...] | 2004-08-09 12:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1892 | ARMENIA MCA BI-WEEKLY UPDATE -- AUGUST 27, 2004 [...] (SBU) GOAM Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) Secretariat Coordinator Hovik Azizyan confirmed to us during SIPDIS an informal meeting August 25 that the GOAM had pushed back its planned proposal submission schedule. Azizyan said the change was necessary due to the large number of propo [...] | 2004-08-27 12:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KMCA EAID AM |
04YEREVAN1893 | NEW PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS SWORN IN BY NEW [...] SUMMARY: On August 23, the Ambassador swore in 51 new Peace Corps Volunteers for service in Armenia, the largest group since the program was established in 1992. Foreign Minister Oskanian, who attended the ceremony, spoke passionately about the high value of the program for Armenia and U.S [...] | 2004-08-27 12:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KPAO OPRC PREL AM KMRD |
04YEREVAN1899 | ARMENIA'S OLIGARCHS: STAYING RICH ON FOOD, GAS, AND [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Trade in the most basic goods in the Armenian economy is controlled by a small number of oligarchs with strong ties to government. While it is considered common knowledge that oligarchs use p [...] | 2004-08-30 12:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EIND ETRD PGOV KCOR AM |
04YEREVAN1936 | ARMENIA CONCERNED OVER US CUSTOMS ACTIONS [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 8. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Six containers of clothing shipped from Armenia are being held by U.S. Customs (ref A). The containers hold clothing purportedly produced by two of Armenia's largest textile plants. U.S. Customs suspects [...] | 2004-09-01 12:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD AM |
04YEREVAN1972 | AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT [...] (C) On September 4, 2004, Ambassador Evans presented his letters of credence to President Robert Kocharian. The Ambassador conveyed warm best wishes from President Bush, and explained how U.S. goals for the South Caucasus -- enhancing security and stability, strengthening democratic institutio [...] | 2004-09-08 10:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KMCA ECON AM |
04YEREVAN2026 | LETTER ROM THE MINISTER OF TRADE TO CUSTOMS [...] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs transmitted the following letter to the Embassy September 13, 2004. The original English language text follows. BEGIN TEXT: 03/09/2004 Mr. Robert C. Bonner Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Department of Homeland Security Government of [...] | 2004-09-14 09:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID ETRD AM |
04YEREVAN2071 | IMF TEAM LEAVES ARMENIA UNIMPRESSED WITH PROGRESS [...] (SBU) The IMF team conducting the Sixth review of Armenia's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) program has left Armenia concerned about Armenia's progress in key areas of reform. The Resident Representative, James McHugh, told us that he anticipated problems completing the sixth rev [...] | 2004-09-20 12:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID ETRD KCOR AM |
04YEREVAN2349 | GOAM REFUGEE HOUSING PLAN FAILS TO ATTRACT [...] (SBU) The GOAM hopes to announce a solution to its refugee housing problem next year, but current plans depend on international donations that are unlikely to materialize. Local implementers have concluded the government plan is unlikely to be financed because it does not address the housing [...] | 2004-10-22 09:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID AM PRM |
04YEREVAN2406 | POWER STRUGGLE: ARMENIA SELLS GEORGIA CHEAP [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Sources in Armenia's energy sector claim that, following the October 10 sabotage of transmission lines from Russia (Ref A),the Georgian government forced Armenia to sell electricit [...] | 2004-11-01 13:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG ETRD EAID AM |
04YEREVAN2407 | ARMENIA'S STEADY GROWTH, STABLE ECONOMY: [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's 2004 economic performance should lend confidence to investors and development economists alike. Armenia's oft-cited problems maintaining a transparent and fair business [...] | 2004-11-01 13:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EFIN EAID AM |
04YEREVAN2446 | CORRUPTION HINDERS ARMENIA'S ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia faces severe and continuing deforestation. Although the law prohibits commercial cutting, corruption and inefficacy in Hayantar, the state forestry agency, result in the continued illeg [...] | 2004-11-08 06:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD AM |
04YEREVAN2449 | ARMENIAN FLIGHTS HAMPERED BY FUEL SHORTAGES [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) A shortage of aviation fuel is forcing Armenia's outbound flights to make intermediate landings to refuel before continuing on their scheduled itinerary. Although government and av [...] | 2004-11-08 09:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET ENRG ETRD EAID GG AJ AM |
04YEREVAN2588 | ARMENIA, TRANSPARENCY OF BUDGETS/MILITARY SPENDING [...] (U) Following is Yerevan's response to ref A request for information. Section A: Overview of Military Expenditure Audits --------------------------------------------- ------ 2. (U) The primary responsibility for auditing the GOAM's military spending lies with the Ministry of Defense's [...] | 2004-12-02 13:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID AM |
04YEREVAN2609 | FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT DEVELOPMENT [...] On November 24 the National Assembly of Armenia adopted the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Bill in the first reading (ref). The adoption of the bill sanctions the Central Bank of Armenia to proceed with the establishment of the Financial Intelligence Unit as proposed in the law [...] | 2004-12-06 08:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM SNAR EAID EFIN AM |
04YEREVAN349 | ARMENIA: DOUBLE DIGIT GROWTH [...] Armenia's 2003 economic performance exceeded all predictions; despite the rounds of elections and political tremors during the year, the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 13.9 percent, a record high since 1991 independence. Construction (mostly donor financed) and industry contribute [...] | 2004-02-12 13:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EFIN EAID EAIR AM RU |
04YEREVAN522 | GOAM ON PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) We delivered demarche and talking points regarding President Bush's Emegency Plan for AIDS Relief to MFA America's Department Chief Lilit Toutkhalian February 23 per reftel instructions. Toutkhalian said the GOAM was in ov [...] | 2004-03-02 10:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV PREL SOCI EAID ECON AM |
04YEREVAN550 | ANOTHER LOOK AT HIV/AIDS IN ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Summary: Armenia's proximity to countries hit hard by the HIV/AIDS epidemic (Russia, Georgia and Ukraine) raises concerns about its vulnerability and the actions the GOAM is taking to address t [...] | 2004-03-05 13:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV SOCI EAID ECON AM |
04YEREVAN757 | SUNDAY SCUFFLE AT OPPOSITION RALLY: EARLY [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Heckling, a fistfight and the subsequent arrest of four opposition supporters overshadowed the start of a Justice Bloc-sponsored political rally in the northern city of Gyumri on March 28 (ref). [...] | 2004-03-29 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KHIV PREL SOCI EAID ECON AM |
04ZAGREB1033 | URGENT NEED FOR VIDEO CONFERENCING EQUIPMENT FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2004-06-07 16:55:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KAWC KJUS EAID PREL PGOV HR |
04ZAGREB1297 | CROATIAN PROGRESS ON PRIVATIZATION [...] Since assuming office in December 2003, the new government of Croatia (GoC) has, on several occasions, publicly repeated its commitment to rapid and transparent privatization by 2006 of virtually all of the approximately 1,100 companies in which the GoC holds equity. This divestiture will con [...] | 2004-07-15 09:58:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD EAID PGOV HR |
04ZAGREB1335 | CROATIA HALTS VAT EXEMPTIONS FOR MOST NGOS [...] (SBU) A recent change to taxation law means Croatian NGOs will again be required to pay VAT on purchases financed with foreign donations. Though some NGOs have raised alarms over alleged unfairness and lack of transparency, GoC efforts to clean up its tax policy are welcome steps. Although the [...] | 2004-07-22 07:18:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PHUM EFIN PREL HR |
04ZAGREB1515 | CROATIA TREATS IRAQI CHILDREN [...] (U) Seven seriously ill Iraqi children arrived in Zagreb on August 26 for medical treatment unavailable in Iraq. The Government of Croatia will cover transportation costs as well as all expenses for the children and their accompanying escorts while in Croatia. Responding to press queries, De [...] | 2004-08-27 14:12:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID IZ HR |
04ZAGREB1627 | ENVIRONMENT COULD BE STICKING POINT IN CROATIA'S [...] (SBU) Environmental protection issues seem certain to be a major sticking point in Croatia's EU membership negotiations. With the European Commission playing an ever-smaller role in environmental policy priority setting, the chaotic distribution of environmental responsibility among Croatian [...] | 2004-09-14 14:01:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID PREL PGOV HR |
04ZAGREB178 | AMBASSADOR'S DISCUSSION WITH NEW DEPUTY PRIME [...] (SBU) In his introductory meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health Andrija Hebrang, the Ambassador emphasized USG desire to help Croatia in the area of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, our appreciation for the support of the new government to ratify the Intellectual Propert [...] | 2004-01-29 14:37:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TBIO KIPR EAID KHIV HR NATO |
04ZAGREB2041 | CROATIA: TRANSPARENCY OF BUDGETS/MILITARY SPENDING [...] In response to reftel, post provides the following, keyed to reftel questions: A. General Overview of Auditing Procedures: (1) - According to the MOD, military expenditures are audited in various ways. Commanders, heads of units and the Financial Section of the MOD are responsible for [...] | 2004-11-24 13:47:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID MARR HR NATO |
04ZAGREB2196 | 2004 GMO AND BIOSAFETY DEVELOPMENTS IN CROATIA [...] Reftel requested an update on biosafety issues in preparation for the next meeting of the parties to the Cartagena Protocol. As an EU candidate country, Croatia will almost certainly follow the EC lead on any biosafety or GMO issue. Following is an overview of recent developments on these issu [...] | 2004-12-29 09:09:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD EAGR EAID TBIO HR |
04ZAGREB847 | PERMANENT SAVA COMMISSION HAS CROATIAN SUPPORT BUT [...] (U) THE FOLLOWING RESPONDS TO REFTEL QUESTIONS ON THE STATUS OF THE SAVA RIVER BASIN INITIATIVE AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERMANENT COMMISSION IN ZAGREB. SUMMARY ------- 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERMANENT SAVA RIVER BASIN COMMISSION WITH A SECRETARIAT IN ZAGREB HAS BROAD SUPPORT AT THE [...] | 2004-05-13 09:32:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID ECIN EWWT PREL HR |
05ABIDJAN695 | COTE D'IVOIRE: ADDRESSING PROTECTION CONCERNS [...] (SBU) The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is conducting training sessions for militia groups, as well as the National Armed Forces of Cote d'Ivoire (FANCI) and the Armed Forces of the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN) in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and the Geneva Conventions. [...] | 2005-04-27 08:29:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF IV LI PHUM WFP |
05ABUDHABI1055 | RECONSTRUCTION DISBURSEMENTS TO IRAQ [...] (U) Embassy continues to press the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for details of assistance to Iraq. On February 26, the MFA formally informed post, via diplomatic note, that the UAE has disbursed its entire $215 million Madrid reconstruction pledge "on projects inside Iraq." On March [...] | 2005-03-07 09:37:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN |
05ABUDHABI1272 | WOLFOWITZ NOMINATION FOR WORLD BANK: UAE RESPONSE [...] On March 20, EconChief delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Finance A/US for Revenue and Budget Khalid Al- Bustani. EconChief stressed our hope that the World Bank Executive Board could approve this nomination quickly. Al- Bustani promised to discuss our nomination with MinState Khirbas [...] | 2005-03-21 11:05:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ECON EINV PREL TC |
05ABUDHABI1330 | UAE NOMINATIONA FOR IPR ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY AND [...] In response to reftel, Post asked the UAE Ministry of Justice and the Judicial Training and Studies Institute to nominate Emirati judges to participate in the May 9-26 IPR Enforcement Academy and U.S. Study Tour. The Ministry of Justice nominated three judges, and post supports their nominati [...] | 2005-03-23 11:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KIPR KMPI OTRA TC |
05ABUDHABI16 | Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing [...] THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES DOES NOT HAVE A REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR ACCESS AND BENEFIT SHARING. ALTHOUGH THERE ARE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS, THEY DO NOT SPECIFICALLY ADDRESS ABS ISSUES. THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THESE IS FEDERAL LAW #24 OF 1999 ON THE PROTECTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE EN [...] | 2005-01-02 10:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID SENV TC |
05ABUDHABI2169 | UAE CHARITY - HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL [...] (S) Summary and Comment: Human Appeal International (HAI),headquartered in the Emirate of Ajman, is one of the most visible UAE international charities. Aware of ongoing U.S. concerns about HAI's activities and terror finance connections, Econoff visited HAI on April 25 and met with the foun [...] | 2005-05-15 09:25:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PTER KTFN EAID EFIN IQ TC UAE |
05ABUDHABI2358 | UAE HOSTS UN INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN [...] Summary. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Sweden co-hosted a meeting in Abu Dhabi on 9 May to discuss coordination of international humanitarian assistance. The meeting was part of an evolving campaign to engage emerging donors in humanitarian response activities. Each the participating c [...] | 2005-05-25 09:20:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF UN TC |
05ABUDHABI2741 | INCONSISTENT UAE CHARITY OVERSIGHT, A SYSTEM [...] (C) Summary. The UAE Government, aware that mechanisms of charitable giving could be used to provide a cover for the financing of terror, has established regulations and procedures to try to ensure that charitable funds are not diverted for terrorist purposes. The regulatory regime for licen [...] | 2005-06-19 09:03:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KTFN EAID EFIN TC UAE |
05ABUDHABI3073 | UAE: DEAD SEA DONORS MEETING, IRAQI DEBT RELIEF [...] (U) On July 11, Econoff delivered Ref A demarche on the International Reconstruction Trust Fund Facility for Iraq to Mohammed Abdul Rahim Abduljalil, MFA Assistant Undersecretary for International Cooperation. Abduljalil reported that the UAE had not yet designated a representative to the IRFF [...] | 2005-07-12 09:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN IZ TC |
05ABUDHABI3272 | SHEIKH ABDULLAH ON SYRIA, GAZA, SAUDI BORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY. On July 24, UAE Minister of Information Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahyan and Ambassador discussed UAE attention to halting the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq; Abdullah's planned travel to Damascus to meet with Syrian President Bashar Al Asad; Gaza disengagement and the UAE [...] | 2005-07-26 09:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PTER UNSC PHUM PINR EAID SY IZ GZ SA |
05ABUDHABI3475 | UAE ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (U) Summary. This cable is an initial report of some of the program aid that the UAE has provided to the Palestinians, including the $62 million Sheikh Zayed City, the planned $100 million Sheikh Khalifa City, and the $88 million in proje [...] | 2005-08-09 14:10:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PREL KPAL TC |
05ABUDHABI3808 | UAE: DEVELOPMENT ISSUES AT UN HLE [...] In September 4 call on Abdullah Rashid Al Noaimi, U/S for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador enumerated several concerns about the outcome paper on development issues which will be discussed at the upcoming UN high level event (HLE),and left reftel non-paper detailing these concerns. Ambassador not [...] | 2005-09-07 09:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN PREL UNGA TC |
05ABUDHABI3954 | ENGAGEMENT OF UAEG ON IRAQ-UNGA THEMES AND [...] (C) Summary: During call on MFA Assistant Under Secretary Tariq Ahmed Al Haidan on September 13, DCM engaged the Assistant U/S on a range of issues including Hurricane Katrina, Avian Flu, and Iraq themes at UNGA. DCM thanked UAEG for its generosity following Hurricane Katrina. He encouraged [...] | 2005-09-18 11:49:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KPAL KDEM UNGA AEMR EAID TC IZ |
05ABUDHABI4025 | MINSTATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS HAMDAN ON IRAQ, SAUDI [...] (U) Summary. Ambassador called on Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed al Nahyan (HbZ) September 19 to thank the UAE for its $100 million in Hurricane Katrina assistance and to discuss Iraq, the UAE-Saudi border, UAE assistance to the Palestinians, and possible addi [...] | 2005-09-22 15:51:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID SA JO TC |
05ABUDHABI4262 | UAE MINISTER LAYS FOUNDATION STONE FOR KHALIFA BIN [...] On October 8, the UAE Minister of Information and Culture, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan, laid the foundation stone of the $100 million residential area in Gaza, Khalifa bin Zayed City, funded by the UAE and which will house 25,000 persons in 3,500 apartments in Rafah city. 2. KHALIFA [...] | 2005-10-10 14:49:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID KPAL KWBG GZ TC |
05ABUDHABI4283 | UAE RESPONSE TO PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE SIGNIFICANT [...] (U) Summary: With Pakistanis being the second largest ethnic group in the UAE, the impact from, and the response to, the earthquake disaster in Pakistan has been both immediate and significant. President Khalifa approved the disbursement of USD 100 million to Pakistan to provide immediate rel [...] | 2005-10-11 14:07:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL EAID PK TC |
05ABUDHABI4579 | STATUS OF ABU DHABI GENERATOR DONATION TO IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary. As part of the its promised assistance to Iraq, the UAE intends to donate 2 ABB 200 megawatt/day power stations to Iraq. Although the UAE pledged to send the generators over a year ago, they have not yet been sent. The UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs indicated last y [...] | 2005-11-09 06:41:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN IZ AE |
05ABUDHABI4713 | UAEG BOOSTS PLEDGE FOR PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF [...] During the November 19 Pakistan Earthquake Relief Donors' Conference in Islamabad, the UAE announced an increase in its aid pledge to Pakistan from $100 million to $200 million. 2. UAE Minister for Labor and Social Affairs, Dr. Ali Al-Kaabi announced that the UAE is committed to "channel" [...] | 2005-11-20 14:51:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PHUM SENV AE |
05ABUDHABI4902 | UAEG'S PREPARATIONS FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (U) In response to the questions posed Reftel A regarding the UAEG's efforts to protect against avian influenza (AI) and its capability to respond to a pandemic, the following information is provided. ------------ Preparedness ------------ 2. (U) The UAEG has formed a National Avian Inf [...] | 2005-11-30 14:46:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL TC |
05ABUDHABI716 | UAEG EXPRESSES VIEWS ON ISRAEL-PALESTINE [...] (C) Summary: On February 13, MFA U/S Abdullah Rashid Al-Noaimi told visiting ARPI Office Director Alan Misenheimer and DCM that he is more optimistic about the prospect for peace in Israel and Palestine since Abu Mazen,s election. He noted that motion on this front will help solve other regio [...] | 2005-02-15 12:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN KPAL KWBG PREL TC |
05ABUDHABI834 | EMIRATI BUSINESSMAN LOOKING TO INVEST IN WEST BANK [...] (C) Summary: Mohammed Al-Abbar, Chairman of Emaar, Dubai's largest publicly-traded real estate development company, called on DCM and Econ Chief to discuss his February 18 meetings with Palestinian and Israeli leaders regarding his development proposals for the Gaza settlements to be evacuated [...] | 2005-02-22 12:32:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON EAID EINV PREL KPAL IS TC |
05ABUDHABI863 | CSW WOMEN'S ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT RESOLUTION - UAE [...] Pol Chief discussed the draft resolution on the Economic Advancement of Women with MFA Director for International Organizations Yacub Al Hosani on February 20. Post also shared copies of it with the Abu Dhabi Businesswomen,s Council and with the General Women,s Union, whose director, Noora Al [...] | 2005-02-23 10:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | UN CSW KWMN EAID KMPI TC |
05ABUDHABI911 | UAE INVESTMENT IN PALESTINE: GOOD INTENTIONS, BAD [...] (C) Summary: Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (MbZ) told Ambassador that he had been briefed on Dubai real estate developer Mohammed Al-Abbar's visit to the Palestinian territories and proposed investments there in advance of Al-Abbar's trip, and had no objection to A [...] | 2005-02-27 12:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID ECON EINV PREL KPAL IS TC |
05ABUDHABI917 | SECRETARY'S ORAL MESSAGE AND THE UAE [...] (C) Ambassador delivered the Secretary,s oral message to the Arab League to MFA Under Secretary Abdullah Rashid al Noaimi on February 27. Al Noaimi reported that UAE Foreign Minister Rashid Abdullah (his father) looked forward to seeing the Secretary in London on March 1 to discuss the issue [...] | 2005-02-28 04:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID TC |
05ABUJA1479 | OBASANJO TASKS NORTHERN GOVERNORS: IMPROVE [...] (SBU) Summary: At the Presidential Villa on August 8, President Obasanjo tasked several northern Governors with improving their states' poor social conditions. In group discussions, attendees agreed that public health services had collapsed, and that local government had failed to deliver [...] | 2005-08-11 10:32:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID NI |
05ABUJA1556 | NO SPILLOVER FROM NIGER IN NORTHEASTERN NIGERIA'S [...] Abuja economic officer and two U.S. Army Office of Defense Cooperation humanitarian-assistance personnel visited Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State in far northeastern Nigeria, on August 19 and 20, 2005. Officers observed no evidence of Nigerien refugees in Maiduguri; in Borno's Baga town [...] | 2005-08-23 16:50:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID SOCI SMIG XY NI |
05ABUJA1683 | GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA ON AVIAN, PANDEMIC INFLUENZA [...] Embassy Abuja's Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) and an economic officer met on Sept. 9, 2005 with Ambassador Abdul Bin Rimdap, director general of the Nigerian Foreign Ministry's international organizations. 2. DCM presented ref talking points on the U.S. Government's intention to launch at t [...] | 2005-09-09 16:42:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON KSCA PREL SOCI TBIO XX NI AVIANFLU |
05ABUJA1684 | NIGERIA ON INNOVATIVE SOURCES OF FINANCING [...] Embassy Abuja's Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) and an economic officer met on Sept. 9, 2005 with Ambassador Abdul Bin Rimdap, director general of the Nigerian Foreign Ministry's international organizations. 2. DCM presented ref talking points on the U.S. Government's views on the Declaration [...] | 2005-09-09 16:43:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN EAIR EAID EFIN NI UNGA |
05ABUJA1829 | NIGERIA'S SOBERING SOCIAL INDICATORS [...] (SBU) Summary: USAID provided technical assistance to analyze and publish data from Nigeria's 2003 Demographic and Health survey. The data analysis from that survey demonstrates two startling facts. In many areas, Nigeria has social indicators significantly worse than its poorer neighbors, [...] | 2005-09-26 15:59:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID SOCI TBIO PHUM NI |
05ABUJA1850 | Nigeria: COMBATING EXTREMISM [...] Summary: Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with roughly an equal number of Muslims and Christians. Despite its prominence as a leading oil producer, the majority of Nigerians eke out a meager existence on less than a dollar a day, as the country finds itself near the bottom of the [...] | 2005-09-28 11:50:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM EAID KDEM KPAO KMPI NI |
05ABUJA1856 | NIGERIA: CENSUS DELAYED IS CENSUS DENIED [...] (U) As expected, the National Population Commission (NPC) requested a postponement the national census, which had been planned for December, explaining at a September 22 presentation at the Presidential Villa that there were delays in preparations for the long-awaited head count. For exampl [...] | 2005-09-29 07:50:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM NI CENSUS |
05ABUJA1861 | NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT FINANCE: THE KNOWN UNKNOWNS [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite improved government reporting on the Nigerian budget, neither the amount of revenue nor the actual expenditure is known with any confidence. The bulk of government revenue comes from the petroleum sector, but reported revenue is based on estimates and company figures. Fe [...] | 2005-09-29 14:33:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID EPET NI |
05ABUJA1925 | CHINA'S INFLUENCE IN NIGERIA [...] Summary. (U) The People's Republic of China (hereafter China) has been for some time expanding its economic and business activity in Nigeria. Trade, energy, telecoms, and agriculture are the main areas of activity. Military cooperation is also an important area of engagement, both with Nig [...] | 2005-10-07 07:35:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET//NOFORN | EAID ECON PREL MASS EMIN ENRG ETRD AF CH |
05ABUJA1987 | LONGTIME NIGERIA OBSERVER ON KANO'S SOCIO-ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Embassy officers met Sept. 1 with Professor Paul Lubeck, who recently visited Kano State. Lubeck formerly lived in Kano and has visited Nigeria for more than 40 years. Lubeck's observations about Kano were: - anti-Americanism there is at its highest point in more than 40 years; - [...] | 2005-10-17 16:30:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV ECON EAID KIRF NI |
05ABUJA2234 | NIGERIA'S PLAN ON AVIAN FLU STILL IN INITIAL STAGE [...] (SBU) Summary. In February 2004, Nigeria held a consultative forum on Avian Influenza (AI),and Nigerian President Obasanjo is "very aware" of the threat AI poses to Nigeria. The Ministry of Health (MOH),in late October 2005 issued the third draft of the government's AI Position Paper. On N [...] | 2005-11-16 14:17:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SENV EAGR AMED CASC EAID XX NI WHO FAO AVIANFLU |
05ABUJA2283 | Phytosanitary Program Assessment Trip [...] (U) Reftel requested post to meet with ECOWAS Secretariat and judge its interest and ability to host a program to develop phytosanitary capacity. We have not met with the ECOWAS Secretariat by hope to do so by November 23 and will report on the results. 2. (SBU) As an interim response, po [...] | 2005-11-21 16:25:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID TBIO NI ATRD ECOWAS |
05ABUJA2322 | ECOWAS And Phytosanitary Program Proposal [...] (U) On November 25 Economic Counselor met with Dr. Subah, who handles agricultural programs at ECOWAS. In response to the questions in Ref A, Dr. Subah reported the following. 2. ECOWAS has been working with the USAID West Africa Regional Program (WARP) in Accra on SPS policy harmonization [...] | 2005-11-28 14:56:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID TBIO NI ATRD ECOWAS |
05ABUJA698 | DRAFT ELECTORAL ACT REVISION--NET NEGATIVE, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two years after Nigeria's greatly flawed 2003 and 2004 elections, a draft bill revising the Electoral Act is moving to committee in the National Assembly on its second reading. The net of what is in the draft is a slight step backwards in terms of the many serious concerns rai [...] | 2005-05-06 13:03:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EAID KCOR NI |
05ABUJA728 | NIGERIA (AND UK) RE-WRITE G8 TRANSPARENCY [...] (SBU) With the British, the GON has expanded its Action Plan requests of January 2005 into a thematic structure that happens now to include most existing and pipeline DfID anti-corruption projects. It does not include any existing or pipeline USG anti-corruption programs in Nigeria, although [...] | 2005-05-12 23:05:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EAID KCOR NI |
05ABUJA971 | AMBASSADOR'S LUNCH WITH DR. CHAMBAS [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador and the Executive Secretary of ECOWAS, Dr. Mohammed ibn Chambas, discussed the role of ECOWAS in election monitoring on May 27. Chambas expressed concerns about the coming elections in Guinea-Bissau, particularly about candidate Kumba Yala, but said that neighbo [...] | 2005-06-03 13:55:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM EAID NI |
05ACCRA1148 | U.S. CHOCOLATE MANUFACTURERS IN GHANA TO WORK ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. chocolate industry is pressuring the GOG to issue a high level statement no later than mid-June declaring its commitment to eliminate child labor from the cocoa sector. Industry reps hope such a step may persuade members of Congress to drop draft legislation that would [...] | 2005-06-10 17:19:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON EIND ELAB ETRD GH PGOV PREL |
05ACCRA1226 | GHANA'S TROKOSI REVISITED [...] (C) Summary: After another investigation of the issue, Post has been unable to find evidence of systematic human rights abuses in the traditional Trokosi practice. Fewer than 50 Trokosis are currently serving in shrines, and Trokosi is a dying practice. Some organizations have used fraudulen [...] | 2005-06-23 16:17:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EAID KDEM ELAB SOCI GH |
05ACCRA1317 | GHANA PRESIDENT KUFUOR AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS WAY [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Yates met July 1 with President Kufuor to discuss ways to accelerate Ghana's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) program. Ambassador delivered Ref A talking points, emphasizing that both sides needed to increase engagement in order to conclude an agreement within a rea [...] | 2005-07-06 17:08:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KMCA GH MCA |
05ACCRA1435 | GHANA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS -- JUNE/JULY 2005 [...] (U) This report covers noteworthy economic events in Ghana for June-July 2005. The issues covered are: -- Jeff Sachs Reiterates Call for Higher Aid flows -- Visit of State's Senior Advisor on Biotech -- Kufuor Hosts Ghana Investors Advisory Council ---------------------------------------- [...] | 2005-07-21 11:12:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID GH PGOV TBIO EINV UNGA |
05ACCRA151 | ECOWAS MEETINGS IN ACCRA: NIGER NEW ECOWAS CHAIR [...] Summary: A round of ECOWAS statutory meetings in Accra January 10-19 culminated in the 28th Summit of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government. ECOWAS heads of state unanimously selected President Mamdou Tadja of Niger as the new ECOWAS Chairman. There was candid discussion of regional conflict [...] | 2005-01-21 16:15:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAGR EAID ECON GH PGOV PREL ECOWAS |
05ACCRA1788 | GHANA DEMARCHE: FOOD AID AND THE WTO [...] (SBU) USAID Acting Mission Director and EconChief met September 1 with Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen to deliver Ref A demarche on food aid and the WTO. This meeting followed on Post's July 5 letter to the Minister outlining the points articulated in the earlier State cable on food aid reform [...] | 2005-09-02 13:12:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR ECON ETRD GH WTO |
05ACCRA1812 | GHANA ECON HIGHLIGHTS AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2005 [...] (U) This report covers noteworthy economic events and activities in Ghana for August and September 2005. The issues covered are: -- ExxonMobil Exits Ghana, Thirteen other African Countries -- Visit of US Coast Guard Port Security Liaison Officers -- MCC gives $3 million to Develop GoG Compa [...] | 2005-09-08 12:25:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD ECPS KMCA GH |
05ACCRA1900 | GHANA SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ON [...] (SBU) On September 15, Charge delivered Ref A points on seeking Ghanaian participation in an international partnership on Avian Influenza to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Kwasi Osei-Adjei and Deputy Minister of Health Sam Owusu-Agyei. Deputy Foreign Minister Osei-Adjei promised to coordi [...] | 2005-09-19 17:09:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON KSCA PREL SOCI TBIO GH |
05ACCRA2012 | GHANA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS, SEPTEMBER 2005 [...] (U) This report covers noteworthy economic events and activities in Ghana for September 2005. The issues covered are: -- GoG/Donors plan for November 7 Consultative Group Meeting -- U.S. Customs Assesses Ghana Customs' Capabilities, Needs -- Ghana's oil refinery suffers exodus of senior emp [...] | 2005-10-01 10:35:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAGR ETRD EAID ENRG GH |
05ACCRA2402 | AVIAN FLU: GHANA'S PLAN OF ACTION [...] (SBU) The GoG's response to the threat of an Avian Flu outbreak has so far been measured and pro-active. The Ministries of Health and Agriculture are working closely with USAID/Ghana and the World Health Organization (WHO) to create a comprehensive preparedness plan, which includes an assessm [...] | 2005-11-23 18:30:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED CASC CMGT KHIV TBIO XA GH SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL XX SEC |
05ACCRA2425 | CORRUPTION IN GHANA I: PERVASIVE PROBLEM [...] (C) Summary: Corruption in Ghana is not as bad as in many other African countries but it is pervasive and increasingly sophisticated. That said, The GOG is committed to democracy and rule of law and Ghana has a lively media and civil society. The President faces accusations of conflict of [...] | 2005-11-29 07:08:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON GH PGOV PHUM PREL |
05ACCRA2427 | CORRUPTION IN GHANA II: FIGHTING BACK [...] (C) Summary: Reftel looks at corruption in Ghana, and this cable examines efforts to tackle the problem. Since President Kufuor came to office in 2000, Ghana has passed three anti-corruption laws, established an Office of Accountability in the presidency, allowed a more free media environm [...] | 2005-11-29 08:50:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON GH PGOV PHUM PREL |
05ACCRA471 | AMBASSADOR AND AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION [...] SUMMARY: Ambassador Mary C. Yates, African Development Foundation (ADF) Board Chairman Edward Brehm, and ADF President Nathaniel Fields met with President Kufuor March 2 to discuss the current state and future of ADF's assistance to Ghanaian businesses. Minister for Private Sector Development [...] | 2005-03-08 17:20:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EAID EFIN ETRD GH |
05ACCRA519 | AMBASSADOR MEETS GHANA'S PRESIDENT ON MCA, TIP, [...] (C) Ambassador Yates met March 9 with President Kufuor to recommend urgent action on Ghana's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) proposal, Trafficking in Persons (TIP) legislation, and planning for the April G8/NEPAD Agricultural Productivity Conference (Ref A). The President acknowledged the [...] | 2005-03-15 17:22:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN EAGR ETRD KWMN PHUM PREL KMCA GH |
05ACCRA605 | RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] This message is keyed to questions raised (ref B) regarding post's draft 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report (ref A). 2. Question: Please state the number of trafficking victims processed through Accra's shelters/children's homes in 2004. Ghana's Ministry of Manpower, Youth and Empl [...] | 2005-03-29 16:26:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EAID ELAB GH KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG |
05ACCRA652 | AMBASSADOR MEETS GHANA'S MINISTER OF MANPOWER, [...] Summary: In a March 30 meeting with the Ambassador, Ghana's new Minister of Manpower, Youth and Employment Joseph Adda said he wants to give labor issues more prominence. His ministry is developing a strategic plan and engaging constructively with labor unions. The Ambassador raised the nee [...] | 2005-04-01 14:21:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON ELAB GH KWMN PGOV PHUM |
05ACCRA658 | GHANA'S PRIORITIES AND CHALLENGES IN THE NEXT FOUR [...] (C) Post,s view of Ghana,s prospects over the next four years follows, and is in part based on the President's hour-long tour d'horizon with the Ambassador on March 9 and post-election conversations between Emboffs and key Ghanaian players. The political challenges ahead include increases in [...] | 2005-04-04 09:11:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN GH KMCA PGOV PHUM PREL EINV |
05ACCRA754 | CHILD LABOR IN GHANA'S COCOA INDUSTRY: HIGH STAKES [...] (SBU) Summary: At least 80,000 children are estimated to be working in Ghana's cocoa industry. Several programs are in place to eliminate child labor in this sector. However, the problem in Ghana and Cote d,Ivoire fueled Congressional demands for U.S. industry to certify their chocolate as ch [...] | 2005-04-19 14:09:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EIND ELAB ETRD PGOV |
05ACCRA892 | AMBASSADOR MEETS GHANAIAN PRESIDENT KUFUOR [...] (U) This message has an action request (see para 18). 2. (C) Summary: Ambassador Yates had a lengthy, private conversation with Ghanaian President Kufuor on Thursday evening, May 5. They discussed the current situation in Togo, his NPP party,s loss of the first bi-election of his second [...] | 2005-05-10 17:50:00 | Embassy Accra | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL GH PHUM ECON EAID TO EPET EINV |
05ADDISABABA3855 | FY04 DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS ANNUAL SUMMARY [...] SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION. In FY04, post provided funding for six (6) Democracy and Human Rights projects totaling USD 74,783.00. Post selected these projects in accordance with the Mission Performance Plan. FY04 projects improved the quality of life for approximately 155,125 Ethiopians in f [...] | 2005-11-15 10:26:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM KDEM SOCI PREL ET |
05ADDISABABA3911 | MELES MORE UPBEAT ON INTERNAL SITUATION AND E/E BORDER [...] (C) Summary and Action Request: I met with Prime Minister Meles Saturday afternoon on internal and border issues. Meles rejected the possiblity of CUDP jailed leaders being released, but promised that the democratic process would proceed with a review of Parliamentary rules, NEB -- National E [...] | 2005-11-22 11:39:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV ET EE BORDER UNREST ELEC |
05ADDISABABA4016 | AU ON AMIS: TRANSITION TO BLUE HATS "ONE OF THE [...] (C) Summary: African Union (AU) Acting Peace and Security Commissioner El-Ghassim Wane confirmed to Addis-based partner representatives December 5 that the AU expects that the December 10-20 planning mission to Darfur to assess AMIS will make recommendations regarding the future of AMIS, to in [...] | 2005-12-05 13:29:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS EAID SU AF UNION DARFUR |
05ADDISABABA4072 | AU CONSIDERING FOUR MILITARY OPTIONS FOR DRC [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the return of its reconnaissance mission to the Great Lakes, the African Union (AU) is considering four military options to support forcible disarmament of ex-FAR and Interahamwe elements in the DRC. The AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) is scheduled to meet in mid- [...] | 2005-12-09 09:18:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO MOPS EAID CG AF UNION |
05ADDISABABA4082 | ETHIOPIA: THE WAY FORWARD ON POLITICAL DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Forward movement on democratization in Ethiopia is essential to avoid further political violence as well as a further deterioration in the human rights and political freedoms. An improveme in the political climate also appears to be the most practical and effective way to obtain [...] | 2005-12-09 13:36:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID ET ELEC UNREST |
05ADDISABABA4097 | ETHIOPIA: THE WAY FORWARD ON POLITICAL DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Forward movement on democratization in Ethiopia is essential to avoid further political violence as well as a further deterioration in the human rights and political freedoms. An improvement in the political climate also appears to be the most practical and effective way to obta [...] | 2005-12-12 14:00:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID ET ELEC UNREST |
05ALGIERS1917 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AVIAN FLU PARTNERSHIP [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-12 15:49:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON KSCA PREL SOCI TBIO AG |
