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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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08PARIS1377 | A NEW BURST OF FRENCH ACTIVISM ON [...] (C) Summary: Immediately following the July 13 Paris summit on the Mediterranean, French FM Kouchner has called on the EU to reflect at an early September meeting in Avignon (informal EU FM meeting or "gymnich")on how it can play a more active role in Middle East peace negotiations. He cla [...] | 2008-07-21 11:21:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KPAL PBTS KWBG FR IS |
08PARIS1561 | WORKING WITH FRANCE TO ADVANCE A SOLUTION TO THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-13 07:19:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PGOV PREL PBTS EUN FR GE RU GG |
08PARIS1587 | TFGG01: FRENCH EFFORTS TO RESOLVE CRISIS IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: Since President Sarkozy and Foreign Minister Kouchner met with Secretary Rice on August 14, President Sarkozy has maintained high-profile efforts to implement the Russia/Georgia six-point cease-fire accord he negotiated in his capacity as EU President -- especially the main p [...] | 2008-08-18 18:24:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM MOPS OSCE UNSC FR GG RU RS UN |
08PARIS1600 | TFGG01: AUGUST 20: FRENCH PRESIDENCY ON SITUATION [...] (C) We met August 20 with Boris Boillon, who normally covers NEA issues but was filling in for a colleague who covers Russia and the CIS, at the Elysee to discuss the missing copy of the six-point cease-fire accord with Russian President Medvedev's signature. Boillon handed over a Russian la [...] | 2008-08-21 10:47:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM MOPS OSCE UNSC FR GG RU RS UN |
08PARIS1601 | TFGG01: AUGUST 20: FRENCH PRESIDENCY ON SITUATION [...] (C) We met August 20 with Boris Boillon, who normally covers NEA issues but was filling in for a colleague who covers Russia and the CIS, at the Elysee to discuss the missing copy of the six-point cease-fire accord with Russian President Medvedev's signature. Boillon handed over a Russian la [...] | 2008-08-21 10:48:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM MOPS OSCE UNSC FR GG RU RS UN |
08PARIS1616 | TFGG01: FRENCH VIEW OSCE MONITORS IN GEORGIA AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 21, French Elysee Advisor Boris Boillon and MFA A/S for Eurasia Roland Galharague, who traveled with FM Kouchner to the region, provided us with a consistent interpretation of the arrival of OSCE monitors: the new monitors are responding to the emergency situation; they [...] | 2008-08-21 18:11:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM MOPS OSCE UNSC FR GG RU RS UN |
08PARIS1745 | MORE FROM EU SPECIAL REP FOR GEORGIA AND FRENCH [...] (C) Summary: EU Special Representative for the Georgia Crisis Pierre Morel took a few minutes from intensive preparations for the EU/Central Asia forum to discuss his thinking about preparations for the mid-October Geneva meeting on Georgia. As noted in reftel, he plans to visit New York a [...] | 2008-09-17 17:47:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS MARR FR GG RS EU UN |
08PARIS1769 | FRENCH WARILY BACK CONTINUED UN-LED TALKS ON [...] (C) France supports in principle a continuation of the UN-led talks on Western Sahara but was not prepared to commit to another round until it was clearer how the talks would proceed according to Nathalie Loiseau, PDAS-equivalent in the MFA's NEA who responded to Ref B demarche on September 1 [...] | 2008-09-22 14:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PGOV UNSC FR MO AG WI |
08PARIS202 | FRENCH MFA ON WESTERN SAHARA BEFORE VAN WALSUM'S [...] (C) Summary: French MFA DAS-equivalent for North Africa Nathalie Loiseau indicated January 29 that France is increasingly impatient with UN-led talks on Western Sahara and believes the process may even be moving backward. She blamed part of French frustration on UN Personal Envoy Peter van [...] | 2008-02-04 16:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PTER FR MO AG MR WS |
08PARIS2088 | EUR PDAS RIES DISCUSSES EU/RUSSIA RELATIONS, [...] (C) Summary: On November 10, French presidency adviser on Russia, Damien Loras, confirmed that the EU/Russia summit will conclude November 14 with the announcement that talks on a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) will resume, a decision Loras argued was not a "big step" and the mo [...] | 2008-11-12 17:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PBTS MARR UNSC EUN FR RS GG |
08PARIS2322 | FRENCH SUPPORT SOMALIA PIRACY CONTACT GROUP [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-23 15:59:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER UNSC SO FR |
08PARIS362 | FRENCH VIEWS ON SOMALIA AND PIRACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The French MFA is generally favorable to the notion of UNSC action on Somalia and piracy (reftel). However, the French would hope that a UNSC mandate would contain specifics setting forth clearly the legal basis of any resulting operation and the responsibilities of, and limita [...] | 2008-03-03 06:29:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO FR |
08PARIS498 | MINIMAL FRENCH EXPECTATIONS FOR FOURTH ROUND OF [...] (C) French MFA DAS-equivalent for North Africa Nathalie Loiseau told us March 12 that the GOF continued to have extremely low expectations for the fourth round of UN-sponsored talks on Western Sahara set for early next week in Manhasset. Indeed, the French are so pessimistic that they hope [...] | 2008-03-17 16:31:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PTER FR MO AG SA |
08PARIS628 | FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON WESTERN SAHARA [...] (S) Summary: The French generally reacted favorably to reftel message on Western Sahara in meetings we held with the French Presidency and the MFA April 1 and 2. The key first priority seems to be engaging UNSYG Personal Envoy Peter van Walsum and other key Secretariat officials to encourag [...] | 2008-04-04 14:16:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM PREF MARR UNSC FR MO AG |
08PARIS680 | FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON THE APRIL 13 IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-11 15:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PTER PINS FR IR SY |
08PARIS682 | FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON THE APRIL 13 IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-11 15:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PTER PINS FR IR SY |
08PARIS685 | FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON THE APRIL 13 IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-11 15:48:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PTER PINS FR IR SY |
08PARIS689 | FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON THE APRIL 13 IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-11 16:10:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PTER PINS FR IR SY |
08PARIS855 | FRENCH EOV ON MINURSO RESOLUTION WILL NOT CALL [...] (C) The French MFA's IO desk officer covering the Western Sahara, Jay Darmadhikhari, informed us April 30 that France would present an explanation of vote following the UNSC's extension of MINURSO. That statement, however, would not echo the USG's contention that the option of an independen [...] | 2008-04-30 16:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UNSC FR MO AG WI |
08PARIS861 | DJIBOUTI/ERITREA: MFA SAYS NOT TO [...] (C) MFA AF/E DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal said on May 2 that the French were not in favor of Djibouti's bringing Eritrea's recent border incursion (reftels) before the African Union, Arab League, or UN Security Council, despite the fact that the Arab League is going to discuss the matter on [...] | 2008-05-02 15:01:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS PHSA ET ER FR |
08PARIS959 | WESTERN SAHARA: FRENCH RECEIVE DEMARCHE ON [...] (C) FRENCH MFA DAS-EQUIVALENT FOR NORTH AFRICA NATHALIE LOISEAU ON MAY 16 EXPRESSED GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH THE MAIN ELEMENTS OF OUR PROPOSED MESSAGE TO MOROCCO ON FOLLOWING UP UNSCR 1803 ON WESTERN SAHARA. --LIKE US, FRANCE IS WAITING FOR MOROCCO (ALONG WITH POLISARIO AND ALGERIA) TO DECID [...] | 2008-05-20 08:54:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM FR MO AG WI |
08PARIS976 | FOSG PARIS MEETING MAY 2008 [...] (C) Summary: During a May 8 meeting in Paris, the Western Friends of the Secretary General on Georgia (FOSG),consisting of the U.S., UK, France, and Germany, enthusiastically endorsed EUR DAS Matt Bryza's proposal for reviving the Abkhazia peace process. Bryza laid out a new three-pronged ap [...] | 2008-05-22 11:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS XH RS GG GM UK ZJ FR |
08PHNOMPENH578 | PREAH VIHEAR: TENSIONS STILL HIGH AS FACE-OFF [...] (C) Cambodian sources seemed increasingly anxious about continued tension along the Thai-Cambodian border July 17. A Cambodian official told the Ambassador that the RGC is seeking a face-to-face meeting early next week. A senior armed forces (RCAF) official text messaged the acting Defense [...] | 2008-07-17 10:44:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNESCO SCUL MOPS PBTS TH CB |
08PHNOMPENH581 | PREAH VIHEAR: TENSION UNLIKELY TO DISSIPATE [...] (C) Summary: Reftel A provides a solid update on the evolving situation along the Thai-Cambodian border near Preah Vihear temple. Embassies Phnom Penh and Bangkok had a number of good exchanges during the course of the day to double-track information coming from Thai and Cambodian sources. C [...] | 2008-07-18 13:55:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNESCO SCUL MOPS PBTS TH CB |
08PHNOMPENH631 | PREAH VIHEAR: GAG ORDER? [...] (SBU) Summary: The Cambodian government circulated the same summary of Monday's Siem Reap meeting as provided by the RTG to Embassy Bangkok (Ref A.) Throughout this busy, post-election week, Cambodian officials have been notably silent on the subject of Preah Vihear. Prime Minister Hun Sen t [...] | 2008-07-31 11:21:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNESCO SCUL MOPS PBTS TH CB |
08PHNOMPENH694 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PM HUN SEN: [...] (C) SUMMARY. During the Ambassador's farewell call on Prime Minister Hun Sen August 20, the Prime Minister thanked the U.S. for its encouragement for a peaceful resolution to the dispute over Preah Vihear and expressed his appreciation for the Ambassador's contribution to improved relations be [...] | 2008-08-21 04:36:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS MARR TH CB |
08PHNOMPENH701 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON FM HOR NAMHONG: DEEPER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In an August 21 farewell call on Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, the Ambassador congratulated the FM on his diplomacy in respect to the dispute over Preah Vihear, highlighted the continued strengthening of bilateral relations, expressed his optimism about proposed KRT funding from [...] | 2008-08-22 10:02:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PBTS MARR TH CB |
08PHNOMPENH730 | ENHANCING THE U.S.-CAMBODIA MILITARY RELATIONSHIP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the first ever U.S.-Cambodian Bilateral Defense Discussions (BDD),the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) team, accompanied by the Charge d'Affaires, called upon Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense General Tea Banh to highlight progress achieved in strengthening the [...] | 2008-08-29 10:21:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PBTS MASS MARR TH CB |
08PORTAUPRINCE114 | SRSG ANNABI ON MINUSTAH'S EXPANDED MANDATE, [...] (C) Summary and Comment. During the past week, UN SRSG Hedi Annabi has outlined MINUSTAH's priorities for 2008 and his key objectives. Consistent with the broader MINUSTAH mandate approved in UNSCR 1780, the organization has moved swiftly to address border issues, deploying MINUSTAH forces at [...] | 2008-01-23 19:09:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PREL HA UN KPKO |
08PORTLOUIS205 | NOT SO SUBTLE CORRUPTION IN MAURITIUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent allegations and press reports on corruption scandals in Mauritius highlight an often overlooked issue by those new to or unfamiliar with the island. Upon first impression, Mauritius may look relatively clean, but with some digging - one may find questionable dealings und [...] | 2008-06-12 12:11:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ASEC ECON EFIN PBTS PGOV MP |
08PRISTINA471 | KOSOVO: BORDER DEMARCATION WITH MACEDONIA ON TRACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The International Civilian Office (ICO) briefed Poloff September 8 on the Kosovo-Macedonia border demarcation process, saying that three of four sectors along the border are complete, and they expect all primary marking stones to be in place by September 19. Laying secondary sto [...] | 2008-09-09 16:38:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL KV MK |
08QUITO190 | ECUADOR DEMARCH RESPONSE: SOMALIA AND PIRACY [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel points to MFA Multilateral Affairs Director General Lourdes Puma on February 27. Puma noted that she was aware of the issues regarding piracy and Somalia, but that Ecuador had not yet developed a position on possible courses of action. 2. (SBU) PolOff stress [...] | 2008-02-27 21:00:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO EC SO |
08RABAT1060 | WESTERN SAHARA: CORCAS MEMBER SAYS ORGANIZATION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-07 18:16:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV WI MO |
08RABAT1091 | MOROCCO: MFA CONCERNED ABOUT U.S. TRANSITION [...] (C//NF) An Egyptian Embassy colleague told Poloff on November 21 that the Egyptian Ambassador in Rabat was convoked on November 13 by Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) then-Secretary General Omar Hillale. Hillale asked Cairo to issue a declaration publicly supporting the Government of Moroc [...] | 2008-11-21 19:22:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PBTS EG WI MO |
08RABAT1100 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HASTINGS [...] (SBU) Representative Hastings, my staff and I warmly welcome your visit. As you are aware, Morocco is a member of the OSCE Mediterranean Partnership and has hosted OSCE meetings in Rabat, but there is potential for more engagement. Morocco has given us exemplary cooperation in the struggle [...] | 2008-11-25 14:09:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP PGOV PHUM PREL PBTS KDEM AG WI MO |
08RABAT1154 | HARSTON ASSESSES MINURSO AND THE WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) Summary: MINURSO Head of Mission Julian Harston briefed the P-5 plus Spain on December 12. Harston believed that Morocco is finally ready to assent to Ambassador Christopher Ross' appointment as the UN Secretary General's (UNSYG's) Personal Envoy for Western Sahara. Harston believes th [...] | 2008-12-16 14:20:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO PHUM PBTS UN WI MO |
08RABAT1201 | AGADIR PROTEST DEATHS: TRAGIC BUT NOT DELIBERATE [...] (C//NF) Based on information obtained during EmbOff's visit, it appears that a tragic accident, and not a premeditated act, led to the deaths of two Sahrawi (Western Saharan) students during a December 1 protest in the Moroccan city of Agadir. Separate statements from a Sahrawi participant i [...] | 2008-12-30 12:26:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PGOV PREL PBTS WI AG MO |
08RABAT141 | DEMARCHING MOROCCO ON KOSOVO [...] (C) SUMMARY: NEA DAS Gordon Gray urged support for the upcoming independence for Kosovo February 8, during a meeting with Moroccan Foreign Minister Fassi Fihri otherwise devoted to S/CT Dailey's call for support on foreign fighters going to Iraq (septel). FM Fassi Fihri declined to offer a f [...] | 2008-02-14 14:50:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PGOV UNMIK UN YI MO |
08RABAT152 | MOROCCAN FM SPEAKS WELL OF VAN WALSUM TO S/CT [...] (C) Summary: Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri was cautiously positive on the Western Sahara peace process during a February 8 meeting with S/CT Dailey and NEA DAS Gray. Fassi Fihri was upbeat on Van Walsum, who recently told him he hoped for a solution based on non-independence, [...] | 2008-02-19 12:12:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UN MO |
08RABAT20 | AMBASSADOR,S JANUARY 3 MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 3, on the eve of his departure for the next round on UN-sponsored talks on Western Sahara, Foreign Minister Fassi Fihri expressed his frustration with Algeria's unwillingness to move beyond the status quo to resolve the issue and truly cooperate on economic and securi [...] | 2008-01-09 06:19:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS EAID KMCA KPAL MO |
08RABAT236 | FM FASSI FIHRI STRESSES GOM CONCERN OVER POLISARIO [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri called in the Ambassadors of the five UNSC Permanent Members March 7 to formally table a complaint about Polisario activity in the trans-berm area of the Western Sahara. He acknowledged that Moroccan complaints about t [...] | 2008-03-13 13:11:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS WI MO |
08RABAT246 | MOROCCO: CONCERNS OVER MANHASSET AND HAPPINESS [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Chief of Staff (CoS) Nasser Bourita told Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) and PolCouns that the Government of Morocco (GOM) was concerned over the direction of the Manhasset negotiations. Although he did not make a direct request, Bourita appeared to intima [...] | 2008-03-18 11:08:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV PBTS WI MO |
08RABAT319 | UNHCR DEPUTY JOHNSTONE BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON SAHARA [...] (C) Summary: UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner Craig Johnstone, at the end of a regional tour, told Ambassador Riley UNHCR can live with the imprecise number for Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf Camps. He said UN agencies get around the dispute by counting both the number of rations (reflecting a [...] | 2008-04-14 10:33:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PBTS WI AG MO |
08RABAT378 | BRIEFING MOROCCO ON THE U.S. VIEW ON THE WAY [...] (C) Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri expressed his country's deep appreciation for support from the Department and Washington generally, when briefed by Ambassador telephonically on our plans for an explanation of vote in New York and of reaching out to the Polisario. 2. (C) Co [...] | 2008-04-29 12:17:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS UNSC AG WI MO |
08RABAT415 | MOROCCO RENEWS AND BROADENS ALGERIA INITIATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Feeling good about progress in New York, Morocco renewed its call for better relations with Algeria on May 5, broadening its standing appeal to open the closed border in a quest for comprehensive normalization. MFA Chief of Staff Bourita confirmed Foreign Minister Fassi Fihri ca [...] | 2008-05-09 12:45:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS AG MO |
08RABAT417 | MOROCCO RENEWS AND BROADENS ALGERIA INITIATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Feeling good about progress in New York, Morocco renewed its call for better relations with Algeria on May 5, broadening its standing appeal to open the closed border in a quest for comprehensive normalization. MFA Chief of Staff Bourita confirmed Foreign Minister Fassi Fihri ca [...] | 2008-05-09 12:45:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS AG MO |
08RABAT496 | ALGERIAN AMBASSDOR BELIEVES MOROCCO,S [...] (C) Summary: During a two-hour exchange the Algerian Ambassador declined to identify what he referred to as many specific issues that prevent good relations between Algeria and Morocco. He opined, however, that the Moroccan proposal to re-open the border was designed to curry favor with the [...] | 2008-05-30 13:33:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN PBTS AG MO |
08RABAT66 | WESTERN SAHARA: ACTIVIST DESCRIBES HOPE AND [...] (C) Pro-independence Sahrawi human rights activist Brahim Dahane (strictly protect) told us there is a sense among Sahrawis, even in separatist circles, that something potentially positive is coming out of the Manhasset process. He hotly disputed Government of Morocco (GOM) attempts to like [...] | 2008-01-23 16:55:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PBTS WI MO |
08RABAT683 | MOROCCO: STRENGTHENED RIGHTS DIALOGUE AND A TOUCH [...] (C) Senior Moroccan Interior and Foreign Affairs officials praised, with some reservations, the Department's 2007 Human Rights Report and the Government of Morocco (GOM)/Embassy dialogue that informs it. They agreed to a schedule and framework to govern the next cycle of discussion and asked [...] | 2008-07-22 19:23:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PBTS WI MO |
08RABAT684 | CORRECTED COPY: STRENGTHENED RIGHTS DIALOGUE AND A [...] (C) Senior Moroccan Interior and Foreign Affairs officials praised, with some reservations, the Department's 2007 Human Rights Report and the Government of Morocco (GOM)/Embassy dialogue that informs it. They agreed to a schedule and framework to govern the next cycle of discussion and asked [...] | 2008-07-22 19:41:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PBTS WI MO |
08RABAT70 | CORRECTED COPY:WESTERN SAHARA: ACTIVIST DESCRIBES [...] (C) Pro-independence Sahrawi human rights activist Brahim Dahane (strictly protect) told us there is a sense among Sahrawis, even in separatist circles, that something potentially positive is coming out of the Manhasset process. He hotly disputed Government of Morocco (GOM) attempts to like [...] | 2008-01-23 17:07:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PBTS WI MO |
08RABAT71 | WESTERN SAHARA: BRINKSMANSHIP OVER CIVILIAN MARCH [...] (C) On January 16, a pro-Moroccan NGO announced plans to lead civilians on a march to Tifarity, the "capital" of the trans-berm buffer zone, on January 27. On January 23, the same NGO announced a postponement for logistical reasons. The Government of Morocco (GOM) has encouraged the march but [...] | 2008-01-23 17:31:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PBTS WI MO |
08RABAT739 | WESTERN SAHARA: UNHCR MANEUVERING AROUND A [...] (C) Summary: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Western Sahara Operations Director Sergio Calle-Noreno (protect) said that he had received an agreement in principle from the Government of Morocco (GOM),the Polisario, and Algeria in May to attend a conference in Geneva in J [...] | 2008-08-08 13:55:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PBTS UNHCR PREL KHDP WI AG MO |
08RABAT741 | CORRECTED: WESTERN SAHARA: UNHCR MANEUVERING [...] (C) Summary: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Western Sahara Operations Director Sergio Calle-Noreno (protect) said that he had received an agreement in principle from the Government of Morocco (GOM),the Polisario, and Algeria in May to attend a conference in Geneva in J [...] | 2008-08-10 16:31:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PBTS UNHCR PREL KHDP WI AG MO |
08RABAT832 | MOROCCO FURIOUS WITH UN ON VAN WALSUM REMOVAL, [...] (C) Summary: Moroccan Foreign Ministry Chief of Staff Nasser Bourita told PolCouns September 4 the GOM was deeply unhappy with the UN and its "bad faith" in ending the UNSYG Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Peter Van Walsum's mandate, and had conveyed this in a letter to the SYG. Bourita felt the [...] | 2008-09-05 16:23:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PBTS UNSC AG WI MO |
08RABAT833 | MOROCCAN MFA ON THE ARAB LEAGUE MEETING AND NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In preparation for the Arab League Ministerial, MFA Director General for Arab and Islamic Affairs Mohamed Azeroual told us that the League had no mechanism to block attendance by Mauritanian junta representatives. He maintained that democracy continued to function there and that [...] | 2008-09-05 16:40:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PBTS PINS PARM AL AG SY MR MO |
08RABAT878 | FASSI FIHRI CONVOKES PERM 5 PLUS SPAIN TO COMPLAIN [...] (C) On September 16, Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri convoked the Permanent 5 Ambassadors and Charges, plus the Spanish Ambassador, to bemoan the way in which Peter Van Walsum, the UNSYG's former Personal Envoy for the Western Sahara, was treated by the UN and to press for MINURSO [...] | 2008-09-16 17:46:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UN AG WI MO |
08RABAT940 | MOROCCO: MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES ALGERIA, SAHARA [...] (S) Summary: During an unexpectedly wide-ranging pre-UNGA discussion, MFA International Security Chief Karim Halim (strictly protect) complained about "bumps" in the normally good security cooperation between Morocco and Algeria. Halim griped that the current level of USG military assistance [...] | 2008-09-30 17:26:00 | Embassy Rabat | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV PBTS MARR NATO AG WI MO |
08RABAT983 | MOROCCO SEEKS TO BLOCK ALGERIAN-PROPOSED [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Riley, along with all other North and South American Ambassadors, was convoked by the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to discuss the Government of Morocco's (GOM) objection to the latest Algerian-proposed UN resolution on Western Sahara. The MFA urged the [...] | 2008-10-14 08:48:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM WI AG UN MO |
08RIGA2 | LAVROV'S VISIT TO RIGA [...] (C) Summary: Russian FM Lavrov's December 18 visit to Riga was most notable in that it occurred at all. After months of work, his visit marked the first ever visit by a Russian or Soviet FM to an independent Latvia. The highlight was the exchange of instruments of ratification on the Latvia-R [...] | 2008-01-02 05:27:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ENRG ETRD EUN RS IR LG |
08RIODEJANEIRO165 | AMBASSADOR SOBEL MEETS WITH KEY ENERGY ENTITIES IN RIO [...] (SBU) On June 6 Ambassador Sobel met with the two top executives of the Brazilian Petroleum Institute (IBP),an association representing the 71 energy companies operating in Brazil, and with Petrobras' new International Director, Jorge Luiz Zelada. In both meetings, discussions centered on the [...] | 2008-06-30 16:19:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ENRG PGOV PBTS MARR BR |
08ROME1022 | TFGG01: ITALY BACKS UNSC RESOLUTION ON GEORGIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-12 15:22:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PBTS GE IT |
08ROME1067 | ITALY SUPPORTS FIFTH ROUND OF WESTERN SAHARA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-20 16:26:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PGOV PBTS MO WI IT |
08ROME1485 | PIRACY: ITALY FAVORS ROBUST APPROACH BUT MAY LACK [...] (C) Poloffs raised reftel points with Italian MFA NATO Desk Officer Andrea Romussi and UN Desk Officer Gabriela Biondi on December 4. They said Italy shared U.S. concerns over the increasing danger of piracy and the threat it posed to commerce, maritime safety and the delivery humanitarian as [...] | 2008-12-08 09:50:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER NATO IT |
08ROME1510 | Update on 2009 G8 Environment Ministerial and Related [...] (U) Summary. Italian environment and foreign affairs officials described to visiting StaffDel Williams current plans for G8 and related environmental meetings, leading up to the G8 Environment Ministerial now scheduled for April 22-24, 2009. The StaffDel expressed strong interest in Italy's [...] | 2008-12-14 02:23:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG OREP EFIN PBTS XV IT |
08ROME1567 | HOA PIRACY: EMBASSY ROME REQUEST TO INCLUDE ITALY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-23 11:28:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA |
08ROME1590 | HOA PIRACY: ITALY PLEDGES FRIGATE FOR ESDP [...] C) The Italian MOD confirmed to Pol-Mil Off on December 24 that Italy plans to contribute a Maestrale-class Frigate or Soldati-class fleet patrol boat to the ESDP ATALANTA counter-piracy mission. The mission was approved by the Concil of Ministers in the year-end GOI overseas missions decree w [...] | 2008-12-30 16:11:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO EWWT PBTS |
08ROME288 | ITALY ON SOMALIA AND PIRACY IN THE UNSC [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-06 13:21:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO IT |
08ROME745 | ITALY TO ATTEND BERLIN CONFERENCE FOR PALESTINIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-12 11:37:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS EUN IT |
08ROME924 | ITALY: THE WAY FORWARD ON UNMEE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA East Africa Office Director Mario Sammartino July 25. Sammartino said Italy was largely in agreement with U.S. thinking on the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE). UNMEE's mandate must be terminated, he said, given the lack of agreement by e [...] | 2008-07-28 14:21:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS ET ER IT |
08SANAA1890 | PORT OF ADEN'S DEVELOPMENT SQUEEZED BY SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY. The port of Aden struggles to regain its stature as an essential regional hub in the midst of new management and ongoing security threats. Although the strike against new Aden Container Terminal manager Dubai Ports World appears to have been resolved, endemic corruption still a [...] | 2008-11-24 14:18:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EWWT PBTS YM |
08SANAA1924 | DEMARCHE: ENHANCING EFFORTS TO COMBAT PIRACY [...] Post maintains an ongoing discussion with the ROYG on deepening cooperation with the international community to fight Somali piracy. During our discussions, emboffs have raised all of the points outlined in para 4 of reftel. Yemeni military sources assert that, to be effective, the internatio [...] | 2008-12-02 06:46:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER YM |
08SANAA2064 | YEMEN'S PERMANENT REP TO THE UN MAY ATTEND CONTACT [...] Although Post did not receive an official response to reftel invitation, Abdul Hakeem al-Eryani, Director of the Office of the Foreign Minister, told Poloff at a December 30 meeting that the ROYG is considering sending its Permanent Representative to the UN to participate. He was unable to co [...] | 2008-12-30 13:00:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER YM |
08SANJOSE184 | COSTA RICA SUPPORTS RENEWAL OF AMISOM MANDATE [...] On February 28 we contacted Randolph Coto, Foreign Policy Coordinator of the FMA and shared with him the issues contained in the reftel. 2. Coto indicated the GOCR was well aware of these piracy issues and of the impending end of the current mandate this month. 3. On March 4 we followe [...] | 2008-03-07 11:42:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO CS |
08SANJOSE585 | COSTA RICA SIGNS SEARCH AND RESCUE MOU; POST [...] On July 2, Minister of Public Security Janina Del Vecchio signed Reftel Search and Rescue Memorandum of Understanding (SAR MOU) between Costa Rica and the United States. The GOCR made no changes to the text. 2. As per Para 3c of Reftel, Post requests authority for our Chief of the Office o [...] | 2008-07-09 22:56:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT PBTS PHSA CS US |
08SANJOSE639 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. WAY FORWARD ON UNMEE [...] On July 25, we delivered reftel points to the MFA's UN Desk Officer, Deyanira Ramirez. After the local holiday on Monday, we followed up with various other MFA staff on July 29, but we received no MFA response before the vote took place on July 30. CIANCHETTE [...] | 2008-08-01 21:57:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO PREL UNSC PBTS CS |
08SANJOSE662 | TFGG01: COSTA RICA SUPPORTS DRAFT UNSC RESOLUTION [...] (C) On August 12, we delivered reftel demarche to Adriana Murillo and Juan Salas of the MFA's UNSC team, and to Antonio Alarcon, COS to FonMin Bruno Stagno. Alarcon assured us that the GOCR supported the resolution, and he understood the importance of unified Council action in the face of a lik [...] | 2008-08-13 15:57:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC GE PREL PBTS PGOV CS |
08SANJOSE684 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PRESSING FOR A FIFTH ROUND OF [...] (C) On August 19, we delivered reftel demarche to Carlos Cordero at the MFA's Department of Disarmament, Terrorism and Organized Crime, who is following Western Sahara developments. Cordero said that if one party did not accept the envoy, then he (Walsum) could not be an effective mediator. Th [...] | 2008-08-21 19:25:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PGOV PBTS MO WI CS |
08SANJOSE829 | SEVENTH COSTA RICA-NICARAGUA BINATIONALS: MORE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Seventh Binational Commission Meeting between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, held on October 3 in San Jose, produced 20 "accords" but little substance. Most agenda items in the final document simply called for further dialogue. Of note, however, Costa Rica agreed to grant high [...] | 2008-10-20 15:16:00 | Embassy San Jose | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENVI PBTS KTIP SENV CS NU |
08SANSALVADOR256 | EL SALVADOR: DEMARCHE ON POSSIBLE UNSC ACTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-03 17:14:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ES SO UNSC UN PBTS KCRM IMO PREL |
08SANTIAGO1042 | BORDER ISSUES IN NORTHERN CHILE: DISPUTES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: A contested border and drug trafficking can sometimes bedevil relations between Chile and Peru on a national level, while on a local level, officials from communities on both sides of the border appear committed to cooperation. Government officials in the northern Chilean borde [...] | 2008-11-28 19:46:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS MARR SNAR KTIA PREL CI PE BL |
08SANTIAGO1080 | CHILEAN DEFENSE MINISTER GONI EXPLAINS SPAT WITH [...] (C) Chilean Defense Minister Jose Goni briefed Ambassador Paul Simons December 1 on the current tensions between Chile and Peru. Goni explained he and his Peruvian counterpart had tried to defuse the controversy resulting from comments by the Peruvian Army Commander-in-Chief. President Garcia [...] | 2008-12-10 22:00:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PBTS PGOV PREL CI PE |
08SANTODOMINGO1953 | (C) GODR BLAMES 'EXPLOSIVE' LEGISLATOR FOR SEA [...] (C) Summary: On December 15, the Ambassadors from the United Kingdom, United States and Japan demarched Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Trullols regarding concerns about the Dominican Republic's expanded sea boundary claims under a 2007 law. Trullols said the Foreign Ministry opposed this [...] | 2008-12-22 14:11:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV ECON EFTA PBTS PREL DR |
08SANTODOMINGO315 | KIDNAPPING, CATTLE-RUSTLING TREAD ON [...] (U) The recent media reports of kidnapping and cross border skirmishes in the border towns of Dajabon-Ounaminthe highlight the increasing friction between Dominicans and Haitians in this area. Tensions mounted when two Dominican men from Dajabon were kidnapped by a group of about ten armed Ha [...] | 2008-02-29 20:04:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS SMIG HA DR |
08SEOUL1527 | FM YU PLEASED WITH SUMMIT PREP, SAYS "ALL'S WELL [...] (C) On July 31 Ambassador Vershbow paid an office call on Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan to confer on preparations for President Bush's August 5-6 visit to the Republic of Korea (ROK). During their meeting they agreed that plans for the visit were proceeding smoothly and reviewed the most lik [...] | 2008-08-01 08:10:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL PGOV MARR KS KN JA |
08SEOUL1606 | ROK RELIEVED DPRK NOT MAKING ISSUE OF COLLISION OF [...] (C) At 2:25 a.m. on August 12, the 658 ton "Dongi No.1," a South Korean barge, collided with an unnamed North Korean fishing vessel in North Korean territorial waters approximately 8 km northeast of Jangjon, a port on the DPRK's eastern cost. The ten crewmen of the South Korean barge admitte [...] | 2008-08-14 05:01:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PHSA PINS MARR KS KN |
08SEOUL1841 | DASD SEDNEY MEETING WITH ROK DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the end of SPI-19 (septel),DASD David Sedney and Ambassador Vershbow met with ROK Minister of National Defense Lee Sang-hee. The Ambassador delivered reftel points on the pending announcement by the Government of Iraq regarding reductions in Coalition forces that would [...] | 2008-09-17 07:09:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PHSA PINS MARR KS KN |
08SEOUL1844 | SPI CLOSED SESSION: IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, BURDEN [...] (CO) SUMMARY: DASD David Sedney met with MND Deputy Minister Jeon on September 10 for a closed meeting of the U.S.-ROK Security Policy Initiative (SPI). The discussed the following four issues: -- DASD Sedney informed DM Jeon of the reftel A decision that would result in the drawdown in I [...] | 2008-09-17 07:13:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PHSA PINS MARR KS KN |
08SEOUL1845 | DASD SEDNEY MEETING WITH MOFAT NORTH AMERICA DG [...] (CO) SUMMARY: On September 11, DASD David Sedney and EAP/K Director Kurt Tong paid an office call on MOFAT North American Affairs DG Chang Ho-jin. They agreed that the September 10 Security Policy Initiative talks had gone well, but that several issues -- camp returns and the SMA burden-shar [...] | 2008-09-17 07:14:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PHSA PINS MARR KS KN |
08SEOUL2355 | ROK COUNTER-PIRACY RECOMMENDATIONS AND PLANS [...] (C) Summary. ROK officials describe their approach to counter piracy in the Horn of Africa as having three elements: international cooperation and coordination, preferably under the UN; capacity building for local maritime security forces; and joint military efforts. Nevertheless, budget c [...] | 2008-12-09 09:14:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER PREL KS |
08SEOUL2387 | HORN OF AFRICA PIRACY: FORMATION OF CONTACT GROUP [...] (U) Poloff met with Ahreum Cho of the Security and Counter-Terrorism Cooperation Division within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) on December 12. Cho welcomed the information in reftel A, and will pass on the information to her director and to MOFAT representatives in the U [...] | 2008-12-12 07:53:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER KS |
08SEOUL2496 | ROK TO SEND REPRESENTATIVES TO CONTACT GROUP ON [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. In response to reftel, Hyunghwa Cho of the Security and Counter-Terrorism Cooperation Division within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade informed poloff on December 31 that the ROKG will send the following two representatives to [...] | 2008-12-31 01:52:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM EWWT MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER |
08SINGAPORE1228 | SINGAPORE CONCERNED ABOUT INDONESIAN PILOTAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOS has conveyed in various senior and working level meetings its concerns about Indonesia's launch of a pilotage program for ships transiting the Malacca Strait. Indonesia instituted a limited pilotage program in September, and provided some detail on its thinking in a pre [...] | 2008-11-19 09:10:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT ETRD PBTS PHSA SN ID MY |
08SOFIA133 | BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. VIEWS ON SOMALIA AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-06 08:45:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO |
08SOFIA400 | DEMARCHE ON BERLIN CONFERENCE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-16 10:11:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS EUN |
08SOFIA609 | BULGARIAN MEDIA INCLUDES CRITICISM OF RUSSIA IN GEORGIA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Initial, widespread coverage in the Bulgarian media of the Georgia-Russia conflict was generally thin on hard facts, often derived from other, Western outlets, and generally critical of Georgia's actions leading up to the conflict. Over time, the story moved off the front page, bu [...] | 2008-09-11 08:52:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED | PROP PREL PBTS PINS OPRC PGOV GG BU |
08STATE100929 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY SHANNON,S SEPTEMBER 9 MEETING [...] (U) September 9, 2008; 2:00-3:00 p.m.; Washington, DC, USA. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. Assistant Secretary Shannon (WHA) Skye Justice (WHA Notetaker) Panama Ambassador Federico Humbert 3. (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary Shannon met with Panamanian Ambassador Federico Humbert [...] | 2008-09-22 14:05:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP ETRD PREL PGOV CFED PBTS VE RS NU GG KV PM |
08STATE100946 | SECRETARY RICE'S SEPTEMBER 16, 2008 CONVERSATION [...] (U) September 16, 2008; 9:30-10:00 a.m.; Washington, DC, USA. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon Assistant Secretary Sean McCormack Ambassador Barbara Stephenson Skye Justice (WHA Notetaker) Panama President Martin Torrijos First Vice Preside [...] | 2008-09-22 14:23:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP ETRD PREL PGOV CFED PBTS RS GG KV BL PM |
08STATE110797 | UNGA RESOLUTION ON WESTERN SAHARA [...] USUN is instructed to continue to work with all interested parties to urge them to reach consensus on the Fourth Committee Western Sahara resolution. Mission should support any attempts to postpone voting on the resolution until consensus is reached. 2. If, despite all efforts to postpone [...] | 2008-10-17 01:42:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS UNGA WI MO AG |
08STATE112713 | OSCE/PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO REPORT BY [...] Post is authorized to present the following statement at the October 23 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is a pleasure to welcome Ambassador Remler to the Permanent Council today. His report bears witness to the continuing energy and focus of [...] | 2008-10-22 22:21:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PGOV PBTS KDEM MD RS |
08STATE113639 | DIPLOMATIC NOTE REGARDING JAPAN'S CONTINENTAL [...] Embassy Tokyo is requested to deliver a note verbale to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan using the text in Paragraph 2. 2. Begin text: The Embassy of the United States of America presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has the honor to acknowledge recei [...] | 2008-10-24 18:02:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA PBTS PHSA SENV TPHY JA |
08STATE120864 | WARNING CHINA ON HARASSMENT OF U.S. NAVY VESSELS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 7. 2. (U) Background: Over the past 18 months, the frequency of China's verbal warnings, vessel-shadowing by multiple platforms simultaneously, unprofessional seamanship, and unsafe maneuvering have increased the risk of miscalculation in inte [...] | 2008-11-14 00:24:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | CH KTIA MOPS PBTS PHSA PREL |
08STATE125123 | NEA A/S DAVID WELCH'S NOVEMBER 21 CONVERSATION [...] (C) Summary: A/S Welch welcomed Abdallah Baali as the new Algerian Ambassador November 21. He spoke candidly about the shortcomings of the bilateral relationship, and offered ways that Baali could improve it -- e.g. through increasing the number of Algerians students enrolled in the U.S. and [...] | 2008-11-25 22:04:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PBTS PGOV PREL AG IR IS IZ LE MO SY WI |
08STATE125514 | DEMARCHE: ENHANCING EFFORTS TO COMBAT PIRACY [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 4 and 5. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) The growth of piracy in the Gulf of Aden and in waters off the coast of Somalia has emerged as a serious threat to international commerce, the safety of mariners, and the delivery of humanit [...] | 2008-11-26 18:44:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER |
08STATE126443 | INSTRUCTIONS ON DECEMBER 3 CONSULTATIONS ON [...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN is instructed to draw from talking points in para 2 below during December 2 consultations on the UN Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BONUCA). End action request. 2. Begin points: The United States strongly supports Special Envoy Francois Lonseny [...] | 2008-12-01 19:47:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF PHUM PBTS CT |
08STATE128177 | UNFICYP CONSULTATIONS, DECEMBER 5, 2008 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-05 13:34:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS GR TU CY UK |
08STATE129941 | HORN OF AFRICA PIRACY: FORMATION OF CONTACT GROUP [...] (C) The Secretary will participate in a Ministerial at the UN Security Council on December 16 that we expect will adopt a resolution calling for intensified and coordinated international efforts against piracy off the Horn of Africa. We plan to build on this resolution to seek establishment of [...] | 2008-12-10 22:23:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER |
08STATE133199 | INVITATION TO CONTACT GROUP ON SOMALI PIRACY [...] This is an action request. UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1851, adopted unanimously on December 16, 2008, calls for the establishment of a mechanism for international cooperation to deal with all aspects of combating piracy off Somalia,s coast. Pursuant to resolution 1851, the U.S has [...] | 2008-12-20 01:11:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER |
08STATE133750 | INVITATION TO PIRACY CONTACT GROUP PRE-MEETING [...] This is an action request. Per reftel A, Assistant Secretary-level officials from 26 states and organizations are invited to the inaugural meeting of the Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP) on January 13-14, 2009 in New York City. There will be a pre-CGSP meeting on the 13th with eight key [...] | 2008-12-22 23:41:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER |
08STATE134918 | INVITATION TO TURKEY TO JOIN THE CONTACT GROUP ON [...] (SBU) This is an Action Request, please see para. 3. 2. (SBU) Following the Government of Turkey,s formal offer of at least one frigate with air element embarked to support counter piracy operations off the coast of Somalia, the Department concurs with Embassy Ankara,s support for Turkey,s [...] | 2008-12-29 21:13:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER TU |
08STATE14095 | GUIDANCE ON CYPRUS ASSESSMENT MISSION [...] (U) USUN requested guidance on the U.S. position on a UN-proposed assessment mission to Cyprus in response to a request for input from UNDPA's Cyprus officer. See paras 2 and 3 below for specific guidance. 2. (C//Rel to UN) USUN should inform UNDPA,s Cyprus officer that the United Stat [...] | 2008-02-11 19:09:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC CY PREL PBTS |
