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00ANKARA8112	TURKEY: 2000 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] (U) COMBATTING TERRORISM IS A MAJOR PRIORITY IN TURKEY'S FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC POLICY. THE GOT APPROACHES THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISTS WITH AN OUTLOOK SIMILAR TO THE USG'S INTERNATIONAL, COORDINATED APPROACH. THE DANGER POSED TO TURKEY BY TERRORISM IS ILLUSTRATED BY THE FACT THAT THE THREE POSTS OF TH [...]	2000-12-11 11:47:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PTER TU

00BEIRUT1411	ELECTION 2000: AMAL-HIZBALLAH MAKE A DEAL, [...] (C) SUMMARY: AMAL MOVEMENT AND HIZBALLAH HAVE MADE A SYRIAN-INDUCED DEAL TO DISTRIBUTE SEATS AMONG THEMSELVES IN THE UPCOMING PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS. IF THE DEAL HOLDS, HIZBALLAH WOULD HAVE A NET GAIN OF TWO SEATS, PLUS A STRONGER FIGURE IN A THIRD ONE. THESE EXPEDIENT PAIRINGS ARE TYPICAL [...]	2000-04-17 16:04:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL LE
00BEIRUT4016	SLOUCHING TOWARD THE GRAND SERAIL (II) -- [...] (C) SUMMARY: FORMER PM HARIRI IS EXPECTED TO BE NAMED VERY SHORTLY AS LEBANON'S NEXT PRIME MINISTER, WITH A NEW CABINET PRESENTED FOR PARLIAMENTARY APPROVAL WITHIN THE WEEK. THE GREEN LIGHT FOR HARIRI'S APPOINTMENT WAS GIVEN BY SYRIA FOLLOWING EXTENSIVE CONSULTATIONS IN CAIRO AND HERE OVER T [...]	2000-10-23 13:46:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LE SY
00DAMASCUS2976	ASAD SITREP 01: PRESIDENT ASAD HAS DIED; [...] (C) SYRIAN RADIO AND TELEVISION AT 1800 BROADCAST THE OFFICIAL SYRIAN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCEMENT TO PARLIAMENT THAT PRESIDENT HAFIZ AL-ASAD HAD DIED. THE SPEAKER OF THE PARLIAMENT ABD AL-QADIR QADDURA ANNOUNCED A FEW MINUTES LATER THAT A SPECIAL PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE HAD BEEN FORMED TO DISCUSS [...]	2000-06-10 17:19:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SY IS
00HANOI1160	A VIETNAMESE JANUS: THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FACES OF THE POLITBURO [...] (C) SUMMARY: VIETNAM'S KEY LEADERSHIP BODY -- THE CURRENTLY 18-MEMBER POLITBURO -- IS A LARGELY SHADOWY GROUP WHOSE MEETINGS, AND MANY OF ITS MEMBERS' ACTIVITIES, ARE HIDDEN FROM PUBLIC VIEW. THE FIVE SEXAGENARIAN MEN IN THE STANDING COMMITTEE, THE INNER CIRCLE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY'S POLITI [...]	2000-05-26 08:46:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON PHUM VM DPOL
00HANOI2084	VIETNAM'S DISSIDENTS: IRREPRESSIBLE IN FACE OF OFFICIAL HARASSMENT [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: MISSION OFFICERS RECENTLY CALLED ON SEVERAL LEADING DISSIDENTS TO ASCERTAIN THEIR SITUATIONS AS WELL AS THEIR VIEWS ON VIETNAM'S FUTURE. ALL REMAIN SUBJECT TO ONGOING OFFICIAL MONITORING AND HARASSMENT, ALBEIT UNEVENLY APPLIED. INTERESTINGLY, SECURITY AUTHORITIES, IN MOS [...]	2000-09-19 09:00:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PINR VM HUMANR
00HANOI2225	VIETNAM ON AN ASEAN TROIKA APPROACH TO BURMA [...] POLCOUNS AND POLOFF PRESENTED REFTEL POINTS 3 OCTOBER UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 02225 050421Z TO MFA ASEAN DEPARTMENT DEPUTY DIRECTOR NGUYEN HUU CHI. CHI SAID THAT, AFTER MEETING WITH UN SECRETARY GENERAL KOFI ANNAN, VIETNAMESE FOREIGN MINISTER NGUYEN DY N [...]	2000-10-05 03:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL VM BM ASEAN
00HANOI2480	VIETNAM WARILY LOOKS TO CHINA AS A MODEL FOR ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL REFORM [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POLCOUNS JAMES BRUNO; REASONS 1.5 (B) AND (D). ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) A STEADY STREAM OF VIETNAMESE LEADERS VISITING CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 03 HANOI 02480 01 OF 06 100541Z CHINA, MOST RECENTLY PRIME MINISTER KHAI AND THE ARMY CHI [...]	2000-11-10 05:39:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD ECON PINR VM CM CVR
00HANOI2777	BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE FIRST LADY'S FORUM: PROFOUND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE "TWO VIETNAMS" [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POLCOUNS JAMES BRUNO; REASONS 1.5 (B) AND (D). SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) THE DRAMA BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE FIRST LADY'S WOMEN'S FORUM REVEALS A GREAT DEAL ABOUT THE INSTITUTIONAL RESTRICTIONS ON WOMEN AND MEN IN VIETNAM TODAY. OVER LUNCH BEFORE THE EVENT, IN CANDID DISC [...]	2000-12-26 10:29:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWMN PREL PHUM SOCI ELAB PINR VM DPOL
00HANOI686	VIETNAM IDEOLOGICALLY COMMITTED TO STATE-LED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, WARY OF DANGERS OF GLOBALIZATION [...] (C) SENIOR LEADERS RECENTLY HAVE EMPHASIZED FAMILIAR IDEOLOGICAL THEMES ABOUT THE COMMUNIST PARTY'S PREEMINENT ROLE IN ALL MAJOR POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DECISION-MAKING. A FOCUS OF THIS CENTER-LED GOVERNING STYLE IS THE NEED FOR A STRONG STATE SECTOR TO GUIDE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. IN THE VIEW [...]	2000-04-05 07:48:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD PINR PHUM VM DPOL
00HARARE2198	S/E WOLPE DISCUSSES DISENGAGEMENT AND DISARMAMENT WITH MUGABE CONFIDANT [...] (C) SUMMARY: ZIMBABWEAN JUSTICE MINISTER AND MUGABE CONFIDANT STATES THAT THE VICTORIA FALLS MEETING WAS CALLED IN ORDER TO REMOVE ANY OBSTACLES TO CONTINUED FORWARD PROGRESS THAT MIGHT HAVE RESULTED FROM CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS SINCE THE RECENT KAMPALA AGREEMENT. ZIMBABWE AND NAMIBIA, HE ASSE [...]	2000-04-21 19:45:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR CG ZI
00HARARE2734	MDC STILL LIKELY TO WIN AT LEAST 20 PERCENT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: DESPITE A STATE-SPONSORED CAMPAIGN OF INTIMIDATION AND VIOLENCE, AND THE RULING PARTY'S CONTROL OF THE ELECTORAL PROCESS, THE MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) STILL IS LIKELY TO WIN AT LEAST 20 PERCENT OF THE 150 PARLIAMENTARY SEAT TOTAL (OR 30 SEATS) IN THE ELECTIONS NOW SCHE [...]	2000-05-23 08:17:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB PINR ZI MDC
00HARARE2865	ZIMBABWE'S COMMERCIAL FARMERS UNION SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR MULTILATERAL LENDING RESUMPTION [...] (C) ON MAY 30 AMBASSADOR, DCM, POL AND ECON OFFICERS MET WITH REPRESENTATIVES (FORMER CFU PRESIDENT NICK SWANEPOEL, AND FARMERS JOHN HAINES AND PETER HENDERSON) OF THE COMMERCIAL FARMERS UNION (CFU) WHO GAVE A READOUT ON RECENT CONFIDENTIAL CFU/GOZ DISCUSSIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS ON LAND INVASI [...]	2000-05-30 15:17:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EAID PGOV ZI
00HARARE2894	ZANU-PF LEGAL SECRETARY ON LAND INVASIONS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: ZANU-PF'S LEGAL SECRETARY, EDDISON ZVOGBO TOLD AMBASSADOR MCDONALD MAY 31 THAT THE "WAR VETERANS" WHO ARE OCCUPYING COMMERCIAL FARMS WILL BE REMOVED SHORTLY AFTER THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION AT THE END OF JUNE. IN RESPONSE TO THE AMBASSADOR'S EXPRESSION OF SERIOUS CONCERN, ZVOGBO [...]	2000-05-31 17:15:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM EAGR PINR ZI PREL
00HARARE2953	MINISTER OF STATE TELLS AMBASSADOR POLITICAL VIOLENCE IS ZANU-PF ELECTION STRATEGY [...] (C) SUMMARY: MINISTER OF STATE IN THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT RESPONSIBLE FOR INDIGENIZATION (BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT),CEPHAS MSIPA, TOLD AMBASSADOR MCDONALD JUNE 1 THAT ZANU-PF'S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION STRATEGY IS TO USE THE "WAR VETERANS" TO INTIMIDATE THE PUBLIC INTO SUPPORTING THE RUL [...]	2000-06-02 10:52:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAGR PINR ZI ZANU PF
00HARARE3078	POLITICALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENCE: SHOCKING [...] (C) SUMMARY: SEVERAL WHITE COMMERCIAL FARMERS AND BUSINESSPEOPLE TOLD AMBASSADOR MCDONALD JUNE 5 OF THE CONTINUING POLITICAL VIOLENCE ON THEIR OCCUPIED PROPERTIES AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS, DURING PRIVATE MEETINGS WITH THEM IN MASHONALAND WEST PROVINCE. A BLACK MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE [...]	2000-06-07 16:12:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAGR PINR ZI
00HARARE3094	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES STATE-SPONSORED [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A SERIES OF CALLS BEING MADE ON SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, ON JUNE 8 AMBASSADOR AND ECONOFF MET WITH SIMON K. MOYO, MINISTER OF MINES, ENVIRONMENT AND TOURISM, TO DISCUSS CONDITIONS IN ZIMBABWE RELATED TO THE ELECTIONS, AND OUR ABHORRENCE OF THE STATE-SPONSORED VIOLENCE AND [...]	2000-06-08 15:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI
00HARARE3095	LETTER FROM A CATHOLIC PRIEST ON ZIMBABWEAN [...] No summary [...]	2000-06-08 15:46:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM VT ZI
00HARARE3460	DESPITE STIFF COMPETITION, POTENTIAL FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON THE EVE OF THE JUNE 24-25 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS, THIS CABLE OFFERS POST'S PREDICTIONS FOR HOTSPOTS AND TOUGH RACES AMONG CONSTITUENCIES IN ZIMBABWE'S TEN PROVINCES. THE MDC IS EXPECTED TO FARE VERY WELL IN MOST PROVINCES, WITH ITS TOUGHEST CHALLENGE COMING FROM THE TRADITIONA [...]	2000-06-23 13:50:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ELAB PINR ZI
00HARARE3490	GOZ BEGINS ANNOUNCING RESULTS; [...] (C) INITIAL RESULTS OF THE JUNE 24-25 CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HARARE 03490 261725Z PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS WERE ANNOUNCED AT 1830 LOCAL TIME BY REGISTRAR GENERAL TOBIWA MUDEDE. THE THREE CONSTITUENCIES ANNOUNCED, ALL IN MATABELELAND PROVINCE, VOTED OVERWHELMIN [...]	2000-06-26 17:29:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS ZI
00HARARE3504	COUNTING PROCESS OF ELECTION VOTES IN ZIMBABWE [...] (U) PER REFTEL CON, THE FOLLOWING IS THE COUNTING PROCESS FOR VOTES IN ZIMBABWE FROM THE TIME POLLS ARE CLOSED UNTIL THE RESULTS ARE ANNOUNCED: -- THE PRESIDING OFFICER SEALS THE WOODEN BOX (ONLY ONE PER POLLING STATION) IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE LAST VOTE IS DEPOSITED. THE BOXES ARE SEALED WIT [...]	2000-06-27 15:05:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV ZI
00HARARE3680	SUSPECTED CIO MOLE RENDERS ZIMBABWE CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS INEFFECTIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: ISADORE ZINDOGA, WHO WAS ADMINISTRATIVELY PROMOTED TO SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE ZIMBABWE CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS (ZCTU) IN APRIL AFTER MORGAN TSVANGIRAI TOOK A LEAVE OF ABSENCE FROM THE POSITION TO LEAD THE MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC),IS WIDELY ACCUSED BY MANY UNIONISTS [...]	2000-07-07 09:45:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PINR PGOV PREL ZI
00HARARE3779	AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON MDC LEADER TSVANGIRAI [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A JULY 10 MEETING WITH THE AMBASSADOR, MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) LEADER MORGAN TSVANGIRAI AND MDC PARLIAMENTARY LEADER GIBSON SIBANDA OUTLINED THE PARTY'S PARLIAMENTARY AGENDA, WHICH INCLUDES LAND REFORM, THE ECONOMY, AND THE CREATION OF MECHANISMS FOR HOLDING THE [...]	2000-07-12 18:09:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM ZI MDC
00HARARE3910	ZIMBABWE'S NEW CABINET: MUGABE REARRANGES THE DECK CHAIRS ON THE TITANIC [...] (C) PRESIDENT MUGABE ANNOUNCED HIS NEW 19 MEMBER (DOWN FROM 27 MEMBERS) CABINET CONSISTING OF 19 MEMBER ON JULY 15. A NUMBER OF THE OLD GUARD, INCLUDING WOMEN, WERE JETTISONED IN FAVOR OF TECHNOCRATS AND PARTY LOYALISTS. OF PARTICULAR NOTE IS THE FACT THAT THE CONFIDE [...]	2000-07-17 15:35:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON ZI ZANU PF
00HARARE3941	FOREIGN MINISTER ZUMA SHARES VIEWS ON DRC WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: SOUTH AFRICA'S FOREIGN MINISTER DR. NKOSAZANA DLAMINI-ZUMA AGREED WITH SPECIAL ENVOY HOWARD WOLPE'S ASSESSMENT THAT NOTHING WAS MORE DANGEROUS FOR THE FUTURE OF THE LUSAKA PROCESS THAN ACQUIESCENCE TO KABILA'S REJECTION OF DRC FACILITATOR SIR KETUMILE MASIRE. ZUMA REVIEWED KABILA' [...]	2000-07-18 15:40:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS CF SF
00HARARE3959	FOREIGN MINISTER ZUMA SHARES VIEWS ON BURUNDI WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. SPECIAL ENVOY HOWARD WOLPE SHARED WITH SOUTH AFRICA'S FOREIGN MINISTER DR. NKOSAZANA DLAMINI-ZUMA JULY 17 USG CONCERNS ABOUT ACHIEVING A SUSTAINABLE PEACE IN BURUNDI. HE RELATED THE CONTENT OF HIS DISCUSSIONS IN CAPE TOWN WITH FACILITATOR NELSON MANDELA AND HIS WORD OF CAUTION TO M [...]	2000-07-19 09:05:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS BY TX SF
00HARARE4088	S/E WOLPE'S DISCUSSION WITH MFA U/S HAMADZIRIPI [...] (C) SUMMARY: GREAT LAKES SPECIAL ENVOY HOWARD WOLPE MET WITH MFA UNDERSECRETARY FOR AFRICA DAVID HAMADZIRIPI JULY 19 ON THE SITUATION IN THE CONGO. WOLPE EXPRESSED US CONCERN THAT THE LUSAKA ACCORDS WERE ABOUT TO UNRAVEL, PARTICULARLY IN LIGHT OF KABILA'S CONTINUING RESISTANCE TO MASIRE'S R [...]	2000-07-26 08:35:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CG ZI
00HARARE4362	WITH MUGABE IN CRUSADE MODE, THE STATE'S FUTURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRESIDENT MUGABE IS IN CRUSADE MODE, CAMPAIGNING FOR HIS PARTY'S CAPTURE OF THE PRESIDENCY IN 2002. HE HAS MADE CLEAR HIS LEGACY WILL BE THAT OF THE BLACK ZIMBABWEAN WHO FOUGHT AGAINST THE WORLD TO RETURN THE LAND TO HIS PEOPLE, REGARDLESS OF THE DAMAGE DONE TO THE COUNTRY AND [...]	2000-08-07 14:02:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAGR ECON ZI
00HARARE4389	POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE CONTINUES MOSTLY UNABATED [...] (C) THE AMANI TRUST, A RESPECTED HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORING ORGANIZATION IN ZIMBABWE, RECENTLY RELEASED A REPORT DETAILING THE CONTINUED VIOLENCE FOLLOWING THE JUNE 24-25 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS. THE TRUST PUTS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE ASSAULTED OR OTHERWISE VICTIMS OF RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE POST- [...]	2000-08-08 15:58:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV EAGR ECON ZI
00HARARE4884	AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW AGRICULTURE MINISTER [...] (C) AS PART OF A SERIES OF CALLS BEING MADE ON THE NEWLY APPOINTED CABINET, ON AUGUST 30 AMBASSADOR, ECONOFF AND USAID OFFICER MET WITH DR. JOSEPH MADE, CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HARARE 04884 01 OF 02 011043Z MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, TO MAKE INTRODUCTIONS AND DI [...]	2000-09-01 10:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR PREL PGOV ZI
00HARARE5052	CIVIL SUIT AGAINST PRESIDENT MUGABE [...] (U) THE FILING OF A CIVIL SUIT AGAINST PRESIDENT MUGABE CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HARARE 05052 111737Z LAST WEEK IN U.S. DISTRICT COURT RECEIVED PROMINENT COVERAGE IN ZIMBABWE'S INDEPENDENT PRESS. THE MEDIA FOCUSED PRIMARILY ON THE BASIS FOR THE LAWSUIT -- HUMAN [...]	2000-09-11 15:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ZI
00HARARE5270	GOVERNMENT RESORTS TO HAM-FISTED INTIMIDATION [...] (C) IN THEIR TWO-DAY RAID ON MDC OFFICES, POLICE AND CIO AGENTS SEIZED PAPER FILES AND DISKETTES, AND DOWNLOADED COMPUTER FILES. SEIZED DOCUMENTS INCLUDED THE MDC'S MEMBERSHIP LISTS, FUNDING SOURCES, STRATEGIES FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY LEGAL CHALLENGES AND THE 2002 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AND EV [...]	2000-09-18 16:44:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI ZANU PF
00HARARE5461	ZANU-PF REPORTEDLY INTERESTED IN DEAL WITH MDC [...] (C) ACCORDING TO A SENIOR MDC ADVISOR, THE OPPOSITION PARTY HAS RECEIVED ADDITIONAL FEELERS FROM ZANU-PF ABOUT MAKING A DEAL THAT INVOLVES PRESIDENT MUGABE'S DEPARTURE FROM OFFICE. MDC PRESIDENT MORGAN TSVANGIRAI IS REPORTEDLY WILLING TO AGREE TO A GRACEFUL EXIT FOR MUGABE BECAUSE IT IS IN ZIMBABWE [...]	2000-09-27 14:59:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS ZI MDC ZANU PF
00HARARE5829	ZIMBABWE RULING PARTY IGNORING CLAMOR FOR CHANGE AT ITS OWN PERIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: POLITICAL PUNDITS AND WOULD-BE REFORMERS ARE AGAIN RAISING THEIR HOPES THAT THE ZANU-PF EXTRAORDINARY CONGRESS DUE TO BE HELD BY THE END OF THE YEAR WILL RESULT IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF A SUCCESSOR TO MUGABE AND A REJUVENATION OF THE PARTY. THE POPULATION AT LARGE, VICTIMIZED BY T [...]	2000-10-13 11:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ZI ZANU PF
00HARARE6120	A ZANU-PF DEPUTY MINISTER AND MP'S INSIDER VIEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: ZANU-PF DEPUTY MINISTER (ENVIRONMENT AND TOURISM) AND MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT EDWARD CHINDORI- CHININGA PAID A CALL ON AMBASSADOR MCDONALD ON OCTOBER 30 TO UPDATE HIM ON HIS MINISTRY'S LATEST ACTIVITIES. CHINDORI-CHININGA, WHO IS PART OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION OF ZANU-PF POLITICIANS, [...]	2000-10-31 11:16:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ZI ZANU PF
00HARARE6189	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ZIMBABWE RULING PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON NOVEMBER 1, AMBASSADOR AND POLOFF MET WITH NEW ZANU-PF MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT SAVIOUR "TYSON" KASUKUWERE TO DISCUSS A VARIETY OF ISSUES, INCLUDING DEVELOPMENTS IN HIS PARTY. KASUKUWERE, A YOUNGISH BUSINESSMAN WITH STRONG PARTY TIES, SAID THAT THE LAND ISSUE HAD BEEN BLOWN OUT O [...]	2000-11-02 14:37:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ZI
00HARARE6658	ZANU-PF WINS MARONDERA WEST BY-ELECTION; LOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE RULING PARTY ZANU-PF CANDIDATE WON THE BY-ELECTION FOR THE MARONDERA WEST PARLIAMENTARY SEAT HELD NOVEMBER 25 AND 26. VOTING WAS PEACEFUL, BUT THE TURNOUT WAS LOW - JUST UNDER A THIRD OF THE REGISTERED VOTERS. DISTRICT RESIDENTS TOLD EMBASSY AND NGO PERSONNEL ON NOVEMBER 25 [...]	2000-11-28 14:58:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM ZI
00HARARE6661	MFA PERMANENT SECRETARY ASKS FOR USG GESTURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: DURING AN HOUR AND A HALF MEETING NOVEMBER 28 MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS PERMANENT SECRETARY WILLARD CHIWEWE SOUGHT AMBASSADOR MCDONALD'S SIPDIS PRACTICAL ADVICE ON HOW TO ENSURE THAT UNDP ADMINISTRATOR MARK MALLOCH-BROWN'S VISIT TO ZIMBABWE WAS A SUCCESS. THE PERMANENT SECRE [...]	2000-11-28 16:37:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAGR ZI
00HARARE6663	A/S RICE MEETS WITH FINANCE MINISTER SIMBA [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON NOVEMBER 16, A/S RICE, AMBASSADORS RENDER AND MCDONALD, AND ECONOFF (NOTETAKER),MET WITH FINANCE MINISTER SIMBA MAKONI FOR AN HONEST AND WIDE- RANGING 75 MINUTE DISCUSSION. TAKING PLACE ONLY A FEW HOURS BEFORE THE MINISTER PRESENTED HIS FIRST BUDGET TO THE PARLIAMENT AND THE [...]	2000-11-29 09:02:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL EAGR PINR ZI
00HARARE6803	SOUTH AFRICAN HIGH COMMISSIONER COMMENTS ON [...] (C) SOUTH AFRICAN HIGH COMMISSIONER A.J.D. NDOU TOLD AMBASSADOR MCDONALD AT LUNCH ON DECEMBER 2 THAT, WHILE HE HAD WORKED ON THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE MEETING AMONG PRESIDENTS MBEKI, OBASANJO AND MUGABE, HE HAD NOT BEEN BRIEFED ON THE SUBSTANCE OF THEIR NOVEMBER 30 MEETING. ACCORDING TO GODFRE [...]	2000-12-05 06:05:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAGR PGOV ECON ENRG ZI
00HARARE7164	ZIMBABWE RULING PARTY CRANKS UP INTIMIDATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE ZIMBABWE RULING PARTY IS CRANKING ITS VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION MACHINE INTO HIGH GEAR FOR THE BIKITA WEST BY-ELECTION NOW SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 13-14, 2001. THE BY-ELECTION IS BEING HELD TO REPLACE THE MDC MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT WHO DIED OF AN ILLNESS IN NOVEMBER. YOUTH DEVE [...]	2000-12-20 13:08:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS PINR ZI
00KINSHASA8491	ITT "ARTISTIC HERITAGE" [...] POST IS SORRY TO INFORM ECA/PE/V/G/A THAT MS.LUMUMBA DID NOT GET AN AUTHORIZATION FROM PRESIDENT KABILA TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY AND PARTICIPATE IN SUBJECT PROGRAM. 2. WE WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST THAT THEIR SLOTS BE REPLACED BY TWO POTENTIAL CANDIDATES FROM THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. [...]	2000-12-21 14:57:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL
00KINSHASA8554	VIEWS OF GOMA UN WORKERS [...] (C) Summary: Representatives of UN agencies in Goma believe the international community in general and the UN in particular are overly focused on the Congo war instead of on the deeper rooted problems of the Congo. While their analysis may in part reflect their own tunnel vision, it strongly [...]	2000-12-26 14:35:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PGOV CG
00LIMA2475	ALEJANDRO TOLEDO BIOGRAPHY: POLITICAL ASSETS AND [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR JOHN HAMILTON, REASONS 1.5 B AND D. 2. (S) SUMMARY: PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT ALEJANDRO TOLEDO'S CHARISMA, ABILITY TO APPEAL TO VARIOUS AUDIENCES, INCLUDING PERU'S INDIGENOUS AND POOREST COMMUNITIES, AND POSITIVE HUMAN RIGHTS AND ECONOMIC MESSAGE HAVE HELPED TO CA [...]	2000-04-25 12:30:00	Embassy Lima	SECRET	PINR PGOV PREL PE SECRET PAGE LIMA OF
00STATE228765	OPEN ASSIGNMENTS LIST OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT [...] BID DEADLINE: THE WINTER 2000-2001 AND SUMMER 2001 CABLES HAVE BEEN COMBINED. THIS CABLE PRESENTS THE OPEN ASSIGNMENTS VACANCY LIST FOR INFORMATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT POSITIONS FROM WHICH ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES SHOULD CREATE THEIR BID LISTS FOR THE 2001 SUMMER CYCLE. BIDDERS WITH A NOVEMBER 20 [...]	2000-12-01 20:45:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	APER
00STATE228767	OPEN ASSIGNMENTS LIST OF OFFICE MANAGEMENT [...] BID DEADLINE: THE WINTER 2000-2001 AND SUMMER 2001 CABLES HAVE BEEN COMBINED. THIS CABLE PRESENTS THE OPEN ASSIGNMENTS VACANCY LIST FOR OFFICE MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST POSITIONS FROM WHICH ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES SHOULD CREATE THEIR BID LISTS FOR THE 2001 SUMMER CYCLE. BIDDERS WITH A NOVEMBER 2001 [...]	2000-12-01 20:47:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	APER
00STATE228771	OPEN ASSIGNMENTS LIST OF SENIOR LEVEL GENERALIST [...] BID DEADLINE: THE WINTER 2000-2001 AND SUMMER 2001 CYCLE HAVE BEEN COMBINED. THIS CABLE PRESENTS THE OPEN ASSIGNMENTS VACANCY LIST FOR SENIOR LEVEL POSITIONS FROM WHICH ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES SHOULD CREATE THEIR BID LISTS FOR THE 2001 SUMMER CYCLE. BIDDERS WITH A NOVEMBER 2001 TED MAY ALSO BID [...]	2000-12-01 20:47:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	APER
00STATE228772	OPEN ASSIGNMENTS LIST OF MID-LEVEL GENERALIST AND ADMINISTRATIVE SPECIALIST VACANCIES, NOW THROUGH OCTOBER 31,2001. (COMBINED WINTER 2000 - SUMMER 2001 CYCLE). [...] No summary [...]	2000-12-01 20:48:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	APER
00STATE229013	OPEN ASSIGNMENTS LIST OF FS-01 GENERALIST AND [...] BID DEADLINE: THE WINTER 2000-2001 AND SUMMER 2001 CABLES HAVE BEEN COMBINED. THIS CABLE PRESENTS THE OPEN ASSIGNMENTS VACANCY LIST FOR FS-01 POSITIONS FROM WHICH ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES SHOULD CREATE THEIR BID LISTS FOR THE 2001 SUMMER CYCLE. BIDDERS WITH APRIL AND NOVEMBER 2001 TEDS MAY ALSO BID [...]	2000-12-01 23:08:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	APER
00STATE229567	OPEN ASSIGNMENTS - OUT-YEAR WORLD LANGUAGE [...] THIS CABLE UPDATES THE LIST OF POSITIONS INCLUDED IN THE OUT YEAR WORLD LANGUAGE PILOT PROGRAM. SOME POSITIONS WERE DELETED DUE TO EXTENSIONS, CURTAILMENTS OR ASSIGNMENTS MADE. OTHER POSITIONS WERE SUBSTITUTED WHERE POSSIBLE. 2. PLEASE REFER TO REFTEL A WHICH PROVIDES COMPLETE INFORMATION [...]	2000-12-04 15:28:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	APER
00THEHAGUE1664	ICTY: ICTY COMMENTS ON USG PROPOSAL FOR WITNESS [...] (U) Begin Summary: As a follow-up to Ambassador Scheffer's 28 March letter to the Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) regarding possible relocation of Tribunal witnesses to the United States (Ref A),Embassy legaloffs had discussions with represe [...]	2000-06-05 14:58:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM NL ICTY ICTR
00THEHAGUE1679	ICTY: JORDA PROPOSES "AD LITEM" JUDGES TO SPEED [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY: ALLEN S. WEINER, LEGAL COUNSELOR. REASONS: 1.5(B),(D). 2. (U) SUMMARY: JUDGE CLAUDE JORDA, PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA (ICTY),VISITED AMBASSADOR ON TUESDAY, MAY 30, TO PREVIEW PROPOSALS HE INTENDS TO MAKE BEFORE TH [...]	2000-06-06 16:18:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM HR SR NL ICTY ICTR
00THEHAGUE1693	DUTCH DISCOURAGED ABOUT EU EFFORT TO DEFINE FRY WHITE LIST [...] No summary [...]	2000-06-07 13:31:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL ETRD SR NL EUN
00THEHAGUE1735	SUBJECT: FY-2001 EMBASSY THE HAGUE [...] ON MAY 24, 2000, THE IV SELECTION COMMITTEE NOMINATED THE FOLLOWING SLATE OF IVP CANDIDATES FOR THE FY-2001. PRINCIPAL CANDIDATES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER: ------------------------------------------ - MR. HANS `ABMA' - MS. NEBAHAT `ALBAYRAK' - MR. ERIC `BALEMANS' - MR. SANDER ` [...]	2000-06-09 14:10:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL NL
00THEHAGUE1779	DUTCH THOUGHTS ON U.S.- EU VISA BAN AND SANCTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE DUTCH ARE PLEASED THAT THE 6/13-14 EU GAC ENDORSED MORE FREQUENT UPDATES OF THE EU SERBIA VISA BAN LIST. THEY THINK THEY NOW HAVE A POLITICALLY RESPONSIVE TOOL TO PRESSURE MILOSEVIC AND HIS REGIME. THEY STILL SUPPORT CLOSER EU COORDINATION WITH NON-EU STATES ON FINANCIAL SANCTIONS, [...]	2000-06-15 11:47:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC CVIS PHUM SR NL EUN
00THEHAGUE1868	SCENESETTER: VISIT OF CODEL GRAMM TO THE [...] Summary: With a booming economy, ample budget surpluses, and a rapidly declining national debt, the Netherlands is exceptionally well positioned for the coming of the euro. So far, businessmen believe that the benefits of the transition have far exceeded the costs, but the Dutch Central Bank [...]	2000-06-22 14:15:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP ASEC EFIN NL EUN
01ABUJA1244	In Depth Discussion on ECOWAS Capacity Building [...] (C) SUMMARY: AF/RA LTC Mike Bittrick discussed ECOWAS' capacity-building plans with newly arrived Deputy Executive Secretary Diarra and ECOWAS Military Advisor Dikio on May SIPDIS 14. Diarra outlined his vision and the responsibilities of his newly formed department. He identified areas w [...]	2001-06-01 06:18:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO MARR MASS NI
01ABUJA1365	OBASANJO DROPS FOUR MINISTERS, FOUR SENIOR ADVISORS [...] (C) On June 12, President Obasanjo dropped four Ministers and four Senior Advisors from his Administration, one spokesman framing the changes in terms of "accountability, performance, and integrity." So far, three replacements have been named for the Ministers, none for the Advisors. It appe [...]	2001-06-14 18:06:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON NI
01ABUJA1439	ECOWAS: KOUYATE'S OAU CANDIDACY (ROUND TWO) [...] (C) Ambassador Jeter met with ECOWAS Executive Secretary Lansana Kouyate on June 18. Regional issues, particularly Liberia, were the focus of their exchange (septel). Kouyate, in a private sidebar, also asked once again for USG support for his candidacy for Secretary General of the OAU, as [...]	2001-06-22 09:25:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NI ECOWAS OAU