05ALGIERS1975 | COMBATING EXTREMISM IN ALGERIA [...] (C) Having defeated an armed Islamic extremist insurgency over the past thirteen years, Algeria has gained considerable experience in combating extremism. Algerian military and political leaders openly admit now that at the time of the army's intervention to prevent the election of an Islamis [...] | 2005-09-27 16:37:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO EAID AG |
05ALMATY1027 | USAID MEDIA TOUR IN ALMATY SUCCESSFULLY PROMOTES [...] Summary: On March 10, the Ambassador hosted a day-long Media Tour in Almaty, in an effort to increase Kazakhstani public awareness of U.S. assistance projects. USAID's Country Representative in Kazakhstan, Almaz Sharman, also helped to "MC" the event. This was the fourth media tour in a se [...] | 2005-03-17 06:06:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV KZ POLITICAL |
05ALMATY1029 | Status Update on U.S.-Kazakhstan Cost Sharing [...] (SBU) Summary: An official in Kazakhstan's Ministry of Economy and Budget Planning (MEBP),Maulen Utegulov, confirmed in a meeting with USAID the Government of Kazakhstan's commitment to finalizing a cost-sharing agreement with a budget allocation in 2006. While signing of the agreement mus [...] | 2005-03-17 07:28:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL KZ ECONOMIC |
05ALMATY1838 | KAZAKHSTAN: TROUBLING NGO LAW UNDER CONSIDERATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Draft legislation currently under consideration in the Kazakhstani parliament has the potential to severely restrict the activities of NGOs, particularly those receiving foreign assistance. U.S. implementing partners are mobilizing to fight the draft, which legal experts have [...] | 2005-05-13 04:36:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID KZ POLITICAL |
05ALMATY2047 | Kazakhstan Proposal for Human Rights and Democracy [...] (SBU) Summary. Per reftel request on small grants for human rights and democracy projects, Mission is pleased to submit a proposal to establish a "Polyton" discussion club in Astana. At present, there is one venue where Kazakhstan's intelligentsia -- whether members of government, opposition [...] | 2005-06-01 12:04:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM EAID PHUM SOCI KZ POLITICAL |
05ALMATY2058 | KAZAKHSTAN: WORRISOME NATIONAL SECURITY, NGO [...] (U) This cable contains an action request; see para. 7. 2. (SBU) Summary: Troubling legislation is progressing rapidly through Kazahkhkstan's Parliament. If adopted in its current form, the legislation would stifle civil society here, and roll back several fundamental freedoms. Although [...] | 2005-06-02 13:01:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID KZ POLITICAL |
05ALMATY2111 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE ON DELIVERABLES FOR THE US-EU [...] (SBU) On June 3, CDA Asquino delivered the demarche requested in reftel to Foreign Minister Tokayev, urging the GOK to attend the US-EU International Conference on Iraq to be held in Brussels on June 22. Tokayev said he planned to attend the event if other countries were also being represented [...] | 2005-06-06 08:58:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID IZ KZ POLITICAL |
05ALMATY2233 | KAZAKHSTAN: MDA POINTS DELIVERED [...] On June 10, Embassy Branch Office Astana delivered reftel points to the MFA urging the GOK to indicate by June 17 its support for the diplomatic conference organized by the Swiss during which a proposal will be made to integrate the MDA society of Israel into the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement [...] | 2005-06-16 02:21:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID KZ POLITICAL |
05ALMATY2689 | KAZAKHSTAN: RECOMMENDATIONS ON GLOBAL FUND [...] (U) Summary: This cable responds to reftel request for post input into the decision of whether Grant Number KAZ-202-G01-H-00 from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) should receive funding beyond its initial two years. Progress in Kazakhstan has been on track for [...] | 2005-07-21 01:48:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KZ |
05ALMATY3084 | KAZAKHSTAN: NGO LAWS RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Constitutional Council has ruled that pending NGO legislation which had provoked a storm of international criticism is unconstitutional. President Nazarbayev is expected to comply with the ruling and reject the legislation. This is a very positive development, as the legi [...] | 2005-08-23 12:39:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID KZ POLITICAL |
05ALMATY3107 | KAZAKHSTAN: HUMAN RIGHTS BUREAU ROBBED [...] (SBU) Summary: An August 14 robbery of the Kazakhstani International Bureau for Human Rights resulted in the loss of almost all the organization's databases and temporarily crippled its work. Emergency grants and post's donation of ten excess computers are helping KIBHR get back up and runni [...] | 2005-08-25 11:13:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID KZ POLITICAL |
05ALMATY3223 | KAZAKHSTAN PLANNING TO OFFER ASSISTANCE, NO [...] On September 5, Acting Principal Officer delivered list of priority needs in reftel to Aidar Shukenov, Head of the Americas Desk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Shukenov indicated that the Government of Kazakhstan was putting together an offer of disaster relief assistance for those affe [...] | 2005-09-06 10:49:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL KZ US POLITICAL |
05ALMATY342 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF [...] (SBU) Summary: During separate meetings on January 25 with Head of Presidential Administration Adilbek Dzhaksybekov and Senate Speaker Nurtay Abykayev, Ambassador cautioned that recent law enforcement raids targeting democracy NGOs and the dissolution of opposition party Democratic Choice of [...] | 2005-01-31 08:10:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL EAID KZ POLITICAL |
05ALMATY3431 | KAZAKHSTAN: COMBATING EXTREMISM [...] (S) Summary: Efforts to insure stability by supporting political reform and countering terrorism are at the top of the bilateral U.S.-Kazakhstan relationship, as reflected in the first two performance goal's of the Kazakhstan MPP. Post engages in a continuous dialogue with all levels of the [...] | 2005-09-26 08:46:00 | US Office Almaty | SECRET | PREL PHUM EAID KDEM KZ POLITICAL |
05ALMATY3750 | A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH KAZAKHSANI CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (SBU) Summary: Participants in a civil society roundtable with A/S Fried cited corruption, inadequacies in legislation regulating business, an economy over-dependent on oil revenues, the weakness of independent media, and the lack of political involvement among young people as some of the cha [...] | 2005-10-13 13:24:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV KDEM EAID EPET KZ ECONOMIC POLITICAL |
05ALMATY3929 | KAZAKHSTAN CONSIDERING AID TO PAKISTAN [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarches in an October 27 meeting with Kazakhstani FM Tokayev. Tokayev indicated that the GOK was considering providing a field hospital in the context of the Geneva conference (Ref B). He promised to raise the issue of providing spare parts and/or maintenance [...] | 2005-11-01 06:01:00 | US Office Almaty | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL MASS NATO POLITICAL |
05ALMATY4159 | KAZAKHSTAN: RESPONSE TO AVIAN AND PANDEMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable responds to Reftel. The Embassy assesses that the Government of Kazakhstan (GOK) appreciates the severity of the threat of avian and pandemic influenza and is taking rational, concrete steps to address that threat. The GOK is realistic and basically transparent in i [...] | 2005-11-23 04:32:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL PGOV KZ |
05ALMATY4263 | KAZAKHSTAN: MFA RESPONSE ON MI-8 AND MI-17 SPARE [...] (C) In response to Ref A demarche, Post received a diplomatic note on November 23 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Informal Embassy translation of letter follows: Letter No. 09-2-1/4676 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan presents its compliments to the Emba [...] | 2005-12-01 05:15:00 | US Office Almaty | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL MASS NATO POLITICAL |
05ALMATY756 | AMBASSADOR DECLARES COLD AND SNOW DISASTER IN [...] Summary and Action Request: Following severe storms that have led to a winter emergency in the south of Kazakhstan, Ambassador Ordway has declared a cold and snow disaster in three oblasts in Kazakhstan (Zhambyl Oblast, Karagandy Oblast and Southern Kazakhstan Oblast.) The Ambassador and Act [...] | 2005-02-24 05:17:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KZ ECONOMIC |
05ALMATY956 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (U) Summary. On March 3, Ambassador met with Presidential Administration (PA) Deputy Karim Masimov. Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Zhanar Aitzhanova, PA Chief of the Center for Foreign Policy Nurlan Yermekbayev, Astana PO and Astana USAID officer were also present. Issues discussed incl [...] | 2005-03-14 00:52:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID PGOV PHUM KZ ECONOMIC |
05AMMAN1125 | IRAQ WORLD BANK CHIEF ON ASSISTANCE ISSUES [...] (U) This message was cleared by Embassy Baghdad. Summary ------------ 2. (U) The head of the World Bank's Iraq Mission discussed with emboff a wide range of Iraq assistance issues, including the upcoming February 8-10 World Bank negotiations with the IIG, planned FY2005 World Bank (IDA [...] | 2005-02-09 13:51:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID ENRG IZ JO |
05AMMAN1192 | World Bank Holds Successful Iraq IDA Talks [...] (U) This cable was cleared by Embassy Baghdad. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) World Bank and Iraqi government delegations concluded successful negotiations on the modalities of up to $700 million in World Bank assistance in Amman on February 10. Bank representatives were impressed by both [...] | 2005-02-13 15:38:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EAID EFIN IZ JO |
05AMMAN1357 | IRAQI POLITICAL FIGURES SEEK COMMON GROUND ON [...] (C) A two-day, U.S. NGO-sponsored "Iraq Constitution Roundtable" was held at an Amman-area hotel on February 14-15. Twenty-one Iraqis representing most strands of Iraqi political opinion attended the conference, which focused almost entirely on discussion of modalities for drafting Iraq's ne [...] | 2005-02-17 18:07:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID PINR IZ JO |
05AMMAN1358 | IRAQI POLITICAL FIGURES SEEK COMMON GROUND ON [...] (C) A two-day, U.S. NGO-sponsored "Iraq Constitution Roundtable" was held at an Amman-area hotel on February 14-15. Approximately twenty Iraqis including prominent behind-the scenes political figures and representing most strands of Iraqi political opinion attended the conference, which focu [...] | 2005-02-18 11:02:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID IZ |
05AMMAN1436 | BIO OF NEW PLANNING MINISTER TAYSEER AL-SMADI [...] (SBU) Minister of Planning Bassem Awadallah resigned on February 20; he told us he left in order to pursue a private-sector opportunity in Dubai (reftel). The Ministry,s Secretary-General Dr. Tayseer al-Smadi was sworn in on February 21 as the new Minister. Awadallah has retained responsibil [...] | 2005-02-22 11:29:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR EAID PGOV KMPI JO |
05AMMAN1515 | Jordan Re-engaging with Israel, U.S. on TRIDE [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives from Jordan, Israel and the United States met in Amman on February 16 to discuss collaboration under the Trilateral Industrial Research and Development fund (TRIDE). Jordan is now ready to re-engage on TRIDE. Each of the three countries has committed one- third [...] | 2005-02-23 14:47:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ECON PREL EAID IS JO |
05AMMAN1620 | CSW WOMEN'S ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT RESOLUTION: JORDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-24 16:23:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN EAID JO UN CSW |
05AMMAN1629 | PAS Amman Conducts Web Dialogue [...] PAS Amman hosted February 17 a web dialogue on the Embassy's public website between USAID Jordan Mission Director Anne Aarnes and the Jordanian public. This is the first of what are planned as monthly web dialogue sessions with senior country team members. The web dialogue enabled Jordanians [...] | 2005-02-27 09:06:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OIIP KIRC EAID SCUL JO |
05AMMAN1652 | SECRETARY'S ORAL MESSAGE TO ARAB LEAGUE: JORDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-27 15:57:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN KPAL KWBG JO |
05AMMAN1720 | GOJ REOPENING PARIS CLUB DEBT FORGIVENESS REQUEST [...] (C) King Abdullah told Charge on February 26 that during his recent visit to Europe he had heard positive responses from French, German, and British leaders to his request to revisit the question of debt forgiveness, collectively through the Paris Club and bilaterally. Finance Minister Abu H [...] | 2005-03-01 16:20:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL JO |
05AMMAN1725 | ENGAGING JORDAN ON REDIRECTION OF IRAQI WMD [...] (SBU) Anne Harrington, Deputy Director of the Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction (NP/PTR),Richard Jarvis, PTR's Iraq Program Manager, and Amman's ESTH Hub Director visited several Amman-based NGOs to discuss their possible collaboration with State's program to redirect Iraqi WMD scienti [...] | 2005-03-02 08:23:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL JO IZ TI |
05AMMAN2055 | MERC "Red-Dead" Project Promotes Scientific Engagement [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A USAID Middle East Regional Cooperation (MERC)-funded project on the proposed multi-billion dollar "Red- Dead" project to bring Red Sea water to the Dead Sea is expanding scientific and governmental cooperation between Israel and Jordan. There are no conclusions yet on the imp [...] | 2005-03-13 08:10:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID TPHY PREL IS JO |
05AMMAN216 | FM MULKI ON SHARM FOLLOW-UP, ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Charge reviewed the demarche (ref a) on the January 11 Sharm Conference Follow-up Meeting with Foreign Minister al-Mulki on January 10. Advised by Egyptian FM Abdul Ghaith that his presence at the ambassadors-level meeting was not necessary, Mulki is sending Jordan's Ambassador to Egypt, [...] | 2005-01-10 12:35:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID JO IZ |
05AMMAN2295 | ECONOMIC REFORM PROGRAM ON TRACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: While Jordan remains dependent on foreign aid, its economic reform program is making substantial progress that has continued, undiminished in scope and urgency, since its "graduation" from an IMF program in summer 2004. The GOJ has succeeded in limiting the growth of current exp [...] | 2005-03-21 11:05:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EFIN KPRV EPET PGOV JO |
05AMMAN2428 | IMF IRAQ CHIEF SEES NEED FOR REMEDIAL ACTION TO [...] (C) Coordinator for Iraq Reconstruction Ambassador Robin Raphel met with IMF Iraq Resident Representative Ibrahim el-Tigani in Amman on March 17. In a frank discussion Tigani provided his assessment of the government of Iraq's performance to date in meeting the policy and information provisi [...] | 2005-03-24 04:55:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV EAID PGOV PREL IZ |
05AMMAN2608 | WIPO SESSION ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND [...] Econoff delivered reftel non-paper to counterparts in the Jordanian Ministry of Industry and Trade and to the National Library, which has responsibility for IPR enforcement issues. While GOJ officials took on board the points and indicated general sympathy with the message, they were not yet [...] | 2005-03-29 18:32:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR EAID OIIP JO WIPO |
05AMMAN2706 | WIPO SESSION ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND DEVELOPMENT - [...] Econoff delivered reftel non-paper to counterparts in the Jordanian Ministry of Industry and Trade and to the National Library, which has responsibility for IPR enforcement issues. While GOJ officials took on board the points and indicated general sympathy with the message, they were not yet p [...] | 2005-04-03 04:41:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR EAID OIIP JO WIPO |
05AMMAN2791 | UN IRAQ SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE EAGER TO REURN TO [...] (C) Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Iraq, Staffan de Mistura (protect),met SIPDIS Coordinator for Iraq Reconstruction Ambassador Robin Raphel on March 15 in Amman. De Mistura opined that the UN needs to start now the process of returning its internation [...] | 2005-04-04 13:13:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL IZ UN |
05AMMAN2864 | DEMARCHE ON THE OSLO DONORS' CONFERENCE ON SUDAN [...] (U) Poloff delivered on April 7 reftel talking points to Walid Obeidat of the Foreign Minister's Private Office. Obeidat responded that the Government of Jordan fully supported the North-South Comprehensive Peace Agreement and that Jordan had sent two plane loads of humanitarian assistance to [...] | 2005-04-07 09:29:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL SU JO |
05AMMAN297 | NO MAN'S LAND REFUGEES FACE POOR SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Seven-hundred fifty asylum seekers formerly resident in Iraq have been in the no-man,s land at the Jordan-Iraq Al Karama border crossing since April 2003. In the absence of concrete assurances that they will have somewhere to go after Jordan, the GOJ fears admitting them to a cam [...] | 2005-01-13 04:07:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PTER EAID MOPS IZ JO |
05AMMAN2970 | NEW FINANCE MINISTER REVIEWS PARLOUS STATE OF GOJ [...] (C) SUMMARY: Newly appointed Jordanian Minister of Finance (and former Minister of Planning) Bassem Awadallah told Charge on April 12 that Jordan will likely face a $282-352 million shortfall as a result of higher-than-expected crude oil prices and lower-than-expected grant income. The Minist [...] | 2005-04-12 14:16:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL EPET KPRV JO |
05AMMAN2973 | OPPONENTS OF REFORM ALREADY BALKING AT JORDAN'S [...] (C) Summary. Public opposition to the new cabinet from southern tribesmen in parliament comes as no surprise ) they loathe the Palestinian reformists who are the stars in the new government ) but has rattled PM Badran and some of the targets of this attack. The cabinet brings together an ex [...] | 2005-04-12 14:27:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ECON IZ JO |
05AMMAN3330 | Lebanon's Approach to the Environment and [...] The message was prepared by the Amman ESTH office, and cleared by Embassy Beirut. 2. Summary: With Arab and international funding, Lebanon is making innovative use of NGOs and cost-sharing plans to manage natural resources, water, forests, health and development. USAID makes important co [...] | 2005-04-27 10:00:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID TBIO KGLB LE SY NTDB |
05AMMAN3649 | JORDAN HAS A PROMISING NEW ECONOMIC TEAM, BUT CAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Jordan's new economic team only took office as part of the new cabinet on April 7 but has already shown its eagerness to move ahead with economic reform. It has quickly moved to resolve several long-standing economic and investment problems. In an initial series of calls with [...] | 2005-05-10 03:33:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EFIN PGOV JO |
05AMMAN3971 | Iraqi Scientists Work on Grant Proposals at [...] (SBU) Summary: Over thirty Iraqi scientists worked with international collaborators on developing scientific and business-related grant proposals during a May 16-18 proposal- writing workshop in Amman. The workshop was sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) in cooperation with the UAE- [...] | 2005-05-22 07:05:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SENV TSPL TBIO EAGR XF JO |
05AMMAN4244 | Jordan and Palestinians Welcome U.S./Israeli [...] SUMMARY: The Board of Directors of the U.S.-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD) visited Jordan May 23-24 to discuss including Jordan and the Palestinian Authority in an expanded version of BARD dubbed MARD. A wide range of Palestinian and Jordanian officials a [...] | 2005-06-01 09:38:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR PREL TSPL KPAL EAID IS JO |
05AMMAN4440 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY WAYNE'S MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: EB Assistant Secretary E. Anthony Wayne met with two new reformist Jordanian ministers from the Ministries of Trade and Planning on the margins of the BMENA Trade and Investment Finance Conference held in Amman May 18. Both laid out the GOJ's aggressive plans for fiscal reform, [...] | 2005-06-05 13:17:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ENRG EAID ECON JO |
05AMMAN4593 | UNRWA REFORM: STAKEHOLDER MEETING ADVANCES DONOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leadership change at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA),combined with coordinated donor pressure, turned that agency's latest (May 17-20) round of stakeholder consultations in Amman into a rare debate on the role UNRWA should play in de [...] | 2005-06-08 15:06:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV EAID KPAL IS JO UNRWA |
05AMMAN4597 | BMENA CONFERENCE: A/S WAYNE'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On the margins of the BMENA Trade and Investment Conference in Amman on May 18, Pakistan's Minister of State for Economic Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar told Assistant Secretary E. Anthony Wayne that her government was pleased to be part of the BMENA process and was committed to broa [...] | 2005-06-09 05:25:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID KMPI PREL ECON JO PK |
05AMMAN4635 | GAZA DISENGAGEMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE REFUGEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRM PDAS Rich Greene reviewed the implications Israel's planned Gaza disengagement will have for UN programs that currently sustain over 950,000 Palestinian refugees -) two-thirds of the population -- in May 15-19 meetings with officials from the Israeli MFA, the Palestinian Autho [...] | 2005-06-09 12:43:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV EAID KPAL KWBG IS JO |
05AMMAN4680 | GOJ NOTIFIED OF USG POSITION ON PARIS CLUB DEBT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-12 10:02:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN PREL JO |
05AMMAN4726 | Prime Minister Tells A/S Turner that Red-Dead is [...] Summary: Prime Minister Badran told visiting OES Assistant Secretary John Turner on May 31 that Jordan needs the proposed "Red-Dead" water project to cope with its status as one of the world's most water-short countries. Jordan continues its drive to utilize every possible water source but th [...] | 2005-06-14 07:51:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID OPRC KGLB IS JO |
05AMMAN4780 | THE COMBUSTIBLE POLITICS OF FUEL SUBSIDIES IN [...] (C) Proposed plans to end fuel subsidies have already elicited howls of protest throughout Jordan. Numerous MPs have confirmed that blocking an increase in fuel prices is one of the top concerns of their constituents, and the Islamic Action Front has made opposition to fuel price increases a [...] | 2005-06-15 14:37:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID ECON EPET JO |
05AMMAN4885 | Jordan Supports Global Fund Phase 2 Renewal [...] Summary: Post recommends reftel Phase 2 renewal of Jordan's grant under the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS in Jordan. The Global Fund grant has been utilized effectively and complements efforts made by the Government of Jordan (GOJ) and other donors to combat HIV/AIDS. Jordan's Country Coord [...] | 2005-06-19 03:14:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SOCI KHIV EAID JO |
05AMMAN4889 | Jordan Supports Global Fund Phase 2 Renewal [...] Summary: Post recommends reftel Phase 2 renewal of Jordan's grant under the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS in Jordan. The Global Fund grant has been utilized effectively and complements efforts made by the Government of Jordan (GOJ) and other donors to combat HIV/AIDS. Jordan's Country Coord [...] | 2005-06-19 04:58:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SOCI KHIV EAID JO |
05AMMAN4947 | DEMARCHE ON ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR DARFUR: [...] Poloff delivered reftel points to Walid Obeidat in the Foreign Minister's private office on June 20. Obeidat did not offer a substantive response, but noted that Jordan's financial situation would likely preclude monetary donations to the mission in Darfur. However, he said that he would pa [...] | 2005-06-21 10:50:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID ECON SU JO |
05AMMAN5009 | JORDAN COMMITTED TO ENDING FUEL SUBSIDIES [...] (C) In conversations this week with virtually every relevant Jordanian official - the King, Prime Minister, outgoing Finance Minister, Planning (and acting Finance) Minister, and Royal Court Minister, Charge has heard renewed pledges of their commitment to ending fuel subsidies over a three-ye [...] | 2005-06-22 13:35:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID JO |
05AMMAN5053 | AMBASSADORS' FUND FOR REFUGEES: FY 05 FUNDING [...] Embassy Amman received applications from twenty-three Jordanian organizations seeking to participate in this year's Ambassadors' Fund for Refugees initiative (reftel). The Charge requests USD 17,450 to support a project by the Zahr Al Basateen Charity Association to establish a physiotherapy [...] | 2005-06-23 11:39:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL EAID KPAL JO |
05AMMAN5111 | Jordan Supports Global Fund Phase 2 Renewal [...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends reftel Phase 2 renewal of Jordan's grant under the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS in Jordan. The Global Fund grant has been utilized effectively and complements efforts made by the Government of Jordan (GOJ) and other donors to combat HIV/AIDS. Jordan's Country [...] | 2005-06-27 09:19:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SOCI KHIV EAID JO |
05AMMAN5311 | IMF ADVANCE REPORT PRESENTS STARK FISCAL PICTURE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to advance reports, a quarterly IMF review of Jordan,s economic situation shows a dramatic deterioration in the fiscal position of the GOJ, broadly in line with figures that we have seen from the Ministry of Finance, that stems from the rise of world crude prices and the [...] | 2005-07-03 11:30:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL KPRV JO |
05AMMAN5415 | COORDINATING CONSTITUTIONAL ASSISTANCE TO IRAQ: [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-06 12:48:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID EIND IZ JO EUN |
05AMMAN5451 | GOJ TO PARTIALLY ELIMINATE FUEL SUBSIDIES JULY 9 [...] (C) In Charge's initial courtesy call on recently appointed Finance Minister Adel al-Kodah on July 7, Minister Kodah stated that the Council of Ministers had finalized its decision to raise fuel product prices. In its first session, on July 5, the Cabinet had set July 9 as the date on which t [...] | 2005-07-07 12:34:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EAID EFIN PGOV PREL JO |
05AMMAN5575 | JORDANIAN COMMENTS ON JULY 18-19 IRAQ DONOR'S [...] (SBU) Embassy passed reftel demarche on July 10 to Ghaith Zureikat, Director of the U.S., South America, and Australia Bilateral Cooperation Division at the Ministry of Planning and Bilateral Cooperation. (Note: The Ministry has lead responsibility within the GOJ for organizing the Jordan-h [...] | 2005-07-13 05:36:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EFIN PREL JO IZ |
05AMMAN5725 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY WAYNE'S JULY 10 MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In July 10 meetings with Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) Governor Umayya Touqan and with Minister of Finance Adel Al-Kodah, A/S Wayne repeated earlier calls (Ref B) for action by the Government of Jordan (GOJ) on anti-money laundering/counter-financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) contro [...] | 2005-07-19 05:09:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN ETTC PGOV PREL EAID JO |
05AMMAN5737 | SUPPORTING REFORM - JORDANIAN PLANNING MINISTER'S [...] (SBU) New Jordanian Planning Minister Suhair al-Ali will visit Washington the week of August 1. The articulate, Georgetown-educated Citibanker is on the frontlines of Jordan,s reform program, and was handpicked by the King. Her intention is to brief on Jordan,s economic and fiscal situation [...] | 2005-07-19 09:04:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EFIN EAID JO |
05AMMAN5830 | TRANSFORMING THE ECONOMY OF MA'AN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOJ drive to better integrate the restive southern city and region of Ma,an into King Abdullah,s vision of a reform-oriented Jordanian state and society is having perhaps its most visible impact in the economic sphere. The GOJ is making substantial, if cautious, efforts to at [...] | 2005-07-21 11:22:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EAID KPRV PREL JO |
05AMMAN5849 | JORDAN'S AUSTERITY PLANS KEEP GROWING DEFICIT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOJ strategy for getting through the present fiscal crisis (Refs A, B) consists of austerity measures (most importantly a 20 percent cut in Ministries' operational spending),revenue enhancement through accelerated privatization and tax reform, an end to costly fuel and oth [...] | 2005-07-21 15:41:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV EAID PREL JO |
05AMMAN5887 | THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH JORDAN [...] (U) The Deputy Secretary met with Jordanian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Suhair al-Ali July 10 at 3:40 p.m. at the Ministry during a visit to Jordan in connection with the U.S.-Iraq Joint Commission for Reconstruction and Economic Development (JCRED) held July 11. 2. [...] | 2005-07-24 15:13:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL JO |
05AMMAN5907 | Jordan's Request for Science Fellows [...] Summary: Post requests four Embassy Science Fellows (Ref A). One Science Fellow would fill a longstanding commitment to the Government of Jordan under the Joint Environmental Forum (JEF) of the U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement to provide an environmental economist. The second fellow would c [...] | 2005-07-25 13:27:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID TSPL TPHY TBIO KSCA JO |
05AMMAN5912 | CBJ'S $1.3 BILLION TRADE LEDGER ACCOUNT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The $1.3 billion deficit in the Iraqi trade ledger account in the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) is a recurring issue among Jordan, the U.S., and Iraq. A legacy of the former Jordan-Iraq trade protocol, the account is not considered by the GOJ to fall under any Paris Club treatment [...] | 2005-07-25 13:56:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREL IZ JO |
05AMMAN5988 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY WAYNE'S CONVERSATIONS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On the margins of the Donors Committee meeting of the July 18-19 International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFFI),EB Assistant Secretary Wayne had conversations with Jordanian Prime Minister Adnan Badran and with Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Suhai [...] | 2005-07-28 10:39:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN IZ JO |
05AMMAN5997 | USPTO TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING - JORDAN [...] Embassy Amman nominates for the October 17-28 USPTO Visiting Scholars Program the following candidate from Jordan's Ministry of Industry and Trade: Mr. Khaled Arabeyyat Director Industrial Property Protection Directorate Ministry of Industry and Trade Mr. Arabeyyat supervises the entire [...] | 2005-07-28 15:02:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR EAID ECON JO |
05AMMAN6094 | Jordanians, Israelis Bridge the Rift in Joint [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jordanian, Israeli, and U.S. university professors and students in early July participated in a joint scientific survey of the Dead Sea area environment along the Jordan-Israel border. This survey and its predecessor in January, 2005, are the first of their kind and essential [...] | 2005-07-31 12:26:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID TBIO TSPL KSCA JO |
05AMMAN6148 | JORDAN'S UPPER HOUSE APPROVES ARTICLE 98 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Jordanian Senate unanimously endorsed the U.S.-Jordan Article 98 agreement prior to the end of parliament's extraordinary summer session on July 31. The agreement will be considered by the lower house, which previously struck it from its legislative agenda, when parliament [...] | 2005-08-01 15:44:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID JO KICC |
05AMMAN6266 | RECOMMENDED JORDANIAN ATTENDEES FOR THE U.S. ARAB [...] In response to Ref A request, post recommends the following government, business, association and NGO executives be invited to the U.S. Arab Economic Forum. The lists are not meant to indicate a priority preference. 2. GOVERNMENT OF JORDAN, IN ADDITION TO THOSE OFFICIALS ALREADY INVITED [...] | 2005-08-04 13:22:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP EAID CVIS ECON JO |
05AMMAN6445 | JORDANIAN GOVERNMENTAL ASSISTANCE TO THE [...] (C) Jordan (which formerly administered the West Bank) offers significant support to Palestinian society in keeping with its extensive economic and social ties to the Palestinian territories. King Abdullah, who most recently met with Abu Mazen in Amman on August 2 (ref B),and other senior G [...] | 2005-08-11 12:30:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN PREF PREL KPAL JO |
05AMMAN6526 | IN MA'AN, GOJ TRIES TO CHANGE ATTITUDES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two and a half years after a failed uprising left six persons dead, citizens of Jordan's southeastern transportation hub of Ma'an are still restive. This hardscrabble desert town is influenced both by surrounding tribes, and by the many who drifted in to town and away from triba [...] | 2005-08-16 08:42:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAID JO |
05AMMAN6758 | Jordan's Environmental Priorities: Environmental [...] Summary: Minister of Environment Khaled Irani renewed his interest in hosting an EPA environmental economist under the Science Fellows program. He also seeks National Park Service assistance in creating a park ranger corps for Jordan. An EU-sponsored capacity building project at the Minis [...] | 2005-08-22 11:45:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID KPAL IS JO |
05AMMAN6832 | MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF PRM'S COOPERATIVE [...] (U) Following is a monitoring and evaluation report for PRM's $100,000 cooperative agreement (SPRMCO04GR131) with the non-profit organization Seeds of Peace, which is designed to extend that NGO's conflict resolution program to Palestinian refugee youth residing in the West Bank, Jerusalem an [...] | 2005-08-24 08:18:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL KPAL EAID IS JO |
05AMMAN710 | UNRWA'S GAZA DISENGAGEMENT STRATEGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNRWA wants to start large-scale development of its refugee camps in Gaza post-disengagement -- using its experimental Neirab Camp project in Syria, which is centered on re-housing refugees outside camps, as its model. Apart from its limited experience carrying out integrated cam [...] | 2005-01-27 15:18:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL EAID KPAL IS JO |
05AMMAN7283 | UNSCHEDULED FUEL PRICE HIKE IMMINENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Finance Adel Al-Kodah told Charge September 11 that the Government of Jordan (GOJ) would institute a second, unscheduled fuel price hike September 20, after consulting with the King on the subject the same day. The King had earlier explained to Charge that he was de [...] | 2005-09-12 09:18:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV EAID PREL JO |
05AMMAN7522 | VISIT OF HOWARD DEAN AND NATIONAL JEWISH [...] (C) A delegation from the U.S. National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC),led by Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean and accompanied by three state Democratic party leaders, met separately September 17 with Prince Ali bin al Hussein (acting as Regent in the absence of King Abdul [...] | 2005-09-20 06:19:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KISL KPAL KMPI EAID ECON PINR IS IZ JO |
05AMMAN7561 | JORDANIAN FUEL PRICES HIKED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Jordan announced fuel price hikes September 21 (Ref A),prompting widespread grumbling but no disorder. Gasoline price increases of 5% and diesel increases of 22% tracked exactly the proposal that the government has been considering for the past weeks. Fuel o [...] | 2005-09-21 11:23:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PGOV EAID PREL JO |
05AMMAN7708 | COMBATING EXTREMISM - JORDAN [...] (S) Summary: Embassy Amman has been working to strengthen local traditions of dialogue, tolerance, and intellectual exchange as foils against extremist ideas - and to help such values emerge where they are absent - for several years. We use a wide panoply of State Department and other USG pro [...] | 2005-09-28 05:35:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | KDEM KMPI KISL KPAO EAID ECON PHUM PREL JO |
05AMMAN7753 | Iraqi Scientists, Engineers Seek Funding for [...] Summary: The "International Conference to Engage Iraq's Science & Technology Community in Developing its Country" took place in Amman, Jordan on September 18-20 with support and participation from DOE and State. Over fifty Iraqi scientists and engineers attended to present and seek funding f [...] | 2005-09-29 10:38:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA SENV TBIO SOCI EAID KNNP IZ JO |
05AMMAN8005 | TRADE MINISTER ZU'BI ENGAGES DAS DIBBLE ON S&T [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement is a platform upon which to increase higher value-added production and attract investment in advanced laboratories, research institutions, and manufacturing, Jordan's Minister of Industry and Trade Sharif Zu'bi told visiting NEA Deputy Assis [...] | 2005-10-06 09:56:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND KIPR PREL EAID JO |
05AMMAN8431 | JORDAN: EARTHQUAKE RELIEF DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Poloff met October 25 with Ambassador Mohammed Siraj, Chief of the Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department, to discuss reftel appeal for contributions to the international effort to provide earthquake relief and rehabilitation to Pakistan. Siraj said that he would inform the Jordanian [...] | 2005-10-26 11:12:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL JO PK |
05AMMAN8823 | GOJ PREPARES FOR PUBLIC LAUNCH OF NATIONAL AGENDA [...] (C) The GOJ continues preparations for the public launch this month of the report of the National Agenda commission. In a November 7 briefing to donors, Deputy PM Muasher laid out plans for the implementation of the report's reform recommendations. A strong marketing campaign will be necessa [...] | 2005-11-09 14:49:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM EAID ECON JO |
05AMMAN8982 | JORDAN: APPEAL FOR EARTHQUAKE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) Poloff delivered ref A demarche November 17 to Ambassador Mohammed Siraj, Chief of the Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department. Siraj said that he would forward our request to the appropriate Jordanian relief organizations, as well as to Jordanian representatives attending the Novembe [...] | 2005-11-17 14:23:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SENV EAID JO PAK |
05AMMAN9 | GOJ SAYS KUWAITI AND EMIRATI CASH GRANTS ALREADY [...] (C) Finance Minister Abu Hammour, in a January 3 conversation, reconfirmed to Charge that Jordan's arrangement to receive 50,000 barrels per day in crude from Saudi Arabia is currently scheduled to conclude at the end of April 2005. Abu Hammour also confirmed that the Kuwaiti and Emirati pledg [...] | 2005-01-03 11:30:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID EPET EFIN ENRG JO |
05AMMAN9052 | NEW COMPANY TO BOOST IRAQI INVESTMENT IN JORDAN [...] (U) After eight months of discussion and bureaucratic delay, the Rafidain Development Company, a new high-profile Iraqi investment company in Jordan was officially established in Amman on September 25. The company was organized following a February 2005 meeting between Jordan's King Abdullah [...] | 2005-11-22 14:01:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EAID EINV IZ JO |
05AMMAN9054 | MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION (MCC) [...] Following is the text of a November 17 letter from Jordanian Prime Minister Adnan Badran to MCC CEO Ambassador Danilovich. Post will pouch original to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) with a copy to NEA/ELA. 2. Begin Text: Dear Mr. Danilovich, In reference to your letter o [...] | 2005-11-22 14:01:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL JO |
05AMMAN9055 | JORDAN: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HAGEL [...] (U) Embassy Amman warmly welcomes CODEL Hagel to Jordan. The Government of Jordan (GOJ) is not only one of our closest allies, but it is fully engaged in supporting our most important priorities in the region, including creating a free Iraq, fulfilling the President's vision of a two-state so [...] | 2005-11-22 14:17:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER EAID ECON OREP JO |
05AMMAN9795 | MEPI-FUNDED TREASURY ADVISOR HELPING JORDAN WITH [...] SUMMARY: Since May 2004, the Treasury Department's Office of Technical Assistance has provided a debt advisor to Jordan's Ministry of Finance. Funded by MEPI, the advisor has helped the Ministry rationalize its debt issuance and improve its coordination with the Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) [...] | 2005-12-21 07:01:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID JO |
05AMMAN9826 | Red-Dead Project Feasibility Study Slowly [...] (U) Summary: Representatives from Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the World Bank presented an overview and prospectus on the "Red-Dead" project to Amman- based ambassadors of key potential donor countries on December 15. The World Bank said the Netherlands is now a confirmed do [...] | 2005-12-22 06:46:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID KWBG IS JO |