08STATE15620 | SOMALIA -- TALKING POINTS FOR FEBRUARY 15 [...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points during their February 15 consultations on Somalia. Begin points: -- The United States continues to have the utmost concern over the ongoing crisis in Somalia. -- The United States is grateful to the AU Mission in Somalia for [...] | 2008-02-14 22:33:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL PHUM KCRM PBTS PHSA EWWT SO XA XW |
08STATE17204 | SOMALIA -- INSTRUCTION CABLE ON AMISOM RESOLUTION [...] USUN is instructed to vote in favor of the following Security Council Resolution on AMISOM slated to be adopted on February 20: Begin text The Security Council, PP1 Recalling its previous resolutions concerning the situation in Somalia, in particular resolution 733 (1992),resolution [...] | 2008-02-20 20:37:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL PHUM KCRM PBTS PHSA EWWT SO XA XW |
08STATE21209 | GUIDANCE FOR AZERBAIJANI UNGA RESOLUTION [...] (U) This is an action request. See Para. 2. 2. Action request: Department requests that USUN urge Azerbaijan's mission to the UN to work on an UNGA resolution that stresses that Kosovo is not a precedent for Nagarno-Karabakh (NK) or any other conflict. In order to secure U.S. supp [...] | 2008-02-29 22:59:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA PREL AM AJ RU GE UP PBTS |
08STATE26643 | VOTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR AZERBAIJAN UNGA RESOLUTION [...] (C) This is an action request. Department continues to urge Azerbaijan to consider our proposed changes to the text of its UNGA resolution "on the situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan" and to delay a vote on the resolution, in the hope of allowing us (and our Minsk Group Co-C [...] | 2008-03-13 20:56:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA AZ PBTS PREL |
08STATE33088 | DEMARCHE ON WESTERN SAHARA POLICY [...] (U) This is an action request. USUN is directed to deliver a demarche to the UN Secretariat and the French mission to the United Nations in accordance with the objectives in paragraphs 2 and 3. Embassy Paris should deliver a demarche to appropriate officials in accordance with objectives in [...] | 2008-03-31 21:08:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PREL PGOV UNSC MO WI FR PHUM PREF PBTS |
08STATE34269 | GUIDANCE: UNOMIG RESOLUTION NEGOTIATIONS -- [...] (U) This is an Action Message, see para 2. 2. (U) USUN may draw from the guidance in paras 2-4 below during negotiations with the Friends of Georgia (Germany, UK, France, U.S., and Russia) concerning the UNOMIG renewal resolution. See para 5 for additional background and para 6 for the [...] | 2008-04-02 21:06:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC GE PREL PBTS |
08STATE38599 | GUIDANCE: GEORGIA CONSULTATIONS, APRIL 14 [...] (U) This is an action message. USUN may draw from the points in para 2 below during consultations on Georgia on April 14. 2. (U) Begin points. -- The U.S. welcomes the Secretary General,s report and appreciates efforts by UNOMIG and the Special Representative of the Secretary General [...] | 2008-04-11 23:37:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC GE PREL PBTS |
08STATE39193 | GUIDANCE: UNOMIG MANDATE RENEWAL [...] (U) This is an action message. USUN is authorized to vote to approve the UNOMIG resolution in para 2 below. 2. (U) Begin resolution text. The Security Council, PP1 Recalling all its relevant resolutions including resolution 1781 of 15 October 2007 (S/RES/1781); PP2 Welcom [...] | 2008-04-15 01:10:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC GE PREL PBTS |
08STATE41408 | WESTERN SAHARA CONSULTATIONS, APRIL 21, 2008 [...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to draw upon the following elements during Western Sahara consultations on April 21, 2008. Begin Elements. -We appreciate the Secretary General,s report, and welcome the Personal Envoy,s frank assessment of the situation in Western Sahara. W [...] | 2008-04-19 00:02:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS AG MO WI |
08STATE42903 | GUIDANCE: UNSC EMERGENCY MEETING ON GEORGIA [...] Action request: Department requests that USUN deliver the following statement in para 2 below at the UNSC meeting on Georgia scheduled for Wednesday, April 23. End Action Request. 2. Begin statement: -- Thank you, Mr. President. I would like to welcome Georgian Foreign Minister Bakr [...] | 2008-04-23 16:43:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL PBTS GE RU |
08STATE43018 | USN ACTIVITIES IN CHINA'S EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph eight. 2. (U) Background: China objects to military surveys in its EEZ, and has on occasion challenged or interfered with U.S. Navy ships conducting military surveys within China's claimed EEZ. The U.S. has on several occasions objected [...] | 2008-04-23 19:31:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | CH KTIA MOPS PBTS PHSA PREL |
08STATE48654 | GUIDANCE FOR 1559 CONSULTATIONS, MAY 8 [...] (U) This is an action message. USUN may draw from the points in para 2 below during consultations on the implementation of UNSC resolution 1559, currently scheduled for May 8. 2. (U) Begin points. -- We welcome the Secretary General's report and Mr. Larsen's briefing on implementati [...] | 2008-05-07 23:34:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PBTS PREL LE SY IS |
08STATE50902 | DRAFT UNSC RESOLUTION CONDEMNING VIOLENCE IN [...] (U) This is an action message. USUN is authorized to urgently share the draft resolution in para 2 below with the French Mission, and other UNSC members at USUN's discretion, with a view towards spurring Council action on the Hizballah-initiated violence in Lebanon which began on May 8. De [...] | 2008-05-14 01:14:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC SY LE PREL PBTS PTER |
08STATE57827 | GUIDANCE: UNSC SESSION CONCERNING RUSSIAN DOWNING [...] (U) This is an action message. USUN is authorized to draw from the points in para 2 below during UNSC consultations on Georgia scheduled for May 30. 2. Begin points: -- UNOMIG's report on the downing of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over Georgian territory offers further troublin [...] | 2008-05-30 12:47:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC GE PBTS PREL RU |
08STATE57869 | USG COMMENTS ON VORONIN DRAFT SETTLEMENT PACKAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: In an April 14 meeting, President Voronin asked DAS Merkel to review a package of Moldovan proposals meant to serve as the basis for a political settlement with Transnistria. He further requested that the U.S. present this package to the 5 2. DAS Merkel agreed [...] | 2008-05-30 13:33:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE MD PBTS PGOV PREL |
08STATE57994 | GUIDANCE: UNSC SESSION CONCERNING RUSSIAN DOWNING [...] (U) This is an action message. USUN is authorized to draw from the points in para 2 below during UNSC consultations on Georgia scheduled for May 30. 2. Begin points: -- UNOMIG's report on the downing of a unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over Georgian territory offers evidence of Russi [...] | 2008-05-30 15:19:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC GE PBTS PREL RU |
08STATE58446 | THE WAY FORWARD ON UNMEE [...] This is an action request. Department requests action addressees in London, Paris, Moscow, and Brussels, to approach host governments, as UN Security Council (UNSC) Members, to discuss our proposed way forward on the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) and a potential follow-on UN pres [...] | 2008-05-30 23:20:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS ET ER BE FR UK RS |
08STATE62452 | Under SECRETARY BURNS DISCUSSES IRAQ, KOSOVO, [...] (U) PARTICIPANTS: U.S. ---- U/S WILLIAM J. BURNS, P PDAS KURT VOLKER, EUR SUMONA GUHA, SPECIAL ASSISTANT, P H. MARTIN MCDOWELL, EUR/NB DESK (NOTETAKER) SWEDEN ------ CARL BILDT, FOREIGN MINISTER AMBASSADOR JONAS HAFSTROM HAKAN MALMQVIST, DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL, SWEDISH MFA ERIKA F [...] | 2008-06-10 19:00:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC UNMIK PBTS SENV PINR KO RS |
08STATE66730 | UNMEE CONSULTATIONS, JUNE 23, 2008 [...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to draw from the discussion elements below during UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea consultations scheduled for June 23, 2008. Begin Elements: -For years now, the restrictions that Eritrea has placed on UNMEE have undermined the basis of th [...] | 2008-06-20 19:43:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PREL UNSC KPKO ET ER |
08STATE69048 | INSTRUCTIONS ON JUNE 27 CONSULTATIONS ON BONUCA [...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN is instructed to draw from talking points in para 2 below during June 27 consultations on the semi-annual report of the UN Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BONUCA). End action request. 2. Begin points: The United States strongly supports Speci [...] | 2008-06-26 22:04:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF PHUM PBTS CT |
08STATE78864 | UNMEE DRAFT RESOLUTION TEXT [...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to share with appropriate officials at the Permanent Mission of Belgium to the UN in New York the draft resolution text below, relating to the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE). Department requests USUN to report the outcome of its discu [...] | 2008-07-22 22:07:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS ET ER |
08STATE79164 | INSTRUCTIONS FOR CAMBODIAN-THAI BORDER ISSUE IN [...] (C) BACKGROUND AND ACTION REQUEST: Department understands that France has agreed to support a request by Cambodia to raise the Cambodia-Thailand dispute over border demarcation around the Preah Vihear temple under "Other Matters" in the Security Council July 23, with the intended outcome a Coun [...] | 2008-07-23 16:14:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PBTS CB TH |
08STATE79539 | DEMARCHE TO UN SECURITY COUNCIL CAPITALS AND [...] (U) This is an action request. Department requests posts in Security Council capitals and USUN to share U.S. thinking on the way ahead on the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) with host governments and their respective UN Missions in New York. Embassies in Security Council capitals [...] | 2008-07-24 01:11:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS ET ER |
08STATE81725 | UN MISSION IN ETHIOPIA/ERITREA: SECURITY COUNCIL [...] USUN is authorized to vote in favor of a Security Council resolution on July 30, terminating the mandate of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE). The draft text of the resolution is in paragraph 2. If there are substantive changes proposed, USUN should consult with the Department. [...] | 2008-07-30 01:48:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPKO PBTS ET ER |
08STATE86130 | GEORGIA - DEMARCHE REQUEST ON DRAFT UNSC [...] (C) This is an action request. Addressees should demarche their host government at the highest appropriate level to gain support for a draft UN Security Council Resolution addressing the conflict in Georgia (text at para 8). We are seeking an early vote on this text in the Council. Objecti [...] | 2008-08-12 02:04:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC GE PREL PBTS |
08STATE87197 | OSCE/PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON RECENT [...] (U) Post is authorized to deliver the following statement at the August 14, 2008, special meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna. Begin text: Mr. Chairman, We appreciate so much that you scheduled this special session of the Permanent Council, and express our full support for [...] | 2008-08-13 23:54:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PBTS GG RS |
08STATE88235 | TFGG01: ACTION REQUEST: DEMARCHE TO GAIN SUPPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-16 08:36:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL PBTS GG RS |
08STATE88308 | RUSSIA - GEORGIA CONFLICT: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT [...] IN REFERENCE TO RUSSIA'S ACTIONS IN GEORGIA, PRESIDENT BUSH STATED THE FOLLOWING: (QUOTE) "WITH ITS ACTIONS IN RECENT DAYS RUSSIA HAS DAMAGED ITS CREDIBILITY AND ITS RELATIONS WITH THE NATIONS OF THE FREE WORLD. BULLYING AND INTIMIDATION ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE WAYS TO CONDUCT FOREIGN POLICY I [...] | 2008-08-18 00:17:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR OIIP PBTS PREL RU GG |
08STATE88765 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: PRESSING FOR A FIFTH ROUND OF [...] (C) Department requests action addressees to demarche host government counterparts and their representatives in New York at an appropriate level to urge the UN to hold a fifth round of talks on Western Sahara this Fall and to allow Peter Van Walsum to lead these talks in his capacity as the We [...] | 2008-08-19 01:35:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PGOV PBTS MO WI |
08STATE98072 | SOMALIA PIRACY: LETTER TO SC RELAYING USG ACTIONS [...] This is an action request see paragraph 2. 2. Operational paragraph 12 of UNSCR 1816 requests states cooperating with the TFG inform the Security Council within 3 months of the progress of actions undertaken in the exercise of the authority provided in operational paragraph 7 of that resol [...] | 2008-09-12 22:45:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL PHSA PBTS EWWT XA XW |
08STOCKHOLM452 | U.S.-SWEDEN PLAN WAY FORWARD FOR ABKHAZIA CONFLICT [...] (U) Participants: U.S. ---- Matthew Bryza, EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary Michael Carpenter, Conflicts Advisor Casey Christensen, Political Counselor Briana Olsen, Deputy Political Counselor (notetaker) Sweden ------ Carl Bildt, Foreign Minister Frank Belfrage, State Secretary Bjorn [...] | 2008-06-23 11:07:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC UNMIK PBTS PINR KO RS GG XQ |
08TAIPEI189 | PRESIDENT CHEN ON ELECTION POLITICS, UN [...] (C) Summary: During a dinner hosted by President Chen on February 4, he described his recent trip to the Spratlys and explained why China wasn't concerned. The Director urged Taiwan to open its market to all U.S. beef products as soon as possible. Chen stressed his commitment to open up the [...] | 2008-02-05 07:53:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS EAGR ETRD TW |
08TAIPEI860 | SEF CHAIRMAN P.K. CHIANG ON CROSS-STRAIT TALKS AND [...] (C) Summary: Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P.K. Chiang told the Director on June 17 he was pleased with the results of the June 11-14 talks in Beijing with China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS). Chiang said the two agreements on passenger charter flight [...] | 2008-06-18 10:04:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ECON ETRD EINV EAIR EFIS CH |
08TASHKENT1022 | UZBEKISTAN: CSTO DEMARCHE AND PUTIN VISIT [...] (C) On Sunday, August 31, we delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev, who promised to relay it immediately to appropriate officials. Contacted at home on the September 1 Uzbek Independence Day holiday, Fayzullaev said a response had to be [...] | 2008-09-02 12:58:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | GG PBTS PREL RS UZ |
08TASHKENT1029 | UZBEKISTAN: NO EVIDENCE OF CHANGE IN POSITION ON [...] (C) On September 3, Pol-Econ Section Chief and Poloff met with Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev to discuss reftel A demarche on the upcoming Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) meeting. Fayzullaev stated that he delivered this info [...] | 2008-09-03 12:25:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | GG PBTS PREL RS UZ |
08TASHKENT1218 | UZBEKISTAN: CUSTOMS REQUESTS TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT [...] (C) Summary: On September 30, Poloff and Deskoff met with Customs representatives who described the agency's priorities and expressed appreciation for U.S.-provided border security assistance. Customs appears to be particularly interested in receiving additional technical equipment that would [...] | 2008-10-21 11:21:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS ASEC PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT132 | UZBEKISTAN GRANTS OVERFLIGHT RIGHTS, USE OF TERMEZ [...] (SBU) The Government of Uzbekistan informed Post via diplomatic note on January 30 that it has approved overflights of Uzbekistan and the transit of the Uzbek-German airbase at Termez by U.S. military and diplomatic personnel assigned to NATO and/or International Security Assistance Forces whe [...] | 2008-01-31 13:18:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS AF UZ |
08TASHKENT1471 | UZBEKISTAN: BORDER SECURITY ASSESSMENT [...] (C) Summary. Several U.S. programs--including the Export Control and Related Border Security program, the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement program, and others sponsored by the Department of Defense and Department of Energy--have contributed to enhancing the security of Uzbekistan's b [...] | 2008-12-17 08:29:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS ASEC ECON MASS PGOV PINS KNNP PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT1472 | UZBEKISTAN: STAFFDEL MEETS WITH MINISTRY OF DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary:During a meeting with Colonel Rustamov of Uzbekistan's Ministry of Defense on December 15, House Foreign Affairs Committee staffers discussed a range of defense and security issues.Rustamov voiced support ofinternational efforts to promote stability in Afghanistan and was pleased th [...] | 2008-12-17 09:59:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ASEC MASS PINS PTER PHUM SNAR UZ |
08TASHKENT168 | UPDATE ON EUROPEAN BORDER SECURITY EFFORTS IN [...] (C) Summary: In a January 29 meeting with Emboffs, former Chief Technical Advisor for the Border Management in Central Asia Program, Pierre-Paul Antheunissens, provided an update on the program's border security efforts in Uzbekistan. The Border Management in Central Asia Program completed and [...] | 2008-02-07 08:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL PGOV ASEC UZ |
08TASHKENT174 | SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Norland and Emboffs met with the Executive Committee of the Regional Antiterrorist Structure (RATS) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on January 31. Executive Committee officials provided a rundown on the structure, responsibilities, and key officials of th [...] | 2008-02-08 07:51:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC PTER SNAR PGOV PBTS PINR SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT2 | UZBEKISTAN'S BORDER GUARD AND CUSTOMS OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: Julia Khersonsky, who works at the University of Georgia's Washington DC-based Center for International Trade and Security (CITS),briefed Poloff on her recent meetings with Border Guard and Customs officials. They were highly appreciative of past U.S. assistance in border securi [...] | 2008-01-02 05:46:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL SNAR PTER AF UZ |
08TASHKENT265 | UZBEKISTAN: NO RESPONSE ON SOMALIA AND PIRACY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-28 11:10:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS KCRM UZ |
08TASHKENT290 | JIZZAKH PROVINCE -- THE "FARGO" OF UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) Summary: During a one-day trip to Jizzakh province on February 29, the Ambassador met with the acting provincial Hokim (governor) Musa Anarbaev, toured a battery production plant operated by an U.S.-Uzbek joint venture, had lunch with alumni of US government exchange programs, and visited [...] | 2008-03-06 06:45:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PBTS PHUM SCUL SOCI TI UZ |
08TASHKENT384 | GOVERNMENT OF UZBEKISTAN PROTESTS U.S. CIVILIAN [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see Paragraph 3. 2. (U) The Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) informed Post via diplomatic note on March 27 that according to its aviation authorities, the aircrew of B-772 (sic) Continental Airlines Flight SOA-49 violated Uzbekistan's airpsace on March [...] | 2008-03-31 13:18:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PREL PBTS UZ |
08TASHKENT398 | UZBEKISTAN: CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN TO TAKE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (U) Post has been in contact with Saifiddin Juraev, Director of the Foundation of Regional Policy in Uzbekistan, who has requested U.S. assistance in identifying and providing funding for U.S. participation in an upcoming internatio [...] | 2008-04-03 13:22:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER PINS PBTS UZ |
08TASHKENT446 | UZBEKISTAN: NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL CHIEF [...] (C) Summary: On March 31, A/DAS, Ambassador, and DCM met with Secretary of the National Security Council (NSC) Murat Ataev. Like FM Norov (septel) and Parliamentarian Tashmukhamedova (septel),Ataev greeted the U.S. side warmly and announced that the GOU's Ministries and the NSC are ready fo [...] | 2008-04-16 07:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC ELTN KISL PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PINS |
08TASHKENT459 | UZBEKISTAN VEHEMENTLY DENIES RUMORS OF SEPARATIST [...] (C) Summary: Senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials directed MFA Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev to deliver a statement to Poloff on April 16 refuting press reporting on separatist sentiment in Uzbekistan's autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan, and warning that U.S. Embassy i [...] | 2008-04-17 12:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL SOCI UZ |
08TASHKENT518 | UZBEKISTAN: CUSTOMS OFFICIALS REQUEST FURTHER [...] (SBU) A representative from Allied Technical Services worked on the repair of an X-ray van provided by the Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) program to Uzbekistan's State Customs Committee May 1-2. Customs used this van between 1998 and 2007 primarily to scan the belongings of [...] | 2008-05-02 12:34:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PBTS PGOV KZ UZ |
08TASHKENT546 | UZBEKISTAN: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE REFLECTS [...] (C) Summary: Uzbekistan hosted a significant international conference focusing on regional security, particularly the situation in Afghanistan, on April 29-30. The event illustrates Uzbekistan's continuing concerns about the security situation in Afghanistan as well as growing regional interes [...] | 2008-05-13 11:52:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC EAID ECIN KNNP KTIA MASS PBTS PGOV |
08TASHKENT564 | GOVERNMENT OF UZBEKISTAN PROTESTS ANOTHER U.S. [...] (U) On May 13, the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) informed Post via diplomatic note that according to its aviation authorities, the aircrew of G-550 Pentastar Aviation Airlines Flight N940DC violated Uzbekistan's overflight procedures on April 22. The flight was en-route to Helsinki from Mumba [...] | 2008-05-19 11:47:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PREL PBTS UZ |
08TASHKENT623 | BOUCHER AND SENIOR UZBEKS REVIEW OBSTACLES AND [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher visited Uzbekistan May 30-June 3, stopping in Samarkand and Tashkent. In separate meetings June 2 with Uzbek Foreign Minister Norov and National Security Council Secretary Ataev, Assistant Secretary Boucher di [...] | 2008-06-05 10:57:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | PREL ASEC ELTN PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PINS ECON |
08TASHKENT661 | UZBEKISTAN: EQUIPMENT DELIVERY WILL ASSIST BORDER [...] (C) Summary: The Deputy Chief of Mission and Emboffs provided Uzbekistan's State Customs Committee with radioisotope identification devices worth approximately 90,000 USD during a June 6 ceremony at the Higher Military Customs Institute in Tashkent. Deputy Customs Chairman Rustam Mansurov exp [...] | 2008-06-12 11:46:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS ASEC PREL PGOV PTER KNNP UZ |
08TASHKENT739 | UZBEKISTAN: OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON PROPOSED [...] (C) Summary: In a June 24 meeting with Poloff, Bahromjon Aloev from Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticized the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Eurasian Economic Community (Eurasec) for slow activity and duplication of effort. He noted Uzbekistan's especiall [...] | 2008-06-25 11:54:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC ASEC ECIN KTIA PBTS PGOV PINR PREL UZ |
08TASHKENT772 | REQUEST COUNTERNARCOTICS FUNDING FOR PATROL BOAT [...] (U) This is an action request for CCJ3 CENTCOM. Please see paragraphs 3-5. 2. (U) The Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) purchased 19 riverine patrol boats from the United States in 2004 for the purpose of drug interdiction along the portion of the Amu Darya River which constitutes Uzbekistan's [...] | 2008-07-03 10:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS ASEC PBTS UZ |
08TASHKENT944 | UZBEKISTAN: MINISTRY OF EMERGENCY SITUATIONS [...] (C) On August 12, Acting Defense Threat Reduction Office Chief and Poloff provided Uzbekistan's Ministry of Emergency Situations (MChS) with 15 DTRA-funded radioisotope identification devices (RIIDs). Deputy Minister Lt. Col. Abdulazizov, Chief of Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Safety Lt [...] | 2008-08-13 12:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS ASEC PREL PGOV PTER KNNP UZ |
08TASHKENT965 | UZBEKISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CENTCOM [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Tashkent warmly welcomes your visit to Uzbekistan as an important opportunity to cement recent improvements in U.S.-Uzbekistan cooperation. Recent months have shown increasing dialogue and net improvements in the relationship, particularly in the defense and security sect [...] | 2008-08-20 12:30:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC KNNP MARR MASS PBTS PGOV PINS SNAR |
08TASHKENT988 | UZBEKISTAN: U.S.-FUNDED X-RAY VAN REPAIR IMPROVES [...] (SBU) On August 20, Poloff and Embassy LES visited Tashkent International Airport, where representatives of the U.S.-based Allied Technical Services had completed repairs of an X-ray van for Uzbekistan's State Customs Committee (SCC) under the auspices of the Export Control and Related Border [...] | 2008-08-26 10:34:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS ASEC PGOV KZ UZ |
08TBILISI339 | GEORGIAN RESPONSE ON SOMALIA AND PIRACY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-29 06:31:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO KCRM SO GG |
08TEGUCIGALPA1115 | SICA ANNOUNCES STRATEGY TO DEAL WITH GLOBAL [...] 1. (SBU) Summary: Central American leaders announced a 59-point regional strategy at the 33rd summit of the Central American Integrated System (SICA) in San Pedro Sula December 5 covering a range of topics from security and financial cooperation, to tourism, environment and migration. In r [...] | 2008-12-10 22:03:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV KINL PREL SOCI SNAR PBTS PNAT |
08TEGUCIGALPA905 | AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Llorens paid a courtesy call on Foreign Minister Edmundo "Mundo" Orellana, whom he knew from his previous posting, on September 30. Orellana confirmed his stance against ALBA and Chavez, and his belief that Honduras' relationship with the United States is paramount. H [...] | 2008-10-07 18:45:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS PINS HO |
08THEHAGUE1049 | NETHERLANDS/PIRACY CONTACT GROUP: DUTCH PLAN TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-24 13:16:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER UNSC SO NL |
08THEHAGUE199 | NETHERLANDS/SOMALIA: DUTCH FRIGATE TO ESCORT UN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered reftel points to Huub Buise, director of the Horn of Africa Division, on February 26, 2008. Buise later confirmed that the Dutch expect to deploy a frigate to replace the Danes in late March. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) In a discussion February 28, Buise said that th [...] | 2008-02-29 12:07:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCRM PBTS UNSC SO NL |
08TOKYO1604 | JAPAN CONSIDERING PARTICIPATION IN BERLIN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-12 06:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG KPAL PBTS IS JA |
08TOKYO1693 | JAPANESE REPRESENTATION AT BERLIN CONFERENCE IN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-19 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG KPAL PBTS IS JA |
08TOKYO2836 | DIPLOMATIC NOTE REGARDING JAPAN'S CONTINENTAL [...] Following is the text of Diplomatic Note 3938/E-O from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dated October 9. The note was submitted following up on the July discussions between the U.S. and Japan regarding the extended continental shelf. The note was delivered to the Embassy in English. Embassy i [...] | 2008-10-10 08:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PHSA SENV TPHY KSCA JA |
08TOKYO3405 | JAPAN'S ANTI-PIRACY EFFORTS: IN THE EARLY STAGES [...] (C) Summary: Possible Japanese participation in international efforts to combat piracy in the Horn of Africa has received extensive media, government, and political attention in Japan in recent weeks. Current Japanese legislation allows the Prime Minister to dispatch the Japanese Maritime Sel [...] | 2008-12-15 09:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PBTS PGOV PHSA PINR PREL PTER ELTN JA |
08TOKYO3535 | JAPAN ANTI-PIRACY UPDATE: LEGAL WRANGLING, [...] (C) Piracy issues in the Horn of Africa (HOA) remain a topic of extensive interest in Japan, both in the media and among contacts in the Japanese government. Calls from major publications for Japan to "do something" have grown louder in recent weeks, driven in part by China's December 26 dispa [...] | 2008-12-30 08:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIS ELTN EWWT JA MOPS PBTS PGOV PHSA PINR |
08TOKYO544 | JAPAN PLANS NO ACTION IN SOUTH CHINA SEA DISPUTE [...] (C) The consortium led by Japan's Idemitsu Corporation to develop oil fields with PetroVietnam in the South China Sea has decided for business reasons to suspend work there, according to Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Petroleum and Natural Gas Division Director Shin Hosaka. Rep [...] | 2008-02-29 09:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PBTS ECON PREL JA CH VN |
08TOKYO585 | PIRQY DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-05 09:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO JA |
08TORONTO11 | ONTARIO BORDER CROSSING UPDATE - WINDSOR CITY [...] (C/NF) Summary: Ontario provincial officials have decided on the design for the Windsor access road linking the end of provincial highway 401 with the customs plaza for the new international bridge under consideration by the Detroit River International Crossing (DRIC) project. The final provi [...] | 2008-01-10 19:42:00 | Consulate Toronto | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETRD PBTS PREL CA |
08TORONTO148 | Toronto Airport Plans 56% Passenger Increase by 2020 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) has expressed concern that staffing at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Preclearance in Toronto will endanger growth plans at Pearson International Airport. GTAA officials complain that 62 new flights were recently denied ac [...] | 2008-05-13 19:15:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CPAS EAIR PBTS PREL CA |
08TORONTO233 | WHTI - Ontario's Proposed Enhanced Driver's License Spurs [...] (U) On July 16, The University of Toronto and Ontario's Information and Privacy Commission held a public forum on Ontario's proposed enhanced driver's licenses (EDLs). The forum, which drew approximately 70 people, featured guest speakers from the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the [...] | 2008-07-18 19:59:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CPAS PBTS PGOV PINR PREL CA |
08TORONTO390 | Ontario To Issue Enhanced Driver's [...] (U) Summary: The Ontario Ministry of Transportation plans to begin issuing Enhanced Driver's Licenses (EDLs) and Enhanced Photo Cards (EPCs) this winter to be used as alternatives to passports in land and sea crossings to the U.S. The Photo Card Act of 2008 passed the Ontario legislature in [...] | 2008-12-22 20:06:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CPAS ETRD PBTS KFRD PGOV CA |
08TORONTO73 | Canadian Truckers Squeezed By Higher Costs and Slowing [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Canadian truck transportation services employ close to 400,000 people and generate over C$60 billion in revenues annually. The Canadian trucking industry is being squeezed by slowing export volumes (due to the appreciation of the Canadian dollar and the slowing of the U.S. econ [...] | 2008-03-17 16:37:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PGOV PBTS CVIS CA |
08TRIPOLI457 | QADHAFI WORKS TO MUSTER ARAB OPPOSITION TO SARKOZY'S [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-12 14:20:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON PBTS PREF LY |
08TRIPOLI505 | NEGOTIATIONS OVER MIL-MIL MOU CONTINUE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-26 16:05:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MASS PBTS PINS LY |
08TRIPOLI567 | THE EU-LIBYA FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT: VENI, VISAS, VETO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-14 07:39:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EU ECIN ECON PBTS LY |
08TRIPOLI719 | LIBYA: TRI-LATERAL DIPLOMACY IS THE WAY FORWARD ON [...] (C) Summary. Dr. Ali Treiki, Secretary for African Affairs in the General People's Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation (MFA-equivalent),is optimistic that Chad and Sudan can be brought to the table to make peace through Libya's tri-lateral efforts. Treiki said the "Gr [...] | 2008-09-11 14:22:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UN CD SU LY |
08ULAANBAATAR90 | THEY'RE BA-ACK! RUSSIANS RE-ENGAGE MONGOLIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Russia has recently focused renewed attention on the Russia-Mongolia relationship. Russia recently offered to equip Mongolia with around $120 million worth of military hardware, possibly including pushing Mongolia to take two MiG-29 fighter jets.. Less conspicuous, but no less [...] | 2008-02-25 08:33:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON MARR ETRD EMIN EPET PBTS EAID KIDE KCOR |
08USEUBRUSSELS1946 | EU COUNCIL ASKS FOR INTEL-SHARING ON SOMALIA [...] (C) On December 22, the USEU Ambassador received a letter dated December 19 from the EU Council Secretariat's Director for Defense Issues, Claude-France Arnould. The letter requests the USG to share intelligence information with the EU in support of the EU-led Operation Atalanta, which is d [...] | 2008-12-23 06:11:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER XA XW SO EUN |
08USNATO159 | AMBASSADOR NULAND BRIEFS NAC ON FOREIGN FIGHTERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a brief to the North Atlantic Council (NAC) on Wednesday, May 7, Ambassador Nuland presented the NAC a Washington produced PowerPoint presentation entitled:"Stemming the Flow of Foreign Terrorists into Iraq." Highlighting the fact that foreign fighters account for 90 percent of [...] | 2008-05-08 13:32:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PBTS PREL PTER IZ SY |
08USNATO463 | NATO: FORMATION OF HORN OF AFRICA PIRACY CONTACT [...] (C/NF) The Acting Political Advisor delivered reftel demarche to NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Operations Maurits Jochems on December 12. Jochems welcomed an observer role for NATO in the proposed Contact Group as "excellent work" for the Alliance. He noted that the issue of pi [...] | 2008-12-15 14:55:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER |
08USUNNEWYORK1000 | UNSC: UNSCR 1559 CONSULTATIONS - UN ENVOY CITES [...] (SBU) Summary: Terje Roed-Larsen briefed the Security Council October 30 that significant progress had been achieved in the implementation of UNSCR 1559 with the election of Lebanese President Sleiman, the adoption of a Lebanese electoral law, and the Lebanese-Syrian agreement to establish di [...] | 2008-10-31 23:24:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER PBTS KPAL UNSC LE SY IS |
08USUNNEWYORK1100 | UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE DISCUSSES RACISM, [...] SUMMARY: From November 3-5, the UN General Assembly Third Committee formally discussed the elimination of racism and racial discrimination, the right of peoples to self-determination, and the report of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Speakers from several Islamic nations noted a trend [...] | 2008-11-20 23:27:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL PREF SMIG PNAT PBTS KPAL KWBG |
08USUNNEWYORK302 | UN WESTERN SAHARAH REPORT WILL INCLUDE ENVOY'S [...] (C) Summary: The UN has confirmed that the Secretary-General's upcoming report on the Western Sahara SIPDIS will include a realistic assessment of the state of play by Personal Envoy Peter Van Walsum, including his determination that neither a referendum with independence as an option nor [...] | 2008-04-04 20:12:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF PBTS UNSC MO WI |
08USUNNEWYORK418 | KUDOS FOR SKILLFUL HANDLING OF THE UNSCR ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-12 16:02:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | MO PBTS WI AG UNSC |
08USUNNEWYORK717 | UN OPPOSES RENEWAL OF VAN WALSUM CONTRACT [...] (C) Ambassador Wolff on August 7 met with Undersecretary for UN Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe to deliver points in ref A. He urged Pascoe to recommend extension of Peter Van Walsum's term as the SYG's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara or at a minimum to allow Van Walsum to remain in his post [...] | 2008-08-09 00:03:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS UNSC MO WI |
08USUNNEWYORK755 | DESPITE SOME SUPPORT, UNSC MEMBERS MOSTLY IN [...] (C) Summary: In response to reftel demarche, France showed an enthusiastic commitment for the Secretary General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Peter Van Walsum and a fifth round of negotiations--as did non-UNSC member Spain, which proactively told Poloff of Spain's support. Most UNSC memb [...] | 2008-08-21 00:26:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PREL UNSC WI MO |
08USUNNEWYORK780 | MOROCCAN PERM REP EMPHASIZES WESTERN SAHARA RED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Moroccan Permanent Representative Ambassador Mostafa Sahel met with Poloff on August 26 to discuss regional issues and the future of negotiations on Western Sahara. Sahel emphasized Rabat's persistence in trying to broaden diplomatic and economic ties with Algiers, which according [...] | 2008-08-28 01:12:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PREL UNSC WI MO |
08USUNNEWYORK827 | DJIBOUTI-ERITREA: UNSC WANTS GOOD OFFICES MISSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNSC members backed the Secretary-General's proposal to renew his offer of a good offices mission in order to encourage a negotiated solution to the Djibouti-Eritrea border impasse. Many members joined the U.S. in criticizing Eritrean actions but all agreed on the need for dial [...] | 2008-09-17 23:07:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS UNSC DJ ER |
08USUNNEWYORK887 | UN GENERAL DEBATE: FOCUS ON ISRAEL/PALESTINE, [...] SUMMARY: During the September 27 morning plenary meeting of the UNGA General Debate, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Egypt, Mali, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Syria, Oman, Kazakhstan, Algeria, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE),Gambia, Niger and Romania spoke. Saudi Arabia distributed its Fore [...] | 2008-09-30 20:18:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PBTS AORC UNGA VM PP PE EG SA ML |
08USUNNEWYORK895 | UN GENERAL DEBATE: BURMA, LIBYA, AND OTHERS [...] SUMMARY: During the morning UN General Assembly General Debate on September 29, Lao, Turkmenistan, Moldova, Liechtenstein, Singapore, Yemen, Jordan, Burma, Botswana, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville),Cote D'Ivoire, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Ecuador, and Denmark spoke. Speakers continued discussing the en [...] | 2008-10-01 19:00:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PBTS UNGA LA TX MD LS SN YM JO |
08USUNNEWYORK911 | 63RD UNGA GENERAL DEBATE MARKED BY CALLS FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The 63rd UN General Assembly (UNGA) General Debate took place September 23-29, with 111 Member States addressing the Assembly. The overarching theme was a call for collective action to address the global financial, food, environment and energy crises and reinvigorate efforts to [...] | 2008-10-06 23:26:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PBTS ECON AORC UNGA |
08USUNNEWYORK926 | SHEBA'A POINTS PASSED TO UN DEPARTMENT OF [...] (C) PolOff delivered October 10 points contained in ref e-mail on Sheba'a to UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA) Senior Political Affairs Officer Lee O'Brien. O'Brien agreed that delineation could be done on paper through a tabletop exercise, while demarcation could only be done on the g [...] | 2008-10-10 23:14:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UNSC USUN LE IS SY |
08VANCOUVER198 | ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON INDEPENDENT SHIA CLERIC [...] (C) Summary: Gunmen rumored to be connected to a Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) Special Group attempted to assassinate independent Shia cleric Sayid Aqiel Fadil Abbass Jamal al-Deen on July 16. The attack is one of a series of recent assassination attempts that underscore the fragile nature of Basrah [...] | 2008-07-27 07:07:00 | Consulate Vancouver | SECRET | PGOV PINR PBTS PINS PREL PTER IR IZ |
08VANCOUVER199 | BORDER ISSUES FIGURE PROMINENTLY IN REGIONAL SUMMIT [...] Summary: The flow of people and goods across the U.S.-Canada border became the primary topic of discussion at the annual Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER) summit, July 20-24. Several keynote speakers, including U.S. Ambassador Wilkins, BC Premier Campbell, and Canadian Public Safety Min [...] | 2008-07-29 18:55:00 | Consulate Vancouver | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PREL ECON AORC CA |
08VIENTIANE143 | SOMALIA AND PIRACY, SEEKING VIEWS ON POSSIBLE UN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-29 03:14:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM LA PBTS PREL SO |
08WARSAW243 | PM TUSK AND ADVISERS CONFIRM PUBLICLY THAT POLAND [...] (C) Per Refs B and C, during the week of February 18 Charge demarched MFA U/S Witold Waszczykowski and Presidential Chief of Staff Anna Fotyga urging prompt Polish recognition of Kosovo. Following a February 20 meeting with President Lech Kaczynki, PM Donald Tusk told the media February 21 th [...] | 2008-02-22 14:09:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PBTS SR KV PL |
08WELLINGTON76 | SOMALIA AND PIRACY: NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE [...] (C) On February 28, Andrew Robinson, a Middle East and Africa policy officer from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) contacted the Embassy to report on his initial feedback from the Ministry of Defense regarding possible GNZ assistance on addressing piracy off the Somalian coas [...] | 2008-02-28 18:33:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS KCRM EWWT NZ |
08YAOUNDE687 | CAMEROON TAKES OVER BAKASSI IN SIX WEEKS [...] (C) Summary. The Government of Nigeria (GoN) is expected to hand over the remaining area of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula (known as "the zone") to Cameroon on August 14 2008, in accordance with the 2006 Greentree Agreement. Insecurity and criminal activity in "the zone" has risen in the two y [...] | 2008-07-03 12:23:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | CM EAID MOPS NI PBTS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL |
08YAOUNDE754 | BAKASSI: 12 DEAD IN LATEST ESCALATION OF VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) In the early hours of July 24, an unidentified armed group attacked a Cameroonian naval detachment at Kombo a Junea in the Bakassi Peninsula, killing two Cameroonian soldiers and wounding four. Later that same day, Cameroonian Minister of Defense Remy Ze Meka released statement claiming [...] | 2008-07-25 12:32:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | CM EAID MOPS NI PBTS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL |
08YAOUNDE762 | CAMEROON: GOV'T OFFICIALS ON IMPENDING BAKASSI [...] (C) Summary. The Government of Cameroon (GRC) is not well-positioned to understand or deal with on-going violence in Bakassi and likely will not be so until well after the planned August 14 handover, according to meetings the Ambassador had with GRC officials and others during the week of J [...] | 2008-07-30 06:25:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | CM EAID MOPS NI PBTS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SOCI MASS |
08YAOUNDE784 | CAMEROON: BIYA THANKFUL FOR USG ROLE, BUT WORRIED [...] (S) Summary. Although concerned by efforts within Nigeria to derail the Greentree Accords, President Biya is confident that Nigerian President Yar'adua is committed to an August 14 handover of the Bakassi Peninsula. In an August 7 meeting with the Ambassador, Biya was effusively appreciativ [...] | 2008-08-08 09:30:00 | Embassy Yaounde | SECRET | PREL PGOV PBTS KCOR MOPS MARR NI UN CM |
08YAOUNDE817 | NIGERIA-CAMEROON: BAKASSI HANDOVER - A WEDDING [...] (C) Summary: The handover of final control of the Bakassi Peninsula from Nigeria to Cameroon took place in Calabar, the capital of Cross River State, on August 14 as scheduled, amid tight but spotty security and obviously poor coordination between the two governments. It was clearly a difficul [...] | 2008-08-18 15:26:00 | Embassy Yaounde | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHSA CM NI |
08YAOUNDE825 | CAMEROON: BIYA ADDRESSES THE NATION ABOUT BAKASSI [...] (U) On August 21, Cameroonian President Paul Biya gave a televised speech to the nation that dealt exclusively with Nigeria's August 14 final handover of the Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon (reftel). Biya congratulated the people of Cameroon for their "moderation and patience" in pursuing a p [...] | 2008-08-22 12:30:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PBTS PHSA MOPS MARR CM NI |