01ABUJA1547	NIGERIA: AFTERNOON TEA WITH PRESIDENT OBASANJO [...] (C) After a several-week hiatus, Ambassador Jeter met with President Obasanjo for a relaxed, Saturday afternoon tea at the President's residence on June 30. A very positive and wide-ranging discussion ensued which included security assistance (Operation Focus Relief and MPRI),law enforcement [...]	2001-07-05 13:32:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PREL PGOV SNAR ETRD BEXP KCRM MASS NI
01ABUJA1957	(C) NIGERIA: PRIVATIZATION DIRECTOR TO QUIT JOB [...] (S) Summary. Ambassador Jeter hosted Nasir El-Rufai, Director-General of the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE),for lunch on August 1 to discuss the current status of the NITEL GSM Equipment contract. EconOff attended as notetaker. El-Rufai was very candid about his relationship with the [...]	2001-08-07 10:36:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET//NOFORN	EINV PGOV ECON PINR NI
01ABUJA1974	NIGERIA RESPONDS TO U.S. ICAO COUNCIL CANDIDACY [...] Sensitive but Unclassified, please protect accordingly. 2. (U) On August 6, Econoff presented Ref A demarche to Mr. Kabir Ilyasu, Minister-Counselor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Second United Nations Division (SUND). Ilyasu was aware of the upcoming International Civil Aviation Organiza [...]	2001-08-09 13:26:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAIR NI
01ABUJA2117	NIGERIA: BREAKFAST WITH PRESIDENT OBASANJO [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Ambassador Jeter and President Obasanjo discussed a smorgasbord of issues over a lengthy breakfast on August 24. The President said he would do everything possible to meet the counter-narcotics benchmarks, but he admitted that the Nigerian judiciary was broken and offered to r [...]	2001-08-28 12:47:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PREL SNAR ETRD BEXP MASS ECOWAS WCAR XF NI
01ABUJA2151	NIGERIA: GOVERNOR OF KEBBI'S THOUGHTS ON THE NIGERIAN POLITICAL SCENE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Governor of Kebbi, Mohammed Aleiro, called on Ambassador Jeter on August 26. Aleiro was in Abuja prior to his trip with President Obasanjo to China. In addition to a discussion of Kebbi-specific issues, Aleiro stated that he did not believe Babangida would run against Obasan [...]	2001-08-29 12:23:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAGR NI
01ABUJA2665	NIGERIA: LAW ENFORCEMENT MEETING WITH ATTORNEY [...] No summary [...]	2001-10-18 15:56:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR CJAN KCRM NI
01ABUJA2685	ILC BALLOT BID FOR NIGERIAN ATTORNEY GENERAL AND [...] This is an action request for IO and AF: see para 5. 2. During an October 16 meeting with Nigeria's Attorney General and Minister of Justice Bola Ige, the Ambassador learned that Nigeria had nominated Ige for a seat on the International Law Commission (ILC) and has been lobbying for his c [...]	2001-10-20 08:19:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM NI UN
01ABUJA2709	DRAFT 2001 COUNTRY HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT FOR NIGERIA [...] No summary [...]	2001-10-24 21:17:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB KSEP NI PHUM
01ABUJA2786	RADICALIZATION OF ISLAM IN NIGERIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Embassy interprets a "radical formulation of Islam" (reftel) as one which deems violence against Americans as licit for reasons of faith. Few in Nigeria have adopted this extreme view; however, there is widespread concern and significant anger among Muslims in Nigeria aga [...]	2001-10-31 13:23:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PTER KISL PHUM KIRF NI
01ABUJA2792	RADICALIZATION OF ISLAM IN NIGERIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Embassy interprets a "radical formulation of Islam" (reftel) as one which deems violence against Americans as licit for reasons of faith. Few in Nigeria have adopted this extreme view; however, there is widespread concern and significant anger among Muslims in Nigeria aga [...]	2001-11-01 11:35:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PTER KISL PHUM KIRF KPAO OIIP
01ABUJA2832	GOVERNOR THINKS NIGERIA HAS HIT A CRUCIAL PERIOD [...] (C) Summary: During an October 31 meeting with Polcouns and Poloff, Kaduna State Governor Ahmed Makarfi cited recent civil disturbances as very disquieting. In order to prevent further political turbulance, the Governors were assembling in Abuja that day to discuss means to cool down the inter [...]	2001-11-06 15:29:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL MOPS NI
01ABUJA2881	PDP: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH [...] (U) Introduction: The Peoples' Democratic Party, a hybrid from its inception, has been riven by internal power struggles, weakened by presidential interference, and now faces significant challenges gearing up for its own convention, much less the battery of local (2002) State and Federal (20 [...]	2001-11-14 15:09:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM NI
01ABUJA2938	NIGERIA: TRYING TIMES [...] (C) Summary: Nigeria has entered a period of unease. During the past several months, the country's political elite has been more attentive to political intrigue than the demands of responsible governance. As a result, civilian government faces multiple challenges. Communal clashes have engende [...]	2001-11-21 16:56:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PHUM NI
01ABUJA3162	NIGERIA: ESF PROPOSALS FOR FY 2002 [...] The following is Embassy Abuja's ESF funding proposals for FY 2002 FY 2002 ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUNDS U.S. Mission Nigeria Proposals Program Overview Nigeria has significant strategic value to the United States. The world's eighth largest oil producer, Nigeria ranks as the fifth la [...]	2001-12-11 16:11:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PGOV PHUM PREL NI
01ABUJA3207	ECOWAS: KOUYATE'S FUTURE [...] This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. (C) During a December 7 meeting (septel),ECOWAS Executive Secretary Kouyate told Ambassador Jeter that he would not SIPDIS seek a one-year extension as Executive Secretary. Kouyate thought it was time to go and did not want to stand in [...]	2001-12-14 14:53:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NI ECOWAS UN
01ABUJA3228	NIGERIA: NEW ELECTORAL LAW SPARKS CONTROVERSY [...] (C) Summary: President Obasanjo signed the controversial electoral law on December 6. By shifting local government elections from 2002 to 2003, the measure has pitted the National Assembly against the state governors in a struggle to gain influence over local governments and electoral politi [...]	2001-12-19 09:24:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
01ABUJA871	AMBASSADOR VISITS KADUNA [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Jeter paid his first official visit to Kaduna State on March 27 and 28. He met with Kaduna Governor Ahmed Makarfi, the Emir of Zazzau, Alhaji Shehu Idris, former Military Head of State General Muhammadu Buhari, Northern kingmaker Dr. Liman Ciroma and leaders in Musli [...]	2001-04-25 14:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV NI PINR ECON EAGR EMIN LY
01ABUJA983	NIGERIA WILL SUPPORT INCUMBENT ICAO CHAIRMAN AND [...] This is an action request. Please see para 6. 2. EconOff spoke with Chief Owodu, Technical Assistant to the Minister of Aviation, on April 25 regarding the election of ICAO Council President as requested Refs B and C. Chief Owodu said that Nigeria would support the incumbent, Dr. Assad [...]	2001-05-04 13:23:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAIR ECON NI
01BANJUL878	GAMBIAN ELECTION OFFICIAL RESULTS - JAMMEH [...] WE DEPLOYED A TEAM OF SIX IEC-ACCREDITED ELECTION OBSERVERS FOR THE OCTOBER 18 POLL. WE CONTRIBUTED OUR CDA, IROG, GSO, OUR PROGRAM COORDINATOR AND OUR POLITICAL ASSISTANT. IN THEIR CONTINUING TRADITION OF UNCONDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR US, EMBASSY DAKAR CONTRIBUTED THE DATT. CDA AND OUR POLITI [...]	2001-10-22 15:33:00	Embassy Banjul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM PREL GA
01BANJUL892	GAMBIAN ELECTION FALLOUT: ADMIRATION TURNS TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: A WAVE OF CRITICISM HAS REPLACED THE POSITIVE COMMENTARY HEARD IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE OCTOBER 18 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. THE UPC COALITION AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ALLEGE WIDESPREAD HARASSMENT AND UNREASONABLE ARRESTS SINCE THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE OFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS AND C [...]	2001-10-26 11:55:00	Embassy Banjul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL PINR GA
01BEIRUT758	HIZBALLAH-AMAL FORGE MUNICIPAL ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER/AMAL MOVEMENT HEAD NABIH BERRI, CORNERED BY SYRIAN SUPPORT FOR HARIRI'S STRUCTURAL REFORMS WHICH WILL HARM HIS PATRONAGE MACHINE, IS TRIMMING SAILS. HE HAS MET WITH ARCH-RIVAL HIZBALLAH SYG NASRALLAH AND COMPROMISES ON TWO BONES OF CONTENTION ARE EMERGING. [...]	2001-03-22 16:28:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL IR LE
01BOGOTA5539	FARC ANNOUNCE INTENTION TO RELEASE ADDITIONAL 250 [...] No summary [...]	2001-06-19 23:43:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER PGOV PREL CO
01CAIRO3303	EGYPT'S MUSLIM BROTHERS - PART I: HISTORY AND STRUCTURE [...] (C) THIS IS THE FIRST IN A TWO PART MESSAGE DISCUSSING EGYPT'S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD. PART 1 OUTLINES ITS HISTORY AND STRUCTURE, PART 2 OF THE MESSAGE WILL DISCUSS THE BASES FOR THE MB'S POPULARITY AS A POLITICAL FORCE IN EGYPT TODAY. EGYPT'S (ILLEGAL) MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, FOUNDED IN 1928, IS A PART OF [...]	2001-05-31 09:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PTER EG
01CAIRO3757	EGYPT'S MUSLIM BROTHERS - PART 2: A POPULAR [...] (C) IN THIS, THE SECOND OF TWO CABLES ON EGYPT'S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD (MB),WE LOOK AT THE BANNED MOVEMENT'S POPULARITY AND ITS SOURCES. DESPITE INTERNAL TENSIONS AND IMPRISONMENT OF THE MOST DYNAMIC OF ITS YOUNG LEADERS SINCE THE MID-1990'S, THE MB HAS ENJOYED AN UPSURGE IN POPULARITY, WINNING 17 PE [...]	2001-06-21 11:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PTER EG
01HANOI1020	GOVERNMENT, NATIONAL ASSEMBLY LEADERSHIP CHANGES TO FOLLOW SHAKE-UP IN SENIOR COMMUNIST PARTY RANKS [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POLITICAL COUNSELOR JAMES BRUNO; REASONS 1.5 (B) AND (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY: THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SESSION EXPECTED TO BEGIN MAY 21 OR 22 WILL UNVEIL A NEW ASSEMBLY CHAIRPERSON, LIKELY CPV ORGANIZATIONAL CHIEF AN. IT MAY ALSO GIVE CLUES AS TO THE RELATIVE STRENGTH OF RISING [...]	2001-04-27 11:37:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PINR VM DPOL
01HANOI1026	SOME HILL STAFFERS PUT HIGH PRIORITY ON WORKERS RIGHTS DURING RECENT VISITS TO VIETNAM [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY ECONOMIC COUNSELOR ROBERT W. DRY, REASON 1.5 (B) AND (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY: RECENT CONGRESSIONAL VISITS TO VIETNAM GAVE HIGH PRIORITY TO LABOR ISSUES. IN MEETINGS WITH VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS AND THE ILO, THE VISITORS HEARD WHAT VIETNAM IS DOING TO MOVE FORWARD IN WORKERS R [...]	2001-05-02 08:43:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PREL PHUM ETRD VM LABOR
01HANOI1882	ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM: EAP A/S KELLY BILATERAL WITH INDONESIAN SPECIAL ENVOY [...] CLASSIFIED BY DENNIS HARTER, CHARGE D'AFFAIRES, FOR REASONS 1.5 (B) AND (D). 2. CONFIDENTIAL ENTIRE TEXT. 3. ON JULY 26, ON THE MARGINS OF THE ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM, EAP ASSISTANT SECRETARY JAMES KELLY MET WITH DR. N. HASSAN WIRAJUDA, SPECIAL ENVOY OF THE INDONESIAN FOREIGN MINISTER. WI [...]	2001-08-07 02:04:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ID ASEAN
01HANOI2885	SPOUTING THE PARTY LINE ALONG ROUTE ONE [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POL/C SCOTT BELLARD, REASON: 1.5 (D) 2. (C) SUMMARY. PROVINCIAL AUTHORITIES ALONG ROUTE ONE EXPRESSED TO POL/C THEIR CONDOLENCES ON THE 9/11 TRAGEDIES AND OPPOSITION TO TERRORISM, SATISFACTION OVER THE BILATERAL TRADE AGREEMENT, AND DEEP OPPOSITION TO THE DRAFT VIETNAM H [...]	2001-11-05 09:52:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD VM CTERR BTA HUMANR
01HANOI3019	10TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SESSION: AN OVERVIEW [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY CHARGE D'AFFAIRES ROBERT C. PORTER, REASON: 1.5 (D) CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 03019 01 OF 03 160922Z 2. (C) SUMMARY. THE UPCOMING NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (NA) SESSION WILL CONVENE ON NOVEMBER 20. ITS IMPORTANCE TO THE US WILL BE PRIMARILY [...]	2001-11-16 09:19:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL ETRD VM HUMANR DPOL BTA
01HANOI3086	LIFE ALONG ROUTE ONE [...] (U) SUMMARY. ROUTE ONE IS BEAUTIFUL DRIVE BUT A SURPRISINGLY POOR NATIONAL ARTERY LINKING THE VARIOUS REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY. THERE IS LITTLE INDICATION OF MUCH USE OF LAND OR RAIL TRANSPORT FOR INTER-PROVINCIAL TRADE. SMALL-SCALE PRIVATE ENTERPRISE SEEMS TO THRIVE. RICE IS CLEARLY KING A [...]	2001-11-26 06:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI PINS PGOV ETRD VM
01HANOI638	LEADERSHIP OPTIONS BEING HASHED OUT IN CENTRAL COMMITTEE PLENUM [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POLCOUNS JAMES BRUNO; REASONS 1.5 (B) AND (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY: VIETNAM'S CENTRAL COMMITTEE HAS BEEN CLOISTERED AT COMMUNIST PARTY HEADQUARTERS THIS PAST WEEK, DELIBERATING ON THE FATE OF GENERAL SECRETARY PHIEU AND A NEW LEADERSHIP LINE-UP. IN THIS "SECOND SESSION" OF TH [...]	2001-03-19 09:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD VM DPOL
01HANOI762	USG OBJECTIVES IN THE NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS WITH VIETNAM [...] (C) INTRODUCTION: THE FOLLOWING IS THE FIRST OF A TWO-PART ANALYSIS OF THE STATE OF U.S.-VIETNAM RELATIONS. IT FOCUSES ON THE BACKGROUND OF "NORMALIZATION" AND WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED TO MEET USG AS WELL AS VIETNAMESE INTERESTS. IT WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A SECOND MESSAGE THAT DELINEATES A SIGN [...]	2001-04-03 10:11:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL VM
01HANOI905	CENTRAL COMMITTEE PRESSURES GENERAL SECRETARY TO STEP DOWN; ASSEMBLY SPEAKER MANH APPARENT SUCCESSOR [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POLITICAL OFFICER DAVID YOUNG; REASONS 1.5 (B) AND (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY: ONLY DAYS BEFORE THE NINTH COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS BEGINS APRIL 19, THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE HAS DEALT GENERAL SECRETARY PHIEU A SEVERE BLOW BY REFUSING TO RECOMMEND HIM FOR ANOTHER TERM. A PREFERENCE B [...]	2001-04-17 10:58:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR VM DPOL
01HANOI952	ACTIVITIES OF PHIEU AND MANH IN THE RUN-UP TO THE NINTH PARTY CONGRESS FORESHADOWED CHANGES [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POLITICAL COUNSELOR JAMES BRUNO; REASONS 1.5 (B) AND (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY: THE FIERCE JOCKEYING AMONG THE COMMUNIST PARTY (CPV) LEADERSHIP THAT PEAKED AT THE APRIL 19-22 NINTH PARTY CONGRESS HAS BEEN BUILDING FOR MONTHS. (REFTELS DETAIL OUR EXPECTATION THAT NATIONAL ASSEMB [...]	2001-04-20 11:19:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR VM DPOL
01HANOI965	NEW VIETNAMESE LEADERSHIP HEADED BY MANH BODES WELL FOR ECONOMIC REFORM [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POLITICAL COUNSELOR JAMES BRUNO; REASONS 1.5 (B) AND (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY: AS PART OF A MAJOR GENERATIONAL CHANGE IN SENIOR COMMUNIST PARTY RANKS, MODERATE NONG DUC MANH WAS OFFICIALLY INSTALLED AS VIETNAM'S SENIOR LEADER APRIL 23 AT THE CLOSE OF THE NINTH PARTY CONGRESS. [...]	2001-04-23 11:01:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PINR VM DPOL
01HANOI985	POLITBURO MEMBERS WERE PORTRAYED AS UNITED IN OFFICIAL MEDIA IN RUN-UP TO PARTY CONGRESS [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POLITICAL COUNSELOR JAMES BRUNO; REASONS 1.5 (B) AND (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY/INTRODUCTION: OVER THE PAST SIX MONTHS, IN THE RUN-UP TO THE JUST-COMPLETED NINTH COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS, VIETNAM'S OUTGOING POLITBURO MEMBERS WERE PORTRAYED IN STATE-CONTROLLED MEDIA AS UNITED IN T [...]	2001-04-25 10:48:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR VM DPOL
01HARARE1054	NEW ELECTIONS FOR ZIMBABWE'S UMBRELLA LABOR [...] (SBU) THE MARCH 18 EDITION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE (GOZ)-CONTROLLED "THE SUNDAY MAIL" RAN A FRONT- PAGE STORY STATING THAT THE JUST-ELECTED LEADERSHIP OF THE ZIMBABWE CONFEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS (ZCTU),ZIMBABWE'S INDEPENDENT UMBRELLA LABOR ORGANIZATION, WAS BEING PRESSURED TO HOLD NEW [...]	2001-03-19 14:56:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM PINR
01HARARE1096	ZIMBABWE'S NEW LABOR LEADERS PURSUE TRADITIONAL [...] (C) ON MARCH 21, LABOFF MET WITH THE NEW SECRETARY- GENERAL OF THE ZIMBABWE CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS (ZCTU),WELLINGTON CHIBHEBHE, AND THE NEW PRESIDENT, LOVEMORE MATOMBO, BOTH EXPERIENCED AND ARTICULATE LABOR ORGANIZERS, WHO INDICATED THAT THEY INTEND TO AGGRESSIVELY ENGAGE THE GOVERNMENT OF [...]	2001-03-22 10:52:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM PINR ZI
01HARARE1102	ZIMBABWE'S COMMERCIAL FARMERS AGREE AT CONGRESS [...] (C) ON MARCH 22, ECONOFF MET WITH COLLIN CLOETE, VICE PRESIDENT FOR COMMODITIES OF THE COMMERCIAL FARMERS UNION (CFU),TO DISCUSS THE RESULTS OF THE CFU SPECIAL CONGRESS HELD THE PREVIOUS DAY. THE ISSUE OF REPLACING THE CURRENT CFU LEADERSHIP (REFS A, B AND C) WAS NOT RAISED AT THE CONGRESS, [...]	2001-03-23 05:31:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR PGOV PHUM EAID PINR ZI
01HARARE1123	MDC LOSES FIRST ELECTORAL CHALLENGE [...] (U) ON MARCH 23, HIGH COURT JUDGE VERNANDA ZIYAMBI DISMISSED A PETITION BY THE OPPOSITION MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) SEEKING NULLIFICATION OF ZANU-PF'S PARLIAMENTARY VICTORY LAST JUNE IN THE ZVISHAVANE CONSTITUENCY. ZIYAMBI'S JUDGMENT WAS THE FIRST TO BE HANDED DOWN BY THE HIGH COU [...]	2001-03-26 14:48:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM PINS ZI

01HARARE114	REJUVENATION OF ZIMBABWE RULING PARTY UNLIKELY [...] (C) SUMMARY: ZIMBABWE'S RULING ZANU-PF HAS REENERGIZED ITSELF AND WRESTED SOME OF THE POLITICAL MOMENTUM FROM THE OPPOSITION MDC, BUT IT FACES AN UPHILL BATTLE IN MAINTAINING ITS MOMENTUM THROUGH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN EARLY 2002. ZANU-PF'S VICTORY IN THE MARONDERA WEST BY-ELECTION, TH [...]	2001-01-08 16:03:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ZI
01HARARE1178	ZIMBABWE: HOW PRESIDENT MUGABE WILL HANG ON TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE IS GEARING UP FOR WHAT WILL BE THE MOST DIFFICULT ELECTION OF HIS POLITICAL CAREER. MUGABE WILL USE ALL THE RESOURCES OF HIS OFFICE, THE RULING PARTY, AND THE STATE TO WIN RE- ELECTION AND DENY THE OPPOSITION MDC THE PRESIDENCY. THE PRESIDENT WILL USE A W [...]	2001-03-30 12:34:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS MCAP ZI ZANU PF
01HARARE125	ZIMBABWEAN OPPOSITION STRUGGLES TO COPE WITH [...] (C) IN RECENT WEEKS, THE INDEPENDENT PRESS HAS CRITICIZED THE OPPOSITION MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) FOR FUMBLING ALONG WITHOUT ANY SENSE OF URGENCY OR DIRECTION. MDC SECRETARY-GENERAL WELSHQ NCUBQTRONGLY REJECTED THE CRITICISM, SAYING SOME WERE UNDERSTANDABLY FRUSTRATED WITH THE DE [...]	2001-01-09 13:59:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS PREL ZI
01HARARE1354	MUGABE ANNOUNCES RE-ELECTION BID AND LASHES OUT [...] (C) PRESIDENT MUGABE, IN A ZIMBABWE BROADCASTING CORPORATION (ZBC) TELEVISION INTERVIEW THE NIGHT OF APRIL 17, AND THEN AGAIN IN HIS SPEECH AT THE OFFICIAL INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS IN HARARE ON APRIL 18, REPEATEDLY CRITICIZED BRITAIN AND WHITE ZIMBABWEANS FOR BEING THE PRINCIPLE CAUSES OF [...]	2001-04-19 14:47:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI UK
01HARARE1453	MDC WINS TWO PARLIAMENTARY LEGAL CHALLENGES [...] (C) IN A SIGNIFICANT LEGAL VICTORY FOR THE OPPOSITION MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC),HIGH COURT JUDGE JAMES DEVITTIE ON APRIL 26 NULLIFIED ZANU-PF'S PARLIAMENTARY VICTORIES IN TWO CONSTITUENCIES LAST JUNE -- BUHERA NORTH IN MANICALAND AND HURUNGWE EAST IN MASHONALAND WEST -- AND DECLARE [...]	2001-04-27 11:59:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM PINS ZI
01HARARE1584	MASVINGO TENSE AS CITY BRACES FOR MAYORAL [...] (C) THE VIOLENCE REPORTED REFTEL HAS CONTINUED UNABATED IN MASVINGO TOWN IN THE RUNUP TO THE MAYORAL ELECTION MAY 12-13, WITH CONTINUING SKIRMISHES BETWEEN SUPPORTERS OF THE RULING ZANU-PF AND THOSE OF THE OPPOSITION MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC). ACCORDING TO THE INDEPENDENT "DAILY NE [...]	2001-05-11 11:17:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINS ZI
01HARARE1585	ZIMBABWE'S INTERNAL POLITICAL SITUATION (C-NA1- [...] (C) BELOW ARE EMBASSY HARARE'S RESPONSES TO REF A TASKING QUESTIONS: A. (C) IT IS OUR ASSESSMENT THAT PRESIDENT MUGABE IS NO LONGER SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING A DEAL WITH THE OPPOSITION MDC THAT WOULD INCLUDE HIS EARLY RETIREMENT. (REF D SUGGESTED THAT LATE LAST YEAR MUGABE PUT OUT FEELERS TO [...]	2001-05-11 11:17:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ZI
01HARARE1620	OPPOSITION WINS MASVINGO MAYORAL ELECTION [...] (U) THE CANDIDATE FOR THE OPPOSITION MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) OVERCAME A CONCERTED CAMPAIGN EFFORT BY THE RULING ZANU-PF, INCLUDING SIGNIFICANT LEVELS OF VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION (REFTELS),TO WIN THE MASVINGO MAYORAL ELECTION MAY 12-13. THE MDC'S ALOIS CHAIMITI, A RETIRED ENGIN [...]	2001-05-15 15:09:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINS ZI
01HARARE1672	RECENT EVENTS IN ZIMBABWE UNDERMINE RULING [...] (C) SUMMARY: RECENT EVENTS IN ZIMBABWE ARE BEGINNING TO UNDERMINE A ZANU-PF THAT HAD BEEN INFUSED WITH NEW CONFIDENCE SINCE ITS DECEMBER 2000 CONGRESS. THE SUDDEN DEATH OF PARTY COMMISSAR BORDER GEZI, THE RESIGNATION OF INDUSTRY AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE MINISTER NKOSANA MOYO, THE LOSS OF THE [...]	2001-05-22 12:07:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR ZI
01HARARE181	VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION CONTINUE IN ZIMBABWE [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE LEVEL OF VIOLENCE IN BIKITA WEST-- WHERE A SPECIAL PARLIAMENTARY BY-ELECTION WILL BE HELD JANUARY 13-14 TO FILL A SEAT LEFT VACANT BY THE DEATH OF THE INCUMBENT--HAS CONTINUED IN RECENT WEEKS AS ZANU-PF SUPPORTERS STEP UP THEIR INTIMIDATION CAMPAIGN. WAR VETERANS AND ZANU-PF [...]	2001-01-10 15:04:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS PINR ZI
01HARARE2171	ZIMBABWE SLIDING OMINOUSLY TOWARD A POLICE STATE [...] (C) ZANU-PF HAS ESCALATED ITS INTIMIDATION OF OPPOSITION MDC LEADERS AND SUPPORTERS, AND IS MOVING TO ELIMINATE MANEUVERING ROOM FOR ALL OTHER INDIVIDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS THAT MIGHT THREATEN THE RULING PARTY'S CONTINUED HOLD ON POWER. IN THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS, ZANU-PF OR THOSE ACTING ON ITS [...]	2001-07-13 09:54:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ZI
01HARARE2311	ZIMBABWE RULING PARTY HANDILY WINS KEY BY- [...] (C) RULING PARTY CANDIDATE AND MASHONALAND CENTRAL GOVERNOR ELLIOT MANYIKA SOUNDLY DEFEATED OPPOSITION CANDIDATE ELLIOT PFEBVE IN THE PARLIAMENTARY BY-ELECTION HELD JULY 28-29 IN BINDURA DISTRICT. THE RULING ZANU-PF WIDENED ITS MARGIN OF VICTORY CONSIDERABLY OVER LAST JUNE'S PARLIAMENTARY EL [...]	2001-08-01 13:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR ZI
01HARARE2594	EDDISON ZVOBGO ON SANCTIONS, PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. ON AUGUST 30, DCM AND POLOFF MET WITH EDDISON ZVOBGO, ZANU-PF KINGPIN FROM MASVINGO AND ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT ANTI-MUGABE MEMBERS OF ZANU-PF. ZVOBGO QUIZZED US ABOUT POSSIBLE U.S. SANCTIONS THAT MIGHT BE LEVIED AGAINST MUGABE/ZIMBABWE/ZANU-PF IN THE WAKE OF FAILED 2002 PRESI [...]	2001-09-04 12:51:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN PINR ZI
01HARARE2614	ZIMBABWE'S ARMED FORCES RECRUITMENT AGES [...] PER REFTEL REQUEST, POST PROVIDES THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ON THE RECRUITMENT PRACTICES AND AGE RESTRICTIONS OF ZIMBABWE'S MILITARY FORCES. -- THE MANDATORY MINIMUM, VOLUNTARY RECRUITMENT AGE FOR MILITARY SERVICE IS 18. (ALL RECRUITMENT INTO THE MILITARY IS VOLUNTARY AND THERE IS NO DRAFT [...]	2001-09-05 13:51:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PHUM ZI
01HARARE2642	SCENESETTER FOR BULAWAYO MAYORAL VOTE AND TWO BY- [...] (C) THE VOTERS OF BULAWAYO WILL CHOOSE A NEW MAYOR AND THE VOTERS OF MAKONI WEST A NEW MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT SEPTEMBER 8-9, WHILE CHIKOMBA WILL CHOOSE A SUCCESSOR TO THE LATE WAR VETERAN LEADER CHENJERAI "HITLER" HUNZVI IN A BY-ELECTION SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 22-23. THE PRE-ELECTION PERIOD HA [...]	2001-09-07 10:48:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI
01HARARE2678	MDC WINS BULAWAYO IN LANDSLIDE BUT LOSES MAKONI WEST [...] (U) AS EXPECTED, THE OPPOSITION MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) SWEPT THE SEPTEMBER 8-9 ELECTIONS IN BULAWAYO, WINNING THE MAYORAL RACE AND ALL SEVEN CITY COUNCIL SEATS UNDER CONTENTION BY A LANDSLIDE. THE MDC'S MAYORAL CANDIDATE, JAPHET NDABENI-NCUBE, WON 83 PERCENT OF THE VOTES CAST (R [...]	2001-09-12 09:09:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI
01HARARE2692	IMF ARTICLE IV REVIEW TEAM PROVIDES A BLEAK OUTBRIEF [...] (C) ON SEPTEMBER 12 THE IMF RESREP, GERALD JOHNSON, AND THE NEW IMF COUNTRY TEAM LEADER, DAVID COE (REPLACING PAULO NEUHAUSS),PROVIDED THE DCM AND ECONOFF WITH AN OUTBRIEF ON THE TEAM'S TWO WEEK ARTICLE IV REVIEW OF ZIMBABWE. COE PROVIDED NO SURPRISES OR BOMBSHELLS, AND LAID OUT AN ASSESSMEN [...]	2001-09-13 13:19:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV ZI
01HARARE3236	MEDIA REPORT - COMMONWEALTH AND EU PRESSURES ON [...] EDITORIALS IN THE OCTOBER 25 EDITIONS OF THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY "THE FINANCIAL GAZETTE," AND THE TWO GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED DAILIES "THE HERALD" AND THE "CHRONICLE," FOCUS ON ZIMBABWE'S RELATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE COMMONWEALTH. EXCERPTS FOLLOW: 2. UNDER HEADLINE [...]	2001-10-29 12:46:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ZI PREL PHUM OCII
01HARARE3303	IMPROVING AND OBSERVING THE ELECTION PROCESS [...] (C) THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE AND THE RULING ZANU-PF UTILIZED VIOLENCE, INTIMIDATION AND MANIPULATION IN LAST YEAR'S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION, BUT STILL LOST ALMOST HALF THE VOTE TO A STRONG MDC OPPOSITION CAMPAIGN. THAT ELECTION WAS MONITORED BY A STRONG GROUP OF ZIMBABWEAN MONITORS, LED BY T [...]	2001-11-05 13:27:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ZI
01HARARE3365	MEDIA REPORT 2002 PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT; HARARE [...] ALTHOUGH NO DATE HAS BEEN SET FOR THE 2002 PRESIDENTIAL POLL DUE EARLY NEXT YEAR, THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA HAS STARTED RUNNING EDITORIAL COMMENTARIES FOCUSING ON THE LANDMARK PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT. FOLLOWING ARE EXCERPTS FROM EDITORIALS FOCUSING ON THE DEBATE OVER PROPOSED AMENDMENTS [...]	2001-11-13 12:36:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ZI PREL PHUM