05ANKARA1006 | COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN RESOLUTION [...] (U) We delivered reftel demarche on February 22 to Turkish MFA International Political Organizations (IPO) Head Murat Ates. 2. (U) Ates's office confirmed on February 24 the Turkish delegation would be headed by Minister of State Guldal Aksit. Ates, with other parliamentarians and profes [...] | 2005-02-24 15:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | KWMN EAID TU |
05ANKARA1062 | AMBASSADOR'S ESF-LINKED SCHOOL VISIT: ESF [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 7, the Ambassador participated in a signing ceremony for the $9 million U.S. ESF grant to the World Bank to be used for conditional cash payments to poor families. Remarks by the Ambassador, World Bank director, Turkish Treasury Undersecretary and the manager of the [...] | 2005-02-28 14:01:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL EFIN KPAO TU |
05ANKARA1090 | AMBASSADOR'S ESF-LINKED SCHOOL VISIT GENERATES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador and Minister of Education visited a primary school in a poor neighborhood of Ankara February 23. The school visit was linked to the U.S. ESF grant to a project providing cash to poor families conditioned on their keeping their children in school. There was wides [...] | 2005-03-01 12:13:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL EFIN KPAO TU |
05ANKARA1170 | AIR POLLUTION IN THE TURKISH CAPITAL. ANKARA BACK [...] (SBU) Summary. Cleaning up Ankara's smoke-filled skies was an important environmental success story of the 1990s made possible by the introduction of natural gas to replace soft coal for home heating. But this winter, the acrid stench of sulphur from burning soft coal and fumes from vehicle [...] | 2005-03-04 16:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID TBIO TU |
05ANKARA1202 | MILD INITIAL REACTION TO CONGRESSIONAL DECISION ON [...] (C) Summary: Turkish financial markets seem to have shrugged off the House Appropriations Committee decision to reallocate the $1 billion in extraordinary assistance offered to Turkey in the FY03 Iraq Supplemental. The Government has also handled it well, including in a positively-spun Turkish [...] | 2005-03-07 14:06:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID PREL TU |
05ANKARA1230 | SHARING TIGRIS-EUPHRATES WATER DATA [...] (C) Post understands from Embassy Baghdad's February 14-20 Essential Services Report that Iraqi Water Minister Rashid may be about to or have already sent a letter to the Turkish government requesting technical data on Tigris and Euphrates water supplies. 2. (C) In a March 2 meeting on [...] | 2005-03-08 15:52:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EAID PREL IZ SY TU |
05ANKARA1263 | TURKEY'S CONTINUES TO WAIT FOR IMPROVED SECURITY [...] On MArch 7, Turkey's new Coordinator for Iraq Reconstruction, Ambassador Toray Targay, told Econ Counselor that Turkey is ready to begin disbursing its $50 million pledge for Iraqi reconstruction, but they continue to wait for the security situation to improve. We emphasized that the U.S. ha [...] | 2005-03-10 06:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN IZ TU |
05ANKARA1610 | AMBASSADOR VISITS BURSA [...] (SBU) Summary. Visiting Bursa, Turkey's fourth largest city and a leading industrial center, the Ambassador heard from officials and business leader about the strain a strong lira and the end of global quotas is putting on the Turkish textile industry. Officials and business people were in [...] | 2005-03-21 10:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EAID TU |
05ANKARA1650 | POTENTIAL TURKISH CONTRIBUTION TO BMENA INVESTMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. In recent months, Turkish government and private sector officials have shown an increasing interest in becoming more involved on the economic side of the BMENA initiative. This fits with Turkey's large and growing trade and investment with the region and its potential -- as a [...] | 2005-03-22 13:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EINV KCRM PGOV QA EG TU |
05ANKARA2389 | NEA WATER ADVISOR CHARLES LAWSON DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: NEA Senior Advisor for Science and Technology Issues Charles Lawson visited Turkey April 18-21 to explore GOT interest in cooperation on the Tigris-Euphrates basin. Lawson visited water infrastructure programs in the Southeast Anatolia Project (GAP),which encompasses the hea [...] | 2005-04-27 13:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ETRD IZ PREL SENV SY TU |
05ANKARA2527 | TURKEY REQUESTS INFORMATION ON USG FUEL DELIVERIES [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 3. 2. (SBU) Embassy received a diplomatic note May 3 requesting information on U.S. purchases of refined products in Turkey for delivery to Iraq during the period May 2003 through April 2005. Para 4 contains text of diplomatic note. The informat [...] | 2005-05-03 14:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EPET ETRD IZ PREL TU |
05ANKARA253 | TURKEY INCREASES AID FOR TSUNAMI RELIEF [...] Summary: The Turkish government announced that it will increase its tsunami assistance from $1.25 million to $5 million, bringing total donations public and private to about $9 million. One government official estimated that total donations would reach $30 million by the end of January. Pr [...] | 2005-01-18 07:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL TU |
05ANKARA2684 | TURKEY: VIEWS ON UNICEF COUNTRY PROGRAM [...] Summary. Econoffs met with UNICEF representatives from both the National Committee and Country Offices to evaluate Turkey UNICEF,s program content and effectiveness per request in reftel. UNICEF,s activities in Turkey focus on maternal and child health; early childhood development and child- [...] | 2005-05-10 12:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL TU |
05ANKARA2787 | TURKEY PREPARES FIRST STEP FOR COOPERATION WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's MFA Water expert said water data received from the Iraqi Water Ministry showed Iraq's willingness to cooperate on the Tigris and Euphrates, and he hoped to issue soon an invitation for an Iraqi delegation to come to Ankara to start talks on cooperation. We recommend [...] | 2005-05-17 04:14:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECIN IZ PREL SENV SY TU |
05ANKARA2892 | ACTION REQUEST: TIME TO RESTART TRILATERAL [...] (U) This is an action request--please see para. 8. 2. (C) The United States engaged in trilateral talks with the Turkish and Iraqi governments on trucker security on Nov. 30, 2004 and on the PKK on Jan. 11 of this year. At both sets of talks--which were USG initiatives--all three sides agre [...] | 2005-05-20 15:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL ETRD MOPS EAID TU IZ US |
05ANKARA2912 | TURKS REPORT SUCCESSFUL JA'AFARI VISIT [...] (C) ITG PM Ja'afari made a successful May 19-21 visit to Turkey, according to a senior MFA official. Turkey offered to double its electricity exports to Iraq right away, and to increase these exports seven-fold in the next half a year. The Iraqi Finance Minister proposed an unorthodox procedur [...] | 2005-05-23 17:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EAID ENRG PTER IZ TU |
05ANKARA3144 | IRAQI TURKMEN GROUPS SQUARE OFF IN TURKEY [...] (U) This is an action request--please see para. 15. Summary ------- 2. (C) There are a number of Iraqi Turkmen groups in Ankara. Three that we have met recently appear to be united only in their anger at what they believe is CF support for Kurdish domination of northern Iraq, especially [...] | 2005-06-06 10:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ECON IZ TU |
05ANKARA3192 | TURKISH MFA ON BRUSSELS CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign Minister Gul will head Turkey's delegation to the Brussels conference. The GOT does not yet have a position on bilateral debt, but is resisting outright forgiveness. MFA officials say progress on assistance continues to be on hold until security improves. End Summary. [...] | 2005-06-08 12:40:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID TU IZ |
05ANKARA3841 | TURKEY DENIES RELEASING ADDITIONAL EUPHRATES [...] (SBU) Summary. According to a Turkish MFA water expert, the GOT is indifferent to an announced increase of Euphrates flow from Syria to Iraq as a means to increase Iraqi electricity production. Euphrates flow from Turkey to Syria has not been increased, although Turkey continues to more th [...] | 2005-07-01 15:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID PREL IZ SY TU |
05ANKARA3964 | TURKEY'S RESPONSE ON COORDINATING CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 4. 2. (C) PolMilOff delivered ref a demarche July 6 to MFA Iraq Desk Officer Hakan Cakil. Cakil noted plans for an NGO-organized conference in Turkey July 12-13 on the constitution (reported ref b). The co-host Iraqi NGO (the Fund for Democracy an [...] | 2005-07-07 15:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV ECON EIND IZ TU EUN |
05ANKARA3997 | TURKMAN GROUP, HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY SEEK U.S. [...] This is an action request for the Department, USAID, and Embassy Baghdad--please see para. 9. 2. Summary: The Iraqi Turkmen Assembly and Hacettepe University are seeking U.S. assistance for a distance learning project for students in Kirkuk to take classes from Hacettepe. This is the first [...] | 2005-07-08 12:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO EAID SCUL IZ TU |
05ANKARA4214 | DEMARCHE ON IRAQ DEBT AND ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Summary: On Iraq debt, Turkish MFA officials again confirmed they have not been pressed on the debt issue by the ITG. The MFA officicals made very clear that they want to negotiate this issue directly with ITG officials, not outside advisors, although they agreed to meet with the advisors. [...] | 2005-07-20 16:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN EAID PREL IZ TU |
05ANKARA497 | U.S. VISITS HELPS TURKISH FEMA REFORM TURKEY'S [...] Summary: Turkey's Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) received the political endorsement of Deputy Prime Minister Sahin and key ministers to broaden its authority to coordinate Turkey's emergency management system. TEMA Director General Hassan Ipek said his December visit to the U.S. with Sa [...] | 2005-01-28 16:10:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PREL SENV TU |
05ANKARA504 | TURKEY PLANS TO PROVIDE STAFF AND MATERIALS FOR [...] (C) TGS/J3 LTG Yalcin told DCM and PolMilCouns on Jan. 26 that Turkey was planning to offer significant training and support for the Afghan War College. PolMilOff followed up Jan. 27 with Aydin Evirgen, MFA Deputy Director General for South Asia. Evirgen said that the plan--which still requir [...] | 2005-01-29 17:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL EAID TU AF |
05ANKARA5193 | TURKISH BUSINESSMAN OFFERS 1.2 MILLION BOTTLES [...] This is an action cable. Please see para 6. 2. Summary: Turkish businessman Hasan Akincioglu has offered 1.2 million bottles of US Army VETCOM approved water to the relief efforts. Akincioglu has worked for 35 years with the US military stationed at Incirlik Air Force Base in Adana. He r [...] | 2005-09-07 11:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL TU |
05ANKARA5209 | TURKS AND TALAFAR: CONTINUING CONCERN, MOUNTING [...] (U) This is an action request--please see para. 4. 2. (C) Summary: The GOT continues to express deep concern about the situation in Talafar, a predominantly Turkmen city in northwest Ninewah province. MFA officials have peppered us with questions about the latest situation there and have [...] | 2005-09-07 15:25:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS EAID TU IZ |
05ANKARA5210 | TFUS01: TURKS RESPOND WITH COMPASSION AND [...] Summary: The GOT and Turkish citizens responded generously and compassionately in the aftermath of Katrina, both by publicly expressing condolences and by offering assistance to the affected region. Prime Minister Tayip Erdogan rebutted some of the commentary in the Islamist-oriented press by [...] | 2005-09-07 16:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL TU |
05ANKARA5221 | TALAFAR SITUATION: TURKS ALLEGE IRANIAN (AND [...] (C) Summary: A senior Turkish MFA official speculated that Iran and/or the Iraqi Kurds may be "playing a game" in Talafar in order to eventually control the city, using CF ops to their own ends. We continue to try to feed as much factual information on Talafar as possible to the Turks in orde [...] | 2005-09-08 08:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS EAID TU IZ |
05ANKARA5247 | TALAFAR SITUATION: TURKS WANT TO SEND HA SEPT. 10 [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 3. 2. (C) Recalling his discussion with us the previous day (reftel),MFA MidEast DG Oguz Celikkol contacted polmilcouns Sept. 8 to relay that the Turkish Red Crescent was preparing to send "on Saturday or Sunday" (Sept. 10 or 11) from Ankara three [...] | 2005-09-08 16:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS EAID TU IZ |
05ANKARA5275 | TURKEY INTERIM RESPONSE ON AVIAN FLU PARTNERSHIP [...] Turkey was not able to deliver a definite response to our request for commitment to join an international partnership on avian and pandemic influenza (REF A). Officials at MFA and the Ministries of Health and Agriculture said the proposal looked positive, but were unable to give an official r [...] | 2005-09-09 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON KSCA PREL SOCI TBIO TU |
05ANKARA5355 | TFUS01: TURKS REMEMBER GENEROUS EARTHQUAKE [...] This is an action cable. See paragraph 6. 2. Summary: The GOT has formally offered an assistance package totaling USD 2.5 million for Hurricane Katrina, including a USD 1.5 million cash donation to the American Red Cross (already sent),and USD 1 million of in-kind assistance. GOT Emergen [...] | 2005-09-14 14:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL KPAO TU |
05ANKARA5394 | TFUS01: TURKS IN KIND OFFER DETAILS [...] This is an action cable. See paragraph 4. 2. The Turkish Government has formally offered an assistance package totaling $2.5 million for Hurricane Katrina, including $1.5 million cash donation sent to the American Red Cross, and USD 1 million of in-kind assistance to be determined (Ref A). [...] | 2005-09-15 14:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL KPAO TU |
05ANKARA5452 | TURKISH RED CRESCENT DELIVERS HUMANITARIAN AID TO [...] (U) This is an action request--please see para. 8. 2. (C) Summary: Press coverage of the Turkish Red Crescent's delivery of humanitarian assistance to displaced persons' camps near Talafar has included accusations by Red Crescent that U.S. forces intimidated Turkish aid workers and attempte [...] | 2005-09-20 16:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS EAID TU IZ |
05ANKARA6077 | TURKEY'S DISASTER MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE: HAS IT [...] (SBU) Summary: After the devastating 1999 Marmara earthquake that occurred in Turkey, the World Bank required the 2000 establishment of a Turkish Emergency Management Agency to coordinate all disaster relief efforts. In addition, the GOT investigated charges of fraud and abuse of office in th [...] | 2005-10-07 09:08:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID TU |
05ANKARA6100 | IRAQ: TURKEY WANTS TO SEND HUMANITARIAN AID TO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 7. Humanitarian Aid for Talafar and Kirkuk --------------------------------------- 2. (C) MFA Coordinator for Iraq and Afghanistan Reconstruction Amb. Koray Targay called in A/DCM Oct. 6 to inform us that Turkey wishes to provide humanitari [...] | 2005-10-07 14:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL MOPS TU IZ |
05ANKARA6401 | TURKEY'S SUPPORT TO FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE [...] (SBU) Poloff discussed Turkey's support for the Foundation for the Future October 21 with MFA Policy Planning officer Levent Gumrukcu. Asked about Turkey's likely contribution to the Foundation, Gumrukcu said his office had proposed USD 500,000 and was awaiting Foreign Minister Gul's approv [...] | 2005-10-24 14:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID PGOV PHUM EU TU |
05ANKARA6440 | TURKS REACH OUT TO IRAQIS ON HUMANITARIAN AID FOR [...] (C) Summary: The Turkish MFA has revised its humanitarian aid (HA) offer for Talafar in order to generate a positive Iraqi response and to mend fences with the Iraqi Red Crescent. Senior MFA officials raised the HA issue Oct. 26 with both Charge and ECONCouns. We responded that Turkey must a [...] | 2005-10-26 12:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL MOPS IZ |
05ANKARA6447 | TURKEY CONTRIBUTIONS TO PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF [...] (SBU) The ongoing suffering in Pakistan struck a deep chord in Turkey, leading to a broad outpouring of public interest and support for contributing to the earthquake relief effort, epitomized by Prime Minister Erdogan's October 20 visit to the affected area, during which he pledged $150 mill [...] | 2005-10-26 14:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PREL PK |
05ANKARA6449 | TURKEY CONSIDERING SUPPORTING PAK MI-17 HELICOPTER [...] (C/rel NATO) PolMilCouns raised Pakistan's urgent need for MI-17 parts with MFA NATO Affairs Deputy Director General Fatih Ceylan on Oct. 26. Noting that Turkey was doing its utmost to assist Pakistan in this time of need, Ceylan promised a prompt response. Turkey would do what it could, he [...] | 2005-10-26 15:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR ASEC EAID PGOV PREF MASS PK TU NATO |
05ANKARA6557 | TURKEY COMMITTED TO ASSISTING PAKISTAN BUT [...] (SBU) On November 2, MFA officer Sebnem Incesu reiterated Turkey's commitment to assisting Pakistan. As noted in ref B, Turkey's initial pledge of USD 150 million led the list of international donors in terms of dollar amount. Incesu stated that a final decision regarding what additional ass [...] | 2005-11-02 12:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL PHUM TU PK |
05ANKARA6583 | SO FAR, SO GOOD ON US-FUNDED SOCIAL PROJECT [...] (U) Summary: A status check on the U.S.-funded Social Risk Mitigation Project (SRMP) found that the World Bank-led project is exceeding its goals of boosting school enrollment and vaccination rates. Reaching nearly two million people, the program is an example of the Bank's success in helping [...] | 2005-11-07 16:22:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI TU |
05ANKARA6636 | CORRECTED COPY -- WORLD BANK HELPS ADDRESS DEEP [...] (SBU) Summary: Within its total $6 billion portfolio, the World Bank is currently allocating $1.7 billion to social sector projects that assist workers laid off by privatization, strengthen health care delivery through transitioning to universal health insurance, and improve school curricula [...] | 2005-11-09 15:36:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ELAB SOCI TU |
05ANKARA6669 | TURKEY UNABLE TO PROVIDE PARTS FOR PAKISTANI MI-17 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-10 16:04:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR ASEC EAID PGOV PREF MASS TU PK NATO |
05ANKARA6695 | CHARGE'S RAMADAN OUTREACH TOUCHES ANKARA'S POOREST [...] (SBU) Summary: During the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Charg carried out an active program to connect with the poorer segments of Ankara's population. In each of her events, which included a visit to Ankara's largest mosque, an iftar dinner, and calls on charitable organizations, the C [...] | 2005-11-14 14:38:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO SOCI EAID PREL TU |
05ANKARA6818 | TURKEY - FOLLOW-UP APPEAL FOR SUPPORT FOR PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) With respect to other countries cited for generous thanks in ref A, Post notes that Turkey remains first in the line of donors with a plege of $150 million. 2. (SBU) On November 17, MFA Officer Sebnem Incesu reiterated Turkey's commitment to assisting Pakistan for both humanitarian [...] | 2005-11-18 13:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SENV TU PAK |
05ANKARA6884 | TURKEY: AVIAN INFLUENZA - ADDITIONAL INFORMATION [...] Summary. Turkey experienced one confirmed outbreak of the H5N1 strain of Avian Influenza in Balikesir in northwestern Turkey in early October without reports of human illness or deaths. Turkey has received generally high marks for its transparency, response, and containment of the outbreak, [...] | 2005-11-22 14:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL AMED TU |
05ANKARA7398 | TURKEY/AFGHANISTAN UPDATE: KARZAI TO VISIT, ITALY [...] (U) This is an action request -- please see para. 6. Summary ------- 2. (C) President Karzai will visit Turkey Jan. 5-6. Italy is joining Turkey and France's proposed co-command of ISAF's Capital Region Command; Turkey felt it could not refuse Italy's offer. Turkey may/may be prepared [...] | 2005-12-16 15:09:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS EAID SNAR KPKO TU AF |
05ANKARA7513 | THE CHANGING FACE OF POVERTY IN TURKEY [...] (SBU) Summary: While the incidence of extreme poverty is very low, nearly 25 percent of Turks live below the World Bank's international poverty line, with poor people increasingly concentrated in large cities. Despite an improving economy, regional disparities in income, together with intern [...] | 2005-12-22 10:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI PHUM KWMN TU |
05ANKARA7561 | TURKEY: WB SEEKS USAID AVIAN INFLUENZA ROLE [...] Summary: To supplement a proposed $15 million Bank loan, the World Bank seeks a partnership role with USAID in a package to assist Turkey's Avian and Human Pandemic Influenza readiness. Bank staff sees potential for USAID contribution on early surveillance training, communication, protectiv [...] | 2005-12-23 13:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID TBIO SENV ECON EAGR CASC AMED TU |
05ANKARA7562 | DPM SENER ENGAGED ON ECONOMIC, INVESTMENT, AND EU [...] (SBU) Summary. Deputy Prime Minister Sener, who has coordinating responsibility for economic issues, told the Ambassador that despite Turkey's successful economic recovery, more work needs to be done: interest rates are too high, the current account deficit is large, and obstacles to foreig [...] | 2005-12-23 14:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN TU |
05ANKARA7606 | Second Avian Influenza Outbreak in Turkey [...] (U) Summary. On December 27, the Government of Turkey announced a second outbreak of avian influenza (AI) in the country. This one occurred in the East, near the Armenian border, in an area where there are only backyard farms and no commercial production operations. The government took all [...] | 2005-12-28 15:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR KPAO TBIO AMED TU CASC EAID SENV ECON |
05ANKARA786 | PLANNING FOR THE SECOND U.S.-IRAQ-TURKEY [...] Action Request: Embassy Ankara seeks Washington approval and guidance to discuss with Turkish officials scheduling the second trilateral (U.S.-Iraq-Turkey) meeting on trucker security. The first meeting was held November 30 in Ankara, followed by a bilateral Turkey-Iraq meeting December 29. [...] | 2005-02-10 15:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ETRD IZ MOPS PREL PTER TU |
05ANKARA912 | ESF SIGNING CEREMONY GENERATES POSITIVE NEWS [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 7, the Ambassador participated in a signing ceremony for the $9 million U.S. ESF grant to the World Bank to be used for conditional cash payments to poor families. Remarks by the Ambassador, World Bank director, Turkish Treasury Undersecretary and the manager of the [...] | 2005-02-17 12:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL EFIN TU |
05ANKARA98 | TURKEY URGES OIC MEMBERS TO ASSIST TSUNAMI RELIEF, [...] We delivered reftel points January 5 to Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Middle East Affairs Department Head Botsali, who is in charge of OIC-related issues. Botsali noted that OIC SecGen Ihsanoglu issued an appeal on January 1 for assistance to all OIC countries and Turkish FM Gul [...] | 2005-01-06 16:37:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PGOV TU |
05ASUNCION1123 | PARAGUAY: HURRICANE RELIEF -- RESCUE TEAMS [...] Ambassador Ceferino Valdez, the Foreign Ministry's Director of Bilateral Affairs, is the the brother of Rafael Valdez, the President of Paraguay's Voluntary Firemen's Association. Valdez has offered to send 20-25 firemen who speak English and are experts in rescue, flooding, and recovery of [...] | 2005-09-05 18:45:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL US PA |
05ASUNCION1129 | PARAGUAY: HURRICANE RELIEF-- CHEMICAL PRODUCTS [...] Post received the following additional information on the offer of chemical products to support Hurricane Katrina relief efforts: Esteban Morabito, President of M.A.A.H.S.A, a chemical production company, has offered to send a large quantity of chemical products for pest control to assist wit [...] | 2005-09-06 21:46:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL US PA AMER |
05ASUNCION1131 | PARAGUAY: ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE OFFERS FOR [...] On 9/6 Post received the following additional offers of assistance for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts from Paraguayan individuals in the private sector: -- Luis Pettengill and Jose D. Bogarin, of the company Frigorifico Guarani, S.A.--a meat processing company that is the exclusive provid [...] | 2005-09-06 21:51:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL US PA |
05ASUNCION1139 | TFUS01: PARAGUAY OFFERS ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE FOR [...] On 9/8, Post received two additional offers of assistance for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts from Paraguayan individuals in the private sector: -- Marie Lopez Espinola, director of local artisans guild, has offered to organize a blood drive in coordination with the Paraguayan Ministry of H [...] | 2005-09-09 15:00:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL US PA |
05ASUNCION1150 | PARAGUAY: BRIEFING PARAGUAY'S NEW AG ON U.S. [...] SUMMARY: ON SEPTEMBER 8TH, THE DCM, USAID/PARAGUAY DIRECTOR AND USAID DEMOCRACY OFFICER MET WITH THE NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL, DR. RUBEN CANDIA AMARILLA, TO DISCUSS USG PRIORITIES ON MONEY LAUNDERING AND COUNTER TERRORISM LEGISLATION AND PENAL CODE REFORM AS WELL AS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE BEING PROV [...] | 2005-09-12 21:13:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PREL KJUS PA |
05ASUNCION1169 | TFUS01: PARAGUAY: ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE OFFER FOR [...] On 9/12 Post received the following additional offers of assistance for Hurricane relief efforts: -- Anibal Valiente, president of the Association of Local Employees at Post, announced that his organization would like to assist with donations to the victims of the hurricane. Mr. Valiente not [...] | 2005-09-15 18:23:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL US PA |
05ASUNCION1300 | PARAGUAY DEMOCRACY BUILDING: SUCCESS STORIES AND [...] In support of the Secretary's emphasis on transformational diplomacy and the request of FSI's Leadership and Management School, the following is a short list of success stories and best practices, submitted AMEmbassy Asuncion. ----------------- Municipal Finance ----------------- 2. USA [...] | 2005-10-17 21:14:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | AFSI KDEM PA EAID |
05ASUNCION1440 | PARAGUAY: SEEKING SUPPORT FOR THE OAS MISSION IN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-22 21:10:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PTER CO PA OAS |
05ASUNCION610 | PARAGUAY DELEGATION TO THE OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] On 5/4, PolOff informed MFA International Organizations Director Martha Moreno, OAS Desk Officer Mirtha Benitez, and Americas Director Cynthia Filartiga that the Secretary plans to head the U.S. delegation to the 35th Regular General Assembly of the OAS. 2. Moreno and Benitez advised that F [...] | 2005-05-05 15:35:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ASEC CVIS PREL PGOV EAID KSUM KPAO XM PA OAS |
05ASUNCION619 | COMPOSITION OF PARAGUAY'S OAS DELEGATION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-05 21:08:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ASEC CVIS PREL PGOV EAID KSUM KPAO XM PA OAS |
05ASUNCION714 | Ambassador Sees Positives During Visit To [...] Ambassador traveled to the departments of Alto Parana, the capital of which is Ciudad del Este, and Itapua May 14- 15. During his visit, he attended the Santa Rita Expo, a major regional agricultural fair, and helped to inaugurate a USAID-funded municipal tax collection system in Ciudad del [...] | 2005-05-31 12:46:00 | Embassy Asuncion | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID ETRD EAGR EIND PA |
05ASUNCION939 | PARAGUAY: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW SENATE [...] (U) On 7/22, the Ambassador called on the new Senate President, Carlos Filizzola, and discussed the pending Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) project aimed at improving transparency and legislative effectiveness; legislation to increase citizen participation in government; military exerci [...] | 2005-07-26 12:56:00 | Embassy Asuncion | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EAID MARR KDEM KWMN PA |
05ATHENS2529 | COMBATING EXTREMISM IN GREECE [...] (S) SUMMARY: In Greece, the twin threats of extremism and violence stem more from a decades-old, homegrown anti-U.S., anti-NATO, anti-globalization sentiment that is deeply engrained in Greek society than from extremism exported from the Middle East. Domestic terrorist groups and an active a [...] | 2005-09-27 13:53:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI GR INTERNAL |
05ATHENS2664 | DEP FONMIN STYLIANIDES: WE WANT TO WORK WITH YOU [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Foreign Minister Stylianides met with the Ambassador October 7 to discuss bilateral cooperation in the field of energy and international assistance. Stylianides noted he had recently returned from a trip to Russia, where he had urged the inclusion of U.S. companies in la [...] | 2005-10-11 16:25:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL GR |
05ATHENS2781 | GREECE PLEDGES 1.5 MILLION FOR FOUNDATION [...] (C) Per reftel, Greek Foreign Minister Molyviatis informed Ambassador on October 25 that Greece will pledge 1.5 million USD for the Foundation for the Future. Molyviatis will provide Embassy with a letter confirming Greece's pledge as soon as possible. Looking ahead to the November 11-12 Fo [...] | 2005-10-25 10:38:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV PHUM EU XG XF GR AMB |
05ATHENS2898 | RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON GREEK ASSISTANCE TO [...] (U) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche on Greek Assistance to Pakistan earthquake relief and rehabilitation on November 3, 2005 to Deputy Foreign Minister Evripidis Stylianidis. 2. (U) Mr. Stylianidis replied in a letter dated November 4, 2005. Text of letter: Dear Mr. Ambassador, [...] | 2005-11-10 11:05:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PK PREL GR |
05ATHENS2985 | GREEK PREPAREDNESS: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION: [...] (C) Summary: The GoG is engaged in serious efforts to prepare for a potential outbreak of Avian Influenza. However, while the specific functional responsibilities of the Agriculture, Health, and Public Order Ministries appear to be in place, lack of confidence in senior leadership as well as m [...] | 2005-11-23 07:05:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL AVIANFLU |
05ATHENS3159 | GOG COMMITS TO PROVIDE $600,000 TO [...] (SBU) Summary. During his December 5 visit to Athens, USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia Thomas Mefford obtained the GoG's commitment to provide $600,000 in funding for a multilateral anti-trafficking program in Albania. This was the culmination of almost two years o [...] | 2005-12-14 07:20:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL AL GR BALKANS |
05ATHENS3247 | GREEK RESPONSE ON LONDON CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN [...] Mission has received a Greek Government response to reftel demarche regarding the international Conference for Afghanistan. Here is the text of the December 22 letter from Dimitris Platis, Chef de Cabinet of Deputy Foreign Minister Stylianidis: Begin Text: Thank you for your letter dated [...] | 2005-12-28 08:24:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV GR |
05ATHENS46 | TFXOO1: UPDATE ON GREEK SUPPORT TO TSUNAMI VICTIMS [...] Greek official and private assistance to tsunami stricken areas is approaching four million euros. The GoG has dispatched two C-130s with humanitarian and medical assistance as well as doctors and relief workers, and is considering sending a third C-130 consignment this week. The MFA has decide [...] | 2005-01-04 14:40:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PGOV GR |
05ATHENS659 | GREECE: RECONSTRUCTION DISBURSEMENTS TO IRAQ [...] Per reftel request, the MFA has provided us with the following data on the GoG's Iraq reconstruction disbursements to date. (All of GoG's official reconstruction funds are disbursed through UN agencies or Greek NGOs operating in Iraq.) 2. Under the category of "Development Assistance": [...] | 2005-03-09 11:53:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN IZ |
05ATHENS776 | INFORMATION FOR CONGRESSIONAL REPORT ON EUROPEAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-18 14:54:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID PREL CO EC PE BL VE GR |
05BAGHDAD2372 | UNDP COUNTRY DIRECTOR NAMED FOR IRAQ [...] (SBU) In a meeting with donor representatives on May 31, UN Deputy Special Representative for Iraq Staffan di Mistura announced that Paolo Lembo was being promoted to the job of Iraq Country Director for the UN Development Program (UNDP),from his current position as Humanitarian Coordinator. [...] | 2005-06-02 11:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID IZ UN |
05BAGHDAD2445 | CHARGE DISCUSSES IRAQI POLITICS, COORDINATION WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation Barham Saleh on June 7 told the Charge that the initial steps taken by the Iraqi Transitional Government (ITG) and Prime Minister Jaafari were weak and lackluster. On the constitution, Shi'a political groups are pushing to complete [...] | 2005-06-09 02:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAID PINS KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD2452 | MFA ZEBARI DISCUSSES SYRIA, IRAQ CONFERENCE, AND [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION CABLE. SEE PARAGRAPH 10. -------------------------------- SYRIAN DEMARCHE POINTS DELIVERED -------------------------------- 2. (C) On June 8, DCM conveyed REFTEL A demarche points regarding Syrian participation at EU - U.S. Brussels Conference to Minister of Foreign [...] | 2005-06-09 16:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID PINS SY LE EU IZ UN |
05BAGHDAD2453 | IRAQ: MINISTER OF FINANCE ON POLITICAL DYNAMICS, [...] (S) SUMMARY: Describing his take on current maneuvering within the Iraqi Transitional Government (ITG),Finance Minister Allawi told the DCM June 8 he does not think Prime Minister Ja'afari has done a good job in articulating a clear political position and is having difficulty managing the gov [...] | 2005-06-09 16:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | EFIN ECON EAID PGOV PREL IZ SY LE |
05BAGHDAD2476 | PROGRESS ON REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF IRAQ REFUGEE [...] (C) Summary. Officers in charge of UNAMI, IOM, and UNHCR's Iraq refugee and IDP programs told visiting PRM PDAS Rich Greene May 17-18 in Amman that the UN is attempting to shift its focus from security to humanitarian related activities in Iraq, but that remote-control program management is l [...] | 2005-06-12 14:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID PTER PREF JO IZ UN |
05BAGHDAD2527 | IRAQI MINISTER OF TRADE: PDS, JEC AND THE ARAB [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Iraqi Minister of Trade Abd' al-Bassit Kareem is confident the Public Distribution (food ration) System (PDS) has enough wheat and rice supplies for the months of June and July. The Minister, who has discussed the Arab League Boycott (ALB) demarche (reftel) with Prime Minister [...] | 2005-06-15 14:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAID IZ ECON |
05BAGHDAD2562 | MINISTRY OF PLANNING BACK AT THE CENTER OF [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Jaafari has returned primacy in contact with aid donors to the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation (MoPDC). 2. (SBU) Planning Minister Barham Saleh told us on June 15 that at a meeting earlier that day Prime Minister Jaafari said he would reverse his decis [...] | 2005-06-17 09:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID IZ |
05BAGHDAD2936 | BARONESS NICHOLSON; IRAQI COORDINATION COMMISSION KEY TO EU DONOR FUNDING [...] (C) SUMMARY. European Parliament member Baroness Emma Nicholson told Charge on July 9 that the Iraqi Transitional Government must establish a 'coordination commission' in order to receive European Union funding, as well as to provide assurances of accountability. Nicholson worried that the EU [...] | 2005-07-13 06:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID PGOV PREL PINR IZ |
05BAGHDAD3035 | AIRPORT CONTRACT DISPUTE COULD LEAD TO BIAP [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite Embassy consultations with the Iraqi Ministry of Transportation (MOT) and two contractors (Global Risk Strategies (Global) and Raytheon),it appears likely that the Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) will close as a result of the parties' inability to resolve two disp [...] | 2005-07-21 14:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EAID ECON PGOV IZ ETRA POL MIL |
05BAGHDAD3092 | NORTHERN OIL COMPANY MOVING FORWARD DESPITE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On 13 July, Charge d'Affaires David Satterfield and Emboffs met with North Oil Company (NOC) Director General (DG) Adil Al-Qazzaz to discuss pipeline security and plans for expanding oil production in Northern Iraq. Pipeline attacks and dilapidated infrastructure continue to ham [...] | 2005-07-26 13:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV EAID PREF PHUM ECIN ECON IZ |
05BAGHDAD3162 | PROGRESS REPORT ON KEY INITIATIVES, JULY 28, 2005 [...] (C) Following is Embassy Baghdad's latest update on the status of Key Initiatives. See reftels for prior updates. ------------------- ELECTRICITY AND OIL ------------------- 2. (C) Status: -- Generation: Iraq Electricity - During the reporting period, the last 7-day average peak gene [...] | 2005-07-31 12:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ELTN ENRG EPET PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD3500 | PROGRESS REPORT ON KEY INITIATIVES FOR THE [...] (C) Following is Embassy Baghdad's latest update on the status of Key Initiatives. See reftels for prior updates. ------------------ ELECTRICITY UPDATE ------------------ 2. (C/NF) Status: -- Generation: Iraq Electricity - During the reporting period, the average peak generation for [...] | 2005-08-28 19:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID ELTN ENRG EPET PREL IZ KCRS |
05BAGHDAD3547 | UN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME'S IRAQ DIRECTOR LAYS OUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Paolo Lembo, Country Director of the United Nations Development Programme Iraq, met with IRMO Director Daniel Speckhard on August 14 to discuss UNDP priorities in Iraq after having recently opened its liaison office in Baghdad. He stressed UNDP's focus on building Iraq's weak g [...] | 2005-08-30 15:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL ETRD EINV EAID ELAB IZ KCRS UN |
05BAGHDAD3549 | PLANS FOR IRAQ PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of British, Canadian, United Nations, and US missions met on August 27 to discuss efforts to raise the profile of public sector reform. Participants shared the perception that the Government of Iraq (GOI) has yet to take any initiative to ensure the emerging publ [...] | 2005-08-30 16:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID ELAB IZ KCRS |
05BAGHDAD3555 | JCRED AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY [...] (SBU) U.S. and Iraqi delegations discussed Iraq agricultural issues in Amman during the Joint Commission on Reconstruction and Economic Development (JCRED) July 11. Minister of Agriculture Dr. Ali Hussein Al-Behadli presented his strategy to reduce poverty and increase food security. In add [...] | 2005-08-31 09:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR EIND KPRV SOCI EAID IZ |
05BAGHDAD3642 | SUNNI ARAB OUTREACH IN IRAQ: MISSION PLANS [...] (U) The US Mission Baghdad, including MNF-I, is committed to achieving broad Sunni Arab support for a democratic Iraq. The Mission is aware of the beginnings of a psychological shift in the tide since the January elections regarding participation in the electoral process, and we will use a r [...] | 2005-09-06 05:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV MOPS ELAB PINS EAID KISL IZ |
05BAGHDAD3719 | TAL AFAR SITREP: SEPT. 10, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-11 02:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MOPS PREL PGOV PINS EAID PREF ECON IZ |
05BAGHDAD3727 | TAL AFAR SITREP: SEPT. 11, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-11 14:17:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | EAID ECON IZ MOPS PGOV PINS PREF PREL |
05BAGHDAD3760 | TETSURO SHARES JAPANESE PLANS TO FULFILL FUNDS [...] (SBU) On September 2 Amano Tetsuro (Minister- Counselor of the Embassy of Japan, Baghdad and Chief Liaison and Representative of Japan to Baghdad) met with IRMO Director Daniel Speckhard and Deputy Director David Harris to discuss Japan's fulfillment on the commitment of funds pledged to Iraq [...] | 2005-09-13 02:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL ETRD EINV EAID ELAB IZ KCRS |
05BAGHDAD3775 | TAL AFAR SITREP: SEPT. 13, 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-13 12:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | EAID ECON IZ MOPS PGOV PINS PREF PREL |