08YEREVAN1013 | DASHNAK LEADERS TELL AMBASSADOR VIEWS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Top Dashnaksutyun party leaders called on the Ambassador to broaden their contacts with USG. The Dashnaks fretted about the rights and welfare of Georgia's Armenian minority, which they portrayed as a dangerous crisis with the potential to deteriorate into irredentist conflict. T [...] | 2008-12-17 06:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PBTS CVIS KIRF KDEM TU RU GG |
08YEREVAN112 | NO ARMENIAN FIRST-WAVE RECOGNITION OF KOSOVO -- [...] (C) Polchief met with the savvy and plugged-in director of the MFA Americas Department, Armen Yeganian, to deliver points from reftels. We left a slightly-slimmed down version of the two cables' talking points -- redacted somewhat in consultation with EUR/CARC to downplay Nagorno-Karabakh (N [...] | 2008-02-13 11:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS OSCE UNMIK YI SR AM |
08YEREVAN159 | ARMENIAN'S WAIT-AND-SEE SUPPORT OF KOSOVO [...] (C) CDA delivered Ref A demarche to FM Oskanian February 21. We had earlier telegraphed the main substance, while awaiting the chance to see the FM during the hectic Armenian election period. CDA emphasized US view that Kosovo was a unique case and that its declaration of independence did no [...] | 2008-02-22 14:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS UN UNMIK GG RU SR YI AM |
08YEREVAN639 | ARMENIA: FUEL, FOOD SHORTAGES PREDICTED DUE TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-11 10:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS ENRG EAIR ELTN ECON EAGR EWWT PBTS |
08YEREVAN645 | REFUGEES FROM GEORGIA-RUSSIA CONFLICT WELL [...] Post has assidiuously followed the situation of refugees who fled Georgia into Armenia as a result of the Russian-Georgian conflict. UNHCR reports that about 5,000 non-Armenian citizens crossed into Armenia as a result of the conflict. UNHCR estimates that about 60 percent of those individu [...] | 2008-08-13 13:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PBTS CASC PGOV PREL UNHCR GG RU AM |
08YEREVAN926 | ANXIETY TRUMPS HOPEFULNESS OVER TURKEY, NAGORNO [...] (C) Recent initiatives by Turkey and Russia to bolster their respective roles in brokering peace between Armenia and its neighbors have caused significant media speculation -- and suspicion -- regarding the resurgence of the region's "two heavyweights." While reflecting divergent views, the m [...] | 2008-11-17 15:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OPRC PBTS KMDR KPAO TU RU AJ AM |
08YEREVAN951 | DAS BRYZA HEARS DISCONTENT, MIXED VIEWS, FROM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In addition to Minsk Group business, EUR DAS Bryza met bilaterally with government officials (septel),civil society representatives and opposition political figures. Civil society representatives spoke mostly about democracy issues, ranging from tepid to hostile on authorities [...] | 2008-11-25 15:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PBTS CASC KDEM AJ AM |
08YEREVAN979 | EUR DAS BRYZA,S NOVEMBER 16 MEETING WITH ARMENIAN [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Matthew Bryza, Ambassador, and EUR/CARC Regional Conflicts Advisor met with President Serzh Sargsian and presidential advisor Vigen Sargsian over dinner on November 16. On the economy, Sargsian predicted a severe contraction in the real economy in the first quarter of 2009 [...] | 2008-12-06 13:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PREL ECON PBTS PHUM PARM KDEM AJ TU IR AM |
08ZAGREB231 | NO RESPONSE ON SOMALIA AND PIRACY, POSSIBLE [...] Ref points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 06 March 2008. GOC offered no substantive response. Bradtke [...] | 2008-03-07 13:49:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO |
08ZAGREB555 | NO SUBSTANTIVE RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON WAY FORWARD [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-24 13:07:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS ET ER HR |
08ZAGREB595 | TFGG01: DEMARCHE TO CROATIA ON GEORGIA UNSC [...] (C) Acting Political Counselor delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Vladimir Matek, the Foreign Minister's advisor for UNSC, on the morning of August 12. Matek noted that he had received the French draft resolution and confirmed that the text was in line with the Croatian position. Matek d [...] | 2008-08-12 12:45:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC GE PREL PBTS HR |
08ZAGREB893 | CROATIA WILL ATTEND INAUGURAL MEETING OF CONTACT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-31 10:29:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER HR |
09ABUDHABI29 | UAE PARTICIPATION IN CONTACT GROUP ON SOMALI PIRACY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-08 14:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PBTS PHSA MOPS EWWT KCRM AE |
09ABUDHABI981 | (S) A LONG HOT SUMMER FOR UAE-SAUDI RELATIONS [...] (C) This summer witnessed a sharp uptick in tensions between the UAE and Saudi Arabia, beginning with the UAE's May decision to pull out of the GCC Monetary Union (after the Headquarters went to Riyadh when the UAE had lobbied for Dubai). Shortly thereafter the Saudis effectively closed a majo [...] | 2009-10-15 14:20:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR PINS GCC PBTS SA AQ AE |
09ABUJA1210 | NIGERIA: FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES AU SUMMIT AND [...] (C) Ambassador had a short June 28 breakfast meeting with Nigerian Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe at his residence a few hours before his departure for Libya for the African Union (AU) Summit. Ambassador covered a range of issues ranging from Nigeria,s delegation to both the AU and upcoming G-8 [...] | 2009-06-30 12:10:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAGR EAID EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA PARCA |
09ABUJA220 | (C) NIGERIA: LEDUM MITEE ON THE NIGER DELTA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 13 and 29, Ogoni activist and head of the Niger Delta Technical Committee Ledum Mitee (protect throughout) met with Consulate and Embassy Poloffs, respectively, to present copies of the Technical Committee's 152-page report, delivered to President Yar'Adua in early Dece [...] | 2009-02-06 11:07:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PBTS EPET ECON NI |
09ABUJA494 | NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON RUSSIAN RECOGNITION [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on Russian recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to Adedotun Adepoju, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for Europe Division on March 19. Adepoju had no substantive comments at this time. Any further information on GON position will be sent septel. [...] | 2009-03-23 06:31:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS NI |
09ADDISABABA1063 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF AMB. RICE TO ETHIOPIA [...] (C) At the African Union, we expect your principal interlocutors will be Commission Chairperson Jean Ping, Deputy Chairperson Erastus Mwencha, and Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra. They have welcomed cooperation from international partners on peace and security issues, especia [...] | 2009-05-07 12:01:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER SU SO |
09ADDISABABA1201 | PRIME MINISTER MELES ON REGIONAL CHALLENGES [...] (C) Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told visiting USUN Ambassador Susan Rice May 16 that over the long term normalization of relations with Eritrea will guarantee a peaceful demarcation of the border. Meles also acknowledged to former U.S. mediator Rice that Ethiopia made mistakes in handling the [...] | 2009-05-21 14:53:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PGOV ET ER SU SO |
09ADDISABABA1469 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW TO [...] (S/NF) Your visit to Ethiopia comes at a time when the Ethiopian Government's (GoE) growing authoritarianism (Ref. A),intolerance of dissent, and ideological dominance over the economy since 2005 poses a serious threat to domestic stability and U.S. interests. The GoE has come to believe its [...] | 2009-06-23 08:11:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER SU SO |
09ALGIERS1041 | POLISARIO AMBASSADOR SAYS RECENT MOROCCAN RHETORIC [...] (C) Polisario Front "Ambassador" in Algiers on November 17 portrayed the Moroccan government's tougher position on Western Sahara and its mistreatment of Sahrawi rights activists as a provocation designed to undermine UN Special Envoy Christopher Ross' efforts to restart talks, and he stated [...] | 2009-11-22 17:50:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN |
09ALGIERS1063 | POLISARIO ASKS U.S. TO RESPOND TO MOROCCAN [...] (C) Summary: DCM and Poloff travelled on November 21 to Tindouf, Algeria, to meet with senior Polisario Front leaders to discuss the future of UN-led mediation efforts on the Western Sahara conflict and to observe the conditions of life in the Sahrawi refugee camps. Polisario officials reitera [...] | 2009-12-01 08:36:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN |
09ALGIERS1077 | BOUTEFLIKA TO WARD: WE WANT A STRATEGIC [...] (C) U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) Commander General William Ward met Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika November 25, during Ward's first visit to Algeria since assuming command of AFRICOM. Ward said AFRICOM's strategy was to assist African nations in providing for their own security needs [...] | 2009-12-06 07:57:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PBTS KPAL KWBG US IR IZ IS |
09ALGIERS1082 | NGOS IN TINDOUF ON HUMANITARIAN AND POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: DCM on November 21 met with several UN officials working with the Sahrawi refugees near Tindouf, Algeria, to discuss the status of assistance and development programs. The groups included the UN peacekeeping force MINURSO, the World Food Program, and the UN High Commission for [...] | 2009-12-07 12:50:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN |
09ALGIERS1117 | POLISARIO RESTRICTS ACTIVITIES SEEN TO THREATEN [...] (C) Summary: Embassy contacts with UNHCR and American NGOs working in the Polisario camps near Tindouf say that individual Sahrawis have been involved in smuggling activities, but the Polisario "government" severely punishes anyone caught trafficking persons or weapons that could aid terrorist [...] | 2009-12-16 09:21:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PHUM PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN |
09ALGIERS113 | ALGERIAN MEDIA REACTION TO BREAKING SCANDAL - JANUARY 31, [...] SUMMARY: Press reports of the CIA station chief in Algiers accused of raping two Algerian women, which broke on ABC News on the evening of January 28, were splashed across the front pages of almost every Algerian newspaper on January 31. The extensive reporting was largely a translation of the [...] | 2009-02-01 06:43:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PBTS PTER AG |
09ALGIERS39 | WESTERN SAHARA: ALGERIA AND POLISARIO WELCOME ROSS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an official statement reported in the local press on January 12, the MFA welcomed the UN Secretary General's nomination of Ambassador Christopher Ross as Special Representative for the Western Sahara, expressing Algeria's readiness to cooperate with and assist Ross in his ef [...] | 2009-01-13 19:17:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PBTS WI AG |
09ALGIERS421 | WESTERN SAHARA: ALGERIA POSITIVE BUT GUARDED [...] (C) MFA Director-General for African Affairs Lounes Magramane told the Ambassador on April 25 that Algeria had a very favorable opinion of new UN Special Envoy for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, and that it found the report of his initial impressions "balanced." However, Magramane also poi [...] | 2009-04-27 17:47:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UN MO AG |
09ALGIERS442 | WESTERN SAHARA: ALGERIA OPTIMISTIC, POLISARIO DOUR [...] (C) In response to ref A, MFA Director General for African Affairs Lounes Magramane told the DCM on May 3 that Algeria's response to the MINURSO rollover resolution had been "measured and positive" and that Algeria supported Ambassador Christopher Ross. The Algerian government issued a stateme [...] | 2009-05-04 16:13:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UN MO AG |
09ALGIERS514 | BOUTEFLIKA: SERIOUS WESTERN SAHARA AUTONOMY IS [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Bouteflika told Codel Burr Algeria would consider modifying its position on Western Sahara, and engaging the Sahrawis, if Morocco seriously implemented UN resolutions on self-determination. While Algeria would respect whatever outcome the Saharans chose, including auto [...] | 2009-06-03 06:36:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS OREP PGOV PINR PTER PINS KNNP AG |
09ALGIERS611 | CODEL SCHIFF ALGERIA SCENESETTER [...] (SBU) Embassy Algiers welcomes the visit of Representative Adam Schiff and his delegation on June 30 and July 1. Algeria is an important front in the struggle against violent extremism and against Al-Qa'ida in particular. Our primary goal is to help reduce the threat that violent extremists p [...] | 2009-06-22 16:18:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV OREP PHUM PREL PBTS KDEM AG |
09ALGIERS642 | WESTERN SAHARA: BOUTEFLIKA TELLS ROSS THAT ALGERIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNSYG Personal Envoy Christopher Ross met with President Bouteflika on June 24 to discuss participation in "informal" talks between Morocco and the Polisario regarding the Western Sahara. After his meetings with Bouteflika in Algiers and later with Polisario leaders in Tindouf, R [...] | 2009-06-30 07:01:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UN MO AG |
09ALGIERS729 | ALGERIANS AND POLISARIO READY FOR VIENNA [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Algerians and Polisario are both ready for the informal talks on Western Sahara August 9 in Vienna. In separate meetings August 3, representatives of both the GOA and the Polisario told us they respect the effort of UNSYG Special Envoy Ross and find that his no-agenda approac [...] | 2009-08-04 19:16:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PREL PGOV PBTS PREF KPKO AG MO MR |
09ALGIERS740 | ALGERIA LINKS RANSOM PAYMENTS TO TRANS-SAHARA [...] (S) SUMMARY. Algeria considers the payment of ransom to terrorist organizations a serious problem for security in the Sahel region and will propose an UNGA resolution condemning such payments based on a similar proposal recently acted upon by the African Union (AU). Algeria is not circulati [...] | 2009-08-09 07:13:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PREL PTER PINR PGOV AG ML MR NG PBTS |
09ALGIERS764 | ALGERIA SEEKS SUPPORT FOR UN ACTION TO BAN RANSOM [...] (S) SUMMARY: Algerian Presidential Counter Terrorism Advisor, Kamel Rezag Bara, said August 12 that Algeria sought U.S. support at the UN for an African Union initiative to strengthen the international legal regime against abductions, including a specific ban on ransom payments to terrorist g [...] | 2009-08-20 12:39:00 | Embassy Algiers | SECRET | PTER PREL PGOV PINR PBTS UNGA AG ML MR NG US |
09ALGIERS765 | ALGERIAN MINSTATE SAYS TRANS-SAHARA LEADERS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Algerian Minister of State for Africa and the Maghreb Abdelkader Messahel told a visiting Capstone delegation August 14 that trans-Sahara heads of state will meet in Bamako in early October to discuss security cooperation and regional development. Messahel said that Algerian P [...] | 2009-08-23 06:43:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PTER PGOV AG |
09ALGIERS768 | ALGERIA'S VIEW OF VIENNA TALKS ON WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Algerian Minstate for Africa and the Maghreb Abdelkader Messahel, Algeria's representative at the Vienna informal talks on the Western Sahara, told us August 14 that the talks were generally civil and constructive, and that the parties to the dispute agreed to further meetings i [...] | 2009-08-23 10:56:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS AG MO UN |
09ALGIERS781 | POLISARIO VIEWS VIENNA AS POSITIVE STEP, BUT NO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Polisario "Ambassador" Brahim Ghali praised the positive atmosphere of the Vienna talks and reiterated the Polisario's commitment to continue its cooperation with UNSYG Special Envoy Christopher Ross. Although the talks were a good opportunity for direct dialogue between the part [...] | 2009-08-27 17:50:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MARR PTER AG MO UN |
09ALGIERS825 | ALGERIA ON SAHEL SUMMIT PREP: "THE CHAIN IS NOW [...] (C) Algeria expects a regional heads of state meeting in Bamako on regional security cooperation before the end of the year. MFA Director General for African Affairs Magramane said he expects the summit to result in an action plan to address both joint security operations and development ini [...] | 2009-09-14 16:54:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR PGOV PBTS AG ML MR NG |
09AMMAN2001 | JORDAN: BORDER DEMARCATION WITH SYRIA BECOMES [...] (S) Summary: Despite a promising border demarcation agreement between Jordan and Syria reached on July 26, the implementation has become mired in rhetoric on regional politics that threatens to derail the effort. Jordan was initially impressed with Syria's flexibility in talks leading to t [...] | 2009-09-02 09:00:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL PGOV PBTS MARR JO |
09AMMAN705 | DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF SOUTH OSSETIA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-18 13:05:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS JO |
09ANKARA239 | TURKISH PARLIAMENT APPROVES SENDING FRIGATE TO THE [...] The Turkish Parliament approved February 10 a motion authorizing the government to send naval forces to the Gulf of Aden to protect commercial vessels from pirates. The Turkish Naval Forces frigate Giresun (ex USS Flatley, an Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate) will reportedly depart February [...] | 2009-02-13 05:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS KCRM PREL PGOV EWWT PBTS PHSA PTER TU |
09ANKARA433 | CEVIKOZ DISCUSSES TURKEY-ARMENIA-AZERBAIJAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Azerbaijan's concerns that Armenia will stiffen its negotiating position on Nagorno-Karabakh (N-K) if Turkey opens the border with Armenia are legitimate, according to MFA Deputy U/S Cevikoz. Armenia needs to be persuaded that relations with Turkey cannot be enhanced genuinely w [...] | 2009-03-23 12:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ENRG AJ AM TU PTER |
09ANKARA84 | TURKEY: U.S.-ISRAEL ANTI-SMUGGLING MOU [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche January 16 to MFA Israel Desk Officer Rauf Alp Denktas, who briefed MFA Undersecretary Apakan on the demarche points. 2. (C) Post convened an EAC January 9 to discuss the ongoing security threat from the situation in Gaza. In light of reftel, Post will cont [...] | 2009-01-16 16:51:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PARM PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS |
09ASHGABAT1017 | TURKMENISTAN: UPDATE ON ACTIVITIES OF UN [...] (C) SUMMARY. On August 11, Fedor Klimtchouk, the Deputy Head of the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA),briefed poloff on the Center's priorities, recent activities and plans for upcoming action. The Center has four priorities: fighting transborder crime, i [...] | 2009-08-12 12:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UN ENRG ZK AF TX |
09ASHGABAT1025 | TNK-BP WAITING AND HOPING IN TURKMENISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian-British co-owned TNK-BP remains one of a handful of foreign oil and gas companies attempting to break into the well-guarded Turkmen hydrocarbon sector with little success to date. TNK-BP's Program Director for Turkmenistan Oleg Lonovenko attributed TNK-BP's current lack [...] | 2009-08-13 12:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV EINV PBTS AZ TX |
09ASHGABAT1029 | WINTERSHALL REPORTS SLOW MOVEMENT BY TURKMEN FOR [...] (C) German energy company Wintershall's general manager, Kal Sandhu, updated Economic Officer on his company's prospects August 12. Sandhu stated that Wintershall is winding down a PSA signed in 2002 after drilling two dry holes in block 12 of the Caspian (reftel),and has made slow progress [...] | 2009-08-14 13:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV EINV PBTS AZ TX |
09ASHGABAT1055 | TURKMENISTAN STILL FLOUNDERING ON STURGEON FARM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Turkmen Government is again casting about for a private company to build a sturgeon farm that would produce sturgeon and ultimately yield black caviar. The State Fisheries Committee announced a tender to this [...] | 2009-08-21 05:39:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS ECON ETRD PGOV EINV PBTS SENV TX |
09ASHGABAT1056 | TURKMENISTAN STILL FLOUNDERING ON STURGEON FARM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Turkmen Government is again casting about for a private company to build a sturgeon farm that would produce sturgeon and ultimately yield black caviar. The State Fisheries Committee announced a tender to this [...] | 2009-08-21 08:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS ECON ETRD PGOV EINV PBTS SENV TX |
09ASHGABAT1122 | TURKMEN-AFGHAN JOINT BORDER TRAINING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 21, Turkmen and Afghan customs officials completed joint training, facilitated by the OSCE, in Ashgabat and Atamurat (formerly Kerki),a town in southeast Turkmenistan. This was the first ever joint training for Turkmen and Afghan customs officers. The course was aime [...] | 2009-09-03 12:57:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETTC PARM PREL PBTS OSCE AF TX |
09ASHGABAT1273 | TURKMENISTAN: BACKING OFF ON THE CASPIAN BOUNDARY DISPUTE? [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) A number of international media outlets have recently cited President Berdimuhamedov's remarks regarding Turkmenistan's Caspian dispute with Azerbaijan, made during his October 1 press conference (Ref A). According to the [...] | 2009-10-08 09:15:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PREL EPET PGOV EINV AJ TX |
09ASHGABAT1485 | TURKMENISTAN: UN REGIONAL CENTER OUTLINES MOST [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a meeting in Ashgabat with SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol, the Head of the United Nations Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy, Ambassador Miroslav Jenca, talked about electricity and water resource problems, the conflict in Afghanistan, and border security. [...] | 2009-11-20 15:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PBTS PREL OSCE UN AF TX ZK |
09ASHGABAT352 | TURKMENISTAN: DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-18 06:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS TX |
09ASHGABAT374 | TURKMENISTAN OFFICIALS INVITE COOPERATION IN CARTOGRAPHY [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 20, a geographic specialist with the Office of the Geographer met with officials of the State Enterprise for Caspian Sea Issues under the Ministry of Oil and Gas, and the Institute of Mapping and Cartograph [...] | 2009-03-24 08:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PBTS TX |
09ASHGABAT486 | FOREIGN MINISTER MEREDOV ASKS FOR PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 15, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher discussed bilateral and regional issues with Turkmenistan Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov. The Turkmen would like to see President Berdimuhamedov visit the United States this November. Meredov asked for [...] | 2009-04-17 09:34:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR OVIP PBTS PHUM TX |
09ASHGABAT497 | CENTRAL ASIAN WATER DISPUTES HEATING UP; PROSPECTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 16, Miroslav Jenca, the Head of Office of the Ashgabat-based UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia, briefed Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher about the Center's work and conditions in the region. According to Jenca, t [...] | 2009-04-20 05:51:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UN ENRG ZK AF TX |
09ASHGABAT947 | TURKMENISTAN'S PERSPECTIVE ON CASPIAN DELIMITATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the July 24 Cabinet of Ministers session, President Berdimuhamedov made a strong statement that Azerbaijan's position on delimitation of the Caspian boundary hampers the negotiation process. He criticized Azerbaijan for its unilateral decision to start development of the [...] | 2009-07-29 13:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET PBTS EINV AZ TX |
09ASHGABAT995 | TURKMEN GOVERNMENT'S ARGUMENTS IN THE CASPIAN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: On August 4, state-owned "Neutralniy Turkmenistan" newspaper published an MFA-authored article outlining Turkmenistan's arguments in its dispute with Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea delimitation issue. The article me [...] | 2009-08-06 11:21:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET PGOV EINV PBTS AZ TX |
09ASMARA11 | TIGRAY PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT IN ERITREA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The anti-TPLF Tigray People's Democratic Movement (TPDM) based in Eritrea recently selected a new leader after the death of the group's founder. Eritrean television often commends the TPDM for its armed actions against the Ethiopian government, but these stories are uncorrobora [...] | 2009-01-08 14:19:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINS PGOV PBTS ET ER |
09ASMARA138 | ICRC UNDER NEW PRESSURE FROM ISAIAS REGIME [...] (C) NO FUEL, NO TRAVEL PERMITS ----------------------------------- ICRC, which has a relatively large and active program in Eritrea, has long been seen as unusually favored by the Isaias regime, which dislikes NGOs and is contemptuous of UN agencies. For no apparent reason, ICRC is now bein [...] | 2009-04-29 12:24:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PREF PHUM PBTS ICRC ER |
09ASMARA22 | UNMEE AIMS TO LEAVE BY END OF MONTH [...] (C) According to an UNMEE officer, the mission intends to close by the end of January. UNMEE has 48 international staff remaining in Asmara and all of its "Group 1" assets have been shipped to Massawa (note: Group 1 consists of equipment less than five years old. End note). As of mid-January [...] | 2009-01-20 07:43:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PBTS PREL PGOV ER |
09ASMARA292 | ERITREA AND THE EECC FINAL AWARD [...] (SBU) GSE DISAPPOINTED: The Government of Eritrea (GSE) is sorely disappointed at "losing" the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission (EECC) Final Award for Damages Claims arising from the 1998-2000 Border War. On August 17 the EECC awarded Eritrea and its citizens a total of $163,521,865 for da [...] | 2009-08-26 13:37:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL ER ET |
09ASMARA39 | SOME UNMEE GEAR TO AMISOM [...] (SBU) At a Norwegian-hosted "Friends of UNMEE" luncheon in Asmara January 27, Dr. Lebohang Moleko, UNMEE's chief in Eritrea, reported that much of UNMEE's equipment has been dispatched to Sudan for use by UNAMID and UNMIS. He said some "Category Two Items" will be shipped to Italy for "destru [...] | 2009-01-30 08:40:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET | KPKO PREL PBTS MOPS ER |
09ATHENS210 | GREECE: POINTS DELIVERED ON PROSECUTION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-18 12:33:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PHSA PBTS EWWT KCRM PTER MOPS PREL GR |
09ATHENS226 | TURKISH EMBASSY'S VIEWS ON MIGRANT READMISSIONS [...] (C) According to an official at the Turkish Embassy in Athens, there are two reasons why Turkey is unwilling to permit Greece to return third-country illegal migrants to Turkey at the port of Izmir, as called for in a 2001 bilateral protocol and which the Greeks believe would greatly reduce th [...] | 2009-02-20 12:52:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM PTER TU GR |
09ATHENS62 | GREEKS ALERTED TO SIGNING OF U.S.-ISRAEL [...] (C) DepPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on the signing of the U.S.-Israel Anti-Smuggling MOU to MFA A6 Directorate for Middle East Affairs deputy head Maria Zisi. Zisi was grateful for the information but had no substantive comment. 2. (C) It was the opinion of the Embassy Country Team th [...] | 2009-01-16 15:55:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PARM PREL PBTS PHUM KWBG IS GR |
09ATHENS875 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED - GREEK PROSECUTION OF SUSPECTED M/V [...] (C) We delivered reftel message inquiring about possible Greek interest in exercising jurisdiction over 17 suspects in U.S. Navy custody on May 21 to MFA D1 (UN and International Organizations Affairs) Counselor Dimitios Papandreaou. Papandreou took note of the details of the case, including o [...] | 2009-05-28 08:38:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EWWT KCRM MARR PBTS PGOV PHSA PREL GR EG |
09AUCKLAND22 | NEW ZEALAND REACTION TO THE END OF THE E-PASSPORT EXEMPTION [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 7. 2. (U) Summary. New Zealand expects hundreds of its citizens abroad may be inconvenienced by the end of the e-passport exemption for emergency travel and will lobby DHS to use its waiver authority liberally. End summary. 3. (U) [...] | 2009-05-06 08:39:00 | Consulate Auckland | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT KPAO PBTS PREL NZ |
09AUCKLAND7 | NEW ZEALAND: MEETING ON VISA WAIVER PROGRAM LETTER [...] (U) Wellington A/DCM and Auckland Consul General met January 27 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials Catherine Nicol (Americas Division) and Lyndal Walker (Consular Division) to discuss the VWP letter from DHS A/S Baker. CG reviewed the points in ref A, explaining the legislat [...] | 2009-01-30 11:21:00 | Consulate Auckland | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT PBTS PREL NZ |
09BAGHDAD175 | FM ZEBARI ON "NEW ERA" FOR AMERICA, KUWAIT SUMMIT [...] (C) Foreign Minister Zebari told Ambassador Satterfield and Senior Advisor Gray January 22 that Iraqis are following closely the first days of President Obama's Administration, and that early signals to the region have been reassuring. He said the Iraq-Kuwait bilaterals on the margins of the [...] | 2009-01-24 10:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS EFIN ECON IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD1784 | IRAQ-KUWAIT: CROSS-BORDER ISSUES AFFECTING IRAQ'S [...] (C) Iraq's unresolved disputes with Kuwait reflect years of history. Particularly on the issues centered around the land and maritime borders, however, Iraq's concerns touch directly on economics. Iraq's dependence on oil exports, primarily through the south, and on imported foodstuffs and [...] | 2009-07-02 11:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ETRD EWWT PBTS PREL IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD1912 | SOLVING THE IRAQ-KUWAIT MARITIME BOUNDARY ISSUES [...] (SBU) In paragraphs 16 and 17 of this message, we lay out a way forward to address Iraq's concerns with respect to its right to free access to the sea, including an unambiguous statement of Iraqi rights to international waters and a suggested expansion of the Khor Abdullah Interoperability P [...] | 2009-07-14 15:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET ETRD EWWT PBTS PREL PGOV UNSC IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD1933 | RRT ERBIL: REFLECTIONS ON A YEAR IN THE KURDISTAN [...] (U) The cable which follows reflects the personal views of the Kurdistan Region Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) leader. 2. (C) Summary: We should be tougher on Kurdish leadership on the slow pace of democracy; less judgmental on hydrocarbons (where Kurdistani initiatives are accomplishi [...] | 2009-07-16 17:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EPET PBTS PHUM EFIN IZ |
09BAGHDAD2469 | Iraq Depends on Others for Water; Low River Flows Have [...] (U) Note: Post intends this message to be the first periodic report on water issues - and their growing prominence - in Iraq. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Tigris and Euphrates river systems supply almost all of Iraq's water needs. Ninety percent of the two rivers' water flows first through Turk [...] | 2009-09-13 13:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SENV ENRG PBTS PREL TPHY TRGY TSPL EAGR EAID |
09BAGHDAD2899 | Reduced Turkish and Iranian Water Flows to Iraq's Tigris [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Daily water flows into three major Iraqi dams (the Mosul, Dokan, and Derbendikahn) indicate significant reductions in waters crossing into Iraq from both Turkey and Iran. Iranian river blockages and diversions contribute to low Tigris River and Shatt Al Arab water flows in Iraq [...] | 2009-10-29 15:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PBTS PREL SENV TPHY TRGY TSPL EAGR EAID |
09BAGHDAD2902 | Reduced Turkish and Iranian Water Flows to Iraq's Tigris [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Daily water flows into three major Iraqi dams (the Mosul, Dokan, and Derbendikahn) indicate significant reductions in waters crossing into Iraq from both Turkey and Iran. Iranian river blockages and diversions contribute to low Tigris River and Shatt Al Arab water flows in Iraq [...] | 2009-10-30 13:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PBTS PREL SENV TPHY TRGY TSPL EAGR EAID |
09BAGHDAD2930 | WATER RESOURCES MINISTER DISCUSSES MAJOR WATER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Transboundary water negotiations, repair of the Mosul Dam, salinity issues in Basra province, and improvement of irrigation drainage are the major water issues facing Iraq, Minister of Water Resources Dr. Latif Rashid told USG personnel in late October. END SUMMARY Three Prima [...] | 2009-11-02 15:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PBTS SENV TNGD TPHY EAGR |
09BAGHDAD2980 | IRAQI WATER RESOURCES NEGOTIATOR DESCRIBES WATER [...] (C) SUMMARY: During Iraq-Iran bilateral negotiations on water resources held October 23-25, Iraqi negotiators confronted their Iranian interlocutors with unclassified photographs of Iranian river blockages and diversions provided to the GOI by Embassy Baghdad, Ministry of Water Resources Gener [...] | 2009-11-10 13:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON IZ PBTS SENV TNGD TPHY |
09BAGHDAD3313 | A/S FELTMAN DISCUSSES CHAPTER VII ISSUES WITH MFA [...] (C) Summary: Acting Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Haj Hamoud told visiting NEA Assistant Secretary Jeffrey Feltman on December 17 that the GOI accepts the border as demarcated in 833, noting "We must accept it," but also making clear in a sustained series of exchanges that the G [...] | 2009-12-23 07:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS IZ KU |
09BAGHDAD3332 | DUST TO DINARS: WASIT PC PROFITS FROM AN [...] (U) This is a PRT Wasit reporting cable. 2. (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Wasit Provincial Council (PC) is pursuing independent efforts to offset resource shortages from the national government. A provincially owned - and potentially lucrative - truck staging area at the Zurbatiyah Iran/Iraq [...] | 2009-12-26 11:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | ETRD IZ PBTS PGOV PREL |
09BAGHDAD410 | SIGNS OF IMPROVING IRAQI-KUWAITI RELATIONS [...] (C/REL MCFI) In a February 12 meeting with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray, Deputy Foreign Minister Haj Hamoud detailed his February 4-5 visit to Kuwait. He said in meetings with Kuwait's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, he made progress on an array of issues, including: how to deal with shar [...] | 2009-02-16 15:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL MARR MOPS IZ KU IR |
09BAGHDAD692 | RRT ERBIL: BORDER ISSUES WITH IRAN AS SEEN FROM [...] (S) Summary. Local security officials in Sulaimaniyah admit that the province,s long and porous border with Iran is under-patrolled and claim that Baghdad does not give them the resources they need to guard it effectively. They consider the main threat to be the Iran-based &Kurdistan Battal [...] | 2009-03-16 09:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PTER PINR PBTS SNAR IZ TU IR |
09BAGHDAD768 | IRANIAN VISITORS AND DEVELOPERS WORRY BASRAWIS [...] (S/NF) One year after militias supported by Iran were routed in the Charge of the Knights operation, Basra residents continue to be worried about Iranian influence over national politics and local security. In separate meetings with Senior Advisor Gordon Gray, held March 17-18, tribal and Ira [...] | 2009-03-20 14:29:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PBTS IZ IR |
09BAMAKO713 | SEASONAL ETHNIC VIOLENCE ALONG MALI-NIGER BORDER [...] (C) Summary: Malian press reports of violence between Tuareg and Peuhls along the Mali-Niger border reflect a seasonal phenomenon routine since the mid-1980s, but according to contacts from the Gao region scarce resources, differing pastoral cultures, and politics in Niger have aggravated the [...] | 2009-11-03 13:33:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PBTS ML NG |
09BANGKOK1275 | THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER DISPUTE: MILITARY DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary. A May 21 phone conversation between Thai Army Commander General Anupong Paochinda and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen underscored efforts to preclude further clashes between the militaries of the two countries. The Director of the Thai Army's Foreign Liaison Division called talk [...] | 2009-05-27 10:28:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB |
09BANGKOK1569 | THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER DISPUTE: TENSIONS INCREASE, [...] (C) Summary: Tensions between Thailand and Cambodia in regard to their border dispute have increased recently after the Thai Cabinet decided to renew its objection to the World Heritage Committee's (WHC) listing of the Preah Vihear temple, based on a unilateral Cambodian submission in 2008, in [...] | 2009-07-01 10:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB |
09BANGKOK1822 | THAILAND: EAP A/S CAMPBELL'S MEETING WITH DPM [...] (C) Summary. During a July 21 meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban told EAP Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell and the Ambassador that the Abhisit Vejjajiva government was committed to resolving the political conflict via the rule of law and democracy. The government would not be [...] | 2009-07-29 10:12:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS PHUM PTER TH CB |
09BANGKOK209 | THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER DISPUTE: THAI FM KASIT'S [...] (U) Summary: A January 26 visit to Cambodia by Thai FM Kasit Piromya produced positive statements by both sides regarding the ongoing border dispute centered on territory around the Preah Vihear temple. Kasit met Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong; press reports [...] | 2009-01-27 10:28:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB |
09BANGKOK2186 | THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER DISPUTE: THAI ARMY ASSESSES [...] (C) Thai and Cambodian press reports over the past week indicated that Cambodia would reduce the number of troops in the Preah Vihear area after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen August 22 announced a troop reduction, possibly by much as fifty percent. Hun Sen's announcement preceded a visit by [...] | 2009-08-28 11:22:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB |
09BANGKOK2187 | THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER DISPUTE: THAI ARMY ASSESSES [...] (C) Thai and Cambodian press reports over the past week indicated that Cambodia would reduce the number of troops in the Preah Vihear area after Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen August 22 announced a troop reduction, possibly by much as fifty percent. Hun Sen's announcement preceded a visit by [...] | 2009-08-28 11:23:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB |
09BANGKOK2369 | THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER DISPUTE: WEEKEND PROTESTS [...] (C) Summary: Yellow-shirt supporters plan a September 19 protest in the vicinity of Preah Vihear temple to demand that Cambodia civilians vacate the disputed territory adjacent to the temple. The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) claims that the Thai government has surrendered sovereignty [...] | 2009-09-17 09:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB |
09BANGKOK2867 | THAI-CAMBODIAN SPAT: THAKSIN REPORTEDLY TO VISIT [...] (C) Summary: In a move certain to inflame bilateral tensions, fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra reportedly will visit Phnom Penh November 12 to address the Cambodia Ministry of Economy and Finance. The Thai government has repeatedly stated that it will ask Cambodia to extradit [...] | 2009-11-09 10:40:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB |
09BANGKOK2887 | THAI-CAMBODIAN SPAT: EXTRADITION REQUEST REJECTED, [...] (C) Summary: Fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra reportedly criticized the current Abhisit administration for encouraging false patriotism during a November 12 address in Phnom Penh to Cambodian business leaders and government officials in his role economic advisor to Hun Se [...] | 2009-11-12 10:39:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB |
09BANGKOK3188 | THAI-CAMBODIAN SPAT: THAKSIN RETURNS TO CAMBODIA [...] (C) Summary: Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra December 13 returned to Phnom Penh to take credit for the by-all-accounts orchestrated release of Siwarak Chutipong, a Thai engineer who had been imprisoned for reportedly sharing flight details for Thaksin's November visit to Cambodia [...] | 2009-12-17 09:54:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB |
09BANGKOK324 | THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER DISPUTE: JOINT BORDER [...] (C) Summary. The Thai and Cambodian Joint Border Commission met February 3-4 in Bangkok for friendly talks but was unable to make substantive progress in resolving their border dispute. The two sides could not agree on the official name for the temple at the heart of the border dispute and fo [...] | 2009-02-06 10:11:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB |
09BANGKOK660 | THAILAND DOES NOT SUPPORT RUSSIA'S RECOGNITION OF [...] (C) We engaged Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director of the European Affairs Department Pachuen Phornmongkol on March 16 and conveyed reftel's points condemning Russia's decision to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states. Pachuen stated that Thailand has not recently [...] | 2009-03-16 09:10:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS PGOV TH |
09BASRAH52 | BASRAH: THE PORT OF UMM QASR AND AN OVERVIEW OF IRAQ'S PORT [...] (SBU) Summary: The port of Umm Qasr, Iraq's only deepwater port, with significant U.S. assistance, has made major progress in its rehabilitation since 2003, following years of wars, damage and sanctions, and must continue to play a central role if Iraq's post-war economic recovery is to be sust [...] | 2009-09-17 13:34:00 | REO Basrah | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EWWT EAID KSEC PREL PBTS ELTN IZ |
09BASRAH67 | IRAQI FISHERMEN HARASSED BY IRAN AND KUWAIT [...] (C) Iraqi fishermen are bearing the brunt of conflicting claims by Iraq and its neighbors to territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. Media reports and personal accounts by fishermen, PRT members, US Navy personnel in the region, and a British naval officer familiar with the situation confirm r [...] | 2009-12-31 11:31:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EWWT ETRD PGOV EFIS PBTS IZ IR KU |
09BEIJING1095 | CNO ADM ROUGHEAD DISCUSSES MIL-MIL TIES, PIRACY, [...] (S) In an April 18 meeting with Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Gary Roughead, Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei said China adhered to the principle of peaceful development and noted that the PLA Navy (PLAN) had been expanding to safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity. AD [...] | 2009-04-23 09:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL MARR MOPS PBTS PHSA CH KN |
09BEIJING1211 | PRC "OPPOSES" USNS VICTORIOUS PRESENCE IN CHINA'S [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for North American and Oceanian Affairs Zheng Zeguang called the Charge to meet for coffee May 6 and during that meeting expressed "firm opposition" to the presence of the USNS Victorious in China's Exclusive Economic Zone. Referring to statemen [...] | 2009-05-06 11:43:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PARM PM CH |
09BEIJING1295 | PRC: NEW MFA BOUNDARY AND OCEAN AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT [...] (C) The recently-established MFA Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs would focus more on technical and legal issues than on policy matters, including providing advice on incidents involving USNS vessels in the South and East China seas, Maritime Delimitation Division Director Yang Li told [...] | 2009-05-14 09:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PHSA PREL PGOV ECON CH TW XC |
09BEIJING1384 | SINO-INDIAN RELATIONS A MIXED BAG OF TENSIONS, [...] (C) Chinese academic and Indian diplomatic contacts in recent meetings painted a mixed picture of Sino-Indian ties. Interlocutors cited historic tensions and present disagreements, but also noted that incremental progress had been made. Chinese scholars downplayed the "String of Pearls" strat [...] | 2009-05-22 09:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PBTS PHSA IN NP PK CH |
09BEIJING1428 | CODEL PELOSI MAY 27 MEETING WITH PRC PRESIDENT HU [...] (C) Summary: In a May 27 meeting with CODEL Pelosi, Chinese President Hu Jintao noted that China hoped that the developed world would take the lead on climate change by providing financial assistance and technical support to developing countries but admitted the developing countries had a res [...] | 2009-05-29 09:03:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PARM MNUC PBTS PTER PGOV CH KN |
09BEIJING1446 | SPEAKER PELOSI'S MAY 27 MEETING WITH NPC CHAIRMAN [...] (C) In a wide-ranging discussion with CODEL Pelosi on May 27, National People's Congress (NPC) Chairman Wu Bangguo applauded the state of bilateral relations, encouraged greater exchanges between the Congress and the NPC, urged greater U.S.-China collaboration on energy and climate change and [...] | 2009-06-02 05:17:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OREP MARR MOPS PARM MNUC PBTS PTER PGOV |
09BEIJING1597 | PRC: DEMARCHE ON UNOMIG DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On June 15, PolOff conveyed to MFA International Organizations and Conferences Department UN Division Deputy Director Shen Yinyin reftel points urging China to support a resolution extending the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) for two weeks to allow negotiations on a revised mand [...] | 2009-06-15 09:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PBTS UNGA CH GG RS |