01HARARE3398	NEW ZIMBABWE SURVEY PORTENDS CLOSE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (U) IN ITS NOVEMBER 8-14 EDITION, THE INDEPENDENT "FINANCIAL GAZETTE" IN A SPECIAL INSERT PUBLISHED THE RESULTS OF A NATIONWIDE OPINION SURVEY IT COMMISSIONED TO DETERMINE SUPPORT FOR ZIMBABWE'S LEADING PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. THE RAW UNWEIGHTED DATA SHOW THAT 33.5 PERCENT OF RESPONDENTS PL [...]	2001-11-14 14:24:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ZI
01HARARE3410	ZIMBABWE: FEW CHANGES EXPECTED AT UPCOMING [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE ZIMBABWE RULING PARTY'S ANNUAL CONFERENCE HAS BEEN SCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER 13-16 IN VICTORIA FALLS. NO MAJOR CHANGES IN THE ZANU-PF LEADERSHIP ARE EXPECTED TO BE ANNOUNCED, AND THE CONFERENCE IS LIKELY TO REAFFIRM PRESIDENT MUGABE AS THE PARTY'S CANDIDATE FOR NEXT YEAR'S ELEC [...]	2001-11-15 12:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ZI
01HARARE3439	AMBASSADOR'S DISCUSSION WITH INFLUENTIAL ZANU-PF [...] (C) IN A NOVEMBER 12 CONVERSATION WITH THE AMBASSADOR AND POLITICAL SECTION CHIEF, ZANU-PF POLITBURO MEMBER SOLOMON MUJURU SAID HE WAS PROUD OF HIS ROLE IN ENSURING THAT THE SEPTEMBER BY- ELECTION IN CHIKOMBA (HIS HOME BASE) WAS THE MOST PEACEFUL BY- ELECTION SINCE JUNE 2000. HE TOLD US THAT [...]	2001-11-17 07:59:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
01HARARE3539	PRESIDENT MUGABE WALKS OUT ON EU TEAM [...] (C) A SENIOR EU TEAM HAD A VERY ROCKY MEETING WITH PRESIDENT MUGABE ON NOVEMBER 23. THE PARTICIPANTS ENGAGED IN A NORMAL DIPLOMATIC DISCUSSION OF THE DRC INTERNAL DIALOGUE AND THE INVOLVEMENT OF FOREIGN TROOPS IN DRC, BUT MUGABE BECAME INCREASINGLY IRRITATED AS THE CONVERSATION SHIFTED TO THE [...]	2001-11-26 12:52:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ZI
01HARARE3630	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTION WITH ELECTORAL [...] (C) ELECTORAL SUPERVISORY COMMISSION (ESC) CHAIRMAN SOBUSA GULA-NDEBELE TOLD THE AMBASSADOR ON NOVEMBER 29 THAT THE CONSTITUTION AND ZIMBABWEAN LAW ARE VAGUE ABOUT THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ESC AND THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL FOR ELECTIONS, AND ACKNOWLEDGED PREVIOUS DIFFICULTIES BETWEEN THE TWO E [...]	2001-12-04 14:37:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ZI
01HARARE3635	LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH FROM ACTING PRESIDENT [...] (C) IN A DECEMBER 5 MEETING WITH THE AMBASSADOR, MFA DIVISION DIRECTOR FOR EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS DELIVERED A LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH FROM ACTING PRESIDENT SIMON MUZENDA. THIS IS LIKELY THE LETTER PROMISED BY ZANU-PF INFORMATION SECRETARY NATHAN SHAMUYARIRA IN A NOVEMBER 20 MEETING WITH TH [...]	2001-12-05 13:28:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	OPDC PREL ZI
01HARARE3666	MEDIA REPORT ZDERA; HARARE [...] THE GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED DAILY "CHRONICLE" DEDICATED ITS DECEMBER 8 EDITORIAL TO CONDEMN THE ZIMBABWE DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY ACT (ZDERA) OF 2001. UNDER HEADLINE "DEMOCRACY BILL, A BULLYING TACTIC," THE PAPER COMMENTS: 2. ". . .IT IS STRANGE THAT THERE SHOULD BE [...]	2001-12-11 07:00:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ZI PREL PHUM
01HARARE3688	MUGABE SAYS ZIMBABWE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WILL [...] (U) PRESIDENT MUGABE TOLD VISITING SADC MINISTERS AND A NIGERIAN NGO IN HARARE THAT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WILL TAKE PLACE IN MARCH 2002, ACCORDING TO THE GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED PRINT AND BROADCAST MEDIA. MUGABE DID NOT PROVIDE SPECIFIC DATES, AS THESE WILL BE SET LATER BY THE REGISTRAR-GE [...]	2001-12-12 14:41:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ZI
01HARARE3689	ZIMBABWE OPPOSITION WINS A THIRD MAYORAL [...] (U) IN DECEMBER 8-9 POLLING, THE OPPOSITION MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) WON ITS THIRD MAYORAL ELECTION IN NINE MONTHS IN THE TOWN OF CHEGUTU, WHICH IS ABOUT 100 KM SOUTHWEST OF HARARE IN THE TRADITIONAL RULING PARTY STRONGHOLD OF MASHONALAND WEST PROVINCE. MDC CANDIDATE BLESSING DHLA [...]	2001-12-12 14:41:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR PGOV PINR ZI
01HARARE3690	A/S KANSTEINER DELIVERS TOUGH MESSAGE TO [...] (C) IN MEETINGS DECEMBER 10-11 WITH SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT EMMERSON MNANGAGWA, FOREIGN MINISTER STANISLAUS MUDENGE, AND FINANCE MINISTER SIMBA MAKONI -- AF ASSISTANT SECRETARY KANSTEINER EXPLAINED ZDERA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS. SIPDIS HE EMPHASIZED THAT THERE IS STILL TIME FOR THE GOVERNMENT O [...]	2001-12-12 15:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR ZI
01HARARE3730	A/S KANSTEINER DELIVERS MESSAGE OF SUPPORT TO [...] (C) DURING HIS DECEMBER 10-11 VISIT TO HARARE, AF ASSISTANT SECRETARY MET WITH A RANGE OF INDIVIDUALS OUTSIDE GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING MDC LEADER MORGAN TSVANGIRAI, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE WILSON SANDURA, UNDP RESREP VICTOR ANGELO, COMMERCIAL FARMERS UNION (CFU) OFFICIALS, AND REPRESENTATIVES OF H [...]	2001-12-14 09:48:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ZI
01HARARE3813	ZIMBABWE PARLIAMENT POSTPONES PASSAGE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON DECEMBER 20, THE ZIMBABWE PARLIAMENT ADJOURNED FOR THE HOLIDAYS WITHOUT PASSING KEY LEGISLATION DESIGNED TO TILT THE ELECTORAL PLAYING FIELD IN FAVOR OF THE RULING PARTY. THE GENERAL LAWS AMENDMENT BILL, WHICH INCLUDES SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENTS TO THE ELECTORAL ACT, THE PUBLIC O [...]	2001-12-21 10:13:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI
01HARARE507	MDC MP URGES INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO GET TOUGH [...] (C) MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) MP DAVID COLTART TOLD POLOFFS ON JANUARY 24 THAT ZIMBABWE'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION MUST BE HELD BETWEEN JANUARY 1 AND MARCH 31, 2002, AND SAID ANY ATTEMPT TO CALL AN EARLIER ELECTION WOULD BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL. HE CLAIMED THAT THE MDC HAS THE SUPPORT TO [...]	2001-01-25 05:34:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS ZI
01HARARE524	DEALING WITH ROBERT MUGABE, THE CONSUMMATE SURVIVOR [...] (C) OVER THE NEXT YEAR, PRESIDENT MUGABE WILL FACE HIS GREATEST CHALLENGE IN 20 YEARS TO STAYING IN POWER. A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, IN WHICH MUGABE INTENDS TO RUN, IS SLATED FOR EARLY 2002. HE MUST CONTEND WITH A SIZABLE AND RELATIVELY UNIFIED POLITICAL OPPOSITION, A COSTLY AND UNPOPULAR INT [...]	2001-01-26 09:03:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON PINR ZI
01HARARE573	ZIMBABWE LABOR FEDERATION LEADER SEEKS TO SEVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE ZIMBABWE CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS (ZCTU) WILL HOLD ITS FIVE-YEAR CONGRESS IN FEBRUARY. THE CONGRESS WILL FOCUS ON ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES, AND ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL TOPICS. THE ISSUE OF ZCTU TIES TO THE OPPOSITION MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) WILL NOT BE A FORMAL AGENDA I [...]	2001-01-30 07:38:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PREL EAGR PGOV EAID ZI
01HARARE612	ZIMBABWE LABOR FEDERATION OFFICIAL INSISTS THAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE ZIMBABWE CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS (ZCTU) BELIEVES THAT THE LABOR FEDERATION WILL MAINTAIN ITS CLOSE TIES TO THE OPPOSITION MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) PARTY AFTER ITS FEBRUARY CONGRESS. HE IS ALSO OF THE OPINION THAT THE CONGRESS WI [...]	2001-01-31 14:43:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM PINR
01HARARE661	ZANU-PF SEEKS TO NEUTRALIZE LABOR SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) ON FEBRUARY 1, CHARGE, ACCOMPANIED BY POLOFF AND LABOFF, MET WITH BRIAN RAFTOPOULOS (PROTECT),A RESEARCH FELLOW IN THE INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE, AND AN INSIGHTFUL CONTACT REGARDING THE LOCAL POLITICAL SCENE. RAFTOPOULOS TOLD US THAT HE HAS NO DOUBTS [...]	2001-02-07 15:07:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM PINR
01HARARE694	ANOTHER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE IS SHOWN THE DOOR [...] (C) AFTER FORCING SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE ANTHONY GUBBAY INTO EARLY RETIREMENT ON FEBRUARY 2 (REFTEL),THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOW TURNED ITS ATTENTION TO GUBBAY'S FOUR COLLEAGUES ON ZIMBABWE'S HIGHEST BENCH. ON FEBRUARY 9, JUSTICE MINISTER PATRICK CHINAMASA ASKED FOR THE RESIGNATION OF JUSTI [...]	2001-02-09 11:44:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS PINR ZI
01HARARE782	CONTINUED INDEPENDENCE OF ZIMBABWE LABOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE CONTINUED INDEPENDENCE OF THE ZIMBABWE CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS (ZCTU) FROM THE RULING ZANU-PF PARTY, AND ITS SUPPORT FOR THE OPPOSITION MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC),HINGES ON THE UPCOMING CONGRESS, ACCORDING TO SENIOR OFFICIALS OF THE UMBRELLA LABOR ORGANIZATION. ZA [...]	2001-02-21 10:05:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM PINR ZI
01HARARE788	ZIMBABWE NON-COMMITTAL ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR [...] (C) PER REF INSTRUCTIONS, POLOFF, ON FEBRUARY 21, DELIVERED TALKING POINTS TO MUNYARADZI MOTSI, THE ACTING UNDERSECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN ZIMBABWE'S MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. MOTSI ASKED A FEW GENERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE U.S. CANDIDATE FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA TRIBUNAL [...]	2001-02-21 12:37:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ZI
01HARARE816	UNENTHUSIASTIC ZIMBABWE RULING PARTY TRYING TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE MAJORITY OF ZIMBABWE'S RULING ZANU- PF PARTY MEMBERS ARE UNHAPPY WITH PRESIDENT MUGABE AND THE WAY HE IS RUNNING THE COUNTRY, BUT THEY WILL NOT OFFER MORE THAN PASSIVE RESISTANCE TO HIS DESTRUCTIVE POLICIES, OUR CONTACTS TELL US. THERE IS NOT LIKELY TO BE MUCH ENTHUSIASM FOR [...]	2001-02-23 11:34:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM ZI ZANU PF
01HARARE846	ZIMBABWE LABOR FEDERATION ELECTS NEW LEADERS, [...] (U) THE ZIMBABWE CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS (ZCTU) FIVE-YEAR CONGRESS, HELD ON FEBRUARY 23 AND 24, RESULTED IN THE ELECTION OF A NEW EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND AN AFFIRMATION THAT THE FEDERATION IS NON-PARTISAN. ALL INDICATIONS ARE THAT THE CONGRESS WENT SMOOTHLY, AND THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF AN O [...]	2001-02-26 15:03:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM PINR ZI
01HARARE847	ZIMBABWE RULING PARTY MODERATES BOYCOTT "SHAM" [...] (C) MODERATES ALIGNED TO MASVINGO ZANU-PF "SUPREMO" EDDISON ZVOBGO BOYCOTTED FEBRUARY 24'S PROVINCIAL PARTY ELECTIONS BECAUSE THEY WERE A "SHAM." THE ZANU-PF FACTION ALIGNED WITH MASVINGO GOVERNOR JOSIAH HUNGWE, WHO IS AN ALLY OF PRESIDENT MUGABE AND VICE-PRESIDENT MUZENDA, WERE ELECTED TO T [...]	2001-02-26 16:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM ZI
01HARARE859	ZCTU UNION LEADER CONFIRMS THAT LABOR CONGRESS [...] (C) ACCORDING TO A HIGH-LEVEL UNION OFFICIAL WHO IS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE OPPOSITION PARTY'S NATIONAL EXECUTIVE, THE JUST-ENDED ZIMBABWE CONGRESS OF TRADE UNION'S (ZCTU) FIVE-YEAR CONGRESS RESULTED IN THE ELECTION OF A NATIONAL EXECUTIVE BODY THAT SOLIDLY SUPPORTS THE MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CH [...]	2001-02-28 05:43:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM PINR ZI
01HARARE862	ZIMBABWE'S AFL-CIO SOLIDARITY CENTER HEAD [...] (C) ON FEBRUARY 27, LABOFF MET WITH GEBRE GEBREMARIAM, THE AMCIT REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE AFL-CIO FUNDED AMERICAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL LABOR SOLIDARITY IN HARARE, TO DISCUSS THE JUST-ENDED ZIMBABWE CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS' (ZCTU) FIVE-YEAR CONGRESS. GEBREMARIAM INDICATED THAT THE EL [...]	2001-02-28 09:58:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM PINR ZI
01HARARE969	MEETING WITH LEADERS OF THE MOVEMENT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON MARCH 9, ACTING PRINCIPAL DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY MARK BELLAMY HELD DISCUSSIONS WITH MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE (MDC) PRESIDENT MORGAN TSVANGIRAI ON THE STATE OF ZIMBABWE'S POLITICAL CRISIS SIPDIS AND WHAT CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE THE U.S. COULD PLAY, IF ANY, TO HELP RESOLV [...]	2001-03-09 15:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ZI SA MDC
01HARARE975	ZIMBABWE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION RACE DOWN TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: ZIMBABWE'S PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION RACE HAS NARROWED TO TWO PEOPLE SHOULD PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE DECIDE NOT TO RUN FOR REELECTION IN THE EARLY 2002 RACE. SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT EMMERSON MNANGAGWA IS IN THE STRONGEST POSITION TO TAKE OVER THE COUNTRY'S REINS, WITH HIS VERY CLOSE [...]	2001-03-12 09:46:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM ZI
01HOCHIMINHCITY616	NEW SLATE OF HCMC LEADERS WILL STAY THE COURSE [...] REF A REPORTED THAT LE THANH HAI, FIRST VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE HCMC PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE, WAS ONE OF TWO FRONT RUNNERS TO REPLACE VO VIET THANH FOR THE JOB OF CHAIRMAN OF THE PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE. ON MAY 18, IN AN IRREGULAR SESSION OF THE HCMC PEOPLE'S COUNCIL, HAI WAS SELECTED THE NEW CHAIRMAN. T [...]	2001-05-22 06:37:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR VM DPOL
01KINSHASA703	GOVERNMENT DISMISSED: STEP ONE IN CABINET [...] (C) "CURRENT AFFAIRS ONLY" --------------------------------- WE UNDERSTAND THAT ON FEBRUARY 7 PRESIDENT JOSEPH KABILA FORMALLY NOTIFIED ALL MEMBERS OF THE CABINET THAT THEY ARE DISMISSED AS FAR AS THEIR PRESENT MANDATE IS CONCERNED AND ARE, HENCEFORTH, TO ATTEND ONLY TO "CURRENT AFFAIRS." ( [...]	2001-02-08 16:23:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CG
01LIBREVILLE603	OMAR BONGO AND THE GABONESE POLITICAL SCENE [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR REASONS 1.5 (B, D). 2. (C) SUMMARY: AFTER NEARLY 34 YEARS IN OFFICE, GABONESE PRESIDENT OMAR BONGO IS A WILY POLITICIAN WHO STILL HAS A FIRM GRIP ON POWER. HE IS UNQUESTIONABLY "THE BOSS" AND MAINTAINS AN EXTENSIVE CIRCLE OF FAITHFUL AND PANDERING ALLIES. MANY [...]	2001-04-23 15:34:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ECON GB
01LIMA3418	TOLEDO AT THE HELM [...] (C) SUMMARY: ALEJANDRO TOLEDO WAS TENACIOUS IN HIS STRUGGLE TO REACH THE PRESIDENCY AND WILL APPLY THE SAME TENACITY TO SUCCEED IN OFFICE. HE COMES TO OFFICE WITH NO GOVERNMENT OR MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE, HOWEVER, AND HIS PROPENSITY TO BE A ONE-MAN SHOW CAN BE A NAGGING SHORTCOMING. NONETHELE [...]	2001-06-19 14:53:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PE
01PRETORIA1599	SADC SUMMIT: SOUTH AFRICA HOPED FOR MORE ON ORGAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI WAS DISAPPOINTED THAT THE MARCH 9 SADC SUMMIT DID NOT SELECT THE SUCCESSOR TO ZIMBABWE PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE AS CHAIR OF THE ORGAN ON POLITICS, DEFENSE, AND SECURITY. SAG OFFICIALS INDICATED MARCH 13 THAT MBEKI PREFERRED THIS DECISION BE MA [...]	2001-03-16 05:03:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN SADC WA
01VATICAN1436	CARITAS INTERNATIONAL ON CUBA - "CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM" [...] (C) SUMMARY: EMBASSY OFFICERS MET 2/7 WITH VATICAN NGO "CARITAS INTERNATIONAL" CUBA SPECIALISTS FOR A CONVERSATION ON CARITAS' HUMANITARIAN WORK IN CUBA. THE OFFICIALS WERE CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY AND THE ROLE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. THEY CLAIMED CARITAS CUBA ENJOY [...]	2001-03-14 16:48:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KIRF CU
01VATICAN2295	USG READINESS FOR PAPAL TURNOVER AND HIGH [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY CHARGE D'AFFAIRES A.I. JOSEPH CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 VATICA 02295 01 OF 04 270100Z MERANTE. REASONS: 1.5 (B) AND (D). 2. (C) SUMMARY: THERE IS NO NEW INFORMATION SUGGESTING AN IMMINENT PAPAL DEMISE, BUT THE POPE'S HEALTH APPEARS TO CONTIN [...]	2001-04-26 09:27:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR VT KPRP
01VATICAN2531	VATICAN NON-REACTIONS ON CHINA AND DEMARCHE [...] (S) POLOFF DELIVERED REFTEL DEMARCHE POINTS ON APRIL 27 TO MONSIGNOR ROTA-GRAZIOSI, VATICAN CHINA DESK OFFICER. ROTA-GRAZIOSI WELCOMED USG APPROACH BUT RESPONDED THAT THE VATICAN MAINTAINED CAREFUL NEUTRALITY ON SECURITY QUESTIONS RELATING TO THE PRC AND TAIWAN AND DECLINED TO OFFER COMMENT. [...]	2001-05-09 07:08:00	Embassy Vatican	SECRET	VT CH PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF PINR
01VATICAN2600	VATICAN VERBATIM [...] THE MAY 5 - MAY 11 EDITION OF NEWS AND VIEWS FROM VATICAN CITY. CONTENTS: UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 VATICA 02600 01 OF 02 122002Z - VATICAN SAYS POPE'S ILL HEALTH PART OF HIS LEGACY - VATICAN DECLARES PAPAL VISIT TO GREECE AND SYRIA A SUCCESS - SWISS GUARD [...]	2001-05-11 12:37:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM GR SY VT VTPREL
01VATICAN4659	AMBASSADOR NICHOLSON BEGINS CREDENTIALING PROCESS: [...] (C) AMBASSADOR NICHOLSON BEGAN THE VATICAN'S FORMAL CREDENTIALING PROCESS MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 6 BY PRESENTING COPIES OF HIS LETTERS OF CREDENTIAL TO ARCHBISHOP LEONARDO SANDRI, "SUBSTITUTE" FOR VATICAN PM EQUIVALENT SODANO. THE AMBASSADOR WILL HAVE THE FORMAL PRESENTATION TO POPE JOHN PAUL [...]	2001-09-06 15:02:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE IS MX VT
01VATICAN5577	OFFICIAL-INFORMAL [...] No summary [...]	2001-10-26 14:55:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OPDC SU VT AGMT
02ABUJA1081	BAUCHI: A STATE THAT WORKS [...] (SBU) Ambassador Jeter visited Bauchi State from February 10-12, accompanied by USAID A/DIR Suggs and Pol/OFF Kinder. In addition to private meetings with Governor Mu'azu, the Ambassador and his team visited several development projects including the Yankari Game Reserve, paid a courtesy call o [...]	2002-04-08 12:39:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR EAID ECON PREL NI
02ABUJA1159	NIGERIA: ELECTIONEERING IN NIGERIA; PERCEPTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Electoral Law, Electoral Commissioners, and funding for the Electoral Commission all have one thing in common: The actions taken by the Obasanjo Administration on these key electoral issues, however innocent, raise the perception of possible early election rigging in Nigeria. E [...]	2002-04-12 05:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NI
02ABUJA1184	NIGERIA 2003: OO BOOSTERS TRY TO PRE-EMPT [...] (C) Summary: From the perspective of recent history, the processions of sycophantic visitors and Obasanjo's own words strongly suggest Nigeria's President will seek a second term. At a minimum, Obasanjo boosters seek to pre-empt anyone else contemplating a run -- the better to assure continue [...]	2002-04-15 16:09:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR KDEM NI
02ABUJA1215	NIGERIA: GON STRATEGY FOR THE U.S. BILATERAL PARIS [...] Summary: Director General of the Debt Management Office (DMO) Akin Arikawe April 8 explained that Nigeria no longer wanted to sign its bilateral Paris Club agreement with the USG until negotiations (with more favorable terms for Nigeria) were completed with the UK and Japan. Arikawe stressed [...]	2002-04-17 17:39:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON ETRD EINV PGOV NI
02ABUJA1232	NIGERIA: ABUJA ROUND-UP APRIL 8-19 [...] (C) Summary. The States' decision to hold local government elections May 18 has sparked controversy and additional lawsuits which apparently the Supreme Court will have to resolve (paras 2-4). Canadian PM Chretien visited Abuja for talks centering on NEPAD and the G-8 with Obasanjo and severa [...]	2002-04-19 13:56:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID ECON PREF NI
02ABUJA1324	NIGERIA -- OBASANJO WILL RUN IN 2003 [...] (SBU) Summary: President Obasanjo April 25 announced he would seek reelection in 2003 under the PDP banner. Before a throng of several thousand people, comprised mainly of PDP partisans drawn from near and far but including curiosity seekers and a smattering of Abuja denizens with nothing bett [...]	2002-04-26 16:21:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
02ABUJA1397	JOS RETURNS TO CALM FOLLOWING POLITICAL VIOLENCE [...] No summary [...]	2002-05-03 17:51:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS ASEC CASC NI
02ABUJA1408	NIGERIA: ENGAGING ISLAM [...] (C) Summary: By far the most strategically important country in West Africa, Nigeria is a major economic partner to the United States (oil imports) and has been a cooperative player in conflict resolution in the sub-region. Africa's most populous state and largest democracy, Nigeria has suppor [...]	2002-05-06 19:11:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAO EFIN NI
02ABUJA1448	NIGERIA: OPPOSITION PARTIES TALK MERGER [...] (C) In reporting President Obasanjo's formal announcement to seek reelection, reftel forecasted that Obasanjo's statement would force his opponents to respond. His political adversaries wasted little time making that prediction come true. 2. (C) Most major daily newspapers have been repor [...]	2002-05-09 12:25:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL NI
02ABUJA1485	NIGERIA: ABUBAKAR RIMI IS COMING TO TOWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a May 3 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, PDP maverick and long-shot Presidential aspirant Mohammed Abubakar Rimi claimed he had heard a rumor that the Embassy was warning American visitors not to see him because of his alleged ties to terrorism. After the Ambassador dismissed [...]	2002-05-16 11:36:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
02ABUJA1496	NIGERIA: May 6-17 ROUND-UP [...] (U) Summary. Political parties rail against the new Electoral Commission guidelines for party registration (paras 2-5). The Attorney General questions the constitutionality of the political compromise postponing local government elections to August (6- 10). Presidential allies in the House of [...]	2002-05-17 11:14:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL NI
02ABUJA156	NIGERIA: POLICE STRUGGLE TO SOLVE IGE MURDER [...] No summary [...]	2002-01-18 16:21:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PGOV SNAR NI
02ABUJA1843	MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVE GBEMI SARAKI, KWARA [...] (C) Gbemisola "Gbemi" Saraki Forowa, a member of the House of Representatives from Kwara state, was born into Nigeria's political elite. Her political muscle comes from being the daughter of Olusola Saraki, the godfather of Kwara State politics and an important cog in the APP. As with most su [...]	2002-06-20 17:17:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWMN NI HUM
02ABUJA1850	NIGERIA: A RETURN TO REGIONAL ELECTORAL POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: A current snapshot of presidential electioneering shows two contesting strategies, one devised by the President's camp, the other by his strongest opposition. The President appears content to steamroll the PDP nomination through tightening his grip on the party apparatus. To win t [...]	2002-06-21 16:28:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SOCI KDEM NI
02ABUJA1851	MEETING WITH REPRESENTATIVE GBEMI SARAKI, KWARA STATE [...] (C) Gbemisola "Gbemi" Saraki Forowa, a member of the House of Representatives from Kwara state, was born into Nigeria's political elite. Her political muscle comes from being the daughter of Olusola Saraki, the godfather of Kwara State politics and an important cog in the APP. As with most su [...]	2002-06-21 16:30:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWMN NI HUM
02ABUJA1942	POSTPONING NIGERIA'S LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Nigeria's Local Government Council elections, slated for August 10, will almost certainly be postponed to October or later. Different actors have different specific reasons and interests, but it all boils down to lack of preparation and lack of presidential interest in seeing th [...]	2002-06-27 16:53:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS NI
02ABUJA1943	IBB, ALIYU AND THE RACE FOR NIGERIA'S PRESIDENCY [...] (C) Summary: IBB is not running, for now, and neither is Aliyu Mohammed, according to several political insiders. But both retired generals are deeply frustrated with incumbent retired general Olusegun Obasanjo. There are pressures on IBB to run, but he carries heavy baggage. If the North c [...]	2002-06-27 17:22:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PINS PINR KDEM NI
02ABUJA2166	NIGERIA: NDP OFFICIAL SUPPORTS BABANGIDA FOR [...] (C) Summary. Architect Baba Isimi, Director General of the National Secretariat of the newly registered NDP July 1 told Poloff that the NDP would nominate IBB as Presidential candidate if given the option. According to Isimi, the NDP considers itself a centrist party, touting a new generation [...]	2002-07-23 14:14:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
02ABUJA2171	NIGERIA: FAILED PDP PRIMARY INDICATES MORE THAN [...] (C) Summary: Many states delayed PDP primaries slated for early July for fear of violence. Violent disturbances marred the primaries that did go forward; Post sources could verify peaceful primaries in only four states. Vice President Atiku Abubakar indicated that agreements aimed at limiting [...]	2002-07-23 15:37:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
02ABUJA2202	NIGERIA: THREE NEW POLITICAL PARTIES--OLD WINE IN [...] (C) Summary: INEC registered three new political parties June 22, bringing the total of approved parties to six. However, this doubling of the number of parties does not represent liberalization of the political landscape. At least two of the three parties, the NDP and the UNPP, are tied to fo [...]	2002-07-24 14:05:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINS NI
02ABUJA2262	NIGERIA: LAGOS GOVERNOR SAYS OBASANJO NEEDS A [...] Summary: (C) During a July 5 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu stated that President Obasanjo was in deep trouble politically. Reelection hinged on a deal with Tinubu's Alliance for Democracy (AD). However, Tinubu claimed Obasanjo was still trying to assert PDP su [...]	2002-07-30 18:55:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
02ABUJA2521	SOLOMON LAR'S READOUT OF NIGERIA'S POLITICAL SCENE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chief Solomon Lar, a longtime Middle Belt politician and former Chairman of the PDP, told Ambassador on August 19 that President Obasanjo was in a strong position to win a second presidential term, even if facing Ibrahim Babangida. Lar also predicted that Obasanjo would be able [...]	2002-08-26 09:36:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NI
02ABUJA2522	NIGERIA: FUROR OVER INEC [...] (C) Summary: The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) faces serious challenges in its efforts to prepare Nigeria for early 2003 national, state and local elections. Nigerians know these elections are crucial in determining whether their democracy survives and is strengthened or whe [...]	2002-08-26 15:32:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINS NI