05BAGHDAD3942 | REFERENDUM PREPARATIONS ON TRACK, IECI TO VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI) chairman Izadin Shufig and commissioner Safwat Sidqi told PolOff on September 20 that preparations for the October 15 referendum are on track. With respect to the registration period for political entities, IECI is likely to exten [...] | 2005-09-23 12:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4045 | ACTION PLAN TO BUILD CAPACITY AND [...] (U) This is a U.S. Mission Baghdad/MNF-I coordinated cable. 2. (SBU) Summary. As directed by the references, Provincial Support Teams (PST) and Provincial Reconstruction and Development Committees (PRDC) were established by June 2005 in all 15 non-KRG provinces to accomplish their state [...] | 2005-10-01 03:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EAID KDEM IZ |
05BAGHDAD4084 | JCRED - PROGRESS REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary. Significant progress has been made with Iraq in many economic policy areas since the July 10- 11 Joint Commission on Reconstruction and Economic Development (JCRED) in Amman, Jordan. The Iraqis have moved toward the approval of their 2006 budget and beginning negotiations on a [...] | 2005-10-03 12:50:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID EFIN EINV EPET KBCT IZ ENRG ETRD |
05BAGHDAD4384 | AVIAN FLU OUTBREAK DOES NOT POSE SIGNIFICANT [...] SUMMARY: The H9N2 strain of avian flu virus detected in the northern governorates does not pose a significant health risk to humans. The GOI is responding and developing response and prevention plans. An Embassy task force is following the situation and assisting the GOI as necessary and ap [...] | 2005-10-25 08:19:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD KSCA TBIO IZ |
05BAGHDAD4386 | IRAQI CONTRIBUTION TO PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF [...] (SBU) The Iraqi Ministry of Defense has offered to send an Iraqi Army engineering company of approximately 140 men to Pakistan to assist in earthquake relief (reftel). A letter was passed to the Iraqi MFA for formal transmission to the government of Pakistan, that must then decide whether or [...] | 2005-10-25 11:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM PREL MOPS PK IZ |
05BAGHDAD4448 | IRMO DIRECTOR'S MEETINGS WITH [...] Summary. During the period of October 16-25, IRMO Director Daniel Speckhard met separately with Ambassadors from the Republic of Korea, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, and Australia. The IRMO Director briefed the ambassadors on three initiatives: U.S. plans to establish the first th [...] | 2005-10-30 15:00:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PNAT PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD4774 | TOWNS NEAR SYRIAN BORDER RETURNING TO NORMALCY [...] (C) Summary. This is a SET Ramadi Cable. Site visits to two, separate portions of the Western Euphrates River valley revealed -- post-combat operations -- a generally positive climate for the December 15 elections. There are no immediate humanitarian crises and military planners hope to expa [...] | 2005-11-29 14:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREF EAID ECON EIND MOPS IZ |
05BAGHDAD4897 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH WATER [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador and IRMO Director Speckhard met with Minister of Water Resources Dr. Latif Rashid on November 28 to discuss government transition, capacity development, and substantive issues related to Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR). These included transboundary water issues with [...] | 2005-12-08 10:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PNAT PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD4904 | OPIC INQUIRY RE: ERBIL HOUSING PROJECT [...] This cable is in response to questions posed in reftel re: OPIC interest in Erbil Housing Project. ------------------------------------- Scimitar, Bazian, and KRG Background ------------------------------------- 2. Iraqi contacts indicate that Scimitar Global Ventures acts as a broker [...] | 2005-12-08 14:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EINV ETRD KPRV IZ |
05BAGHDAD4942 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING GOI REQUEST FOR WORLD [...] Embassy transmitted demarche talking points to the Special Assistant to Planning Minister Barham Salih on December 11. In a telecon with the advisor, we were told that Barham Salih remains intensely interested in establishing a permanent World Bank (WB) Office here. He also promised to inco [...] | 2005-12-12 08:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN IZ PREL IBRD |
05BAGHDAD5032 | IRMO DIRECTOR'S MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 12, IRMO Director Daniel Speckhard met with Japanese Ambassador Toshiro Suzuki to discuss a potential Japanese role in the PRT initiative and US-Japan cooperation to assist in Iraqi reconstruction efforts. Suzuki reaffirmed Japan's continued desire to assist in Iraq [...] | 2005-12-18 06:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PNAT PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD5072 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD'S FIRST [...] (U) Action request, para seven. 2. (U) BEGIN SUMMARY. Ambassador Khalilzad and IRMO Director Speckhard met with Minister Nasreen Berwari, Iraq Minister of Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works (MMPW),on December 10 to discuss several substantive issues. Ms. Berwari suggested that th [...] | 2005-12-20 18:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PNAT PREL IZ |
05BAGHDAD5101 | OPIC INQUIRY RE: IMMDF LOAN PROPOSALS [...] This cable is in response to reftel A re: OPIC request for Embassy comments on potential Iraq Middle Market Development Foundation (IMMDF) loan proposals. 2. Post IRMO/Private Sector Development was closely involved in the referral process for projects A (Naseer Oxygen Gas),C (Hilal Al K [...] | 2005-12-24 08:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EINV ETRD KPRV IZ |
05BANGKOK1507 | UNESCAP: May's "High-level" Ministerial to Highlight [...] (SBU) SUMARRY: At the February 24 meeting of UNESCAP's (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) Permanent Representatives, Executive Secretary Kim Hak-Su announced a High-level Tsunami Panel for the May 12-18 ministerial that would include select prime ministers [...] | 2005-03-01 10:10:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KUNR OVIP SENV SOCI TPHY ID IN IR FJ TH ESCAP |
05BANGKOK4796 | CORRECTED VERSION: THAILAND'S NATIONAL DISASTER [...] Summary: Thailand's new National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC) issued a "Tsunami Watch" immediately following the 7.2 Richter magnitude earthquake near Nicobar Island in the Indian Ocean late at night on July 24. The "watch" prompted local officials to evacuate residents and tourists in some [...] | 2005-07-27 01:24:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY TSPL PREL SENV EAID KSCA TH |
05BANGKOK5096 | THAILAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MS. MELISSA FRANCIS [...] (U) EMBASSY WELCOMES AND GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO MS. MELISSA FRANCIS, NEP, TO TRAVEL TO BANGKOK, THAILAND O/A SEPTEMBER 8 OCTOBER 12, 2005. PURPOSE OF THIS TRAVEL IS TO COVER THE PROGRAM OFFICE AT USAID RDM/A. 2. (U) HOTEL RESERVATION IS MADE AT CENTER POINT ON WIRELESS ROAD. PER DI [...] | 2005-08-09 08:53:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID |
05BANGKOK5128 | APEC RADIOACTIVE SOURCES INITIATIVE DEMARCHE: RTG [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered demarche (reftel A) to Chutintorn Gongsakdi, Director of International Economic Policy at MFA; Katanawadee Kalayanamit, International Organizations/Peace, Security and Disarmament Division at MFA; and Amornsate [...] | 2005-08-10 05:07:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM ETTC KSTC EAID ETRD ECIN TH APECO IAEA |
05BANGKOK5559 | U.S. ENGAGEMENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TSUNAMI [...] (SBU) Following receipt of the demarche in Ref A, U.S. Trade and Development Agency Officer contacted Deputy Director General Kriengkrai of Thailand's Meteorological Department (Met Dept) under the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology and an official at Thailand's National Disa [...] | 2005-08-30 07:00:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC EAID SENV TPHY TH KSCI |
05BANGKOK5699 | THAILAND: CAPITAL ALLOCATION TO TSUNAMI VICTIMS [...] The streets of Patong Beach are busy, not as busy as normal and with a distinct scarcity of the Asian tourists typical during the summer months that comprise the low tourist season in Phuket, but still enough to give the place a certain buzz. Hotels report a 40-50 percent occupancy rate, about [...] | 2005-09-06 08:40:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID TH |
05BANGKOK5705 | ACCEPTANCE OF OFFER FOR ASSISTANCE FROM THAILAND [...] This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. Per ref. A Embassy notified RTG MFA America and South Pacific Affairs Department of U.S. acceptance and thanks for Thai offer of blankets, canned fish and rice for Hurricane Katrina relief on September 6. Embassy had earlier discussed pri [...] | 2005-09-06 09:55:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL US TH |
05BANGKOK5805 | THAI RESPONSE TO IPAPI DEMARCHE [...] Regional Environmental, Science, and Health Officer (REO) delivered points in Reftel to Dr. Itti Ditbanjong, Ambassador attached to the Office of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and to Ms. Sansanee Sahussarungsi, Director of the Division of Economic Information of t [...] | 2005-09-09 08:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON PREL SOCI TBIO XB XC TH |
05BANGKOK6596 | SECRETARY LEAVITT'S OCTOBER 10-11 VISIT TO THAILAND [...] (U) Summary: In meetings with interlocutors during his visit to Thailand October 10 and 11, HHS Secretary Leavitt underscored the importance of transparency and international cooperation in confronting the threat of avian influenza (AI) and in planning containment and pandemic preparedness ef [...] | 2005-10-18 11:26:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO OVIP PREL EAGR EAID TH |
05BANGKOK6727 | THAI EXPECTED TO INVITE FORMER PRESIDENTS TO [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. The Thai government is planning a large commemoration ceremony on December 26 in memory of those who died in the 2004 tsunami. Post's consular section is already working with the families of victims and Americans who were affected [...] | 2005-10-26 06:55:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP CASC PREL EAID TH |
05BANGKOK6943 | THAILAND: FOLLOWING UP ON ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL [...] (SBU) Poloff passed reftel points to Chutintorn Gongsakdi, MFA Director of International Economic Policy, and Katanawadee Kalayanamit from the Peace, Security and Disarmament Division at MFA. Chutintorn received the points without comment. Katanawadee said that Thailand does not plan to de [...] | 2005-11-04 09:37:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM ETTC KSTC EAID ETRD ECIN TH APECO |
05BANGKOK6960 | UN ESCAP: REQUEST FOR TESTIMONY ON ASIAN [...] (U) This message is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (U) UN ESCAP has requested nominations of experts to participate in the Expert Group Meeting on Development Issues and Policies: Infrastructure Development, to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, December 14-15, 2005. The purpo [...] | 2005-11-07 03:05:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AORC EAID TH |
05BANGKOK7014 | COMBATTING EXTREMISM [...] (C) Summary: The ongoing insurgency in the southern three provinces is the most significant manifestation of extremism in Thailand. The problem is primarily ethnic and to some extent separatist in its origin, rather than sectarian, although international, radical Islam is having an effect, b [...] | 2005-11-09 10:04:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | EAID KDEM PHUM PREL KMPI KPAO TH |
05BANGKOK703 | THAILAND SUPPORTS TIMETABLE FOR WITHDRAWAL OF U.S. [...] (C) Reftel A requests Post query the RTG for its views of the planned withdrawal of U.S. military assets from the tsunami affected region. Utapao naval air base, which is SIPDIS located in Thailand, serves as the regional hub for Combined Support Force 536 (CSF 536). Nodes from that hub, [...] | 2005-01-27 06:37:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PREL MARR MOPS TH POL MIL |
05BANGKOK704 | PACOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL FARGO MEETING WITH PRIME [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told PACOM Commander Admiral Thomas Fargo that last month's tsunami demonstrated the need for increased emphasis on SIPDIS disaster response in future Thai/US military exercises. During the January 19 meeting, Thaksin told Fargo that if the [...] | 2005-01-27 06:42:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID MOPS PREL TH POL MIL |
05BANGKOK706 | PACOM ADM FARGO'S MEETING WITH THAI FM SURAKIART, [...] (C) Summary: In their January 19 meeting, FM Surakiart told ADM Fargo that the U.S. had "won the hearts of Asians" with its rapid and massive relief to Thailand and other tsunami-devastated countries. He expressed pride in the SIPDIS Royal Thai Government's (RTG) contribution of quick appr [...] | 2005-01-27 07:02:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID MOPS PREL PGOV OVIP TH POL MIL |
05BANGKOK7268 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: THAILAND INTERESTED BUT [...] Poloff delivered Reftel demarche on November 21 to Ms. Patchanee Kithavorn, Director of the Latin America Division of the MFA Department of American and South Pacific Affairs. Patchanee told Poloff that she received Post's non-paper and that the RTG was sympathetic to the needs of the OAS Missi [...] | 2005-11-23 03:25:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PTER TH OAS |
05BANGKOK7458 | THAILAND TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (U) Summary: Recent activities have focused on child trafficking and child sex tourism in Thailand. A child sex tourism seminar was held in Bangkok under the auspices of the USG-supported Bali Process, with DHS/ICE representing the USG and providing a case study. The NGO IJM reports progres [...] | 2005-12-02 08:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KWMN PREF PREL SMIG PHUM EAID TH |
05BANGKOK7801 | THAILAND RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR AVIAN AND [...] (U) Post hereby provides updated responses to second avian influenza questionnaire contained in reftel A: A) PREPAREDNESS/COMMUNICATION -- DOES THE GOVERNMENT HAVE A PREPAREDNESS PLAN/STRATEGY FOR PREVENTING AVIAN FLU FROM BECOMING A PANDEMIC AND CONTAINING A PANDEMIC ONCE IT OCCURS? IF TH [...] | 2005-12-22 07:54:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL XX |
05BASRAH150 | ENCOURAGING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND STABILITY IN DHI QAR ON [...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 12, Ambassador Khalilzad announced to the Dhi Qar Governor and Provincial Council (PC) the approval of $7.0 million in assistance for critical reconstruction projects in the water and electric power sectors and the building of several new roads. The projects will he [...] | 2005-12-17 11:04:00 | REO Basrah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM EAID PGOV PINS ECON IZ |
05BASRAH154 | PROJECT MONEY JUMP-STARTS PRDCS IN MAYSAN AND DHI QAR [...] Summary: The Provincial Reconstruction and Development Committees (PRDC) in Maysan and Dhi Qar provinces met on December 19 and 20. Demonstrations over fuel price increases in both provinces threatened to disrupt the meetings, but Provincial Council members prevailed in making the meeting ta [...] | 2005-12-22 11:01:00 | REO Basrah | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON EAID IZ UN |
05BOGOTA1070 | SCENESETTER FOR CARTAGENA DONORS CONFERENCE, [...] (C) Embassy Bogota welcomes the U.S. Delegation, led by USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios, to Cartagena for the Feb. 2-4 follow-up conference to the London Declaration of July 2003 on international support for Colombia. This is a GOC-hosted meeting for the 24 London Declaration signatories p [...] | 2005-02-01 22:46:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PHUM CO |
05BOGOTA1079 | SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY: THE U.S. [...] This is in response to reftel request. ---------------------------- Human Rights Strategy Report ---------------------------- 2. Although Colombia is a democracy, it has been ravaged by an internal armed conflict financed by drug trafficking and other criminal activities for over 40 year [...] | 2005-02-02 15:52:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM KPAO KSEP EAID CO |
05BOGOTA10847 | DRUG CZAR WALTERS MEETING WITH MOD OSPINA AND [...] (U) November 10, 2005, 8:00-9:00, Ministry of Defense, Bogota 2. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- John P. Walters, Director ONDCP Patrick Ward, ONDCP A/D Richard O'Connor, ONDCP Julie Connor, Narcotics Affairs Section Director Col. Kevin Saderup, MilGroup Commander Col. Brian Butcher, D [...] | 2005-11-21 15:26:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL PGOV EAID CO |
05BOGOTA10967 | AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA INFORMATION - COLOMBIA [...] (U) In response to reftel, Embassy provides the following responses regarding avian and pandemic influenza preparedness in Colombia. -------------------------- PREPAREDNESS/COMMUNICATION -------------------------- 2. (SBU) DOES THE GOVERNMENT HAVE A PREPAREDNESS PLAN/STRATEGY FOR PREV [...] | 2005-11-25 16:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL CO |
05BOGOTA1296 | PRESIDENT URIBE MEETS WITH USAID ADMINISTRATOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Uribe expressed his gratitude for U.S. support of Colombia during his February 3 meeting with USAID Administrator Natsios, before the opening of the International Donors Conference on Colombia in Cartagena. In a wide ranging discussion, Uribe reviewed outstanding human [...] | 2005-02-09 18:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR EAID CO |
05BOGOTA1306 | URIBE OPENS CARTAGENA COORDINATION AND [...] Summary: On February 3 in Cartagena, President Uribe addressed representatives of 28 nations and multilateral organizations (still termed the G-24) at the day-long International Coordination and Cooperation Conference for Colombia. Uribe stated that Colombia is not in conflict, but rather a [...] | 2005-02-09 21:53:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID PTER KJUS CO |
05BOGOTA1604 | PLAN COLOMBIA IMPLEMENTATION ROUND-UP, JANUARY, [...] (U) The following is an update of Plan Colombia-related activities reported during January, 2005. ---------- DOJ/ICITAP ---------- 2. (U) From January 25-28, the DOJ International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) and U.S. Secret Service (USSS) presented a Fina [...] | 2005-02-18 19:48:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO |
05BOGOTA1728 | U/S GROSSMAN MEETS WITH HUMAN RIGHTS NGOS [...] February 14, 2005, 4:00-5:00 p.m., Ambassador's residence, Bogota 2. Participants: ---- U.S. ---- Marc Grossman, U/S for Political Affairs Ambassador William B. Wood Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Political Counselor Baxter Hunt, P Special Assistant Kiersten Stiansen, notetaker Nohemy Katta [...] | 2005-02-23 18:59:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PTER PINR KJUS EAID CO |
05BOGOTA3286 | PLAN COLOMBIA IMPLEMENTATION ROUND-UP, MARCH, 2005 [...] (U) The following is an update of Plan Colombia activities reported during March, 2005. ------- DOJ/DEA ------- 2. (SBU) To date US $11.3 million has been invested in the purchase of hardware, software, monitoring suites, the vetting process and maintenance for Operation Esperanza, Col [...] | 2005-04-08 19:30:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO |
05BOGOTA41 | PLAN COLOMBIA IMPLEMENTATION ROUND-UP, DECEMBER, [...] (U) The following is an update of Plan Colombia-related activities reported during December, 2004. ---------- DOJ/ICITAP ---------- 2. (U) On December 21, 2004, twenty-one judicial police investigators and forensic experts graduated from the 240-hour Forensic Linguistic Course taken at [...] | 2005-01-04 17:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO |
05BOGOTA5060 | PLAN COLOMBIA IMPLEMENTATION ROUND-UP, APRIL, 2005 [...] (U) The following is an update of Plan Colombia activities reported during April, 2005. -------- DOJ/JSRP -------- 2. (U) DOJ continued to provide training and technical assistance through the Justice Sector Reform Program (JSRP),in particular to develop the criminal justice sector dur [...] | 2005-05-25 22:32:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO |
05BOGOTA5167 | POST WELCOMES AUTHORIZATION TO SUPPORT [...] Post welcomes reftel and will use it as authorization to give support to specific aspects of the GOC's demobilization/reintegration program for former AUC members, including: (1) monitoring and evaluation, (2) Reference and Orientation Centers (CROs),and (3) judicial and inter-institutional [...] | 2005-05-31 15:15:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PTER PGOV PREL CO |
05BOGOTA5795 | PLAN COLOMBIA IMPLEMENTATION ROUND-UP, MAY, 2005 [...] (U) The following is an update of Plan Colombia activities reported during May, 2005. -------- DOJ/JSRP -------- 2. (U) DOJ continued to provide training and technical assistance through the Justice Sector Reform Program (JSRP). DOJ sponsored a three-week visit to the U.S. for 13 eviden [...] | 2005-06-17 13:56:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO |
05BOGOTA6141 | Proposed FY 2007 Demobilization Assistance [...] (U) Post has requested that a total of $476.753 million in FY2007 Andean Counterdrug Initiative funds be allocated for all Counter Narcotics and Anticrime Assistance programs (Ref A.) In view of the prospect that the GOC will negotiate the demobilization of large numbers of internal combatant [...] | 2005-06-28 19:36:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD PREL EAID SNAR CO |
05BOGOTA6669 | PLAN COLOMBIA IMPLEMENTATION ROUND-UP, JUNE, 2005 [...] (U) The following is an update of Plan Colombia activities reported during June, 2005. -------- DOJ/JSRP -------- 2. (U) The results of Justice Department and USAID efforts in Bogota to assist Colombia in the conversion to an oral accusatory justice system are continuing to bear fruit. [...] | 2005-07-18 11:39:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO |
05BOGOTA6683 | OAS REP ASKS ABOUT DEMOBILIZATION FUTURE [...] (C) On July 8, the Ambassador met with Organization of American States (OAS) Peace Process Verification Coordinators Sergio Caramagna and Claudia Vargas at the latters' request. Caramagna told the Ambassador that he appreciated U.S. Congressional support for the GOC's paramilitary peace proces [...] | 2005-07-18 14:52:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV EAID CO OAS |
05BOGOTA6950 | INTELLIGENCE CAPACITY DIMINISHED BY LOSS OF FUNDING [...] (S) The loss of the two airborne reconnaissance low (ARL) platforms due to funding constraints will have a critical impact on both U.S. and Colombian intelligence operations. The arrival of the "Shula Dragon" aircraft on July 15 offset requirements, but without either of the ARLs, our intellig [...] | 2005-07-25 19:52:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO |
05BOGOTA7621 | CONGRESSMAN MEEKS MEETS WITH PRESIDENT URIBE, VICE [...] (C) Summary. Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY) met with President Uribe on August 5 toward the end of his seven day visit to Colombia which focused on the Afro-Colombian community and included stops in Bogota, Tumaco, Beunaventura, Cali, Choco and Cartagena (septel). Meeks told Uribe that the [...] | 2005-08-11 18:26:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL CO CODEL |
05BOGOTA8122 | HAITI ELECTIONS: COLOMBIA WILL NOT SEND [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-29 17:48:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID HA CO |
05BOGOTA8197 | GOC OFFERS HURRICANE RECOVERY ASSISTANCE [...] On August 30, Vice Minister of Defense Andres Penate offered assistance to the United States in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Penate, as head of civil defense, offered to make available twenty English-speaking personnel from Colombia's disaster assistance force to help with recovery eff [...] | 2005-08-30 21:34:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID PGOV CO |
05BOGOTA8281 | PRESIDENT URIBE REITERATES OFFER OF HURRICANE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-01 21:11:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID PGOV KPAO CO |
05BOGOTA8284 | PLAN COLOMBIA MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS - JULY [...] (U) The following is an update of Plan Colombia activities reported during July 2005. --------------------------------------------- ------- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE/JUDICIAL SECTOR REFORM PROGRAM --------------------------------------------- ------- 2. (U) The Department of Justice Judicial [...] | 2005-09-01 21:36:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO |
05BOGOTA8290 | OAS'S INSULZA AND RIO GROUP SUPPORT DEMOBILIZATION [...] (U) Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza defended the paramilitary demobilization process during his first visit to Colombia on August 29-30. Insulza met with President Alvaro Uribe, Vice President Francisco Santos, the High Commissioner for Peace Luis C [...] | 2005-09-01 21:53:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAID OVIP SNAR CO |
05BOGOTA8454 | FOREIGN MINISTER BARCO AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS [...] (C) Ambassador Wood thanked Foreign Minister Carolina Barco September 7 for the GOC's offers of assistance in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Barco said the GOC could send its 30 disaster relief experts and nutritional powder immediately and is standing by for further instructions from the U. [...] | 2005-09-08 17:48:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID PTER ECON ETRD EAGR KCRM KJUS CO EI |
05BOGOTA9276 | PLAN COLOMBIA MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS - AUGUST [...] (U) The following is an update of Plan Colombia activities reported during August 2005. --------------------------------------------- ------- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE/JUDICIAL SECTOR REFORM PROGRAM --------------------------------------------- ------- 2. (U) The Department of Justice Judicia [...] | 2005-09-29 21:45:00 | Embassy Bogota | SECRET | PREL PGOV SNAR MASS PREF EAID KJUS CO FARC |
05BOGOTA9566 | GOC SEEKS ASSISTANCE TO REINFORCE SECURITY AFTER [...] (C) The GOC is seeking USG assistance to strengthen security in areas formerly occupied by demobilized paramilitaries. Thus far, there have only been isolated incidents of FARC incursions into former paramilitary territory, but the FARC could become emboldened as the demobilization process ad [...] | 2005-10-07 15:36:00 | Embassy Bogota | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR EAID ASEC SNAR CO OAS AUC FARC |
05BOGOTA9790 | COLOMBIAN PEACE PROCESS: URGENT REQUEST FOR [...] (U) This is an action request (see para 6). 2. (U) The Government of Colombia (GoC) is currently leading an unprecedented peace process with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). More than 18,000 former combatants have laid down their arms since the beginning of the Uribe adm [...] | 2005-10-17 15:52:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PREL CO OAS |
05BRASILIA126 | CARTAGENA PROTOCOL AND BRAZIL BIOTECH REGS [...] Since the first Meeting of Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in February 2004, the GOB has introduced, but still not passed, legislation that would change regulatory practices concerning biosafety. Although, the bill is pro-GMO, it would reinforce existing labeling and documentat [...] | 2005-01-13 12:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR EAID SENV KSCA BR |
05BRASILIA1444 | Trafficking in Persons LOA for Brazil [...] (SBU) Begin Summary: Our efforts to negotiate a Letter of Agreement (LOA) with the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) concerning the President's Initiative on Trafficking in Persons have made no progress and we do not anticipate movement any time soon. Since the Brazilian impleme [...] | 2005-05-31 13:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EAID PGOV PREL PHUM BR TIP |
05BRASILIA1577 | BRAZIL: ENHANCING COOPERATION WITH BRAZIL IN [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 6, Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Africa Division Chief Joao Ignacio Padilha and poloff discussed a number of joint USG/GOB coordination projects in Lusophone Africa. Poloff and Padilha also talked about assistance projects that NGOs and other Brazilian [...] | 2005-06-10 19:51:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL BR AO MZ |
05BRASILIA2335 | BRAZILIAN MINISTRY OF HEALTH SLOWS THE PACE ON [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 30, DCM, accompanied by selected members of Country Team, met with Ministry of Health Executive Secretary Jose Agenor da Silva to discuss the implications of any potential GOB move towards compulsory licensing of pharmaceuticals. Embassy message was that: a) USG value [...] | 2005-09-01 17:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD EAID PGOV IPR |
05BRASILIA2404 | DEVELOPMENT ISSUES IN THE UN HIGH LEVEL GENERAL [...] EmbOff delivered reftel non-paper to Antonio Jose Ferreira Simoes, Senior Economic Advisor to the Minister and Head of the Foreign Ministry's office for Diplomatic Planning. We will report septel should we receive any relevant response. CHICOLA [...] | 2005-09-12 19:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECIN PREL UNGA |
05BRASILIA2724 | BRAZIL LOOKS TO THE IDB FOR HELP ON INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (SBU) On October 11, EconCouns met with Ministry of Planning International Affairs Secretary Jose Carlos Miranda at the latter's request. In that conversation, Miranda stated that the Brazilian government wanted to work closely with new IDB President Moreno so as to facilitate the flow of Ban [...] | 2005-10-13 12:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN ENRG |
05BRASILIA3255 | BRAZIL: POC FOR MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANK [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-14 16:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ECON PREL BR |
05BRASILIA455 | SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 50 [...] The following is the fiftieth in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science & technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed d [...] | 2005-02-22 15:49:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
05BRASILIA75 | BRAZILIAN ENGAGEMENT IN TSUNAMI RELIEF, UNOCHA [...] According to Ministry of External Relations (MRE),South and East Asia Division Chief Edson Duarte, the Brazilian delegation to the UNOCHA Tsunami Donors Conference will be led by the Institutional Security (GSI) chief, General Jorge Armando Felix. (The GSI is located within the Presidency; G [...] | 2005-01-07 14:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PGOV BR |
05BRATISLAVA172 | GOS TO SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON CSW [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-03 08:26:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN PHUM EAID LO UN CSW |
05BRATISLAVA212 | SLOVAKIA: INFORMATION FOR CONGRESSIONAL REPORT ON [...] The Director of the Department for Official Development Assistance at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Peter Hulenyi, reports that the GOS does not currently give any bilateral contributions to the Andean region. Latin America is not considered a priority by the GOS, and Hulenyi does not anti [...] | 2005-03-15 06:02:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID PREL CO EC PE BL VE LO EUN |
05BRATISLAVA242 | DEBT RELIEF FOR POOR COUNTRIES [...] (SBU) On March 1, the post delivered talking points per reftel to the Ministry of Finance's (MOF) Department of Coordination for Relations with the EU. Representatives of the MOF replied several weeks later and expressed a great deal of enthusiasm for a 100 percent debt relief program on all [...] | 2005-03-23 14:30:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID LO |
05BRATISLAVA247 | EMBASSY BRATISLAVA RESPONSE TO CONGRESSIONAL [...] Post is forwarding documentation relating to the following cultural grants: -- PAS covered the cost of U.S. visa fees for recipients of the Open Society Foundation's (OSF) high school student essay competition in 2003 and 2004. These students attended high schools in the U.S. for one year. [...] | 2005-03-24 10:15:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON KPAO LO |
05BRATISLAVA25 | LOCAL PERSPECTIVE ON FOREST DISASTER [...] (U) Summary. On January 4, Econoff and FSN visited civic leaders in the Tatra region to discuss restoration and renewal efforts in the wake of the recent wind disaster that leveled 250 square kilometers of forest (reftel A). Two of the leaders are also members of the GOS Commission establis [...] | 2005-01-12 14:54:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID KPAO AMGT KSCA LO |
05BRATISLAVA262 | SLOVAK PARTICIPATION IN OSLO DONOR'S CONFERENCE ON [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-30 14:00:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID ECON LO |
05BRATISLAVA274 | SLOVAK RESPONSE TO WIPO SESSION ON IPR AND [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-01 12:59:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR EAID KPAO OIIP LO WIPO |
05BRATISLAVA34 | ACCESS TO GENETIC RESOURCES DEMARCHE [...] Econoff delivered questions, per reftel, to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) point of contact in Slovakia, Dr. Igor Ferencik of the Ministry of Environment (MOE). Ferencik shared the questions with officials from the MOE and the Ministry Agriculture (MOA),and they returned the f [...] | 2005-01-18 11:35:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID SENV TBIO |
05BRATISLAVA550 | TATRAS RENEWAL DEBATE [...] Summary. On June 16, 2005, post hosted a digital video conference (DVC) to introduce two American forestry experts to Slovaks working on restoration efforts in the Tatras Mountains (ref A). The conversation allowed the Americans to begin assessing the specific damage, better understand the [...] | 2005-07-12 14:25:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID KPAO AMGT KSCA LO |
05BRATISLAVA661 | FOR THE ROMA IN PRESOV, ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The proposal to erect of a wall between Roma and non-Roma citizens in the Stara Tehelna neighborhood of Presov seems to be advancing, despite negative media coverage and an initial retraction of the plan by the Mayor. In an August 12 meeting between the GOS Plenipotentiary for [...] | 2005-08-17 15:09:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM SOCI PGOV KPAO EAID LO |
05BRATISLAVA670 | OVERSEAS ACTIVITIES OF SLOVAK NGOS [...] Slovak NGOs continue to proudly participate in overseas activities fostering democratization. With support from Slovakaid (the branch of the MFA responsible for foreign aid) Slovak NGOs note that their own post-communism transition experience gives them a "comparative advantage" when it come [...] | 2005-08-19 09:15:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL EAID LO |
05BRATISLAVA714 | TFUS01: SLOVAKIA OFFERS ASSISTANCE TO KATRINA [...] The Government of Slovakia has offered to provide supplies to assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The list of available items includes the following: 500 sleeping bags with thermal and hygienic shells 300 sleeping bags 2000 wool blankets 500 wool blankets - sanitary 500 field beds [...] | 2005-09-08 15:18:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AEMR EAID LO |
05BRATISLAVA716 | SLOVAK'S POSITIVE ABOUT AVIAN FLU PARTNERSHIP [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-09 12:08:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON KSCA PREL SOCI TBIO LO |
05BRATISLAVA728 | TFUS01: ACCEPTANCE OF SLOVAK OFFER OF HURRICANE [...] Post conveyed reftel acceptance of Slovakia's offer of Hurricane Katrina assistance (25,000 blankets, 500 camp beds, 1,000 first aid kits, and 600 liters of liquid soap) to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the morning of September 10. 2. The GOS has designated the following English speaking [...] | 2005-09-13 11:24:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL LO |
05BRATISLAVA771 | COMBATING EXTREMISM IN SLOVAKIA [...] (C) Summary. The GOS and the USG have actively funded programs to combat extremism and intolerance in Slovakia. Extremism here takes the form of a privately organized Neo-Nazi movement, which usually targets the Roma minority and the small Jewish population. Violent attacks have occurred in t [...] | 2005-09-26 15:40:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI LO |
05BRATISLAVA772 | Country Clearance granted for USAID contractors Mary [...] Embassy Bratislava welcomes USAID contractors: Mary Linehan, Catherine F. Cleland, Lisa Adams, Diana Selezeanu, Robert Rosenburg, Eun-Joo Chang and John Capati and grants country clearance for the period of October 2-7, 2005. The embassy point of contact for your visit is Richard "Trey" Lyon [...] | 2005-09-27 07:35:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SL HU RO LO |
05BRATISLAVA804 | SLOVAKIA: BELARUS IS DETERIORATING, NEEDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 30, DCM and Poloff (notetaker) delivered reftel demarche to Stefan Rozkopal, MFA Director for CIS and Balkan Peninsula Countries. Rozkopal, who had met the day before with two opposition politicians from Minsk, offered Slovakia's support for democratization effor [...] | 2005-10-03 14:53:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL KDEM PGOV LO BO |
05BRATISLAVA861 | SLOVAKIA'S VIEWS OF U.S. POLICY TOWARD BELARUS [...] (C) Charge discussed Deputies Committee decisions on policy toward Belarus (ref A) with MFA Director for CIS and Balkans Stefan Rozkopal Oct. 21. Rozkopal provided a preliminary reaction to some of the points, but said the GOS hoped to have a clearer picture of the situation and how to inf [...] | 2005-10-24 06:01:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EAID PGOV BO LO EUN |
05BRATISLAVA935 | SLOVAKS ANSWER AVIAN FLU QUESTIONS [...] The following are the responses to the reftel request for information about Slovakia's avian and pandemic influenza preparedness. 2. The GOS first drafted an emergency preparedness plan for pandemic influenza in 2001. It was updated October 2005 to factor in recent developments and curre [...] | 2005-11-22 16:18:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL LO |