09BEIJING1757 | JUNE 25 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: GOOGLE, FISHERMEN IN INDONESIA, [...] Key points at the June 25 MFA press briefing: -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Qin Gang stated that recently Google was spreading "lewd and vulgar content," and as an internet enterprise operating in China, Google should "earnestly" abide by Chinese law. All punitive measures take [...] | 2009-06-25 11:01:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PHUM PGOV PHSA PBTS EINT EPET ETRD BM CE |
09BEIJING1973 | INDONESIAN FM VISIT TO BEIJING [...] (C) Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda's July 1-3 trip to Beijing concentrated mainly on positive aspects of Sino-Indonesia ties, including signing of an extradition treaty, and further development of the strategic partnership, according to MFA and Indonesian Embassy contacts. However [...] | 2009-07-13 10:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG EFIN PBTS MARR ID CH |
09BEIJING2122 | (C)CHINESE REACT NEGATIVELY TO WEBB HEARING [...] (C) The DG for the new MFA Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs called in the Charge on July 24 to protest comments made by senior U.S. officials about Chinese claims to the South China Sea (SCS). The DG reiterated Chinese sovereignty claims and urged the United States to "control" U.S. o [...] | 2009-07-24 10:58:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS CH |
09BEIJING2646 | SEPTEMBER 15 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK TRIPS, TIBET ISSUE, [...] Key points at the September 15 MFA press briefing: -- The spokesperson had no information about reported trips to the DPRK by either State Councilor Dai Bingguo or Premier Wen Jiabao. -- China firmly opposed foreign officials meeting with the Dalai Lama and opposed the Dalai Lama's engageme [...] | 2009-09-15 09:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PBTS MNUC CH KN IR IN JP AF |
09BEIJING2670 | SEPTEMBER 17 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: NIS REPORT, NORTH [...] Key points at the September 17 MFA press briefing: -- Regarding the 2009 National Intelligence Strategy report, China urged the United States to drop its "Cold War mentality," which could undermine mutual trust and mislead the American public. -- On North Korea, China remained committed to [...] | 2009-09-17 23:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PBTS MNUC CH KN KS IR JP AF RS SF |
09BEIJING2699 | PRC FOCUSED ON ITS TERRITORIAL CLAIMS IN SOUTH [...] (C) Summary: China's primary interests in the South China Sea (SCS) are to defend its claimed territorial boundaries, protect and develop its claims to natural resources, and maintain freedom of navigation, according to an Embassy contact. Scholars and officials suggest China prefers to addr [...] | 2009-09-21 10:22:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHSA MARR PHUM PGOV VN CH |
09BEIJING2724 | MONGOLIA-CHINA RELATIONS: HIGH-LEVEL PROGRESS, [...] (C) Summary: The 60th anniversary of the establishment of PRC-Mongolia relations has moved that relationship in a positive direction, but mutual popular mistrust persists, according to Beijing-based scholars. Per the Mongolian Embassy, plans are for Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to visit Mongoli [...] | 2009-09-23 06:19:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CH MG NK MARR PBTS |
09BEIJING2914 | EAP A/S CAMPBELL'S MEETING WITH MND/FAO MG QIAN [...] (C) Summary: Major General Qian Lihua, Director of the Foreign Affairs Office of China's Ministry of Defense, responded positively, if cautiously, to EAP A/S Campbell's urging of improved military-to-military relations within a broader, inter-agency strategic dialogue, but complained that res [...] | 2009-10-21 06:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS PHUM PBTS PHSA PINS TW CH |
09BEIJING470 | RUSSIA SEEKS TO DEFUSE TENSIONS WITH CHINA AFTER [...] (C) The Russian military's February 15 sinking of the Chinese cargo ship "The New Star" has caused tension between Russia and China but will not have a long-term impact on bilateral relations, a Russian Embassy contact in Beijing told PolOff February 24. Our contact reported that the MFA summ [...] | 2009-02-24 10:48:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EWWT ETRD MARR PBTS CH RS |
09BEIJING579 | PRC: COW'S TONGUE CLAIM NOT LICKED, DESPITE [...] (C) China expects the South China Sea (SCS) sovereignty dispute arising from a maritime baselines bill recently passed in the Philippines Congress will not ratchet up tension in the region and will not affect China's SCS claim, according to an MFA official. China will continue its "shelve dif [...] | 2009-03-05 09:55:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PHSA PREL PGOV ECON CH TW XC |
09BEIJING600 | CHARGE D'AFFAIRES PROTESTS HARASSMENT OF USNS [...] (C) On March 8 in the South China Sea international waters near the PRC's Hainan Island, five Chinese ships harassed and interfered with a U.S. survey vessel, the USNS Impeccable, conducting routine operations (reftel). In response, the Charge d'Affaires protested Chinese actions to MFA Americ [...] | 2009-03-09 09:20:00 | Embassy Beijing | SECRET | PREL PHSA PBTS MOPS MARR KTIA CH |
09BEIJING645 | CHINESE MFA ON IMPECCABLE INCIDENT [...] (C) The Charge d'Affaires spoke with Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi March 12 to underline the importance of the U.S.-proposed telcon between Chief of Naval Operations ADM Roughead and his PLA Navy counterpart ADM Wu Shengli to discuss the March 8 USNS Impeccable incident in the South Chi [...] | 2009-03-12 09:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHSA PBTS MOPS MARR KTIA CH |
09BEIJING66 | CONTACT GROUP ON SOMALI PIRACY: PRC WILLING TO [...] (C) Summary: China will participate in the Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP) but would like to see member states take a cautious approach, MFA Department of International Organizations and Conferences UN Affairs Division Deputy Director Sun Xiaobo told PolOff January 9 in response to reft [...] | 2009-01-09 08:18:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER CH SO |
09BEIJING692 | MARCH 17 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: NORTH KOREAN PREMIER VISIT, [...] Key points at the March 17 MFA press briefing: -- North Korean Premier Kim Yong-il arrived in Beijing today, March 17, for an official visit. -- China is "concerned" about the situation on the Korean peninsula, which is "complicated with an increasing number of uncertain factors." China h [...] | 2009-03-17 12:05:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PHSA PBTS PREL PARM SU PG ES BU PK JP |
09BEIJING698 | CHINA MAINTAINS "CONSISTENT POSITION"; WILL NOT [...] (C) China maintains its "consistent position" of not recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, MFA European and Central Asian Affairs Department Caucasus Division Deputy Director Zhang Hongjian told PolOff March 18 in response to reftel points urging China to reject and conde [...] | 2009-03-18 08:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS UNGA CH GG RS |
09BEIJING982 | FM YANG AND CODEL MCCAIN DISCUSS BILATERAL [...] (C) PRC Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told CODEL McCain April 9 that U.S.-China relations were enjoying a "new spirit" of positive relations anchored by cooperation on global and regional concerns of mutual interest, and sought assurances that Congress would show "understanding" on Taiwan, Tibe [...] | 2009-04-14 09:51:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SENV ETRD PBTS PHUM MNUC EWWT CH |
09BEIJING992 | CODEL MCCAIN MEETING WITH CHINESE DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: In an April 8 meeting with CODEL McCain, Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie observed that military-to-military ties lagged behind other aspects of the bilateral relationship. Liang attributed the shortcoming to three "barriers": U.S. arms sales to Taiwan; the National Defe [...] | 2009-04-15 05:53:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PARM MNUC PBTS PTER PGOV CH |
09BEIRUT1053 | ISRAELI COOPERATION IMPROVING, SAYS LEBANESE [...] (S) In recent trilateral meetings between the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF),UNIFIL, and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF),the Israeli side was more cooperative and a new element of trust between the parties was present, BGen Abdulruhman Shehaitly, GOL Coordinator to UNIFIL told visiting Special [...] | 2009-09-25 05:47:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PBTS KPKO MARR PREL PGOV LE IS |
09BEIRUT1226 | BORDER CONTROL PLAN STILL LACKING SAY DONORS [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL) Michael Williams reviewed with international donors on November 4 the very limited progress on border management since their last meeting in June, and attributed it primarily to the lack of a Lebanese government. Noting that border man [...] | 2009-11-16 16:47:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS SY LE |
09BEIRUT1239 | UNIFIL WANTS TO APPLY GHAJAR MODEL TO SHEBAA FARMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: July's explosion of a Hizballah arms depot in Khirbet Selim raised questions about the Lebanese Armed Forces' (LAF) attitude, but the LAF has applied the lessons learned from the incident, according to UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Director of Political and Civil Affairs Mi [...] | 2009-11-19 07:22:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PTER MOPS KPKO MCAP UNSC PBTS LE IS |
09BEIRUT1242 | LEBANON UNPREPARED TO ADDRESS SHEBAA WATER ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lebanese government officials argue that Israel's insistence on retaining the disputed Shebaa Farms stems not from border security concerns but from interest in water rights. Lebanese contacts opine that, given water shortages in the region and increasing worries that global war [...] | 2009-11-19 15:55:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV PREL ECON PBTS PGOV LE IS |
09BEIRUT1243 | MARKING THE BLUE LINE: SLOW BUT STEADY PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN Interim Force in Lebanon's (UNIFIL) 121-kilometer Blue Line (BL) marking program is moving along, albeit slowly, with 25 of the proposed 198 markers now in place. UNIFIL officials maintain that despite the slow pace, the demarcation prevents inadvertent violations of UN [...] | 2009-11-20 06:01:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PTER PINR MOPS KPKO UNSC IS LE |
09BEIRUT126 | LEBANON: BORDER SECURITY WORK STALLED, SAYS [...] (C) On January 29, Minister of Interior Ziad Baroud told the Ambassador that internal Government of Lebanon (GOL) discussions on border security had effectively stalled. The Prime Minister had taken this on personally and is the only who can move the complex issue forward. Turning to election [...] | 2009-01-30 09:42:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PGOV PTER PINR KTIP PBTS MOPS LE IS SY |
09BEIRUT1334 | SYRIAN ALLIES SEEK "CANCELLATION" OF UNSCR 1559 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Syria's allies in Lebanon have launched a campaign for the "cancellation" of UN Security Council resolution 1559. Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri claimed to the Ambassador that following the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon and the election of Michel Sleiman as president, there i [...] | 2009-12-21 16:29:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC PBTS KPAL LE IS SY |
09BEIRUT1336 | DEFMIN MURR PLANS SHAKE-UP IN SOUTH LEBANON [...] (C) Summary: President Obama's message to Lebanese President Michel Sleiman on the importance of UNSCR 1701 was loud and clear, Defense Minister Murr told the Ambassador and visiting Special Coordinator for Regional Affairs Frederic Hof on December 18. Murr reported he would underscore this m [...] | 2009-12-22 15:19:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC PBTS KPAL LE IS |
09BEIRUT1347 | LAF AND UNSCOL DESCRIBE PREPARATIONS FOR GHAJAR [...] (C) Summary: Preparations for the handover of Ghajar village were very sensitive to the GOL, General Abdulruhman Shehaitly, LAF representative to the tripartite, reported, and the LAF planned to deploy a unit of four in the village, along with UNIFIL forces, after its return from Israeli contr [...] | 2009-12-23 16:00:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PBTS MARR KPKO LE IS |
09BEIRUT1351 | HARIRI'S DAMASCUS VISIT HERALDS NEW "PERSONAL [...] (C) Summary: Prior to his December 19-20 visit to Damascus, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri told the Ambassador that he "must go to Damascus to better relations," and he cast the visit as "a new form of achieving sovereignty and independence." Following the visit, the PM's chief of staff [...] | 2009-12-28 12:54:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC PBTS PINR KPAL LE SY |
09BEIRUT1358 | PM HARIRI URGES INCREASED MILITARY AID [...] (S) Summary: The U.S. must fully support the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) to enable it to implement UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1701, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri told the Ambassador and visiting Special Coordinator for Regional Affairs Frederic Hof on December 18. Lebanon wo [...] | 2009-12-29 13:16:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PTER UNSC PBTS KPAL MARR MASS IS LE |
09BEIRUT373 | LEBANON: WE SHOULD MAINTAIN THE U.S. SUPPORT TO [...] (C) In all but the most pessimistic post-election scenarios, a robust program of U.S. assistance to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) will serve to further our policy goals in Lebanon and the region. Without continued support, the LAF will be unable to address the challenges of terrorism, bord [...] | 2009-03-31 15:40:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP PBTS PTER PINR UNSC MARR MOPS LE SY |
09BEIRUT465 | LEBANON: BORDER SECURITY PROGRESS REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-23 18:49:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS PTER UNSC MARR MOPS SY LE |
09BEIRUT467 | LEBANON: BORDER SECURITY PROGRESS REPORT [...] (C) On April 22, UN Special Coordinator on Lebanon (UNSCOL) Senior Political Officer Diego Zorrilia evaluated the current state of Lebanese efforts on improving border security as purely "organizational," without significant tangible progress on the ground. Zorrilla described GOL intentions t [...] | 2009-04-23 20:24:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PTER UNSC MARR MOPS SY LE |
09BEIRUT558 | LEBANON: DEFMIN MURR AND LAF KAHWAJI UNWORRIED [...] (C) In separate meetings with visiting U.S. Special Operations Commander Admiral Eric Olson and the Ambassador, Defense Minister Elias Murr and LAF Commander Jean Kahwaji expressed appreciation for U.S. military aid to Lebanon, calling it crucial to the continued improvement of Lebanon's armed [...] | 2009-05-19 13:10:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS UNSC MARR MOPS LE SY |
09BEIRUT698 | LEBANON: OUTGOING PM SINIORA COMMITS TO BORDER [...] (C) On the last full day of his government's mandate before it became a caretaker government, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora confirmed to international donors June 19 Lebanon's continuing and firm commitment to secure the eastern border with Syria. Urging international donor support for the ext [...] | 2009-06-24 15:28:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PBTS EAID IS SY LE |
09BEIRUT768 | LEBANON: INTERIOR MINISTER BAROUD AND A/S JOHNSON [...] (C) In a July 2 meeting with International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) Assistant Secretary David Johnson, caretaker Interior Minister Ziad Baroud believed that technical preparations for securing Lebanon's border with Syria were moving forward, but that real security would require clea [...] | 2009-07-10 10:44:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PTER SNAR SMIG KCOR LE SY |
09BELGRADE420 | EXBS: SERBIA, ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - MARCH, [...] BROAD AREAS OF INTEREST TO ADVSORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS -- EXBS had a follow-up meeting with Border Police High Commissioner Zoran Lasica regarding the Montenegrin Maritime Surveillance System; this system is comprised of a network of radar and optical (high resolution daylight cameras [...] | 2009-05-14 16:22:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP PBTS SNAR KCRM SR BK |
09BELGRADE523 | EXBS: SERBIA, ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - MAY, 2009 [...] BROAD AREAS OF INTEREST TO ADVSORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS -- EXBS continued technical correspondence regarding the software integration of the Montenegrin Maritime Surveillance System. This system is comprised of a network of radar and optical (high resolution daylight cameras and night c [...] | 2009-06-17 09:22:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP PBTS SNAR KCRM SR BK |
09BELGRADE803 | EXBS: SERBIA, ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - JUNE, 2009 [...] BROAD AREAS OF INTEREST TO ADVSORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS -- The technical correspondence for the complete definition of the Montenegrin Maritime Surveillance System integrated software package is getting close enough to develop an RFQ. This system should provide a "fused" situational pic [...] | 2009-08-05 12:11:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP PBTS SNAR KCRM SR BK |
09BELGRADE805 | EXBS: SERBIA, ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - JUNE, 2009 [...] BROAD AREAS OF INTEREST TO ADVSORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS -- The technical correspondence for the complete definition of the Montenegrin Maritime Surveillance System integrated software package is getting close enough to develop an RFQ. This system should provide a "fused" situational pic [...] | 2009-08-05 12:11:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP PBTS SNAR KCRM SR BK |
09BELGRADE840 | RECALL 09 BELGRADE 840 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-11 14:08:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP PBTS SNAR KCRM SR BK |
09BELGRADE842 | EXBS: SERBIA, ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - JULY, 2009 [...] BROAD AREAS OF INTEREST TO ADVSORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS -- The initial set of technical systems definition requirements for the Montenegrin Maritime Surveillance System integrated software package has been submitted for the further development of an RFQ. This system should provide a "fu [...] | 2009-08-11 14:53:00 | Embassy Belgrade | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP PBTS SNAR KCRM SR BK |
09BERLIN1183 | BRINGING THE GERMANS AROUND ON GRANTING SOVEREIGN [...] (SBU) This is an action request. See para 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The German MFA and MOD continue to argue that only U.S. "warships" can be granted "sovereign immunity" against search or arrest when visiting German ports, but this seems to be based on an overly narrow and traditional reading o [...] | 2009-09-24 09:25:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PARM PGOV PHSA PBTS GM |
09BERLIN19 | GERMANY: ONBOARD FOR CONTACT GROUP ON SOMALI PIRACY [...] (U) Poloff delivered Ref A and Ref B to MFA Deputy Division Head for European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) Jens Beikuefner, who noted that MFA already had received the draft communiqu and proposed agenda from the German Permanent Mission to the UN. MFA Division Head for ESDP Kampmann l [...] | 2009-01-08 12:17:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER |
09BERN137 | SWISS VIEWS ON ABKHAZIA/SOUTH OSSETIA AND RUSSIAN [...] (C) Poloff delivered the reftel A message March 20 to Norbert Baerlocher, Regional Coordinator for Eastern Europe and Central Asia at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). Baerlocher underlined that Switzerland shares USG concerns regarding Russian basing plans and regarding any a [...] | 2009-03-27 17:50:00 | Embassy Bern | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS SZ |
09BERN220 | SWISS REFERENDUM APPROVES UNIVERSAL BIOMETRIC PASSPORTS [...] By the narrowest of margins, Swiss voters May 17 approved the country's transition next year to only biometric passports. With 1.9 million voters participating (38% of the eligible electorate, according to Swiss papers),the "yes" vote (for only biometric passports) garnered 50.14% (953,136 v [...] | 2009-05-18 13:07:00 | Embassy Bern | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT KPAO PBTS PREL SZ |
09BRASILIA337 | RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH OSSETIA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-19 11:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS BR |
09BRIDGETOWN1 | BARBADOS MFA FRETS OVER VENEZUELA MARITIME CLAIMS [...] (C) MFA Maritime and American Affairs Desk Officers expressed lingering concerns over Venezuela's claim to a 200-nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) around Bird Rock Island (la Isla de Aves) and claims to large maritime blocks within Barbados's EEZ, in recent meetings with Emboffs. Ve [...] | 2009-01-05 16:08:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL ETRD MARR XL |
09BRIDGETOWN293 | BARBADOS ANNOUNCES NEW IMMIGRATION POLICY [...] (SBU) A recent announcement by Barbados PM David Thompson that places greater restrictions on undocumented CARICOM aliens has elicited negative reactions from the opposition, the local Guyanese community, and regional commentators. While the policy is consistent with other GOB actions to "fe [...] | 2009-05-19 20:45:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PREL PGOV BB XL |
09BRIDGETOWN294 | ST. VINCENT PM LASHES OUT OVER BARBADOS IMMIGRATION POLICY [...] (U) St. Vincent Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves leveled unusually sharp criticism against a fellow CARICOM member at a speech to the St. Vincent parliament May 14. While stopping just short of calling out Barbados PM David Thompson by name, Gonsalves strongly castigated Barbados for a recently- [...] | 2009-05-19 20:51:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS XL |
09BRUSSELS164 | BELGIUM ACCEPTS INVITATION TO JOIN PIRACY CONTACT [...] (C) On February 3 Poloff met with Pol De Witte, Director for Security Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. De Witte said that Belgium accepts the invitation of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) to join as a member of the group. Poloff provided De Witte with a [...] | 2009-02-05 06:23:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | AL EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA BE |
09BRUSSELS1724 | SPECIAL ENVOY GRATION BRIEFS THE EU'S POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Briefing the EU Council Political and Security Committee (PSC) in Brussels on December 18, Special Envoy Scott Gration said that the U.S. seeks to end the conflict in Darfur, supports the North-South Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),and wants to keep Sudan from becomin [...] | 2009-12-24 09:50:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PBTS PINR PREF SMIG KAWC KPKO |
09BRUSSELS236 | CZECH MFA EASTERN EUROPE DIRECTOR ON THE BALKANS [...] (C/NF) Summary: In a dinner with Poloff February 18, Czech MFA Eastern and Southeastern Europe Director Tomas Szunyog was most interested in learning U.S. views about Bosnia. While acknowledging that a decision to close the Office of the High Representative (OHR) was unlikely at the March Pe [...] | 2009-02-19 16:07:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PBTS EUN AL HR KK SR SI EZ |
09BRUSSELS267 | SCENESETTER FOR ACTING A/S CARTER WITH BELGIAN MFA [...] Acting A/S Carter, your trip to Brussels comes at a time when the Belgian government is eager for dialogue with the United States on Africa. Your willingness to meet MFA Africa policy hands will help show that the U.S. takes Belgian views seriously and is willing to consider coordinating with [...] | 2009-02-25 15:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM PBTS PREF PINS SOCI MOPS MARR |
09BRUSSELS418 | BELGIUM SUPPORTS NON-RECOGNITION POLICY ON [...] (C) On March 24, Poloff delivered reftel demarche regarding non-recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia to Willy De Buck, Director for Central and Eastern Europe at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. De Buck said that he had recently discussed the issue of recognition of the two breakaway reg [...] | 2009-03-24 13:51:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RU BE |
09BRUSSELS67 | DEMARCHE: EU AND EC OFFICIALS REQUEST FURTHER [...] (C) Deputy Political Counselor delivered reftel demarche separately to Christian Jouret, Head of the Middle East Unit in the Council of the European Union (who works closely with Solana) and to Leonidas Tezapsidis, Head of the Near East Region (a Unit Deputy Director) in the European Commission [...] | 2009-01-16 15:10:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS PARM KWBG PBTS PHUM EU IS |
09BUCHAREST110 | ROMANIA: CONTROVERSY OVER OFFSHORE ENERGY CONCESSIONS [...] (SBU) Romania's initial euphoria after prevailing over Ukraine in a Black Sea boundary dispute has given way to political finger-pointing over offshore energy concessions. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a February 3 ruling awarded Romania exclusive rights to 3,745 square miles of [...] | 2009-02-20 07:13:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG PBTS ECON PGOV RO |
09BUDAPEST216 | HUNGARY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON RUSSIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-20 11:38:00 | Embassy Budapest | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MOPS RS GG HU |
09BUENOSAIRES509 | Argentina Hosts Lugo and Morales for Signing of Final Act [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina hosted Paraguayan President Lugo and Bolivian President Morales for an April 27 ceremony to deliver the Final Record of the border commission in execution of the 1938 Peace Treaty between the two countries. The Ambassador attended as representative of one of the six g [...] | 2009-05-04 17:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS PA BL AR |
09BUENOSAIRES747 | Argentina: Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri [...] Post received a June 22 letter from Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri to President Obama applauding the President's efforts to promote the Middle East Peace process and pledging to do his part to promote peace between Argentina's large Jewish and Muslim communities. Macri, a businessman [...] | 2009-06-26 18:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPDC KPAO PTER PBTS XF AR |
09BUENOSAIRES82 | ARGENTINA BACKS OFF BOTNIA PROTEST [...] (SBU) Summary: After allowing protesters to block the main bridge between Argentina and Uruguay for over two years, the Government of Argentina has reversed course and begun to express opposition to the protest. The Kirchner-allied governor of Entre Rios in December made headlines by concedin [...] | 2009-01-23 20:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SENV PBTS ASEC CASC AR |
09BUENOSAIRES841 | ARGENTINE PROPOSAL ON COOPERATION FOR CONSERVATION OF THE [...] (SBU) Charge received on July 15 a non-paper from Ambassador Antonio Trombetta, the Argentine MFA's Director of North American Affairs, and Marcelo Santos, National Director of Fishing Coordination at the Secretariat of Agriculture. The non-paper is a proposed MOU between the GoA and the USG i [...] | 2009-07-17 17:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS PREL ECON PBTS AR UK |
09BUENOSAIRES939 | ARGENTINA: SECOND DIPNOTE ON TRANSIT OF MAKIN [...] (U) Action Request for Department, see para 5. 2. (SBU) Embassy Buenos Aires received a second diplomatic note from the GOA dated August 13 regarding the transit of the Amphibious Assault Ship Makin Island LHD8 through the Strait of Magellan. An Embassy translation of the note follows: [...] | 2009-08-14 21:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS PHSA MARR PGOV AR |
09BUJUMBURA162 | BURUNDI SUPPORTS U.S. GEORGIA POLICY [...] (C) In a March 19 meeting with EmbOff to discuss U.S. policy towards Georgia (reftel),Ministry of External Affairs' Director of the Department of International Organizations Adolphe Nahayo said that Burundi, as a small country surrounded by larger states, empathized with Georgia's plight and [...] | 2009-03-27 11:32:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS BY GG |
09CAIRO184 | ARAB LEAGUE AGREES TO JOIN PIRACY CONTACT GROUP [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-02 14:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA PREL MOPS AL |
09CAIRO1852 | REFUGEES CAUGHT IN EGYPT-ISRAEL BORDER CROSSFIRE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-24 15:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PGOV PREF PTER PBTS KWBG KPAL IS EG |
09CAIRO533 | THE WELL RUNS DRY FOR WATER MINISTER: DEBATE OVER [...] (SBU) Key points: -- The March 11 appointment of Mohamed Nasr El Din Allam as Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources (MoIWR) highlights the fight over limited water resources, pitting agribusiness against environmental scientists and government officials who are encouraging conservation [...] | 2009-03-29 09:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON PGOV EAGR PBTS EG |
09CANBERRA264 | AUSTRALIAN REPLY TO RUSSIAN BASING PLANS IN [...] (C) On March 16, Poloff delivered US talking points to Barbara Cooper and Simon Moore, Director and Executive Officer respectively for the Northern, Central and Eastern Europe Section at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) informing the Government of Australia (GOA) o [...] | 2009-03-18 04:33:00 | Embassy Canberra | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS AS |
09CANBERRA440 | VWP:AUSTRALIA INFORMED CONCERNING CBP POLICY UPDATE [...] (U) April 30, Consular Officer delivered the U.S. Customs and Border Protection announcement contained in reftel to Richard J. Jameson, Executive Officer, Passport Systems and Technology Section (PST),Passport Business Improvement and Technology Branch (PSB),Australian Passport Office, Depar [...] | 2009-05-05 06:40:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT KPAO PBTS PREL |
09CANBERRA71 | AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO VISA WAIVER PROGRAM LETTER [...] (U) January 8, Pol Off presented Beverly Mercer, Director of the U.S. Political and Strategic Section, and Alanna Mckay, Executive Officer of the U.S. Branch, of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade the talking points contained in paragraph 6 (reftel) concerning the Visa W [...] | 2009-01-21 05:05:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT PBTS PREL KPAO |
09CHISINAU132 | SMIRNOV IN A SNIT AGAIN [...] (C) Summary: It appears that EU and U.S. relations with Transnistria are now going to take a turn for the worse. In a February 19 meeting, Ukrainian Ambassador Pirozhkov briefed us on his meeting the previous day with Transnistrian leader Smirnov. Apparently angered by the EU's recent anno [...] | 2009-02-26 13:29:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS UP MD |
09CHISINAU142 | SOVA DESCRIBES LAVROV'S VISIT TO CHISINAU [...] (C) Summary: In a February 25 meeting, Minister for Reintegration Sova briefed Ambassador on the outcomes of Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov's February 23-24 visit to Chisinau. He said that Lavrov's visit had taken place in a positive, calm atmosphere, with no difficult issues pressed. Sova [...] | 2009-02-27 14:53:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS RU MD |
09CHISINAU212 | VORONIN SUGGESTS RUSSIA READY FOR [...] (C) Summary: In a March 19 private meeting with the Ambassador, President Voronin said he believed that the Russians wanted to be rid of the Transnistria frozen conflict. If Secretary Clinton or President Obama raised Transnistria with Russia as part of "reset" bilateral relations, Voronin [...] | 2009-03-19 15:33:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS RS MD |
09CHISINAU270 | TRANSNISTRIAN PARTICIPATION IN MOLDOVAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Ten polling stations will be opened on the right bank for residents of Transnistria, and at least several thousand Transnistrians are expected to attempt to vote on April 5. Additionally, a polling station will be opened in the village of Corjova, which is physically located [...] | 2009-04-03 15:13:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PBTS MD |
09CHISINAU394 | RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-27 09:47:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS MD |
09CHISINAU425 | Romania-Moldova Spats Burnish Nationalist [...] (SBU) Summary: After disputed parliamentary elections in Moldova followed by violent street demonstrations on April 7, the presidents of Romania and Moldova have engaged in tit-for-tat accusations and counter-measures that benefit both domestically, but have seriously harmed bilateral relati [...] | 2009-06-03 14:02:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS MD |
09CHISINAU543 | CHARGE DELIVERS MESSAGE ON U.S.-RUSSIA [...] (C) On July 13, 2009, the Charge delivered reftel talking points to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Valeriu Ostalep. After noting U.S. support for the territorial integrity of Georgia and Ukraine and rejecting the idea of privileged spheres of influence (reftel pa [...] | 2009-07-14 15:05:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS RS MD |
09CHISINAU556 | NO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE RAILROAD TUNNEL IN TRANSNISTRIA [...] (SBU) Summary: In contrast to other, more successful working groups between Chisinau and Transnistrian authorities, the newly created Working Group on Railroads, which met for the first time on July 7, has revealed the greatest difficulties: Transnistria wants the railroads to resume service, [...] | 2009-07-17 06:00:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS ELTN ETRD RS UP MD |
09CHISINAU629 | Possible Alliance Government Signals Desire to Lift [...] (SBU) Summary: The four-party non-Communist coalition, which likely will form Moldova's next Government, has stated its intent to reverse a foreign-policy blunder made in April, when the present Government imposed a visa regime on Romanian citizens. Removing these sharply criticized visa req [...] | 2009-08-11 14:59:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM MD RO |
09CHISINAU801 | GRENADE EXPLOSION DURING CHISINAU [...] (C) Summary: On the evening of October 14, while some 50-100,000 people were in the town center celebrating the Chisinau Day holiday, a grenade exploded, injuring over 40 persons. No lives were lost. Minister of Interior Catan told the Ambassador October 15 that he believed that this incid [...] | 2009-10-15 15:17:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR PBTS EAID PINR MD |
09CHISINAU81 | MOLDOVA'S 2009 PRIORITIES FOR [...] (C) Summary: In a January 29 meeting, Minister for Reintegration Vasile Sova outlined Moldova's program of Transnistrian reintegration priorities for 2009 and reviewed the results of recent consultations with the Russians and Ukrainians. Moldova's four priorities are: resumption of the 5-plu [...] | 2009-02-06 13:41:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS RU UP MD |
09CHISINAU819 | ROMAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ILINOIU [...] (C) Summary: On October 12, U.S. Ambassador to Romania and U.S. Ambassador to Moldova (who was visiting Bucharest) met with Anca Ilinoiu, Foreign Policy Counselor to President Basescu. Ilinoiu explained that Moldova was a very important foreign policy priority for Romania. She noted that R [...] | 2009-10-19 14:13:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS EAID PINR MD RO |
09CHISINAU826 | NEW DEPUTY PRIME MINSTER FOR [...] (C) Summary: Despite initial doubts about his inexperience and the GoM decision to abolish the Ministry of Reintegration, new Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Victor Osipov has won over many of the initial skeptics. In a meeting with the Ambassador on October 9, Osipov, who kept all [...] | 2009-10-21 13:50:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS EAID PINR MD |
09CHISINAU829 | TRANSNISTRIANS CALL FOR RUSSIANS TO [...] (C) Summary: Following the October 14 grenade blast in Chisinau (reftel),on October 15 the Transnistrians issued a call for the Russians to make a fivefold increase to the size of its peacekeeping contingent, enlarging the group from 400 to 2,400. The Transnistrians cited the recent events [...] | 2009-10-21 14:27:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PBTS MARR PINR RS MD |
09CHISINAU900 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LUPU DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: In a November 19 meeting with visiting EUR DAS Russell, presidential candidate Marian Lupu articulated his philosophy that Moldova could serve as a bridge between East and West. With regard to his electoral prospects, he said he "could not rule out" the possibility that he woul [...] | 2009-11-25 12:49:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PBTS ECON RS MD |
09CONAKRY403 | GUINEAN ALERT LIKELY A POLITICAL PLOY [...] (S) Summary: On Saturday, July 11, RTG national television and radio read a communique from the CNDD stating that the army has been placed on a state of alert. The communique said troops financed by narco-traffickers were amassed along the Guinean borders with Guinea-Bissau, the Cassamance [...] | 2009-07-13 14:03:00 | Embassy Conakry | SECRET | PGOV PBTS PINS PREL KPAO XA GV |
09COPENHAGEN20 | DANES WANT "AMBITIOUS" SOMALI PIRACY CONTACT GROUP [...] (SBU) Summary. Denmark supports a robust mandate for the Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP),and hopes that the CGSP's January 13-14 inaugural meeting will provide it with an ambitious and substantive operational agenda. The Danes hope to take on leadership of the CGSP's legal and judicial [...] | 2009-01-08 15:50:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM EWWT MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER DA |
09COTONOU557 | BENIN: PIRATES ATTACK TANKER IN GULF OF GUINEA [...] (C) On November 24 at approximately 2:30 AM three Nigerian pirates boarded the 750-foot, Liberian-flagged tanker M/T Cancale Star in Benin's near international waters south of Cotonou, approximately 14 nautical miles offshore. Second in command Chief Officer Oleksiy Frolin was killed and thre [...] | 2009-11-24 15:51:00 | Embassy Cotonou | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS MCAP EWWT PHSA BN |
09DAKAR1328 | BORDER TENSIONS BETWEEN SENEGAL AND GUINEA-BISSAU [...] (SBU) Summary: Tension is growing along the border between Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, although both governments insist there is no conflict. Nevertheless, there is a dispute over the use of land near the tourist area of Cap Skiring in a place called Cap Roxo. The Senegalese were a no-show a [...] | 2009-10-26 07:55:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | PRL PBTS PU SG |
09DAMASCUS269 | SYRIAN/LEBANESE BORDER MANAGEMENT CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary: Danish border management expert Lasse Rosenkrands, directly involved in an initial and follow-up review of the Lebanese border as mandated by UN Security Council resolution 1701, reported that Lebanon had made some progress in making technical and tactical security upgrades to the [...] | 2009-04-09 14:24:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL LE SY |
09DAMASCUS355 | ICRC REQUESTS USG ASSISTANCE IN RESTARTING FAMILY [...] This cable is an action request, please see para nine. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Mr. Jean-Jacques Frsard, the Head of Delegation in Syria for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),delivered a demarche to Charge d'Affaires on May 13, requesting USG assistance in persuading the Governme [...] | 2009-05-18 13:45:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM PGOV SMIG SOCI IS SY |
09DAMASCUS402 | TRILATERAL DELEGATION VISIT TO DAMASCUS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-08 12:59:00 | Embassy Damascus | SECRET | PREL PBTS PINS PTER MARR IZ SY |
09DAMASCUS426 | BORDER SECURITY: U.S. DELEGATION TAKES FIRST STEP [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a one-hour meeting between the U.S. and Syrian Arab Republic Government (SARG) delegations on June 12, both sides focused on border security and their respective efforts to stem the flow of foreign fighters crossing the Syrian-Iraqi border. Both sides concurred a secure and s [...] | 2009-06-21 13:37:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PINR PTER MARR MCAP MOPS IZ SY |
09DAMASCUS471 | WOMEN STRUGGLE FOR REFUGE IN DAMASCUS [...] (C) Summary: Emboffs joined lawyer and civil society activist Daad Mousa (strictly protect) in a visit to the Oasis Trust women's shelter on June 25 to discuss trafficking and abuse of women in Syria. Administered by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd (SGS),the shelter is a refuge for female vi [...] | 2009-07-07 11:16:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PBTS PREL PGOV SCUL SOCI SMIG KWMN KTIP |
09DAMASCUS574 | SYRIA AGREES IN PRINCIPLE TO (IDEALLY TRILATERAL) [...] (C) SUMMARY. U.S. and Syrian Arab Republic Government (SARG) delegations agreed in principle August 12 to cooperate on joint assessments of three Iraq-Syria border crossings in eastern Syria as part of their respective efforts to strengthen border security and stem the flow of foreign fight [...] | 2009-08-13 09:17:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PINR PTER MARR MCAP MOPS SY IZ |
09DAMASCUS577 | MUALLIM SUPPORTS TRILATERAL BORDER INITIATIVE, [...] (C) Special Coordinator for Regional Affairs Fred Hof met FM Muallim August 13 to follow up on the previous day's meetings between the Centcom-led and Syrian delegations on the trilateral border security assessment initiative (ref a). Hof stressed our desire to include the Iraqis in the ass [...] | 2009-08-13 13:15:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PINR PTER MARR MCAP MOPS SY IZ |
09DAMASCUS850 | SYRIAN SECURITY COURT HEARINGS: AL-QAEDA AND [...] Summary: A November Syrian Supreme State Security Court (SSSC) session heard two separate cases on individuals accused of belonging to al-Qaeda or al-Qaeda affiliated organizations, and participating in or supporting foreign fighter operations in Iraq. In a third case, one accused individual [...] | 2009-12-08 14:10:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PBTS PINR PGOV PHUM PREL SY IZ |
09DARESSALAAM676 | PIRACY PROSECUTION IN TANZANIA A DISTANT PROSPECT [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Although MFA is cautiously positive about eventually accepting captured pirates for prosecution, the EU's experience in frustration with the GOT over the issue suggests progress towards legislative changes and a memorandum of understanding will be slow at best [...] | 2009-10-19 08:48:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS MP PBTS PHSA PGOV TZ |
09DARESSALAAM796 | PRES. KIKWETE TELLS REP. PAYNE THAT TANZANIA & TURKEY WILL [...] (SBU) Summary: Representative Donald Payne (D-NJ),in Dar Es Salaam to participate in the Mo Ibrahim Forum on Governance, met privately with President Jakaya Kikwete on November 14, along with Ambassador Lenhardt and staffers. Rep. Payne urged Kikwete, as a progressive African leader, to work [...] | 2009-11-20 04:25:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PINS PREL PTER PINR PREF PBTS SO TZ ER TU |
09DHAKA466 | PROGRESS REPORT: FBI CONDUCTS FOLLOW ON ASSESSMENT [...] (C) The Police investigation into the February 2009 BDR mutiny appears on track, with investigators continuing to follow the best practices shared by the FBI during an earlier visit. The investigation will likely require another six months, but as of now there is still no indication of outsid [...] | 2009-05-07 13:35:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET | ASEC MOPS PGOV PINR PBTS PHUM BG |
09DHAKA884 | BANGLADESH SEEKS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO DEMARCATE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The Government of Bangladesh (GOB) is seeking foreign aid for a survey of the nation's continental shelf in the Bay of Bengal. According to the GOB, Bangladesh requires a seismic survey of 4,000 kilometers [...] | 2009-09-13 08:54:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SENV ENRG EWWT PBTS PHSA EPET BG |
09DHAKA988 | BANGLADESH BORDER RIFLES CHIEF DISCUSSES BURMA, [...] (S) Major General Md. Mainul Islam, Director General of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR),highlighted his commitment to reform and improving the professionalism of the BDR to Embassy officers on October 12. MG Islam outlined the current deployment of border observation posts (BOP) and the limitat [...] | 2009-10-20 03:33:00 | Embassy Dhaka | SECRET | PBTS PINS PINR PREL PGOV PTER MARR MOPS MCAP |
09DJIBOUTI117 | DJIBOUTI DECRIES STALEMATE IN BORDER DISPUTE WITH ERITREA [...] (C) SUMMARY. As the five-week deadline referenced by UNSCR 1862 of January 14 approaches, senior Djiboutian officials--including Foreign Minister Youssouf and Djibouti's Ambassador to the U.S. and UN PermRep Olhaye-underscore the need for increased international pressure on Eritrea. Facing a [...] | 2009-02-13 15:27:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PBTS PREL MOPS DJ ER UNSC |
09DJIBOUTI1299 | NORTHERN DJIBOUTI: BEYOND SECURITY CONCERNS, HOPE FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador visited the northern, primarily ethnic-Afar regions of Obock and Tadjourah November 2-4. Local officials remained concerned that Eritrean-influenced elements continued to infiltrate remote areas of northern Djibouti, and reported one recent and possibly Eritrean-linked [...] | 2009-11-12 10:43:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EAID ASEC PBTS ELTN EWWT ER DJ |
09DJIBOUTI1407 | DJIBOUTI-ERITREA BORDER CONFLICT UPDATE: DJIBOUTI SETTLING [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a December 11-12 visit to northern Djibouti, Ambassador and visiting DAS Karl Wycoff travelled to the Djiboutian military base of Moulhoule, 15km south of the stalemated Djibouti-Eritrea border dispute at Ras Doumeira. While emphasizing that the overall border situation re [...] | 2009-12-20 13:59:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PGOV MARR MOPS PINR DJ ER |
09DJIBOUTI147 | IRANIAN PRESIDENT VISITS DJIBOUTI [...] (C) SUMMARY. During an official visit to Djibouti by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad February 24, Djiboutian President Guelleh praised the "good relations" between Djibouti and Iran, and underlined his support for Iran's right to develop "peaceful nuclear technology." President Guelleh v [...] | 2009-02-26 15:33:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP KNNP PBTS ECON ER IR DJ |