02ABUJA2539	NIGERIA -- FORMER VP EKWUEME SAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During two meetings with the Ambassador in late July and mid-August, former civilian Vice President and current Chairman of the PDP Trustee Board Alex Ekwueme waxed about the danger of massive defections from the party due to President Obasanjo's waning popularity. As a result, [...]	2002-08-28 09:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL NI
02ABUJA2547	NIGERIA: INTRIGUE AT ASO ROCK? [...] (S) In a stunning 8/26 revelation, a member of President Obasanjo's inner circle told the Ambassador, in strictest confidence, that Vice President Atiku Abubakar is the moving force behind current efforts to impeach President Obasanjo. The source said that Atiku hatched the plot during his re [...]	2002-08-29 19:31:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PGOV NI
02ABUJA2712	NIGERIA: FORMER HEAD OF STATE BUHARI--PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: Disaffection with President Obasanjo has placed three words into the lexicon of Northern politicians: "Northern Consensus Candidate." One of the bruited names is Mohammadu Buhari, former military Head of State from 1983 to 1985. Known as an honest, highly disciplined, hard-working [...]	2002-09-20 08:58:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI KDEM NI
02ABUJA2727	NIGERIA: KANO GOVERNOR ON OBASANJO PERFORMANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a September 5 call on Ambassador Jeter, Kano State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso offered his assessment of the Obasanjo Presidency and urged continued USG support for Nigerian democratization. Kwankwaso, Nigeria's youngest state governor and at the helm of the nation's large [...]	2002-09-23 15:54:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NI
02ABUJA2788	NIGERIA: OBASANJO'S THREATENED IMPEACHMENT -- [...] (C) SUMMARY: Efforts to impeach Obasanjo seem to be losing steam, but the ultimate outcome still remains uncertain. Many protagonists may not want to remove Nigeria's President from office, but rather to weaken him politically to the point that he fails to get the PDP President nomination or v [...]	2002-10-03 19:05:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SOCI KDEM NI
02ABUJA2830	NIGERIA: FIREARMS INTERDICTION TRAINING A HIT [...] No summary [...]	2002-10-11 15:25:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM MARR PGOV NI
02ABUJA2831	FRIENDS OF NIGERIA HEADS OF MISSION MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Jeter hosted a meeting with Chiefs of Mission of Germany, France, Canada, and the U.K. on October 7 to discuss upcoming Nigerian elections. The Ambassador identified the need to coordinate exchanges of information and to possibly develop coordinated policies among t [...]	2002-10-11 15:45:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
02ABUJA2837	NIGERIA: ABACHA FAMILY'S TIGHT GRIP ON LOOT [...] (C) Summary: Chances are fleeting that President Obasanjo will see USD 1.2 billion in stolen Abacha loot. Under pressure from Northern political leaders, Obasanjo released late military leader Sani Abacha's son Mohammed from prison September 24. With Mohammed's release, Obasanjo surrendered h [...]	2002-10-11 18:13:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV PINS NI
02ABUJA2838	NIGERIA: BIWEEKLY POLITICAL UPDATE [...] (U) This biweekly update for political events in Nigeria includes items of interest from recent weeks. Topics covered in this edition include: -- Voter Registration -- Political Assassinations -- Electoral Bill Override -- Grand Summit of Politicians -- Miss World Postponed -- House At [...]	2002-10-15 09:24:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NI
02ABUJA2862	NIGERIA: VICE PRESIDENT ATIKU -- DISTANCING [...] (S) SUMMARY: During an October 10 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, Vice President Atiku Abubakar admitted his relationship with President Obasanjo was on the shoals, attributing the deterioration to Obasanjo's poor political skills and reliance on malevolent, imprudent advisors. Atiku stated Oba [...]	2002-10-16 13:57:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
02ABUJA2871	NIGERIA: ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION'S PROGRESS [...] No summary [...]	2002-10-18 12:11:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	KCRM PGOV KJUS NI
02ABUJA2883	NIGERIA: A POLITICAL PARTY PRIMER [...] (C) INTRODUCTION: With the registration of three new political parties, the political landscape for Nigeria's 2003 election cycle now includes six political parties: the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP),the Alliance for Democracy (AD),the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP),the Natio [...]	2002-10-21 16:17:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
02ABUJA2892	NIGERIA: VICE PRESIDENT ATIKU MULLS A PROMOTION [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Atiku Abubakar wants to be Nigeria's next President; however, he no longer wants to wait for 2007. Competing ambitions and mutual mistrust have placed Atiku and Obasanjo on a collision course. Atiku thinks he can snatch the PDP Presidential nomination from an unpo [...]	2002-10-22 11:31:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
02ABUJA2975	GEMADE PLANS TO CONTEST FOR NIGERIA'S [...] (C) Summary: Barnabas Gemade October 28 informed the Ambassador of his plans to run against President Obasanjo. The former PDP Chairman accused his President of fostering corruption, non-performance and heavy-handedness. Gemade offered useful information on the timing of the PDP primaries [...]	2002-11-01 09:00:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR NI
02ABUJA2990	NIGERIA: YORUBA TRADITIONAL RULER SAYS [...] (C) Summary: During an October 22 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, the Ooni of Ife declared that Nigeria would disintegrate if President Obasanjo were not reelected. The most influential Yoruba traditional ruler, Ooni Sijuwade claimed that the desire of Northern politicians to control national [...]	2002-11-01 15:56:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
02ABUJA3015	NIGERIA: GOMBE STATE BIOGRAPHIC REPORTING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Governor Alhaji Abubakar Habu Hashidu is a key power broker in Northeast Nigeria. Deputy Governor Joshua M. Lidani is an intelligent technocrat; a Christian who balances Gombe State's Muslim-dominated government. The Emir of Gombe Alhaji Shehu Usman Abubakar remains an important [...]	2002-11-05 13:29:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR NI KISL
02ABUJA3017	NIGERIA: GOMBE STATE GOVERNOR'S VIEWS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 6, Ambassador Jeter and Economic Officer Hricik met with Gombe State Governor Hashidu and Deputy Governor Lidani to discuss Nigerian politics and Northern views on the U.S. The Governor said the National Assembly's attempt to impeach President Obasanjo sent the wrong [...]	2002-11-05 14:57:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL PTER NI
02ABUJA3029	NIGERIA: PDP CHAIRMAN SAYS OBASANJO IS THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 31 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, PDP National Chairman Audu Ogbeh correctly predicted the impeachment threat against President Obasanjo would soon be resolved. Nevertheless, the dispute had exacerbated North-South tensions. Despite the President's lack of a po [...]	2002-11-05 16:18:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL NI
02ABUJA3034	NIGERIA: PDP SETS PRIMARY SCHEDULE; FAILS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The ruling PDP's National Executive Committee met October 31 in a failed effort to heal the Obasanjo/Atiku rift, according to Deputy House Speaker Nwuche. The Vice President's faction won the three key decisions at the four-hour meeting. First, efforts by Obasanjo's supporter [...]	2002-11-06 08:32:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NI

02ABUJA3037	NIGERIA: AFENIFERE LEADER SAYS "NO" TO A NORTHERN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 23 Lagos meeting with Ambassador Jeter, Afenifere leader Senator Abraham Adesanya labeled the impeachment threat against Obasanjo a ruse to return national political power to the North. Although not an Obasanjo supporter, Adesanya was adamant that the Presidency [...]	2002-11-06 12:26:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL NI
02ABUJA306	NIGERIA: CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISOR SAYS COMMUNAL [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador and EmbOffs met January 24 with Chief Economic Advisor Magnus Kpakol who claimed that Nigeria's best hopes for future reform lay with the reelection of President Obasanjo. Kpakol argued that recent communal conflicts throughout the country should not deter foreign [...]	2002-01-31 16:12:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV NI
02ABUJA3105	NIGERIA: "PATRIOTS" ASK OBASANJO TO [...] ( C) Summary: Chief Frederick Rotimi Williams, prominent Lagos attorney and charter member of the "Patriots", a group of prominent Southern and Middle Belt figures, told Ambassador Jeter on October 21 that the "Patriots" had issued a public statement urging President Obasanjo not to seek re- [...]	2002-11-14 14:49:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PINR NI
02ABUJA3153	NIGERIA: PRELIMINARY TENTATIVE TIMETABLE FOR [...] (SBU) To help Washington (and us) track events, we have developed the following electoral timetable based on the best information available at this point. This tentative calendar provides schedules for political party activities and for holding of elections. However, we have to add several [...]	2002-11-20 11:13:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NI
02ABUJA3256	NIGERIA: PRESIDENT OBASANJO SUPPORTS CODE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 20 meeting with USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios and Ambassador Jeter, President Obasanjo endorsed an all-parties Code of Conduct and promised to honor INEC's 27 billion Naira (USD 210 million) 2003 elections funding request. Obasanjo expressed confidence that [...]	2002-12-10 13:21:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL SOCI NI
02ABUJA3303	NIGERIA: NOVEMBER 25 "FRIENDS GROUP" MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Jeter hosted the third meeting of Chiefs of Mission of Germany, France, Canada, and the U.K. Deputy High Commissioner on November 25 to discuss upcoming Nigerian elections. The November 25 meeting concentrated on the need for uniform standards by which to judge Niger [...]	2002-12-12 15:58:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL NI
02ABUJA3313	NIGERIA--AN IMPEACHMENT POST-MORTEM [...] (C) Summary: Roughly a month has passed since the impeachment threat against Obasanjo was effectively shelved; however, its repercussions continue to be felt throughout the Nigerian polity. President Obasanjo has been made painfully aware of his electoral vulnerabilities, and is trying to dra [...]	2002-12-16 09:41:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI PREL NI
02ABUJA3321	"TWO TERMS THREATENS DEMOCRACY AND PEACE" SAYS [...] Summary: On November 16, Nigerian Ambassador to the U.S., Professo Jibril Aminu, said in a press interview that the idea of two terms for officials is a threat to Nigeria's democracy and peace in the country. Aminu, who spoke on a wide range of issues, reiterated that the North h with all Pre [...]	2002-12-16 15:45:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO PBTS PGOV NI
02ABUJA3331	USAID ADMINISTRATOR ANDREW S. NATSIOS VISIT [...] (U) Mr. Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, visited Abuja, Nigeria, from November 18-21, 2002. Mr. Natsios was accompanied by Ms. Kate Almquist, Special Assistant and Mr. Greg Loos, Education Team Leader, EGAT. The purpose of the Administrator's visit to Nigeria was to attend the Global Educat [...]	2002-12-18 09:16:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AID
02ABUJA3344	NIGERIA: KADUNA GOVERNOR BLAMES RECENT VIOLENCE ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a December 11 meeting with International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Deputy Assistant Secretary Steven Schrage and Ambassador Jeter, Kaduna State Governor Ahmed Makarfi discussed the late November violence in Kaduna. Makarfi blamed the riots on pro-sharia Islamic groups [...]	2002-12-19 15:58:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
02ABUJA3347	NIGERIA: MODERATE MUSLIM SENATOR TO CONTEST [...] No summary [...]	2002-12-20 09:44:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER NI
02ABUJA3353	NIGERIA/POLICE REFORM: FIRST QUARTER REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2002-12-20 14:53:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PGOV SNAR NI
02ABUJA3372	NIGERIA: DECEMBER POLITICAL UPDATE [...] (U) This periodic update for political events in Nigeria includes items of interest from recent weeks. Topics covered in this edition include: -- INEC: 30 Political Associations for Registration -- Cabinet Shake-Up -- Rimi and Others Sue the PDP -------------------------------------- [...]	2002-12-24 10:58:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL SOCI NI
02ABUJA3374	NIGERIA: PARTIAL UPDATE ON INEC PREPARATIONS [...] (C) Summary. Under growing scrutiny from domestic political parties and the international donor community and sensing that the sand is emptying from the electoral hourglass, the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) is attempting to show mastery of its brief. On December 18, INEC released a [...]	2002-12-27 11:13:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL NI
02ABUJA3378	"TWO TERMS THREATENS DEMOCRACY AND [...] Summary: On November 16, Nigerian Ambassador to the U.S., Professor Jibril Aminu, said in a press interview that the idea of two terms for elected officials is a threat to Nigeria's democracy and peace in the country. Ambassador Aminu, who spoke on a wide range of issues, reiterated that the [...]	2002-12-30 16:03:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO PBTS PGOV NI
02ABUJA426	NIGERIA: AN ARMY COLONEL ON DEMOCRACY AND THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an unusually frank discussion, Nigerian Colonel and ECOWAS staff member M. Dixon Dikio (please strictly protect) told PolMilOff that a major breakdown of command led to reprisal attacks in Benue, and those attacks were unjustifiable. In his view, LTG Malu's response to the Ben [...]	2002-02-08 09:43:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR NI
02ABUJA462	NIGERIA: POST'S RESPONSE TO V1 OF NIGERIAN HRR [...] No summary [...]	2002-02-08 16:17:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB NI PGOV PHUM PREL
02ABUJA509	NIGERIA: FORMER HEAD OF STATE THINKS OBASANJO [...] (C) Summary: During a February 1 breakfast meeting, former military Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar told Ambassador Jeter that President Obasanjo meant well but has performed badly the past several months. Obasanjo's sincere intentions have been betrayed by his abrasive manner and by mala [...]	2002-02-15 12:39:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINR PGOV NI
02ABUJA693	NIGERIA: GLOBAL FUND PROPOSALS FORTHCOMING [...] No summary [...]	2002-03-05 08:56:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	KHIV EAID NI
02ABUJA776	NIGERIA: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR SIGNALS THAT [...] (U) President Obasanjo's Senate Liaison Officer Kashim Imam told reporters March 5 at the National Assembly that President Obasanjo will run in 2003 because "there is no credible alternative to him." Imam added, "not only will he run on the strength of our achievements, but also he will be ree [...]	2002-03-08 11:52:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NI
02ABUJA829	NIGERIA: RECENT EVENTS TEST NIGERIA'S RESILIENCE [...] (C) Summary: Nigeria has seen its share of calamity and contention in recent months. The Ikeja cantonment explosion, abortive police and general strikes, and an electoral law enmeshed by controversy have decreased public confidence in the Government's competence and have added to a general s [...]	2002-03-13 16:36:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR NI
02ABUJA852	A SNAPSHOT OF OBASANJO'S ELECTORAL PROSPECTS [...] (C) Summary: Three years ago, Obasanjo rode into office on a wave of optimism: Gone was the military; democratic rule had returned. Now, with a year until the elections, Obasanjo's prospects are uncertain. His abrupt manner, callous public remarks, and unwillingness to listen have alienated [...]	2002-03-15 10:38:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NI
02ABUJA882	OBASANJO NOT DOING WELL ACCORDING NASSARAWA STATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 16, Governor Alhaji Abdullah Adamu warmly welcomed Ambassador Jeter him as the first American Ambassador to ever visit Nassarawa State. Adamu noted that the dangers to democracy were mounting and gave low marks to Obasanjo as a politician and a communicator. However, [...]	2002-03-19 10:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR NI
02ABUJA886	NIGERIA: ABUJA WEEKLY REVIEW: MARCH 11-15, 2002 [...] (U) Electoral preparations were high on the agenda of the Northern Governors when they met this week. As a result of their discussions, the Governors issued a statement opposing the Federal Government's plan to use the proposed national identification card as the voter registration document. [...]	2002-03-19 14:48:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON NI
02ABUJA926	NIGERIA: LIBERIAN RECONCILIATION CONFERENCE YIELDS [...] (C) Summary: Initially set for March 14, the Liberian reconciliation meeting finally opened March 15. The delay was due to an unsuccessful eleventh hour attempt by ECOWAS ExecSec Chambas to convince President Taylor to attend. Taylor declined but sent a 27-person delegation led by Agricultural [...]	2002-03-20 16:38:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECOWAS MOPS MASS PHUM LI NI
02ADANA386	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for November 6, 2002. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICS, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS -------------------------- [...]	2002-11-20 14:18:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ ADANA
02ADANA409	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY, [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for December 5-7, 2002. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICS, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS ------------------------ [...]	2002-12-09 16:08:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ ADANA
02ADANA410	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY, [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for December 8-9, 2002. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICS, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS ------------------------ [...]	2002-12-10 08:28:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ ADANA
02ADANA416	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for December 16, 2002. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICS, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS ------------------------- [...]	2002-12-17 09:51:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ ADANA
02AMMAN2516	JORDAN: EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOW SELECTION [...] Embassy Amman has reviewed the three candidates for the Embassy Science Fellow Program that were forwarded to us by OES and has chosen Dr. Sylvana Li of the USDA/FAS as our first choice. Dr. Li's background suits her well to the job. Not only is her expertise in water quality and [...]	2002-05-20 06:18:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER EAGR EAID TSPL SENV KSCA JO
02AMMAN2559	COURT FINDS FORMER MP GUILTY OF SLANDERING [...] (C) The State Security Court May 16 sentenced former Member of Parliament Toujan Faisal to one and a half years in prison. Because she was convicted of only "misdemeanors," she has no right to appeal. Faisal was convicted on all of four charges levied against her: 1) slandering the judici [...]	2002-05-21 10:05:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM JO
02AMMAN2609	DEMARCHE TO JORDAN ON MCLURG CANDIDACY FOR ACABQ [...] (C) Ambassador covered ref points on the candidacy of Susan McLurg for the UN Advisory Committee for Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) May 20 with Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher, emphasizing the importance of continued U.S. participation on the ACABQ to ensure Congressional supp [...]	2002-05-22 12:27:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC JO UN
02AMMAN3077	JORDANIAN MINISTERS SEEK WASHINGTON MEETINGS ON [...] (sbu) Planning Minister Bassem Awadallah called the Ambassador late Sunday, June 9, to say that Prime Minister Abul Ragheb had asked that he go to Washington at the end of this week with Minister of State for Economic Affairs Mohammed Halaiqah. Awadallah hopes to join Halaiqah (who has been [...]	2002-06-10 14:32:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN JO
02AMMAN3327	ISLAMIC ACTION FRONT LEADERS TO U.S.: DIALOGUE, [...] (C) On June 13, Poloff and PA Cultural Exchange Visitor Imam Yahya Hindi met with Islamic Action Front (IAF) leaders Hamza Mansour (IAF Secretary General),Abdel Latif Arabiyat (IAF Shura Council President),Jamil Abu Bakir (Chairman of the Board for the weekly IAF newspaper, Assabeel),and Sa' [...]	2002-06-20 05:26:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KPAO PGOV PHUM JO
02AMMAN3394	SYRIAN SOFT DRINKS SWAMP U.S. PRODUCTS [...] (SBU) The local subsidiaries of Pepsi and Coca Cola say that their soft drink sales are off by up to 40 percent from 2001 due to a new bilateral trade agreement between Jordan and Syria that has led to an influx of Syrian soft drink products concurrent with the continuing boycott of American [...]	2002-06-24 06:52:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV BEXP JO
02AMMAN3931	CWC: POINTS ON JULY 25 CSP MEETING DELIVERED TO [...] (U) On July 17, A/Polcouns conveyed reftel points on the July 25 meeting of the CWC's Conference of State's Parties to Ali Al-Ayed, personal aide to Foreign Minister Muasher, encouraging Jordanian participation at the meeting and the GOJ's support for the candidacy of Ambassador Pfirter as mew [...]	2002-07-17 09:06:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL JO CWC
02AMMAN3978	FORMER JORDANIAN PM TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging tour-d'horizon with the Ambassador, former PM and FM Abdulkarim Kabariti candidly weighed in on a variety of issues, foreign and domestic. Kabariti is known for his strong views on domestic politics and the GOJ's relationship with Iraq. Kabariti's comments n [...]	2002-07-18 14:42:00	Embassy Amman	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PINS ETRD EFIN JO
02AMMAN4519	DEMARCHE ON CANDIDACY OF PROFESSOR RUTH WEDGWOOD [...] (U) On August 7, Poloff delivered reftel information on the candidacy of Professor Ruth Wedgwood to the Jordanian MFA. On August 12, Ayman Aamiri, Deputy Head of the MFA's International Organizations Department, and Samer Naber, MFA's Legal Advisor, told us that MFA has since conveyed all the [...]	2002-08-12 13:20:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM JO UNHRC
02AMMAN4843	JORDANIAN VIEWS ON ICAO SYG, DESIRE FOR SEAT ON [...] (SBU) Jordanian Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Director General Hanna Najjar told us August 22 he agrees with the U.S. view that it is appropriate that the ICAO seek new leadership following the expiration of current SYG Renato Costa Pereira's second term in office. Najjar said that while Pe [...]	2002-08-26 14:00:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR JO ICAO
02AMMAN4863	JORDAN: CONFERENCE ON SPECIALIZED IP COURTS [...] (U) The Jordanian government has nominated two judges, Bassam Talaheen and Khalid Samam', to attend the September 12-13 conference being co-hosted by USPTO and the International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI). Their travel and per diem in Washington will be supported by USAID Jordan' [...]	2002-08-28 06:06:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EAID KIPR JO
02AMMAN4975	FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE ON WEDGWOOD CANDIDACY: JORDAN [...] (U) On September 3, A/Polcouns contacted Ayman Aamiri, Deputy Director of the MFA's Department of International Organizations, to again urge Jordan's support for the candidacy of Professor Ruth Wedgwood in the September 9 UN Human Rights Committee election. Aamiri had no new information to co [...]	2002-09-03 14:07:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM JO UNHRC
02AMMAN5966	PROGRAM REQUEST: PROFESSIONALIZATION OF THE [...] This is an action request for IIP. See para 6 2. In view of the success to date of Embassy Amman's "Media Professionalization Program," which has had a visible impact on the quality of the work of a number of Jordanian journalists, Amman seeks the Department's assistance in continuing [...]	2002-10-15 12:08:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL PROP JO
02AMMAN6060	A VIRTUAL SUCCESS: JORDAN'S ICT FORUM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Jordan's second ICT Forum was held Sept. 30-Oct. 1 in Amman. Featuring addresses by King Abdullah, Intel CEO Craig Barrett, John Gage, Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office for Sun Microsystems, and AOL Strategic Advisor George Vradenburg, the event attracted more [...]	2002-10-20 08:40:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS BEXP EINV JO
02AMMAN6939	UNRWA AND FAA 301(C) COMPLIANCE: VIEWS FROM GAZA [...] (U) This message has been cleared by Embassy Tel Aviv. 2. (C) Summary: In the course of November 18 meetings with UNRWA's Gaza program chiefs, regional refcoord reviewed UNRWA's compliance with section 301(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act. The Relief and Social Services Chief told refco [...]	2002-11-27 14:41:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL EAID KPAL KWBG IS JO UN
02AMMAN7124	MINISTER OF JUSTICE PRAISES PA JUDICIAL REFORM [...] SUMMARY: POINTING TO A RECENT REPORT FROM HIS STAFF, MINISTER OF JUSTICE H.E. FARES AL NABULSI SHARED WITH EMBOFFS DURING A RECENT VISIT STATISTICS DEMONSTRATING WIDESPREAD ACCEPTANCE OF NEW CASE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES FOR PROCESSING CIVIL CASES WITH DRAMATIC RESULTS. HE CREDITED THIS DEVELOPM [...]	2002-12-09 08:19:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP OEXC PGOV PHUM KPAO JO
02AMMAN7128	MINISTER OF JUSTICE PRAISES PA JUDICIAL REFORM [...] SUMMARY: POINTING TO A RECENT REPORT FROM HIS STAFF, MINISTER OF JUSTICE H.E. FARES AL NABULSI SHARED WITH EMBOFFS DURING A RECENT VISIT STATISTICS DEMONSTRATING WIDESPREAD ACCEPTANCE OF NEW CASE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES FOR PROCESSING CIVIL CASES WITH DRAMATIC RESULTS. HE CREDITED THIS DEVELOPM [...]	2002-12-09 09:51:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP OEXC PGOV PHUM KPAO JO
02AMMAN7190	MINISTER OF JUSTICE PRAISES PA JUDICIAL REFORM [...] SUMMARY: POINTING TO A RECENT REPORT FROM HIS STAFF, MINISTER OF JUSTICE H.E. FARES AL NABULSI SHARED WITH EMBOFFS DURING A RECENT VISIT STATISTICS DEMONSTRATING WIDESPREAD ACCEPTANCE OF NEW CASE MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES FOR PROCESSING CIVIL CASES WITH DRAMATIC RESULTS. HE CREDITED THIS DEVELOPM [...]	2002-12-11 07:58:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP OEXC PGOV PHUM KPAO JO
02AMMAN7434	JORDANIAN MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT BACK ON TRACK? [...] (SBU) Summary. According to local press and contacts, the Jordanian government may be on the verge of ratifying a new law, heralding the creation of a new, free-standing, ministry of environment. Jordanian government officials believe the new ministry will retain the General Corporation for E [...]	2002-12-23 13:58:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ETRD PGOV JO