05BRUSSELS1109 | SOMALIA - IGAD DEPLOYMENT PLAN: EU RESPONSE [...] (C) The EU broadly shares U.S. concerns over the IGAD peacekeeping plan. However, it prefers a low-profile approach which allows the plan to collapse under its own weight for lack of Somali support. The EU will not fund any peacekeeping operation that includes troops from frontline states. [...] | 2005-03-18 09:25:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID SO USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1147 | RESULTS OF MARCH 16 EU FOREIGN MINISTERS' MEETING [...] (SBU) In addition to postponing Croatia's accession talks (septel),EU FMs at the March 16 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) also noted positive developments in the Middle East and issued conclusions on Lebanon calling for Syria to withdraw all troops and intelligence servi [...] | 2005-03-18 16:09:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID ETRD LE IR SU ES IN RU ICC EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1149 | WHAT NEXT ON CROATIA'S EU ACCESSION NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) As reported Ref A, EU Foreign Ministers on March 16 postponed opening of accession negotiations with Croatia. The General Affairs and External Relations Council Conclusions said negotiations would be opened "by common agreement as soon as the Council has established that Croatia is coopera [...] | 2005-03-18 16:23:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV EAID ETRD HR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1239 | MIGRATION, DEVELOPMENT AND INTEGRATION: EU [...] (U) At a two-day public hearing at the European Parliament, policymakers and experts exchanged ideas on harnessing international migration to help bolster European economies and populations. Their overarching call was for a legal and transparent immigration program, at the European level, whi [...] | 2005-03-24 14:28:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF SMIG PHUM KWMN EAID ELAB OSCE EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1241 | WHA DAS SHAPIRO DISCUSSES LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In March 14 meetings with WHA DAS Charles Shapiro, EU officials said: -- the EU would increase contacts with the Cuban opposition; the European Parliament might be interested in holding a public hearing with Cuban dissidents; -- the EU would send a fact-finding mission to Hait [...] | 2005-03-24 15:09:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV ETRD EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1441 | HUMANITARIAN CONSULTATIONS HOSTED BY ECHO [...] (SBU) Summary. In a full day of consultations hosted by the European Commission's Office of Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) in Brussels on February 17, participants outlined their respective program priorities for 2005; agreed that the time had come to move the "Good Humanitarian Donorship" from the [...] | 2005-04-12 13:15:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID PHUM EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1466 | DISCUSSIONS WITH THE DIRECTOR OF THE EU'S [...] (SBU) Summary: The EU Integrated Rule of Law Mission for the Iraqi criminal justice system plans to train 770 individuals from the senior management ranks of the police, the judiciary, and the penal system. The Director of the mission believes that police and military roles and tasks must be [...] | 2005-04-13 12:13:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINS PTER MARR IZ EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1472 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION THINKING ON INTERNATIONAL IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary. The European Commission wants to see a successful U.S.-EU co-hosted Iraq conference in June, and is convinced this means keeping it to a one-day event, and focusing the agenda on next steps in Iraq between now and the next round of elections. The EC is in synch with U.S. thi [...] | 2005-04-13 14:21:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID IZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1484 | SALAFRANCA PUSHES HIS CANDIDACY FOR UNDP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following up on previous approaches to USEU, Embassy Madrid and USINT Havana (REFS B-D),Spanish member of the European Parliament (MEP) Jose Ignacio Salafranca solicited support from USEU again on April 7 for his candidacy for UNDP Administrator. Salafranca is well known to USE [...] | 2005-04-14 09:45:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR EAID SP UNDP EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1527 | EC WILL SPEND 8.5M EUROS ON AFGHAN ELECTIONS [...] (U) On April 18, PolOff delivered Reftel demarche on funding for Afghanistan's parliamentary elections to Jonathan Hatwell, European Commission (EC) desk officer for Afghanistan. Hatwell reiterated that the EC "fully shares the U.S. view on the importance of the parliamentary elections," and [...] | 2005-04-18 12:46:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID AF UNSC USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1530 | CUBA: EU COMMISSIONER MICHEL BOLSTERS CUBAN FONMIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to his adviser on Cuba, European Commissioner for Development Louis Michel believes the EU must bolster Cuban FM Felipe Perez Roque as the best hope for improved EU-Cuba relations. During his March 24-27 visit to the island (REFS B-C),Michel offered Perez Roque better [...] | 2005-04-18 13:51:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR EAID CU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1542 | Gymnich Takes No Decision on China Arms, [...] (SBU) The EU's informal "Gymnich" meeting of foreign ministers sought to place the EU-China relationship in a broader context, but the arms embargo issue loomed over the discussion. A Council staffer told us a consensus still exists within the EU to work on the issue, but a majority of member [...] | 2005-04-19 10:30:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID MASS CH EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1549 | DARFUR - RHETORIC AND REALITY OF A COMPLEX CONFLICT [...] (C) Summary. The prevailing rhetoric on Darfur conveys the gravity of the humanitarian crisis, but does not capture the complexity of the changing situation on the ground. Though the violence emerged as a result of the political conflict between the GOS and the Darfur rebels, it had a ready b [...] | 2005-04-20 09:02:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PREF EAID AU SU US USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1583 | THE PROPOSED EU CONSTITUTION: WHAT IT COULD MEAN [...] (SBU) The Constitutional Treaty signed last October requires ratification by all 25 Member States. It faces its first serious test in the May 29 French referendum, and a second critical vote in the Netherlands on June 1. Under those circumstances, entry into force is a distant and uncertain [...] | 2005-04-22 08:22:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN EAID ECIN MARR SMIG EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1593 | COMMISSION AND COUNCIL EXPECT SHORT GAERC MEETING [...] (U) A shorter than normal GAERC on April 25 is unlikely to take any significant decisions on external relations topics. On the Middle East, the GAERC is exepcted to issue Conclusions on the MEPP, Iraq and Lebanon. Africa discussion will focus on the Great Lakes, with any new decisions on Zimb [...] | 2005-04-22 10:29:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KPAL IZ LE ZI CG SU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1641 | APRIL 25 GAERC: EU FMS DISCUSS MIDDLE EAST, [...] (SBU) EU FMs' April 25 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting went much as expected (REF A),with discussion moving briskly through the day's agenda prior to FMs leaving to attend the signing ceremony for the EU Accession Treaty of Romania and Bulgaria (REF B). The EU [...] | 2005-04-26 15:05:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID LE IZ IS ZF ZI RU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1727 | NATO AND EU MEET TO DISCUSS SUPPORT TO DARFUR [...] (SBU) Summary. On 29 April 2005, NATO International Staff (IS) and International Military Staff (IMS) led by Assistant Secretary General Kobieracki, met with EU General Secretariat SIPDIS and EU Military Staff (EUMS) members led by Director General for ESDP, Pieter Feith in the EU's Kortenb [...] | 2005-05-03 14:41:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MOPS EAID SU ET NATO USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS1734 | TRANSATLANTIC CONSULTATIONS ON AFRICA [...] (U) Summary. The April 20 transatlantic consultations on Africa (COAFR) addressed priorities in the Great Lakes (ensuring democratic governance, supporting security sector reform and fostering regional stability),Somalia (consolidating the peace process),Sudan (Darfur and North-South); West [...] | 2005-05-04 05:12:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV MOPS PHUM EAID XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS2160 | WORK CONTINUES ON THE EU'S PROPOSED "EXTERNAL [...] (C) While French and Dutch rejection of the EU Constitution has likely killed that document, one of the first ideas contained within it that may be implemented via other means is creation of an EU Foreign Minister supported by a European External Action Service. This may still be years away, [...] | 2005-06-07 08:25:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID CMGT EUN |
05BRUSSELS2208 | EU ON HAITIAN ELECTIONS BUDGET SHORTFALL [...] (SBU) We presented reftel demarche on June 8 to John Caloghirou, Head of the Caribbean Affairs Unit in the Development Directorate-General of the European Commission (EC). Caloghirou said the EC would contribute 18 million euros for elections, plus 2-1/2 million euros for an election-related [...] | 2005-06-09 06:48:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC EAID EFIN HA PGOV PREL EUN OAS UN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS2252 | PREVIEW OF JUNE 13 EU FOREIGN MINISTERS' MEETING [...] (C) Much of EUFMs' energy at the June 13 GAERC will focus on preparing the June 16-17 EU Summit, especially negotiations on the EU budget and failed Constitutional Treaty. Decisions on Uzebkistan and Cuba should be as reported REFs B and C. Other topics are unlikely to produce much news, alt [...] | 2005-06-10 15:54:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS2339 | UK PLANS FOR ITS EU PRESIDENCY: MIDDLE EAST ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. According to UK mission staff in Brussels who cover Middle East issues, the UK hopes to use its July-December EU presidency to work closely with the U.S. in promoting a common agenda. On Iraq, the UK hopes the June 22 conference will help move the EU to do more on rule of law [...] | 2005-06-16 15:56:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EAID UK XF EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS235 | READOUT OF EU HIGHREP SOLANA'S TRIP TO MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) SUMMARY. EU Middle East Envoy Marc Otte told USEU that, as a result of his January 9-13 trip to the region, EU High Rep Solana sees possibilities and opportunities for positive changes in the election of Mahmoud Abbas as the new leader of the Palestinian Authority. In particular, Solana [...] | 2005-01-19 17:10:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL PGOV PTER EAID IS EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS2418 | CENTRAL DUBLIN GROUP MEETING: JUNE 2005 [...] Summary. During its June 21 meeting, the members of the Central Dublin Group (DG) reviewed regional reports from South-East Asia (submitted by Australia),South-West Asia (U.K.),Central Asia (Italy),Balkans and Near East (Greece),and Eastern Europe (Germany). The Group adopted most of the [...] | 2005-06-23 13:07:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KCRM PREL SNAR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS2464 | THE EU AT 25: DOES IT WORK? [...] (C) Despite arguments in some quarters that an EU of 25 members could not work without the streamlined Council decision-making procedures of the proposed EU Constitutional Treaty, we do not believe that EU enlargement has led to EU gridlock. Over one year after enlargement, the expansion of t [...] | 2005-06-28 08:49:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ETRD CMGT EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS2469 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION FUNDING PROCESS FOR [...] Summary. The European Commission (EC) identifies only six million euros annually for counter-narcotics programs, although other funds come from country or region-specific allocations in high-risk areas. Although changes are proposed for the structure and size of the European Commission assi [...] | 2005-06-28 11:06:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KCRM SNAR EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS2641 | EU ATTENDANCE AT 60TH UNGA AND HLE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-11 16:13:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAID OTRA OVIP PGOV PREL EUN UNGA USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS284 | COORDINATOR FOR AFGHANISTAN QUINN MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 20, Coordinator for Afghanistan Ambassador Maureen Quinn and a joint State/Department of Defense team met with European Council Director General Robert Cooper and European Commission South Asia Head of Unit Julian Wilson. Cooper said he is markedly more optimistic ab [...] | 2005-01-21 17:42:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR EAID AF NATO USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS3346 | EU ELECTION TEAM LEADER DENOUNCES ETHIOPIA [...] (U) Summary. At a September 13 hearing of the European Parliament, the Chief Observer of the EU's election observation mission in Ethiopia, MEP Ana Gomes (Portuguese Socialist),condemned the GoE's handling of the redress process and related human rights abuses. She urged the international c [...] | 2005-09-13 15:38:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM ET EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS3353 | EUR PDAS VOLKER ENGAGES EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his September 7-8 EU-related meetings in Brussels, EUR PDAS Kurt Volker stressed the need for a pragmatic U.S.-EU partnership, based on our common values, to solve problems globally. With all of his interlocutors, he discussed the importance of working together to promote demo [...] | 2005-09-14 08:01:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID VE CU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS379 | S/CRS ASSESSES THE EU'S CRISIS RESPONSE [...] (C/NF) Summary: The European Union has developed deployable capabilities in police monitoring and training, civil administration, rule of law, and civil protection. Under the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP),there is an evolving capacity to do early warning of failed or failing st [...] | 2005-01-27 13:52:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MCAP MOPS EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS4172 | PDAS SHAPIRO FOCUSES ON ANDEAN REGION WITH EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro's November 15 discussions with EU officials focused principally on Venezuela, Colombia and Bolivia. On Venezuela, the European Commission (EC) acknowledged that the EU observation mission to the December elections would have to take care not to be seen as [...] | 2005-11-23 16:12:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID VE CO BL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS4293 | EU ON UPCOMING GAERC: AGREE WITH U.S. ON MOST [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to European Commission and Council Secretariat officials, the EU FMs will devote their informal session December 7 to internal EU budget negotiations that will likely carry over to the December 12 GAERC. Non-budget discussions December 12 will focus on the Balkans, in [...] | 2005-12-05 17:44:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID IZ AF ZL EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS4300 | TRANSATLANTIC CONSULTATIONS ON AFRICA [...] (SBU) Summary. The October 19 transatlantic consultations on Africa included a variety of big picture themes -- the EU strategy for Africa, peacekeeping, development, political Islam and extremism, China in Africa -- as well as discussion about key political issues in the Great Lakes, Uganda, [...] | 2005-12-06 11:07:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PGOV PHUM EAID MOPS XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS4315 | DAS DICARLO AND EU DISCUSS W. BALKANS [...] (C) DAS Rosemary DiCarlo and Kosovo Desk Officer Black discussed the Western Balkans with the UK Presidency and EU officials at the U.S.-EU COWEB Troika meeting in Brussels November 29. DAS DiCarlo highlighted the EU accession process as a catalyst for reform in the region but noted that cou [...] | 2005-12-07 07:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EAID XH EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS4323 | EU, OTHERS FRUSTRATED WITH IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY EU, Swiss, and Australian participants took the lead at a Berne Process meeting on Iran on November 29 in Brussels, agreeing that Iran was stonewalling their bilateral human rights dialogues, but Norway was optimistic that its recent exchange might yield an invitation to Iran for [...] | 2005-12-07 15:14:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PREL ECON EAID PINR XG XF EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS478 | SRI LANKA CO-CHAIRS MEET IN BRUSSELS, 01/25/2005 [...] SUMMARY: Co-chairs agreed on a press statement emphasizing a strong link between tsunami reconstruction process and building confidence to strengthen the peace process, but without a direct link to resumed peace negotiations. The Co-Chairs agreed on the need for enhanced donor coordination, b [...] | 2005-02-02 14:08:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID PHUM CE USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS537 | EU GAME PLAN ON TURKEY AND NORTH CYPRUS [...] (C) Summary: A number of European Commission officials expressed concern to visiting EUR DAS Ambassador Kennedy on January 27 about the inability of the member states to free up the trade and financial assistance package to north Cyprus that the Council had approved in July 2004. They also wor [...] | 2005-02-07 10:09:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL CY TU EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS555 | EU-CUBA: BACK TO FULL "CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT?" [...] (C) SUMMARY: The EU's January 31 decision to suspend its June 2003 restrictive measures (ref B) against Cuba should "increase EU engagement with the Cuban opposition" according to EU HighRep Javier Solana's Adviser on Latin America (protect). It is difficult to see how that will actually pla [...] | 2005-02-08 14:57:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EAID CU EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS584 | EC GREEN LINE LIBERALIZATION GAME PLAN FOR CYPRUS [...] (C) Summary: Commission officials are pleased they negotiated a preliminary agreement on February 4 with the Cypriot Government to liberalize some green line commerce in Cyprus. The EC is also pleased that Luxembourg, as the EU president, seems intent on quickly moving the agreement to Counci [...] | 2005-02-10 12:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CY ETRD EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS643 | EU WILL RAISE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-15 11:01:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAL KWBG EAID ECON EFIN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS72 | AUSTRALIANS SEEK COMMON POSITION WITH U.S.ON WCDR [...] (C) SUMMARY: We met with counterparts from the Australian Mission to the EU, at their request, to discuss EU additionality and the World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR),to be held in Kobe January 18-22. The Australians said Canberra was concerned, in the context of the tsunami disast [...] | 2005-01-07 12:42:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID AS JA CA EUN UN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS823 | CENTRAL DUBLIN GROUP MEETING: FEBRUARY 2005 [...] Summary. During its February 18 meeting, the members of the Central Dublin Group (DG) reviewed regional reports from Northern Africa (submitted by Spain),Other African Countries (France),the Caribbean (France),South America (Spain),and Central America/Mexico (U.S.). The U.K. gave a pre [...] | 2005-03-01 11:08:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM PREL EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS838 | AMBASSADOR CARLOS PASCUAL MEETS IN BRUSSELS TO [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Carlos Pascual, Coordinator of S/CRS, held a two-day series of meetings with EU officials in the Council and the Commission to explore areas for cooperative efforts on crisis response. In the meetings, Ambassador Pascual explained the mandate and structure of his offic [...] | 2005-03-02 09:24:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PHUM PREF SOCI EAID EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS883 | A/S DEWEY BILAT WITH AFGHAN DELEGATION [...] (U) Summary. On February 15, PRM Assistant Secretary Gene Dewey held a bilateral meeting with the Afghan delegation to the EU-UNHCR co-chaired Strategic Consultations on Refugees and Population Movements to and from Afghanistan (septel). A/S Dewey sought Refugee Minister Dadfar,s views on progr [...] | 2005-03-04 09:13:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM EAID AF PK USEU BRUSSELS |
05BRUSSELS899 | IF IT'S TUESDAY, IT MUST BE BRUSSELS: VISIT OF [...] (C) Summary. EU officials pledged full support to Palestinian Authority President Abbas during the London Conference and his March 2 visit to Brussels. Abbas told the Commission that Hizballah, not Hamas, posed the biggest threat to the PA, but told Solana that designating Hizballah would [...] | 2005-03-04 16:48:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL PTER EAID IS EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
05BUCHAREST1031 | DECLARATION OF DISASTER - ROMANIA [...] SUMMARY: In response to heavy damage caused by recent storms and floods, the Embassy hereby declares that a state of disaster exists in seven counties located mainly in the West and South-Western parts of Romania and requests $50,000 to be provided to assist in the relief effort. END SUMMAR [...] | 2005-04-27 14:37:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID RO |
05BUCHAREST1461 | APPLICATION FOR OPIC FINANCE: DOMENIA CREDIT [...] This is the Embassy-USAID/Romania's response to OPIC Action Request dated June 16, 2005. 2. Summary: The Mission believes the addition of resources to expand mortgage lending in the country is essential for long- term sustainable growth in the industry. Currently, the legal framework for [...] | 2005-06-29 13:06:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID OTRA EINV EFIN RO |
05BUCHAREST1584 | ROMANIA STRUGGLES TO OVERCOME EFFECTS OF FLOODS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent flooding in Romania's eastern regions have caused extensive damage to roads, suspended electricity and gas networks, submerged prime agricultural land and affected more than 14,000 households. This comes on the heels of prior spring floods in the southwestern areas that [...] | 2005-07-15 13:58:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EIND EFIN RO |
05BUCHAREST1609 | ROMANIAN FLOOD UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-20 15:24:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EIND EFIN RO |
05BUCHAREST1610 | FLOOD RELIEF REQUEST - ROMANIA [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Bucharest recommends an increase in USG humanitarian assistance to respond to continuing flooding in Romania. Heavy rains and floods that began in western Romania in April have been followed by other, more serious flooding in the south and east in recent weeks. Some 70 perc [...] | 2005-07-20 15:41:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON RO |
05BUCHAREST1636 | OUTLINE OF ROMANIAN SUPPORT FOR THE "INSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) During a July 18 discussion with PolOff regarding Romanian constitutional support for Iraq (Septel),MFA Director for the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Andreea Pastarnac, told PolOff that the GOR currently envisages a number of projects aimed at the "institutional reconstruction" of Ira [...] | 2005-07-25 13:20:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ECON EIND IZ RO |
05BUCHAREST1638 | ROMANIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE REGARDING SUPPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-25 13:21:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ECON EIND IZ RO |
05BUCHAREST258 | ROMANIAN SUPPORT FOR LIBERIAN MILITARY REFORM [...] (U) This cable contains an action request for State Department. See paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Major General Alexandru Grecu delivered January 26 to DAO a letter expressing GOR willingness to provide material assistance to the Liberian armed forces (Reftel). Grecu also provided a detailed list [...] | 2005-01-27 15:23:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID MARR MASS PREL LI RO |
05BUCHAREST353 | ROMANIAN CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS EXPRESS CAUTIOUS [...] (SBU) Summary. Leading Romanian civil society representatives expressed cautious optimism about anti- corruption efforts under newly elected President Traian Basescu during a February 2 Embassy sponsored roundtable discussion. Corruption remains a top concern for most Romanians according to o [...] | 2005-02-09 14:32:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KJUS KDEM ECON EAID RO |
05CAIRO2524 | THE SOUND AND THE FURY OF EGYPT'S REACTION TO USG [...] (C) Egyptian anger at our March 3 announcement of direct USG funding for democracy promotion has now reached the Parliament. After several weeks of increasingly strident editorial coverage in newspapers controlled by or sympathetic to the GOE, the People's Assembly has debated the implicati [...] | 2005-03-31 11:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID KMPI KDEM EG |
05CAIRO2534 | SUDAN: EGYPT TO SEND CABINET MEMBER TO OSLO [...] (C) The Charge met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit March 30 and raised the issue of the upcoming Sudan donors conference. Drawing on the points contained in ref B, the Charge stressed the importance of high-level Egyptian attendance at and support for the Oslo-hosted Sudan d [...] | 2005-03-31 15:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EFIN PHUM EG SU NO |
05CAIRO2967 | EGYPTIAN AMERICAN BANK TO BE SOLD [...] (C) Roderick Richards (protect),Managing Director of the Egyptian American Bank (EAB),told the Charge on April 18 that the Board of EAB intended to put the bank up for sale. Richards said the EAB Board would meet on April 19 to approve the intended sale, and that public announcement would f [...] | 2005-04-18 15:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EFIN EG |
05CAIRO3147 | EGYPTIAN AMERICAN BANK: BOARD OF DIRECTORS [...] (C) The Board of Directors of the Egyptian American Bank (EAB) met last week to approve the sale of EAB to a strategic investor, as reported in reftel. According to EAB General Manager Roderick Richards, the Bank of Alexandria (BOA) was instructed by the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) to sell it [...] | 2005-04-27 16:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID EG |
05CAIRO3624 | EGYPT ISSUES IPR COPYRIGHT REGULATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 29, 2005, the Prime Minister issued decree 497/2005 which promulgated the final chapter of executive regulations of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Law 82 of 2002. Analysis of this chapter, which cover copyrights and neighboring rights, indicates potential defi [...] | 2005-05-12 13:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ECON ETRD EINV EAID EG |
05CAIRO3649 | SUDAN: EGYPTIAN CONTRIBUTION TO THE AFRICAN [...] (SBU) During a May 12 meeting with MFA Sudan Office Deputy Director Abdelmoneim Omar, poloff explored the current Egyptian contribution to the African Union (AU)'s Mission in Sudan (AMIS),drawing from reftel talking points to express appreciation for Egypt's continued and expanding involvemen [...] | 2005-05-12 15:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS EAID EG SU |
05CAIRO3779 | EGYPT: TREASURY OFFICIALS HEAR GOE APPEAL FOR TAX [...] (U) On May 4, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Technical Assistance James Fall, Treasury officials Robert Warfield and Keith Krchak, and Emboffs met with Minister of Finance Youssef Boutros Ghali (YBG) and GOE tax administration officials to discuss the possibility of Treasury prov [...] | 2005-05-17 14:33:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN EG |
05CAIRO4061 | GOVERNMENT OF EGYPT MAY USE USDA'S GSM-102 PROGRAM [...] (C) Summary: On May 26, AgCounselor Asif J. Chaudhry met with Hassan Kheder, Minister of Supply and Internal Trade, to discuss Egypt's participation in the GSM-102 Program. The Vice-Chairman of General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) also attended the meeting. The meeting was a f [...] | 2005-05-31 04:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ETRD ECON EAID EG |
05CAIRO4261 | DELIVERABLES FOR THE US-EU INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Following a June 2 Iraq Steering Group meeting in Cairo (septel),Post delivered demarches in refs A and C to MFA Cabinet Staff member Alaa Hadidi, drawing on ref A talking points to encourage Egypt to show its support to the Iraqi Transitional Government during a June 22 Iraq ministerial [...] | 2005-06-06 15:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EIND ECON EG IZ EUN |
05CAIRO4309 | IRAQ CONFERENCE CORE-GROUP PLANNING MEETING IN [...] (C) Steering Group members (U.S., EU, Iraq, Japan, UN, Egypt, and Russia) met in Cairo June 2 to coordinate planning for a June 22 Ministerial meeting on Iraq to be held in Brussels (ref A). The USG delegation, led by Iraq Policy Coordinator Ambassador Richard Jones, held bilateral meetings [...] | 2005-06-08 07:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EIND ECON EG IZ RS EUN |
05CAIRO4317 | IRAQ: ARAB LEAGUE TO ATTEND BRUSSELS MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche to Arab League Secretariat Chief of Staff Hesham Yousef June 7, urging the SIPDIS Arab League and its members to do as much as possible to support the Iraqi Transitional Government (ITG) in the run-up to, and beyond, the June 22 ministerial conference in [...] | 2005-06-08 14:33:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID EG IZ |
05CAIRO4360 | SUDAN: NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE AND THE [...] (C) National Democratic Alliance (NDA) officials confirmed June 7 that negotiations would commence June 12 in Cairo between the NDA leadership and senior Government of Sudan (GOS) officials. The negotiations will cover political and security issues and are scheduled to be completed by June 18 [...] | 2005-06-10 15:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID PHUM EG SU ER |
05CAIRO4428 | EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY CONCERNED OVER POSSIBLE [...] (C) A senior MFA official convoked the Charge on June 12, at the Foreign Minister's direction, to express concern over how Egypt understood it was being characterized in a draft of a final statement for the June 20 U.S.-European Union summit in Washington. Assistant Minister Shadia Farag told [...] | 2005-06-13 09:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS EAID EU EG |
05CAIRO4681 | NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE AND GOVERNMENT OF [...] (U) Summary: Officials representing the Government of Sudan (GOS) and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) signed a peace agreement on June 18 in Cairo potentially paving the way for the NDA to participate in the Sudanese Unity Government, scheduled to be formed by July 9, 2005. The "Cai [...] | 2005-06-20 15:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID EG SG |
05CAIRO4780 | EGYPT: UN PRIORITIES UNDERSTOOD, BUT MECHANISMS [...] (C) Summary: The Acting DCM conveyed ref D points on USG priorities for UN reform at the MFA Assistant Minister level, in the absence of the Foreign Minister, on June 23. Assistant Minister Fathalla and his staff were familiar with many of the points raised, yet pressed to know what mechani [...] | 2005-06-23 15:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KUNR AORC EAID EG UNSC UNGA |
05CAIRO4875 | SUDAN: NDA OFFICIALS IN CAIRO SAY JUNE 18 [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 23, Cairo-based representatives of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) shared with the diplomatic corps their perspectives on the June 18 Cairo agreement. The tone of the briefing was hopeful, as the NDA highlighted increased NDA participation in Sudan's democratic [...] | 2005-06-27 14:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID PHUM SU EG |
05CAIRO5083 | PDAS CHENEY'S MEETING WITH GOE MINISTER OF [...] (C) NEA PDAS Liz Cheney met with Egyptian Minister of Investment Mahmoud Mohieldin to discuss the Fund for the Future. The U.S. envisioned contributing $50 million to the Fund, Cheney explained, and would like Egypt to participate along with Morocco, which had already agreed in principle to [...] | 2005-07-06 16:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN EINV EG |
05CAIRO5305 | ARAB LEAGUE STILL HOPING TO OFFER CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Arab League spokesman Hossam Zaki told PolOff July 12 that the League had been trying to facilitate the participation of legal experts in Iraq's constitution drafting process. With the assassination of the Egyptian ambassador in Baghdad, according to Zaki [...] | 2005-07-12 15:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID IZ |
05CAIRO5545 | DEPUTY SECRETARY ZOELLICK'S JULY 14 MEETING WITH [...] (U) July 14, 2005; 8:30 a.m.; Cairo, Egypt. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Charge Michael Corbin NEA PDAS Elizabeth Cheney Deputy Spokesman Adam Ereli D Executive Assistant Ross Wilson Egypt ----- Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif Minister of Foreign Trade and Ind [...] | 2005-07-20 12:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID EFIN OVIP EG |
05CAIRO5564 | EGYPT SUPPORT FOR USG POSITION ON FOOD AID [...] (SBU) During a conversation with Walid Nozahy, WTO Director of Egypt's Commercial Representation Office, tradeoff asked about Egypt's failure to support the USG position on food aid during July 6 WTO discussions in Geneva (reftel). Nozahy expressed surprise, claiming to have directed his rep [...] | 2005-07-20 15:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID EG ETRA WTRO |
05CAIRO5935 | NEA SENIOR ADVISOR MALLORY MEETING WITH EGYPTIAN [...] (SBU) NEA Senior Advisor King Mallory and private sector consultant Ahmed Dabbous met on July 28 with Egyptian Minister of Investment Mahmoud Mohieldin. Mohieldin was accompanied by Mohamed Atallah, Vice Chairman of the General Authority for Free Zones and Investment (GAFI),and the Hani Sar [...] | 2005-08-02 13:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN EINV EG |
05CAIRO6435 | PRESSURING SYRIA TO NORMALIZE THE SYRIAN-LEBANESE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-22 11:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ETRD ECON EG SY LE |
05CAIRO6510 | ARAB ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY: [...] (SBU) Reftel requests financial information on Egyptian and other Arab contributions to the Palestinian Authority in order to assist the work of Special Envoy James Wolfenson. MFA officials responded to post's request with the following information, noting that the financial data had just been [...] | 2005-08-24 10:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID ECON ETRD EFIN KPAL EG IS |
05CAIRO6577 | VISIT OF NEA ASSISTANT SECRETARY WELCH: MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER NAZIF [...] (C) NEA Assistant Secretary Welch met with Egyptian Prime Minister Nazif on August 18 to discuss bilateral and regional issues. Welch pointed out that the U.S. had delivered on its promise of greater engagement on the peace process and would engage further as both sides made progress. The internati [...] | 2005-08-25 14:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EAID ETRD EG |
05CAIRO6703 | THE NEW CABINET ONE YEAR LATER: REFORMS AND [...] (C) One year after the cabinet shuffle that placed Ahmed Nazif and other economic reformers into significant ministerial positions, President Mubarak (and in the background, his son Gamal) have gained strength from the concrete results of the economic reform agenda. Overcoming skepticism fro [...] | 2005-08-31 13:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAGR EAID EG ECON PGOV USTR |
05CAIRO6757 | EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S VERBAL MESSAGE TO THE [...] (C) The DCM was convoked to the Foreign Ministry September 1 by newly arrived MFA Chef du Cabinet, Ambassador Wafaa Bassim (D equivalent),to receive a verbal message to the Secretary (text at paragraph three) regarding steps Egypt believes Washington should take with respect to the Middle Ea [...] | 2005-09-01 16:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAL EAID PTER EG IS MEPN |
05CAIRO7087 | INNOVATIVE SOURCES OF DEVELOPMENT FINANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-12 14:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EAID EFIN EG UNGA UNSC |
05CAIRO7088 | ARAB LEAGUE RESOLUTIONS: IRAQ, PALESTINE, [...] The following are unofficial embassy translations of Arab League resolutions on Terrorism, Palestine, Iraq, and the Third Protocol/Magen David Adom issue, approved by Arab Foreign Ministers during their meeting in Cairo on September 8. The documents were obtained in draft format but have re [...] | 2005-09-12 15:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPAL EAID PTER EG IZ IS ICRC |
05CAIRO7414 | GAMAL MUBARAK AIDE ON ELECTIONS, U.S. ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Summary. A close aide to Gamal Mubarak thinks that barriers to international observers for Egypt's upcoming parliamentary elections are too high to overcome. He does not believe that any party other than the ruling NDP will win the number of seats required to field a candidate in the 201 [...] | 2005-09-25 12:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID EG |
05CAIRO7725 | VISIT OF AMBASSADOR JEFFREY: EGYPTIAN REACTION TO ARAB OUTREACH STRATEGY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-05 08:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | EAID ECON EG IZ MOPS OVIP PGOV PREL PTER SY |
05CAIRO7792 | COMBATING EXTREMISM: STREET-LEVEL COMPETITION IN [...] SUMMARY: The USG, GOE, and a wide range of non- governmental organizations in Egypt are vigorously engaged in efforts to combat extremism. In response to reftel request, this message describes efforts in Egypt to reduce the sources of extremism, counter extremism in the media, create a poli [...] | 2005-10-11 14:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI PTER |
05CAIRO7795 | SPECIAL ENVOY FOR DISENGAGEMENT WOLFENSOHN'S [...] (C) Quartet Special Envoy for Disengagement, James Wolfensohn visited Cairo October 9 and met with President Mubarak, Egyptian Intelligence Chief Omar Soliman, Defense Minister Tantawi, and Trade Minister Rachid. He briefed the Ambassador on the way out of town. Key points as follows: -- [...] | 2005-10-11 14:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID KPAL PTER EG IS |
05CAIRO8163 | EGYPT'S SUPPORT FOR PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF [...] Egypt responded immediately to Pakistan's humanitarian crisis following the earthquake and has already donated 45 tons of relief supplies, including tents, blankets, food and medicine. The Ministry of Defense used three of its own C-130s and two U.S. Navy C-130s to transport the supplies. [...] | 2005-10-24 13:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PK PHUM PREL EG |
05CAIRO8424 | APPEAL FOR PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-02 15:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PK PREL EG |
05CAIRO8496 | EGYPT TO PROVIDE MI-17 PARTS TO PAKISTAN [...] (C) Following the Ambassador's conversation with DefMin Tantawi (Ref A) requesting that Egypt provide parts for the MI-17 helicopters supporting Pakistan's earthquake relief effort, the Ministry of Defense advised Post on November 6 that it will provide some or all of 15 of the 23 items reque [...] | 2005-11-07 14:19:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL PHUM PK EG |
05CAIRO8534 | EGYPT'S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS: USG FUNDING [...] (SBU) USAID and MEPI funds are supporting a wide range of initiatives linked to Egypt's 2005 parliamentary elections, which begin on November 9 and will continue through December 7. This message provides an update on unprecedented USG initiatives, which are proceeding without GOE interferen [...] | 2005-11-08 16:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV KDEM KMPI EG |
05CAIRO8595 | EGYPT DONATES MI-171 PARTS TO PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-14 13:28:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL PK EG |
05CAIRO8878 | REQUEST FOR INFORMATION: AVIAN AND PANDEMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable responds to requests for information in reftel regarding the government of Egypt's (GOE) planning and response capabilities with regard to the threat of avian influenza (AI). The GOE has made AI a top priority, and has taken steps to mobilize government ministrie [...] | 2005-11-23 16:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL |
05CAIRO8937 | PROGRESS WITH CUSTOMS AND TRADE REFORM IN EGYPT [...] This report outlines the major reforms undertaken by the GOE in the customs and trade areas since the appointment of the new Cabinet in July 2004, highlighting USAID's support for the process. It updates and expands on Cairo 00367 dated January 15, 2004 on customs reform. 2. Under the le [...] | 2005-11-29 14:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | EG EWWT ECON EAID ETRD |
05CAIRO9249 | ASD RODMAN DISCUSSES FMF, REGIONAL AFFAIRS, AND [...] (C) Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi and Assistant Secretary of Defense Rodman discussed the vulnerability of Egypt's Foreign Military Financing (FMF),regional affairs, and internal politics during their December 1 meeting, held while Mr. Rodman was in Cairo for the annual Military [...] | 2005-12-13 10:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KPAL EAID IS IZ SY EG |
05CAIRO9263 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO EGYPT [...] (C) Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit to Egypt, which comes at a critical time not only in our relations, but also in Egyptian history: the slow sunset of a quarter century of benevolent but authoritarian rule. At 77, beginning his fifth Presidential term, Hosni Mubarak is the indispe [...] | 2005-12-13 15:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD KPAL PHUM EAID KDEM IS IZ SY EG |
05CAIRO9583 | STATUS OF EGYPTIAN BANK PRIVATIZATION [...] (C) An early December discussion between the Ambassador and Egyptian Central Bank Governor Farouk El Okdah focused on the USG-GOE Financial Sector MOU, specifically benchmarks for item three of the MOU, i.e., divestment of GOE shares in the four largest joint venture (JV) banks by 6/30/05 and [...] | 2005-12-29 16:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID EG |
05CANBERRA1453 | AFGHAN FM VISITS AUSTRALIA: GOA MOVING TOWARD [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: Australia strongly supports the process of bringing stability and democracy to Afghanistan. During his August 17-20 visit to open the new Afghan embassy in Canberra, Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah lobbied GOA offic [...] | 2005-08-29 06:51:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR ASEC EAID XD AF NL AS |
05CANBERRA806 | APEC: AUSTRALIA WILLING TO CO-SPONSOR USG'S [...] (C) We presented ref A points on May 4 to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Assistant Secretary for Arms Control and Counterproliferation Peter Shannon, and separately to International Safeguards Director Russell Leslie in the Australian Safeguards and Nonproliferation Office (AS [...] | 2005-05-09 05:03:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC ETTC EAID ETRD KNNP KSTC AS |
05CANBERRA865 | AUSTRALIA PULLS POLICE FROM PNG: ECP IN DANGER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 16 the GOA decided to withdraw Australian Federal Police (AFP) forces deployed in Papua New Guinea (PNG) as a result of the May 13 ruling by PNG's Supreme Court which overruled the legal immunity given to Australian police and bureaucrats under the Enhanced Cooperation Pr [...] | 2005-05-19 00:42:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID AS PP |
05CARACAS1049 | NDI AND IRI WORK TO STRENGTHEN POLITICAL PARTIES [...] The National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI) are in a strong position to facilitate the renovation/transformation of Venezuela's political parties, building on the Qationships developed with party membership over the past year, and the institutiona [...] | 2005-04-11 20:20:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID KDEM PHUM VE |
05CARACAS1673 | AMBASSADOR VISITS MIRANDA STATE [...] The Ambassador's visit to the central northern coastal state of Miranda on April 20, 2005 included meetings with the Governor, the Dean of the Andres Bello Catholic University, the Electricity Plant of Caracas, as well as a USAID funded NGO. Miranda is the state in which the nation's capital, [...] | 2005-06-03 19:13:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ENRG EAID VE |
05CARACAS169 | UPDATE ON THE USAID-FUNDED VENEZUELAN ELECTORAL [...] The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) has been working in Venezuela since September 2003, to support the establishment of a domestic electoral observation organization that is widely perceived as credible and impartial by a majority of Venezuelans. This is even mo [...] | 2005-01-19 20:18:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID KDEM PHUM VE |
05CARACAS1842 | FREEDOM HOUSE WORKING WITH VENEZUELA HUMAN RIGHTS [...] USAID Venezuela entered into a cooperative agreement with the US-based human rights organization Freedom House in September 2004. Through this project, Freedom House is increasing the capacity of Venezuelan human rights defenders to document and report on the human rights situation in Venezue [...] | 2005-06-17 21:24:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID KDEM PHUM VE |