09DJIBOUTI150 | FRENCH FM KOUCHNER'S VISIT FOCUSES ON DJIBOUTI-ERITREA, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. FM Kouchner's surprise February 21-22 visit to Djibouti focused on Djibouti-Eritrea, Somalia, and countering Somali piracy, but did not address bilateral issues, according to the French Ambassador. Despite the expiration of the 5-week deadline imposed by UNSCR 1862 for Eritrea [...] | 2009-03-01 08:40:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHSA PBTS MOPS KPKO FR SO DJ RS |
09DJIBOUTI27 | DJIBOUTI SEEKS TO HOST SOMALI COUNTER-PIRACY [...] (U) Per reftel, Post forwarded draft agenda and draft communique for January 13-14 Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP) to MFA Director of Bilateral Affairs Mohamed Ali Hassan on January 8. Ambassador subsequently provided Post's French-language translation (emailed to AF/RSA and PM/PPA) to [...] | 2009-01-12 13:01:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM EWWT MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER SO DJ XA |
09DJIBOUTI307 | CONGRESSMAN PAYNE DISCUSSES REGIONAL ISSUES WITH GODJ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During an April 11-13 visit in Djibouti, CODEL Payne discussed regional challenges with Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh and other top GODJ officials. After speaking with President Guelleh about the ongoing Eritrea-Djibouti border dispute, Representative Payne traveled [...] | 2009-04-15 05:39:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP PGOV PREL PBTS PHSA PTER PHUM PREF ECON EAID ET |
09DJIBOUTI39 | GODJ WELCOMES UNSCR 1862 ON DJIBOUTI/ERITREA BORDER [...] (C) Foreign Minister Mahmoud Youssouf called Ambassador January 15 to express thanks for UNSCR 1862 regarding the Djibouti/Eritrea border dispute. Youssouf said the GODJ was pleased with the outcome. Ambassador responded that we, too, thought it was a strong resolution -- one that had resul [...] | 2009-01-15 12:22:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UNSC ER DJ |
09DJIBOUTI551 | ICRC ON ERITREAN POWS IN DJIBOUTIAN CUSTODY [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),about half of the 19 Eritrean prisoners of war (POWs) captured by the GODJ during June 2008 hostilities along the Djibouti-Eritrea border have said that they do not/not want to return to Eritrea. A regional ICRC r [...] | 2009-05-21 11:26:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPOW PBTS PHUM PGOV ICRC ER DJ |
09DJIBOUTI6 | SOMALI PIRACY - DJIBOUTI RECOMMENDS USG [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. Djiboutian Foreign Minister Youssouf confirmed that the GODJ would participate in the Jan. 13-14 Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP) to be held in New York, and strongly urged USG participation in a regional International Maritime Organization (IMO) conference [...] | 2009-01-04 14:42:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM EWWT MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER DJ SO XA |
09DUSHANBE354 | TAJIKISTAN - ON RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH [...] (C) PolEcon Chief raised reftel matter informally with Khusrav Nosiri, MFA Director of European and North American Affairs on March 20. Nosiri said Tajikistan's position on Abkhazia and South Ossetia had not changed, nor was there much likelihood that the position would change. Tajikistan doe [...] | 2009-03-20 12:31:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS TI |
09DUSHANBE824 | TAJIK RESPONSE TO AFGHANISTAN ASSISTANCE REQUESTS [...] (SBU) Tajikistan responded to our reftel request for assistance in Afghanistan by diplomatic note on June 11. Tajikistan replied to our request that they extend operations of the Nizhny Pyanj bridge to 24 hours a day saying that an agreement is currently pending with the Afghan side to increase [...] | 2009-07-08 03:27:00 | Embassy Dushanbe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS SMIG ETRD EAGR EAID ECON TI |
09FREETOWN327 | U.S. PLANE DETAINED IN SIERRA LEONE AFTER ILLEGAL [...] (S) At approximately 1800 GMT on August 19, a U.S.-registered plane (N-748AA) illegally landed at Lungi Airport. The airport crew told the aircraft, reportedly a "Kruman 154," that they would have to identify an alternate landing site, since they did not have a landing permit. The plane eventu [...] | 2009-08-20 14:55:00 | Embassy Freetown | SECRET | ASEC CASC PGOV PREL PINR PBTS SNAR EG UK SL |
09FREETOWN328 | UPDATE ON PLANE LANDING: CONTINUED DETENTION [...] (S) Summary: Embassy learned at 1930 GMT on August 20 that the eight detained individuals connected to the reftel plane were released by the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) following brief interviews. However, the individuals were then re-detained at 1000 GMT at the orders of the Vice President, and [...] | 2009-08-21 12:05:00 | Embassy Freetown | SECRET | ASEC CASC PGOV PREL PBTS SNAR EG UK SL |
09GRENADA49 | GRENADA GRANTS SEASONAL BLANKET OVERFLIGHT CLEARANCE FOR [...] The Government of Grenada, via diplomatic note number 460/09 dated June 5, 2009, granted blanket clearance for United States NOAA AOC aircraft involved in tropical storm and hurricane reconnaissance missions to overfly and land in Grenada during the period June 1st - November 30th, 2009. 2. [...] | 2009-06-05 23:44:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS ASEC CASC PREL GJ |
09GRENADA50 | GRENADA GRANTS SEASONAL BLANKET OVERFLIGHT CLEARANCE FOR [...] The Government of Grenada, via diplomatic note number 460/09 dated June 5, 2009, granted blanket clearance for United States NOAA AOC aircraft involved in tropical storm and hurricane reconnaissance missions to overfly and land in Grenada during the period June 1st - November 30th, 2009. 2. [...] | 2009-06-08 12:50:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS ASEC CASC PREL GJ |
09GRENADA51 | GRENADA GRANTS SEASONAL BLANKET OVERSIGHT CLEARANCE FOR [...] (U) The Government of Grenada, via diplomatic note number 460/09 dated June 5, 2009, granted blanket clearance for United States NOAA AOC aircraft involved in tropical storm and hurricane reconnaissance missions to overfly and land in Grenada during the period June 1 - November 30, 2009. 2. [...] | 2009-06-08 13:08:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS ASEC CASC PREL GJ |
09GRENADA52 | GRENADA GRANTS SEASONAL BLANKET OVERSIGHT CLEARANCE FOR [...] (U) The Government of Grenada, via diplomatic note number 460/09 dated June 5, 2009, granted blanket clearance for United States NOAA AOC aircraft involved in tropical storm and hurricane reconnaissance missions to overfly and land in Grenada during the period June 1 through November 30, 2009. [...] | 2009-06-08 13:11:00 | Embassy Grenada | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS ASEC CASC PREL GJ |
09GUATEMALA1009 | Repeating Request for Guidance: Rome Statute/Article 98 [...] (U) Embassy is repeating a request for guidance (reftel) in response to a renewed request Nov. 24 from the Guatemalan MFA's Director General for Multilateral Affairs, Julio Martini, on USG reaction to the possibility of Guatemala becoming a party to the International Criminal Court in 2010. [...] | 2009-11-30 21:44:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS GT |
09GUATEMALA199 | GUATEMALA: DEMARCHE ON US-CANADA-OAS BORDER [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche, invitation letter, and draft agenda to Luis Carranza, Director for Multilateral Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),urging Guatemala's participation in the upcoming US-Canada-OAS Border Security Seminar in Vancouver. Carranza said he would advise [...] | 2009-03-04 13:45:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM ETTC PREL PBTS EWWT OAS GT |
09GUATEMALA696 | REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE: ROME STATUTE/ARTICLE 98 [...] (SBU) At the MFA's request, the Ambassador received July 17 Vice Foreign Minister Lars Pira, Director General for Multilateral Affairs Julio Martini, and MFA Legal Advisor Rodrigo Montufar. The MFA visitors said that the GOG is seriously considering renewing an unsuccessful 2005 effort to se [...] | 2009-07-20 17:54:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS GT |
09GUATEMALA703 | PUTTING OUT FIRES: THE OAS OFFICE IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. A recent trip by PolOff to the Organization of American States (OAS) office in the Belize-Guatemala Adjacency Zone (AZ) found an effective team performing difficult tasks under often arduous conditions. By resolving territorial disputes early in the process and at a local level, [...] | 2009-07-21 22:24:00 | Embassy Guatemala | CONFIDENTIAL | OAS PBTS PREL PGOV PINR PNAT GT |
09GUATEMALA955 | President Calderon Bolsters Ties with Guatemala in Oct 26-27 [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 26-27 visit to Guatemala, Mexican President Felipe Calderon discussed a number of initiatives with his Guatemalan counterpart, Alvaro Colom, to better control migration and enhance security along their shared border. The two leaders pledged to reinforce joint eff [...] | 2009-10-29 23:51:00 | Embassy Guatemala | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS SNAR SENV ENRG CVIS MX GT |
09HALIFAX17 | SEVEN STOWAWAYS APPREHENDED IN HALIFAX [...] (SBU) Enforcement officers with the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) took seven male stowaways into custody in Halifax on the afternoon of April 23. All seven were onboard the Swedish-registered container ship "ATLANTIC CONCERT," which arrived [...] | 2009-04-24 19:41:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHSA PREF PHUM PBTS SMIG EWWT KFRD CA |
09HALIFAX25 | ATLANTIC CANADA ENERGY UPDATE [...] Canadian federal government plans to develop an Atlantic energy gateway to the United States ignited a political war of words with the province of New Brunswick, which was already working on a similar concept with the State of Maine. The political wrangling, however, has had no effect on Newf [...] | 2009-04-29 19:47:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET PGOV PBTS PREL FR CA |
09HALIFAX58 | ATLANTIC CANADA ENERGY UPDATE: ENERGY EXPORTS TO THE U.S. [...] The Atlantic Provinces Economic Council (APEC),a well-respected regional think tank, focused its latest analytical report on the importance of the energy sector in Atlantic Canada. APEC economists concluded that the sector has grown to become the most important group of industries in Atlanti [...] | 2009-09-28 13:20:00 | Consulate Halifax | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET ECON ELAB PGOV PBTS PREL SENV CA |
09HANOI1314 | (Vodka) Shots Reported Across the China-Vietnam Border [...] (SBU) On November 18, Vietnam and China signed a series of accords to implement the historic 2008 agreement demarcating Vietnam's 1,400-kilometer land border with China (ref A). According to contacts familiar with the negotiations, the agreement was hastily concluded December 31, 2008 to meet [...] | 2009-12-08 04:18:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON PBTS ECIN CH VM |
09HANOI23 | OFFICIALS TOUT VIETNAM-CHINA BORDER DEMARCATION COMPLETION [...] (SBU) Summary: While Vietnam and China continue to dispute sovereignty over the South China Sea, the two sides recently completed the process of demarcation of their land border. On a recent trip to the border province of Lang Son, DCM was informed by local officials that Chinese Prime Ministe [...] | 2009-01-09 08:27:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PREL PGOV ECON VM |
09HANOI253 | NO CHANGE IN VIETNAM'S POLICY TOWARD ABKHAZIA AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-18 09:07:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS VM |
09HANOI52 | 2008 RECAP OF THE SINO-VIETNAM SOUTH CHINA SEA [...] (C) Summary: Despite final land border demarcation and progress settling the maritime boundary beyond the Gulf of Tonkin, 2008 ended without evident progress in the Sino-Vietnam territorial dispute in the South China Sea. In November, BP gave notice that it would seek to terminate its leases [...] | 2009-01-20 05:34:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PBTS PREL VM |
09HANOI524 | GAZPROM SEEKS TO EXPAND ITS VIETNAM PORTFOLIO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-05 10:09:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PBTS PREL VM |
09HELSINKI150 | FINLAND: STUBB PUSHES FOR NEW THINKING IN FIRST [...] (C) Summary. Reflecting the influence of Foreign Minister Stubb, who has called for Finland to move away from "old phobias" and to abandon "empty and ritualistic rhetoric," Finland,s new Russia Action Plan seeks to create a comprehensive, realistic and honest set of guidelines to govern Finla [...] | 2009-04-24 15:18:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS FI |
09HELSINKI24 | FINLAND: DEMARCHE US-ISRAEL ANTI-SMUGGLING MOU [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-16 13:46:00 | Embassy Helsinki | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PARM PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS FI |
09JAKARTA1492 | IN ANOTHER FLARE UP, INDONESIANS LASH OUT AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesians have lashed out over the use of a traditional dance in a Malaysian tourist advertisement, claiming that the dance is Balinese in origin. This latest controversy feeds into previous Indonesian allegations of cultural misappropriation by Malaysia. On the positive side [...] | 2009-09-08 05:07:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SCUL PBTS PTER ID MY |
09JAKARTA1531 | KOSOVO -- PRESSING INDONESIA ON RECOGNITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has urged the GOI to meet with Kosovo representatives on the margins of the upcoming UNGA. Noting that 62 countries have now recognized Kosovo, we again urged Indonesia to take that step. Presidential Palace and Department of Foreign Affairs contacts said they would brie [...] | 2009-09-15 05:23:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AORC PBTS ID KV |
09JAKARTA435 | INDONESIA-SINGAPORE SIGN BOUNDARY PACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia and Singapore have signed a long-awaited agreement delineating their common maritime border in a section of the Singapore Strait. The agreement promises to improve control of sea and air navigation in the Strait and aid national law enforcement efforts as well. The r [...] | 2009-03-12 10:39:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS EWWT ID SN |
09JAKARTA455 | ABKHAZIA/SOUTH OSSETIA -- URGING INDONESIA TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has reviewed Department's points related to Georgia with the GOI. Indonesia has no intention of recognizing either Abkhazia or South Ossetia as independent countries or lending legitimacy in any way to their self-proclaimed status. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Per reftel in [...] | 2009-03-16 08:15:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ID GG |
09JAKARTA574 | INDONESIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA -- GOOD NEIGHBORS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia has overcome past tensions to forge a neighborly and increasingly cooperative cross-border relationship with Papua New Guinea (PNG). Although traffic and trade between Indonesia and PNG remains small, Indonesian officials are seeking to expand it. A new border crossin [...] | 2009-03-31 10:02:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS ID PP |
09JAKARTA741 | KOSOVO -- ENCOURAGING INDONESIAN RECOGNITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has encouraged Indonesia to recognize Kosovo and support the country's bid for membership in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. We noted that an increasing number of countries have now recognized Kosovo--most recently Saudi Arabia--and that Indonesia [...] | 2009-04-28 09:49:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ID KV OICCO |
09JAKARTA974 | INDONESIAN POLITICAL TENSIONS SURGE IN BORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesian government officials and parliamentarians are gearing up for a political tussle with Malaysia over a border dispute off the coast of Borneo. Six legislators plan to visit Kuala Lumpur to complain about what they consider to be Malaysian naval incursions into disputed [...] | 2009-06-08 10:31:00 | Embassy Jakarta | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS PBTS MY ID |
09JERUSALEM1098 | UPDATE ON SETTLEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS [...] (C) Summary. Israeli NGO contacts briefed PolOff on several West Bank settlement infrastructure projects. Projects include a wastewater pipeline to serve Ariel settlement, a wastewater purification plant in Ofra settlement, a road between Geva'ot and Beitar Illit settlements, and access roads [...] | 2009-06-29 15:35:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPAL KWBG PBTS PREL |
09JERUSALEM1353 | BIL'IN: SEVEN PALESTINIANS ARRESTED IN LATEST IDF [...] (C) Summary. The IDF raided several homes in the Palestinian village of Bil'in in the early hours of August 3, arresting two adolescents and five adults. Six have been charged with stone-throwing and damage to public property, and one with incitement. NGO contacts maintain that the August [...] | 2009-08-05 14:07:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS |
09JERUSALEM143 | NEW LAND CONFISCATIONS IN EAST JERUSALEM AND WEST [...] (C) Summary. The Jerusalem Municipality informed an East Jerusalem family that ten dunams (2.5 acres) of their land will be confiscated to build a school for Palestinian children. A Municipality representative told PolOff the Municipality planned to confiscate land throughout East Jerusalem [...] | 2009-01-15 16:25:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PHUM ASEC IS PBTS PTER |
09JERUSALEM1561 | UPDATE ON SETTLEMENT CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS [...] (U) Summary. Ongoing construction was observed at settlement sites ranging from established blocs inside the separation barrier to Jordan Valley farms during observation trips conducted by PolOff August 21-25. Near Givat Zeev, just north of Jerusalem, construction continues on 300 additional [...] | 2009-08-28 14:50:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL KPAL KWBG IS |
09JERUSALEM1585 | YESHA COUNCIL SAYS NO EVACUATION UNLESS FREEZE IS [...] (C) Summary. YESHA Council Director-General Pinchas Wallerstein said that the Council would not discuss outpost evacuation unless a freeze on tenders for new settlement construction is lifted. If the freeze were lifted, he said, outpost evacuation could be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. [...] | 2009-09-02 15:48:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL KPAL KWBG IS |
09JERUSALEM1606 | WEST BANK SETTLEMENT LEADERS FULMINATE ABOUT U.S. [...] (C) Summary. Local West Bank settlement leaders expressed anger over a possible construction freeze in separate meetings with PolOff on September 2. Gush Etzion Regional Council Chairman Shaul Goldstein said he gave up on the YESHA Council after Gaza disengagement and is now organizing me [...] | 2009-09-04 13:39:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL KPAL KWBG IS KPAO |
09JERUSALEM161 | NEW EVICTION ORDER THREATENS PALESTINIAN HOME IN [...] (C) Summary. An Israeli court issued an eviction order to an East Jerusalem family after a legal case that dates to 1998. The family has secured an extension of the eviction deadline and appealed to a higher court but fears that they will lose their home in the end. This house is close to [...] | 2009-01-21 11:42:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PHUM ASEC IS PBTS |
09JERUSALEM1651 | BARAK APPROVES CONSTRUCTION OF 455 WEST BANK [...] (C) Summary. On September 7, Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak publicly approved the construction of 455 new housing units in nine existing West Bank settlements. Issuance of construction permits represented the last step in the GOI approval process. Settler organization sources said th [...] | 2009-09-11 14:48:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREL KPAL KWBG KPAO IS |
09JERUSALEM1701 | SETTLER VIOLENCE SETS NEIGHBOR AGAINST NEIGHBOR IN [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Sources on both sides of recent settler-Palestinian clashes near the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyer provided conflicting explanations of what precipitated the event. This incident illustrates the difficulty in establishing ground truth on incidents of violence [...] | 2009-09-17 09:58:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG CASC IS |
09JERUSALEM1707 | CONTINUED TUNNELING IN EAST JERUSALEM [...] (C) Summary. The settler organization ELAD continues to excavate a tunnel under the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, according to NGO sources, despite a stop-work order from Israeli courts. The organization is beginning to publicize its efforts, leading Muslim leaders to criticize the [...] | 2009-09-18 16:16:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS KPAL KWBG IS |
09JERUSALEM1708 | CONTINUED TUNNELING IN EAST JERUSALEM [...] (C) Summary. The settler organization ELAD continues to excavate a tunnel under the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, according to NGO sources, despite a stop-work order from Israeli courts. The organization is beginning to publicize its efforts, leading Muslim leaders to criticize the [...] | 2009-09-18 16:18:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS KPAL KWBG IS |
09JERUSALEM1754 | PROFILE OF AVIGAIL OUTPOST FOUNDER ELISHA MEIDAN [...] (C) Summary. On September 22, PolOff visited the settlement outpost of Avigail in the Hebron Hills and met with its founder, 30-year-old Elisha Meidan. Meidan, a new husband and father living in a converted bus, explained to PolOff that while he considers himself and his fellow outpost sett [...] | 2009-10-01 16:24:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG CASC IS |
09JERUSALEM1756 | LARGE SETTLEMENT PROPOSAL IN EAST JERUSALEM FACES [...] (C) Summary. Israeli developers are resubmitting for GOI review a proposed settlement project in al-Walajah (southwest Jerusalem). If approved and completed, the Givat Ya'el neighborhood would become the largest settlement undertaking in East Jerusalem in the past decade. Jerusalem Municipa [...] | 2009-10-01 20:05:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS KWBG KPAL IS |
09JERUSALEM1790 | JERUSALEM MAYOR BRIEFS ON AL-BUSTAN DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Summary. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat informed the Consul General and Ambassador Cunningham on October 7 that the Municipality intends to roll out a development plan for the al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem sometime in early November. The plan calls for the demolition o [...] | 2009-10-08 15:17:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS KWBG KPAL IS |
09JERUSALEM1925 | OLIVE HARVEST KICKS OFF, LESS VIOLENTLY THAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Post contacts say violence during the current olive harvest season has been lower than expected so far, but they offered different reasons for the decline. Rabbis for Human Rights, (RHR) Arik Ascherman said the IDF,s increased presence in Palestinian orchards adjacent to settle [...] | 2009-10-21 15:22:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS EAGR KPAL KWBG IS |
09JERUSALEM1933 | CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM IN JENIN AS JALAMEH CROSSING [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 4, following the completion of USAID-funded structural improvements, Jalameh Crossing (on the West Bank-Israel border north of Jenin) opened on October 4 for Arab Israelis in personal vehicles to cross into the West Bank and back for the first time since October 2001. [...] | 2009-10-22 18:00:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID KPAL KWBG IS PBTS |
09JERUSALEM2174 | WEST BANK SETTLERS FEEL "BETRAYED" BY NETANYAHU [...] (C) Summary. In the wake of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's November 25 announcement of a 10-month suspension of new construction in West Bank settlements, Post contacts in the settler community voiced distrust of the GOI, anger at the USG, and a determination to resist GOI efforts to moni [...] | 2009-12-03 15:38:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG CASC IS |
09JERUSALEM219 | SETTLER ATTACKS IN HEBRON AND NORTHERN WEST BANK [...] (C) Summary. According to NGO B'tselem, Hebron settlers attacked three Palestinian women January 28. The IDF subsequently arrested two of the Palestinian women for filming the attack with a B'tselem-provided camera. In the northern West Bank, Havat Gilad settlers attacked Palestinian farme [...] | 2009-02-02 14:18:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PHUM ASEC IS PBTS PTER |
09JERUSALEM2224 | SETTLEMENT MORATORIUM: WEST BANK SETTLERS ANGRY, [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite recent GOI outreach to the settler community, Post contacts continue to express distrust of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and blame the USG for the current moratorium on West Bank construction. Meanwhile, most Palestinian contacts remain unimpressed with what they [...] | 2009-12-08 15:10:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG IS |
09JERUSALEM2325 | UPDATE ON HEBRON'S OLD CITY [...] (C) Summary. In recent visits to Hebron's "H2" district, the impact of Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) movement restrictions on Palestinian residents remains apparent in high Palestinian unemployment, a shrinking Palestinian population, and derelict storefronts in what was once Hebron's commerc [...] | 2009-01-01 15:45:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG IS |
09JERUSALEM239 | PRESS REPORT HIGHLIGHTS E-1 AGAIN [...] (C) Summary. Israeli and Palestinian press reports on February 2-3 described GOI plans to develop the E-1 area between East Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim and highlighted approximately USD 50 million spent on infrastructure there over the past two years. The infrastructure described in the pre [...] | 2009-02-04 14:53:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PHUM ASEC IS PBTS |
09JERUSALEM240 | GOI TO RELOCATE MIGRON SETTLERS [...] (C) Summary. According to a February 4 report in Ha'aretz, the GOI will relocate settlers from the Migron outpost to a new location one kilometer east of the Adam settlement, northeast of Jerusalem. ConGen previously reported (reftels) that the Yesha Council and the GOI agreed to relocate [...] | 2009-02-04 17:19:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PHUM ASEC IS PBTS PREL |
09JERUSALEM277 | UNRWA RESUMES AID SHIPMENTS TO GAZA [...] (SBU) UNRWA contacts told Poloff that UNRWA resumed aid shipments to Gaza. Forty-eight truckloads of food and non-food items were transferred by UNRWA through Kerem Shalom on February 11. 2. (SBU) The resumption of aid shipments follows the return on February 8 and 9 of 3,500 blankets an [...] | 2009-02-12 15:11:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PREF PTER UNRWA KWBG KPAL IS GZ |
09JERUSALEM316 | ISRAEL RESTRICTS ACCESS TO "SEAM ZONE" ALONG [...] (SBU) Summary. A series of IDF closure orders will restrict access for West Bank Palestinians to the "seam zone" between the separation barrier and the green line. The January 5 orders primarily impact lands adjacent to completed sections of the barrier in the central and southern West Bank [...] | 2009-02-24 09:19:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS KWBG KPAL IS |
09JERUSALEM319 | PALESTINIANS SEEK USG INTERVENTION TO SAVE 88 [...] (SBU) Summary: The municipality of Jerusalem has reissued existing demolition orders for 88 Palestinian homes in the al-Bustan area of East Jerusalem's Silwan neighborhood. An attorney representing many of the home owners appealed for USG intervention to stop the demolitions. A representati [...] | 2009-02-24 13:57:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS KWBG KPAL IS |
09JERUSALEM321 | PM FAYYAD: PA HAS IMPROVED WEST BANK SECURITY; [...] (C) Summary. PM Salam Fayyad met with six Congressional delegations February 15-22: Codels Kerry, Lieberman, Cardin, and Waxman, and Staffdels Eltrich and Diamond. PM Fayyad emphasized three common themes in his briefings: 1) the PA has improved West Bank security, and the GOI should cea [...] | 2009-02-24 15:20:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | KWBG PHUM ASEC IS PBTS PTER OREP |
09JERUSALEM327 | SEPARATION BARRIER CLOSURE RESTRICTS MOVEMENT [...] (U) Summary. On February 16, the IDF sealed a gap in the separation barrier between East Jerusalem and the West Bank municipality of al-Ram, and permanently closed the adjacent al-Ram checkpoint. Completion of the separation barrier and closure of the checkpoint in this area means that rough [...] | 2009-02-25 16:32:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS KWBG KPAL IS |
09JERUSALEM337 | CONSUL GENERAL'S MEETING WITH JERUSALEM MAYOR NIR [...] (C) Summary. Recently-elected Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat described his "businesslike" approach to municipal governance to the Consul General during a February 23 meeting, saying that he hopes to develop Jerusalem into a tourist haven using the "Disney World" model. Barkat said he wants to in [...] | 2009-02-26 13:13:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ASEC IS PBTS KWBG ABLD PREL |
09JERUSALEM373 | B'TSELEM REPORTS PLANS FOR EXPANDED SEWAGE SYSTEMS [...] (C) Summary. NGO B'tselem has published on March 3 a report revealing Civil Administration plans for vastly expanded sewage systems in eight West Bank settlements. B'tselem claims the plans signal GOI intentions to expand the settlements themselves. Much of the proposed sewage system expan [...] | 2009-03-02 14:51:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ASEC IS PBTS KWBG |
09JERUSALEM385 | JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY ORDERS DEMOLITION OF 55 [...] (C) Summary. The Jerusalem Municipality issued demolition orders on March 3 for 55 apartments located in five buildings in the Ras Khamis area of East Jerusalem, stating that the buildings were constructed without a permit. The Consul General called Jerusalem Mayor Barkat on March 4 to exp [...] | 2009-03-05 16:20:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ASEC IS PBTS KWBG |
09JERUSALEM444 | JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY ISSUES 58 ADDITIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian sources informed Post about an additional 56 demolition and two evacuation orders issued by the Jerusalem municipality between March 5 and March 9. Palestinian officials told the Consul General that Israel has adopted a policy of "escalation" in East Jerusalem that co [...] | 2009-03-10 08:20:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS |
09JERUSALEM491 | GOI DEMOLISHES WEST BANK RESIDENCES, DISPLACING 25 [...] (C) Summary. Israeli authorities demolished four structures on March 18, three of them residential, displacing 25 Palestinians in the village of al-'Azariya in the West Bank, just outside Jerusalem. One house was on the Palestinian side of the barrier, in a built-up area of al-'Azariya. Th [...] | 2009-03-19 16:13:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PREF PHUM KWBG KPAL IS |
09JERUSALEM503 | POSSIBLE 65-UNIT EXPANSION OF NABLUS-AREA [...] (C) Summary. The mayor of Burin, a Palestinian village near Nablus adjacent to the Har Bracha settlement, says he believes ongoing land clearing operations begun three weeks ago are part of a plan for 65 new housing units in Bracha. The mayor said Palestinian laborers working in the village [...] | 2009-03-20 15:47:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS KWBG KPAL IS |
09JERUSALEM562 | ISRAELI HIGH COURT PRESSES GOI ON WEST BANK [...] (C) Summary. The Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) issued a conditional order on March 24 seeking to compel the IDF to execute demolition orders on nine houses in Ofra settlement built on private, Palestinian-owned land. DefMin Ehud Barak had previously informed the HCJ that he would not [...] | 2009-03-26 15:07:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS KWBG KPAL IS |
09JERUSALEM600 | PALESTINIAN REACTION TO FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. In response to an April 1 statement by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman that Israel is not obligated by the Annapolis process, PA officials labeled Lieberman "an obstacle to peace" and called on the U.S. to ensure that the new Israeli government commits to previous ag [...] | 2009-04-02 14:14:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PBTS KWBG KPAL IS |
09JERUSALEM615 | ATTACK KILLS ONE CHILD, INJURES ANOTHER IN WEST [...] (C) Summary. A Palestinian armed with an ax killed one child and injured a second at Bat Ayin settlement, southwest of Bethlehem, on April 2. The Gush Etzion Regional Council Chairman spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu the same day to encourage Netanyahu to strengthen the [...] | 2009-04-03 14:20:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | SECRET | PHUM ASEC IS PBTS KWBG PTER |
09JERUSALEM620 | ATERET COHANIM TAKES OVER PALESTINIAN HOME IN [...] (C) Summary. Ateret Cohanim members took over an Old City residence early April 2, claiming they had bought the property, according to Jerusalem lawyer Danny Siedemann. The Palestinian resident Naser Jaber disputed this claim, saying he won a court case challenging his ownership several yea [...] | 2009-04-06 13:34:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ASEC IS PBTS KWBG |
09JERUSALEM627 | ROAD CONSTRUCTION AROUND NABLUS-AREA OUTPOST [...] (SBU) Summary. Palestinians in the Nablus area have raised concerns about construction activity on three roads in the vicinity of Hayoval outpost, between the Palestinian village of Qaryut and Eli settlement. The Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) issued an injunction on April 5 against fu [...] | 2009-04-07 13:46:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS |
09JERUSALEM648 | OVER A DOZEN PALESTINIANS WOUNDED IN CLASH WITH [...] (C) Summary. Bat Ayin settlers and IDF soldiers on April 8 wounded over a dozen Palestinians, one of them critically, less than a week after the April 2 murder of a young Bat Ayin settler. Palestinian media put the number of injured Palestinians as high as 40, while Israeli press reported [...] | 2009-04-10 13:05:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ASEC PBTS KWBG KPAO PTER IS |
09JERUSALEM661 | CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES IN WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS [...] (C) Summary. Site visits by Poloff in mid-April confirmed large-scale, ongoing construction in Maale Adumim and smaller-scale work in nearby Qedar, extending about 70 meters outside Qedar's current built-up area. There has been no new activity in E-1. The YESHA Council Chairman expressed [...] | 2009-04-13 14:41:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM ASEC PBTS KWBG IS |
09JERUSALEM687 | MIGRON UPDATE; EVICTION ORDERS ISSUED NEAR ADAM [...] (C) Summary. The GOI recently issued eviction orders for Palestinians living near Adam settlement, and the PA is helping the Palestinians appeal these orders. The evictions may be related to the GOI's plan to expand Adam to incorporate the settlers from Migron outpost. The Migron settlers [...] | 2009-04-22 14:47:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM ASEC IS PBTS KWBG KPAL |
09JERUSALEM689 | YESHA COUNCIL CHAIRMAN DISCUSSES COUNCIL MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary. The YESHA Council held an expanded meeting in January at which it established a Secretariat of ten former Council leaders and a core group of 25 Council members, which will meet every two months. The expanded Council, with over 200 members, will meet only two or three times pe [...] | 2009-04-23 13:47:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PHUM ASEC IS PBTS KWBG KPAL |
09JERUSALEM895 | IDF DEMOLISHES 18 SITES IN NORTHERN JORDAN VALLEY; [...] (SBU) Summary. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) demolished structures at 18 sites in the northern Jordan Valley on June 4, displacing 190 Palestinians from their homes in Area C. Tubas Governor Sami Musallam claimed the demolitions are designed to drive Palestinians from the Jordan Valley an [...] | 2009-06-05 14:15:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PREF PHUM KWBG KPAL IS |
09JERUSALEM966 | SALFIT LEADERSHIP RAISES PROBLEMS OF ROADBLOCKS, [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting with the Consul General on June 8, the Mayor of Salfit Municipality and Governor of Salfit District both expressed concern about a road gate that has closed the main road into Salfit. They also described untreated wastewater seeping into Salfit from the nearby s [...] | 2009-06-09 14:30:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PREL SENV IS KISL KPAL KWBG |
09KATHMANDU249 | NEPAL: NO POSITION ON RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF [...] (C) On March 24, Pradhumna B. Shah, Joint Secretary for Europe and the Americas at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),told Emboff that the Government of Nepal would not formulate a policy regarding Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states, or on Russia's in [...] | 2009-03-25 06:38:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS KV NP |
09KHARTOUM1067 | Abyei Border Demarcation Committee Facing Hurdles; Will Not [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff met with members of the Abyei Border Demarcation Committee on September 7 and again on September 12 to introduce a U.S. demarcation expert tasked with providing technical assistance to the Committee, and to discuss the Committee's needs and readiness. Committee members i [...] | 2009-09-23 05:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM KPKO SU |
09KHARTOUM1135 | MISSERYIA ORGANIZE TO BLOCK ABYEI BOUNDARY DEMARCATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately one thousand members of the Misseryia, an Arabic-speaking nomadic tribe located primarily in South Kordofan State, met October 5 to reject the July 22 decision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA),which defined the boundaries of Abyei. Conference attendees [...] | 2009-10-08 14:24:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PBTS PINS KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1174 | ABYEI DEMARCATION COMMITTEE DELAYED, SEEKS INTERVENTION [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 9 letter to Riek Machar (SPLM),Vice President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS),three members of the Abyei Boundary Demarcation Committee state that the committee is seriously hampered by political interference, security concerns, and lack of equipment. [...] | 2009-10-18 16:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PBTS PINS KPKO AU UNSC SU |
09KHARTOUM1191 | BACKGROUND ON UNREST ALONG SOUTH SUDAN'S BORDER [...] (sbu) During a meeting with Kenyan Ambassador Robert Ngesu on IGAD issues, Charge raised reported clashes between Sudanese Toposa, Kenyan Turkana and Kenyan security forces in the border area not far from Lokichoggio. Local press reports reported the death of 16 Kenyan soldiers in one recent [...] | 2009-10-22 11:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PBTS PREL SOCI SU KE |
09KHARTOUM1263 | DEMARCATION OF ABYEI BOUNDARY REMAINS FROZEN [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 5, Poloff spoke with Kwol Biong (SPLM),Deputy Chair of the Abyei Border Demarcation Committee, who said that no physical demarcation of the Abyei border has occurred. Biong said that security issues are the committee's primary concern, but also complained of insuffic [...] | 2009-11-08 08:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM MOPS SU |
09KHARTOUM1342 | NORTH AND SOUTH DEADLOCKED ON ABYEI [...] (C) Summary: Throughout U.S. Special Envoy (SE) to Sudan General Scott Gration's November 18-22 meetings in Khartoum, the National Congress Party (NCP) and Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) remained at an impasse over the definition of a resident of Abyei in the Abyei Referendum Bil [...] | 2009-12-01 09:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PBTS PGOV PREL SU |
09KHARTOUM1344 | U.S. Special Envoy Gration Assesses Abyei Tensions [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 19, US Special Envoy to Sudan (SE) General Scott Gration traveled to Abyei and to Muglad, Southern Kordofan, to assess implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and the security situation in and around Abyei. In Abyei town, the Deputy Administrator de [...] | 2009-12-01 11:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS SU |
09KHARTOUM1389 | MISSERIYA IN MUGLAD REJECT PCA DECISION [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with Poloff in Muglad on December 9 and 10, Misseriya from traditional leadership, civil society groups, and local NGOs universally expressed the view that the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) ruling on Abyei (Ref A) was an unjust taking of their land. Members of [...] | 2009-12-13 10:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM KPKO SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM1401 | PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT FOR ABYEI SLOW IN COMING [...] Summary. (SBU) On December 8, Poloff met with Ngok Dinka traditional leaders in Abyei town, who stated that the National Congress Party (NCP) is arming militias in the area in order to destabilize Abyei and prevent demarcation of Abyei's boundaries. Traditional leaders also complained that the [...] | 2009-12-14 12:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM KPKO SOCI SU |
09KHARTOUM1410 | ABYEI JIU INTEGRATED BUT INEFFECTIVE [...] (SBU) Summary. On December 8 Poloff met with Colonel Zakaria Akoi Yak (SPLM),Deputy Commander of the Abyei Joint Integrated Unit (JIU),who told Poloff that his JIU forces, tasked with providing security for the Abyei boundary demarcation team, had never been confronted by Misseriya tribesmen [...] | 2009-12-15 11:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PBTS KDEM KPKO MOPS SU |
09KINGSTON144 | JAMAICA ANNOUNCES CANDIDATURE FOR RE-ELECTION TO [...] Post has received the following diplomatic note, dated 4 February 2009, from the Government of Jamaica (GoJ)'s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT): (begin text of diplomatic note 50/140/19) "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade presents its compliments to the/ [...] | 2009-02-24 17:58:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHSA PBTS EFIS AORC IMO JM XL |
09KINGSTON183 | CLEARANCE FOR VESSEL R/V CORWITH CRAMER [...] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of the Government of Jamaica (MFAFT) has granted clearance for the vessel R/V Corwith Cramer to conduct maritime scientific research in areas subject to the jurisdiction of Jamaica from 27MAR2009 to 04MAY2009. 2. A copy of the original diplo [...] | 2009-03-11 11:42:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT SENV PBTS PREL JM XL |
09KINGSTON394 | CHINAQS PERM MISSION INTERNATIONAL SEABED AUTHORITY DIPNOTE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 18, Post received the following dipnote from the Permanent Mission of the PeopleQs Republic of China to the International Seabed Authority. BEGIN TEXT: The Permanent Mission of the People's Republic of China to the International Seabed Authority presents its complimen [...] | 2009-05-20 15:33:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHSA EWWT PBTS SENV EMIN ASEC SOCI CH XE XL JM |
09KINGSTON408 | JAMAICA: ENDING THE VISA EXEMPTION FOR JAMAICAN H2A [...] (SBU) Summary: For over 65 years, Jamaican farm laborers have entered the U.S. to work on the H2A program without visas. Post believes that this practice fosters an environment conducive to corruption, political favoritism, fraud and potential threats to U.S. national security. Post recommend [...] | 2009-05-22 15:03:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS ELAB PTER ASEC PBTS KCRM PHUM KFRD SOCI JM XL |
09KINGSTON409 | JAMAICA: ENDING THE VISA EXEMPTION FOR JAMAICAN H2A [...] (SBU) Summary: For over 65 years, Jamaican farm laborers have entered the U.S. to work on the H2A program without visas. Post believes that this practice fosters an environment conducive to corruption, political favoritism, fraud and potential threats to U.S. national security. Post recommend [...] | 2009-05-22 15:03:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS ELAB PTER ASEC PBTS KCRM PHUM KFRD SOCI JM XL |
09KINGSTON417 | JAMAICA: CHILD LABOR REMAINS A PROBLEM; CONVICTION RATE [...] (U) Summary: The Government of Jamaica (GOJ) has taken significant steps to pass and enforce legislation on child labor, although conviction rates in this field, as in others in Jamaica, remain low. Conoff accompanied Tina McCarter and Linda Bermudez of the Department of Labor (DOL) Office of [...] | 2009-05-22 19:10:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PTER ASEC PBTS KCRM CVIS PHUM KFRD SOCI JM XL |
09KINGSTON514 | JAMAICA: FRUSTRATION GROWS OVER FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT, [...] (U) As the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) prepares for its July 2 summit in Guyana, the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) finds itself increasingly frustrated and at odds with its partners in the 36 year old organization, especially the regional economic powerhouse of Trinidad and Tobago. Particula [...] | 2009-06-30 16:24:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EIND PBTS PREL EINV EPET ETRD SMIG MIC |
09KINGSTON530 | JAMAICA: COUNTRY CLEARANCES AND BRITISH OVERSEAS [...] Post appreciates receipt of Reftel, and will provide comments on the proposal regarding country clearances, and on other questions vis-a-vis the Cayman Islands, in coming weeks. MOSS [...] | 2009-07-08 18:06:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ASEC APER CMGT KCOM PBTS EFIN PREL JM |
09KINGSTON798 | JAMAICA: COUNTRY CLEARANCES AND BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-08 18:51:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC APER CMGT PBTS EFIN BEXP PREL KCOM JM CJ |
09KINGSTON890 | JAMAICA: LETTER TO U.S. SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION re [...] Under cover of the Government of Jamaica (GoJ)'s diplomatic note 50/140/19 dated 16 October 2009, Post has received the attached letter addressed to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and signed by the GoJ's Minister of Transport and Works L. Michael Henry, with the request that it be [...] | 2009-10-23 18:38:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | PHSA EWWT PBTS EFIS AORC PTER IMO JM XL |