02ANKARA7726	TURKEY'S ELECTIONS: OUR ANALYSIS AND PREDICTIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Islam-influenced AK (Justice and Development) of R. Tayyip Erdogan will be the clear winner in the Turkish national elections on Nov. 3, and has a strong shot at a Parliamentary majority. Deniz Baykal's Establishmentarian, left-of-center Republican Peoples' Party (CHP) will [...]	2002-11-01 10:33:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON TU
02ANKARA7739	ELECTION INTERFERENCE FEARS IN COUNTRYSIDE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While political leaders acknowledge that the restrictions in expression in Turkey's Southeast have generally loosened, villagers remain concerned that their voices will not be heard in Ankara. Based on conversations with politicians, business leaders, and NGO representatives, [...]	2002-11-01 12:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM TU
02ANKARA7743	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2002-11-01 12:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
02ANKARA7763	CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR ON POST-ELECTION TASKS, INCLUDING KEEPING THE CARETAKER GOT HONEST [...] (SBU) Summary: In a October 30 meeting, Central Bank Governor Serdengecti told us he and Treasury U/S Oztrak have prepared a document to give to the election winners which explains in non-technical terms the GOT's commitments to the IMF and why they should be honored. The length of the educa [...]	2002-11-01 15:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL TU
02ANKARA7919	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2002-11-05 14:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
02ANKARA7921	TURKEY: AK PARTY'S LANDSLIDE VICTORY SWEEPS ASIDE [...] (C) Summary: After crushing defeat by AK in Nov. 3 elections, leaders of MHP, ANAP, and DYP, all of which failed to reenter Parliament, separately declared their intent to vacate their party chairmanships. With P.M. Ecevit's pre-election announcement that he will leave DSP leadership in April [...]	2002-11-05 14:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR TU POLITICAL PARTIES
02ANKARA7924	TURKEY: TIMELINE TO ESTABLISH NEXT GOVERNMENT [...] Timeline in para 2 lists the sequence of steps to be followed as the Justice and Development (AK) Party prepares to establish a government in the wake of its Nov. 3 landslide election victory. According to AK officials, assuming that President Sezer observes Turkish law and tradition (i.e., g [...]	2002-11-05 16:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON TU
02ANKARA7942	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2002-11-06 12:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
02ANKARA7974	EURODIPLOMATS IN ANKARA SAY TURKEY'S EU CANDIDACY [...] (C) Summary: EU-member-state diplomats in Ankara say the EU is headed toward offering Turkey a conditional date for accession talks, possibly in January 2004. Our contacts say Germany holds the key; local German diplomats agree Berlin feels under pressure not to block Turkey's candidacy. UK a [...]	2002-11-06 15:14:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EU TU
02ANKARA7981	Demarche on Customs Classifications [...] No summary [...]	2002-11-07 13:39:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON TU
02ANKARA8007	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2002-11-07 14:06:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
02ANKARA8079	TURKEY: CHP ELECTION POSTMORTEM [...] (C) Summary: The Nov. 3 Parliamentary elections were a major defeat for CHP at the hands of AK. Although CHP joins AK as one of only two parties in Parliament, CHP officials and activists are deeply disappointed by their distant second-place finish. Much of the blame has been placed on CHP [...]	2002-11-08 12:25:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR TU POLITICAL PARTIES
02ANKARA8087	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2002-11-08 13:03:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
02ANKARA8108	AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL MEETING WITH AK PARTY CHAIRMAN ERDOGAN [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with victorious AK Party leader Erdogan for first post-election visit. He complimented AK on its constructive electoral campaign and victory and noted U.S. readiness to work with the new AK government. U.S. seeks stronger bilateral economic ties and urges AK to fo [...]	2002-11-08 15:09:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS ECON AA POLITICAL PARTIES
02ANKARA8149	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY, October 25, 2002 [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for October 25, 2002. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICS, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS -------------------------- [...]	2002-11-13 11:01:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ
02ANKARA8156	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2002-11-13 13:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
02ANKARA8250	TURKEY: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES EU AND CYPRUS WITH [...] (C) Ambassador met Nov. 14 with EU Hirep Javier Solana to discuss the EU perspective on UNSYG Annan's plan for a settlement on Cyprus, and the prospects for progress on Turkey's EU bid at Copenhagen in December. Solana noted that he had had separate meetings with MFA U/S Ziyal and AK (Justice [...]	2002-11-15 10:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON TU
02ANKARA8310	AK PARTY MOVES STEP BY STEP TOWARD FORMING [...] (C) We understand from top AK Party official Bulent Arinc that in his Nov. 15 call on President Sezer, AK Party chairman Erdogan submitted AK number two Abdullah Gul's name as AK's first choice for Prime Minister. Arinc intimated that Gul is AK's preferred candidate not only owing to his popu [...]	2002-11-15 12:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS TU
02ANKARA8343	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2002-11-15 13:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
02ANKARA8356	AK PARTY BEGINS TO ENGAGE ON THE ECONOMY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the past week, AK Party moved to inject discipline into its public statements on the economy, initiated contacts with the economic bureaucracy, and reiterated its intention to work with the IMF. AK Economic Coordinator Ali Babacan sought to reassure us that, despite some u [...]	2002-11-15 14:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL TU
02ANKARA8381	THE NEW GOVERNMENT'S CORE ECONOMIC TEAM [...] (C) The new Government Cabinet was announced by Prime Minister Abdullah Gul, following his meeting with President Sezer November 18. Following are post's informal biographical notes on several of the likely key economic players. When asked at the press conference "who will be the economy m [...]	2002-11-18 16:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PINR PREL TU
02ANKARA8382	TURKEY'S 58TH GOVERNMENT TAKES OFFICE [...] (U) President Sezer's Nov. 18 approval of the AK Party government under P.M. Abdullah Gul (ref A; cabinet below, para 4) puts into place a government: --committed to pursuing Turkey's EU candidacy and democratic reforms; --open to working with the U.S. on key regional issues; --fo [...]	2002-11-19 05:45:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS ECON TU
02ANKARA8448	TURKEY'S NEW GOVERNMENT: MORE INSIGHTS INTO [...] (U) Summary: President Sezer drew a line by rejecting one proposed cabinet assignment in the AK government, but allowed AK to keep the candidate as a State Minister. Fiery orator Bulent Arinc, who has his own strong following among AK voters and whom we expect to underscore the prerogatives of [...]	2002-11-19 15:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS TU
02ANKARA8505	TURKEY'S NEW DEFENSE MINISTER: VECDI GONUL [...] (C) Summary: GOT DefMin Gonul's principal political task is to ensure smooth relations between his Islam-influenced AK Party and a Turkish military which as adopted a wait-and-see attitude while remaining on the lookout for any sign AK might try to alter the current status of civilian-military [...]	2002-11-21 12:39:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS TU
02ANKARA8564	TURKISH BROADCASTING BOARD LIFTS SOME RESTRICTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's High Radio and Television Board (RTUK) enacts a regulation lifting some restrictions on TV and radio broadcasts in Kurdish -- but only on state-owned stations and under strict time limits. EU representatives in Ankara said the limited regulation will not bolster Turkey's [...]	2002-11-22 14:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
02ANKARA8569	TURKEY'S SOUTHEAST: BETTER, BUT STILL BACKWARD AS [...] (C) Summary: The GOT is expected to complete the phased lifting of the state of emergency November 30 by allowing the regime to expire in the last two southeastern provinces where it continues -- Diyarbakir and Sirnak. While the regime's demise is welcome, five longstanding problems will cont [...]	2002-11-22 15:07:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
02ANKARA8586	AK PARTY ANNOUNCES SWEEPING HUMAN RIGHTS REFORM [...] (C) Summary: PM Gul announced Nov. 23 a broad plan including sweeping legal changes designed to bring Turkey into full compliance with EU human rights standards. The GOT is also preparing to introduce a 36-article legislative reform package in support of the plan. The administration intends [...]	2002-11-25 13:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
02ANKARA8633	CODEL HASTERT'S MEETINGS IN ANKARA [...] (C) Summary: A codel led by Speaker Hastert met Nov. 21 with P.M. Gul and Parliament President ("Speaker") Arinc. Speaker Hastert congratulated Gul on AK's landslide election victory and Turkey's recent progress on political and economic reform. Gul echoed AK leader Erdogan's commitment to EU [...]	2002-11-26 14:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS ECON TU
02ANKARA8738	EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS GIVE HIGH MARKS TO NEW GOT'S [...] (C) Summary: Ankara-based Eurodiplomats say ruling AK Party leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other members of the new GOT have impressed EU leaders with their approach to human rights reform and commitment to EU membership. So far, they say, Erdogan appears willing to break with GOT tradition [...]	2002-11-29 14:03:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
02ANKARA8777	TURKEY'S DISAFFECTED YOUTH VOTE: CAN IT BE COOPTED? [...] (C) Summary: Protest voting is an old tradition in Turkey but showed a new twist in Nov. 3 national elections. Motorola deadbeat and Berlusconi wannabe Cem Uzan -- emphasizing a xenophobic, nihilistic message and playing on resentment of America -- parlayed the anger of disaffected urban yout [...]	2002-12-02 14:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS TU
02ANKARA8778	EU AMBIVALENCE, CYPRUS SEEN AS OBSTACLES TO [...] (C) Poloff discussed the state of Turkey's EU candidacy with several Ankara-based European diplomats following a November 26 meeting with Ambassador in which an unusually downbeat PM Gul appeared to believe Turkey had recently lost ground in its EU membership bid. -------------- EU Ambiva [...]	2002-12-02 15:02:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
02ANKARA8790	Turkish Agriculture, Trade and EU Membership [...] (SBU) Summary. AgCounselor recently met with representatives from International Organizations including the World Bank and FAO as well as with local EU officials to discuss the current state of Turkish agriculture and agricultural trade. These representatives expressed frustration with Tur [...]	2002-12-03 12:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR KPAO TU USTR
02ANKARA8852	SCENESETTER FOR DEC. 9-10 WASHINGTON VISIT OF AK PARTY CHAIRMAN R. TAYYIP ERDOGAN [...] (C) Summary: As Turkey's strongest politician Tayyip Erdogan is key to our ability to influence the AK Party government and public opinion on Iraq and other strategic U.S. interests. His heightened sense of pride is undiminished, indeed boosted, by the Kemalist State's continuing attempts to [...]	2002-12-04 15:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PINS TU
02ANKARA8881	GOT'S LATEST REFORM PACKAGE - SCORECARD AND [...] (U) Summary: The GOT has prepared extensive legislative reforms designed to crack down on torture and remove barriers to free expression, association, and fair trial. Parliament will likely pass the reforms quickly, possibly before or during the December 12-13 EU Summit in Copenhagen. The re [...]	2002-12-10 12:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
02ANKARA8996	DEFMIN HOPES FOR DECISION ON IRAQ WITHIN DAYS [...] (S) Summary: In an introductory call on the new Minister of National Defense Mehmet Vecdi Gonul December 16, Ambassador emphasized the positive outcome of AK Party Leader Erdogan's visit to Washington, the resolution of Turkey's participation agreement with the EU on ESDP, progress on Turkey's [...]	2002-12-17 05:30:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	MARR MOPS TU IZ
02ANKARA9040	AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE MEETS WITH TURKISH [...] (C) Summary: In Dec. 13 meetings with President Sezer, MFA Deputy U/S for the Middle East Tuygan, and representatives of ruling AK Party and main opposition CHP, American Jewish Committee (AJC) leaders affirmed AJC's support for Turkey. End summary. 2. (C) Dec. 13 AJC President Tann [...]	2002-12-18 13:02:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS TU
02ANKARA9051	TURKEY: AK PARTY SEES DENKTAS AS OBSTACLE TO [...] (C) Summary: The political debate in Ankara regarding Turkey's EU candidacy and the future of Cyprus is revealing sharp differences between the ruling AK (Justice and Development) Party/Government and the Establishmentarian foreign policy class, including elements that predominate in the MFA. [...]	2002-12-19 12:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON TU POLITICAL PARTIES
02ANKARA9058	WOLFOWITZ AND GROSSMAN PRESS TURKS FOR SUPPORT ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2002-12-20 08:05:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL MARR MOPS TU
02ANKARA9080	2003 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON TURKISH CONTRIBUTIONS [...] This is Embassy Ankara's submission to the 2002 Report to Congress on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense. = = = = = = = = = = General Assessment = = = = = = = = = = 2. (SBU) Turkey experienced a major political change in 2002 when the governing coalition of Prime Minister Ece [...]	2002-12-23 10:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MCAP PREL TU NATO
02ANKARA9122	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2002-12-26 12:58:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
02BOGOTA1025	PUBLIC PROTESTS GROW IN THE FACE OF FARC [...] (C) SUMMARY: AS THE FARC'S WAVE OF VIOLENCE AND DESTRUCTION CONTINUES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, PRESIDENT PASTRANA MET WITH HIS TOP MILITARY AND CIVILIAN ADVISORS TO DEVELOP A PLAN TO COMBAT THE GUERRILLA ATTACKS. MEANWHILE, POPULAR ATTITUDES ARE HARDENING AGAINST THE FARC, AS PEOPLE TAKE TO TH [...]	2002-02-04 11:52:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PINS CO
02BOGOTA3159	FARC RESUMES ATTACKS AGAINST CIVILIAN POPULATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: FARC ACTIONS AGAINST THE MILITARY, THE CIVILIAN POPULATION, AND COLOMBIA'S INFRASTRUCTURE FLARED DURING A THREE-WEEK PERIOD FOLLOWING THE END OF THE DESPEJE. SINCE THEN, FARC ACTIVITY AGAINST THE POPULATION HAD BEEN MINIMAL, UNTIL THIS PAST WEEK: FROM MARCH 24 TO 27, FARC REBELS [...]	2002-04-08 23:35:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PINR SOCI CO
02COLOMBO1626	SRI LANKA AND ATA TRAINING: A PLEA FOR IT TO [...] (U) I have recently heard that S/CT and DS/ATA no longer consider Sri Lanka a priority country when determining which countries should benifit from the Anti-Terrorism Assistance (ATA) Training Program. 2. (U) I hope that this is not true. The ATA program has been extremely effective in trai [...]	2002-09-05 08:18:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CE KTIA PTER LTTE
02COLOMBO1709	Initial draft submission of the 2002 Annual [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified and Noforn. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU/NF) Below is Mission's initial draft submission of the 2002 Annual Human Rights Report for the Maldives: Begin Text: The Republic of Maldives has a parliamentary style of government with a [...]	2002-09-16 00:58:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KSEP PREL MV
02COLOMBO1993	SRI LANKA: DRAFT SUBMISSION FOR 2002 ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2002-10-24 14:00:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CE ELAB KSEP PHUM PREL
02COLOMBO2055	GSL says court judgment convicting LTTE leader [...] (C) SUMMARY: A court has convicted LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran in absentia of planning a 1996 terrorist attack. The GSL has said the judgment will not affect the peace process. The LTTE has not yet formally reacted. The announcement came on the same day as GSL and LTTE negotiators sat down [...]	2002-11-01 06:40:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS PHUM CE NO TH LTTE
02COLOMBO2082	2003-2004 SRI LANKA FULBRIGHT JUNIOR SCHOLAR [...] THE UNITED STATES - SRI LANKA FULBRIGHT COMMISSION (US-SLFC) RECEIVED A TOTAL OF 120 APPLICATIONS IN RESPONSE TO ITS PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SUBJECT AWARDS PROGRAM. AFTER A PRELIMINARY INTERVIEW OF ALL ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES BY THE COMMISSION'S COMMITTEE ON STUDY AND TRAINING, A SHORT LIST OF [...]	2002-11-06 04:00:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC CE
02COLOMBO2165	FY-2003 INTERNATIONAL VISITOR PROGRAM: SRI [...] POST NOMINATES MR. MUSTHAFA NIHMATH, PROGRAM DIRECTOR, COMMUNITY TRUST FUND AND MR. NOORUL AMEEN IZZADEEN, DEPUTY EDITOR, "THE SUNDAY TIMES," FOR PARTICIPATION IN SUBJECT PROJECT. 2. PART I OF NOMINEES' BIO DATA FOLLOWS: EXPORT-SOURCE: USIS EVDB VERSION: 3.0.0 POST-EMAIL: rscmb@pd.state.g [...]	2002-11-21 10:16:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO
02COLOMBO2166	FY-2003 IV PROGRAM: SRI LANKAN NOMINATION FOR [...] POST NOMINATES MR. MARKANDU RAMATHASAN, MANAGING DIRECTOR, EUROVILLE ENGINEERS AND CONSTRUCTORS (PVT) LTD., FOR PARTICIPATION IN SUBJECT PROJECT. 2. NOMINATION IS AS FOLLOWS: EXPORT-SOURCE: USIS EVDB VERSION: 3.0.0 POST-EMAIL: rscmb@pd.state.gov TRANSMITTING-POST: PAS Colombo TRANSMITTI [...]	2002-11-21 10:17:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO
02COLOMBO2170	FY-2003 IV PROGRAM: MALDIVIAN NOMINATION FOR [...] POST NOMINATES MR. MUHUSIN ABDULLA, DIRECTOR FINANCE, MALDIVES TRANSPORT AND CONTRACTING COMPANY (PLC) LTD., FOR PARTICIPATION IN SUBJECT PROJECT. 2. NOMINATION IS AS FOLLOWS: EXPORT-SOURCE: USIS EVDB VERSION: 3.0.0 POST-EMAIL: rscmb@pd.state.gov TRANSMITTING-POST: PAS Colombo TRANSMITT [...]	2002-11-21 10:19:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO
02COLOMBO2178	FY-2003 INTERNATIONAL VISITOR PROGRAM: SRI [...] POST NOMINATES MR. NISSANKA WEERASEKERA, MANAGING DIRECTOR, NEXTVENTURES, FOR PARTICIPATION IN SUBJECT PROJECT. 2. PART I OF NOMINEES' BIO DATA FOLLOWS: EXPORT-SOURCE: USIS EVDB VERSION: 3.0.0 POST-EMAIL: rscmb@pd.state.gov TRANSMITTING-POST: PAS Colombo TRANSMITTING-POST-ID: 2929 EXPO [...]	2002-11-22 05:19:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO
02COLOMBO2188	FY-2003 INTERNATIONAL VISITOR PROGRAM: [...] PAS COLOMBO REQUESTS FOR A FUNDED VOLVIS (TWO INDIVIDUALS TRAVELING TOGETHER - ITT) PROGRAM ON JUDICIAL PROCESS AND RULE OF LAW. POST NOMINATES JUSTICE NISSANKA UDALAGAMA AND JUSTICE NIMAL DISSANAYAKE, BOTH JUDGES OF THE COURT OF APPEAL OF SRI LANKA, FOR PARTICIPATION IN A 14-DAY VOLUNTARY VI [...]	2002-11-26 03:12:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO

02COLOMBO2323	During Mission visit, Maldivian MFA says it is [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: During a December 17 meeting in Male, Polchief urged the Maldivian government to sign an ICC Article 98 agreement with the U.S. MFA Permanent Secretary Shaheed replied that the GoRM continued to SIPDIS review the proposal, which it viewed in a "favorable light." Shaheed [...]	2002-12-18 11:25:00	Embassy Colombo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER ECON MV KICC UN
02COLOMBO2329	Normally placid Maldivian political scene seems [...] (C) SUMMARY: The normally placid Maldivian political situation is stirring a bit with the approach of the 2003 presidential election. In December 16-17 meetings in Male, polchief was told that President Gayoom is expected to run and win the election. That said, there is some dissonance eme [...]	2002-12-19 10:09:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM SOCI MV
02FRANKFURT10188	HESSE SPD CHOOSES GERHARD BOEKEL TO CHALLENGE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Hesse SPD voted overwhelmingly on October 19 for Gerhard Boekel to challenge Minister- President Roland Koch (CDU) in the February 2003 state elections. Boekel, a 56-year-old lawyer and former Hesse Interior Minister, is admired for his integrity and his good management a [...]	2002-11-04 14:46:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
02FRANKFURT11411	SAARLAND MINISTER PRESIDENT OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE [...] (U) Summary: On December 4, Consul General Peter Bodde met with Saarland Minister-President Peter Mueller (CDU) in Saarbruecken. Mueller is a moderate, up-and-coming CDU leader, and ally of Angela Merkel. Mueller said the auto industry has replaced coal and steel as the most important indus [...]	2002-12-10 13:51:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON ETRD BEXP GM
02FRANKFURT11843	HESSE ELECTIONS COUNTDOWN: CDU CONFIDENT, BUT WILL [...] (SBU) Summary. Hesse state elections will take place February 2, 2003. The current Christian Democratic Union (CDU)-Free Democratic Party (FDP) state coalition government is hoping the current voter mood against the national SPD- Green government will help it win votes. The CDU is optimist [...]	2002-12-23 09:23:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
02HANOI1199	ELECTIONEERING IN THE PROVINCES [...] (U) SUMMARY. WELL-ORGANIZED CAMPAIGN RALLIES IN UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 01199 01 OF 03 140856Z PROVINCES DURING THE WEEK OF MAY 6 OFFERED CANDIDATES AN OPPORTUNITY TO STATE THEIR VIEWS TO VOTERS AND HEAR LOCAL VIEWS AND DESIRES. STABILITY, AGRICULTURAL [...]	2002-05-14 08:46:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SOCI VM DPOL
02HANOI1222	RELIGIOUS REGULATION STRUCTURE IN VIETNAM [...] (U) SUMMARY: RELIGIOUS REGULATION IN VIETNAM IS CHARACTERIZED BY AN EVOLVING BUREAUCRATIC AND LEGALISTIC APPROACH. WHILE THE SRV CONSTITUTION PROTECTS RELIGIOUS BELIEF (AND NON-BELIEF),THE GVN THOROUGHLY REGULATES RELIGIOUS GROUPS AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE UNDER THE PREMISE OF MAINTAINING TH [...]	2002-05-15 10:42:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI VM HUMANR RELFREE
02HANOI1286	ELECTION DAY IN HANOI [...] (U) SUMMARY. AIDED BY UNRELENTING GOVERNMENT UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 01286 01 OF 02 201032Z EXHORTATIONS, VOTER TURNOUTS IN HANOI AND ELSEWHERE IN VIETNAM FOR THE MAY 19 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTION WERE ALMOST "PERFECT," HOWEVER IMPROBABLE THAT SEEMS TO [...]	2002-05-20 10:25:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SOCI VM DPOL
02HANOI1485	TWO CORRUPTION-TAINTED OFFICIALS SUSPENDED [...] (U) SUMMARY: TWO HIGH-RANKING GVN OFFICIALS, ONE THE NUMBER TWO PROSECUTOR AND ANOTHER A CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEMBER, HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED FROM THEIR GOVERNMENT AND SOME PARTY POSITIONS FOR SUSPECTED COMPLICITY WITH AN ALLEGED MAJOR CRIMINAL FIGURE. THESE MOVES ARE EXPE [...]	2002-06-07 09:37:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS SOCI VM DPOL
02HANOI1571	CPV STILL DECIDING ON GVN LEADERSHIP SLOTS? [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY POL/C SCOTT BELLARD, REASON: 1.5 (D) CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 01571 01 OF 02 191009Z 2. (C) SUMMARY. AN EXPECTED CPV PLENUM IN JULY SHOULD MAKE FINAL DECISIONS ON THE NEW GVN LEADERSHIP LINE-UP, AND MAY ALSO BLESS PUNISHMENTS AGAIN [...]	2002-06-19 10:08:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR VM DPOL
02HANOI1666	PROSPECTS FOR LEADERSHIP STABILITY IN VIETNAM [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR RAYMOND BURGHARDT, REASON: 1.5 (D) CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 01666 020959Z 2. (C) SUMMARY. A PARTY PLENUM AND NEW NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WITHIN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS WILL DECIDE ON SEVERAL NEW KEY LEADERS. WHILE SOME PERSONNEL JOC [...]	2002-07-02 10:01:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR VM DPOL
02HANOI1780	11TH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OPENING [...] (U) SUMMARY. THE NEW NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WILL BEGIN MEETING ON JULY 17, BUT HAS YET NOT SCHEDULED THE VOTES ON THE NEW GVN AND NA LEADERSHIP (REF A). THE NEW NA IS NOT EXPECTED TO PASS ANY NEW LEGISLATION AT THIS INITIAL SESSION OTHER THAN THE BUDGET. IT REMAINS POSSIBLE THAT THERE ARE CONT [...]	2002-07-15 10:47:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS VM DPOL
02HANOI1795	CENTRAL COMMITTEE OUSTS TWO MEMBERS [...] (U) SUMMARY: AT THE CONCLUSION OF ITS SIXTH PLENUM ON JULY 15, THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF VIETNAM (CPV) CENTRAL UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 01795 161049Z COMMITTEE (CC) ANNOUNCED THE DISMISSAL OF TWO OF ITS MEMBERS -- VICE MINISTER OF PUBLIC SECURITY LIEUTENANT [...]	2002-07-16 10:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINS SOCI VM DPOL
02HANOI2255	CONGEN MEETING WITH THICH HUYEN QUANG [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY EMI L. YAMAUCHI, CG; REASON 1.5(B) 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: CONSUL GENERAL AND POLOFF VISITED THICH HUYEN THQ (THQ) AT THE PHUOC QUANG PAGODA IN QUANG NGAI PROVINCE ON SEPTEMBER 6. THQ WAS CANDID AND FEISTY IN DESCRIBING HIS HEALTH AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF HIS CONFINEMENT. HE [...]	2002-09-17 08:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV VM HUMANR RELFREE
02HANOI2345	VIETNAM'S POLITICAL FUTURE [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR RAYMOND BURGHARDT, CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 02345 01 OF 04 270928Z REASON: 1.5 (D) 2. (C) SUMMARY. THE EXPANSION OF PERSONAL FREEDOMS AND DIMINISHMENT OF CPV AND STATE CONTROL OVER INDIVIDUAL LIVES HAVE BEEN WELCOME TREN [...]	2002-09-27 09:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL ECON SOCI PHUM VM DPOL HUMANR
02HANOI2369	MEETING WITH AFM HUNG [...] (U) CIRF: IN A MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR ON OCTOBER 2 (SEPTEL WILL COVER DISCUSSION OF THE TRIAL OF NGUYEN THI NGOC HANH),ASSISTANT FOREIGN MINISTER NGUYEN DUC HUNG EXPRESSED THE GVN'S "DISAPPOINTMENT" OVER THE RECENTLY REPORTED RECOMMENDATION OF THE US COMMISSION FOR INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS [...]	2002-10-01 10:46:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PINS ETRD VM APEC RELFREE HUMANR
02HANOI2598	ORGANIZING THE MASSES: WOMEN AND YOUTH [...] (U) SUMMARY. VIETNAMESE "MASS ORGANIZATIONS" FOR WOMEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ARE INCREASINGLY CHANGING THEIR FOCUS AWAY FROM BEING ONE-WAY COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA TOOLS TO BECOMING MORE DYNAMIC INSTITUTIONS REPRESENTING THE INTERESTS OF UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 025 [...]	2002-10-28 09:57:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINS SOCI VM TIP
02HANOI2951	LEADING JESUIT ASSESSES CHURCH/STATE RELATIONS [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY CG EMI YAMAUCHI; REASON 1.5(D). 2. (C) SUMMARY. CONSUL GENERAL AND POLOFF RECENTLY MET CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 02951 01 OF 02 120440Z WITH FATHER TOAN, FATHER SUPERIOR OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS, TO DISCUSS HIS VIEWS ON THE CURRENT STA [...]	2002-12-12 04:02:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF VM HUMANR RELFREE