05CARACAS202 | PROJECT PROPOSALS: VENEZUELAN NGO TAKES ON TIPS [...] (U) Per reftel instructions, Embassy is submitting a proposal by the NGO FUNDACEM for funding consideration. The proposal includes research to understand Venezuela's trafficking problem culminating in a published report, developing training and public awareness materials, workshops with gover [...] | 2005-01-24 19:42:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SMIG KCRM KWMN ELAB EAID VE |
05CARACAS334 | CBD AND GENETIC RESOURCE SHARING IN VENEZUELA [...] (U) This telegram is in response to reftel's request for information regarding access and procedures for access to genetic resources in Venezuela. --------------------------- Laws and National Authority --------------------------- 2. (U) Access to genetic resources is controlled by the [...] | 2005-02-01 13:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON SENV TBIO VE |
05CARACAS458 | DISASTER DECLARATION DUE TO FLOODING IN NORTHERN [...] SUMMARY: Heavy rains have been falling throughout much of northern Venezuela for nearly three full days. Serious flooding has occurred in many parts of the country, primarily coastal areas, but also parts of the capital, Caracas. At least thirteen (13) people are reported dead, and upwards of [...] | 2005-02-11 11:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID VE |
05CARACAS470 | DISASTER DECLARATION DUE TO FLOODING IN NORTHERN [...] CORRECTED COPY - REPLACES CARACAS 458. 2. SUMMARY: Heavy rains have been falling throughout much of northern Venezuela for nearly three full days. Serious flooding has occurred in many parts of the country, primarily coastal areas, but also parts of the capital, Caracas. At least thirteen [...] | 2005-02-11 14:32:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID VE |
05CARACAS546 | FLOODING: DECENT GOV RESPONSE, WITH LOTS OF SPIN [...] (SBU) From February 7 to February 13, heavy rains fell through much of Venezuela, along the north coast at first and later in the Andean region. As a result, President Hugo Chavez declared states of emergency in nine states, plus the capital district of Caracas. The death toll to date is at [...] | 2005-02-18 20:36:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV VE |
05CARACAS651 | AMBASSADOR VISITS BOLIVAR STATE [...] (U) The Ambassador,s visit to the state of Bolivar on February 16 and 17, included meetings with the Mayor of Ciudad Bolivar, Director General of Ciudad Guyana, a local Chavista university, local press, various business leaders, American citizens in the area, as well as visits to USAID-support [...] | 2005-03-03 14:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID PINR VE PIR |
05CARACAS921 | FREEDOM HOUSE STRENGTHENS VENEZUELAN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] In response to the alleged human rights violations of February/March 2004, USAID Venezuela entered into a cooperative agreement with Freedom House in September 2004. Through this project Freedom House will increase the capacity of human rights defenders in Venezuela to document and report on t [...] | 2005-03-31 10:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID KDEM PHUM VE |
05CARACAS943 | VENEZUELA: SIX WEEKS AFTER THE FLOODS [...] (C) Venezuelan Red Cross officials remain highly critical of the GOV's handling of the major floods which hit the central coast (especially Vargas state) and western Venezuela in February, telling econoff that the NGO continues to get a cold shoulder at the national level and inadequate inform [...] | 2005-04-01 19:19:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PGOV VE |
05COLOMBO1020 | Pro-JVP Media Minister Persuaded to Resign [...] (SBU) Summary: Aviation, Ports and Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera resigned from the media portfolio today amid speculation the President had asked him to do so due to his alleged favoritism towards the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna(JVP),the government's Marxist/Sinhala nationalist junior all [...] | 2005-06-08 01:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PTER EAID OIIP PREL CE |
05COLOMBO1030 | SRI LANKAN POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE [...] (U) This cable is for the post-tsunami IAWG meeting on June 9, 2005. Transitional Housing -------------------- 2. (SBU) Transitional housing re-entered the limelight this week following a meeting convened by the Finance Secretary at the request of the International Financial SIPDIS I [...] | 2005-06-09 10:50:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO1031 | GSL AIMS FOR MID-SUMMER MCA COMPACT PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) has begun to use provincial-level meetings to form local steering committees to review the GSL's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Concept Paper and provide feedback to the Finance Ministry. The process has largely been an effort to get valid [...] | 2005-06-09 10:52:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN CE |
05COLOMBO1039 | PRESIDENT TELLS AMBASSADOR SHE IS UNDER PRESSURE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kumaratunga told Ambassador she intends to sign the Joint Mechanism, she hopes by end of the month. She believes the JVP will not leave the Government if she signs. She asked for strong Co-Chair support for the Joint Mechanism. She will discuss the Joint Mechanism wi [...] | 2005-06-10 04:38:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PTER CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO106 | MALDIVES - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: USAID/DART [...] According to the Maldives National Disaster Management Center (NDMC),as of January 12, the earthquake and tsunamis killed 82 people and 26 residents are missing in Maldives. On January 10, four USAID/Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) members conducted an assessment trip to Maldives. A [...] | 2005-01-13 10:57:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO1063 | Special Media Reaction: Statement of the co- [...] (U) Summary: Sri Lankan media provided prominent, widespread and positive coverage to the statement issued June 13 by the Tokyo donors' conference co-chairs following their Washington meeting. Electronic media reported the statement on Tuesday, June 14, while all print media carried front-pa [...] | 2005-06-15 10:43:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KPAO PTER EAID OIIP PREL CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO1071 | SRI LANKAN POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE [...] (U) This cable provides information for the June 16 post-Tsunami IAWG meeting. Please see action request in para 10. Maldives -------- 2. (U) Econchief and USAID Environment Officer visited Maldives on June 13 to discuss USD 8.7 million contribution to the GORM Tsunami Relief and Reconst [...] | 2005-06-16 10:15:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO1101 | SRI LANKAN POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE [...] (U) This cable provides information for the June 23 post-Tsunami IAWG meeting. Maldives Update --------------- 2. (SBU) We are still waiting for Government of Maldives (GORM) Planning Department feedback for potential projects. Nonetheless, given Washington guidance that uses for the mo [...] | 2005-06-22 09:08:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO1116 | JOINT MECHANISM SIGNED BY GSL, PARLIAMENT [...] (C) According to sources in the Presidential Secretariat, M.S. Jayasinghe, the Secretary of the Ministry of Relief, Rehabilitation, and Reconciliation (RRR),signed the Post-Tsunami Operational Management Structure (P-TOMS),also known as the Joint Mechanism (JM) for tsunami aid distribution, [...] | 2005-06-24 07:21:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAID CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO1119 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: USAID/DART [...] The USAID/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) Program Officer, USAID/Colombo Humanitarian Assistance Program Manager (HAPM) and USAID/Colombo Development Outreach and Communications Officer (DOC) traveled to Galle and Matara districts from June 13 through 15 to monitor USAID/OFDA [...] | 2005-06-27 05:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO1127 | Special Media Reaction: Predictable Coverage of [...] (U) Summary: Sri Lankan media provided widespread prominent editorial coverage of the June 24 signing of the Joint Mechanism (Post-Tsunami Management Structure, P-TOMS) between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in high circulation Sunday edition newsp [...] | 2005-06-27 11:04:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KPAO PTER EAID OIIP PREL CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO1155 | Maldives - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] On June 4 and 5, the USAID/Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) Information Officer traveled to the Republic of Maldives (ROM) to assess the recovery efforts and monitor the USAID/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) funded tsunami recovery activities. During the visit, the [...] | 2005-07-05 05:33:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE UNICEF |
05COLOMBO1157 | NEGOTIATIONS ON ACCESS TO GENETIC RESOURCES AND BENEFIT [...] Legislation and regulation of research and collection of biological resources: Sri Lanka does not have a unified set of laws that cover all aspects of research and specimen collection on biological and genetic resources. Several articles and provisions of legislation address research aspect [...] | 2005-07-05 10:59:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID SENV TBIO CE ECONOMICS |
05COLOMBO1180 | SRI LANKAN POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE (JULY [...] (U) This cable provides information for the July 7, 2005 post-Tsunami IAWG meeting. Maldives Update --------------- 2. (SBU) Fathmath Nuzuha, Assistant Undersecretary of External Resources Management at the Ministry of Finance and Treasury has informed the embassy that the GORM wants to [...] | 2005-07-07 11:11:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO1218 | SRI LANKAN POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE (JULY [...] (U) This cable provides information for the July 13, 2005 post-Tsunami IAWG meeting. Maldives Update --------------- 2. (SBU) The Government of Maldives (GORM) informed Econoff that Riluwan Shareef, Executive Director of the Ministry of Finance, met with the Ministry of Planning on July [...] | 2005-07-13 13:03:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO125 | SRI LANKA AND MALDIVES - EARTHQUAKE AND [...] As of January 13, according to the Center for National Operations (CNO),the earthquake and tsunamis had killed 30,899 people in Sri Lanka. The USAID/Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) conducted assessments in Ampara District and Trincomolee to view the damage caused by the earthquake [...] | 2005-01-17 04:07:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO1253 | World Bank Report Details Weaknesses of Sri [...] Summary: The World Bank issued its long-delayed report on education in Sri Lanka at a conference in Colombo June 30, painting a grim picture of the state of education in a country once known for its relatively progressive and equitable system. The study, compiled in the past year by a team [...] | 2005-07-18 11:04:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL KPAO EAID OIIP PREL CE |
05COLOMBO1261 | POST RECOMMENDATIONS ON GLOBAL FUND PHASE 2 RENEWALS [...] Following is post review on the overall grant for Sri Lanka under the Global Fund. Due to limited time available for responses, this cable will provide general comments on the performance of the Global Fund for Tuberculosis and Malaria collectively, based on post discussion with key stakehold [...] | 2005-07-19 03:11:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KHIV TBIO CE COSI |
05COLOMBO1284 | HUMANITARIAN MINE ACTION (HMA) FY06 COUNTRY [...] U.S. Funds Expended : $11,937,000 (through FY2005) 2. A total of 503 officer and enlisted ranks have completed the basic demining course. Also 202 officers and enlisted ranks have completed additional demining instruction and management courses, basic and advance trauma courses as well a [...] | 2005-07-22 06:41:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT EAID MARR MOPS PREF PREL CE MAS LTTE |
05COLOMBO1286 | LTTE STIFFS NORWEGIANS ON CEASEFIRE TALKS, PTOMS [...] (C) Summary: The LTTE told Norwegians they will not hold talks on ceasefire with Government until it disarms all paramilitaries. The Tigers also said they were not willing to change any part of the PTOMS agreement. The two sides continue to work with the SLMM to solve the transportation iss [...] | 2005-07-22 06:47:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID PGOV CE NO LTTE |
05COLOMBO1291 | PRESIDENT SAYS GOVERNMENT WILL ABIDE BY CEASEFIRE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Co-chairs told President Kumaratunga ceasefire was under threat, that LTTE bore brunt of blame for ceasefire violations, but that current upsurge of violence in East required both sides to take steps. Kumaratunga said she had given orders to security forces to not attack LTTE, bu [...] | 2005-07-25 11:46:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID PGOV CE NO LTTE |
05COLOMBO1331 | SRI LANKAN POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE [...] (U) This cable provides information for the August 3, 2005 post-Tsunami IAWG meeting. Maldives Update --------------- 2. (SBU) The Government of Maldives (GORM) still has not submitted plans for using USG funds. The Planning Ministry gave a July 17 deadline to the line ministries for s [...] | 2005-08-01 10:14:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO1335 | IPR SEMINARS IN COLOMBO HIGHLIGHT ISSUES [...] Summary: A series of USPTO sponsored Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) seminars were held in Colombo on July 23 and 25 when Professor William O. Hennessey of the Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, New Hampshire, and Timothy Browning, Attorney-Advisor with the Office of Enforcement, Depart [...] | 2005-08-01 11:05:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR EAID ECON CE ECONOMICS |
05COLOMBO1367 | TSUNAMI VICTIMS STILL NEED ADEQUATE PERMANENT HOUSING [...] (SBU) July 18-20, poloff visited Galle, Ambalangoda, Ambalantota, Matara, and Hambantota to investigate the status of tsunami relief. In meetings with various government agents (GAs),non-governmental organizations (NGOs),and USAID officers, interlocutors reported that there is still a str [...] | 2005-08-04 11:14:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID PGOV SCUL SOCI CE |
05COLOMBO1375 | Sri Lanka to apply for a sovereign rating [...] Summary: The Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) is getting ready to apply for a sovereign debt rating. The rating is expected to facilitate debt financing and improve awareness of Sri Lanka in international fixed income markets. Sri Lanka is one of few countries in the region without a sovereign [...] | 2005-08-05 06:03:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID CE ECONOMICS |
05COLOMBO1404 | PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY DEEMS SRI LANKA [...] Summary. Sri Lankan health authorities are discussing a new National Medicinal Drug Policy (NMDP) that would theoretically preserve access to low-cost, essential medicines. The main selection criteria for drugs under this new policy will include cost-effectiveness, need, quality, safety and [...] | 2005-08-11 08:18:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAID CE WTO |
05COLOMBO1424 | WB/ADB report highlights constraints in Sri [...] Summary: According to a recent Asian Development Bank (ADB)/World Bank (WB) investment climate assessment, Sri Lankan firms have identified sharply deteriorated infrastructure (electricity and transport) and cost of finance as major constraints for doing business. Urban firms also cite econ [...] | 2005-08-15 05:20:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD EAID CE ECONOMICS |
05COLOMBO1425 | SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT WANTS BOTH CRACKDOWN ON [...] (C) Summary. The Sri Lankan government (GSL) wants the international community to crack down further on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the wake of the assassination of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar but also insists somewhat contradictorily that it remains committed to [...] | 2005-08-15 05:21:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL EAID CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO1428 | Special Media Reaction: Assassination of Foreign [...] (U) Summary: Foreign Minister Kadirgamar's assassination has been the overwhelming focus of all media since late Friday night, with homages and retrospectives repeatedly broadcast on TV stations and printed in the press. Despite the public anger and shock over the slaying, however, the media [...] | 2005-08-15 09:04:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PTER EAID OIIP PREL CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO1451 | Leading Tamil Announcer and Husband Murdered in [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the high-profile April 29 murder of Tamil commentator Dharmaretnam Sivaram (Ref A)and several alleged death threats received by other prominent Tamil journalists (Ref B),a well-known Tamil radio and television personality and her husband -- a former member of the Pe [...] | 2005-08-18 07:17:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PTER EAID OIIP PREL CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO146 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] As of January 16, according to the Center for National Operations (CNO),the earthquake and tsunamis had killed 30,920 people in Sri Lanka. The U.S. Military continues to engage in debris removal and clean-up activities in Galle and assist in the transport of relief supplies throughout Sri L [...] | 2005-01-19 03:24:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO147 | MALDIVES - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] According to the Maldives National Disaster Management Center (NDMC),as of January 18, the earthquake and tsunamis killed 82 people and 26 residents are missing. A key priority is to re-equip and repair health centers. The U.S. Military's primary objective in Maldives is to provide potable [...] | 2005-01-19 08:51:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO1478 | MALDIVES: DRL-FUNDED HUMAN RIGHTS SPEAKER [...] (U) Summary: From August 14-19, Dr. Bert B. Lockwood, Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati and Director of the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, was in Maldives with the assistance of the International Information Programs Bureau and funded by an Economic Support Funds (ESF [...] | 2005-08-22 11:30:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI EAID ELAB KPAO KDEM MV |
05COLOMBO1492 | SRI LANKA ECONOMIC UPDATE, AUGUST 2005 [...] Summary: GDP growth slowed to 4.8 percent in the first quarter of 2005, against 6.4 percent for the same period in 2004. While the Central Bank says the growth momentum (to achieve growth over 5 percent) is continuing as expected, high inflation is a major worry. A recovery in agriculture [...] | 2005-08-25 08:48:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID CE ECONOMICS |
05COLOMBO1514 | SRI LANKA: REQUEST FOR ELECTION SUPPORT [...] This is an action request. Please see Para 4. 2. SUMMARY: Post requests funding in the amount of USD 400,000 to support local NGO efforts to monitor and observe upcoming presidential and/or general elections. Because of initial uncertainty surrounding the length of incumbent President Cha [...] | 2005-08-30 09:02:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM EAID PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO1523 | Grenade attack on pro-LTTE newspaper office shakes [...] (U) Summary: Two men threw two grenades into the premises of the Sudar Oli newspaper office in Colombo August 29, killing one and injuring three. Sudar Oli, an unapologetically pro-LTTE paper, was the object of an unsuccessful grenade attack on one of its Colombo branch offices on August 20, [...] | 2005-08-31 07:16:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PTER PHUM EAID OIIP PREL CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO1547 | SRI LANKAN GOVERNMENT URGES EU TERRORIST [...] (C) In a September 2 meeting, Foreign Secretary H.M.G.S. Palihakkara briefed Charge' on the status of Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) efforts to persuade the European Union to proscribe the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a terrorist organization and to review possible funding flows f [...] | 2005-09-02 09:43:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL EFIN EAID PGOV CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO1556 | TFUS01: SRI LANKA AND MALDIVES DONATIONS TO [...] Per request reftel, Econchief relayed USG thanks for Sri Lanka's USD 25,000 donation to Ministry of Foreign Affairs. MFA Economic Affairs Director Esala Weerakoon said that Sri Lanka's contribution would be deliverd by Sri Lankan Ambassador to the US Bernard Goonatilake to the American Red Cr [...] | 2005-09-06 11:46:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR EAID PREL CE MV |
05COLOMBO156 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] As of January 18, according to the Center for National Operations (CNO),the earthquake and tsunamis had killed 30,922 people in Sri Lanka. The U.S. Military hopes to transition water distribution duties in Galle to the Galle Water Board by January 25. The U.S. Military continues to work on [...] | 2005-01-20 10:04:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO1562 | Sri Lanka GSP Child Labor Update [...] PER REF A, BELOW IS AN UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR INFORMATION. THIS REPORT PROVIDES NEW DEVELOPMENTS SINCE THE SUBMISSION OF THE LAST UPDATE IN 2004 (REF B). A DETAILED REPORT WAS SUBMITTED IN 2003 (REF C). A) LAWS AND REGULATIONS PROSCRIBING THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR. [...] | 2005-09-07 06:03:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID CE |
05COLOMBO157 | GSL AND LTTE CLOSE TO DEAL ON RECONSTRUCTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: GSL hopes Co-Chairs meeting will focus on tsunami reconstruction, not link assistance to peace process. Government and LTTE have held series of talks on formal mechanism for reconstruction, hope to sign MOU soon. END SUMMARY 2. (C) Ambassador met with Sri Lankan Peace Secretar [...] | 2005-01-20 10:48:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID LTTE |
05COLOMBO1594 | INITIAL SRI LANKAN RESPONSE TO INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-09 06:33:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA EAGR EAID ECON PREL SOCI TBIO CE |
05COLOMBO16 | TFXO01: SRI LANKA AND MALDIVES, SITREP NO. 7, [...] (SBU) Sri Lankan Needs/Requests: It is becoming increasingly clear that Sri Lanka has an urgent need for engineering expertise, construction equipment and heavy-lift capability to move that equipment for a national reconstruction effort of staggering proportions. On January 3 Margareta Wah [...] | 2005-01-03 11:55:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR CASC EAID PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO1644 | TEXTILES AND APPAREL SECTOR UPDATE: SRI [...] Per ref (A),information for Sri Lanka follows: - 2004 2005 - thru - June Total Industrial Prod. (USD MN) 6,889 NA Total text/apparel/leather prd(USD [...] | 2005-09-19 05:45:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KTEX ETRD EAID CE ECONOMICS |
05COLOMBO1668 | TEXTILES AND APPAREL SECTOR UPDATE-MALDIVES [...] Per ref (A),information for Maldives follows: 2. The apparel industry in Maldives has disappeared following the expiration of the MFA. The industry was comprised entirely of foreign investors, mostly from Sri Lanka, seeking quota advantages. Most started closing down operations gradually [...] | 2005-09-21 10:43:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KTEX ETRD EAID MV ECONOMICS |
05COLOMBO1669 | PROSPECTS FOR REFORM DOMINATE DISCUSSIONS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: DCM and Econchief visited Maldives September 14 and 15 and found newly-appointed cabinet members eager to move forward with a bold reform agenda, while members of the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP)continue to regroup following the August 12-13 demonstrations and rel [...] | 2005-09-21 11:10:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID MV |
05COLOMBO1680 | MALDIVES: DEMOCRACY STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: Although Maldives was not listed as a focus country in Reftel A, assisting Maldives in a peaceful transition to multi-party democracy would serve broad USG interests in promoting democracy and advancing human rights. Maldives is a moderate Islamic country where both the government [...] | 2005-09-22 11:40:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL EAID MV |
05COLOMBO1681 | SRI LANKA AND MALDIVES POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION [...] This cable is for the first Tsunami Oversight Quarterly Mechanism Meeting 2. Summary: Tsunami reconstruction activity in Sri Lanka continues apace, with improvements in overall coordination, but bottlenecks due primarily to the 100/200 meter ?buffer zone.? There have been recent suggesti [...] | 2005-09-22 11:44:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO17 | TFXO01: LTTE PEACE SECRETARIAT HEAD BRIEFED ON [...] (C) On January 2 USAID Mission Director Carol Becker, USAID/OFDA DART leader Bill Berger and poloff met with S. Puleedevan, head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Peace Secretariat at the Norwegian Ambassador's residence to explain U.S. disaster relief efforts in Sri Lanka. The [...] | 2005-01-03 12:27:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAID AEMR CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO1705 | TSUNAMI RELIEF CORRUPTION CHARGES BY AUDITOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On 7 September, Sri Lanka?s Auditor General (AG) issued a report to the Parliament based on an audit of work done by various Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) agencies, as well as district and local government offices in response to the December 26 Indian Ocean Tsunami. The AG?s re [...] | 2005-09-28 11:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO1716 | MALDIVIAN DEMOCRATIC REFORMS: PROGRESS PLODDING [...] (C) During a September 25-27 visit to Maldives as part of the first US-Maldives Friendship Week (septel),Ambassador met Government of Republic of Maldives (GORM) representatives, including President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, and opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) leaders to discuss the [...] | 2005-09-29 11:52:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID MV |
05COLOMBO1795 | Post-Tsunami Housing Update: Sri Lanka and [...] This cable is in response to reftel. 2. Summary: Overall, the housing process is going well in Sri Lanka and Maldives, with the recent announcement of relaxed buffer zone requirements in Sri Lanka possibly improving the outlook for construction of additional permanent housing. All IDPs w [...] | 2005-10-12 08:27:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO1814 | FIRST US-MALDIVES FRIENDSHIP WEEK A SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: The first-ever US-Maldives Friendship Week ("Friendship Week") which took place on September 23-28 furthered the Mission Performance Plan (MPP) goal of stable and secure partners worldwide and enhanced bilateral ties in the political, economic, cultural and security realms. Bu [...] | 2005-10-17 11:13:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EIND ETRD PGOV PHUM KPAO OIIP PREL MV |
05COLOMBO187 | NORWEGIAN AMBASSADOR BRIEFS COLOMBO CO-CHAIRS ON [...] (C) Summary. The Norwegian delegation headed by Foreign Minister Petersen made progress in working out an LTTE/GSL tsunami coordination mechanism although the deal is not final. Norwegian Ambassador Brattskar, who has been facilitating the discussions, is encouraged. Colombo co- chair rep [...] | 2005-01-25 04:24:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM EAID CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO188 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: USAID/DART [...] As of January 24, according to the Center for National Operations (CNO),the earthquake and tsunamis had killed 30,957 people in Sri Lanka. The U.S. Military plans to complete school debris clearing and latrine building by January 24, and water distributions will end on January 23. Sanitatio [...] | 2005-01-25 08:13:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO189 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: USAID/DART [...] As of January 24, according to the Center for National Operations (CNO),the earthquake and tsunamis had killed 30,957 people. The U.S. Military is starting to move equipment and personnel from Galle to Colombo. The Galle local government and the Galle Water Board are taking over responsibi [...] | 2005-01-25 08:23:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO1974 | US INTERESTS AFTER THE SRI LANKAN PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) How is the apparent victory of Mahinda Rajapakse likely to affect US interests in Sri Lanka? We define our overriding interests here quite simply: Peace and Prosperity. Peace because a successful peace process will mean the end of terrorism by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) [...] | 2005-11-18 07:44:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID PTER US CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO1995 | ECONOMIC ADVISOR SUGGESTS RAJAPAKSE WILL HOLD FINANCE [...] (C) Summary: During a November 22 meeting with Econchief, Senior Advisor to President Rajapakse, Nivaad Cabral (a long-time Embassy contact) said that the President will retain the Finance Ministry portfolio and that the new budget would be presented sometime next week. The budget will largel [...] | 2005-11-23 10:45:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EAID CE |
05COLOMBO2000 | SRI LANKA: SUSPECTED TIGERS ATTACK US-DONATED [...] (SBU) Fredrik Palsson, Chief of Party for RONCO, the contractor for the US-funded humanitarian demining program, contacted poloff the morning of November 25 to report that at about 7:45 p.m. the previous evening in the Point Pedro area of Jaffna suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTT [...] | 2005-11-25 06:38:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS EAID CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO2003 | CONFIDENT PRESIDENT VOWS TO MOVE FORWARD ON PEACE [...] (C) Summary. President Rajapakse told the Ambassador he is committed to maintaining historically close ties with the United States and welcomes co-chair involvement in the peace process. There is a role for an "independent and balanced" Norway although they should not head the SLMM in Rajap [...] | 2005-11-28 06:02:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON KIRF EAID CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO2007 | NEW PRIME MINISTER SEES HOPE FOR PEACE [...] (C) Summary. New Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake reacted with optimism to LTTE leader Prabhakaran's November 27 Heroes' Day speech, said that a return to war is not an option and expressed appreciation for U.S. military assistance. He said the anti-conversion bill will not come back [...] | 2005-11-28 08:47:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KIRF MASS EAID CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO2014 | Special Media Reaction: LTTE Leader Vellupillai [...] (SBU) Summary: Following LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran's annual Heroes' Day speech on November 27(reftel),Sri Lankan television and newspapers on November 28 and 29 focused on the future of the peace process with a renewed sense of hope and pragmatism. In response to the election of President [...] | 2005-11-29 11:07:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KPAO PTER EAID OIIP PREL CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO205 | GAINING BROAD CONSENSUS ON A TIMETABLE FOR THE [...] (C) We appreciate the opportunity to clarify the situation regarding the withdrawal of the Combined Support Group - Sri Lanka (CSG-SL) which, as noted in reftels, will occur around the end of January. As we noted in Ref B, the CSG-SL performance in both Sri Lanka and Maldives has been supe [...] | 2005-01-26 09:21:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID ECON CE MV |
05COLOMBO2056 | Special Media Reaction: Department's Statement on [...] (U) Summary: Sri Lankan Media commented widely on the statement issued Monday, December 5, by Deputy Spokesman Adam Ereli condemning persistent violations of the cease- fire agreement (CFA),in particular the December 4 LTTE landmine attacks in Jaffna. The English-language and Sinhala media c [...] | 2005-12-07 11:17:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KPAO PTER EAID OIIP PREL CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO2099 | NEW SRI LANKAN RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador met with the newly formed Sri Lankan Reconstruction and Development Agency's newly appointed Chairman, Tiran Alles, and COO, Saliya Wickramasuriya, on December 5. While neither offered significant insight into the operations of this new entity, which will absorb the [...] | 2005-12-15 05:16:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON CE ECONOMICS |
05COLOMBO2130 | TSUNAMI RELIEF IN SRI LANKA -- OFDA WRAP-UP AND [...] SUMMARY: USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE FOR SRI LANKA IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE DECEMBER 2004 TSUNAMI DISASTER WAS SPEARHEADED BY USAID/OFDA WITH THE IMMEDIATE DEPLOYMENT OF A DART TEAM AND RAPID FUNDING OF A PORTFOLIO OF EMERGENCY PROJECTS. NOW LARGELY COMPLETED, THE PROJECTS WERE INSTRUMENTAL [...] | 2005-12-21 02:05:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO2136 | Special Media Reaction: December 19 Statement by [...] (U) Summary: The statement by the Tokyo Donors Conference Co-chairs after their December 19 meeting in Brussels sparked banner headlines and lead stories of all print and electronic media on December 21. However, only the mainstream independent Daily Mirror and its sister Sinhala paper, Lanka [...] | 2005-12-21 09:54:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KPAO PTER EAID OIIP PREL CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO2145 | MIXED RECORD CONFRONTS SRI LANKA, MALDIVES AND [...] (SBU) Summary: As we approach the one year anniversary of the December 26, 2004 tsunami, Sri Lanka has avoided the mass outbreak of disease and unrest that some feared early on, established a network of transitional shelters, begun to build permanent housing, elected a new President, establis [...] | 2005-12-22 10:08:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV CE MV ECONOMICS |
05COLOMBO2164 | Special Media Reaction: Tsunami Anniversary [...] (U) Summary: All three English dailies carried Ambassador Lunstead's tsunami memorial message titled "America Joins Sri Lanka in Remembrance" on Friday, December 23. Sinhala and Tamil newspapers carried the op-ed in the vernacular on Saturday, December 24 and Monday, December 26. Complementin [...] | 2005-12-28 08:55:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KPAO PTER EAID OIIP PREL CE |
05COLOMBO2166 | Special Media Reaction: Editorial Reaction to [...] (U) Summary: The statement by the Tokyo Donors Conference Co-chairs after their December 19 meeting in Brussels sparked a considerable amount of editorial comment in the English and Sinhala press in the week following its December 21 release in Colombo. Editorialists analyzed the statement am [...] | 2005-12-28 11:19:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KPAO PTER EAID OIIP PREL CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO224 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: USAID/DART [...] As of January 25, according to the Center for National Operations (CNO),the earthquake and tsunamis had killed 30,957 people in Sri Lanka. USAID/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) implementing partner Community Habitat Finance International (CHF) is constructing 3,500 transit [...] | 2005-01-28 05:13:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO225 | MALDIVES - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: USAID/DART [...] According to the Maldives National Disaster Management Center (NDMC),as of January 18, the earthquake and tsunamis killed 82 people and 26 residents are missing in Maldives. The U.S. Military is prioritizing final operations in Maldives before its final departure. There is currently a short [...] | 2005-01-28 05:14:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO228 | Sri Lanka: Post-tsunami Political Landscape [...] (C) SUMMARY: As Sri Lanka begins to pick up the pieces one month after the tsunami, politicians are calculating the impact of the disaster on the bitterly divisive zero-sum game that is Sri Lankan politics. For now, the enormous sympathy generated for Sri Lanka-as well as repeated calls for [...] | 2005-01-28 05:59:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AEMR EAID PTER CE |
05COLOMBO244 | Special Media Reaction: Colombo Press Conference [...] (U) Summary: Media coverage of post's January 29 press conference to announce plans to transition from a mix of military and civilian tsunami relief efforts to a fully civilian one was prominent and widespread, generating front-page headlines but little editorial comment. Most media focused [...] | 2005-02-01 01:28:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KPAO PTER EAID OIIP PREL CE |
05COLOMBO252 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] From January 21 to 26, the USAID/Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) Water and Sanitation Officer (WSO) traveled to Trincomalee, Batticaloa, Ampara, Hambantota, Matara, and Galle districts to meet with implementing partners and visit internally displaced person (IDP)camps. The USAID/DA [...] | 2005-02-01 10:22:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO27 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] As of January 3, the death toll in Sri Lanka due to the earthquake and tsunamis is 29,957. Transitioning from emergency relief, the USAID/Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) plans to fund an additional USD 10 million to focus on the immediate rehabilitation needs of disaster-affected co [...] | 2005-01-04 08:34:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EAID AEMR PREL PGOV |
05COLOMBO280 | SRIL LANKA AND MALDIVES THOUGHTS ON TSUNAMI DONORS [...] Ambassador delivered points in reftel during a February 2 discussion with Presidential Advisor and Head of Sri Lanka's Task Force for Rebuilding the Nation (TAFREN) Mano Tittawella. Tittawella thought a local donor's conference in Sri Lanka presented the best opportunity for donors to discuss [...] | 2005-02-03 09:53:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN CE ECONOMICS |
05COLOMBO283 | MALDIVES - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] On January 28, the USAID/Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) Field Officer (FO) posted to Male' in Maldives departed the islands for Colombo. A summary of the U.S. Government's assistance in Maldives in response to the earthquake and tsunamis follows below. End Summary. ----------- [...] | 2005-02-03 10:17:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO285 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] As of January 31, according to the Center for National Operations (CNO),the earthquake and tsunami had killed 30,959 people in Sri Lanka. The CNO is scheduled to transition responsibilities for the tsunami relief effort to the Ministry of Public Security, Law and Order during the week of F [...] | 2005-02-03 10:18:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO3 | TFX001 - SRI LANKA TSUNAMI FINDINGS OF [...] SUMMARY: USAID/DART ASSESSMENT TEAMS HAVE COMPLETED ASSESSMENTS OF DAMAGE IN GALLE AND HAMBANTOTA DISTRICTS OF SRI LANKA, IN COORDINATION WITH A UNOCHA-FACILITATED ASSESSMENT IN NINE TSUNAMI AFFECTED DISTRICTS CIRCLING THE COAST. IN BOTH DISTRICTS, ASSESSMENT TEAMS OBSERVED SIGNIFICANT DAMA [...] | 2005-01-01 13:11:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR CE |
05COLOMBO301 | TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION: REMEMBER MALDIVES [...] (U) Summary. The Maldivian government, aided by international agencies, has done an impressive job of identifying long-term tsunami reconstruction needs. The U.S. should do its part in funding this Maldivian effort. The upcoming visit to Maldives by former U.S. Presidents Bush and Clinton [...] | 2005-02-07 11:24:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL MV |
05COLOMBO310 | DIFFERENCES IN REBUILDING COST ESTIMATES DISSIPATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent estimates of rebuilding costs by the Government's Task Force for Rebuilding the Nation (TAFREN) and the Multi-Lateral Development Banks (MDBs) seemed divergent following initial public statements, but further analysis has revealed greater commonality. Both the Government [...] | 2005-02-08 10:12:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID CE |
05COLOMBO314 | FROM COMITY TO CALUMNY: SRI LANKAN POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Six weeks after the tsunami that devastated the coasts of Sri Lanka, the main political parties have fallen back into their previous pattern of exchanging accusations and denunciations in the media. This return to fractiousness has dissolved the relative comity that prevailed imm [...] | 2005-02-09 04:26:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KPAO PTER EAID OIIP PREL CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO317 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] From January 31 to February 3, the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) deployed teams to tsunami-affected districts to visit USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) programs. The purpose of these trips was to monitor the progress of USAID/OFDA implem [...] | 2005-02-09 09:43:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO322 | DONOR'S DISCUSS RELIEF COORDINATION CONCERNS, [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified - Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Donors in Sri Lanka are concerned about a lack of coordination on remaining emergency relief efforts. UNDP is providing assistance to the Ministry of Public Security, which has been charged with [...] | 2005-02-10 10:00:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CE EAID ECON EFIN |