09KINSHASA1061 | SA WOLPE IN KINSHASA 2/3: ANGOLAN RESOURCES, [...] (SBU) Summary: Special Advisor for the Great Lakes Howard Wolpe met with GDRC decision makers and key foreign ambassadors as part of his November 13-17 visit to Kinshasa in which he outlined USG objectives and initiatives in the region (reftel B). In meetings with GDRC Foreign Minister Thambw [...] | 2009-12-07 10:17:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHSA PREF CG |
09KINSHASA1129 | DRC-RWANDA BILATERAL COMMISSION DISCUSSES SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: The DRC-Rwandan Joint Grand Commission met in Kinshasa December 17-19, after a recess of 21 years. Minister for International Cooperation Raymond Tshibanda led the DRC delegation and his former homologue and newly appointed Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo led the Rwandan c [...] | 2009-12-22 17:02:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS EPET EAIR MARR PREF RW CG |
09KINSHASA1154 | DRC-ANGOLA COMMUNIQUE ON DECEMBER 15-17 BINATIONAL [...] (SBU) The DRC-Angola Bilateral Commission met December 15-17 in Luanda. The December 17 joint communique on the meeting refers mostly to migration and economic issues. The Commission agreed, however, to set up an expert working group to discuss maritime boundaries. Regional cooperation mini [...] | 2009-12-29 06:29:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET PREL PREF PBTS AO CG |
09KINSHASA220 | ANGOLAN TROOP INCURSIONS INTO BAS-CONGO [...] (SBU) Summary: According to local press reports, groups of Angolan soldiers crossed the DRC border and occupied the villages of Sava Ina and Kuzi in Bas-Congo on February 27 and 28 respectively. A Belgian diplomat told us that a Congolese delegation from Bas-Congo province met with Angolan co [...] | 2009-03-06 12:03:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PBTS MOPS AO CG |
09KINSHASA231 | ANGOLAN EMBASSY IN KINSHASA REGARDING ALLEGATIONS OF [...] (SBU) Further to reftel on alleged Angolan army incursions into DRC territory, a letter from Afonso Lufuaquenda, the Charge d'Affaires of the Angolan embassy in Kinshasa, appeared in the March 10 edition of the local newspaper "Le Potentiel." Lufuaquenda emphasizes in the letter that it was [...] | 2009-03-12 12:57:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS MOPS AO CG |
09KINSHASA244 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche March 16 to Banza Ngoy, Head of the International Organizations Directorate in the Foreign Ministry. Ngoy acknowledged USG concerns on Abkhazia and South Ossetia and said that the GDRC is not inclined to recognize them as independent states, as it would b [...] | 2009-03-16 15:56:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MOPS RS CG |
09KUALALUMPUR404 | MALAYSIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTACT GROUP ON [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Post conveyed reftel points on the Somali piracy Contact Group to Malaysia's Foreign Ministry on May 20. The MFA official proposed no changes to the draft CGPCS agenda and offered that Malaysia will be represented at the CGPCS by its PermRep and staff from its Perm [...] | 2009-05-26 09:02:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PBTS PHSA KCRM MARR ECON EWWT MY |
09KUWAIT433 | EU-GCC MEETING IN MUSCAT: FOCUS ON IRAN [...] (C) In the course of an April 28 meeting on Kosovo (reftel),MFA U/S Khaled Jarallah took advantage of the presence of senior Kuwait-based French, German, Italian and UK representatives to broach the 19th EU-GCC Joint Council and Ministerial meeting scheduled in Muscat for April 29. UK Ambass [...] | 2009-04-30 13:49:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET PBTS PINR KU |
09KUWAIT437 | KUWAIT-IRAN: NEXT STEPS ON BORDER ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. In the course of an April 28 meeting to discuss Kosovo with French, German, Italian, UK and U.S. representatives (reftel),MFA U/S Khaled Jarallah turned to the subject of Kuwait's evolving relationship with Iraq. Acknowledging that the border remained an acutely sore point in th [...] | 2009-04-30 14:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET PBTS PINR KU |
09KUWAIT442 | CORRECTED COPY - KUWAIT-IRAQ: NEXT STEPS ON BORDER [...] Please note this is a corrected copy of Kuwait 437. Subject line has been changed. 2. (C) Summary. In the course of an April 28 meeting to discuss Kosovo with French, German, Italian, UK and U.S. representatives (reftel),MFA U/S Khaled Jarallah turned to the subject of Kuwait's evolving r [...] | 2009-05-03 11:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET PBTS PINR KU |
09KUWAIT514 | KUWAIT SEEKS USG SUPPORT TO KEEP IRAQ UNDER [...] (C) Amiri Advisor Muhammad Abulhassan told Ambassador Hill, during a May 18 stopover in Kuwait, that the GOK is deeply worried about Iraq's campaign to disencumber itself from the UN Chapter VII mandate and is therefore seeking P-5 support. The GOK views continued UN leverage as essential in [...] | 2009-05-21 15:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PGOV KU IZ |
09KUWAIT708 | MFA U/S REVIEW IRAQ, MEPP AND GTMO IN ADVANCE OF [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-15 16:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MASS PTER KPAL KU IR IZ |
09KYIV1740 | UKRAINE-RUSSIA: IS MILITARY CONFLICT NO LONGER [...] (C) Recent Russian actions have spurred a public discussion within the Ukrainian elite about Russian intentions toward Ukraine. The most systematic contribution to the debate has been made by former National Security Advisor Volodymyr Horbulin, who believes that internal Russian considerati [...] | 2009-10-08 12:10:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PGOV PNAT UP RS |
09KYIV1889 | RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN RELATIONS: BOTTOMING OUT? [...] (C) Several high-level meetings in October suggest that the Ukrainians and Russians have decided to halt the alarming slide in their bilateral ties (refs A and B) and resume correct, if not yet warm, relations. Acting Ukrainian FM Khandogiy and Russian FM Lavrov, together with interagency de [...] | 2009-10-29 16:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UP RS |
09KYIV1991 | LUKASHENKO VISIT TO UKRAINE [...] (C... C O N F I D E N T I A L KYIV 001991 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 11/11/2019 TAGS: PREL PBTS ENRG BO UP Â [...] | 2009-11-13 15:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ENRG BO UP |
09KYIV596 | UKRAINE'S VIEW OF THE TRANSNISTRIA CONFLICT [...] (C) A series of calls on Ukrainian officials to discuss Ukrainian views of Transnistria issues and the "5 2" process, particularly in light of the March 18 joint statement signed by the parties of the Russia-sponsored "2 1" process (Moldova, Russia, Transnistria),revealed Ukrainian concerns [...] | 2009-04-03 12:51:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS UP MD RU EU |
09LAGOS465 | NEW WAVE OF NIGERIANS RETURN FROM BAKASSI [...] (C) ConGen Lagos contacts confirmed press reports that increasing numbers of fishermen and their families are seeking refuge near Calabar in Cross River State, after alleged violent clashes with Cameroonian gendarmes in Bakassi. These individuals claim to have been harassed, illegally detain [...] | 2009-12-04 18:22:00 | Consulate Lagos | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PREF PREL PHUM NI |
09LAPAZ898 | EVO BLAMES U.S. FTA FOR PERU "GENOCIDE" [...] (C) Summary: Tensions between Bolivia and Peru continue to simmer following Peru's allegations that the June 5 indigenous uprising, in which an estimated 24 police and nine indigenous were left dead, was incited by a pro-rebellion letter from President Morales (reftel). Morales' claims that t [...] | 2009-06-19 21:00:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS PINR ETRD EPET EMIN ECIN OFDP |
09LIMA1635 | Garcia's Peace Initiative Gathering Steam [...] (C) Summary: MFA interlocutors have told us that President Garcia's recent "Peace and Security Cooperation" initiative is a serious effort to promote regional stability and contain defense costs at a time of global economic distress. Garcia's proposals seek to prevent an arms race in the regi [...] | 2009-11-09 15:34:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MASS MARR PBTS PE |
09LIMA1699 | PERU: CHINESE TANKS, PEACE PROPOSALS AND U.S. MILITARY [...] (C/NF) Summary: Peru is reportedly poised to purchase Chinese tanks with an eye towards replacing its aging tank fleet and building up its "dissuasive" defense posture, and to buy aircraft from Brazil as well as MANPADS and anti-tank weapons from other countries. These defense acquisitions [...] | 2009-12-15 23:08:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MOPS PARM PTER SNAR PBTS CI PE |
09LIMA364 | PERU RESPONSE: RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-16 16:48:00 | Embassy Lima | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS PE |
09LISBON265 | PORTUGAL IN THE CONTACT GROUP ON PIRACY OFF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-19 11:45:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM MARR ECON PREL PGOV EWWT PBTS PHSA PO |
09LISBON83 | PORTUGAL TO JOIN PIRACY CONTACT GROUP [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-05 12:57:00 | Embassy Lisbon | UNCLASSIFIED | AL KCRM EWWT PBTS PHSA PO |
09LJUBLJANA18 | DEMARCHE: ALERTING ARAB CAPITALS TO U.S.-ISRAEL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-20 15:51:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PARM PREL PBTS PHUM KWBG IS SI |
09MADRID31 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: SPANISH PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) Spanish MFA officials took under advisement invitations and discussion materials (ref A) for GOS participation in New York meetings on combating piracy off the Horn of Africa. MFA,s Director General of Strategic Affairs and Terrorism, Carmen Bujan, will represent Spain at the Contact Gro [...] | 2009-01-12 15:41:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PTER PHSA KCRM EWWT MOPS KPAL PREL MARR |
09MADRID484 | SPAIN REVIEWING DRAFT AGREEMENT ON PREVENTING AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Embassy Madrid delivered REFTEL talking points and passed a hard copy of English and Spanish versions of the draft agreement on Preventing and Combating Serious Crime (PCSC). The GOS appears supportive of the draft and seemingly wants to move quickly on the issue. In the mean [...] | 2009-05-19 14:52:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS CMGT KPAO PBTS PREL SP |
09MADRID542 | MADRID ECONOMIC WEEKLY, MAY 25-JUNE 5 [...] (U) The Venezuelan government agreed May 22 to pay Banco Santander $1.05 billion (755 million euros) for the Santander-owned Banco de Venezuela. The price is 110 million euros less than the amount Santander had sought from the GOV, which was the same as the price it had agreed upon last year [...] | 2009-06-05 13:09:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ENRG PBTS SP PREL |
09MANAGUA1047 | MISKITO INDEPENDENCE: DEATH & MAYHEM IN BILWI PROTESTS [...] (C) Protestors who support the six-month-old independence declaration by Rev. Hector Williams, the "Wihta Tara" (or "Great Judge" in Miskito) of the Miskito Council of Elders (see REF A & B) have been brutally attacked by police, the Navy and government-run Citizen Power Council (CPC) youth gan [...] | 2009-10-26 16:11:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV NU CASC PBTS |
09MANAGUA1051 | WHAT'S REALLY BEHIND THE MOSQUITO COAST INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Six months have passed since the April 18 declaration of independence of the Mosquito Coast by the Council of Elders and the election of Reverend Hector Williams as the Wihta Tara (Miskito for "grand judge") to lead the people. The Ortega government continues to be silent and has [...] | 2009-10-27 22:42:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV NU PBTS |
09MANAGUA913 | NICARAGUA AND ABKHAZIA ESTABLISH FORMAL DIPLOMATIC TIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 10, 2009, more than a year after Nicaragua was the only country (besides Russia) to recognize the "independence" of the breakaway Georgian republic of Abkhazia, the two countries have now signed agreements to establish formal diplomatic relations. The agreement also [...] | 2009-09-18 18:26:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL RU GG NU PBTS |
09MANAMA117 | IRANIAN MINISTER OF INTERIOR VISITS BAHRAIN, SEEKS [...] (U) Summary: Iran's Interior Minister visited Bahrain in an effort to defuse tensions. Bahrain's Foreign Minister announced that he viewed the dispute as resolved. End summary. 2. (SBU) Following Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri's public ruminations about old Iranian claims to Bahrain (ref A) and [...] | 2009-02-25 12:16:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS IR AEC BA |
09MANAMA33 | BAHRAIN: U.S.-ISRAEL ANTI-SMUGGLING MOU [...] (C) Per reftel, CDA informed Bahrain's MFA Friday morning, January 16, that the U.S. intended to sign an MOU with Israel to address the problem of weapons transfers to terrorists in Gaza. Shaikh Abdulaziz undertook to brief the foreign minister immediately, and asked that we share any detai [...] | 2009-01-16 08:56:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PARM PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM ASEC IS BA |
09MANAMA91 | BAHRAIN AS "IRAN'S FOURTEENTH PROVINCE" [...] (C) Summary: After an Iranian official spoke of supposed Iranian claims to Bahrain, Egypt's President visited Manama in a demonstration of Arab solidarity. The Iranian statement is being spun to embarrass those - like Qatar and Bahraini oppositionists - who allegedly sympathize with Iran. End s [...] | 2009-02-17 13:55:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS EG IR BA |
09MANILA428 | PHILIPPINE COMPROMISE ON SPRATLYS DRAWS PRC IRE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Philippine Senate and House recently agreed to exclude the disputed Spratly Islands from the country's baselines, defining them instead under the terms of the UN Convention on Law of the Sea as a "regime of islands" -- although still subject to Philippine claims. President [...] | 2009-02-26 09:47:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PHSA PREL RP |
09MEXICO958 | MEXICO ON RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-02 20:33:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PREL PBTS GG RS MX |
09MONROVIA374 | LIBERIA:MAY 29TH MEETING OF CONTACT GROUP ON [...] (U) The May 29 meeting of the Contact Group on Piracy of the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) will be attended by Liberia. The following individuals plan to attend: * Margaret Ansumana, Deputy Commissioner and Delegation Leader, BMA *David Friesen, Head of Maritime Security, LISCR *Victor Do [...] | 2009-05-29 11:51:00 | Embassy Monrovia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR ECON PREL PGOV EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA LI |
09MONTEVIDEO166 | URUGUAY: NO PLANS TO RECOGNIZE ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH [...] (C) Emboff made Ref A points to MFA Europe director Minister Alfaro Malmierca March 25. Malmierca stressed that Uruguay's position has not changed since the issue arose. Uruguay does not plan on recognizing the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states, in defense o [...] | 2009-03-26 19:04:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS UY |
09MOSCOW1280 | RUSSIAN VIEWS ON AN INTERNATIONAL PIRACY TRIBUNAL [...] (C) Summary: Russia favors some form of an international tribunal as the best means to ensure that suspected pirates are tried by uniform legal standards and to allow for thorough investigations to help build evidence against the criminal bosses directing piracy operations. Among the options [...] | 2009-05-20 12:59:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA RS |
09MOSCOW1281 | RUSSIAN MFA REQUESTS COOPERATION ON BERING STRAIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Head of Bilateral Relations at the MFA U.S. Desk on April 17 raised several Bering Strait issues, primarily extending the existing visa-free travel regime to all permanent residents of Chukotka and Alaska, agreeing to create a joint protected territory, and reviving the Berin [...] | 2009-05-20 13:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV CVIS ECON EWWT PBTS PHSA PREL KTIA XQ RS |
09MOSCOW13 | A/S SHANNON AND DFM RYABKOV DISCUSS RUSSIA-LATIN [...] (C) Summary: On December 22, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon discussed ways in which the U.S. and Russia could constructively engage on issues related to Latin America. Both sides agreed on the need to cast o [...] | 2009-01-08 14:41:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM PBTS ECON ECIN EIND EINV ENRG |
09MOSCOW196 | RUSSIAN SOLDIER FLEES TO GEORGIA [...] (U) On January 27 Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Colonel Aleksandr Drobyshevskiy announced that Georgian special services had captured Junior Sergeant Aleksandr Glukhov of the Russian army the previous night (reftel). Drobyshevskiy said that Glukhov's statements that he fled his post in th [...] | 2009-01-28 15:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF MOPS PBTS RU GG |
09MOSCOW20 | A/S SHANNON AND DFM RYABKOV DISCUSS RUSSIA-LATIN [...] (C) Summary: On December 22, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon discussed ways in which the U.S. and Russia could constructively engage on issues related to Latin America. Both sides agreed on the need to cast o [...] | 2009-01-09 06:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM PBTS ECON ECIN EIND EINV ENRG |
09MOSCOW2412 | INCORPORATING UKRAINE INTO U.S.-RUSSIA POLICY [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine is shaping up as a key challenge in U.S.-Russian relations. The risk of serious trouble remains as long as the two governments are at loggerheads, and as long as Russian leaders engage in periodic bouts of historical propaganda aimed at undermining Ukraine's claim to na [...] | 2009-09-21 11:16:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PNAT PBTS ENRG RS UP |
09NAIROBI1200 | GOVERNMENT OF KENYA SUPPORTS ETHIOPIA'S GIBE III [...] (SBU) Summary: According to John Rao Nyaoro, the director of the Bureau of Water Resources in the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Kenya is convinced that Ethiopia's proposed Gibe III hydroelectric run-of-the-river project on the lower Omo River will not harm Lake Turkana and may, in fact, e [...] | 2009-06-15 11:49:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG PBTS EINV SOCI ECON KE |
09NAIROBI1770 | Pastoralists Gather for Peace in Maikona [...] Kenya's upper Eastern province continues to be caught in a cycle of inter-tribal violence driven by competition for scarce resources. Two of the opposing groups, the Borana and Gabra, are closely related communities that speak the same language and intermingle along the Kenyan-Ethiopian borde [...] | 2009-08-20 12:57:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS EAID KCRM KE ET |
09NAIROBI4 | KENYAN VIEWS ON SOMALI PIRACY CONTACT GROUP [...] Summary: Kenya supports the proposal to establish a Contact Group on Somali Piracy and plans to send an appropriate high-level official to participate in the inaugural meeting of the CGSP in New York January 13-14. End Summary. 2. In response to Reftel, the Kenyan MFA told us December 29 th [...] | 2009-01-02 08:59:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT KCRM MOPS PHSA PBTS PTER KE |
09NAPLES64 | LAMPEDUSA: THE TINY ITALIAN ISLAND THAT LOOMS LARGE FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: During a May 13 visit to Italy's southernmost territory, the island of Lampedusa, we observed a well-run migrant detention center that provides humane treatment, food and medical care to those who arrive by boat from North Africa. While the camp has suffered from severe overc [...] | 2009-05-22 19:34:00 | Consulate Naples | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL SMIG PGOV PBTS PHSA UNHCR IT LY |
09NASSAU10 | Bahamas Submits Archipelagic Maritime Borders to United [...] The Government of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas (GCOB) formally submitted their official archipelagic maritime borders to the United Nations (UN) on 11 December 2008. The move brings The Bahamas in line with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) which defines the righ [...] | 2009-01-07 02:09:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PBTS BF |
09NASSAU419 | CUBA AND BAHAMAS TALK SEA BORDERS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-14 18:37:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PGOV PREL CU BF |
09NEWDELHI34 | INDIA TO SUPPORT CONTACT GROUP ON SOMALI PIRACY [...] PolCouns delivered reftel invitation, information on the Contact Group (CG) on Somali Piracy, and additional issues for consideration by core members to Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary (United Nations - Political Division) Asith Bhattacharjee. Bhattacharjee confirmed that he will [...] | 2009-01-08 09:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHSA KCRM EWWT MOPS PBTS PTER IN |
09NEWDELHI541 | RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche to Director Negma Malik of the Eurasia division of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on March 17. Director Malik relayed to Poloff that she had delivered the nonpaper to the concerned individuals within MEA and that they are fully aware of the United St [...] | 2009-03-23 10:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS IN |
09NIAMEY110 | NIGER-BURKINA FASO CONCUR ON TERMS OF REFERRAL OF BORDER [...] On February 23-24, Government of Niger (GON) and Government of Burkina Faso foreign ministers, experts, local authorities, and community leaders met in Niamey to finalize the "Projet de Compromis Commun de Saisine de la Haute Cour de Justice" (Joint Consensus Project for Referral to the Intern [...] | 2009-02-27 14:11:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS ECIN PGOV SOCI ICJ UV NG BN |
09NIAMEY874 | Niger: Ambassador of Nigeria Denies Rumour of Border [...] On November 09, Ambassador and Embassy Economic Officer met with Nigeria Ambassador to Niger Batour Lawal and the Nigerian DCM Muhammad Yunusa inquire about media reports that Nigeria had closed border trade with Niger. Ambassador Lawal stated there "is no truth whatsoever" in the rumors of b [...] | 2009-11-09 14:42:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD CASC PBTS SMIG NG |
09NICOSIA196 | CYPRUS FIRM ON NON-RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-20 11:07:00 | Embassy Nicosia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS RS GG CY |
09OSLO10 | NORWAY PLEASED WITH ARCTIC POLICY BRIEFING [...] (C) In a January 7 meeting with MFA North American Coordinator Morten Aasland, High North Coordinator Jostein Mickleton, and officers from the Arctic Council and High North sections, P/E Counselor delivered reftel points. The MFA officials were pleased to receive the information, and also ve [...] | 2009-01-07 14:41:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KGCC PBTS PHSA PREL SENV EWWT |
09OSLO120 | M/S POLARIS: NORWEGIANS DENY JURISDICTION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-18 13:56:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHSA PBTS EWWT KCRM PTER MOPS PREL NO |
09OSLO361 | NORWEGIAN DELEGATION TO CGPCS [...] (U) The Norwegian delegation to the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia will consist of : Carl P. Salicath, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (head of delegation) email cps@mfa.no cell phone: 47 916 92 684 Gaute Syvertsen, Deputy Director General, Ministry of Trade [...] | 2009-05-20 15:43:00 | Embassy Oslo | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR ECON PREL PGOV EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA NO |
09OSLO399 | NORWAY'S RUSSIA POLICY: WISHFUL THINKING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-18 07:44:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PINS PREL RS NO |
09OSLO526 | USNATO AMBASSADOR DAALDER'S DISCUSSION WITH [...] (C) Summary: In discussions with visiting USNATO Ambassador Ivo Daalder in Oslo August 17, Norwegian Deputy Minister of Defense Espen Barth-Eide and Director for Security Policy Svein Efjestad said they looked forward to reviewing the new COMISAF Strategic requirements this fall; suggested tha [...] | 2009-08-26 13:44:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PBTS MCAP MOPS AF RU NO |
09OSLO644 | NORWAY: AGREEMENT REACHED ON HSPD-6 TEXT [...] (SBU) In a meeting October 21, 2009 at the Norwegian Police Security Service Headquarters (PST) in Oslo, a team from the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC),the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT),and the US Embassy reached an agreement with the PST on the text of a HSPD-6 ter [...] | 2009-10-22 12:42:00 | Embassy Oslo | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS CMGT PTER PBTS PREL NO |
09OTTAWA22 | WHAT ABOUT US? CANADA SEEKS INVITATION TO CONTACT [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 4. 2. (C) On January 9, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Advisor for defense and security relations Sarah Robertson called in pol/mil officer to emphasize Canada's extensive, positive engagement on anti-piracy i [...] | 2009-01-09 20:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS KCRM EWWT XW SO CA |
09OTTAWA242 | CANADA TO SEEK MEMBERSHIP IN CONTACT GROUP ON [...] (U) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Advisor for Defense and Security Relations Sarah Robertson confirmed to pol/miloff on March 25 that Foreign Minister Cannon had instructed DFAIT staff to seek membership for Canada in the Contact Group on Piracy off the [...] | 2009-03-26 12:16:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS KCRM EWWT XW SO CA |
09OTTAWA269 | CANADA PREPARING FORMAL REQUEST TO JOIN CONTACT [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Advisor for Defense and Security Relations Sarah Robertson promised to draft and clear the required correspondence and convey it as soon as possible to our Charge d'Affaires. DFAIT will ensure t [...] | 2009-04-03 14:01:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS KCRM EWWT XW SO CA |
09OTTAWA434 | SUCCESSFUL VISIT TO CANADA BY DHS SECRETARY NAPOLITANO [...] (SBU) Summary. DHS Secretary Napolitano held productive meetings in Ottawa on May 27 with PM Harper, National Security Advisor Morin, Public Safety Minister Van Loan, and Citizenship Minister Kenney, at which Canadian officials pledged cooperation on border issues, especially in facing threa [...] | 2009-06-05 21:03:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PREL PGOV ETRD ECON PTER CA |
09OTTAWA597 | NATIVE BORDER DISPUTE RAISES COMPLEX ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: An ongoing dispute between Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the Mohawk aboriginal reserve of Akwesasne over the arming of border guards on the reserve straddling the Canada-U.S. border raises cross-cutting political, jurisdictional, and law enforcement issues. CBSA reta [...] | 2009-07-30 21:36:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PBTS CA |
09PANAMA228 | PANAMA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON RUSSIAN RECOGNITION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-19 15:25:00 | Embassy Panama | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS PBTS |
09PARIS24 | FRANCE: JANUARY 13-14 CONTACT GROUP MEETING ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-08 17:30:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER SO XW FR |
09PARIS961 | IO A/S BRIMMER REVIEWS UN AGENDA WITH FRANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: IO Assistant Secretary Dr. Esther Brimmer discussed the campaign to select a new UNESCO Director General, the Human Rights Council (HRC),UNSC Reform, and Peacekeeping/Peacebuilding operations with her MFA counterpart Sylvie Bermann and separately with MFA Special Advisor Eric Ch [...] | 2009-07-17 06:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM UNESCO FR |
09PHNOMPENH142 | HOR NAMHONG WELCOMES GROWING U.S. COOPERATION IN ASEAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister (FM) Hor Namhong focused on ASEAN, the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT) and U.S. support for the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) joining regional and larger international institutions during EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) and U.S. Am [...] | 2009-03-04 09:58:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PBTS MARR TH CB |
09PORTLOUIS103 | SEYCHELLES: USG ASSISTANCE SOUGHT TO COMBAT SOMALI PIRATES' [...] (SBU) On April 6, Post received by fax a diplomatic note dated April 2 from the Seychelles' Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) stating that the vessel "Indian Ocean Explorer" had been captured with a crew of seven Seychellois nationals in Seychelles' territorial waters, and was heading toward th [...] | 2009-04-06 13:22:00 | Embassy Port Louis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS PHSA EWWT MARR MASS MOPS SO SE |
09PORTLOUIS146 | HOW SEYCHELLES CAPTURED 23 SUSPECTED PIRATES [...] (U) On May 7, the Seychelles government-controlled daily "Seychelles Nation" (or the "Nation") reported that since April 28, the Seychelles Police Force has captured 23 Somali pirates in its Economic Exclusive Zone (EEZ),in three separate operations carried out with the help of European and I [...] | 2009-05-12 13:15:00 | Embassy Port Louis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS PHSA EWWT MARR MASS MOPS SO SE |
09PORTLOUIS164 | SEYCHELLES STILL SILENT ON KOSOVO'S WORLD BANK MEMBERSHIP [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-02 13:17:00 | Embassy Port Louis | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS SE |
09PORTLOUIS176 | MAURITIUS ASKS FOR HELP AGAINST PIRACY [...] On June 10, Post received a diplomatic note from the Mauritian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade soliciting USG assistance to intensify the combat against piracy in the Indian Ocean. On the morning of June 11 Post was asked by telephone to send representa [...] | 2009-06-15 13:47:00 | Embassy Port Louis | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS PHSA EWWT MARR MASS MOPS SO MP |
09PORTLOUIS181 | MAURITIUS' EMERGENCY PIRACY MEETING: A TENTATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A public outcry from the fisheries and shipping sector, coupled with fishing ships fleeing the Indian Ocean for safer waters and a 20 percent drop in fish suppliers for Mauritius since January, prompted Foreign Minister (FORMIN) Arvin Boolell and Attorney General (AG) Rama Valayde [...] | 2009-06-17 08:30:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHSA PBTS EWWT MARR MOPS MP |
09PORTLOUIS218 | SEYCHELLES SEEKS GREATER US TIES IN CDA MEETING [...] (SBU) Charge D'Affaires Virginia Blaser's June 30 courtesy call on President James Michel celebrated the U.S. - Seychelles bilateral relationship and addressed cooperative efforts to combat piracy and secure the seas. Set against the festive backdrop of the first July 4th celebration the Embas [...] | 2009-07-14 06:06:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHSA PBTS MARR MOPS EWWT SE |
09PORTLOUIS236 | TRIPARTITE APPROACH REVEALS LEGAL AND LOGISTICAL CONCERNS OF GOM PROSECUTING PIRATES [...] On July 20, Charge d'Affaires Virginia Blaser convened a meeting with British High Commissioner (BHC),Dr. John Murton, and the visiting Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Legal Adviser, Katherine Shepherd, along with French Ambassador Jacques Maillard and his Minister Counselor, to discuss [...] | 2009-07-24 09:20:00 | Embassy Port Louis | UNCLASSIFIED | PHSA MARR MASS MOPS MP EWWT PBTS |
09PORTLOUIS397 | SEYCHELLES REQUESTS CONTINUED DEPLOYMENT OF US AIR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 02 meeting with the Charge, Seychelles President James Michel praised US assistance in combating Somali piracy, supported the presence of US UAVs and requested the continued deployment of P-3s (currently scheduled to conclude December 22). Secretary-of-State Jean P [...] | 2009-12-07 11:22:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHSA PBTS MARR SO SE |
09PORTLOUIS402 | SEYCHELLES CAPTURES SOMALI PIRATES AFTER ATTACK ON COAST [...] (SBU) The Office of the President of Seychelles has announced that on December 6, officers of the Seychelles Coast Guard (SCG) arrested 11 Somali pirates, after the pirates opened fire on the SCG vessel Topaz. According to Joel Morgan -- Minister of Environment, Natural Resources and Transport [...] | 2009-12-08 12:46:00 | Embassy Port Louis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS MARR KPIR SE |
09PORTLOUIS404 | PRIME MINISTER BRIEFED ON PIRATE TRANSFER AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNODC representative Alan Cole briefed Mauritian Prime Minister Ramgoolam December 8 on the UN program to assist the transfer and prosecution of suspected pirates captured in the Indian Ocean region. Ramgoolam was receptive to the programs and ideas but raised concerns regarding [...] | 2009-12-10 12:18:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | KPIR PREL MARR PHSA EWWT PBTS MP |
09PORTLOUIS410 | MAURITIUS AND PIRATE TRANSFERS/PROSECUTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: To contribute to the international anti-piracy effort, Prime Minister Rangoolam seeks a formal "understanding" with UNODC which would authorize the transfer to Mauritius and prosecution in Mauritius courts of a number (unspecified) of suspected pirates seized by international forc [...] | 2009-12-21 12:33:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EWWT PHSA PBTS KPIR MARR MP |
09PORTLOUIS411 | SEYCHELLES SERIOUS ABOUT PIRACY PROSECUTIONS; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Seychelles will charge the eleven recently-captured Somalis with piracy, but arraignment has been delayed for two weeks. Seychelles has accepted an offer from UNODC and the EU to construct a 40-bed maximum-security wing at the country's only prison to house pirates and other high [...] | 2009-12-22 12:07:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPIR MARR PHSA EWWT PBTS SE |
09PORTOFSPAIN436 | REQUEST FOR TDY CUSTOMS CONTRACT ADVISOR IN PORT OF SPAIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOTT Customs and Excise Division (TTCED) requests technical assistance to complete an overtime study designed to help it begin nationwide 24/7 port operations. Such a study would bolster GOTT efforts against drug transshipments, providing oversight at ports at all hours, [...] | 2009-11-04 18:12:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PGOV EWWT TD |
09PRAGUE169 | CZECH REPUBLIC: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON RUSSIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-26 13:12:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS EZ |
09PRETORIA529 | SOUTH AFRICA VIEWS RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF ABHAZIA [...] (C) Deputy Political Counselor delivered reftel message at a March 19 meeting with Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Deputy Director for Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine Maria de Freitas and DFA Deputy Director for Security Counsel issues Ilia Du Buisso [...] | 2009-03-20 12:25:00 | Embassy Pretoria | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS |
09PRISTINA461 | KOSOVO: GOK SET TO REMOVE USG-PROVIDED BORDER [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph five. 2. (SBU) The USG-developed product PISCES (Personal Identification Secure Comparison and Evaluation System),Kosovo's current border control system which is installed in all but two of Kosovo's border crossing points (BCP),could be [...] | 2009-10-21 05:52:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR ASEC ELTN PTER SMIG PBTS PGOV PREL KCRM KV |
09PRISTINA550 | KOSOVO: USG's PISCES Border Management System On Track For [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraph eight. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) As we reported previously (reftel),the U.S. border management system PISCES is scheduled for removal early next year due to the installation of a new European funded border management system as soon as th [...] | 2009-12-17 07:42:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR ASEC ELTN PTER SMIG PBTS PGOV KCRM KV |
09QUITO206 | ECUADOR DEMARCHE RESPONSE - RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF [...] (C) PolOff delivered Ref A points to MFA Bilateral Affairs Director General for Europe Pablo Villagomez on March 23, 2009. Villagomez reiterated the position previously expressed by the MFA's Director General of Multilateral Affairs (Ref B),that the GOE was sensitive to issues of sovereignt [...] | 2009-03-24 22:04:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS MARR PBTS KPKO GG RS EC |
09RABAT172 | CHARGE'S CALL ON FOREIGN MINISTER FASSI FIHRI: [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri (TFF) told Charge February 25 that he would go to the Sharm el Sheikh donor conference and looked forward to meeting the Secretary. He believed that Mauritania should be included in what he viewed as an Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) meeting there an [...] | 2009-02-26 17:30:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PBTS KPAL WI AG IR IS MO MR |
09RABAT179 | MOROCCO HAS CONFIDENCE IN NEW UN WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) Summary: The UN Secretary General,s Personal Envoy Christopher Ross appears to have had a positive visit to Morocco, February 17-21. At a roundtable hosted by Charge, Ross outlined a flexible approach, as reported by Algiers (Ref. A) that seeks to build confidence between Morocco and the Polisa [...] | 2009-02-27 18:43:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PBTS UNSC AG WI MO |
09RABAT195 | MOROCCO'S TALLY OF COUNTRIES REJECTING/SUPPORTING [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Morocco continues to work to persuade countries around the globe to de-recognize the Polisario Front's declared Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, or at least freeze relations, beyond which they want countries to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Saha [...] | 2009-03-06 18:58:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV WI UNSC MO |
09RABAT212 | CHARGE AND MFA SECRETARY GENERAL DISCUSS FORUM FOR [...] (C) Summary: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Amrani told Charge March 17 that Morocco believes it is vital that the Secretary attend the Sixth Forum for the Future meeting this fall. The Government of Morocco (GOM) takes our concerns about a deteriorating human rights environm [...] | 2009-03-17 18:46:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM SNAR PTER PBTS KMPI AG IR WI MO US |
09RABAT291 | MEETING WITH MOROCCANS ON WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) Summary: In his meeting with Secretary Clinton on April 8, Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri will present a letter from King Mohammed VI requesting support for a resolution on the Western Sahara favorable to Morocco and rejecting a human rights monitoring role for MINURSO, the United [...] | 2009-04-06 19:29:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL WI AL MO |
09RABAT292 | CORRECTED COPY: MEETING WITH MOROCCANS ON WESTERN [...] (C) Summary: In his meeting with Secretary Clinton on April 8, Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri will present a letter from King Mohammed VI requesting support for a resolution on the Western Sahara favorable to Morocco and rejecting a human rights monitoring role for MINURSO, the [...] | 2009-04-07 11:30:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL WI AL MO |
09RABAT356 | GOM CONCERNED ABOUT PROPOSED CHANGE TO UNSC [...] (C) On April 28, MFA Chief of Staff and Director General for Multilateral Affairs Nasser Bourita raised with PolCouns GOM concerns about the evolving Western Sahara UNSC Resolution in New York. With only three non-permanent members not supporting basis draft circulated by the Friends, he saw [...] | 2009-04-28 12:53:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UNSC WI MO |
09RABAT363 | GOM REMARKS ABOUT LATEST UNSCR DRAFT [...] (C) MFA Chief of Staff and Director General for Multilateral Affairs Nasser Bourita convoked P5 plus Spain Heads of Mission April 29 on instructions of his Minister, for an urgent demarche on the text of the Western Sahara Resolution. Polcouns represented CDA, who was traveling. 2. (C) Bou [...] | 2009-04-29 17:10:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UNSC WI MO |
09RABAT541 | MOROCCO:WESTERN SAHARA/ALGERIA - NEW PRIORITIES, [...] (S) SUMMARY: One June 23, before the visit of UNSYG Personal Envoy (PE) Christopher Ross, Morocco's top foreign policy officials told Charge and PolCouns they expected little progress on Western Sahara or better relations with Algeria, which now was their higher near-term priority. Foreign M [...] | 2009-06-25 09:31:00 | Embassy Rabat | SECRET | PREL PBTS UNSC WI AG MO |
09RABAT589 | WESTERN SAHARA UN ENVOY ROSS IN RABAT: PUBLIC [...] (S) Summary: UNSYG Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Christopher Ross left Morocco after his second visit June 30, without final agreement on proposed informal talks. Despite positive statements in public, neither place nor date has been agreed for the informals, designed to re-launch UN-sp [...] | 2009-07-10 14:07:00 | Embassy Rabat | SECRET | PREL PBTS WI AG UNSC NO MO |
09RABAT592 | MOROCCANS PROTEST PLANNED UN DEBATE ON [...] (C) On instructions of his minister, Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Director Azzedine Farhane convoked Polcouns July 9, to protest the decision of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann to schedule an "Interactive Thematic D [...] | 2009-07-10 19:23:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UN WI MO |
09RABAT693 | WESTERN SAHARA INFORMALS AND FRUSTRATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Charge and A/PolCouns met August 13 with Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (MFA) Director General for Multilateral Affairs Ambassador Nasser Bourita, who had just returned from Vienna where he participated in the August 10 and 11 informal talks on the Western [...] | 2009-08-13 17:56:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS UNSC AG MR WI MO |
09RABAT706 | WESTERN SAHARA REALITIES [...] (C) Summary: Although the Western Sahara negotiations have now re-started (Reftel),the conflict is 34 years old. The Government of Morocco (GOM) has invested tremendous resources in the territory, and some observers estimate that it spends USD 2.7 billion per year on the territory and its 385,000 [...] | 2009-08-17 17:34:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PHUM ECON PREF WI AG MO |
09RABAT859 | WESTERN SAHARA: THE DREAM, THE REALITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In late September, an interagency embassy team enjoyed the unique opportunity to travel to both sides of the "berm," the 1,500-kilometer stone and sand wall that separates Moroccan-administered Western Sahara from the POLISARIO-controlled areas. The situation on the ground unde [...] | 2009-10-20 18:15:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV ECON WI MO |
09RABAT884 | KING MOHAMMED VI WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS WESTERN [...] (C) On October 28, in preparation for the Secretary,s upcoming visit, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Taieb Fassi Fihri and his Chief of Staff, Ambassador Nasser Bourita, reviewed the issues that King Mohammed VI would like to raise with the Secretary. In addition to inviting the [...] | 2009-10-29 17:51:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PBTS EAID ETRD MASS AG WI MO |
09RABAT908 | KING ANNOUNCES BIG CHANGES IN MOROCCAN WESTERN [...] (C) SUMMARY: King Mohammed VI has announced several significant changes to Morocco's "domestic" policies for the Western Sahara. These include a concerted effort to entice refugees from the Tindouf camps "to repent and return" to Moroccan-controlled Sahara and a five point plan that aims to [...] | 2009-11-12 13:35:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS PINS PHUM PREL MO WI |
09RABAT967 | SCENESETTER FOR THE ASSISTANT COMMANDANT OF THE [...] (SBU) Summary: General Amos, we welcome you to Morocco. Morocco has been an exemplary partner in the struggle against terrorism, and our military and political cooperation is growing. As a result, Morocco has been designated a Major non-NATO Ally. Morocco serves as a regional model for eco [...] | 2009-12-10 17:54:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PHUM ECON MARR EAID PBTS MO |
09RIGA38 | LATVIA WILL SUPPORT EU CONCENSUS ON US-ISRAEL MOU [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-16 14:02:00 | Embassy Riga | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PARM PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS LG |
09RIODEJANEIRO329 | COUNTER-INSURGENCY DOCTRINE COMES TO RIO'S FAVELAS [...] (SBU) Beginning in December 2008, Rio de Janeiro Governor Sergio Cabral, with support from Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes, launched a comprehensive program to "pacify" Rio de Janeiro's violent favelas (i.e., vast shantytowns that are spread around the city's core) by establishing and maintaining a sus [...] | 2009-09-30 18:18:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS SOCI SNAR ECON PBTS PREL BR |
09ROME298 | ANTARCTIC/ARCTIC EVENT: MFA U/S SCOTTI TO ATTEND FOR ITALY; [...] Summary and action request. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Under Secretary Vincenzo Scotti will represent Italy at the April 6 ministerial event on Antarctic and Arctic affairs at the Department. Senior working-level MFA Antarctic and Arctic officials are available for consultation by the [...] | 2009-03-13 15:56:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY SENV AORC KSCA PHSA EWWT PBTS IT |
09ROME30 | ITALY: SUPPORTS PROPOSED CONTACT GROUP ON SOMALI [...] (SBU) Political Military Counselor met with MFA NATO Director Massimo Marotti and UN Director Natalia Quintavalle on January 8 to extend ref A invitation for Italy to participate in the Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP) and to brief them on the agenda and topics for the January 13-14 meeti [...] | 2009-01-09 16:41:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL PGOV EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA PTER IT |
09ROME433 | PIRACY: ITALY REQUESTS ASSISTANCE FOR ANTI-PIRACY [...] (S) The Government of Italy sent U.S. Embassy Rome an unclassified Note Verbale on April 16 thanking the USG for assistance provided thus far in the deployment of Italian Special Forces to Djibouti for possible use in an anti-piracy mission and requesting continuing assistance as needed. The [...] | 2009-04-16 13:48:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | MASS MARR EWWT KCRM PBTS PGOV PHSA PREL AORC |
09ROME506 | MEGAPORTS IN ITALY: DETECTING NUCLEAR MATERIALS [...] (SBU) Summary: The DOE Megaports program seeks to protect the United States from attack by placing radiation detectors in container ports. Italy has long been on the Department of Energy's list of desired Megaports participants, but efforts to institute the program in Italy stalled several yea [...] | 2009-05-06 15:06:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | IT PGOV ETRD PBTS PTER PARM |