02HANOI2956	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION PROFILES-VIETNAM [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR RAYMOND BURGHARDT, REASON: 1.5 (D) CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 02956 01 OF 02 120931Z 2. (C) AS FAR AS EMBASSY CAN ASCERTAIN FROM THIS DISTANCE, VIETNAM IS AT BEST A MARGINAL PLAYER ON THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, AND AT TI [...]	2002-12-12 08:54:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KPAO VM UNHRC HUMANR
02HANOI2969	UPDATE FROM GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE ON RELIGION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. GVN OFFICIALS CLAIMED THAT THE RECENTLY CONCLUDED NATIONAL BUDDHIST CONFERENCE WAS ENTIRELY INDEPENDENT OF GOVERNMENT CONTROL, BUT ADMITTED THAT THE GVN MUST APPROVE ITS CONVOCATION AND HAD FINAL SAY ON ITS ELECTED NEW LEADERS AND ORDINATIONS (OR PROMOTIONS) OF MONKS AND NUNS [...]	2002-12-13 06:21:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL VT VM HUMANR RELFREE
02HANOI2975	WINNING THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF THE ETHNICS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. VIETNAM'S MULTI-ETHNIC SOCIETY REMAINS UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HANOI 02975 01 OF 04 160035Z HEAVILY DOMINATED BY THE MAJORITY ETHNIC KINH. ETHNIC MINORITIES ARE OFTEN LOCATED IN ECONOMICALLY MARGINAL PARTS OF VIETNAM, ESPECIALLY THE MOUNTAINOU [...]	2002-12-15 23:57:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PINS PGOV VM ETMIN
02HANOI3099	ASSESSING NONG DUC MANH'S LEADERSHIP [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY AMBASSADOR RAYMOND BURGHARDT, REASON: 1.5 (D) 2. (C) SUMMARY. NONG DUC MANH IS PERHAPS THE MOST TELEGENIC VIETNAMESE LEADER SINCE HO CHI MINH. DESPITE CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 03099 01 OF 03 310253Z CONSTANT MEDIA EXPOSURE, LITTLE I [...]	2002-12-31 02:06:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL VM
02HANOI3108	VIETNAM CONSULTATIVE GROUP MEETING: A REALISTIC [...] (U) SUMMARY: THE TENTH VIETNAM CONSULTATIVE GROUP OF DONORS (CG) MEETING TOOK PLACE IN HANOI DECEMBER 9-11, 2002. DONORS AT THE MEETING, CO-CHAIRED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM (GVN) AND THE WORLD BANK, EXPRESSED CONTINUED SUPPORT TO THE GVN'S ACTION PROGRAM FOR 2002-2007 AND URGED VIETNAM [...]	2002-12-31 06:32:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EFIN ETRD ECON PREL VM HUMANR ETMIN RELFREE SOE FINREF
02HANOI573	POVERTY AND REMINDERS OF WAR IN CENTRAL VIETNAM [...] (U) SUMMARY: DIVIDED BY THE OLD DMZ, QUANG TRI AND QUANG BINH ARE UNITED IN POVERTY NOT SO MUCH BECAUSE OF WAR'S DESTRUCTION, BUT BECAUSE OF UNFAVORABLE GEOGRAPHY. REMOTE AND WITH LITTLE SURVIVING PRE-WAR INFRASTRUCTURE, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS AND A GREAT DEAL OF HARD WORK ARE AS [...]	2002-03-14 04:06:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI ECON PHUM EAID PGOV VM
02HANOI899	THE NEXT PRIME MINISTER WILL BE . . . [...] (U) CLASSIFIED BY SCOTT BELLARD, POL/C; REASON 1.5(D) CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HANOI 00899 01 OF 02 120749Z 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER NGUYEN TAN DUNG IS EXPECTED BY MANY OBSERVERS TO BECOME PRIME MINISTER AFTER THE MAY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELEC [...]	2002-04-12 07:09:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR VM DPOL
02HARARE104	ANOTHER BAD DAY FOR DEMOCRACY IN ZIMBABWE: [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A JANUARY 9 PRESS CONFERENCE, ZIMBABWE'S SECURITY CHIEFS SAID THEY WOULD NOT TOLERATE THE ASCENSION OF A PRESIDENT WHO DOES NOT "OBSERVE THE OBJECTIVES OF THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE." THE LENGTHY STATEMENT MARKED THE MOST DRAMATIC DEPARTURE OF ZIMBABWE'S MILITARY FROM ITS GENERA [...]	2002-01-10 12:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MARR ZI
02HARARE1139	MEDIA REACTION ZIM/FRENCH ELECTIONS; HARARE [...] Under headline "Europe's double standards exposed" the government-controlled weekly "The Sunday Mail" dedicated its May 12 editorial to stating that circumstances surrounding the outcome of the French election are no different from the disputed presidential poll in Zimbabwe. E [...]	2002-05-13 11:41:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ZI PREL PHUM
02HARARE139	MEDIA REPORT -- EDITORIAL REACTION TO ARMY [...] LAST WEEK'S JOINT STATEMENT BY THE HEADS OF ZIMBABWE'S DEFENSE AND SECURITY FORCES, DECLARING THAT THEY WILL NOT ACCEPT ANYONE WITHOUT CREDIBLE LIBERATION CREDENTIALS, RECEIVED CONTRASTING EDITORIAL COMMENTS IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA. WHILE THE INDEPENDENT PRESS CONDEMNED THE STATEMENT AS "OUTR [...]	2002-01-14 13:51:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ZI PREL PHUM
02HARARE1418	ZIMBABWE: MULTIPLE REASONS BEHIND ARREST OF LAW [...] (C) Summary: On June 11, Law Society of Zimbabwe President Sternford Moyo described to poloff in detail his June 3-5 detention by Zimbabwe Republic Police and the farcical court proceedings that resulted in his release. The Law Society Secretary, Wilbert Mapombere, was also arrested and held [...]	2002-06-13 12:02:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC ZI
02HARARE1637	ZANU-PF DISSATISFACTION WITH MUGABE GROWING [...] (C) Awareness appears to be growing among senior ruling party officials that they have dug Zimbabwe into a very deep hole, and that extricating themselves from it will be next to impossible so long as Robert Mugabe remains at the helm. They agree that an exit package for Mugabe would have to [...]	2002-07-16 06:13:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ZI ZANU PF
02HARARE1714	ZIMBABWE: FOOD DISTRIBUTION RESTARTS IN ONE [...] (C) Post has learned from Amcit Father Tom McQuillen that the Catholic Church has been permitted to restart food distribution in the beleaguered Binga district of Matabeleland North province in Zimbabwe. War veterans, acting on the order of Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo, forced t [...]	2002-07-25 08:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAID ASEC ZI
02HARARE1766	ZANU-PF DECLARED WINNER OF KADOMA MAYORAL ELECTION [...] (c) Summary: ZANU-PF was declared the winner of the July 27-28 Kadoma mayoral election by a slim margin. The pre-election period was marred by incidents of sporadic violence and the mass arrest of prominent Kadoma MDC members two days before the vote. On the voting days themselves independ [...]	2002-08-01 14:33:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ZI
02HARARE1901	UNDP-DONOR MEETING: MORE DOOM AND GLOOM [...] (SBU) Summary. UNDP Resrep (and newly-named UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator) to Zimbabwe Victor Angelo met with donors on August 20 in a refreshingly frank session. He listed upcoming events, including a proposed regional scientific conference on GMO issues, and detailed where food impor [...]	2002-08-21 12:10:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON PHUM PGOV ZI
02HARARE1951	ZIMBABWE'S GOVERNMENT MEDIA PLAY UP "PLOT" [...] Under the headline "American madness" the weekly ZANU-PF house organ "The People's Voice" (08/25) comments: "The U.S. Government this week shamelessly went public about its plans to oust the democratically elected President of the Republic of Zimbabwe R [...]	2002-08-26 13:55:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KPAO KMDR ZI
02HARARE2022	MEDIA REACTION WSSD; HARARE [...] Following are excerpts of editorials carried in the September 4 editions of the independent daily "The Daily News" and the government-controlled daily "The Herald" on Robert Mugabe's speech to the WSSD: 2. Under headline "As millions face starvation, Mugabe sco [...]	2002-09-04 11:26:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAO KMDR ZI
02HARARE2087	NATIONWIDE LOCAL ELECTIONS A DEMOCRATIC CHARADE [...] (U) Action request -- see para 10. Summary -------- 2. (C) Nationwide rural council elections are scheduled for September 28-29, and the Government of Zimbabwe has used all the means at its disposal to block genuine competition from the opposition MDC. Aspiring MDC candidates have be [...]	2002-09-12 14:19:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC ZI
02HARARE2193	ZANU-PF APPEARS HEADED FOR LANDSLIDE VICTORY IN [...] (C) Voter turnout was low in Zimbabwe's nationwide rural council elections September 28-29, and early returns suggest a likely landslide victory by the ruling ZANU-PF, not surprising given pre-election violence, intimidation, and electoral manipulation. The GOZ stepped up efforts to diminish [...]	2002-10-01 12:28:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC ZI ZANU PF
02HARARE2265	PUBLIC OPINION POLL REVEALS SUPRISING PERCEPTIONS [...] A USAID-funded Post-Presidential Election Survey revealed some surprising results about the presidential election and the political environment. According to the poll, more than 72 percent of those surveyed said they voted, more than official numbers. Almost 40 percent of those surveyed woul [...]	2002-10-15 05:42:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
02HARARE2354	ZANU-PF WINS BY-ELECTION IN INSIZA [...] (C) The official media characterized Poloff's recent trip to the Insiza area ahead of by-elections there as "meddling". Able to concentrate its resources on one province, and through a campaign of vote-buying with food, violence, intimidation, restricting the movements of MDC officials, theft [...]	2002-10-28 15:05:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ECON ASEC ZI
02HARARE2372	ZIMBABWE FACES MULTIPLE AND INTER-RELATED CRISES [...] No summary [...]	2002-10-31 13:04:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID ZI
02HARARE2374	ZCTU SECY-GNL'S THOUGHTS IN ADVANCE OF IVP VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary. Laboff met with Mr. Wellington Chibebe, Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions SIPDIS (ZCTU),to review any last-minute questions about his upcoming IVP travel to the United States. Mr. Chibebe is prepared and excited, and looks forward to the opportunit [...]	2002-11-01 05:57:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB PHUM KPAO ZI
02HARARE2401	GOZ VIOLENCE AGAINST MDC TARGETS COUNCILORS [...] (C) Since the September 28 - 29 Rural District Council elections, ZANU-PF supporters have carried out a violent campaign of retribution against winning MDC councilors and MDC supporters in districts that elected MDC councilors. At least one MDC supporter was beaten to death. Winning (and los [...]	2002-11-04 14:26:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ASEC ZI MDC ZANU PF
02HARARE2478	DEMOCRATIC SPACE FURTHER RESTRICTED [...] (C) The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) recently issued a report unusually critical of the GOZ, detailing a chronology of violence during the October by-election in Insiza. ZESN recommends that an Independent Electoral Commission be appointed by Parliament to conduct future elections [...]	2002-11-13 05:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ECON EFIN ASEC ZI
02HARARE284	A/S CRANER MESSAGE TO ZIMBABWE GOVERNMENT: YOU [...] (C) SUMMARY: BETWEEN JANUARY 15 AND 18, ASSISTANT SECRETARY LORNE CRANER AND HIS DELEGATION MET WITH A SIPDIS WIDE SAMPLING OF ZIMBABWE GOVERNMENT, OPPOSITION AND CIVIL SOCIETY REPRESENTATIVES. A/S CRANER INFORMED TWO MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ZIMBABWE (GOZ) THAT THE ZIMBABWE LEADERSHI [...]	2002-01-31 08:19:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI
02HARARE315	MDC PLANNING FOR TRANSITION [...] (C) THE MDC HAS ESTABLISHED A FOUR-PERSON TEAM THAT IS QUIETLY WORKING ON THE TRANSITION PERIOD, DRAWING UP AN ACTION PLAN FOR THE FIRST 100 DAYS, AND DEVISING A LIST OF CANDIDATES FOR KEY POSITIONS. IF ELECTED, MDC PRESIDENT MORGAN TSVANGIRAI WOULD GIVE THE FINANCE MINISTRY PORTFOLIO TO PROM [...]	2002-02-05 14:31:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ZI MDC
02HARARE557	MEDIA REACTION ZIM PRESIDENTIAL POLL; HARARE [...] WHILE THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY "ZIMBABWE INDEPENDENT" CONDEMNED THE RECENT ATTACKS ON ELECTION OBSERVERS IN ZIMBABWE BY ALLEGED ZANU PF SUPPORTERS IN ITS MARCH 1 EDITORIAL, THE BULAWAYO-BASED GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED DAILY "CHRONICLE" SLAMMED PRESIDENT BUSH FOR ALLEGEDLY USING ORGANI [...]	2002-03-04 10:32:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ZI PREL PHUM
02HARARE565	SOUTH AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE ON ZIMBABWE FROM [...] No summary [...]	2002-03-04 15:04:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS ZI SF
02HARARE569	MEDIA REACTION ZIM PRESIDENTIAL POLL; HARARE [...] WHILE THE INDEPENDENT WEEKLY "ZIMBABWE INDEPENDENT" CONDEMNED THE RECENT ATTACKS ON ELECTION OBSERVERS IN ZIMBABWE BY ALLEGED ZANU PF SUPPORTERS IN ITS MARCH 1 UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HARARE 00569 050100Z EDITORIAL, THE BULAWAYO-BASED GOVERNMENT-CONTRO [...]	2002-03-04 16:33:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ZI PREL PHUM
02HARARE572	MORE ON TSVANGIRAI'S ALLEGED "PLOT" TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. THE GOZ FIRED ANOTHER OFF-TARGET SALVO IN ITS CONTINUING ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT MDC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MORGAN TSVANGIRAI THROUGH ACCUSATIONS THAT HE APPROACHED THE CANADIAN DICKENS AND CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HARARE 00572 01 OF 02 051236Z MAD [...]	2002-03-05 12:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ZI
02HARARE574	UNCERTAINTY HEADING INTO ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2002-03-05 12:57:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI
02HARARE618	MARCH 7 MEETING WITH NIGERIAN ELECTION [...] (C) THE AMBASSADOR MET MARCH 8 WITH THE HEAD OF THE NIGERIAN ELECTION OBSERVER DELEGATION CHIEF CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 HARARE 00618 081132Z SHONEKAN, THE NIGERIAN ELECTION COMMISSION REPRESENTATIVE AND HIGH COMMISSIONER JUTA. SHONEKAN HAD EARLIER BEEN PRESIDEN [...]	2002-03-08 11:24:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI NI
02HARARE625	MEDIA REACTION ZIMBABWE DECIDES; HARARE [...] AS ZIMBABWEANS HEAD FOR THE POLLS, EDITORIALS IN THE LEADING NEWSPAPERS TAKE ONE LAST SHOT AT PERSUADING VOTERS TO SUPPORT ONE OF THE TWO LEADING CANDIDATES. EXCERPTS: 2. UNDER HEADLINE "D-DAY FOR ZIMBABWE," THE MARCH 9 EDITION OF THE GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED DAILY "THE HER [...]	2002-03-09 10:42:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ZI PREL PHUM
02HARARE629	MEDIA REACTION ZIMBABWE: TIME TO DECIDE; [...] ON THE FIRST DAY OF ZIMBABWE'S TWO-DAY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN ZIMBABWE, THE BULAWAYO-BASED GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED DAILY "CHRONICLE" CARRIED TWO EDITORIALS URGING VOTERS NOT TO VOTE FOR OPPOSITION MDC LEADER MORGAN TSVANGIRAI. EXCERPTS FOLLOW: 2. UNDER HEADLINE "VOTE AGAINS [...]	2002-03-09 11:55:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ZI PREL PHUM
02HARARE661	MUGABE DECLARED WINNER OF ZIMBABWE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: REGISTRAR-GENERAL TOBAIWA MUDEDE HAS DECLARED PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE THE WINNER OF ZIMBABWE'S MARCH 9-11 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. HE BEAT HIS STRONGEST CHALLENGER IN 22 YEARS BY 427,000 VOTES, OR 56 PERCENT TO 42 PERCENT. THE NATURE OF SOME OF THE RESULTS, ESPECIALLY EXTRAORDINA [...]	2002-03-13 12:51:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI
02HARARE666	MEDIA REACTION ZIM PRESIDENTIAL POLL; HARARE [...] WITH VOTE COUNTING UNDER WAY IN ZIMBABWE, UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HARARE 00666 01 OF 02 140606Z EDITORIALS PUBLISHED IN THE MARCH 12 EDITIONS OF THE THREE DAILIES IN THE COUNTRY DISCUSS CONCEIVABLE END RESULTS OF THE JUST ENDED PRESIDENTIAL POLL. EXC [...]	2002-03-14 05:56:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ZI PREL PHUM
02HARARE672	MEDIA REACTION MUGABE WINS POLL; HARARE [...] PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE'S VICTORY IN THE JUST- UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HARARE 00672 01 OF 03 141108Z ENDED PRESIDENTIAL POLL IN ZIMBABWE IS FODDER FOR EDITORIALS PUBLISHED IN THE MARCH 14 EDITIONS OF THE LEADING NEWSPAPERS IN THE COUNTRY. THE [...]	2002-03-14 10:57:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ZI PREL PHUM
02HARARE689	MEDIA REACTION MUGABE WINS POLL; HARARE [...] EDITORIALS IN THE GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED AND THE UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HARARE 00689 01 OF 02 150936Z PRIVATE NEWSPAPERS REMAIN SHARPLY DIVIDED ABOUT PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE'S VICTORY IN THE JUST-ENDED PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN ZIMBABWE. WHILE THE [...]	2002-03-15 09:25:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ZI PREL PHUM
02HARARE698	MEDIA REACTION ZIM PRESIDENTIAL POLL; HARARE [...] EDITORIALS IN THE GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HARARE 00698 01 OF 04 181109Z NEWSPAPERS PLAY ON ANTI-COLONIAL EMOTIONS AND URGE ZIMBABWEANS TO MOVE ON BEYOND THE ELECTIONS TO NATIONAL RECONCILIATION AND PROGRESS. EDITORIALS IN TH [...]	2002-03-18 10:57:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ZI PREL PHUM
02HARARE712	MEDIA REACTION COMMONWEALTH TROIKA; HARARE [...] THE INDEPENDENT DAILY "THE DAILY NEWS" DEDICATED UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 HARARE 00712 191048Z ITS MARCH 19 EDITORIAL TO THE COMMONWEALTH DELIBERATIONS OVER ZIMBABWE. THE GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED DAILY "THE HERALD" USED ITS EDITORIAL TO DISCOURAGING Z [...]	2002-03-19 10:34:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ZI PREL PHUM
02HARARE802	MEDIA REACTION U. S. UNDER FIRE; HARARE [...] UNDER HEADLINE "PRESIDENT MUGABE IS OUR CHOICE," THE BULAWAYO-BASED GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED DAILY "CHRONICLE" DEDICATED ITS MARCH 27 EDITORIAL TO DENOUNCING THE UNITED STATES OVER ITS STANCE ON ZIMBABWE'S PRESIDENTIAL POLL. EXCERPTS: 2. "THE AMERICANS AND THEIR FRIENDS ELSEWH [...]	2002-03-27 12:53:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ZI PREL PHUM
02HARARE90	MEDIA REPORT ARMY WARNS SCRIBES; HARARE [...] ZIMBABWE'S MILITARY AND SECURITY CHIEFS HAVE WARNED JOURNALISTS WORKING FOR THE INDEPENDENT PRESS AGAINST PUBLISHING "FALSE REPORTS THAT DISCREDIT THE LEADERSHIP AND MEMBERSHIP OF SECURITY ORGANIZATIONS." ADDRESSING JOURNALISTS IN HARARE ON JANUARY 10, THE COMMANDER OF THE [...]	2002-01-10 10:22:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM ZI
02HARARE954	MEDIA REPORT ANOTHER EDITOR ARRESTED; HARARE [...] No summary [...]	2002-04-19 11:41:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	ZI PREL PHUM
02HOCHIMINHCITY1270	CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: FREEDOM OF RELIGION OR FREEDOM FROM IT, IN DAK LAK AND GIA LAI PROVINCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. DURING A RECENT TRIP TO DAK LAK AND GIA LAI PROVINCES IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, THE CONSUL GENERAL MET WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE COMMITTEES ON RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS (CRA). IN THESE MEETINGS, CRA OFFICIALS DESCRIBED THE ACTIVITIES OF THE SOUTHERN EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF VIETNAM (SECV) IN [...]	2002-12-11 04:40:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREF SOCI KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
02HOCHIMINHCITY471	VIETNAMESE GRASSROOTS COMMUNISM - AMBASSADOR [...] SUMMARY: IN A CORDIAL FIRST MEETING, AMBASSADOR BURGHARDT AND HCMC COMMUNIST PARTY SECRETARY NGUYEN MINH TRIET DISCUSSED THE ROLE OF THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST PARTY, CORRUPTION, INVESTMENT AND THE BTA, AND THE DIRECTION OF THE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP. TRIET STRESSED THE GRASSROOTS NATURE OF VIET [...]	2002-05-06 09:36:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL VM BTA DPOL
02JAKARTA685	EAST TIMOR: XANANA GUSMAO -- FINALLY -- DECLARES [...] SUMMARY. NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE HERO XANANA GUSMAO DECLARED HIS INTENT TO BECOME THE FIRST-EVER ELECTED PRESIDENT OF EAST TIMOR. WITH LESS THAN 90 MINUTES TO GO BEFORE THE FILING DEADLINE EXPIRED, GUSMAO ACCEPTED THE NOMINATION OF MINOR OPPOSITION PARTIES TO THE CHAGRIN OF THE MAJORITY PARTY [...]	2002-02-27 10:34:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV UN
02KATHMANDU1285	NEPAL: PROSPECTS FOR ELECTIONS CLOUDED BY [...] (C) Despite Prime Minister Deuba's repeated assurances that the Government of Nepal will proceed with national elections on schedule, the Embassy finds increasing numbers of commentators who express significant concern that elections can be held as planned. Questions about the ability of t [...]	2002-07-01 13:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP GON
02KATHMANDU1387	Nepal's Local Officials Stay Home as PM Allows [...] (SBU) Summary. Nepal's government allowed the terms of local-level elected officials to lapse on July 16, a move affecting around 200,000 village-, municipality- and district-level politicians. Civil servants reportedly will be tasked with performing their functions. The terms expired after [...]	2002-07-17 13:18:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC PTER PREL PINR NP GON
02KATHMANDU1626	NEPALI GOVERNMENT HANDS LOCAL GOVERNMENT OVER TO [...] (SBU) Having allowed the terms of all locally elected officials to expire as of July 16 (reftel),the Government of Nepal (GON) has announced plans to transfer local bodies' functions and authority to civil servants until elections can be held in April and new representatives installed in Jul [...]	2002-08-21 10:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID NP GON
02KATHMANDU1762	SPECULATON BUILDS FOR POSSIBLE ROYAL INTERVENTION [...] (C) The Embassy believes that King Gyanendra is now actively considering use of his Constitutional authority to dismiss the current government, appoint an interim government, and postpone general elections scheduled for November 13. The King's decision is likely shaped by numerous factors, i [...]	2002-09-11 10:31:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP GON
02KATHMANDU1901	NEPAL: ALL-PARTY CONSENSUS TO POSTPONE ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: On September 29 an all-party meeting recommended that national parliamentary elections, originally scheduled to begin November 13, be postponed. The recommendation--reached just one day after the Election Commission finally announced the long-awaited schedule for the polls--was [...]	2002-09-30 12:59:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU1947	NEPAL: PARTIES SCRAMBLE FOR CONSENSUS AS DEADLINE [...] (C) As the deadline set by King Gyanendra for nominations to an interim Cabinet approaches, politicians are scrambling to patch together a consensus response to the monarch's dismissal of the government of former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his assumption of executive power October 4 [...]	2002-10-08 12:25:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP GON
02KATHMANDU1988	NEPAL KING NAMES NEW PM, MEMBERS OF CABINET [...] (C) On October 11 King Gyanendra appointed National Democratic Party Leader Lokendra Bahadur Chand as Prime Minister. Chand, who has been PM three times before, will head a caretaker government until national elections can be held on an unspecified date. Biographic information on Chand foll [...]	2002-10-11 12:35:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR NP GON
02KATHMANDU2091	TO JOIN OR NOT TO JOIN: THE NEPALI PARTIES' [...] (C) King Gyanendra's dismissal of the government of former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and appointment of an interim government have spotlighted long-standing tensions--and mutual suspicions--between the political parties and the Palace. Conversations with leaders of the two largest po [...]	2002-11-01 13:19:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
02KATHMANDU2158	SAARC: SECRETARIAT COMMENTS ON LATEST COUNCIL FOR [...] (C) On November 14, the Economic Officer met with Rajiv Chander, Director of Trade Economic and Transportation Division of the South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and an Indian national, to discuss the recent meeting of the Committee on Economic Cooperation (CEC). Mr. Chand [...]	2002-11-15 08:41:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON NP XD
02KATHMANDU2207	TEMPORARY UNHCR HEAD IN KATHMANDU DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary. The new UNHCR Kathmandu Officer-in-Charge (OIC) traveled to Nepal,s Bhutanese refugee camps November 16 to follow-up on an investigation into reports that refugees on the staffs of UNHCR,s implementing partner NGOs had engaged in sexual exploitation. The new OIC arrived in-count [...]	2002-11-20 10:49:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL EAID AORC PHUM NP
02KATHMANDU362	NEPALI CANDIDATE FOR HIGH REPRESENTATIVE OF [...] This is an action request. Please see Para 4. 2. The Embassy has received a diplomatic note, dated February 13, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requesting USG support for the Government of Nepal's candidate for the position of UN Secretary General High Representative for Least Devel [...]	2002-02-14 11:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL NP UN
02KATHMANDU411	TEN TIBETAN REFUGEES' ASYLUM REQUEST PASSED OVER [...] (C) Nepal's Home Ministry declined to include the names of ten Tibetan refugees held on immigration violations in a letter to the King recommending candidates for a royal amnesty. Traditionally the King grants amnesty to prisoners on auspicious occasions, including the February 19 Democracy D [...]	2002-02-22 10:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL NP
02KATHMANDU485	PROMISES MADE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT: [...] (C) In the days since Opposition parties, along with former Prime Minister and current Nepali Congress Party President Girija Prasad Koirala, decided to vote with or support the Government of Nepal (GON) to ratify the state of emergency (Ref A),Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is finding o [...]	2002-03-07 12:20:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NP
02KATHMANDU634	SUSPECTED TORTURE, EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLING BY ROYAL [...] (S) Summary. Evidence that Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) personnel brutalized and killed one man they suspected of being a Maoist has spurred private investigations into the army's alleged practice of covering up the deaths of detainees. Military attaches from the U.S. and U.K. Embassies viewed [...]	2002-03-29 12:33:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PHUM PGOV PTER MARR ASEC PREL PINR NP
02KATHMANDU685	DROUGHT ASSESSMENT/MITIGATION IN WESTERN S ASIA [...] In response to ref a, the Regional Environment Office (REO) for South Asia in Kathmandu offers the following proposal on drought assessment and mitigation for selected regions of India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. While we have used the format prescribed by ref c, REO would also like to submi [...]	2002-04-05 04:03:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID EAGR ECON SOCI PK IN AF XD REO
02KUWAIT5528	GCC PREPARES FOR HOSTILITIES [...] (S) Summary: Minstate for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammed al-Sabah gave the Ambassador a readout on this week,s GCC Summit during a December 25th meeting. While billed as an opportunity to discuss internal GCC issues, including the conclusion of a much-publicized customs agreement, Dr. [...]	2002-12-26 12:49:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET	PREL IZ KU