05COLOMBO327 | SRI LANKA: SCENESETTER FOR THE FEBRUARY 20-21 [...] (SBU) The December 26 tsunami, in spite of its cruel humanitarian toll and staggering financial costs, has provided the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) a chance to re-engage after a near two-year hiatus in negotiations. The tragedy has mitigated [...] | 2005-02-10 12:52:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV EAID PTER CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO335 | MALDIVES: SECENESETTER FOR VISIT OF FORMER [...] (SBU) Nearly one-third of the population of Maldives was affected by the December 26 tsunami. A preliminary assessment estimates total losses at about 55 percent of GDP, with the greatest negative impact felt by the crucial tourism industry. Entire populations on some islands were displaced [...] | 2005-02-11 10:55:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV EAID MV |
05COLOMBO338 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] On February 4, the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) closed the Center for National Operations (CNO) and transferred its functions to the recently established Task Force for Relief (TAFOR). USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) assessments indicate that emergency needs for food, [...] | 2005-02-14 06:19:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO348 | TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION SIGNATURE PROJECT [...] (SBU) Per request reftel, USAID has - since early January - held extended meetings and has been in frequent contact with various line entities of the GSL including the Chairman of the Rural Development Authority, senior staff of the Ministry of Fisheries and the CEO of the Vocational Training [...] | 2005-02-14 13:19:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON CE |
05COLOMBO38 | TFXO01: MALDIVES SITREP -- A UNIQUE NATION WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: During a visit by USG officials to Maldives January 2-4, a clear picture emerged of the devastion of the local islands and the govermnent's needs for assistance. On three islands visited, varying degrees of destruction met the U.S. team with piles of rubble where houses once [...] | 2005-01-06 07:46:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR EAID PGOV MV |
05COLOMBO39 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] As of January 4, according to the Center for National Operations (CNO),the death toll in Sri Lanka due to the earthquake and tsunamis is 30,190. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that the immediate priority areas in Sri Lanka are water (including cl [...] | 2005-01-06 08:23:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EAID AEMR PREL PGOV |
05COLOMBO395 | Special Media Reaction: Former Presidents [...] (U) Summary: The visit of former Presidents Clinton and Bush to Sri Lanka February 20-21 elicited copious, straightforward media coverage, with all media outlets, print as well as electronic, featuring the visit prominently. Editorial comment was largely positive as well, but a few outlets [...] | 2005-02-22 10:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KPAO EAID PTER OIIP PREL CE |
05COLOMBO399 | SRI LANKA: FORMER PRESIDENTS BUSH AND CLINTON [...] (SBU) Summary. In a February 20 meeting, Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga offered former Presidents George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton an assessment of Sri Lanka's post-tsunami progress, including immediate relief efforts and longer-term reconstruction plans. President Kumar [...] | 2005-02-22 11:31:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID PTER CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO401 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: USAID/DART [...] Former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton visited Sri Lanka as part of a tour of four tsunami-affected countries from February 20 to 21. The USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) continues to travel to tsunami- affected districts to monitor and evaluate USAID's Office of [...] | 2005-02-22 11:37:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO409 | MALDIVES: FORMER PRESIDENTS BUSH AND CLINTON [...] (SBU) Summary: In a February 21 briefing and luncheon, former Presidents George H.W. Bush and William J. Clinton heard about the tsunami's impact on Maldives and the Government of the Republic of Maldives' plans for on-going relief and long-term reconstruction. During the entire five-hour v [...] | 2005-02-24 08:55:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID MV |
05COLOMBO421 | Despite Tsunami, 5.5 percent growth forecast [...] Summary: The Central Bank of Sri Lanka expects the economy to grow by 5.5 percent in 2005 despite the extensive damage suffered in the tsunami. The bank is counting on key economic sectors and reconstruction activity to aid growth. The Central Bank forecast is higher than the post tsunami [...] | 2005-02-25 05:25:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID CE ECONOMICS |
05COLOMBO424 | SRI LANKAN REQUEST FOR POST TSUNAMI DEBT RELIEF [...] On February 24, Post received a letter from Finance Minister Sarath Amunagama addressed to US Treasurer Anna Escobedo Cabral (unclear why Cabral was addressee). The original is to be sent directly to Treasury by the Sri Lankan Embassy in Washington. The letter (text below) repeats Amunugama [...] | 2005-02-25 06:36:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN ECON CE ECONOMICS |
05COLOMBO457 | (SBU) SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND [...] (U) At a February 21 meeting, the Commissioner General of Essential Services instructed the Government Agents (GA) and lead shelter agencies to establish a district project office that will coordinate transitional shelter issues in each affected district. In addition, the Commissioner state [...] | 2005-03-02 10:16:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO464 | SRI LANKA RELIEF TO RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, please handle accordingly. SIPDIS 2. (U) We are sending these various items in hope they will be helpful in this week's IAWG discussions. 3. (U) Summary: --The GSL has outlined its policy on housing and tourism industry rebuilding alo [...] | 2005-03-03 12:21:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN CE |
05COLOMBO497 | SRI LANKA RELIEF TO RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE (MARCH [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, please handle accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: The GSL has issued new guidance on NGO and donor activity in Sri Lanka, particularly with regard to the duty free entry of relief and reconstruction supplies into the country, but the situation remains confused. H [...] | 2005-03-08 11:35:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN CE MV |
05COLOMBO502 | USAID/OFDA DART TEAM MONITORING VISIT TO TSUNAMI- [...] MEMBERS OF THE USAID/OFDA DART TEAM VISITED THE HEAVILY AFFECTED EAST AND SOUTH COASTS OF SRI LANKA MARCH 2-7 TO MONITOR PROGRESS OF RELIEF ACTIVITIES AND ASSESS PROSPECTS FOR CONTINUED RECOVERY. AVAILABLE FUNDS ARE SUFFICIENT TO MEET RELIEF NEEDS IN THE DISTRICTS VISITED BUT IMPLEMENTATION F [...] | 2005-03-09 10:47:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO51 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] As of January 7, according to the Center for National Operations (CNO),the earthquake and tsunamis killed 30,680 people in Sri Lanka. On January 6, Senators Frist and Landrieu, along with the U.S. Ambassador and USAID representatives, including the USAID/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assi [...] | 2005-01-08 08:41:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EAID AEMR PREL PGOV |
05COLOMBO510 | MALDIVES INVITES U.S. TO PARTICIPATE [...] On March 9, 2005, Post received a Diplomatic Note from the Republic of Maldives regarding the Maldive's participation in the March 17, 2005 ADB- sponsored Donors' Conference to be held in Manila, Philippines. The following is the text of the Dipnote. Begin text: Reference: (F2) CIR/200 [...] | 2005-03-10 11:27:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON MV |
05COLOMBO532 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION [...] (U) Ambassador called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse March 14 to discuss problems in post-tsunami reconstruction. (n.b., Rajapakse has no formal role to play in reconstruction process, since the Prime Minister's functions are severely limited under the Sri Lankan Constitution. Rajapaks [...] | 2005-03-14 11:28:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREL |
05COLOMBO542 | SRI LANKA AND MALDIVES TSUNAMI RELIEF AND [...] (SBU) Summary: While challenges remain, there has been some positive momentum in the transition from relief to rebuilding this week. The Ambassador met with the Prime Minister on March 14 and will meet the President on March 17 to discuss GSL policies and initiatives on tsunami relief and rec [...] | 2005-03-16 10:54:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL CE MV |
05COLOMBO547 | SRI LANKA: BISHOP OF JAFFNA SEES POPULAR [...] (C) In a March 16 meeting with poloff in Colombo, Thomas Savundaranayagam, Catholic Bishop of Jaffna, reported that initial post-tsunami coordination among the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL),the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),NGOs and the Catholic Church ran smoothly. Since then, h [...] | 2005-03-17 03:10:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER EAID PGOV PHUM CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO557 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador told President Kumaratunga that reconstruction effort was running into problems, especially on transitional shelter, with monsoon season looming. There was a risk of major problems that could cost Sri Lanka the international good will it had achieved in the emergency [...] | 2005-03-18 06:00:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER TPHY EAID CE |
05COLOMBO558 | KUMARATUNGA SAYS READY TO SIGN JOINT MECHANISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kumaratunga told Ambassador March 17 that she believes establishing a joint mechanism with LTTE for administration of tsunami reconstruction is necessary. One issue remains to be resolved. Once it is, she is ready to sign and does not believe her coalition partner the J [...] | 2005-03-18 06:02:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EAID CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO574 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF MCC CEO PAUL APPLEGARTH [...] (SBU) Summary: MCC CEO Applegarth's visit comes as Sri Lanka begins the post-Tsunami transition from relief to reconstruction. With ample public and private funds available for tsunami reconstruction, the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) and the Embassy see MCA funding as an opportunity to addre [...] | 2005-03-22 11:09:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMCA ECON EAID EFIN CE |
05COLOMBO583 | SRI LANKAN POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: In Sri Lanka, post-disaster relief and reconstruction efforts, many of which were unavoidably developed and implemented on an ad hoc basis, appear to be evolving into a more structured, longer-term implementation phase. There are three main organizations currently spearheading [...] | 2005-03-23 10:29:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO606 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES LTTE "AIR FORCE", TSUNAMI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador and Foreign Minister Kadirgamar discussed how to deal with newly-revealed LTTE air capability and Sri Lankan reports of possible additional Tiger aircraft purchases. Kadirgamar, who had just returned from a two-week trip abroad, was uninformed about GSL moves to bring [...] | 2005-03-28 11:40:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PARM MCAP EAID CE CU ID UNHRC LTTE |
05COLOMBO629 | SRI LANKA - SITUATION REPORT ON SRI LANKAN RESPONSE [...] On March 28, 2005, at 2315 local time, a magnitude 8.7 earthquake occurred off the coast of Indonesia, destroying buildings and causing numerous deaths on the Sumatran island of Nias. The following cable details the actions taken by the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) to alert residents to the [...] | 2005-03-30 11:09:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO646 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] Organizations involved in the transitional shelter sector continue to encounter obstacles to shelter construction. These obstacles include the lack of available materials, specifically timber, on the local market; delays in the Government of Sri Lanka's (GOSL) allocation and identification o [...] | 2005-04-01 06:10:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO65 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] As of January 7, according to the Center for National Operations (CNO),the earthquake and tsunamis killed 30,718 people in Sri Lanka. On January 7, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and USAID SIPDIS Administrator Andrew Natsios, along with the U.S. Ambassador and USAID/Colombo Health [...] | 2005-01-10 08:31:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO67 | TXFO01: SRI LANKA AND MALDIVES SITREP NO. 9, [...] (U) Consular efforts: As previously reported, the number of American citizens killed as a result of the tsunami stands at eight, with one additional AmCit missing and presumed dead. Conoffs have reduced the number of welfare and whereabouts cases: 15 AmCits remain unaccounted for in Sri La [...] | 2005-01-10 11:48:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR EAID CASC PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO677 | SRI LANKAN POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE [...] This cable is for use in the Tsunami IAWG meeting on Wednesday, April 6. 2. Post-tsunami relief and reconstruction continues at a measured pace in Sri Lanka, while Maldives appears to be moving ahead smartly. Ambassador will visit Maldives this week to survey reconstruction efforts and d [...] | 2005-04-06 11:00:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO678 | VISIT OF MCC CEO APPLEGARTH TO SRI LANKA INCREASES [...] (SBU) Summary: During a March 29-31 visit to Sri Lanka, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO Paul Applegarth discussed Sri Lanka's potential compact proposal with President Kumaratunga, Prime Minister Rajapakse, Finance Minister Amunagama, Central Bank Governor Mendis, Opposition Lea [...] | 2005-04-06 11:04:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KMCA EAID ECON PREL CE |
05COLOMBO694 | MALDIVES: IN MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR, PRESIDENT IS [...] (C) Summary: In an April 7 meeting with President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Ambassador Lunstead briefed the Maldivian president on the current situation regarding additional USG tsunami rehabilitation assistance. In response, Gayoom underscored the flexibility and accountability of the governme [...] | 2005-04-11 06:43:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID MV |
05COLOMBO696 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] From April 5 to April 7, the USAID/Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) Information Officer (IO) and a USAID/Colombo Foreign Service National (FSN) assisting the USAID/DART visited USAID/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) implementing partners in Galle and Matara in southe [...] | 2005-04-11 11:16:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO697 | AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO TSUNAMI-HIT ATOLL IN MALDIVES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador visited badly-damaged atoll in south Maldives. Temporary shelter for those who lost houses is well-planned, with community involvement. Most residents of severely-affected islands are willing to relocate to larger island. Maldives officials insist no one will be fo [...] | 2005-04-11 11:29:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER EAID CE |
05COLOMBO70 | TXFO01: SRI LANKA AND MALDIVES SITREP NO. 9, [...] (U) Consular efforts: As previously reported, the number of American citizens killed as a result of the tsunami stands at eight, with one additional AmCit missing and presumed dead. Conoffs have reduced the number of welfare and whereabouts cases: 15 AmCits remain unaccounted for in Sri La [...] | 2005-01-11 01:48:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR EAID CASC PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO704 | MALDIVES: GOVERNMENT FUND EFFECTIVE MECHANISM FOR [...] Summary: During Ambassador Lunstead's April 7 meetings with Maldivian officials, several details regarding tsunami assistance funding in Maldives emerged. The government's National Fund and the UNDP are the two major funding mechanisms available for USG aid. The National Fund appears well [...] | 2005-04-12 08:22:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL MV |
05COLOMBO710 | POST-TSUNAMI ASSISTANCE TO MALDIVES [...] Reftels detail my recent visit to Maldives, where I had extensive discussions with Maldives Government officials and with UNDP on the state of reconstruction planning and the options for tsunami assistance. I came away with several clear impressions. --Government of Maldives (GORM)is very [...] | 2005-04-12 10:44:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER EAID CE |
05COLOMBO712 | SRI LANKAN POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE [...] This contains an action request (Par 6). 2. We are sending this update early since Post will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday for Sri Lankan holidays. 3. The Ambassador and poloff visited the Maldives last week to discuss possible mechanisms for providing assistance, and visited sev [...] | 2005-04-12 11:35:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO725 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: USAID/DART [...] The USAID/Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) field officer (FO) and USAID/Colombo Humanitarian Assistance Program Manager (HAPM) traveled to eastern Sri Lanka from April 6 to 9 to monitor USAID/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA)-funded programs and review the progress of [...] | 2005-04-18 11:02:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO732 | International Visitor Request: Sri Lankan MP's [...] (U) A group of seven Sri Lankan Members of Parliament (MP) have requested a fully-funded trip of a week to ten days' duration to visit Hawaii, California and Washington, D.C., in order to look at how the U.S. prepares for and responds to natural disasters. The group would like to visit the Ts [...] | 2005-04-20 01:36:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO PTER EAID CE |
05COLOMBO739 | SRI LANKAN POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE [...] This cable is for the Tsunami IAWG meeting on April 20, 2005. 2. (SBU) Summary: The transition from relief to rebuilding continues to be mixed. Assistant Secretary Rocca visited affected communities in the east and found many positive examples of community rebuilding efforts. The GSL and [...] | 2005-04-20 10:52:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV CE MV LTTE |
05COLOMBO741 | NORWEGIAN FACILITATOR SOLHEIM THINKS JOINT RELIEF [...] (C) Summary. Solheim is optimistic that a joint GSL/LTTE/Muslim mechanism for tsunami relief in the north and east will be signed soon but quite emphatic that, absent the mechanism, there will be no progress on peace for a long time. How the mechanism, if signed, would play out on the gro [...] | 2005-04-20 11:22:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID PGOV CE NO LTTE |
05COLOMBO789 | SRI LANKA: A/S ROCCA DISCUSSES TSUNAMI [...] (C) In an April 19 visit to the eastern district of Ampara and in discussions with government and political leaders in Colombo on April 20, Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs Christina Rocca reviewed the progress of post-tsunami reconstruction efforts and prospects for a proposed "jo [...] | 2005-04-27 06:45:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PTER CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO792 | SRI LANKAN POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE [...] (U) This cable contains an action request, please see para 7. Post-tsunami transition from relief to reconstruction continues. The pace and organization of tsunami relief and reconstruction remains on par with SIPDIS previous reporting. Joint Mechanism with LTTE: Going nowhere fast -- [...] | 2005-04-27 11:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO797 | NORWEGIANS SEE NO PROGRESS ON JOINT RELIEF [...] (C) Summary. The Norwegians report no progress on the joint relief mechanism since Solheim's visit earlier in April. Norwegian FM Peterson will try to cajole CBK (just returned from vacation) towards progress in an imminent phone conversation; DFM Helgesen may appear on BBC to rebut the vi [...] | 2005-04-28 09:52:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID PGOV CE NO LTTE |
05COLOMBO8 | TFXO01: MALDIVES AND SRI LANKA, SITREP NO. 6, [...] (U) American Citizens: The number of Americans confirmed killed stands at 7; 67 reports of missing Americans received by the Consular Section remain unresolved; 267 welfare/whereabouts cases have been resolved. 2. (U) Casualty Figures: According to the Ministry of Social Services, the n [...] | 2005-01-02 10:50:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR CASC PREL EAID CE MV |
05COLOMBO811 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-29 06:18:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO813 | TSUNAMI AID AND STATUARY: CHINESE PREMIER'S VISIT [...] (SBU) Chinese premier Wen Jiabao's April 8-9 visit here yielded some modest tsunami aid and debt relief, mutually reinforcing public condemnations of the "evil" of separatism, and a new bust of Chou Enlai for a Chinese-built conference center in Colombo. For the Sri Lankans, who face a hefty [...] | 2005-04-29 08:33:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID CH CE |
05COLOMBO82 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] As of January 10, according to the Center for National Operations (CNO),the earthquake and tsunamis had killed 30,725 people in Sri Lanka. The USAID/Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) conducted an assessment trip in Galle and concluded that water supply is not a critical need, but sa [...] | 2005-01-11 11:47:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO826 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] The USAID/Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) field officer (FO) and USAID/Colombo Project Development Specialist (PDS) traveled to Hambantota and Galle districts on Sri Lanka's south coast from April 26 to 28 to monitor USAID/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA)-funded pro [...] | 2005-05-03 09:26:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO832 | Multiparty demonstration in Colombo over murder [...] (U) Summary: Five days after the murder of Tamil commentator Dharmaretnam Sivaram, a.k.a.Taraki, (see Reftel) prominent journalists from all political persuasions along with Members of Parliament and trade unionists gathered on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day to express concern for me [...] | 2005-05-04 08:01:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KPAO PTER EAID OIIP PREL CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO833 | SRI LANKAN POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE (MAY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-04 09:41:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO834 | SRI LANKA: PRESIDENT TALKS POSITIVELY ON JOINT [...] (C) Summary. In a May 3 address to religious leaders, President Kumaratunga publicly expressed her desire to conclude a Joint Mechanism with the Liberation Tiger of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for distribution of aid in tsunami-affected areas. Kumaratunga said the Joint Mechanism would be the path t [...] | 2005-05-04 11:15:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PREL EAID CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO844 | COLOMBO CO-CHAIR REPS MULL OVER ISSUING STATEMENT [...] (C) Summary. After May 5 discussion of whether to issue a statement in support of the joint mechanism for tsunami relief in the North and East, Colombo co-chair representatives agreed that such a statement would be most useful after the joint mechanism is agreed upon (assuming that happens [...] | 2005-05-05 12:21:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID PGOV CE NO LTTE |
05COLOMBO868 | SRI LANKAN POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE (MAY [...] (U) In Sri Lanka, reconstruction progress continues at a measured pace. The Government seems to be feeling less pressure on the transitional housing front and has announced that they have surpassed 22,000 transitional shelters and will achieve their goal of 30,000 shelters in place by June 3 [...] | 2005-05-11 07:13:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO877 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-12 11:18:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO880 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-12 11:26:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO887 | VISIT TO BATTICALOA: PESSIMISM PERVADES VIEWS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON A MAY 9-11 TRIP TO BATTICALOA IN SRI LANKA'S TURBULENT EASTERN PROVINCE, POLOFF, INFORMATION OFFICER, A/RSO,AND POL FSN MET WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, PEACE MONITORS, AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL NGOS TO ASSESS THE SITUATION ON THE GROUND AND VIEWS RE [...] | 2005-05-13 06:43:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM PGOV EAID CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO888 | SRI LANKA: PROPOSED JOINT MECHANISM NOW POLITICAL [...] (C) Hopes that the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) would sign a joint mechanism on tsunami aid before the May 16-17 Development Forum are fading. The proposal has become a political hot potato for President Chandrika Kumaratunga, with her opponen [...] | 2005-05-13 11:21:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER EAID CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO890 | KUMARATUNGA GIVES STRONG INDICATION SHE WILL GO [...] (C) Summary. President Kumaratunga told the Ambassador May 13 that she is determined to go ahead with the joint mechanism despite opposition from coalition partner JVP although the process will take a few more weeks. The Ambassador stated that the U.S. supported her efforts and that a sign [...] | 2005-05-16 03:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PTER KIRF CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO897 | Journalists in Eastern Sri Lanka Constrained in [...] (SBU) Summary: Journalists in the East of Sri Lanka, concerned about their welfare, hesitate to report fully on events in the region. Reporters from the Batticaloa Media Alliance allege they cannot report freely from the Eastern province due to pressure from the LTTE and Sri Lankan Army for [...] | 2005-05-16 10:36:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KPAO PTER EAID OIIP PREL CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO9 | TFXO02 - UPDATE OF ACTIVITIES OF USAID/OFDA [...] SUMMARY: A USAID AIR SHIPMENT LANDED YESTERDAY IN SRI LANKA BRINGING URGENTLY NEEDED RELIEF SUPPLIES FOR TSUNAMI VICTIMS. USAID/DART HAS IDENTIFIED AND SIPDIS SUBMITTED FOR RAPID CONTRACTING THE FIRST APPROVED SELECTION OF NGO IMPLEMENTATION PROPOSALS. OTI IS DEVELOPING A RESPONSE TO SUPP [...] | 2005-01-02 12:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR CE |
05COLOMBO914 | SRI LANKAN POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE (MAY [...] This cable provides updated information from Sri Lanka for the May 18 post-Tsunami IAWG meeting. Value Added Tax --------------- 2. (U) The Value Added Tax issue may be resolved. Ambassador received a letter from Finance Secretary P.B. Jayasundera over the weekend that provides a strea [...] | 2005-05-18 11:15:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO93 | TXFO01: SRI LANKA AND MALDIVES SITREP NO. 10, [...] (U) Consular efforts: The consular section continues to focus entirely on tsunami-related efforts. The number of AmCits deaths in Sri Lanka still stands at eight, with one addition AmCit missing and presumed dead. Consular staff have reduced the number of welfare and whereabouts cases to s [...] | 2005-01-12 12:24:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR EAID CASC PGOV CE MV |
05COLOMBO933 | SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT VOWS TO PASS JOINT MECHANISM, [...] (U) President Chandrika Kumaratunga gave an extemporaneous and sometimes emotional opening speech to the Sri Lanka Development Forum in Kandy on May 16, vowing to sign the "Joint Mechanism" on tsunami relief with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). She also asked donors to support [...] | 2005-05-20 05:25:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ECON EAID CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO934 | SRI LANKAN DEVELOPMENT FORUM EXCEEDS [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives from the Government of Sri Lanka and the donor community met in Kandy May 16-17 to discuss Sri Lanka's post-tsunami situation, the country's development goals and the peace process. Hosted by the Ministry of Finance and organized in collaboration with the World [...] | 2005-05-20 05:51:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO94 | TFXO01: GOVERNMENT/LTTE RELIEF COORDINATION [...] (C) Coordination between Government and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) relief efforts on the ground, especially in the east, remains adequate, according to UN and foreign diplomatic sources, despite recent allegations and counter-allegations in the local press of obstructionism and/o [...] | 2005-01-12 14:27:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV AEMR EAID CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO954 | Leading Tamil Editor Receives Death Threats [...] (U) Summary: Following the high-profile April 29 murder of Tamil commentator Dharmaretnam Sivaram, (Reftel),another prominent Tamil journalist, Vediwel Thevaraj, Acting Editor- in-Chief of the mainstream independent Tamil daily Virakesari, has reported receiving anonymous death threats. Mr. [...] | 2005-05-26 11:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KPAO PTER EAID OIIP PREL CE LTTE |
05COLOMBO956 | SRI LANKA - EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMIS: [...] From May 17 - 20, the USAID/OFDA Shelter Specialist, USAID/Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) Information Officer (IO),and USAID/Colombo Project Management Assistant traveled to Ampara District to monitor USAID/OFDA- funded programs and visit tsunami-affected areas. The USAID team met [...] | 2005-05-27 03:40:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID AEMR PREL PGOV CE |
05COLOMBO968 | FORMER PRESIDENT CLINTON EMPHASIZES JOINT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former President Clinton visited a tsunami-hit area in Sri Lanka's Muslim East where he heard SIPDIS complaints about the coastal buffer zone from NGO's and tsunami victims. He praised the proposed Joint Mechanism in SIPDIS talks with President Kumaratunga and publicly. Kuma [...] | 2005-05-31 11:31:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREL LTTE |
05COLOMBO971 | Special Media Reaction: Former President Bill [...] (U) Summary: Media coverage of President Clinton's May 27-28 visit to Sri Lanka and the Maldives as United Nations Special Envoy for Tsunami Relief was prominent and widespread. Electronic and print media reported on the visit through the weekend and Monday. The coverage of the former Presi [...] | 2005-06-01 01:32:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KPAO PTER EAID OIIP PREL CE |
05COLOMBO974 | SRI LANKA ACCEPTS US DEBT RELIEF OFFER [...] This is an action request, please see para 3. Post has received a letter from Mr. J.H.J. Jayamaha, Additional Director General for External Resources at the Sri Lankan Finance Ministry, accepting the USG offer for debt relief, asking us to conclude a bilateral agreement, providing a copy of [...] | 2005-06-01 09:46:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN ECON CE |
05COLOMBO976 | SRI LANKAN POST-TSUNAMI RECONSTRUCTION UPDATE [...] (U) This cable is for the Tsunami IAWG on June 1, 2005. 2. (U) The May 27-28 visit by former President Clinton went well and is summarized in Ref A. Media reaction is provided in Ref B. Update on USG Activity ---------------------- 3. (U) On the ground progress continues, with the [...] | 2005-06-01 09:50:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV CE MV |
05DAMASCUS6134 | SYRIA NATIONAL PLAN FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] Following is a translation of the SARG's national contingency plan for avian influenza, dated October 11, 2005, which was adopted by the Council of Ministers (including the Ministers of Transport, Local Administration and Environment, Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, Interior, Economy and Tra [...] | 2005-11-27 06:58:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL SY SYAI |
05DAMASCUS6439 | THE SARG PRESENTS ITS DEVELOPMENT PLAN TO THE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-12 11:38:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN EINV SY |
05DARESSALAAM1001 | Deteriorating Security Situation on Zanzibar [...] (C) Summary: Violence broke out in Zanzibar's Urban West Region during voter registration; weeks later, Stonetown and its environs are still on edge. A police operation to keep order during registration has ended, with a mixed verdict on its results. People who go out in the evenings still ru [...] | 2005-05-23 13:37:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID SCUL TZ |
05DARESSALAAM101 | FY 2005 ESF Request for Electoral Assistance [...] Embassy Dar es Salaam requests $500,000 ESF to fund Tanzanian Electoral Observation NGOs during the campaign and vote in the General Elections of October 2005. Any funding in excess of the immediate requirement to establish an election observation project would be directed toward long- term [...] | 2005-01-19 08:48:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PHUM PGOV ECON AMGT TZ KTER |
05DARESSALAAM1042 | TANZANIA'S ASSHF INTERIM OBLIGATION STATUS REPORT [...] The Ambassador's Special Self-Help Fund in Tanzania has successfully completed six of the seven funded projects for FY04. The remaining one will be completed by the end of July. The program continues to be a cooperative effort of several agencies in the mission that supports mission prioriti [...] | 2005-05-31 12:38:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID TZ |
05DARESSALAAM1257 | Proposed Presidential Initiative on Malaria [...] Summary: Post utilized reftel talking points to initiate discussion with Permanent Secretaries in the Ministry of Health and Finance to ascertain interest in proposed initiative. Both Permanent Secretaries expressed strong interest in the initiative and confirmed the full support of the Gov [...] | 2005-06-28 13:02:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAID TZ |
05DARESSALAAM1270 | JUNE UPDATE ON REFUGEE SITUATION [...] (U) Summary: In its monthly briefing, UNHCR reported that for the first time in decades the number of refugees it assisted in Tanzania had decreased to less than 400,000 with an estimated 398,500 refugees currently in the country. The monthly meeting with the joint diplomatic corps and NGOs [...] | 2005-06-29 11:02:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PGOV EAID TZ |
05DARESSALAAM1299 | Food Aid and the WTO: Tanzanian response [...] On June 30, Emboff and USAID Agricultural Officer delivered the points in reftel to the Acting Trade Director at the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Mr. John Mihinya and to Assistant Director of Multilateral Trade Programs Bede Lyimo. In discussing the impact of the proposed restrictions on [...] | 2005-07-02 08:06:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ETRD TZ |
05DARESSALAAM1301 | PROPOSED RESEARCH PROJECT NO. AI062957-01 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-05 06:13:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KHIV EAID TZ HHS |
05DARESSALAAM1307 | WHITHER TANZANIA? CHARGE'S END-OF-TOUR [...] (C) Summary: As I prepare to depart from Tanzania after three very enjoyable years, I see a nation with much unrealized potential, but with several daunting challenges ahead. Tanzanians can be justifiably proud of a vigorous national unity, an impressive record of democratic transitions, a [...] | 2005-07-05 07:48:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID ECON TZ |
05DARESSALAAM151 | Zanzibar's Voter Registration on Track after [...] (C) Summary: Voter registration is now proceeding on schedule, after an initial spate of violent confrontations that had forced the temporary closure of several South Pemba voter registration centers in early December. Teams from the Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) completed their work on [...] | 2005-01-25 13:53:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID TZ |
05DARESSALAAM188 | TANZANIA'S 2005 DHRF ALLOCATION REQUEST [...] Summary: Embassy Dar es Salaam's Democracy Team requests an allocation of 50,000 USDOLS to fund DHRF programs in FY05. 2005 is an election year in Tanzania, so Embassy Dar es Salaam should be a strong voice promoting continued democratization. Our support for civic and voter education progra [...] | 2005-01-31 03:58:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID TZ |
05DARESSALAAM2139 | TANZANIA: DEPSEC ZOELLICK'S SPEECH DELIVERED TO MFA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-18 13:40:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM EAID PREL SU TZ |
05DARESSALAAM214 | Zanzibar's Voter Registration: Trouble in [...] (C) Summary: In late January, the mobile teams of the Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) began to register voters in the Northern District of Unguja, Zanzibar's main island. Although diplomatic observers had expected registration to proceed quietly there, opposition parties soon began to ci [...] | 2005-02-02 06:05:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID TZ |
05DARESSALAAM234 | Up-Country Travels: Snapshots of Five Regions [...] (SBU) Summary: From January 7-23, when Embassy Dar es Salaam had the use of a Twin Otter airplane from Prescott Aviation, mission personnel traveled to five of Tanzania's 26 regions: Mwanza, Shinyanga, Mtwara, Mbeya and Ruvuma. These five regions form an arc through western and southern Tanz [...] | 2005-02-03 13:20:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID EINV PGOV TZ |
05DARESSALAAM327 | Zanzibar?s Voter Registration: [...] (C) Summary: The Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) is proceeding with generally peaceful and orderly voter registration in Unguja Island?s Northern Region. While both the ruling CCM party and the opposition CUF are exchanging accusations about specific incidents, the two major parties seem [...] | 2005-02-15 12:52:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID TZ |
05DARESSALAAM551 | Bumps in the Road for Voter Registration on [...] (C) Summary: At the midpoint of voter registration, the Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) continues to conduct a generally peaceful and credible exercise. Informed observers nonetheless note some disturbing recent developments that could undermine the credibility of the Permanent Voters Regi [...] | 2005-03-16 13:56:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID TZ |
05DARESSALAAM686 | JOINT REFUGEE DEMARCHE: TIMING NOT RIGHT [...] (C) Summary: Members of the diplomatic corps discussed the proposed reftel joint demarche on refugees on March 24, on the margins of the monthly joint UN briefing on the refugee situation. The diplomats and UNHCR officials alike thought that the timing was wrong for a joint demarche, since [...] | 2005-04-06 13:02:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PGOV EAID TZ |
05DARESSALAAM70 | TANZANIA'S SELF-HELP FUNDING REQUEST FOR FY2005 [...] Tanzania's FY04 allocation of $65,100.00 enabled post to fund seven self-help projects throughout Tanzania. We are confident that we will complete disbursements to all seven projects by September 2005. 2. Projects to be funded in FY05 will focus on a variety of community based initiatives, [...] | 2005-01-14 03:57:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID TZ |
05DARESSALAAM702 | CHIEFS OF MISSION DISCUSS PEPFAR, DONOR [...] Charge on March 23 hosted a lunch for Chiefs of Mission of donor countries resident in Dar es Salaam with substantial HIV/AIDS programs. Present were Chiefs of Mission from Canada, UK, Germany, Norway, Japan, Ireland, and Denmark. Chiefs of Mission from The Netherlands and Sweden were invit [...] | 2005-04-11 04:53:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KHIV EAID SOCI TBIO KSCA TZ |
05DARESSALAAM839 | NO NOMINATIONS FOR AMBASSADOR'S FUND FOR REFUGEES [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-02 09:43:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF EAID TZ |
05DARESSALAAM903 | TANZANIA ANTI-TRAFFICKING PROPOSAL: RETURN 250 [...] In response to reftel A, Embassy officers worked with a local trade union, the Domestic Conservation, Hotel Worker's Union [CHODAWU], to develop a 20,000 US dollars proposal to return 250 exploited children to their home villages in Tanzania or to Nairobi. The children assisted by this projec [...] | 2005-05-09 04:04:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KDEM KWMN PHUM SMIG TZ KRCM |
05DARESSALAAM981 | GLOBAL FUND PHASE TWO RECOMMENDATION FOR TANZANIA [...] Summary: Tanzania has benefited from multiple rounds of Global Fund resources. While early progress was mixed, implementation has now improved signficantly and activities are proceeding well. The round 2 activity on Zanizbar is a good example of an activity which has supported the islands a [...] | 2005-05-18 14:21:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KHIV TBIO TZ |
05DHAKA13 | BELEAGUERED NGO LEADER HOPEFUL BDG WILL RELEASE [...] (C) Summary. Proshika Chairman Qazi Farooq is cautiously optimistic that "sympathetic" BNP leaders will release the USD 50 million in donor funds blocked for three years by the NGO Affairs Bureau because of Proshika's alleged financial and political misdeeds. Farooq blames Proshika's woes on [...] | 2005-01-03 10:30:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID BG |