09ROME508 | MEGAPORTS IN ITALY: DETECTING NUCLEAR MATERIALS [...] (SBU) Summary: The DOE Megaports program seeks to protect the United States from attack by placing radiation detectors in container ports. Italy has long been on the Department of Energy's list of desired Megaports participants, but efforts to institute the program in Italy stalled several yea [...] | 2009-05-06 15:07:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IT PGOV ETRD PBTS PTER PARM |
09ROME60 | ITALIANS HAVE NO SUBSTANTIVE COMMENT ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-16 16:56:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PARM PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS IT |
09ROME969 | ITALIAN REACTION TO EXPANDED CGPCS PARTICIPATION [...] (C) On August 19, Acting Political Minister Counselor and Poloffs informed Italian MFA Director for Political-Military Affairs Massimo Marotti of the U.S. interest in expanding participation in Contact Group for Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) fora chaired by the U.S.(Ref A). Marotti [...] | 2009-08-21 15:35:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS EWWT KCRM NATO PBTS PGOV PHSA PREL |
09RPODUBAI537 | OFFICIAL IRANIAN REACTION TO CHARGES OF OCCUPYING IRAQI OIL [...] (SBU) According to Iranian press IRIG officials have consistently denied Iranian military forces have crossed into Iraq and seized an oil well on December 18, with Iran claiming that foreign press reports of the seizure were intended to disrupt the friendly relations between the two countries. [...] | 2009-12-20 13:46:00 | Iran RPO Dubai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG PBTS IR |
09SANAA2225 | YEMEN LNG PLANS SHIPMENTS TO CONUS, WORRIES ABOUT [...] (SBU) Yemen LNG, the liquefied natural gas (LNG) company operated by majority shareholder French Total Oil, is planning to ship LNG cargos from its plant in Belhaf, Yemen to Sabine Pass, Texas and Everett, Massachusetts beginning in early 2010 (REFTEL). Under the terms of YLNG's contracts wit [...] | 2009-12-16 09:52:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EWWT ECON EPET PTER PINS PBTS FR KS YM |
09SANAA44 | YEMEN CONFIRMS PARTICIPATION AT CONTACT GROUP ON [...] Abdul Hakeem al-Eryani, Director of the Office of the Foreign Minister, confirmed on January 10 that Yemen's Permanent Representative to the United Nations will attend the January 13-14 Contact Group on Somali Piracy. 2. Poloff provided al-Eryani with reftel draft agenda and proposed meet [...] | 2009-01-11 05:04:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER YM |
09SANJOSE195 | COSTA RICA SUPPORTS GEORGIA'S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY [...] (SBU) On March 17 we delivered Ref A demarche to Adriana Murillo of the MFA's UNSC team, and on March 16 to Antonio Alarcon, COS to FonMin Bruno Stagno, regarding Russia's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and plans to base Russian military forces in those areas. Alarcon offered no im [...] | 2009-03-18 17:55:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS |
09SANSALVADOR249 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON RUSSIA RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH OSSETIA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-23 15:06:00 | Embassy San Salvador | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GG RS ES MOPS PBTS |
09SANTIAGO162 | CHILE: ACTING FOREIGN MINISTER'S TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Political instability in Paraguay, an improving Chilean relationship with Bolivia, cooperation with Ecuador, and normal bilateral relations with Peru were among the highlights of Acting Foreign Minister Van Klaveren's February 13 tour d'horizon meeting with DAS Christopher McMullen. [...] | 2009-02-23 20:49:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ECON OVIP KPAO XM |
09SANTIAGO339 | CHILE PREPARES ITS CASE IN MARITIME DISPUTE WITH [...] (C) Summary: Now that Peru has presented its case about the disputed maritime border with Chile, Chile has a year to study Peru's arguments and make their own case at the International Court of Justice. According to Chile's Director for Border Affairs, Chile plans to point to treaties and a [...] | 2009-04-09 20:20:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS ECON PREL PGOV CI PE |
09SANTIAGO734 | CONCERTACION INSIDER REVEALS INTEREST IN [...] (C) Summary: Concertacion insider and former government minister Enrique Correa reported that Chile's Foreign Minister would like to work quietly with Peru to resolve the maritime border dispute before the Garcia administration leaves office. Cuba is keenly interested in increasing the abil [...] | 2009-07-31 21:36:00 | Embassy Santiago | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PGOV CI BR CU PE |
09SANTODOMINGO946 | FOREIGN MINISTER WARY OF ZELAYA-CHAVEZ-KIRCHNER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso, who will be one of six regional foreign ministers travelling to Honduras the week of August 24 in support of the latest OAS mission, expressed his wariness of the linkages between ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, Venezuelan Presi [...] | 2009-08-24 18:41:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS DR HO RU HA |
09SANTODOMINGO990 | SUGGESTED FOLLOW-UP TO UNANSWERED U.S./UK/JAPAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a meeting on 8/27 of representatives from the resident diplomatic missions representing major maritime powers (U.S., UK, Japan, Germany and France - Russia is resident in Venezuela) to review the Government of the Dominican Republic's (GoDR) lack of response to prior demarche [...] | 2009-09-01 19:38:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL EWWT DR UK |
09SARAJEVO364 | BOSNIA SUPPORTS U.S. VIEWS ON ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-23 16:15:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS BK |
09SEOUL1111 | USING MEDICINE TO OVERCOME THE NORTH-SOUTH IMPASSE [...] (U) This message is from the American Presence Post (APP) in Busan, Republic of Korea. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Green Doctors, a Busan-based NGO running the only clinic in the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC),hopes to open a 150-bed hospital in the near future. In addition to providing medica [...] | 2009-07-14 06:27:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM ELAB XE KN KS |
09SEOUL1668 | U.S. COAST GUARD DISCUSSES COOPERATION WITH ASIAN [...] (U) This message is from the American Presence Post (APP) in Busan, Republic of Korea. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The Vice Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard met with his counterparts from Canada, Japan, China, South Korea, and Russia at the annual North Pacific Coast Guard Forum. Through these mee [...] | 2009-10-21 07:54:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PREL PHSA EWWT MCAP XB |
09SEOUL39 | ROK FEEDBACK ON DRAFT CGSP ISSUES FOR CONSIDERATION [...] Poloff on January 8 presented the information in reftel A to Key Cheol Lee, Deputy Director-General of the Overseas Koreans and Consular Affairs Bureau, and Hyung-hwa Cho of the Security & Counter-Terrorism Cooperation Division, both within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Please n [...] | 2009-01-08 08:18:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM EWWT MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER |
09SEOUL477 | SEOUL UNDERSCORES CONTINUED OPPOSITION TO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-25 04:08:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS KS |
09SHENYANG216 | PRC-DPRK BORDER: BIG PLANS FOR 2ND BRIDGE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Premier Wen Jiabao's October 4-6 meetings in Pyongyang produced a joint PRC-DPRK agreement to build a second bridge across the Yalu River. During ConGenOffs' recent trips to Dandong, officials openly discussed their development plan to include the to-be-built bridge, estimating a M [...] | 2009-12-04 02:32:00 | Consulate Shenyang | CONFIDENTIAL | CH EAID ECON EIND ETRD EWWT KN KS PBTS PREL |
09SINGAPORE314 | SINGAPORE DOES NOT PLAN TO RECOGNIZE ABKHAZIA OR [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Europe Director Lawrence Anderson. Anderson noted that Georgia is a long way from Singapore and said Singapore has no plans to recognize Abkhazia or South Ossetia as independent states. Anderson noted that Singapore's ambassa [...] | 2009-04-03 10:33:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS SN |
09SKOPJE589 | MACEDONIA: NEW TIP COMBATING AND PREVENTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Macedonia has continued to refine its victim protection and TIP prevention activities and is attending to the shortcomings identified in its established TIP infrastructure. Partnering with the international community, the government has begun expansive training projects focused [...] | 2009-12-07 09:17:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM PBTS SMIG SOCI ELAB TI KS SR |
09STATE100603 | PIRACY PROSECUTION - DEMARCHE REQUEST [...] (SBU) Summary: This is an action request (see paragraphs 2 and 3). Kenya currently has more than 100 suspected pirates in custody, either awaiting trial or on trial. The burden needs to be shared more broadly. The United States will continue to press victim states to take responsibility for [...] | 2009-09-28 11:56:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS MP PBTS PHSA |
09STATE114986 | MERIDA INITIATIVE - CENTRAL AMERICA - ARRIVAL OF [...] This cable announces the arrival of the Merida Initiative - Central America funded Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Regional Firearms Advisor (RFA),Supervisory Special Agent Mark Jones, in San Salvador, El Salvador. 2. SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITIES: Under the Merida In [...] | 2009-11-06 19:23:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PINS PBTS KCRM KHLS BH CS ES GT HO NU PM |
09STATE1223 | CONTACT GROUP ON SOMALI PIRACY ISSUES FOR [...] This is an action request. Per Ref A, action addressees are invited to the inaugural meeting of the Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP) in New York on January 13-14, 2009. To better prepare its participants, the Department requests that posts solicit feedback from host governments on discuss [...] | 2009-01-07 00:21:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER |
09STATE1225 | ADDITIONAL ISSUES FOR CONSIDERATION BY CORE [...] This is an action request. Per Ref A and B, action addressees are invited to attend a coordination pre-meeting for the Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP) hosted by Germany on the afternoon of January 13, 2009. While briefing host governments on objectives requested in ref B, the Department [...] | 2009-01-07 00:58:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER |
09STATE123692 | RESPONSE: PRES. KIKWETE TELLS REP. PAYNE THAT [...] We have received information (reftel) that the Government of Tanzania (GOT) has expressed interest in partnering with Turkey to bring the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and Somali opposition factions together for talks. In response to this idea, we request post draw from the following t [...] | 2009-12-02 20:57:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ER SO TU TZ OREP PBTS PINR PINS PREF PREL PTER |
09STATE123740 | NOVEMBER 2009 U.S.-AZERBAIJAN SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-02 22:16:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ENRG KCRM KISL MARR PBTS PINR PREL PTER AJ |
09STATE125212 | CYPRUS: GUIDANCE FOR DECEMBER 9 SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (U) This is an action request: USUN is instructed to draw from the points below during UN Security Council consultations on Cyprus scheduled for December 9, 2009. 2. (U) Begin points: I would like to thank Special Advisor Downer and Special Representative Zerihoun for your briefings and [...] | 2009-12-07 23:23:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS GR TU CY UK |
09STATE127336 | CYPRUS - VOTING INSTRUCTION FOR UNFICYP MANDATE [...] (U) This is an action request: The Department instructs USUN to vote in favor of the following UN Security Council resolution regarding the mandate renewal of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) on December 14, 2009. USUN is authorized to provide U.S. co-sponsorship of the resolutio [...] | 2009-12-12 00:16:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS GR TU CY UK |
09STATE1313 | INVITATION TO ITALY TO JOIN THE CONTACT GROUP ON [...] (SBU) This is an Action Request, please see para. 3. 2. (SBU) Following the Government of Italy,s formal offer of significant naval assets to support counter piracy operations off the coast of Somalia, the Department concurs with Embassy Rome,s support for Italy,s request (Ref A) to be inclu [...] | 2009-01-07 14:16:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA PTER IT |
09STATE17943 | WHA PARTICIPATION IN US-CANADA-OAS BORDER [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3 and 4. 2. (SBU) On March 16-18, 2009, the United States, the Government of Canada, and the Organization of American States, (OAS) Department of Public Security will co-host an important seminar for representatives of OAS Member States [...] | 2009-02-26 15:42:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM ETTC PREL PBTS EWWT OAS |
09STATE18528 | A/S SHANNON,S FEBRUARY 19 MEETING WITH ARGENTINE [...] (U) Classified by: Assistant Secretary Thomas A. Shannon for E.O. 12958, Reasons 1.4 (b) AND (d). 2. (U) February 19, 2009, 10:00a.m. ) 1:00p.m. 3. (U) Participants: United States A/S Thomas Shannon DAS Christopher McMullen WHA/BSC Director Milt Drucker WHA/BSC Deputy Director Bruc [...] | 2009-02-27 16:01:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | AR BL CO EC OTRA OVIP PA PBTS PREL TD VZ |
09STATE19781 | OSCE/PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO SERBIA HEAD [...] Post is authorized to present the following statement at the March 5 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you as well, Ambassador Urstad, for your comprehensive and balanced report. We agree that Serbia continues to take positive steps along t [...] | 2009-03-03 22:10:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PBTS GG RS |
09STATE2292 | CORRECTED COPY FOR STATE 1225: ADDITIONAL ISSUES [...] This is an action request and corrects information provided in Ref C. Per Ref A and B, action addressees are invited to attend a coordination pre-meeting for the Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP) hosted by Germany on the afternoon of January 13, 2009. ----------- OBJECTIVES ---------- [...] | 2009-01-09 17:19:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA |
09STATE24186 | RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST FOR ALL POSTS EXCEPT NATO/EU POSTS, AND EMBASSIES CARACAS, LA PAZ, MANAGUA AND MOSCOW -- SEE PARA 4. THE POINTS ARE OPTIONAL FOR NATO/EU POSTS, WITH ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL POINTS FOR EU POSTS AT PARA 5. 2. (C) SINCE ITS AUGUST 26 RECOGNITION OF THE GEORGIAN RE [...] | 2009-03-13 17:26:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS |
09STATE31658 | OSCE/PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON [...] Post is authorized to present the following statement at the April 3 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On April 8, we will celebrate International Roma Day, an opportunity to call attention to the history, experiences, and human rights of Europe's [...] | 2009-04-01 21:37:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PBTS GG RS |
09STATE36339 | U.S. RESPONSE TO APRIL 12 CHINESE DEMARCHE ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-13 23:58:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON PBTS PHSA PREL TPHY |
09STATE42321 | COORDINATING U.S. LEADERSHIP OF HORN OF AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Washington Inter-Agency agrees with the way forward outlined in USNATO 160 as modified below. 2. (C) Recently Secretary of State Clinton has called for U.S. leadership of international counter-piracy efforts in the Horn of Africa and Gulf of Aden. She also called for a stren [...] | 2009-04-27 22:37:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT KCRM NATO PBTS PREL |
09STATE43041 | CYPRUS - GUIDANCE FOR APRIL 30 SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (U) This is an action request: USUN is instructed to draw from the points below during UN Security Council consultations on Cyprus scheduled for April 30, 2009. 2. (U) Begin points: -- Thank you Mr. President. I would like to welcome Special Advisor Downer to the Council and thank you f [...] | 2009-04-28 21:39:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS GR TU CY UK |
09STATE43692 | CYPRUS - GUIDANCE ON APRIL 30 PRST [...] (U) This is an action request. The Department instructs USUN to join consensus on the following PRST on Cyprus scheduled to be approved by the Security Council on April 30, 2009. 2. (U) Begin text: The Security Council commends the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders for the poli [...] | 2009-04-29 23:15:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS GR TU CY UK |
09STATE4610 | PIRACY: FIRST MEETING OF CONTACT GROUP CHARTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Pursuant to UNSCR 1851, the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) held its inaugural meeting on January 14 in New York. Twenty-four countries and five international organizations met to discuss - and came to agreement on the way ahead - on six focus areas deali [...] | 2009-01-16 16:01:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA |
09STATE50499 | ACTION REQUEST: MAY 29 MEETING OF CONTACT GROUP [...] This is an action request; please see paragraph 3. This demarche is info only for Embassy Nicosia, as Cyprus has not been invited to participate in the May 29 meeting. ---------------- OBJECTIVES ---------------- 2. Reference A announced the upcoming plenary meeting of the Contact Grou [...] | 2009-05-18 13:04:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR ECON PREL PGOV EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA |
09STATE50885 | DEMARCHE: EGYPTIAN PROSECUTION SUSPECTED M/V [...] Department requests that Embassy approach the Government of Egypt (GOE) at the earliest possible opportunity to gauge GOE,s willingness to accept for prosecution 17 suspected pirates, currently in the custody of the U.S. Navy, for the piratical attack on May 13 of the Egyptian-flagged, Egypt [...] | 2009-05-18 22:13:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EWWT KCRM MARR PBTS PGOV PHSA PREL |
09STATE51374 | DEMARCHE - GREEK PROSECUTION OF SUSPECTED M/V [...] Department requests that Embassy approach the Government of Greece (GOG) at the highest appropriate level to gauge GOG,s willingness to accept for prosecution 17 suspected pirates, currently in the custody of the U.S. Navy, for the piratical attack on May 13 of the bulk carrier M/V AMIRA, the [...] | 2009-05-19 20:47:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | GR ECON EWWT KCRM MARR PBTS PGOV PHSA PREL |
09STATE51396 | CYPRUS: GUIDANCE FOR MAY 22 SECURITY COUNCIL [...] (U) This is an action request: USUN is instructed to draw from the points below during UN Security Council consultations on Cyprus scheduled for May 22, 2009. 2. (U) Begin points: The United States welcomes the report of the Secretary-General. We echo his full support for the current C [...] | 2009-05-19 22:25:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS GR TU CY UK |
09STATE53332 | SECRETARY CLINTON'S REPLY TO FRENCH FORIEGN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-26 13:22:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AF FR KCRM MARR NATO OPDC PBTS PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL |
09STATE54959 | CYPRUS - VOTING INSTRUCTION FOR UNFICYP RESOLUTION [...] (U) This is an action request: The Department instructs USUN to vote in favor of the following UN Security Council resolution regarding the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) on May 29, 2009. Post should seek additional guidance from the Department if there are any additional substant [...] | 2009-05-29 00:31:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS GR TU CY UK |
09STATE58405 | SECRETARY CLINTON'S REPLY TO FRENCH FOREIGN [...] (SBU) Please deliver the Secretary's reply to Foreign Minister Kouchner by June 3. There will not be a signed original. 2. Dear Bernard: Thank you for your letter of April 28. The United States values its cooperation with France, NATO Allies, and the European Union on the shared goal [...] | 2009-06-05 22:03:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AF FR SO KCRM MARR NATO OPDC PBTS PGOV |
09STATE60342 | MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR BASIL OTTLEY TO [...] (SBU) Basil Ottley, Department of Interior - Office of Insular Affairs, requests mission clearance to observe sessions of the C-24 between June 14 and 16 concerning Puerto Rico's political status, mission access, and assistance with necessary UN badging. No other assistance is requested. Prop [...] | 2009-06-11 18:18:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PBTS PNAT UNGA AORC |
09STATE69221 | GUIDANCE RESPONSE: DEALING WITH THE MICHELETTI [...] (C) The General Assembly of the OAS adopted a resolution condemning the detention and expulsion of President Zelaya. The resolution also declared "that no government arising from this unconstitutional interruption will be recognized," and instructed Secretary General Insulza to initiate diploma [...] | 2009-07-02 22:22:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | CVIS EAID ECON EFIN HO KDEM MARR PBTS PGOV PREL SNAR |
09STATE7606 | INVITATION TO JOIN PIRACY CONTACT GROUP [...] This is an action request. The United States hosted the inaugural meeting of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) on January 14 in New York City, at which it was decided to invite four additional countries and the Arab League to join the CGPCS. Department requests that [...] | 2009-01-28 15:55:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | AL EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA |
09STATE83327 | DOE/NNSA MEGAPORTS INITIATIVE DEMARCHE REQUEST [...] This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. Summary: The United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) is interested in cooperating with Tanzania on the Megaports Initiative at the Port of Dar Es Salaam. Provided the Government of Tanzania [...] | 2009-08-11 16:35:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC BEXP EMIN ENRG PARM PBTS TZ |
09STOCKHOLM11 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NEW U.S. ARCTIC POLICY [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-09 14:24:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EWWT PBTS PHSA PREL SENV KGCC KPAO SW |
09STOCKHOLM495 | SWEDES REPORT THAT U.S. RESEARCH VESSEL VIOLATES [...] (SBU) Acting Economic Counselor was summoned to meet Deputy Director Andreas Ekengren, Security Policy Department, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) on August 6 to receive a written protest from the Government of Sweden (GOS). Ekengren told Emboff that the U.S. research vessel T- [...] | 2009-08-07 11:07:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT KRVC PBTS TPHY PGOV PHSA SW |
09STOCKHOLM95 | SWEDEN TO JOIN PIRACY CONTACT GROUP [...] Jonatan Bergstrom-Jurisoo, Desk Officer, Security Policy Department at the Swedish MFA, told Emboff on February 13 that Sweden will join the Piracy Contact Group (reftel). He commented that Sweden believes that joining is very important, especially since Sweden will assume the EU Presidency i [...] | 2009-02-13 08:22:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM EWWT PBTS PHSA SW |
09TASHKENT105 | UZBEKISTAN: JAPANESE OFFICIALS COMMENT ON BILATERAL [...] (S) Summary: Japanese engagement in Uzbekistan appears to be on the rise, judging from recent comments from Japanese diplomats and consultants in Tashkent as well as press reporting. In addition to high-level Uzbek and Japanese visits in Tokyo and Tashkent in 2008, a "Central Asia Plus Japan" [...] | 2009-01-27 04:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | SECRET | PREL ECIN PGOV PBTS EAID UZ |
09TASHKENT110 | UZBEKISTAN: INSPECTION OF BORDER CROSSING POINTS IN ANDIJON [...] (C) On January 20, Poloff and Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Assistant traveled to the Ferghana Valley to inspect EXBS and International Naroctics and Law Enforcement (INL) Program-funded equipment provided to the Border Guards of the National Security Service. The equipment [...] | 2009-01-28 12:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS ASEC PGOV PREL UZ |
09TASHKENT1161 | Uzbekistan: INP Representatives Highlight Radiation [...] (SBU) On June 30, Post handed over some 290,000 USD in equipment-including a handheld radiation monitor, a Yantar-1U detection system, and video monitoring sets-donated by the Department of Energy's Second Line of Defense program to representatives from Uzbekistan's Institute of Nuclear Physics [...] | 2009-07-06 13:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS KNNP PREL PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT1257 | Uzbekistan: International Conference Addresses Problems and [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan and the Marshall Center co-hosted a significant international conference focusing on regional security and stabilizing Afghanistan on June 17-18 in Tashkent. Uzbek participants appear to have been instructed to lobby for international support of Presid [...] | 2009-07-20 10:16:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ASEC EAID ECIN KNNP KTIA MASS PBTS PINS |
09TASHKENT129 | UZBEKISTAN: A POSSIBLE WAY FORWARD FOR DEA'S RETURN [...] (C) Summary: On January 27-28, Visiting Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Assistant Country Attache Chris Melink and Emboffs met with representatives from the Government of Uzbekistan to discuss further bilateral counternarcotics cooperation and the possibility of DEA's return to Uzbekistan. M [...] | 2009-02-02 15:05:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL KCRM PGOV PBTS UZ |
09TASHKENT1423 | Uzbekistan: Tashkent Tidbits August 5, 2009 [...] (C) On July 29, Center for Strategic and International Studies representatives Andy Kuchins and Tom Sanderson met with us to give us a read-out of their meetings with various Government of Uzbekistan officials. Across the board, GOU officials appeared very enthusiastic about improving relation [...] | 2009-08-05 11:30:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC MOPS ECON PBTS PINR KJUS UZ |
09TASHKENT143 | CONCURRENCE FOR EXBS UZBEKISTAN FY 2008 PROGRAM PLAN [...] (SBU) Post confirms its concurrence with the Export Control and Related Border Security program plan in paragraph 6 of reftel. The Government of Uzbekistan also has demonstrated receptivity to engagement with the EXBS program and shown interest in participating in several of these activities. [...] | 2009-02-06 05:50:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KNNP KSTC PBTS PREL MNUC PARM UZ |
09TASHKENT147 | UZBEKISTAN: FERGHANA LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS PUTTING [...] (C) On January 21, Poloff and Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Program Assistant visited Ferghana Province's Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD). Emboffs conducted end-use monitoring of counternarcotics equipment that the International Narc [...] | 2009-02-06 10:12:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR KCRM PREL PGOV PBTS UZ |
09TASHKENT1487 | UZBEKISTAN EAGER TO INCREASE BORDER SECURITY COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary: GOU Customs and Border Security Officials seemed eager to get down to business during a meeting with Regional Export Control and Border Security (EXBS) Advisor and poloff. Uzbek officials recalled successful joint projects which took place in 2001 and expressed their desire to [...] | 2009-09-16 07:15:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS KNNP PREL ETTC MNUC PARM KSTC UZ |
09TASHKENT150 | UZBEKISTAN INTERESTED IN RESUMING COOPERATION ON COMMODITY [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan has demonstrated interest in resuming cooperation on International Nonproliferation Export Control Program (INECP) activities sponsored by the Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Program. These activities are intended to improve the abili [...] | 2009-02-09 11:32:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KNNP PBTS PREL PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT163 | UZBEKISTAN: CUSTOMS OFFICIALS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT FLETC [...] (SBU) On February 4, Emboffs met with five representatives of the State Customs Committee to discuss the development of cooperation between Customs and the U.S. Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). EXBS Advisor proposed that two Customs officers travel to the center for a one-week [...] | 2009-02-11 13:43:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL ASEC SNAR KNNP UZ |
09TASHKENT469 | Uzbekistan: DTRA and Uzbek Officials Review Biological [...] (C) Summary: A Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) delegation met with officials from the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) in mid-March to discuss cooperation under the framework of the Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP). The GOU showed up in force and at a high level--with many Deput [...] | 2009-04-07 11:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO TSPL PTER PINS PGOV PBTS PREL ASEC SENV UZ |
09TASHKENT519 | Uzbekistan: Host Government Practices on Information [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Post has not observed any change in the status quo since its last cable on this issue. BUTCHER [...] | 2009-04-15 12:37:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KVPR CVIS PGOV PBTS PREL KHLS ASEC UZ |
09TASHKENT649 | Uzbekistan: Short but Positive Meeting on Nuclear Forensics [...] (SBU) Summary: In a short but positive meeting at the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP) on April 21, INP officials signaled their receptivity to cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on nuclear forensics. (Note: Nuclear forensic [...] | 2009-05-06 12:45:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPL KNNP PREL PGOV PBTS UZ |
09TASHKENT785 | Uzbekistan: Customs Officials Pleased with Commodity [...] (C) Summary: U.S., Kazakh, and Uzbek instructors jointly conducted a Weapons of Mass Destruction Commodity Identification Training (WMD CIT) workshop for Uzbekistan's Customs officials at the Higher Military Customs Institute in Tashkent on May 6-8. The workshop marked a further step in re-eng [...] | 2009-05-18 10:06:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS KNNP ASEC PREL PGOV UZ |
09TASHKENT937 | Afghan Trans-Boundary Water Discussions: Maintaining [...] (SBU) Reftel (A) notes that the Afghan government, with USAID and USFOR-A sponsorship, will hold a two-day conference on water management in early July. If it does not already plan to do so, we recommend that Afghanistan be encouraged to invite Central Asian neighbors such as Uzbekistan to tak [...] | 2009-06-08 12:15:00 | Embassy Tashkent | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EFIN ETRD KPWR EAID PGOV PREL SOCI SENV PBTS |
09TASHKENT941 | Uzbekistan: Border Security Training Courses at Termez [...] (C) Summary: From April 5 through April 17, U.S. Customs and Border Protection trainers conducted border interdiction and rail interdiction training courses for Government of Uzbekistan officials at Uzbekistan's border with Afghanistan. Uzbek participants actively participated in the training [...] | 2009-06-08 12:44:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL PGOV KNNP PHUM ASEC UZ |
09TBILISI1101 | GEORGIA: FIRST STEPS TOWARDS RE-OPENING THE [...] (C) Summary and Comment. The Government of Georgia announced May 26 that negotiations with Russia were underway to open the border at Kazbegi-Zemo Larsi, the only land border point of entry with Russia in the undisputed territory of Georgia. Russia closed the border in June 2006 in order to [...] | 2009-06-16 13:08:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI1123 | IMPORTANCE OF CONTINUED MILITARY ENGAGEMENT WITH [...] (C) Summary. The June 22 kickoff of the U.S.-Georgia Charter Commission will raise the question of the future of our military cooperation. Embassy Moscow's recent cable (reftel) has highlighted Russian views and the potential impact on our attempt to reset our relations with Moscow. There are, howe [...] | 2009-06-18 12:01:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI1514 | GEORGIA: MARKING THE AUGUST 7 ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY [...] (U) Summary: Georgians commemorated the one-year anniversary of the August 2008 conflict with numerous events around the country, including a mid-day visit by President Saakashvili to a cemetery containing the bodies of soldiers killed in the war, a nationwide moment of silence at 3 pm, an [...] | 2009-08-07 14:14:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS GG |
09TBILISI1517 | GEORGIA: INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE TO ABKHAZIA AND [...] (C) Summary and comment. Immediately following the August 2008 war between Russia and Georgia, our small USG aid programs in Abkhazia and South Ossetia were closed, with the exception of HALO Trust's demining program in Abkhazia. Other international donors, including the European Commission ( [...] | 2009-08-10 08:49:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS EAID SOCI AID GG |
09TBILISI1587 | GEORGIAN COAST GUARD CRACKS DOWN ON ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary and comment. On August 15 and 18 the Georgian Coast Guard detained two vessels for violations of the Law on Occupied Territories and other infractions, including for traveling in restricted Black Sea waters off the coast of Abkhazia. Although both vessels were stopped more than [...] | 2009-08-24 14:48:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHSA PGOV EWWT ETRD CB FR PM RS |
09TBILISI1627 | GEORGIA: LEGAL QUESTIONS SURROUNDING OCCUPIED AREAS [...] (U) This is an action message; please see paragraphs 9-11. 2. (C) Summary. Recent seizures by the Georgian Coast Guard of Black Sea vessels suspected of violating various Georgian laws, including the Law on Occupied Territories, have raised questions about the legal basis for Georgia's enf [...] | 2009-08-27 14:41:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHSA ETRD ETTC EWWT RS GG |
09TBILISI1643 | GEORGIA: CONCERNS OVER RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA, [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze called in the U.S. and UK ambassadors August 31 to request urgent assistance on two matters. First, the Georgians learned that four African countries -- Burundi, Central African Republ [...] | 2009-09-01 14:34:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHSA EWWT UNGA BY CT ML PU RS GG |
09TBILISI1644 | GEORGIA: TROUBLING HUMAN RIGHTS TRENDS IN ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary. The departure of UNOMIG and arrival of Russian Border Guards have not yet caused a new exodus of ethnic Georgian Gali residents from Abkhazia, according to local observers. Conditions, however, have deteriorated, and the local population is more nervous than ever. Problems incl [...] | 2009-09-01 14:35:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI1665 | GEORGIA: ABKHAZIA STEPS UP RHETORIC ON BLACK SEA [...] (C) Summary and comment. On September 2 Abkhaz de facto "president" Bagapsh ordered his naval forces to attack any Georgian vessel entering what he considers Abkhaz territorial waters. Following Georgian seizures of ships traveling to Abkhazia for violations of Georgian law and Russian prom [...] | 2009-09-04 15:14:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHSA EWWT MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI2024 | GEORGIA: RISKY SITUATION IN THE BLACK SEA [...] (C) Summary: Georgian officials confirm that they are neither interdicting vessels outside their territorial waters nor patrolling the waters north of the Enguri River in the Black Sea, and they continue to seek a way forward on shipping with Turkey. There have been no additional maritime in [...] | 2009-11-19 12:20:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHSA EWWT MOPS RS GG |
09TBILISI2083 | GEORGIA: ABKHAZ ELECTION CAMPAIGN HEATS UP [...] (C) Summary and comment. UN team member Hailu Mamo, a long-time Abkhazia observer, believes Abkhaz de facto "president" Bagapsh now faces a tough battle for re-election. Given past elections in Abkhazia, it is possible that this could be a real contest. No single opposition candidate has em [...] | 2009-12-01 15:13:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI2131 | GEORGIA: DETENTIONS RAISE TENSIONS AROUND SOUTH [...] (C) Summary. A series of detentions over the past month has increased tension between Georgia and the South Ossetian de facto authorities. These recent incidents are not the only such cases, and older outstanding cases, some dating even from before the August 2008 war, have complicated reso [...] | 2009-12-04 14:24:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI2181 | GEORGIA: BAGAPSH WINS IN ABKHAZIA [...] (SBU) According to the "central election commission" of Abkhazia, incumbent "president" Sergey Bagapsh won the "presidential elections" in Abkhazia on December 12 with 59.4 percent of the vote, avoiding the need for a run-off. There was a striking dichotomy in official Georgian reaction tothe [...] | 2009-12-14 15:51:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS RS GG |
09TBILISI2203 | GEORGIA: GOVERNOR OF SHIDA KARTLI LOOKS TO THE [...] (C) Summary. Shida Kartli regional governor Vladimer (Lado) Vardzelashvili told us he is concentrating on looking past last year's conflict with Russia, helping the region's residents resume their daily lives and move forward instead of remaining bound to the war. In his view, the path to rei [...] | 2009-12-15 12:04:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS GG |
09TBILISI2204 | GEORGIA: CONSTRUCTIVE EXCHANGE ON THE ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary. On December 11 Reintegration Minister Yakobashvili led a discussion with international partners of a draft strategy on engagement with Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Characterizing it as a "human-centric" engagement (not de-occupation) plan, Yakobashvili called it the government's [...] | 2009-12-15 13:39:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS EAID RS TU GG |
09TBILISI2240 | GEORGIA DOWNPLAYS NAURU'S RECOGNITION OF ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary and comment. Georgian officials downplayed the significance of Nauru's apparent December 14 recognition of Abkhazia's "independence," which Russia reportedly encouraged with an offer of $50 million to the island nation. Although officials are discussing with Australian counterpa [...] | 2009-12-16 13:57:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS XM AS NR RS GG |
09TBILISI2280 | GEORGIANS PREPARED TO COMPROMISE WITH RUSSIA IN [...] (C) Summary. The Governments of Georgia and Russia are continuing quiet talks regarding the opening of the land border crossing at Kazbegi-Larsi. Georgian FM Vashadze told the Ambassador that Georgia, Russia and Armenia will meet December 23-24 to continue the discussions begun in Yerevan in [...] | 2009-12-23 13:59:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS AM RS GG |
09TBILISI924 | GEORGIA: ARRIVAL OF RUSSIAN BORDER GUARDS IN [...] (C) Summary and comment. Two agreements signed April 30 by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Abkhaz and South Ossetian de facto "presidents" Sergey Bagapsh and Eduard Kokoity on "joint efforts for protection of state borders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia," has further reinforced Russian c [...] | 2009-05-15 14:27:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PBTS PGOV PREL MARR MOPS RS GG |
09TEGUCIGALPA1166 | HONDURAS-EL SALVADOR TRADE BARRIER DISPUTE LEADS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Honduran agricultural association is planning to hold a demonstration aimed at disrupting traffic through the Honduras-El Salvador border crossing point at El Amatillo on November 17. The association, the National Federation of Farmers and Ranchers of Honduras (FENAGH),is [...] | 2009-11-17 16:09:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ECIN ELTN ETRD PBTS PREL CASC BEXP |
09TEGUCIGALPA1199 | TFHO1: BORDER BLOCKADE PROMPTS HONDURAS AND EL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A blockade at a Honduras-El Salvador border point on November 17, organized by a Honduran farmers' association to protest El Salvadoran restrictions on food imports (reftel),significantly disrupted cross-border traffic. In response, Honduran and El Salvadoran officials met t [...] | 2009-11-23 14:05:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ECIN ELTN ETRD PBTS PREL CASC BEXP |
09TEGUCIGALPA516 | GUIDANCE REQUEST: DEALING WITH MICHLETTI REGIME IN [...] (C) Summary: Per reftels, President of the Congress Roberto Micheletti was sworn in yesterday at 14:15 local as President of Honduras. By 17:00, the Embassy had already been invited to the Congress to a celebration of the new Administration. The Embassy refused the invitation and immediately [...] | 2009-06-30 01:13:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS EFIN SNAR ECON EAID MARR PBTS |
09TOKYO1299 | Delivery of Talking Points on Ending the E-Passport [...] (U) On June 9, Conoff met with Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Passport Division Director Nobuyuki Kawamura and delivered reftel message requiring emergency and temporary passports to either have electronic chips or a visa. Kawamura and his staff said they understood the regulatio [...] | 2009-06-10 06:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT KPAO PREL PBTS JA |
09TOKYO1414 | JAPAN PREPARING SPECIAL MEASURES BILL ON DPRK [...] (C) Summary: The Japanese government is preparing a special measures bill that would authorize Japan to inspect cargo on DPRK ships beyond the limits of Japan's territorial waters. The government plans to submit the bill to the Diet in the current session, which ends 28 July. Key aspects of [...] | 2009-06-23 08:40:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELTN EWWT MOPS PBTS PGOV PHSA PINR PREL PTER |
09TOKYO1448 | DPRK CARGO INSPECTION: JAPAN COAST GUARD TO LEAD [...] (C) The draft special measures bill authorizing Japan to inspect DPRK ship cargo (reftel) identifies the Japan Coast Guard as the lead operational agency, according to Ministry of Defense (MOD) Defense Policy Bureau Director General Takamizawa. The Maritime Self-Defense Forces (MSDF) will sup [...] | 2009-06-26 04:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELTN EWWT MOPS PBTS PGOV PHSA PINR PREL PTER |
09TOKYO1507 | CARGO INSPECTION LAW: CABINET SUBMISSION SLATED [...] (C) The Japanese government will submit a special measures bill authorizing Japan to interdict and inspect DPRK ship cargo (reftel) to the Cabinet for formal approval "early next week," Director General for International Peace Cooperation Headquarters in the Cabinet Office Takata told Charge an [...] | 2009-07-02 03:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELTN EWWT MOPS PBTS PGOV PHSA PINR PREL PTER |
09TOKYO155 | JAPAN PREPARING FOR MARCH MSDF DISPATCH TO HORN OF [...] (C) Summary: The Japanese government is preparing to dispatch Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) vessels to the Horn of Africa and is aiming to have the ships on station by the time Prime Minister Taro Aso has his first meeting with the President, according to MOFA Foreign Policy Bureau Deputy [...] | 2009-01-23 09:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELTN EWWT MOPS PBTS PHSA PINR PREL PTER MARR |
09TOKYO610 | JMSDF DEPARTS ON ANTI-PIRACY MISSION - WHAT'S NEXT? [...] (C) Summary: Two Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces (JMSDF) destroyers departed Japan on March 14 bound for the Horn of Africa (HOA) region on an anti-piracy mission. The vessels will operate independently from CTF-151 and other multi-national efforts in the region, but will interact close [...] | 2009-03-19 03:45:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELTN EWWT MOPS PBTS PGOV PHSA PINR PREL PTER |
09TOKYO72 | JAPAN FACES NO LEGAL CONSTRAINTS TO ANTI-PIRACY [...] (C) Summary: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) International Legal Affairs Bureau Director General Koji Tsuruoka told the DCM 8 January that Japan is working rapidly to determine how best to contribute in the near term to Horn of Africa (HOA) multi-lateral anti-piracy efforts. Tsuruoka also [...] | 2009-01-14 06:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELTN EWWT MOPS PBTS PGOV PHSA PINR PREL PTER |
09TUNIS814 | TUNISIAN RESPONSE TO THE SECRETARY'S NOVEMBER 2 ADDRESS TO [...] (SBU) Summary: In spite of post's extensive efforts to obtain full coverage for the Secretary's speech at the Forum for the Future in Marrakech, including a pre-arranged interview with one of the media hub spokespersons for a local journalist, the lack of live television coverage on the satell [...] | 2009-11-06 06:37:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KPAL PBTS IS TS |
09USEUBRUSSELS12 | EU TO ATTEND SOMALIA PIRACY CONTACT GROUP [...] (C) On December 23, PolOff delivered REF A invitation to the first meeting of the Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP) to Didier Lenoir of the EU Council Secretariat. Lenoir confirmed on January 5 that he and Heli Pekka Heinonen, from the EU Military Staff, would attend the meeting in New Y [...] | 2009-01-06 17:26:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER EUN |
09USNATO227 | ACTION REQUEST: NATO COUNTER-PIRACY: FISH OR CUT [...] (C/NF) This is an Action Request. See para 14. 2. (C/NF) SUMMARY: At the strong urging of the United States, NATO is moving forward with planning for a long-term counter-piracy operation. At the same time, Allies--including the U.S.--have been tepid in their willingness to actually contri [...] | 2009-06-04 15:21:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL NATO MOPS EWWT PBTS ZR SO XA |
09USNATO513 | COUNTER-PIRACY: EXCHANGE OF MARITIME COMMAND FOR [...] (U) On November 9, Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1) took over responsibility for NATO's counter-piracy mission, Operation Ocean Shield, from Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2). SMNG1 is commanded by Portuguese Rear Admiral Jose Domingos Pereira de Cunha. 2. (U) The four ships cur [...] | 2009-11-11 14:48:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS EWWT PBTS PHSA MCAP MARR PREL SO XA XO |