02LAGOS146	SOUTHERN SECESSION UNLIKELY DESPITE TENSIONS [...] (C) Summary. While electoral divisions are under growing media scrutiny, most southern political analysts privately acknowledge that fears of imminent secessionism are unfounded at present. Though some disgruntled groups demand the creation of their own state within the federation, most do no [...]	2002-12-07 11:46:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PREF KDEM ECON PINR NI
02LAGOS2044	NIGERIA: A TRIP TO IBADAN IN OYO STATE [...] (C) Summary. A trip to Ibadan in Oyo State shows residents of the southwest are already revving up for the elections in 2003. Dr. Omulolu Olunloyo, who was governor of Oyo State more than a decade ago, has decided to come out of semi-retirement to run again for that office "for the good of th [...]	2002-10-15 13:00:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PINR NI
02LAGOS76	SOUTHERN SECESSION UNLIKELY DESPITE TENSIONS [...] (C) Summary. While electoral divisions are under growing media scrutiny, most southern political analysts privately acknowledge that fears of imminent secessionism are unfounded at present. Though some disgruntled groups demand the creation of their own state within the federation, most do no [...]	2002-12-07 11:46:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON NI PBTS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL
02PRETORIA506	THE NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: ECONOFF MET JANUARY 24 WITH DAVID MALCOLMSON, DFA NEPAD COORDINATOR, TO REVIEW RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE NEPAD PROGRAM. AT THE JANUARY 24-27 CONFERENCE IN BENONI, SOUTH AFRICA AIMED TO MOVE BEYOND SLOGANS TO FORGE AGREEMENT ON CONCRETE PLANS AND NATIONAL COMMI [...]	2002-01-28 13:47:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EAID PREL SF CA
02RANGOON1479	RAZALI: CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD CASE [...] (C) Summary: Razali told diplomats at an early evening briefing today that the dialog between the NLD and the SPDC appeared to be stalled as much by a personality conflict between Aung San Suu Kyi and Than Shwe as anything else. Each one is imperious in his own way and neither is ready to comp [...]	2002-11-15 12:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM
02RANGOON1631	UNHCR CONTINUES TO PRESS BURMA ON FORCED LABOR IN [...] (C) Summary: UNHCR says that forced labor continues in northern Rakhine State, but maintains that there has been no significant new outflow of refugees from Burma. According to UNHCR's Resident Representative, he has pressed the government hard regarding forced labor, but may need additional [...]	2002-12-20 05:10:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF ELAB BG BM UNDP UNHCR
02ROME1011	LIBERIA: INSECURITY COUPLED WITH FOOD [...] USAID STAFF FROM THE U.S. MISSION IN ROME AND FOOD FOR PEACE/WASHINGTON TRAVELED TO GUINEA, SIERRA LEONE, AND LIBERIA JANUARY 27 THROUGH FEBRUARY 7 TO REVIEW THE FOOD SECURITY SITUATION FOR REFUGEES, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS (IDPS),AND RESIDENTS OF THESE COMMUNITIES HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY [...]	2002-02-26 16:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC PREF EU WFP UN
02ROME1393	ALBANIAN PM MAJKO'S MEETING WITH PM BERLUSCONI: [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON MARCH 12, ALBANIAN AMBASSADOR TO ITALY PELLUMB XHUFI GAVE POLITICAL MINISTER-COUNSELOR TOM COUNTRYMAN AND POLOFF JIM DONEGAN A READOUT ON ALBANIAN PRIME MINISTER PANDELI MAJKO'S MARCH 6 MEETING IN ROME WITH PM BERLUSCONI. ACCORDING TO XHUFI, THE MEETINGS FOCUSED ON TWO ISSU [...]	2002-03-19 11:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AL ENRG IT PHUM PREF PREL
02ROME1517	ITALY UPBEAT (SORT OF) ON STABILITY PACT [...] (C) SUMMARY. THE GOI BELIEVES THAT SOUTHEAST EUROPE COOPERATIVE PROCESS STATES HAVE VERY RECENTLY BECOME MUCH MORE REALISTIC IN EVALUATING THE ORGANIZATION'S POTENTIAL AND THE SEECP, AS A RESULT, IS POISED TO BECOME A MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE ADVOCATE FOR REGIONALISM BOTH WITHIN THE STABILITY PACT [...]	2002-03-26 10:27:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECIN ECON IT KSEI PREL
02ROME1548	ITALY ON WASSENAAR HOS: NOT TO WORRY [...] (U) ITALY SEES NO REMAINING SUBSTANTIVE WASSENAAR ARRANGEMENT HEAD OF SECRETARIAT SUCCESSION ISSUE, MFA'S NONPROLIFERATION COORDINATOR UGO DE MOHR TOLD ECONOFF ON MARCH 22. ITALY ACCEPTS THAT THE SWEDISH CANDIDATE, AMBASSADOR DANIELSSON, WILL BE THE NEXT HOS, AND DE MOHR SAID ITALY IS FULLY S [...]	2002-03-27 08:53:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC IT KSTC PARM EUN
02ROME1557	ITALIAN VIEWS ON CHINA RESOLUTION AT UNCHR [...] (SBU) POLOFF DELIVERED REFTEL TALKING POINTS MARCH 21 TO MFA OFFICE OF HUMAN RIGHTS COUNSELOR ALBERTO CECCARELLI. DRAWING ON POINTS REFTEL, THE AMBASSADOR WROTE MFA SECRETARY GENERAL GIUSEPPE BALDOCCI MARCH 22, FOLLOWING-UP WITH A CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 ROME 015 [...]	2002-03-27 15:13:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM IT UNHRC HUMAN RIGHTS
02ROME1610	AMBASSADOR TOUR D'HORIZON WITH EU AFFAIRS MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: DURING A MARCH 26 COURTESY CALL ON EU AFFAIRS MINISTER ROCCO BUTTIGLIONE, THE AMBASSADOR DISCUSSED THE EU CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION AND THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES SURROUNDING EU ENLARGEMENT. THE AMBASSADOR ALSO ASKED ABOUT THE MINISTER'S RECENT UNHELPFUL COMMENTS ON IRAQ, [...]	2002-03-29 12:55:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV IT EUN
02ROME1769	UNCHR: ITALIANS EXPECT INCREASED U.S. EFFORT TO [...] (C) MFA POLITICAL DIRECTOR GIANCARLO ARAGONA IS SCHEDULED TO MEET YOU 4/11, AFTER ARRIVING IN WASHINGTON 4/10. ARAGONA'S ROLE WAS INSTRUMENTAL, IF NOT DECISIVE, IN THE GOI'S DECISION TO POSTPONE ITS UNCHR CANDIDACY AND THEREBY MAKE WAY FOR THE U.S. TO RETURN TO THE COMMISSION IN 2003. ALTHOUG [...]	2002-04-09 13:29:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL IT US UNHRC
02ROME1818	SICHAN SIV ROME MEETINGS CONCERNING UNGASS ON [...] (SBU) ACCOMPANIED BY POLOFFS, AMBASSADOR TO THE UN CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 ROME 01818 111403Z ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL SICHAN SIV AND L/HRR MICHAEL DENNIS MET 4/10 WITH OFFICIALS FROM THE MINISTRIES OF LABOR/WELFARE AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO DISCUSS ISSUES BEFOR [...]	2002-04-11 13:11:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI IT EUN UNICEF UN
02ROME1853	STEEL 201: ITALY NOT EXERCIZED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. THE GOI CONTINUES TO SPEAK WITH RESTRAINT ABOUT USG STEEL SAFEGUARDS -- DEFENDING LIMITED EU RESPONSIVE SAFEGUARDS AND LOOKING TO BRUSSELS FOR A LEGAL OPINION ON THE WTO-CONSISTENCY OF RETALIATION BUT AT THE SAME TIME CALLING FOR AVOIDANCE OF A PROTECTIONIST SPIRAL AND FOREGOIN [...]	2002-04-12 15:29:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD IT EUN
02ROME19	WFP PLANS TO ASSIST THE AFGHAN PRIMARY SCHOOL AND [...] AS A MAJOR COMPONENT OF ITS NEXT EMERGENCY (EMOP) OPERATION APPEAL (FROM APRIL THROUGH DECEMBER 2002),WFP IS PLANNING FOOD ASSISTANCE FOR 270,000 PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, FOOD AID FOR TRAINING 50,000 TEACHERS, ASSISTANCE TO 75,000 ENROLLED IN NON-FORMAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES, AND FOOD-FOR-WORK [...]	2002-01-02 15:15:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC PREF EU WFP UN AFGHANISTAN
02ROME1918	U/S GROSSMAN DELEGATION CONSULTS WITH ITALIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. THE GOI AGREES THAT THE PRAGUE SUMMIT SHOULD BE A SUBSTANTIVE MEETING THAT COVERS MORE THAN JUST NATO ENLARGEMENT. MEETING WITH U/S GROSSMAN AND HIS DELEGATION IN ROME ON APRIL 16, SENIOR ITALIAN OFFICIALS ENDORSED THE IDEA OF REDEFINING THE DEFENSE CAPABILITIES INITIATIVE TO FOC [...]	2002-04-17 14:56:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT NATO
02ROME2382	REPORT OF SEVENTY-FIFTH SESSION OF IFAD'S [...] SUMMARY: THE SEVENTY-FIFTH SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (IFAD) MET IN ROME CONDUCTED THEIR SEVENTY-FIFTH SESSION IN ROME, APRIL 22-23, 2002. MARK JASKOWIAK (DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF SPECIALIZED DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF T [...]	2002-05-15 14:54:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAID IFAD
02ROME2628	ITALYS LOCAL ELECTION SNOOZE [...] CONSULATES NAPLES, MILAN, AND FLORENCE CONTRIBUTED TO THIS CABLE. 2. SUMMARY: ITALYS LOCAL ELECTIONS WERE OVERSHADOWED BY UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 ROME 02628 310712Z ATTENTION TO THE NATO-RUSSIA SUMMIT IN ROME. ELECTIONS WENT SMOOTHLY, WITH INCUMBENTS OR I [...]	2002-05-31 07:45:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV IT EUN

02ROME2694	CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR RAISES WARNING SIGNS [...] (U) SUMMARY: CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR ANTONIO FAZIO HAS HARSHLY CRITICIZED THE GOVERNMENT FOR FAILURE TO REIN IN THE PUBLIC DEFICIT, WHICH HAS BALLOONED TO NEAR E41 BILLION. THE CRITICISM, THE FIRST OPENLY SOUR NOTE BETWEEN THE CENTRAL BANK AND THE GOVERNMENT, WAS MADE AT THE BANK OF ITALYS ANNUA [...]	2002-06-04 16:35:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN IT EUN
02ROME274	MFA VIEW ON FOREIGN POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF RUGGIERO'S DEPARTURE AND THE GOI'S ROLE IN EU REFORM AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE MFA'S DIRECTOR FOR EU INSTITUTIONAL AND JUDICIAL AFFAIRS, GIUSEPPE BUCCINO, REITERATED TO POLOFF THAT THERE WILL BE NO/NO MAJOR CHANGES IN ITALY'S EUROPEAN POLICY. PM BERLUSCONI SEES NO CONTRADICTION IN PROTECTING AND ADVANCING BOTH NATIONAL AND COMMON EUROPEAN INTERESTS. T [...]	2002-01-17 15:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EU IT PGOV PINR PREL
02ROME3006	KEY ADVISOR TO EU PARLIAMENTARIAN ON EU FINANCIAL [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH SIX. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. THE EU'S FINANCIAL SERVICES ACTION PLAN (FSAP) REPRESENTS A GIANT STEP FORWARD FOR EUROPE, ARGUED ALESSANDRO MARIA POGGIALI, A SENIOR ADVISOR TO EU PARLIAMENTARIAN, RENATO BRUNETTA. WITH DETAILS OF THIS ACTION EMERGING FR [...]	2002-06-19 14:32:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EU IT
02ROME3313	GOI VIEWS ON FUTURE OF EU; PREPARATIONS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON JULY 3, THE CHIEF OF THE MFA'S OFFICE FOR EU INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES, GUISEPPE BUCCINO, EXPRESSED TO POLOFF HIS CONCERNS ABOUT PROGRESS, OR THE LACK THEREOF, ON CRITICAL EU INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS. HE IS STILL HOPEFUL THAT THE CONVENTION DOCUMENT CAN BE COMPLETED BY THE END OF THE [...]	2002-07-05 16:05:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU IT EUN
02ROME3384	ITALY AND CHINA EXCHANGE VISITS TO PROMOTE [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN MAY 28 AND JULY 5 MEETINGS, THE MFA'S OFFICE DIRECTOR FOR EAST ASIAN AFFAIRS AND HIS DEPUTY PROVIDED POLOFF WITH READOUTS ON RECENT VISITS TO ITALY BY THE PRC DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND TO CHINA BY THE GOI MINISTER OF PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES AND MFA UNDERSECRETARY FOR ASIA AND H [...]	2002-07-10 10:11:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EAID IT CH
02ROME3639	BOSSI ON ITALIAN POLITICS, DEVOLUTION, IMMIGRATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: NORTHERN LEAGUE LEADER (AND MINISTER FOR REFORM AND DEVOLUTION) BOSSI MET WITH THE AMBASSADOR JULY 17 FOR A WIDE-RANGING DISCUSSION OF ISSUES, INCLUDING DOMESTIC POLITICS, DEVOLUTION, IMMIGRATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE EU. RELAXED AND STRAIGHTFORWARD, BOSSI EXPLAINED NEXT STEPS IN [...]	2002-07-23 16:25:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PINR ELAB IT EUN ITALIAN POLITICS
02ROME3652	THE ECB, NATIONAL CENTRAL BANKS AND THE BANK [...] (SBU) THE BANK OF ITALY (BOI),LONG A CORNERSTONE OF THE ITALIAN ECONOMY, FACES CHANGED RESPONSIBILITIES AND ROLES. WITH THE ADVENT OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK, THE BOI IS ONE OF THIRTEEN NATIONAL CENTRAL BANKS WITH A VOICE IN THE SINGLE ECB MONETARY POLICY. THE ECB IS ORGANIZED WITH "CENT [...]	2002-07-24 09:39:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PGOV ECON IT EUN
02ROME3669	ITALY PROVIDES SCHOLARSHIPS TO CUBANS SELECTED BY [...] (C) IN RESPONSE TO REFTEL DEMARCHE, MFA OFFICE DIRECTOR FOR CENTRAL AMERICA NICOLO' GORETTI DE FLAMINI TOLD POLOFF JULY 23 THAT THE GOI PROVIDES SCHOLARSHIPS TO CUBANS AS PART OF A FIFTEEN-YEAR OLD CULTURAL-SCIENTIFIC ACCORD BETWEEN THE GOI AND GOC. UNDER THE TERMS OF THE ACCORD, THE GOC CH [...]	2002-07-25 07:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EAID CU IT UN
02ROME3934	57TH UNGA: ITALY SHARES U.S. GOALS [...] (C) IN A MEETING WITH THE MFA'S ACTING OFFICE DIRECTOR FOR UN AFFAIRS, MARIO BALDI, POLOFF CONVEYED MESSAGES ON U.S. GOALS FOR THE 57TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY (UNGA) (REF D) AND ON THE CANDIDACY OF RUTH WEDGWOOD FOR THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE (REF A). BALDI STATED THAT THE GOI SHARED USG G [...]	2002-08-09 13:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PREL PHUM ECON PARM EFIN IT UNGA UN
02ROME402	WASSENAAR HOS: ITALY STILL MUMBLING BUT COMING [...] (SBU) UGO DE MOHR, MFA'S NONPROLIFERATION COORDINATOR, GAVE HIS VIEW OF THE STATE OF PLAY OF THE WASSENAAR HEAD OF SECRETARIAT ISSUE DURING A JANUARY 24 MEETING WITH ECONOFF. SIPDIS HE SEES, OR AT LEAST COUCHES, THE SITUATION IN PROCEDURAL TERMS: THE DECEMBER PLENARY HAVING ENDED WITHOUT SE [...]	2002-01-25 17:42:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT ETTC IT KSTC PARM EUN
02ROME4499	FAO'S EXTERNAL AUDITOR RECOMMENDS OVERHAUL OF [...] FAO'S EXTERNAL AUDITOR, WHILE ISSUING AN UNQUALIFIED AUDIT OPINION ON FAO'S BIENNIUM ACCOUNTS FOR 2000-2001, HAS RAISED CONCERNS RELATED TO THE ADEQUACY AND GENERAL EFFECTIVENESS OF FAO'S INTERNAL AUDIT MECHANISM. THE EXTERNAL AUDITOR HAS OUTLINED A NUMBER OF IMPROVEMENTS REQUIRED INCLUDING ES [...]	2002-09-17 06:30:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UN
02ROME4900	GOI ON TURKEY'S EU CANDIDACY [...] (C) ON OCTOBER 4 THE MFA'S DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR EUROPEAN AFFAIRS PAOLO PUCCI TOLD POL MINISTER COUNSELOR THAT WHILE ITALY RECOGNIZED THE REFORMS PUT IN PLACE RECENTLY BY THE CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 ROME 04900 082132Z TURKISH LEGISLATURE, IT WOULD HAVE LIKED TO [...]	2002-10-08 13:23:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL TU IT EUN
02ROME5049	THE 2003 BUDGET (PART I): A TIGHTROPE WALK [...] (U) THIS IS THE FIRST OF A TWO-PART SERIES ON THE ITALIAN BUDGET. 2. (C) SUMMARY: A DIVIDED ITALIAN CABINET, AFTER AN ALL-NIGHT DEBATE, HAS AGREED UPON AND SENT TO PARLIAMENT THE HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL 2003 BUDGET. THE BERLUSCONI GOVERNMENT'S BUDGET IS AN ATTEMPT TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC GROWTH AN [...]	2002-10-17 07:28:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV EUN
02ROME5125	ITALIAN MFA ON LEBANON-ISRAEL WATER ISSUE, SYRIA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA REPORTS THAT THE ITALIAN WATER EXPERT CURRENTLY WORKING THE ISRAELI-LEBANESE WATER DISPUTE MAY SEEK TO HELP BROKER A LONGER-TERM, BROADER SHARING AGREEMENT, BUT AS AN EU INITIATIVE, NOT AN ITALIAN EFFORT. ROME RECEIVED THE PITCH FROM LEBANESE FINANCE MINISTER SINIORA ON THE EU [...]	2002-10-21 14:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE IT IZ
02ROME5139	FIAT IN CRISIS: GOI BETWEEN A ROCK ANDA HARD PLACE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: FIAT, ITALY'S LARGET CORPORATION AND NATIONAL ICON, IS IN THE MIDSTOF A POTENTIALLY DEVASTATING CRISIS AS ITS SUBSIDIARY, FIAT AUTO, FACES TH CONSEQUENCES OF DECADES OF MOUNTING LOSSES AND EBT. THE CRISIS OF FIAT AUTO CRISIS IS HITTING IALY HARD ECONOMICALLY AND POLITICALLY. LAB [...]	2002-10-22 10:08:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV EIND IT EIN
02ROME5255	GOI BRIEFS USEU AMB SCHNABEL ON EU PRESIDENCY [...] (U) THIS IS A JOINT USEU/EMBASSY ROME CABLE. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) IN PREPARATION FOR ITALY,S PRESIDENCY OF THE EU DURING THE SECOND HALF OF 2003, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE EU ROCKWELL SCHNABEL PAID INTRODUCTORY CALLS ON ITALIAN MFA SECRETARY GENERAL GIUSEPPE BALDOCCI AND GIOV [...]	2002-10-28 08:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EFIN IR TU EU EAGR IT
02ROME5446	REPORT OF 123RD FAO COUNCIL [...] SUMMARY: DURING THE UN FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZTION (FAO) COUNCIL'S 123RD SESSION (OCTOBER 28- OVEMBER 2),THE U.S. DELEGATION WAS SUCCESSFUL IN ENSURING THAT THE TERMS OF REFERENCE OF AN INTERSSSIONAL "FRIENDS OF THE CHAIR" GROUP ON DIRECTOR ENERAL TERM LIMITS DID NOT PREJUDGE THE OUTCOM [...]	2002-11-07 12:51:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAGR KUNR FAO EAG
02ROME5599	DELIVERY OF PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO PM BERLUSCONI [...] (S) AMBASSADOR, ACCOMPANIED BY DCM, MET WITH PM BERLUSCONI AT CIAMPINO AIRPORT LATE EVENING OF 15 NOVEMBER TO DELIVER PRESIDENT BUSH'S MESSAGE ON THE PRAGUE NATO SUMMIT AND TO DISCUSS OTHER ISSUES (SEPTEL). BERLUSCONI WAS MAKING A SHORT SECRET PAGE 02 ROME [...]	2002-11-18 16:15:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL IT EUN ITALIAN POLITICS
02ROME5802	CHR-59 LIBYAN CHAIRMANSHIP: ITALIANS CONCERNED [...] ITALY UNDERSTANDS U.S. CONCERNS ABOUT CHR-59'S EFFECTIVENESS UNDER A LIBYAN CHAIR, BUT IS CONCERNED THAT CONTESTING A REGIONAL GROUP'S CONSENSUS CHOICE FOR THE CHAIR WILL SET A BAD PRECEDENT FOR THE COMMISSION'S FUTURE OPERATION, MFA HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICE DIRECTOR CALVETTA TOLD US DECEMBER 2. C [...]	2002-12-02 15:19:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM LY IT UN
02ROME6002	CHR-59 LIBYAN CHAIRMANSHIP: ITALIANS COULD ACCEPT [...] (C) SUMMARY: ITALY CONTINUES TO OPPOSE CONFRONTATIONAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 ROME 06002 01 OF 02 161821Z TACTICS TO OVERTURN LIBYA'S CHAIRMANSHIP OF CHR-59 THAT COULD DAMAGE THE COMMISSION'S LONGER-TERM VIABILITY OR THAT LEAD PIECEMEAL TO A FORCED VOTE ON THE [...]	2002-12-16 18:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL IT LY UN
02ROME6037	EU COPENHAGEN SUMMIT - GOI CITES PROGRESS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: ON DECEMBER 17, MFA DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ROCCO CANGELOSI TOLD POLITICAL MINISTER-COUNSELOR TOM COUNTRYMAN THAT THE GOI WAS, IN GENERAL, PLEASED WITH THE RESULTS IN COPENHAGEN. WHILE ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THE DECISION ON TURKEY COULD HAVE BEEN MORE POSITIVE, HE [...]	2002-12-18 14:24:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU CY IT EUN
02ROME6075	CHR-59 LIBYAN CHAIRMANSHIP: TRYING TO CONVINCE THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: AS PART OF OUR EFFORT TO GET THE GOI TO RECONSIDER ITS POSITION ON LIBYA'S CANDIDACY FOR THE CHR-59 CHAIRMANSHIP, POL MC REITERATED THE USG RESERVATIONS ABOUT A LIBYAN CHR CHAIRMANSHIP, URGED ITALY TO JOIN THE WEOG CONSENSUS TO ISSUE A LETTER OF CONCERN ABOUT LIBYA'S CANDIDACY, AN [...]	2002-12-19 17:41:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL IT LY UNAUS
02ROME6133	WFP/IRAQ COUNTRY DIRECTOR SHARES THOUGHTS [...] (S) CURRENT RATION CARD SYSTEM IS CUMBERSOME FOR THOSE WHO BECOME DISPLACED, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT INVOLVES MOVEMENT FROM THE SOUTH/CENTRAL TO THE NORTH. U.N. WORLD FOOD PROGRAM SECRET PAGE 03 ROME 06133 01 OF 05 241419Z (WFP) HAS OBTAINED PARTIAL DATABASE [...]	2002-12-24 10:53:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	AORC EAGR EAID KUNR PHUM PREF WFPAORC WFP
02ROME6134	UNHCR PROFILE: ITALY [...] (C) FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS KEYED TO REFTEL QUESTIONS TO ASSIST IN PREPARATION OF CHR COUNTRY PROFILE FOR ITALY. CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 ROME 06134 241147Z 2. (C) THE MFA WILL DEVELOP AND COORDINATE ITALY'S POSITIONS ON CHR RESOLUTIONS AND RELATED ISSUES; BUT [...]	2002-12-24 11:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KPAO IT UNHRC
02ROME721	AMBASSADOR BURNS BRIEFS ITALIANS ON NATO ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY. US AMBASSADOR TO NATO NICK BURNS DISCUSSED TASK FORCE FOX, NATO-EU AND NATO-RUSSIA RELATIONS, ENLARGEMENT AND THE BALKANS IN A SERIES OF MEETINGS WITH THE ITALIAN DEFENSE MINISTER, OTHER SENIOR ITALIAN OFFICIALS, JOURNALISTS AND POLITICAL LEADERS WHILE IN ROME FEBRUARY 7 AND 8. [...]	2002-02-13 13:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL IT NATO
02ROME763	MEP GIORGIO NAPOLITANO ON EU REFORM; [...] (C) SUMMARY. ON FEBRUARY 12, DURING A WIDE-RANGING DIALOGUE WITH POL AND ECON OFFICERS, ITALIAN MEP AND PRESIDENT OF THE EP'S CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE GIORGIO NAPOLITANO EMPHASIZED THAT EU REFORM AND STREAMLINING WAS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL IF THE UNION IS TO FUNCTION EFFECTIVELY WITH [...]	2002-02-15 06:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EU IT PREL
02ROME886	FIRST REGULAR SESSION OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM [...] DESPITE OBJECTIONS TO THE PROCESS, THE BOARD WELCOMED THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL AND THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF FAO'S INTENTION IS APPOINT JAMES T. MORRIS (AMCIT) AS THE NEXT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF WORLD FOOD PROGRAM. ON WFP'S SIZABLE CASH AND INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, THE BOARD REQ [...]	2002-02-21 16:00:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UN
02TEGUCIGALPA2523	HONDURAS GENERALLY SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. GOALS FOR [...] EmbOffs have demarched MFA officials several times in August/September on U.S. goals for the 57th UNGA and the GOH will be generally supportive. Post has the following comments about the GOH positions on key issues raised in ref F, in addition to those included in ref E e-mail: -- On counter [...]	2002-09-10 15:16:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC PHUM ECON OTRA HO UNGA UN
02TEGUCIGALPA2530	A/S REICH DISCUSSES TRADE AND INVESTMENT WITH THE [...] Summary. WHA A/S Otto Reich, accompanied by WHA/CEN Director Paul Trivelli, Ambassador, DCM, USAID Director and EconCouns, discussed trade and investment issues over lunch with Honduran government officials and private sector leaders on August 28. Both A/S Reich and the Honduran participant [...]	2002-09-10 16:51:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EFIN EIND PREL PGOV HO
02TEGUCIGALPA2534	A/S REICH MEETS WITH HONDURAN PRESIDENT MADURO; DISCUSSION FOCUSES ON BORDER/TARIFF DISPUTE WITH NICARAGUA [...] No summary [...]	2002-09-10 17:00:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS ETRD ECON KJUS HO UNGA
02TEGUCIGALPA3132	(S) HONDURAS HAS MANY CUBAN DOCTORS; MADURO [...] (S) Summary: There are approximately 100-225 Cuban doctors and nurses in Honduras. A bilateral treaty between the GOH and the GOC governs the program. In addition, there are approximately 500 Hondurans studying medicine in Cuba on GOC scholarships. President Ricardo Maduro told Ambassador [...]	2002-11-15 21:16:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	PREL EAID PGOV ETTC PINR SMIG ASEC HO CU
02TEGUCIGALPA3145	(S) HONDURAS HAS MANY CUBAN DOCTORS; MADURO [...] (S) Summary: There are approximately 100-225 Cuban doctors and nurses in Honduras. A bilateral treaty between the GOH and the GOC governs the program. In addition, there are approximately 500 Hondurans studying medicine in Cuba on GOC scholarships. President Ricardo Maduro told Ambassador [...]	2002-11-19 14:32:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	PREL EAID PGOV ETTC PINR SMIG ASEC HO CU
02TEGUCIGALPA3407	POSSIBLE CABINET SHAKEUP IN HONDURAS AS MADURO [...] (C) SUMMARY: As President Ricardo Maduro staggers to his first anniversary in office, there are emerging signs that he will make some changes in his Cabinet in an effort to recapture the political initiative in the country. One rumored change is a new Foreign Minister. Other more probable t [...]	2002-12-19 23:38:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON HO
02VATICAN173	SANT'EGIDIO WANTS VOTE ON ITS ECOSOC CANDIDACY [...] (SBU) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE. SANT'EGIDIO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SPECIALIST MARIO GIRO CALLED DCM 01/10 TO SEEK USG SUPPORT IN FORWARDING THE SANT'EGIDIO CANDIDACY TO BE AN OBSERVER NGO AT THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 VATICA 00173 111447 [...]	2002-01-11 14:36:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL VT UN
02VATICAN3633	WORKING WITH THE HOLY SEE IN INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: THE HOLY SEE ACTIVELY SEEKS TO INFLUENCE UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 VATICA 03633 01 OF 03 231457Z THE POLICIES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS AND PARTICIPATES INTENSELY IN THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THESE TO PROMOTE ITS OWN AGENDA, PARTICU [...]	2002-07-23 14:56:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AORC VT UN VTPREL
02VATICAN5607	HOLY SEE URGES CHURCH TO PROMOTE VENEZUELAN DIALOGUE, AVOID POLITICAL ACTIVISM [...] (C) THE HOLY SEE IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE PROSPECT OF CIVIL VIOLENCE IN VENEZUELA IN THE COMING MONTHS, AND THE POPE HIMSELF HAS URGED THE VENEZUELAN BISHOPS TO "COOL IT" ON POLITICAL ACTIVISM AND INSTEAD TO ENCOURAGE DIALOGUE. THE HOLY SEE VIEWED THE BISHOPS' OCTOBER LETTER ENCOURAGING DIALOGU [...]	2002-11-19 09:35:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM VT VE
02VATICAN5803	STRENGTHENING CATHOLICISM IN VIETNAM ONE BISHOP AT A TIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: ALTHOUGH THE COLD WAR IS OVER FOR MOST, THE HOLY SEE CONTINUES TO STRUGGLE AGAINST COMMUNIST REGIMES IN ASIA. THE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S ABILITY TO MANAGE ITS AFFAIRS WITHOUT INTERFERENCE IS CURRENTLY BETTER IN VIETNAM THAN IN CHINA, BUT THE HOLY SEE IS WORKING IN VIETNAM TO ADVANCE [...]	2002-12-03 05:13:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PHUM PREL VM VT
02VATICAN76	ANGELO SCOLA: NEW PATRIARCH AND NOW PAPABILE? [...] (SBU) POPE JOHN PAUL II HAS APPOINTED A NEW PATRIARCH TO LEAD THE CATHOLIC ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION OF VENICE, ITALY. 60 YEAR OLD BISHOP ANGELO SCOLA IS ALREADY BEING TOUTED AS A CANDIDATE FOR THE NEXT PAPACY. VENICE HAS UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 VATICA 00076 [...]	2002-01-07 14:33:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PINR VT
02VATICAN784	BIWEEKLY ACTIVITIES REPORT JANUARY 14-25, 2002 [...] (C) THIS CABLE REPORTS ON EMBASSY VATICAN'S BIWEEKLY ACTIVITIES FOR THE PERIOD JANUARY 30-FEBRUARY 14, 2002. IT IS INTENDED TO SUMMARIZE, BUT NOT EXHAUSTIVELY REPORT, OUR ACTIVITIES DURING THE PREVIOUS TWO WEEKS. COVERED IN THIS CABLE ARE: -- AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES COMMERCIAL ADVOCACY WITH [...]	2002-02-15 13:47:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KWMN VT
03ABUDHABI1136	PROPOSAL FOR UAE MEDIA TRAINING WORKSHOP [...] PROGRAM REQUEST: PAS ABU DHABI REQUESTS ASSISTANCE TO RECRUIT VETERAN JOURNALIST GIL BUTLER FOR A MEDIA TRAINING WORKSHOP WITH UAE JOURNALISTS FOR EARLY MAY 2003. SIMILAR TO A RECENT MEDIA TRAINING WORKSHOP IN AMMAN, PAS ABU DHABI REQUESTS MR. BUTLER CONDUCT TWO FIVE-DAY WORKSHOPS FOR GROU [...]	2003-03-10 10:37:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO ZP TC
03ABUDHABI1241	UNESCO RE-ENTRY AND CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...]	2003-03-15 14:28:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC UNESCO TC
03ABUDHABI1513	(C) DOLPHIN GAS PROJECT: STILL NO GAS SALES AGREEMENTS AS UAE SHAYKHS WRANGLE OVER PRICING [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Almost one year after the selection of U.S. firm Occidental Petroleum to assume a 24.5 percent stake in the Dolphin project to pump natural gas from Qatar to the UAE, actual gas pu [...]	2003-03-30 13:20:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	EPET PGOV ENRG ECON EINV IR TC