05DHAKA1305 | IMF ROUTINE REVIEW TEAM MAKES POSITIVE INITIAL [...] (C) An early March IMF preliminary review of the BDG's progress under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) program was positive, according to IMF country representative, Jonathan Dunn during a March 16 meeting with EconOff. Under the PRGF $500 million loan arrangement, the BDG must [...] | 2005-03-22 10:20:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN ECON PREL BG |
05DHAKA1407 | SENIOR-LEVEL BDG PROCUREMENT COMMITTEE REJECTS [...] The BDG Cabinet Purchase Committee on March 22 rejected two tender awards, explicitly citing corruption in one case and serious irregularities in the other. The action was a welcome demonstration that the BDG can act against corruption when it chooses to do so. In a highly unusual move, the [...] | 2005-03-24 10:08:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID KCRM PREL BD |
05DHAKA1409 | PRE-MONSOON STORMS HIT BANGLADESH HARD [...] (U) SUMMARY: On March 20, a tornado and hailstorm razed villages, crops, trees and electricity poles in Gaibandha and Rangpur in north Bangladesh. On March 22 and 23 a heavy windstorm hit several villages in Dhaka Division, again destroying crops and homes. At last count, 48 people were kill [...] | 2005-03-24 10:32:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID BG BGD |
05DHAKA1537 | SAVE THE CHILDREN/BANGLADESH FY 2005 CALL [...] The purpose of this cable is to provide Mission concurrence with SCF call forward of 1,010 MT of bagged, Hard Red Winter (HRW) wheat; 170 MT of bagged, yellow split peas; and 170 MT of 4-liter can vegetable oil for arrival in September/October, 2005. 2. This SCF call forward level is 20% [...] | 2005-04-03 08:17:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID BG |
05DHAKA1550 | CARE/BANGLADESH (CARE/B) ADVANCE MAY 2005 CALL [...] The purpose of this cable is to provide Mission concurrence with CARE/B advance May 2005 call forward of 3,000 MT of 208-liter drum refined soybean vegetable oil for arrival in August/September, 2005 under the SHOUHARDO program. 2. The call forward amount, 3,000 MT, is the first tranche [...] | 2005-04-04 05:57:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID BG |
05DHAKA1731 | BANGLADESH FACTORY DISASTER [...] Actions requested - see para 6. Background ---------- 2. On April 11 at approximately 0100 local, a nine-story garment factory building in the Savar Export Processing Zone near Dhaka collapsed. Reportedly built on swampy terrain or landfill, ground subsidence and an improperly constru [...] | 2005-04-12 12:44:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAID ECON BG |
05DHAKA1976 | THE SHAKY SEISMIC OUTLOOK FOR BANGLADESH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Experts forecast a devastating earthquake in Bangladesh in the next ten years. Bangladesh is woefully ill prepared, but the BDG, backed by some academics, is slowly starting to address the associated challenges. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) Bangladeshi and foreign experts estimate [...] | 2005-04-27 09:16:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID BG |
05DHAKA2018 | ATTORNEY GENERAL HASSAN ARIFF RESIGNS [...] Summary. The unexpected resignation of the independent- minded Attorney General, over seemingly minor matters, could trigger the unfortunate departure of the Deputy Attorney General who energetically coordinates anti-TIP prosecutions. End Summary. 2. (SBU) Attorney General A.F. Hassan Ariff [...] | 2005-04-28 07:51:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ETRD PGOV BG |
05DHAKA202 | TSUNAMI AND EARTH OBSERVATIONS: US PROPOSAL FOR [...] On January 19, we conveyed reftel points and proposed text language to MFA UN Affairs Director General Ismat Jahan, who had no substantive response. We are also providing copies to relevant officials at the BDG's Ministry of Food and Disaster Management. 2. The annual summit of the South [...] | 2005-01-18 06:09:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KSCA SENV BG UNESCO |
05DHAKA2087 | BANGLADESH SCENESETTER FOR A/S ROCCA [...] (C) Summary. We should acknowledge the surprising run of positive BDG actions since February, but push for more, especially against political and extremist violence. It is important to reiterate our concerns about terrorism, extremist Islam, minority rights, and a transparent and credible e [...] | 2005-05-03 08:34:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KISL BG |
05DHAKA247 | DEMARCHE ON UN MILLENNIUM PROJECT REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-19 10:27:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAID BG |
05DHAKA2484 | CARE/BANGLADESH (CARE/B) JUNE 2005 CALL [...] The purpose of this cable is to provide Mission concurrence with CARE/B June 2005 call forward of 16,800 MT of Crude Degummed Soybean Oil (CDSO) in bulk for arrival in September/October, 2005 under the SHOUHARDO DAP. 2. The call forward (CF) amount, 16,800 MT of CDSO, has been approved f [...] | 2005-05-31 06:21:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID BG |
05DHAKA2748 | AMBASSADOR PAYS FAREWELL CALL ON FINANCE MINISTER [...] (SBU) On June 12, Ambassador called on Finance Minister Saifur Rahman to discuss the latter's recent trip to Washington and other issues. He was accompanied by USAID Director George and econoff (notetaker). Septel reports Rahman's comments on the new BDG budget. 2. (C) Noting that he woul [...] | 2005-06-13 09:01:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PGOV EAID BG |
05DHAKA3247 | BANGLADESH 2005 FLOOD CONDITION REPORT NO. 1 [...] Summary. July and August are peak monsoon months in Bangladesh. The monsoon was moderately active during the first week of July. Currently there is no flooding in the country and the last five days have passed without measurable rainfall. All the rivers in the four river basins of Banglad [...] | 2005-07-11 06:34:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID BG IT TH NP IN |
05DHAKA3249 | FIRST RAINS BRING FLOODS TO BANGLADESH, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite record-breaking floods during last year's monsoon season, national and local Dhaka governments appear ill prepared to prevent floods this year. Prime Ministerial promises not-withstanding, media and BDG sources report that water pumps have not been upgraded or serviced, [...] | 2005-07-11 09:01:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON ENRG SENV TPHY BG BGD |
05DHAKA3407 | BANGLADESH 2005 FLOOD CONDITION REPORT NO. 2 [...] Summary: This cable updates the information provided in the referenced cable. The monsoon was fairly active over the country last week. Light to heavy rainfall was recorded at many places over the Brahmaputra, the Ganges, the Meghna basins and South Eastern Hill basin. As a result, flash floo [...] | 2005-07-18 08:51:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID BG IT TH NP IN BGD |
05DHAKA3572 | BANGLADESH 2005 FLOOD CONDITION REPORT NO. 3 [...] Summary: This cable updates the information provided in the referenced cable and e-mail. The monsoon was less active over the Brahmaputra, the Ganges and the South Eastern Hill basins last week. Light rainfall was recorded at all except one place in these three river basins. The Meghna basin [...] | 2005-07-25 10:50:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID BG IT TH NP IN |
05DHAKA362 | IMF REP FEARS BDG IS LETTING PRGF PROGRAM DIE [...] (C) Summary. The IMF rep says the BDG has decided that letting the PRGF die is cheaper than the political and huge financial costs of privatizing the first state-owned bank. He wants key embassies to urge the BDG to reconsider but is not hopeful that the PRGF can be saved. End Summary. 2. [...] | 2005-01-29 09:45:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PGOV BG |
05DHAKA3696 | BANGLADESH 2005 FLOOD CONDITION REPORT NO. 4 [...] Summary: This cable updates the information provided in the referenced cable. The monsoon was less active over the Brahmaputra, the Ganges and the South Eastern Hill basins last week. Light rainfall was recorded at all except one place in these three river basins. The Meghna basin experien [...] | 2005-08-01 07:10:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID BG IT TH NP IN BGD |
05DHAKA3731 | CDA CALLS ON MINISTER FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND [...] (C) Summary: CDA called on Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives and Secretary General of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Abdul Mannan Bhuyian. He expressed confidence in the strength of the BNP four-party coalition, and stated that the recent IOJ by-election [...] | 2005-08-02 04:54:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ASEC PTER BG |
05DHAKA3852 | BANGLADESH 2005 FLOOD CONDITION REPORT NO. 5 [...] Summary: This cable updates the information provided in the referenced cable. The overall flood situation in the country remains normal and the localized flood situation continued to improve. BDG and other humanitarian agencies are closely monitoring the situation and maintaining close cont [...] | 2005-08-08 08:09:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID BG IT TH NP IN |
05DHAKA4107 | BANGLADESH 2005 FLOOD CONDITION REPORT NO. 6 [...] Summary: This cable updates the information provided in the referenced cable. The overall flood situation in Bangladesh is normal at present and within local coping capacity. Localized flood conditions are improving in most places. The Bangladesh Government (BDG) and relief agencies are moni [...] | 2005-08-18 11:38:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID BG IT TH NP IN |
05DHAKA4155 | BANGLADESH 2005 FLOOD CONDITION REPORT NO. 7 [...] Summary: This cable updates the information provided in the referenced cable. The overall flood situation in Bangladesh is localized and within local coping capacity. The Bangladesh Government (BDG) and relief agencies are monitoring the situation and are in contact with key disaster partner [...] | 2005-08-22 10:06:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID BG IT TH NP IN BGD |
05DHAKA4268 | BANGLADESH 2005 FLOOD CONDITION REPORT NO. 8 [...] Summary: This cable updates the information provided in the referenced cable. The monsoon was fairly active over Bangladesh during the past week. The overall flood situation in Bangladesh is localized and within local coping capacity. The flood situation continues to improve in most areas. T [...] | 2005-08-29 09:51:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID BG IT TH NP IN BGD |
05DHAKA4293 | Bangladesh Finance Minister To Lead World [...] Bangladesh Finance Minister Saifur Rahman will lead the Bangladesh delegation to the annual meeting of the World Bank-IMF. During this visit, the delegation will also attend the High Level Plenary Meeting of 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly to discuss the MDG's Developmen [...] | 2005-08-30 10:59:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ECON BG |
05DHAKA4347 | BANGLADESH: FOOD AID AND THE WTO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-01 10:08:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR BG AID WTO |
05DHAKA4395 | BANGLADESH 2005 FLOOD CONDITION REPORT NO. [...] Summary: This cable updates the information provided in the referenced cable. The monsoon was moderately active over Bangladesh during the past week. The overall flood situation in Bangladesh is not at the alarm stage. The flood situation continues to improve in most areas. The Bangladesh G [...] | 2005-09-06 10:41:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID BG IT TH NP IN BGD |
05DHAKA4565 | BANGLADESH 2005 FLOOD CONDITION REPORT NO. 10 [...] Summary: This cable updates the information provided in the referenced cable. The monsoon was light to moderate over Bangladesh during the past week. The flood situation continues to improve in most places of the country. The Bangladesh Government Flood Forecasting and Warning Center reports [...] | 2005-09-12 11:06:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID BG IT TH NP IN BGD |
05DHAKA4805 | BANGLADESH 2005 FLOOD CONDITION REPORT NO. 11 [...] Summary: This cable updates the information provided in the referenced cable. The monsoon was light to moderate over Bangladesh during the past week. The flood situation continues to improve in most places of the country. The Bangladesh Government Flood Forecasting and Warning Center (FFWC) [...] | 2005-09-25 05:56:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID BG IT TH NP IN BGD |
05DHAKA4861 | BANGLADESH 2005 FLOOD CONDITION REPORT NO. 12 [...] Summary: This cable updates the information provided in the referenced cable. The monsoon was light to moderate over Bangladesh during the past week. The flood situation continues to improve in most places of the country. The Bangladesh Government Flood Forecasting and Warning Center (FFWC) [...] | 2005-09-27 08:03:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID BG IT TH NP IN BGD |
05DHAKA51 | MDB LOAN REVIEW PROCEDURES -- POC FOR BANGLADESH [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-04 09:52:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ECON EINV PREL BG |
05DHAKA5633 | MONGA - CYCLES OF POVERTY AND HUNGER IN NORTHERN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Each fall and winter, the northern rural agricultural districts of Bangladesh experience "monga," a period of severe food insecurity coupled with high seasonal unemployment as a result of natural gaps in the normal planting season on which these regions depend. Government food p [...] | 2005-11-20 04:15:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EAGR ECON PGOV TBIO BG AGR CARE CDC |
05DHAKA5698 | BANGLADESH DONORS CONFERENCE [...] Summary. The BDG and donor community, aka Local Consultative Group (LCG),met under the chair of the BDG Minister of Finance on November 15-17. This was the annual development forum meeting with three key changes. First, the BDG chaired whereas in the pass they co-chaired with the World Bank [...] | 2005-11-22 10:00:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV ECON BG |
05DHAKA603 | AMBASSADOR AND USAID DIRECTOR MEET WITH FINANCE [...] SUMMARY: On February 6, Ambassador, USAID Director, and PA officer (note taker) met with Finance Minister Saifur Rahman to discuss the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA). The USAID Director presented a list of benchmarks, developed by the Mission, directed at assessing Bangladesh's commitment [...] | 2005-02-09 10:07:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | BG PREL PGOV EAID |
05DHAKA6145 | POC FOR MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANK LOAN REVIEW [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-15 06:30:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ECON EINV PREL BG |
05DHAKA6191 | BUSINESS NERVOUS, BUT NOT HURT, BY JMB ATTACKS [...] (C) Summary: The business community in Bangladesh is thus far unaffected by increasing violence by the JMB. Business leaders are concerned, however, that escalating violence will at some point begin to take its toll, yet they are reluctant to press aggressively for government action. A high [...] | 2005-12-15 11:10:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ECON EFIN EAID PREL BG |
05DHAKA6195 | BUSINESS NERVOUS, BUT NOT HURT, BY JMB ATTACKS [...] (C) Summary: The business community in Bangladesh is thus far unaffected by increasing violence by the JMB. Business leaders are concerned, however, that escalating violence will at some point begin to take its toll, yet they are reluctant to press aggressively for government action. A high [...] | 2005-12-18 01:21:00 | Embassy Dhaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ECON EFIN EAID PREL BG |
05DJIBOUTI1000 | CLARIFICATION FROM FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER ON [...] (C) An apparent internal Djiboutian government turf battle over control of coordination of the USAID-sponsored Livestock Project in Djibouti prompted Ambassador's urgent request October 6 for a meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahmoud Ali Youssouf. The Ambassador sought the Minister's [...] | 2005-10-05 13:48:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD EAGR ECON EAID DJ |
05DJIBOUTI1006 | INAUGURATION OF HODANE CITY, AN 842 [...] (U) Summary: President Guelleh inaugurated October 11 Djibouti's first social housing complex designed to greatly improve the housing situation in Djibouti. The 842 residences, consisting of apartments and villas cost USD 24 million and was co- financed by the Arab Fund for Economic and Soci [...] | 2005-10-10 12:07:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID ETRD EFIN DJ PGOG |
05DJIBOUTI103 | 2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - DJIBOUTI [...] Summary: Lacking natural resources, Djibouti's economy is service-based, with the country's seaport and a railroad linking it to Addis Ababa accounting for the bulk of economic activity. Almost all food and many other goods are imported from Ethiopia, the Gulf, or France. The services and co [...] | 2005-01-31 11:35:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN EAID PGOV DJ |
05DJIBOUTI106 | FRANCE'S AMBASSADOR TO DJIBOUTI GRAPPLES WITH [...] (U) France's Ambassador to Djibouti, Philippe Selz, went on Djiboutian television (RTD) evening of January 30 to read in its entirety a January 29 declaration of the Spokesperson of France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs concerning the Borrel affair and France's relations with Djibouti. The stat [...] | 2005-01-31 14:31:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID MARR SCUL FR DJ |
05DJIBOUTI1132 | FY2005 ANNUAL SUMMARY REPORT DHRFII [...] Organe de Presse Diifu completed their project on Independent Journalism in June 2005. The two other grantees for the projects funded in FY04 are expecting to finish their activities by February 28, 2006. 2. In FY05, two projects were funded: A. Grantee: Center Aicha Bogoreh for the [...] | 2005-11-16 07:26:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID DJ |
05DJIBOUTI1156 | REQUEST FOR INFORMATION: DJIBOUTI'S [...] (U) Summary: Djibouti has very little capacity to handle avian and pandemic influenza. Responses below are keyed to questions in reftel. End Summary. 2. (U) Preparedness/Communication: -- Djibouti does not have a plan/strategy for preventing avian flu from becoming a pandemic and contai [...] | 2005-11-22 11:06:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL DJ |
05DJIBOUTI1217 | PRESIDENT'S CABINET DIRECTOR ON LIVESTOCK EXPORT [...] (C) LIVESTOCK EXPORT PROJECT: In her meeting December 7 with Ismail Tani, Director of President Guelleh's Cabinet, Ambassador talked about the commercial possibilities inherent in the U.S.- sponsored livestock holding and Gulf export project now underway in Djibouti. She told Tani that she u [...] | 2005-12-12 14:34:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ECON ETRD SCUL ENRG DJ |
05DJIBOUTI1237 | EMBASSY HOSTS DJIBOUTIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION [...] (U) Ambassador launched December 4 at Djibouti's Palais du Peuple the Embassy's second Arts and Crafts Exhibition and Sale in two years for Djiboutian handicrafts and art works. The five-day exhibition featured works and wares of 22 artisan associations in Djibouti, attracted a host of viewers [...] | 2005-12-18 13:24:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SCUL EAID ETRD DJ |
05DJIBOUTI1251 | AMBASSADOR PARTICIPATES IN USLO LAUNCH OF HIV/AIDS [...] (U) In a ceremony at the garrison of the Djiboutian Armed Forces on December 22, Ambassador formally handed over to Commanding General of the Djibouti Armed Forces, Fathi Ahmed Hussein, HIV/AIDS laboratory equipment and furnishings necessary to conduct sero-prevalence surveys in Djibouti. Also [...] | 2005-12-22 14:27:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR MASS EAID KHIV DJ |
05DJIBOUTI1252 | STATUS OF DJIBOUTI FMS CONVEYED TO DJIBOUTI'S [...] (U) Ambassador conveyed to General Fathi Ahmed Hussein on December 18 an oral brief of current status of the Djibouti FMS program and the specific projects outlined in the letter of October 10, 2005 from the Djiboutian Army's Chef d'Etat, General Zakariya Cheik Ibrahim. She promised a subseque [...] | 2005-12-23 07:51:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID MARR PREL DJ |
05DJIBOUTI1257 | INAUGURATION OF FIVE USG-FUNDED PEDAGOGIC RESOURCE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-26 08:14:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SCUL PREL PGOV DJ |
05DJIBOUTI1265 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CJCS GENERAL PETER PACE [...] (C) Embassy Djibouti heartily welcomes your January 2-3, 2006 visit. A meeting with President Ismail Omar Guelleh is anticipated. 2. (C) Summary: Combating poverty, improving the nation's health and education infrastructure and promoting economic development remain top priorities for Pres [...] | 2005-12-28 09:37:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR OVIP ECON EAID DJ |
05DJIBOUTI1266 | DJIBOUTI ENGAGES SAUDI INVESTOR FOR USAID [...] (C) Summary: With a claim of dissatisfaction with technical aspects of construction and progress of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Livestock Export Facility in Djibouti, the Government of Djibouti has advised Embassy and Regional Economic Development Services Offi [...] | 2005-12-28 09:41:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EAGR PREL PGOV ECON ETRD DJ SA |
05DJIBOUTI147 | SPECIAL SELF-HELP ANNUAL YEAR-END REPORT [...] In FY 2004, Post funded eight Self-Help projects in Djibouti totaling USD 55,700. Post selected these projects in accordance with its Mission Program Plan (MPP) objectives in civil society development, economic development, public diplomacy and counter-terrorism. Projects were located in all [...] | 2005-02-15 03:18:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON DJ |
05DJIBOUTI191 | USITC STUDY ON EXPORT OPPORTUNITIES AND BARRIERS IN [...] Summary: The Government of Djibouti (GOD) has not been able to benefit from AGOA to date due to a lack of developed industries. After a decade of uncertainty, Djibouti's economy looks brighter as a result of the country's foreign policy and assistance from donors. Djibouti has very few inte [...] | 2005-02-27 07:45:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EAID ETRD PGOV PREL DJ |
05DJIBOUTI219 | U.S. VIEWS ON DEBT RELIEF FOR POOR COUNTRIES [...] (U) Pol/Econ delivered reftel demarche 2 March to Director of Bilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Ali Hassan. Hassan stated Djibouti would be very interested to examine the U.S. position on debt relief. He told Pol/Econ it would also be good to pass the demarche to th [...] | 2005-03-02 12:57:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID DJ |
05DJIBOUTI232 | U.S. NGO DONATES CARDIAC MONITORING SYSTEM TO [...] (U) Assist International, a United States non-governmental organization (NGO),has partnered with a local NGO, International Aid Services, to provide a USD 250,000 reconditioned, full perimeter cardiac monitoring system with central station to Peltier Hospital in Djibouti. Peltier, a 450-bed h [...] | 2005-03-04 08:15:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID SOCI DJ |
05DJIBOUTI237 | PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND SELF-HELP HOST ARTS AND CRAFTS [...] (U) Summary: Public Diplomacy funded the Self-Help Program with end of year grant money to host an exposition and sale of locally made arts and crafts. The Self-Help Program has funded many Associations that teach women and girls the skills of sewing, as well as their traditional crafts. Thi [...] | 2005-03-06 11:59:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO EAID ECON EFIN DJ |
05DJIBOUTI244 | NATIONAL EDUCATION FORUM IN DJIBOUTI [...] (U) Djibouti's Ministry of Education hosted February 5-6 at the People's Palace a formal review of its education reform program, which began in 1999. Funded in part by USAID, under the Economic Support Funds (ESF) program, the formal review was an outgrowth of district stakeholders meetings by [...] | 2005-03-07 13:06:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID SOCI SCUL DJ |
05DJIBOUTI245 | READ-OUT FROM MINISTER OF EDUCATION ON VISIT TO [...] (U) Ambassador and USAID directly called February 23 on Minister of Education Abdi Ibrahim Absieh to obtain a read-out of his February 8-13 visit to the United States. Senior Advisor and Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Aideed Aden Guedi, who traveled with Absieh, and Secretar [...] | 2005-03-07 13:11:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID SCUL SOCI DJ |
05DJIBOUTI246 | DJIBOUTI SEEKS ASSISTANCE IN MONITORING ISLAMIC [...] (C) During Ambassador and USAID Director's February 23 call on Minister of Education Abdi Ibrahim Absieh (see septel),the Minister informed us of his concern that his Ministry lacked knowledge of and control over the country's growing network of Islamic schools. These schools, he said, which [...] | 2005-03-07 13:11:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID SCUL SOCI DJ SA |
05DJIBOUTI282 | FOREIGN MINISTER REAFFIRMS DESIRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: Djibouti's Acting Foreign Minister expressed concern to Ambassador March 16 about the content of the current Human Rights Report for Djibouti, his fear the report might put Djibouti in a negative light and his belief it failed to mention the country's accomplishments in this realm [...] | 2005-03-18 09:31:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID SCUL DJ |
05DJIBOUTI283 | LAUNCH OF HEALTH DONOR-COORDINATING GROUP IN [...] U) A launching ceremony took place March 14 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to inaugurate a new donor-coordinating group in health in Djibouti and to formally announce to the public that both donors and the Ministry of Health are ready to work together to help the people of Djibouti. Focus [...] | 2005-03-18 12:11:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID SOCI DJ |
05DJIBOUTI299 | OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONY OF GOUBETTO HEALTH CLINIC [...] (U) An official ceremony was held March 16 in the rural community of Goubetto, located 25 miles south of the capital, to open a newly rehabilitated health facility. The Goubetto Clinic previously was defunct until the USAID program for health sector reform began rehabilitation of it in Decembe [...] | 2005-03-24 12:49:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID SOCI DJ |
05DJIBOUTI300 | TRAINING TRAINERS IN PRIMARY HEALTH CARE IN DJIBOUTI [...] (U) A USAID-funded week-long training session for health practitioners in Djibouti began March 19, 2005 with an official event a the National Health Training Center in the capital. Focus of the training was to impart primary health care teaching skills to selected candidates who would return [...] | 2005-03-24 13:56:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SOCI EAID DJ |
05DJIBOUTI31 | DJIBOUTI REGIONS PROFILE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The great economic disparity between the capital, Djibouti city, and the regions outside Djibouti's capital is a major concern to the regions' inhabitants. This disparity led to a civil war in the early 1990's and continues to greatly affect the country's politics. Post constructed [...] | 2005-01-09 11:37:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EAID PHUM SCUL DJ |
05DJIBOUTI324 | OPENING OF MEDEHO AND ALAILI DADDA HEALTH FACILITIES [...] (U) Official ceremonies were held March 29 and 30 in the rural communities of Alaili Dadda and Medeho, located in the northern distric of Obock, to open two health facilities newly renovated under USAID auspices. Both facilities had been completely neglected since originally constructed, and [...] | 2005-04-05 14:06:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID SOCI DJ |
05DJIBOUTI34 | DECENTRALIZATION [...] (U) Summary: Decentralization has been a topic of debate in Djibouti since the country's civil war in the early 1990's. At that time, the disparity between regions and the capital led the opposition Front for Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD) to take up arms against the governme [...] | 2005-01-09 12:00:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EAID PHUM SCUL DJ |
05DJIBOUTI343 | DJIBOUTI FREE ZONE [...] (U) Summary: Djibouti Free Zone (DFZ),inaugurated in June 2004, is a pilot project for the larger free zone planned for Doraleh Port. Djibouti Port and Free Zone Authority (DPFZA) controls the DFZ and delivers licenses to eligible firms. DPFZA gave the management of the free zone to Jebel [...] | 2005-04-10 13:52:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EFIN EAID PGOV DJ TC |
05DJIBOUTI368 | DJIBOUTI GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES APPEAL FOR FOOD AID [...] (U) The U.S., French, Russian, and Chinese ambassadors, plus heads of U.N. organizations and the Director of FEWSNET, were convoked to Foreign Ministry April 10 to hear a Government of Djibouti appeal for emergency food aid for Djibouti's drought-stricken areas. Citing hunger and a lack of re [...] | 2005-04-14 14:09:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EAID SENV DJ |
05DJIBOUTI391 | DJIBOUTI AT LOGGERHEADS WITH SAUDI ARABIA OVER [...] (C) The 4/19-20 visit of the president of Al-Imam Mohamed Ibn Saud Islamic University, Dr. Mohamed Al-Salem, gave Arab League member state Djibouti the opportunity to reiterate to Saudi Arabia its concerns about instruction offered Djibouti's youth under Saudi auspices. Acting Minister of For [...] | 2005-04-20 13:44:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SCUL SOCI PINR EAID SA DJ |
05DJIBOUTI432 | TRAINING RURAL HEALTH NURSES AND MIDWIVES [...] (U) On April 25, for the first time in the history of Djibouti, the Minister of Health opened a three-day training session for nine rural health post nurses and midwives outside of the city capital at the District Hospital in Ali Sabieh. The nurses and midwives represent the five health post [...] | 2005-05-04 04:12:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID SOCI DJ |
05DJIBOUTI450 | INAUGURATION OF DJIBOUTI'S PRESIDENT FOR SECOND [...] (U) Djibouti's 58-year old current president, Ismail Omar Guelleh, was inaugurated May 7 for a second six-year term. The colorful ceremony, filled with traditional songs and dancing, took place in the main hall of the Palais du Peuple, a large air-conditioned convention facility with meeting r [...] | 2005-05-09 13:22:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAID KDEM PGOV DJ |
05DJIBOUTI461 | REQUEST TO TRANSITION USAID PROGRAM IN DJIBOUTI [...] U) This is an action message. 2. (U) Embassy Djibouti requests State and USAID agreement to transition the USAID program in Djibouti from primary reliance on Economic Support Funds (ESF) to Development Assistance (DA) funding over the next two years with an initial modest DA program of two [...] | 2005-05-12 13:32:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID SOCI DJ |
05DJIBOUTI472 | DECLARATION OF DROUGHT DISASTER IN DJIBOUTI [...] (U) Several years of continuous drought and the lack of social safety nets have eroded the livelihood and humanitarian conditions for pastoralists in rural Djibouti. On April 11, the Government of Djibouti declared that because of this drought, a humanitarian emergency existed in the southern [...] | 2005-05-16 13:06:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID ECON EINV DJ |
05DJIBOUTI477 | DJI-PHARMA, DJIBOUTI'S PHARMACEUTICAL FACTORY [...] (U) Summary: President Guelleh recently inaugurated Dji- Pharma, a government owned pharmaceutical plant. Dji- Pharma, engineered by the French firm "Ingenerie Pharmaceutique Modulaire," plans to fulfill all the needs of the country in the four mostly used intravenous perfusions in Djibouti h [...] | 2005-05-18 10:20:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN EAID PGOV DJ TC |
05DJIBOUTI512 | DJIBOUTI'S NEW FOREIGN MINISTER ON RECENT GUELLEH [...] (C) Summary: Djibouti's new Minister of Foreign Affairs is pleased with the outcome of the May 13 stopover visit to Washington of President Guelleh (see reftel) and reviewed with Ambassador key aspects of Guelleh's meetings with Secretary Rice, NSC Africa Director Courville, USAID SIPDIS [...] | 2005-05-27 09:45:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ECON DJ |
05DJIBOUTI610 | DJIBOUTI: PARTICIPANT LIST - ILEA GABORONE, LEEDP [...] Per REFTEL, the appropriate local national checks have been conducted for the Djiboutian participants of session 16 LEEDP. Post is still in the process of vetting the names through appropriate U.S. Agencies and will forward any negative information as received. Travel itinerary and other per [...] | 2005-06-24 09:17:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM SNAR ASEC EAID ECON DJ |
05DJIBOUTI611 | AGOA FORUM - DJIBOUTI DELEGATION CONFIRMED [...] (U) Post has received confirmation that Minister of Commerce, Industry and Artisans, Rifki Abdoulkader Bamakrama, and Houssein Elmi Houdon, Director of Commerce will be attending as Djibouti's delegation to the AGOA Forum in Dakar. 2. (U) BIO DATA for Minister of Commerce and Industry, Rifki [...] | 2005-06-26 07:50:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID ETRD DJ |
05DJIBOUTI615 | DJIBOUTI'S FOREIGN MINISTER ON PLANS FOR [...] (C) Summary: Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Yousuf sees his government moving forward decisively to improve democratization and governance. Regional elections, to be held late in 2005, will be the first priority action and will be organized around a new system of proportional repres [...] | 2005-06-26 13:56:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SCUL EAID PHUM DJ |
05DJIBOUTI654 | AGOA FORUM: FOREIGN MINISTER ALSO CONFIRMS [...] (C) During Ambassador's 6/11 meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahmoud Ali Youssouf on New Embassy Compound (NEC) issues, she informed the Minister of the Secretary of State's planned participation in the Dakar AGOA Forum July 18-20. She told the Minister that the Secretary's travel to [...] | 2005-07-11 11:42:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ETRD PINR DJ |
05DJIBOUTI664 | DJIBOUTI'S INTERIOR MINISTER ACCEPTS EMBASSY OFFER [...] (C) Minister of Interior Yacin Elmi Bouh has agreed to accept the visit of a USAID-funded team that would assess Djibouti's current electoral laws and plans for decentralization. The approval came in his meeting July 10 at Interior headquarters with Ambassador and Embassy Djibouti's USAID Re [...] | 2005-07-12 12:01:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID SCUL DJ PDEM |
05DJIBOUTI68 | BORREL AFFAIR REDUX: DJIBOUTI EXPELS FRENCH [...] (C) Djibouti's president, Ismail Omar Guelleh, formally requested January 17 through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that France withdraw six of its officials acting as advisors to government institutions in Djibouti under the French Cooperation program. The move follows Guelleh's personal ang [...] | 2005-01-18 16:22:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID MARR SCUL FR DJ |
05DJIBOUTI692 | DJIBOUTI: PARTICIPANT LIST - ILEA GABORONE, LEEDP [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-20 06:04:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC DJ EAID ECON KCRM SNAR |
05DJIBOUTI712 | COMMERCE MINISTER'S REVIEW OF AGOA FORUM [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador called on Minister of Commerce, Rifki Abdoulkader Bamakhrama, 26 July to discuss his impressions of the AGOA Forum in Dakar, Senegal. Bamakhrama was pleased with his experience in Dakar and said while it was a very intense schedule, it was very educational and useful. H [...] | 2005-07-27 07:55:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID EFIN DJ |
05DJIBOUTI726 | UN ENVOY SACHS IN DJIBOUTI FOR MILLENNIUM PROJECT REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: In a visit to Djibouti July 27 on the occasion of the launch of the second national report on the objectives of the Millennium Development Project, UN Special Envoy and Millennium Development Project Director Dr. Jeffrey Sachs spoke on the theme "towards an entrepot economy." [...] | 2005-07-31 06:35:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID SOCI DJ UN |
05DJIBOUTI784 | DATA REQUEST: DJIBOUTI ASSISTANCE TO THE [...] (U) Pol/Econ delivered demarche per reftel 10 August to Director of Bilateral Relations, Mohamed Ali Hassan. Hassan looked into the issue and replied 11 August. Djibouti has no records of any assistance in the 2000-2005 time frame. There is no regular assistance to the Palestinian Authority, wi [...] | 2005-08-11 10:31:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PREL DJ |
05DJIBOUTI8 | MINISTER OF COMMERCE SEEKS SUPPORT FOR TRADE ROUND [...] (U) SUMMARY: On Sunday, January 2, the Ambassador met with Djibouti's Minister of Commerce and Industry, Saleban Omar Oudine, at his request. The main purpose of the meeting was to solicit the Embassy's financial support for a Round Table to promote trade. In addition, the Minister requested th [...] | 2005-01-02 14:33:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ETRD ECON EAID EFIN DJ SZ |
05DJIBOUTI9 | DJIBOUTI TO HOST COMESA SUMMIT IN 2006; RWANDA IN [...] (U) In the Ambassador's January 2 meeting with Djibouti's Minister of Commerce and Industry, Saleban Omar Oudine (reported Ref A),the Minister told the Ambassador that Djibouti and Rwanda have switched dates for hosting the annual Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) summit. [...] | 2005-01-02 14:37:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EFIN ECON EAID PREL PGOV EAGR DJ RW |
05DJIBOUTI934 | HEALTH MINISTER FOCUSES ON REFORM AND GLOBAL [...] (U) Summary: In separate meetings September 13 with USAID Representative and Ambassador, Minister of Health, Abdallah Abdillahi focused on health development and reform of Djibouti's Ministry of He recovery for renovation of Peltier and improving health services and resources would be a maj [...] | 2005-09-19 11:43:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID SOCI DJ UN |
05DJIBOUTI936 | HEALTH MINISTER FOCUSES ON REFORM AND GLOBAL FUND [...] (U) Summary: In separate meetings September 13 with USAID Representative and Ambassador, Minister of Health, Abdallah Abdillahi Miguil, focused on health development and reform of Djibouti's Ministry of Health. Cost recovery for renovation of Peltier and improving health services and huma [...] | 2005-09-19 13:47:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID SOCI DJ UN |
05DJIBOUTI954 | COMBATING EXTREMISM IN DJIBOUTI [...] (S) Djibouti's religious and cultural climate has been shaped by more than 150 years of French colonialism and traditional nomadic roots. The transitory nature of the Horn of Africa, the remnants of French culture, and the routine influx of foreigners from the region through the port has made [...] | 2005-09-26 13:19:00 | Embassy Djibouti | SECRET | KDEM KPAO PREL EAID PHUM DJ |
05DJIBOUTI976 | MINISTER OF HEALTH LEADS NATION-WIDE [...] (U) From June 15 through July 22, Minister of Health Abdallah Miguil, led an important and large delegation on a tour of rural Djibouti, visiting all rural health posts and district hospitals. His delegation included the Minister of Women's Affairs, Acha Robleh, Representatives of WHO, UNICEF, [...] | 2005-10-03 13:21:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID SOCI DJ |
05DOHA1445 | DATA REQUEST: QATARI ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-18 10:41:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PREL IS WE GZ QA |
05DOHA1657 | COMBATING EXTREMISM: QATAR [...] (S) The extent and nature of extremism in Qatar is limited by several factors. One is Qatar,s considerable wealth, which enables it to steer clear of the poverty-inspired extremism affecting poorer nations. Other factors are the small size of the country (comparable to Connecticut) and populat [...] | 2005-09-29 09:28:00 | Embassy Doha | SECRET | EAID KDEM KPAO PHUM PREL QA ALJAZEERA |
05DUBLIN1088 | IRELAND: SECOND APPEAL TO EU TO ASSIST HAITI IN MEETING FIRST-HALF FY06 FINANCING GAP [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-02 12:58:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EUN EFIN EI |
05DUBLIN1089 | IRELAND UNDECIDED ON SENDING OBSERVES TO HAITI [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-02 13:01:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID |
05DUBLIN1097 | GOI VIEWS ON HLE DEVELOPMENT ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: Ireland shares a number of USG concerns about the development chapter of the UN High-Level Event (HLE) outcome document, but advocates flexibility to reach agreement on the document's interlocking elements, GOI officials told DCM on September 2. The Office of the Taoiseach (Pri [...] | 2005-09-06 12:08:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID ECIN UNGA |
05DUBLIN1115 | IRISH AID OFFICIALS: IRELAND SHARES U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Ireland shares U.S. hopes for a successful UN High-Level Event (HLE),as well as U.S. concerns about the development portion of the HLE outcome document, Ronan Murphy, Director General of Ireland's aid agency, told the Ambassador and DCM on September 7. Murphy said that aid re [...] | 2005-09-09 13:36:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID ECIN UNGA |
05DUBLIN1161 | IRELAND: COMBATING EXTREMISM [...] (C) Summary. Overall, Islamic extremism is not perceived to be a great problem in Ireland, even as the population becomes more diverse. Ireland is grappling with immigration for the first time in history, and its new found wealth is attracting growing numbers of migrants. Generally speaking [...] | 2005-09-20 13:31:00 | Embassy Dublin | SECRET | PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI |
05DUBLIN1178 | NO COMMERCIAL SOURCES OF MRES FROM IRELAND [...] Per reftel request for information on potential international commercial vendors of vegetarian MREs, Ireland keeps only limited stocks for its defense forces. There are no sufficient stocks in Ireland to meet the potential demand called for in reftel. The Irish Defense Forces source MREs f [...] | 2005-09-22 14:11:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID ETRD ECON AMGT |
05DUBLIN1239 | IRELAND SUPPORTS DARFUR INITIATIVES ON VIOLENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-07 15:34:00 | Embassy Dublin | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID PHUM PREF |
05DUBLIN1311 | IRISH OFFER CASH FOR PAKISTAN [...] (C) ON OCTOBER 21, POL/ECON CHIEF DISCUSSED IRISH AID TO PAKISTAN WITH COLM O'FLOINN, DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (DFA) SECURITY POLICY DIRECTOR, AND DAVID LEAHY, FIRST SECRETARY. THEY SAID THAT IRELAND AT THIS TIME WAS PROVIDING SIPDIS CASH, NOT DONATIONS IN KIND. THEY THUS HAVE NO CURR [...] | 2005-10-24 15:29:00 | Embassy Dublin | CONFIDENTIAL | AEMR NATO EAID ASEC MASS PGOV EI |