09USNATO525 | COUNTER-PIRACY WORKING GROUP CHAIR CALLS FOR NATO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On November 9, the Chairman of Working Group One (WG1) of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia, Chris Holtby (UK),briefed the NATO Policy Coordination Group (PCG) on regional capacity-building and urged NATO to play a role in training. NATO Deputy As [...] | 2009-11-17 09:03:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO PGOV MOPS MARR MCAP EWWT PBTS PHSA |
09USNATO564 | CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT OF THE NATO-GEORGIA COMMISSION [...] (U) Following the December 3 meeting of the NATO-Georgia Commission (NGC) at the level of Foreign Ministers, NATO Secretary General Rasmussen -- in his role as Chairman of the NGC -- issued the following Chairman's Statement: BEGIN TEXT: 03 Dec. 2009 Chairman's Statement Meeting of t [...] | 2009-12-04 07:53:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV NATO PBTS MOPS PINS GG AF |
09USUNNEWYORK434 | UNSC DISCUSSES WESTERN SAHARA AND RENEWAL OF [...] (C) Summary: The Security Council on April 22 held closed consultations on the question of Western Sahara and the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). Edmond Mulet, the Assistant Secretary-General of the Department of Peacekeepin [...] | 2009-04-24 23:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL WI MO UNSC XI |
09USUNNEWYORK463 | UNSC UNANIMOUSLY EXTENDS MINURSO FOR ANOTHER YEAR [...] The Security Council on April 30 unanimously adopted Resolution 1871 to extend the mandate of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) until April 30, 2010. Ambassador Rice gave the first explanation of vote (EOV),reiterating U.S. support for Personal Envoy Chris Ross a [...] | 2009-05-07 00:52:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS UNSC MO AG WI |
09USUNNEWYORK593 | MISSION CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR BASIL OTTLEY TO [...] In response to reftel, USUN grants mission clearance to Basil Ottley, Department of Interior, Office of Insular Affairs. Mr. Ottley requests permission to observe sessions of the C-24 Meetings between June 14 and 16, 2009 concerning Puerto Rico's political status. 2. As per normal USG pra [...] | 2009-06-13 02:19:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PBTS PNAT UNGA AORC |
09USUNNEWYORK774 | MISSION CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR JENNIFER LANDSIDLE, [...] Mission clearance is granted for L/LEI Attorney-Adviser Jennifer Landsidle on August 19 to attend a meeting at the UK Mission to the UN with representatives from the UN Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) and UK Mission Legal Adviser Cathy Adams, and UK Assistant Legal Adviser Katharine Shepard on p [...] | 2009-08-17 20:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA UN PBTS SO |
09VIENNA156 | AUSTRIA: CONSULTATIONS ON COMPLIANCE WITH 9/11 ACT [...] Econ/Pol Counselor met Feb. 13 with MFA Director for Justice and Home Affairs, Dr. Johann Brieger, to relay the information/requests in Reftels A and B. 2. 9/11 Requirements Consultations: Brieger said that, based on preliminary consultations within the GoA, the proposed dates (March 23-24) [...] | 2009-02-13 10:21:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PBTS KCRM CVIS CMGT PREL AU |
09VIENNA66 | AUSTRIA: US-ISRAEL ANTI-SMUGGLING MOU [...] (SBU) On January 16, Ambassador delivered reftel demarche in separate farewell calls on Austrian Foreign Minister Spindelegger and MFA Secretary General Kyrle. 2. (SBU) FM Spindelegger and SG Kyrle listened carefully to reftel points and expressed appreciation for the information. Both st [...] | 2009-01-16 17:12:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PARM PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS |
09VIENNA836 | AUSTRIA PROVIDES LOST AND STOLEN PASSPORTS NOTE [...] (U) Austrian MFA delivered an electronic copy of a Diplomatic Note, dated 3 July 2009, on lost and stolen passports to the Embassy on July 7. Operative text follows: Begin text (Complimentary opening) The Ministry has noted the U.S. statutory requirements set forth in the implementing [...] | 2009-07-08 08:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PREL PTER PGOV PBTS AU |
09VIENNA89 | AUSTRIA ON VISA WAIVER PROGRAM CONSULTATIONS [...] (U) Summary. In a Jan. 21 meeting with senior Embassy staff, Austrian MFA and Interior Ministry officials proposed that a U.S. delegation visit Vienna in either the second week of February or the first or second week of March for consultations focused on Austrian concerns about U.S. data prot [...] | 2009-01-22 15:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PBTS PTER KCRM PREL AU |
09WARSAW314 | POLAND SUPPORTS US ON SOUTH OSSETIA AND ABKHAZIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Polish MFA is encouraged by the new U.S. administration's firm stance on Georgia's territorial integrity. Tomasz Orlowski, Head of the Central Asia and South Caucasus Section at the Polish MFA, told us that Poland and the U.S. appear to be "on the same page." Orlowski said Po [...] | 2009-03-24 12:46:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS RS BO GG PL |
09YAOUNDE882 | CAMEROON: BAKASSI'S ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY [...] (U) SUMMARY: One year after the August 2008 handover of the Bakassi Peninsula, the Government of Cameroon(GRC) has succeeded in dramatically improving the security of the region and has done some work to improve infrastructure. However, Bakassi remains poor and isolated, and the inter-agency [...] | 2009-10-21 11:21:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR NI CM PBTS PGOV ECON |
09YEREVAN218 | ABKHAZIA/SOUTH OSSETIA DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-26 12:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS RU GG AM |
09YEREVAN269 | EUR DAS BRYZA DRUMS UP POLITICAL PARTY SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: EUR DAS Matt Bryza held discussions with two opposition parties and the semi-governmental/nationalistic Dashnaks April 17, in a bid to build support -- or defuse possible opposition -- for possible negotiated settlements with Turkey or Azerbaijan. All three parties voiced strong [...] | 2009-04-22 13:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PGOV PHUM KDEM AJ TU AM |
09YEREVAN273 | DE FACTO NAGORNO-KARABAKH AUTHORITIES SEND LETTER [...] The Embassy received the following letter in English from the "Foreign Minister" of the self-proclaimed "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" addressed to DRL A/S Stewart regarding the latest State Department human rights report. 2. VERBATIM TEXT OF "NKR" LETTER (AS RECEIVED): Dear Ambassador S [...] | 2009-04-23 15:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PBTS OPDC AJ AM |
09YEREVAN319 | ARMENIAN OPINION LEADERS DEBATE TURKEY-ARMENIA TIES [...] (C) Ambassador hosted five prominent television and political personalities April 22 for a lively discussion of Armenia-Turkey relations. The Armenian guests remained convinced that the Turks are unscrupulously exploiting Armenia's diplomatic initiatives in order to prevent "genocide" recogni [...] | 2009-05-14 06:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PREL TU AJ AM |
09YEREVAN335 | DASHNAK LEADERS EXPLAIN DECISION TO EXIT COALITION [...] (C) Leaders of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation - Dashnaktsutiun (Dashnaks) told the Ambassador that they exited the coalition in response to the April 22 Turkish-Armenia joint statement to normalize relations. They said that Armenia had gotten nothing out of it, while Turkey had success [...] | 2009-05-18 09:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PREL TU AJ AM |
09YEREVAN346 | LTP ASSAILS SARGSIAN ON RECENT FOREIGN POLICY [...] (SBU) In his first major campaign rally for the Yerevan mayoral election, ex-President Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) sidestepped discussion of local issues and instead assailed President Sargsian on recent foreign policy developments. LTP called President Sargsian's rapprochement initiative with [...] | 2009-05-20 15:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM |
09YEREVAN376 | RAFFI HOVANNISIAN ON TURKEY-ARMENIA RAPPROCHEMENT [...] (C) Armenia's first foreign minister and current leader of the Heritage Party Raffi Hovannisian told the Ambassador that inflammatory statements by Turkey's prime minister were "fraying Armenia's nerves." He said he was concerned that Armenian authorities were not responding to the remarks. H [...] | 2009-06-02 08:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TU AJ AM |
09YEREVAN434 | SARGSIAN SETS OCTOBER AS DEADLINE FOR TURKEY [...] (C) In their first meeting, President Sargsian told A/S Gordon that October 2009 was his deadline for the GOT to respond concretely to his rapprochement initiative. On resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) conflict, Sargsian stated Armenia was ready to move forward, but Azerbaijan's leadership [...] | 2009-06-19 13:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS TU AJ AM |
09YEREVAN474 | SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG VISIT [...] (S/NF) You are coming to Armenia at a pivotal moment. Delighted by the visit of the rare high-level USG visitor, President Sargsian will use the opportunity to appeal for U.S. acknowledgement and support for his foreign policy risk-taking. On Turkey-Armenia, Sargsian has stayed the course, bu [...] | 2009-07-08 13:39:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS TU AJ IR |
09YEREVAN510 | DASHNAKS AT ODDS WITH MG APPROACH TO N-K SETTLEMENT [...] (C) Leaders of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation - Dashnaktsutiun (Dashnaks) told EUR DAS Matthew Bryza that they oppose the Minsk Group's approach to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh (N-K) conflict. The Dashnak leaders said that the settlement should come in a package deal, not step by step, [...] | 2009-07-21 09:36:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PREL AJ AM |
09YEREVAN515 | PROMISES AND PROTESTS MARK SAAKASHVILI'S ARMENIA [...] (C) Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's June 24-25 visit to Armenia produced lots of smiles, but little apparentaction. Saakashvili's talks with President Sargsian focused on energy, transportation, border issues, tourism, communication and regional security. Two protests over the ethnic [...] | 2009-07-22 13:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PREL GG AM |
09YEREVAN688 | KOCHARIAN GRIM ON NORMALIZATION, NK CONFLICT, [...] (C) During the Ambassador's recent call on Robert Kocharian, Armenia's second president criticized President Sargsian for his handling of normalization of relations with Turkey. Kocharian said Sargsian was taking too big a risk and conceding too much in a misguided negotiating process that he [...] | 2009-09-30 12:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PREL TU AJ AM |
09YEREVAN689 | COOL-HEADED OPPOSITION ACKNOWLEDGES SARGSIAN'S [...] (C) At a reception hosted September 15 by the Ambassador, PolOffs heard from leaders of the opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) and independent observers that the normalization process with Turkey, by itself, posed little risk to Serzh Sargsian's rule. A small minority of nationalists [...] | 2009-09-30 13:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS TU AJ AM |
09YEREVAN712 | ON THE TURKEY-ARMENIA BORDER: IS THE RAILWAY [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Ambassador and EXBS Advisor toured the Akhurian Train station near the Turkish border, where Armenian railway officials claimed that they are ready to begin rail traffic as soon as the border opens and procedures are established. Our assessment, however, is that much work wou [...] | 2009-10-07 09:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ELTN PBTS SOCI TU AM |
09YEREVAN770 | DEFENSE, FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTERS EVASIVE ON [...] (C) During separate meetings with Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian on October 27 and Foreign Affairs Minister Edward Nalbandian on October 29, the Ambassador asked the ministers about the purpose of President's recent two-day visit to Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) to inspect troops, and the uncharacter [...] | 2009-11-02 09:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PREL MARR TU AJ AM |
09YEREVAN789 | FATE OF PROTOCOLS--DEPENDS ON TURKEY'S RATIFICATION [...] (C) In light of the executive branch's dominance of the unicameral National Assembly, where President Sargsian's ruling Republican party and its loyal coalition partners control 97 out of 131 seats, ratification of the protocols to normalize Turkish-Armenian relations is essentially a one-man [...] | 2009-11-10 13:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PREL TU AJ AM |
10ATHENS45 | GREECE: Ambassador Speckhard's Meeting with Hellenic Coast [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a 50-minute meeting on 20 January Vice Admiral Bousios spoke to Ambassador Speckhard about the ongoing reformation of the Hellenic Coast Guard (HCG),which he has headed since late November 2009. Bousios said that the HCG was being reorganized to resemble the U.S. Coast [...] | 2010-01-28 10:11:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL GR PGOV SMIG PBTS MCAP EWWT PHSA PTER SNAR |
10ATHENS51 | Hellenic Police Chief on Security Service Reorganization, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a meeting on 21 January Hellenic National Police (HNP) Chief Ikonomou told the Ambassador that the reorganization of the Ministry of Citizen Protection was far from complete, but that the overall goal was to foster interagency cooperation across Greece's non-military [...] | 2010-01-29 13:02:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER GR SMIG PBTS SNAR |
10ATHENS59 | Hellenic Police Chief on Security Service Reorganization, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a meeting on 21 January Hellenic National Police (HNP) Chief Ikonomou told the Ambassador that the reorganization of the Ministry of Citizen Protection was far from complete, but that the overall goal was to foster interagency cooperation across Greece's non-military [...] | 2010-02-01 20:41:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER GR SMIG PBTS SNAR |
10BAGHDAD258 | IRAQ'S BORDER SURVEILLANCE PROJECT TAKES SHAPE, [...] (S) SUMMARY: We joined Interior Minister Bolani at a January 30 groundbreaking of a border roads project that took place along the Iraq-Syrian border. Supported by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE),the border roads project is headed by the Department of Border Enforcement (DBE) under [...] | 2010-02-01 15:05:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PBTS PGOV PREL MASS IZ |
10BAGHDAD271 | IMPLEMENTING THE COMBINED SECURITY MECHANISMS IN [...] (SBU) This is a joint Embassy Baghdad/USF-I message. 2. (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Combined Security Mechanisms (CSMs) consist of temporary, non-political measures across the disputed internal boundary (DIBs) areas of northern Iraq, and are designed to ensure the security of the Iraqi pop [...] | 2010-02-02 12:42:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM PBTS IZ |
10BAGHDAD282 | NINEWA GOVERNOR TESTS FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT, [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: As the first test of the newly operational tripartite Combined Security Mechanisms (CSM) in northern Iraq, Ninewa Provincial Governor Atheel al-Nujaifi - whose freedom of movement in Kurdish-controlled areas of Ninewa has been circumscribed since he took office in 2009 - visited [...] | 2010-02-03 13:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PBTS IZ |
10BAGHDAD369 | UPDATE #1: NINEWA GOVERNOR'S FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Tempers that flared in the wake of the February 1 confrontation involving Kurdish security forces, Ninewa Governor Nujaifi, and U.S. forces have cooled for the moment. Angered by the detention of 11 males accused of attacking Nujaifi's convoy, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG [...] | 2010-02-11 15:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER KDEM PBTS IZ |
10BAGHDAD381 | UPDATE #3: BARZANI EXTENDS DEADLINE FOR RELEASE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. Approximately 90 minutes before the February 11 deadline set by the Kurds to withdraw from the Ninewa Combined Check Points (CCPs) and block the roads north of Mosul to the Kurdistan Region, KRG President Barzani was persuaded to extend the deadline to February 13 to allow time [...] | 2010-02-14 09:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS PBTS IZ |
10BANGKOK198 | THAI-CAMBODIAN SPAT: THAI RANGERS CLASH WITH [...] (C) Summary: Thai rangers clashed January 24 with Cambodian troops in area east of the Preah Vihear temple. The clash apparently occurred near where Cambodian troops had engaged in illegal logging inside Thailand earlier in January. There were no reports of casualties. Local Thai and Cambodi [...] | 2010-01-25 09:57:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB |
10BEIRUT113 | PM COMMITS TO UNSCR 1701/BORDER CONTROL [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Hariri met with UNSCOL Michael Williams and ambassadors from key donor nations on February 2 to assure them that border control remains a high priority for his government. In order to address donor concerns, Hariri, who as chair of the Ministerial Border Committee [...] | 2010-02-04 15:22:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PREL PTER PGOV SY LE |
10BEIRUT123 | SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' FEBRUARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Beirut warmly welcomes your February 16-17 visit to Lebanon. As the country emerges from a six-month struggle to form a new national unity government, your meetings with President Michel Sleiman, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, and Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri will rein [...] | 2010-02-05 16:20:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC MARR MOPS PBTS KPAL EAIR |
10BEIRUT15 | SCENESETTER FOR A/S JOHNSON'S JAN 10-11 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Embassy Beirut welcomes your January 10-11 visit as one of the first high-level visits to Lebanon of 2010. As Lebanon emerges from a six-month struggle to form a new national unity government, your meeting with Interior Minister Ziad Baroud will reinforce the message that [...] | 2010-01-06 14:11:00 | Embassy Beirut | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PBTS SNAR PREF PTER KPAL KCRM LE |
10BEIRUT187 | DEMARCHE ON SYRIAN TRANSFERS OF ARMS TO HIZBALLAH [...] (S) SUMMARY: In response to the Ambassador's February 25 demarche on the danger of Syrian transfers of increasingly sophisticated weaponry to Hizballah, Prime Minister Saad Hariri acknowledged the urgency and serious nature of the message and said he had feared that Hizballah had "new technol [...] | 2010-02-25 16:30:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PTER PREL PBTS MASS MOPS IS LE TU SY |
10BEIRUT47 | PRIME MINISTER HARIRI MEETS WITH CODEL MCCAIN [...] (C) Summary: Increased U.S. military assistance to Lebanon is a priority, Prime Minister Saad Hariri told CODEL McCain on January 9. Though wary of Syrian intentions after his recent trip to Damascus, Hariri said he would work to build on positive practical steps to improve the bilateral rela [...] | 2010-01-15 13:04:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC MASS MCAP KJUS PBTS LE SY IR |
10BELMOPAN55 | BELIZEAN PUBLIC IN AN UPROAR OVER FOREIGN [...] (U) SUMMARY: A comment made by Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington following a meeting at the Organization of American States (OAS) has stirred widespread discontent among Belizean nationalists, NGO,s, and political leaders. Elrington was quoted as describing Belize,s border with Guatemala as [...] | 2010-02-02 20:40:00 | Embassy Belmopan | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PREL OAS BH GT |
10BUENOSAIRES104 | Argentina Will Consider Approach to Ecuador on Breakaway [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-29 17:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PNAT PREL GG AR |
10BUENOSAIRES95 | Falklands/Malvinas: GoA Requires Permission for Ships to [...] (C) The GoA issued a decree on February 16 requiring ships to obtain GoA permission before sailing from Argentina or through Argentine waters to reach the Falkland/Malvinas Islands. Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner sought to justify the decree based on UN resolutions. The decree is intende [...] | 2010-02-17 22:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON PHSA PBTS EFIN PREL ENRG AR |
10CAIRO366 | Nonproliferation Meetings in Cairo: UNSCR 1540 Workshop and [...] (U) Key Points: -- A United Nations multilateral workshop for African countries on implementation of UNSCR 1540 was held December 7-10, 2009 in Cairo. The workshop focused on countering WMD proliferation through strengthened border controls. -- U.S. -Egypt bilaterals on the margins [...] | 2010-02-24 15:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KNNP UN ETRD PBTS PREL EG CF CG KE MO NI GH |
10DJIBOUTI203 | DJIBOUTI/FRANCE - Public Spat over GOF Reliability as Ally [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-22 08:44:00 | Embassy Djibouti | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PINS MASS PBTS DJ ER FR |
10DOHA42 | IRANIAN AMBASSADOR ANNOUNCES DEAL ON MARITIME [...] (SBU) At a January 6 press conference widely reported in local English and Arabic news outlets, Iranian Ambassador to Qatar Abdulla Sohrabi announced that Iran and Qatar had reached an "initial agreement" on the demarcation of their maritime border. He noted that Iran recently reached a simil [...] | 2010-02-01 13:24:00 | Embassy Doha | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS IR YE QA |
10GABORONE110 | BOTS-ZIM TENSIONS RISE OVER ARRESTED GOB OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Botswana said it would recall its Defense and Intelligence Attaches from Harare by the end of February and expects that Zimbabwe will similarly recall its Attaches from Gaborone to protest the GOZ's January 19 arrest and continued detention of three GOB wildlife [...] | 2010-02-05 14:24:00 | Embassy Gaborone | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ZI BC |
10HONGKONG146 | HONG KONG WATER SECURITY: REDUCING DEPENDENCE ON [...] SUMMARY: Despite a guaranteed water supply from Guangdong province, Hong Kong's heavy reliance on its northern neighbor has driven the Special Administrative Region (SAR) to initiate several new water conservation measures. This new policy is prompted not by costs or desire to be a "good partn [...] | 2010-01-26 07:14:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED | CM ECON ENRG HK PBTS SENV SOCI TPHY KGHG |
10HONGKONG7 | MACAU WATER SECURITY: POLICIES EVOLVING TO LESSEN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Macau's over-reliance on the Mainland for its water supply has prompted the Special Administrative Region to adopt measures to secure long-term supplies with the aim of gaining greater autonomy over its water policy. These include conservation programs, tariffs, and new infrast [...] | 2010-01-04 03:42:00 | Consulate Hong Kong | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CM ECON ENRG HK PBTS SENV SOCI TPHY KGHG |
10JERUSALEM111 | NGO CONTACTS WARN ISRAELI GOVERNMENT CONSIDERING [...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Tel Aviv - Consulate General Jerusalem cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: According to NGO and GOI sources, the Israeli Ministry of Defense (MOD) intends to "reassess" the legal status of the land on which three West Bank outposts are built, despite previous GOI stateme [...] | 2010-01-19 16:08:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG IS |
10JERUSALEM199 | AS OLD GUARD RESIGNS, YESHA COUNCIL SETTLERS [...] (SBU) Summary. On January 11, Pinchas Wallerstein resigned as director-general of the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip (known as the "YESHA Council," from the Hebrew acronym for "Judea, Samaria, and Gaza"). Wallerstein told the Israeli press that he was re [...] | 2010-02-02 18:32:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG IS |
10JERUSALEM201 | AS OLD GUARD RESIGNS, YESHA COUNCIL SETTLERS [...] (SBU) Summary. On January 11, Pinchas Wallerstein resigned as director-general of the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip (known as the "YESHA Council," from the Hebrew acronym for "Judea, Samaria, and Gaza"). Wallerstein told the Israeli press that he was re [...] | 2010-02-02 20:29:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG IS |
10JERUSALEM25 | "ECONOMIC" SETTLERS PROTEST THEIR INCLUSION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent conversations, residents of "economic" settlements -- established to provide cheaper housing and higher standards of living than available in "Green Line" Israel -- objected to their inclusion in the Israeli government's settlement moratorium. Leaders in these comm [...] | 2010-01-06 15:41:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG IS |
10JERUSALEM341 | EAST JERUSALEM RESIDENTS AND ACTIVISTS ALARMED AS [...] (C) Summary. Municipality of Jerusalem inspectors, accompanied by Israeli police, served a total of 12 "notices of illegal construction" to residents in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem on February 24, according to one resident and anti-demolition activist. A municipality official [...] | 2010-02-24 21:05:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG IS |
10JERUSALEM342 | SETTLER COUNCIL CHAIRMAN: TWO STATE SOLUTION "NOT [...] (C) Summary. The Chairman of the "Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip," Dani Dayan, told the Consul General on February 22 that Dayan believed West Bank settlements are "irreversible" and that the two-state solution is not feasible. Dayan said he continues to [...] | 2010-02-24 21:13:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG IS |
10KABUL229 | BORDER ACTIVITY UPDATE: CUSTOMS, BORDER STRUCTURES, AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Effective control of its borders is critical to Afghanistan's security and economic prosperity. The Embassy's Border Management Task Force (BMTF) plays a significant role in building Afghan capacity to manage its borders, creating institutions for coordinating border plans; harmo [...] | 2010-01-24 09:24:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS EAID ETRD PREL EFIN EAIR AF |
10KABUL454 | AFGHAN BORDER AND TRIBAL AFFAIRS: MINISTER IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Acting Minister for Border and Tribal Affairs, Arsala Jamal, says he is attempting to transform a demoralized and weak ministry into one that will play an important and creative role both in developing the poorer border regions and in encouraging reconciliation and reintegra [...] | 2010-02-06 10:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PCON PBTS PGOV PINR PK AF |
10KABUL465 | ACTING COMMERCE MINISTER ENDORSES PRIVATE SECTOR AND TRADE [...] (U) Summary: In a January 31 meeting, newly-designated Acting Minister of Commerce and Industries (MoCI) Ghulam Mohammed Aylaqi told Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs Ambassador Wayne that the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) is his "highest priorit [...] | 2010-02-07 11:32:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ETRD PGOV PBTS EINV EIND AF |
10KABUL619 | SENIOR ECONOMIC ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT KARZAI SHARES VISION [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Economic Advisor to President Karzai Dr. Anwarul Haq Ahadi told USAID Mission Director Bill Frej on February 11 that he planned to set up a functioning structure to advise President Karzai on economic affairs and to carry out inter-ministerial coordination on economic iss [...] | 2010-02-18 12:46:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ETRD PGOV PBTS EINV EIND AF |
10KHARTOUM103 | Debrief of Chadian President's Visit to Khartoum [...] (SBU) Summary. Sudanese Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salah Eddin, met with Charge on February 10 to review Chadian President Idriss Deby's February 8 and 9 visit to Khartoum. Ghazi characterized the visit as a "breakthrough," and said that the formerly icy relationship between Deby and Su [...] | 2010-02-10 11:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PBTS PINS EAID SU CD |
10KHARTOUM105 | SPLM Presidential Candidate Arman on Election Prospects [...] (c) Summary. On February 11 Charge d'Affaires met with the Sudanese Popular Liberation Movement's (SPLM) Yasir Arman, Deputy Secretary General of the SPLM (head of Northern Sector) as well as the SPLM candidate for national president. An ebullient Arman charted an electoral calculus that wo [...] | 2010-02-12 10:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PBTS ECON ECIN EPET PNAT SU |
10KHARTOUM129 | (U) Vice President Taha Tells Special Envoy Impasse on [...] (C) Summary: In a February 21 meeting, Second Vice President Ali Osman Taha told Special Envoy Gration that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) parties had resolved the dispute over the census, giving the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) 40 additional seats, as well as an addition [...] | 2010-02-22 16:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PBTS KDEM KPKO SU |
10KHARTOUM96 | MISSERIYA MIGRATION BECOMING A CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a conversation with Poloff on January 12, Seth Kumi, United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) Civil Affairs Chief for Sector VI (Abyei),stated that many Misseriya are collecting in Abyei, unwilling to continue their southern migration. The Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPL [...] | 2010-01-18 10:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PBTS KDEM KPKO MOPS SMIG SU |
10KINSHASA260 | "Balkanization" conspiracy theory -- a challenge to PD [...] (SBU) Summary: The term "balkanization" has its own special meaning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it refers to a conspiracy theory that foreign interests seek to divide the DRC into smaller client states in order to facilitate access to the country's vast mineral reserves. M [...] | 2010-02-25 11:08:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | EMIN KPAO OEXC OPRC SCUL SOCI PBTS PREL PGOV PINS CG |
10KINSHASA33 | 2009 in review: On balance progress prevails, but barely [...] (C) Summary: 2009 did not commence auspiciously for the DRC. The country faced a critical security situation, both internally and with regard to certain neighboring countries; the specter of the global economic crisis threatened financial collapse; and weak political institutions appeared to [...] | 2010-02-02 09:17:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON MOPS MARR PHUM PREF EAID PBTS CG |
10KYIV120 | UKRAINE'S "OTHER" SECURITY THREAT - ROMANIA [...] (C) From the perspective of Kyiv, the Ukrainian-Romanian bilateral relationship is surprisingly troubled, with a wide range of irritants both great and small. The most neuralgic issues for Ukrainians are linked to concerns about Romanian irredentism (e.g., issuance of Romanian passports to U [...] | 2010-01-25 15:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS EWWT SENV NATO EU UP RO |
10LIMA77 | Peru Response to Georgia Demarche [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-26 16:25:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PNAT PREL GG RS XG PE |
10LONDON126 | SCOTLAND: INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM NOT MOVING [...] (SBU/NF) Summary and comment. First Minister Alex Salmond and his Scottish Nationalist Party-led (SNP) minority government are unlikely to introduce an independence referendum bill in the Scottish Parliament in January, as previously planned. According to well-placed sources, the SNP government's [...] | 2010-01-20 17:17:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PBTS UK |
10LUSAKA110 | REFUGEES AT MEHEBA OCCUPY UNHCR OFFICES TO PROTEST [...] (C) Summary: In early February, 200 refugees began occupation of the offices of UNHCR and Government of Zambia (GRZ) staff at Meheba refugee camp to protest wide-spread corruption by GRZ camp officials. The GRZ is considering deporting the instigators against UNHCR wishes. While the protest [...] | 2010-02-22 15:12:00 | Embassy Lusaka | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL PGOV PBTS AO CG ZA |
10MOSCOW338 | GOR MILITARY DOCTRINE PRESENTS LITTLE THAT IS NEW [...] (C) Summary: On February 5 the GOR released its new military doctrine. At the same time President Medvedev also endorsed the unpublished document "Basic Principles of State Policy in the Field of Nuclear Deterrence Up to 2020." The new military doctrine, divided into four parts, is similar t [...] | 2010-02-17 17:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINS PTER PARM PBTS MARR MCAP MNUC |
10OTTAWA29 | Canada's Conservative Government and its Arctic Focus [...] (C/NF) Summary: Since the day after his initial election victory in January 2006, Canadian PM Stephen Harper has continually played up his government's commitment to defending Canada's "North" (the landmass above 60 degrees North latitude represents about 40% of Canada's total territory, but only h [...] | 2010-01-21 16:52:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PBTS PGOV SENV CA XQ |
10PHNOMPENH103 | DAS MARCIEL REVIEWS U.S. POLICY WITH GOVERNMENT, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a wide range of meetings with Cambodian officials, opposition party members, NGOs and civil society, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Scot Marciel spotlighted stepped-up engagement by the United States in Cambodia while highlighting specific issue [...] | 2010-02-12 10:19:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS MARR TH CB |
10PORTLOUIS2 | PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF UNODC PRISON ASSESSMENT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 14, Glenn Ross -- the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) expert on prison and detention facilities -- carried out a capacity assessment review of the Mauritius Central Prison. This assessment was in response to a request by Prime Minister Ramgoolam (ref A). The a [...] | 2010-01-05 10:03:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EWWT PHSA PBTS KPIR MARR MP |
10PORTLOUIS24 | MAURITIUS, FRANCE, TROMELIN AND CHAGOS/DIEGO GARCIA [...] Tromelin is a low, flat, 200-acre scrub-covered island between Mauritius and Madagascar which is uninhabited (except for a few technicians at a weather station) and has no harbors. It is currently a French territory governed from Reunion -- but is claimed by both Mauritius and France (Mauriti [...] | 2010-01-27 07:24:00 | Embassy Port Louis | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PBTS TE FR IO MP |
10PORTLOUIS43 | PIRACY AND SEYCHELLES PENAL CODE [...] (C) Motivated in part by the capture and up-coming trial of eleven Somali pirates, the government of Seychelles is currently pursuing an amendment to the Penal Code that will specifically criminalize piracy and the conspiracy to commit piracy. It will also allow the prosecution in Seychelles [...] | 2010-02-17 10:07:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPIR MARR PHSA EWWT PBTS SO SE |
10PORTLOUIS44 | SOMALI PIRATES AND PRISON PROBLEMS IN SEYCHELLES [...] (U) SUMMARY: There was a riot at the prison in Seychelles where eleven Somalis accused of piracy are detained. The Somalis took no part in the riot and have, in fact, been model prisoners. Their case goes to trial March 15. They will be represented by a local prominent attorney. A plea bar [...] | 2010-02-17 10:15:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPIR MARR PHSA EWWT PBTS SO SE |
10PORTLOUIS46 | TIME FOR U.S. MOU WITH SEYCHELLES ON PIRATE [...] (U) This cable contains an action request for L; please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) The Seychelles government is pursuing an amendment to the Penal Code which will facilitate piracy prosecution (reftel). In addition, Seychelles is engaged in discussions with UN Working Group II regarding the p [...] | 2010-02-17 12:29:00 | Embassy Port Louis | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPIR MARR PHSA EWWT PBTS SO SE |
10PORTLOUIS47 | SEYCHELLES COURT FOR REGIONAL PIRACY PROSECUTION [...] Elements of the Seychelles government have begun discussions with UN Working Group II (led by Thomas Winkler) regarding the possibility of establishing in Seychelles a regional court for the prosecution of piracy. Cabinet officials have raised the issue in public, indicating that the governme [...] | 2010-02-17 12:37:00 | Embassy Port Louis | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KPIR EWWT PBTS SE SO |
10PRISTINA36 | KOSOVO: Visit of TIP/PISCES team [...] (SBU) Post welcomes the visit of the TIP/PISCES team during the first week of February. Since time is short, please advise detailed travel plans ASAP so that we can set up meetings and arrange hotel accommodations and airport pickup. 2. (SBU) POC for this visit is Victor Myev (Pol/Econ INL/ [...] | 2010-01-25 15:57:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR ASEC ELTN PTER SMIG PBTS PGOV KCRM KV |
10QUITO93 | Ecuador Response - Discouraging Recognition of Abkhazia and [...] (C) PolCouns raised recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia (Ref A) with MFA Multilateral Affairs Under Secretary Arturo Cabrera on February 11, noting that by chance an embassy poloff had met Abkhazia Vice Foreign Minister at a conference in Quito in December 2009. Cabrera said that the MF [...] | 2010-02-22 14:41:00 | Embassy Quito | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PNAT PREL GG RS EC XG |
10ROME64 | BREAKTHROUGH ON NUCLEAR SECURITY IN ITALY [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-15 14:43:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ENRG KNNP PARM OTRA PTER ETRD PBTS IT |
10SANTIAGO86 | CHILE RESPONSE TO GEORGIA DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Eduardo Schott, Deputy Director for European Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Schott was unaware of Ecuador's potential decision to recognize the independence of the Georgian separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. He will consul [...] | 2010-01-26 19:41:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PNAT PREL GG RS XG PE |
10STATE14132 | BUILDING BLOCKS FOR FEBRUARY 18 UNSC [...] (SBU) USUN may draw from the points and questions in paragraph three for the February 18 Security Council consultations on the Western Sahara. ---------- Objective ---------- 2. The U.S. objective is to indicate support for the UN-led process. --------------- Talking Points ---- [...] | 2010-02-17 19:13:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC AG MO WI PBTS |
10STATE9565 | (S/REL UK) ARGENTINE REACTION TO POTENTIAL [...] (S/REL UK) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS CONTINUE TO MONITOR DEVELOPMENTS IN THE OIL INDUSTRY CONCERNING POTENTIAL OFFSHORE OIL EXPLORATION AROUND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS AND THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR ARGENTINA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (UK). IN APRIL 2009, BUENOS AIRES SUBMITTED TERRITORIAL CLAIMS TO THE UNI [...] | 2010-01-29 21:20:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | PINR ENRG EPET MCAP PBTS AR UK |
10TBILISI103 | GEORGIA: NEW DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS IN PEREVI AND [...] (C) Summary and comment. The EUMM reported new Russian requirements that local residents of Akhalgori (an ethnic Georgian city on the South Ossetian side of the administrative boundary line) and Perevi (in undisputed Georgia, but occupied by Russian forces) must have documents in Russian or [...] | 2010-01-27 14:50:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS MOPS RS GG |
10TBILISI125 | GEORGIA APPROVES STATE STRATEGY ON OCCUPIED [...] (C) Summary. The Government of Georgia approved the "State Strategy on Occupied Territories: Engagement Through Collaboration" on January 27. The strategy presents the government's vision for engaging the disputed territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and preventing their isolation. Stat [...] | 2010-01-29 14:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS EAID RS GG |
10TBILISI72 | GEORGIA: TRYING TO WORK WITH TURKEY ON SHIP ISSUES [...] (C) Summary and comment. Georgia is willing to negotiate with Turkey to find a way forward on Turkish commercial vessel travel to Sukhumi, but is looking for cooperation from the Government of Turkey to resolve technical issues. The only Georgian redline is that all vessels stop at a port in [...] | 2010-01-15 15:20:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHSA EWWT MOPS RS TK GG |
10TOKYO119 | MOFA MIDDLE EAST DIVISION OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON [...] (C) MOFA's Deputy Director General for the Middle East Takehiro Kagawa told Political Minister-Counselor January 19 that the campaign finance scandal involving Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa might delay somewhat Diet deliberation of the supplementary budget request for [...] | 2010-01-20 08:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL ELTN EWWT MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER |
10TRIPOLI100 | HEAD OF LIBYAN IMMIGRATION: U.S. BUSINESSMEN ARE WELCOME CLASSIFIED [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-04 15:29:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CVIS CACS PBTS LY |
10YEREVAN103 | GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA GIVES HIS VIEWS [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Georgian Ambassador to Armenia believes the Government of Armenia (GOAM) is ratcheting up demands on the Government of Georgia (GOG) on the issues of border demarcation and the disputed churches to take advantage of Georgia's perceived weakness and delicate psychological st [...] | 2010-02-26 13:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PBTS KIRF SOCI GG AM |
10YEREVAN13 | COVER ME, COVER YOU? PM SARGSIAN JOINS RULING PARTY [...] (SBU) The recent decision by Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian, two of his ministers, and a cohort of their reformist colleagues to join the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) has the political rumor mill in Yerevan churning. Some pundits view the unexpected development as a move taken by P [...] | 2010-01-11 14:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS TU AJ AM |
10YEREVAN22 | ARMENIA'S CONSTITUTIONAL COURT APPROVES TURKEY-ARMENIA [...] (SBU) On January 12 Armenia's Constitutional Court ruled that the provisions of the Armenian-Turkish protocols on establishing diplomatic relations and developing bilateral relations are in compliance with the Armenian constitution. Addressing criticisms from opponents of the protocols, the Co [...] | 2010-01-14 05:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PGOV PREL TU AJ AM |
10YEREVAN41 | POGROM COMMEMORATIONS TO COUNTER BAKU'S [...] (C) During the past several weeks, extensive commemorations of the January 1990 pogroms of Armenians in Baku have taken place in Yerevan. The GOAM's sponsorship and support of the commemorations appears to be qualitatively and quantitatively higher than in recent years. Post learned that the [...] | 2010-01-26 11:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PBTS TU AJ AM |
10YEREVAN71 | ARMENIA-GEORGIA RELATIONSHIP POSITIVE DESPITE [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-10 08:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS SOCI PHUM GG AM |
66BUENOSAIRES2481 | EXTENDED NATIONAL JURISDICTIONS OVER HIGH SEAS [...] PRESS REPORTS AND VARIETY EMBASSY SOURCES CONFIRM NEW ARGENTINE LEGISLATION UNILATERALLY CHANGING SEAS JURIS- DICTION NOW UNDER ADVANCED REVIEW. REPORTEDLY LAW WOULD ESTABLISH SIX MILE TERRITORIAL SEA, PLUS ANOTHER SIX MILES OF EXCLUSIVE FISHING JURISDICTION, PLUS ANOTHER EXTENDED ZONE OF "P [...] | 1966-12-28 18:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIS PBTS AR |
85STATE317062 | STATUS OF MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND VESSELS [...] REFERENCE (A) SUMMARIZED U.S. GOVERNMENT POLICY AND PRACTICE REGARDING SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY STATUS OF VESSELS EMPLOYED BY THE U.S. NAVY'S MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND (MSC). RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE STRATEGIC SEALIFT PROGRAM NECESSITATE A REVISION OF THE POLICIES PROMULGATE [...] | 1985-10-15 21:02:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PBTS XX |
89STATE401887 | PANAMA: SHARING THE FACTS ON ATTACKS BY NORIEGA [...] (LOU) THERE FOLLOWS AN ACCOUNTING OF BASIC FACTS CONCERNING THE DECEMBER 16-17 INCIDENTS IN PANAMA IN WHICH A U.S. MILITARY OFFICER WAS SHOT AND KILLED AND ANOTHER BEATEN BY THE PANAMA DEFENSE FORCES (PDF). THE NORIEGA REGIME IS ALREADY EMBARKED ON A CAMPAIGN OF DISINFORMATION WHICH THE U. [...] | 1989-12-19 02:43:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS MARR PREL PM |
91STATE419544 | U.S. POLICY ON RECOGNITION OF FORMER SOVIET [...] SUMMARY. THE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCED USG POLICY ON RECOGNITION OF THE REPUBLICS OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25. FOLLOWING IS PRESS GUIDANCE THAT ADDRESSEES MAY USE WITH LOCAL PRESS AND OTHER CONTACTS. PARA 2 IS GENERAL GUIDANCE IN Q-AND-A FORMAT; PARA 3 IS THE TEXT OF THE [...] | 1991-12-28 18:44:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PNAT PBTS |
92USUNNEWYORK2987 | IRAQ DECIDES NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN UN BOUNDARY [...] FOR THE RECORD WE PROVIDE THE FULL TEXT OF THE IRAQI FM'S JULY 12 LETTER (S/24275, FAXED TO IO/UNP),SUMMARIZED REFTEL, IN WHICH IRAQ ANNOUNCES THAT IT WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE CURRENT SESSION OF THE UN BOUNDARY DEMARCATION COMMISSION IN NEW YORK. 2. BEGIN TEXT: LETTER DATED 12 JULY 199 [...] | 1992-07-16 01:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS UNSC KU IZ |
94STATE92114 | SURVEYS IN SWEDEN'S EEZ [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION CABLE IN RESPONSE TO REFTEL (A). SEE PARAGRAPH 2. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED: USNS KANE IS CONDUCTING UNCLASSIFIED MILITARY SURVEY OPERATIONS, NOT MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (MSR),IN THE EEZS OF VARIOUS BALTIC STATES INCLUDING SWEDEN. KANE IS MEASURING C [...] | 1994-04-08 04:13:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PHSA MARR PBTS PREL TPHY SW |
99CARACAS811 | COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA: COOLER HEADS PREVAIL [...] (C) THE DIPLOMATIC FLAP BETWEEN COLOMBIA AND VENEZUELA PROVOKED BY PRESIDENT CHAVEZ'S MARCH 10 PRESS CONFERENCE COMMENT IS OVER. VENEZUELAN FOREIGN MINISTER RANGEL AND HIS COLOMBIAN COUNTERPART HAVE WORKED HARD TO RESOLVE THE INCIDENT AND TO FOCUS AGAIN ON THE TASK AT HAND: MANAGING A COMPLE [...] | 1999-03-16 23:26:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PINS PTER CO VE |