03ABUDHABI2892	UAEG UNDECIDED ABOUT THE U.S. CANDIDATE FOR [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche June 16 to UAE Authority for Standardization & Metrology Deputy General Director Dr. Rashid Ahmad Bin Fahad. Dr. Ahmad said that his office is responsible for CODEX issues but is unlikely to attend the CODEX Alimentarius Commis [...]	2003-06-16 11:23:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EAGR TC
03ABUDHABI299	UAEG FORMING CABINET LEVEL COMMITTEE [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, Reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) During a 1/14 meeting with MFA Minstate Hamdan Bin Zayid Al-Nahyan (other topics reported septel),the Ambassador pressed Hamdan and MFA Assistant Undersecretary Abdullah Rashid Al-Nuaimi on the need to jumpstar [...]	2003-01-20 09:52:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PARM PREL PTER KSTC TC
03ABUDHABI3585	IRAQ DONORS' CONFERENCE [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B & D). 2. This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 3. (U) Embassy understands that the European Commission is heavily promoting Spain as a venue for the planned Iraq donors' conference and that the issue will be discuss [...]	2003-08-02 12:50:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	EAID EFIN PREL IZ TC
03ABUDHABI5056	UNGA DEMARCHES ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN TURKMENISTAN, [...] Embassy delivered ref A (UNGA Resolution on Human Rights in Turkmenistan) talking points to the MFA Department of American, European and Oceanic Affairs on November 22. We requested that these be forwarded to the MFA Director for International Organizations, who is currently out of country, a [...]	2003-11-23 09:04:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	UN UNGA PHUM PREL IR TX TC
03ABUDHABI526	SHOW ME THE MONEY: INSIGHTS INTO THE UAE BUDGET [...] No summary [...]	2003-02-02 05:05:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV TC
03ABUDHABI843	UAEG ASSURES ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) During a 19 February meeting with the Ambassador, MFA Asst U/S Abdullah Rashid Al-Nuaimi provided a candid readout on the Arab League Extraordinary Ministerial held in Cairo 15-16 February. Noting that he [...]	2003-02-19 13:29:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AL TC
03ABUJA1012	NIGERIA: MEETING WITH MINISTER OF JUSTICE [...] (C) Summary: During a May 2 meeting to deliver the non-paper on narcotics and law enforcement certification to the Minister of Justice Kanu Agabi (Reftel),Ambassador Jeter took the opportunity to discuss the April elections with the Minister. The blunt, straight-talking Agabi decried the man [...]	2003-06-09 19:42:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCRM PREL NI
03ABUJA1025	NIGERIA: FORMER MOD DANJUMA ON ART. 98, BENUE AND [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: June 7 DCM paid a farewell call on former Minister of Defense LTG (ret.) T.Y. Danjuma. Danjuma did not expect the GON to conclude an Article 98 agreement and doubted the Commission of Inquiry's report on the October 2001 Benue massacre would satisfy the U.S. Congress since the [...]	2003-06-11 14:03:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	MASS PREL KTIA PGOV MARR MOPS NI KICC
03ABUJA1026	NIGERIA: ECONOMIC ROUNDUP JUNE 13 [...] (U) This periodic economic report from Abuja and Lagos includes: --Obasanjo Highlights Economy in Inaugural Speech . . . But Disputes Poverty Figures --Obasanjo Holds Off Naming Cabinet --GON Bans Import of Baryte, Mineral Used for Oil Drilling --World Airways Lands in Lagos --Parallel Marke [...]	2003-06-12 09:29:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EAIR EPET NI
03ABUJA104	NIGERIA: UPDATE FROM NLC PRESIDENT OSHIOMHOLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a late 2002 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole discussed talks he held with World Bank and IMF representatives on poverty reduction and worker rights. Oshiomhole revealed to the Ambassador an ambitious policy agenda, in [...]	2003-01-16 14:19:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EFIN PGOV NI
03ABUJA1049	NIGERIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP JUNE 13 [...] (U) THIS PERIODIC JOINT POLITICAL REPORT FROM ABUJA AND LAGOS INCLUDES: 2. --ELECTION TRIBUNALS UPDATE --WABARA FOR SENATE PRESIDENT --VIOLENCE-FREE INAUGURATION --DO THE JUNE 20 ELECTIONS MATTER? --VIOLENCE IN ADAMAWA STATE ------------------------- ELECTION TRIBUNALS UPDATE ------- [...]	2003-06-13 13:35:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA113	NIGERIA: LIBYAN CHAIR [...] (C) Summary: Nigerian President Obasanjo reportedly is making telephone calls in an effort to replace Libya with Mozambique as the Africa Group's candidate to chair the 2003 CHR session. End Summary. 2. (U) DCM Andrews delivered ref A demarche by phone to Presidential International Aff [...]	2003-01-17 15:50:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL LY NI UNHRC
03ABUJA1150	NIGERIA: PRESIDENT OBASANJO PROPOSES REFORMS TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Obasanjo appears committed to using the first months of his new Administration to introduce key political and economic reforms. On June 18, Obasanjo proposed significant changes to the federal government system and the conduct of elections. The two most salient are: (1) [...]	2003-07-02 11:11:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA1151	"If only Ms. Foster had come before the [...] No summary [...]	2003-07-02 15:45:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO SCUL OEXC NI
03ABUJA1162	NIGERIA: STRIKE CONTINUES TO HOLD FOR FOURTH DAY [...] (U) SUMMARY: July 3 was relatively quiet in Abuja. Vehicular traffic was light, gas lines were growing and most offices and businesses had skeletal staffing. Indicating that the political opposition may be looking for ways to exploit the strike, the Embassy experienced a peaceful demonstratio [...]	2003-07-03 18:31:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EPET ENRG PGOV ASEC CASC NI
03ABUJA12	NIGERIA: PDP GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARIES [...] (U) The People's Democratic Party (PDP) held its so- called primaries during Christmas week 2002, producing few surprises. The selection of delegates to the state-by- state caucuses was designed to give maximum authority to incumbent governors in controlling the selection process. As expect [...]	2003-01-02 16:17:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI NI
03ABUJA1206	NIGERIA: APGA PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OJUKWU MEETS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, APGA's Presidential candidate in the recent elections and leader of Biafra's failed secession in the sixties, met Ambassador Jeter at his residence on June 25 to discuss the Nigeria's elections, his observations on Obasanjo, and the way forward for Nigeria. [...]	2003-07-10 10:27:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA123	NIGERIA: UPDATE FROM NLC PRESIDENT OSHIOMHOLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a late 2002 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole discussed talks he held with World Bank and IMF representatives on poverty reduction and worker rights. Oshiomhole revealed to the Ambassador an ambitious policy agenda, in [...]	2003-01-21 16:43:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EFIN PGOV NI
03ABUJA124	NIGERIA: CHAMBAS SAYS DISCORD AND LETHARGY HINDERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a January 8 conversation with Ambassador Jeter, ECOWAS Executive Secretary Chambas acknowledged ECOWAS diplomatic efforts in Cote d'Ivoire had lost steam due to ECOWAS Chairman Wade's erratic statesmanship, the lethargy of President Gbagbo and lack of focus of Togolese lea [...]	2003-01-21 17:15:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MASS KPKO NI IV
03ABUJA1248	NIGERIA: TRIBUNALS UPDATE [...] (C) Begin Summary: State election tribunals have been rendering decisions for one month. Three elections have been overturned, but the majority of the petitions have been thrown out on procedural grounds. The proclivity of the tribunals to avoid the substantive merits of many of these cases [...]	2003-07-22 16:55:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA1285	NIGERIA: BUHARI STILL STANDING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff met General Muhammadu Buhari, ANPP presidential candidate, to discuss his assessment of Nigeria and his future plans. Buhari commented that he had no faith in Obasanjo because the "four failed years has only emboldened him." Buhari criticized the electoral tribunals fo [...]	2003-07-29 14:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA1329	NIGERIA: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MEMBERS OF THE [...] (C) On 18 July, President Obasanjo swore in 38 of 40 new Ministers and deputies and confirmed their various portfolios. In a novel twist, Obasanjo had forwarded the roster to the National Assembly without matching the prospective Ministers to any portfolios. He only designated the portfolios [...]	2003-08-04 15:08:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA1330	NIGERIA "ENGAGING ISLAM IN NIGERIA: THE TWO - DAY KANO CONFERENCE" - - AN ANALYSIS [...] (SBU) Summary: In late January an unprecedented forum initiated by the Emir of Kano brought together Embassy officials, American scholars, and Moslem leaders from northern Nigeria to explore perceptions of the US and Islam, U.S. Middle East Policy, the Global War on Terrorism, and economic dev [...]	2003-08-05 13:13:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PREL SCUL OIIP NI
03ABUJA1331	NIGERIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP AUGUST 6 [...] (U) THIS PERIODIC JOINT POLITICAL REPORT FROM ABUJA INCLUDES: --Obasanjo Chooses Special Advisors --Obasanjo Submits List of Ministers --Electoral Conference ) INEC Admits Problems --Opposition Book Launch --Court Case on the Presidential Election --Probe of Inspector General of Polic [...]	2003-08-06 13:53:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA1340	NIGERIA: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MEMBERS OF THE [...] (C) This is the second of Post,s biographic cables on newly appointed GON ministers. This cable focuses on the President,s new economic team. According to Embassy sources and press reports, President Obasanjo is promoting his economic team as a new generation of internationally respected tec [...]	2003-08-07 09:17:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL KISL NI
03ABUJA1347	NIGERIA: DEMONSTRATION AT EMBASSY; ATTACK ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: About 50 men and women assembled at the Embassy on July 3 to peacefully protest the April elections and the visit of the President Bush to see President Obasanjo. After departing peacefully, at least 30 of the demonstrators were detained for about ten days, we learned. While [...]	2003-08-07 17:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ASEC NI
03ABUJA1356	NIGERIA: ECOWAS EXSEC CHAMBAS SAYS OBASANJO [...] (C) Summary. During an August 5 conversation with Charge, ECOWAS Executive Secretary Mohammed Chambas said President Obasanjo affirmed that Charles Taylor would be evicted from Liberia if he refused to leave willingly. However, Chambas characterized Taylor as conflicted, pulled by his expans [...]	2003-08-08 18:42:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MOPS PHUM LI
03ABUJA1358	NIGERIA: ECOWAS EXSEC CHAMBAS SAYS OBASANJO [...] (C) Summary. During an August 5 conversation with Charge, ECOWAS Executive Secretary Mohammed Chambas said President Obasanjo affirmed that Charles Taylor would be evicted from Liberia if he refused to leave willingly. However, Chambas characterized Taylor as conflicted, pulled by his expans [...]	2003-08-08 18:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MOPS PHUM LI
03ABUJA1385	MOGEROA - ENTERING A SEASON OF POLITICAL [...] (S) SUMMARY: Politically, Nigeria is tense and this probably will not significantly abate in the near future. Opposition politicians and much of the general populace remain disenchanted with the results of the April elections and the irregularities that attended them. Many opposition figu [...]	2003-08-14 15:03:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINS NI
03ABUJA1455	NIGERIA: APPEALS COURT JUDGES SUMMONED BY OBASANJO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three members of Nigeria's Federal Appeals Court were summoned to meet with President Obasanjo hours after the court issued a preliminary ruling in favor of his ANPP Presidential opponent Buhari. One of the judges claimed to Poloff that Obasanjo had "threatened" the judges and [...]	2003-08-26 09:11:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
03ABUJA1496	BOOK LAUNCH FOR BABANGIDA'S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) CDA was invited to an August 27 event "launching a book by ex-Minister of the Interior John Shagaya." There was a book, but the affair was clearly more intended to help launch the candidacy of former President Babangida in 2007. 2. (SBU) 2003 and potential 2007 candidate Mohammedu B [...]	2003-08-29 18:31:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV NI
03ABUJA15	NIGERIAN RULING PARTY CONVENTION SURPRISE [...] (C ) Summary: President Obasanjo's renomination is highly probable but not certain. The 3,349 delegates to the ruling PDP's national convention began voting around sundown, but the process could drag into Monday morning. On convention eve, the President's renomination seemed assured (Ref A) [...]	2003-01-06 07:45:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL NI
03ABUJA1515	GON REMOVES POLICE PROTECTION FROM OFFICIALS [...] (U) The Inspector General of Police's Office announced August 21 that, on orders from the Presidency, it would greatly reduce the use of police as bodyguards. Bodyguards have been limited to the President, Vice President, Ministers and Ministers of State, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, S [...]	2003-09-04 12:23:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA152	NIGERIA: NEW GON COMMERCE MINISTER SUPPORTS STRONG [...] (U) Minister of Commerce Ngelale told the Ambassador in a January 10 meeting that he intends to follow his predecessor as a strong voice for sub-Saharan Africa in the WTO. He also endorsed a constructive relationship between the United States and Nigeria on trade issues. A Ministry of Commerce [...]	2003-01-24 14:25:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD NI WTRO USTR
03ABUJA1560	NIGERIA: RULING PARTY COHESION (C-AL3-00674) [...] (S) Responses to specific reftel questions are below. They are based on the assumption that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) remains the ruling party after the various legal challenges to the 2003 elections. BACKGROUND 2. (C) The PDP was founded in the wake of Abacha's death [...]	2003-09-05 16:54:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR PGOV PINS NI KPRP
03ABUJA16	NIGERIA: PDP NATIONAL CONVENTION SELECTS OBASANJO [...] (U) In a repeat of the ruling PDP's 1999 convention, Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo defeated Alex Ekwueme to become its presidential candidate, receiving 2,642 of an estimated 3,579 votes cast (74 percent) in the first round. The former Vice President came in a distant second with 661 vo [...]	2003-01-06 13:25:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINS PREL NI
03ABUJA1668	VP CANDIDATE AND FORMER SENATE PRESIDENT OKADIGBO [...] (U) Embassy learned early September 26 that former Senate President and ANPP Vice Presidential candidate Chuba Okadigbo passed away in the early morning hours. No official announcement has been made as of mid-morning September 26. 2. (U) In spite of rumors already beginning to circulate, [...]	2003-09-26 10:22:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM NI
03ABUJA1670	BUHARI AND ANPP HOLD MAJOR RALLY IN KANO [...] Thousands of ANPP supporters converged on Kano September 23 to attend a rally for its Presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari. ANPP Chairman Don Etiebet, Vice Presidential candidate Chuba Okadigbo and Kano State Governor Ibrahim Shekarau were in attendance along with dozens of ANPP candidat [...]	2003-09-26 13:00:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV NI KDEM
03ABUJA1707	BUHARI GETS HIS (FIRST) DAY IN COURT [...] (C) Summary: The first day of substantive arguments at the Federal Appeals Court in losing ANPP presidential candidate Buhari's suit against the April 19 elections did not go well for the President's and election commission's attorneys. The Chairman of the tribunal explained away a visit of [...]	2003-10-06 06:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA1724	VISIT TO KWARA STATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Governing Kwara State, like some other states, is a family affair. Governor Bukola Saraki's father is the political kingmaker in Kwara, having handpicked the previous two governors and arranged for his daughter to be elected to the Senate in the same April elections that sent [...]	2003-10-08 06:46:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM NI
03ABUJA1731	GAS STRIKE: HEARTBURN TO BEGIN OCTOBER 9 [...] (SBU) It seems certain that a strike and/or demonstrations will start in at least some parts of Nigeria October 9, led by a coalition of unions and NGOs protesting President Obasanjo's September 30 deregulation of gasoline prices. Violence could easily erupt, although the Nigeria Labor Congres [...]	2003-10-08 17:37:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS EPET ECON NI
03ABUJA1868	BABANGIDA POSITIONING FOR 2007 ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: While he had been seen by some as a potential challenger for the 2003 elections, former military Head-of-State Ibrahim Babangida (IBB) faded during the party conventions. Apparently he is now maneuvering for a political comeback in 2007, and "IBB For President" organizations a [...]	2003-10-30 07:12:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI
03ABUJA1975	"INDEPENDENT" NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION [...] (SBU) In August, the ruling PDP rammed 10 new Commissioners through the Senate despite a walkout by all of the opposition, and even some members from the ruling PDP, who complained the new majority among the 12 Commissioners would be partisans of the President (Ref A). The complaints fell on [...]	2003-11-19 13:56:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM NI
03ABUJA2029	ANPP CHAIRMAN ETIEBET ON THE PAST ELECTION, [...] (C) Don Etiebet, Chairman of Nigeria's main opposition party, the ANPP, met with PolOff on the margins of a hearing at the election tribunal of ANPP presidential candidate Buhari's appeal against the April 2003 elections. Etiebet commented that the case was going well but that he remained con [...]	2003-11-26 14:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI OVIP
03ABUJA2046	REVIEW OF INEC'S PERFORMANCE DURING AND SINCE THE [...] (C) Summary: Six months after the April elections, Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is rather less Independent, and its actions during the 2003 elections and since raise difficult democracy and rule of law questions. While the elections were less violent than many e [...]	2003-11-28 13:45:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID KDEM PGOV NI
03ABUJA2067	ADAMAWA STATE: END OF YEAR SNAPSHOT [...] (U) Adamawa State, located on Nigeria's border with Cameroon, is a key battleground for control of Nigeria's political scene. Many important Nigerians hail from Adamawa, including Vice President Atiku Abubakar, and it is the base from which he and others launched on the national scene. Atiku [...]	2003-12-04 08:53:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA2132	BUHARI TRIAL ADJOURNED UNTIL JANUARY 19 [...] (SBU) : The ANPP/Buhari suit continues at its slow pace. The complainant ANPP continues to score points with its evidence, and the defense (Obasanjo) attempts to delay the process through objections to virtually every witness and document. The "Independent" National Electoral Commission (INE [...]	2003-12-12 11:34:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA2150	Electoral Reform and the INEC Seminar [...] (SBU) Summary: The INEC Seminar November 27-28 (septel) highlighted important divisions on possible electoral reforms. There were several less-than- serious ideas bruited, but the more important reform proposals basically present a choice for the future between the Independent National Electo [...]	2003-12-15 13:25:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PREL NI
03ABUJA2154	SWING THROUGH THE EAST [...] No summary [...]	2003-12-16 09:09:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM NI PGOV PREL
03ABUJA216	NIGERIA: DIFFERENT INSIDER VIEWS ON THE PDP [...] (C) Summary: The PDP convention was a study of rough-hewn politics. All participants agree the convention was not for the faint-hearted; but they also give differing, sometimes conflicting, versions of what happened. We probably will never fully know the complete truth because so much was blu [...]	2003-01-31 13:20:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA2183	NOT SO INSTANT REPLAYS - THREE BY-ELECTIONS TO [...] Summary: Six months after Nigeria's April/May elections for President/VP, National Assembly, Governors and State Assemblies, three races will be re-run on December 20 by order of election tribunals or the Court of Appeals. A recent State Assembly by-election caused by death of an office holde [...]	2003-12-19 11:23:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA2195	Abuja By-Election Results - ANPP Concedes [...] After the by-election for the only Abuja Senate seat conducted on December 20, PDP Senator Isa Maina retained his seat with an overall victory margin of 1,416 votes (less than one percent of the total). Maina's original victory margin in April over ANPP candidate Ireti Kingibe was 1,208 votes. [...]	2003-12-23 05:31:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PREL NI
03ABUJA221	NIGERIA: ECONOMIC ROUNDUP JANUARY 31 [...] (U) This periodic economic report from Abuja and Lagos includes: --Dutch Firm Wins BPE Management Contract for NITEL --Think Tank Offers Economic Rebuilding Plan --Nigeria Airways in Trouble Again --Political Conventions Delay 2003 Budget Dutch Firm Wins BPE Management Contract for NITEL [...]	2003-01-31 14:03:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAIR ECPS EFIN NI
03ABUJA233	NIGERIA: THE ALEX EKWUEME FACTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an extensive January 9 conversation with Ambassador Jeter, defeated PDP contestant Alex Ekwueme did not "recognize" Obasanjo's convention victory. Ekwueme contended that Obasanjo's victory was the result of bribes, political threats and chicanery regarding the actual delega [...]	2003-02-03 17:01:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA27	Why Nigeria's PDP Governors Could Not Lose [...] (C) SUMMARY: The PDP's national convention (Refs C and D) was more competitive than caucuses that renominated every PDP governor regardless of his popularity or lack of it. However, this praise is faint indeed, as the gubernatorial caucuses were blatantly rigged while the national convention [...]	2003-01-06 16:16:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KDEM NI
03ABUJA278	NIGERIA: ELECTORAL COMMISSION CONTINUES TO FACE [...] (C) Summary: During a January 12 conversation with Ambassador Jeter, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Abel Guobadia said INEC would hold elections as scheduled provided the FY 03 budget allocation was received in time. Guobadia continued to blame current logistical b [...]	2003-02-07 12:05:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL NI
03ABUJA280	NIGERIA: LAGOS STATE GOVERNOR TINUBU RECAPS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador accompanied by Consul General and Staff Assistant (note-taker) met a politically confident and relaxed Lagos State Governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu on January 24. Despite the allegations being tossed at him, Tinubu appeared self-assured and convinced of his political lo [...]	2003-02-07 12:39:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS NI
03ABUJA291	NIGERIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FEBRUARY 10 [...] (U) This periodic joint political report from Abuja and Lagos includes: --Second Round of Voter Registration --New PDP Gubernatorial Caucuses --Potential Party Coalition vs. Obasanjo --Will AD Support Obasanjo? --Counterfeit Voter Cards in Lagos --Igbo Group Chooses Presidential Candidate - [...]	2003-02-10 13:15:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI

03ABUJA386	NIGERIA: VP ON CURRENT POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: Nigeria's Vice President claims his earlier flirtation with running for President was a ruse to distract IBB. According to Atiku, the ambitious former military ruler is now effectively sidelined for 2003. Buhari's base in the North is narrower than most observers believe, Atiku [...]	2003-02-21 16:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR NI
03ABUJA401	NIGERIA: DID VP ATIKU OUTFOX BABANGIDA AND [...] (C) Summary: During a late January conversation with Ambassador Jeter and PolCouns, Lagos-based businessman Leno Adesanya contended that VP Atiku finessed both President Obasanjo and former Head of State Ibrahim Babangida during the PDP convention in early January. Prior to the convention, Ati [...]	2003-02-25 12:28:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PINR NI
03ABUJA404	NIGERIA: ANPP/PDP FUELED VIOLENCE IN KWARA STATE [...] (U) Kwara state is located on Nigeria's ethnic and religious divide and its divisive politics provide a study of the difficulties facing Nigerian politics in general. Until the Islamic Jihad in the early 19th century, Ilorin, the modern capital of Kwara state, was a part of the Oyo (Yoruba) [...]	2003-02-25 15:33:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI NI
03ABUJA418	NIGERIA: BUHARI ON INTER-COMMUNAL VIOLENCE, THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a lengthy January 30 meeting with the Ambassador, ANPP Presidential candidate Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Muhammadu Buhari shared his plans for winning the April election and elaborated on the reported rapprochement between him and former military ruler Ibrahim Babangida. Buhari gave [...]	2003-02-28 15:12:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PINS EFIN KDEM NI
03ABUJA419	NIGERIA: BUHARI SAYS NIGERIA NEEDS DISCIPLINE, WANTS [...] (U) This message contains a recommendation. See para 5. ------------ INTRODUCTION ------------ 2. (U) DCM January 31 met with ANPP Presidential candidate Mohammadu Buhari and two associates (Bello Abubakar, an aide when Buhari was Head of State previously) and Mouftah Baba- Ahmed [...]	2003-02-28 17:13:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PINS EFIN KDEM NI
03ABUJA420	NIGERIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FEBRUARY 28 [...] (U) This periodic joint political report from Abuja and Lagos includes: --Political Violence Update --Potential Party Coalition --Will AD Support Obasanjo? --ID Card Registration --Sharia Amputation in Jigawa --Traditional Ruler to be Prosecuted ------------------------- Political Viol [...]	2003-02-28 18:14:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR PHUM NI
03ABUJA448	NIGERIA: LEADING OPPOSITION POLITICIAN KILLED [...] (U) Leading Nigerian opposition politician Marshall Harry was killed in the early morning hours of March 5. Marshall was a founding member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) but split from the group over disputes with President Olusegun Obasanjo and Rivers state Governor Peter Odi [...]	2003-03-06 16:40:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC KDEM NI
03ABUJA457	POSSIBLE CONFLICT OVER BUHARI'S CAMPAIGN LAUNCHING [...] (C) According to retired Air Vice Marshal Moukhtar Mohammed, one of the close advisers to ANPP Presidential Candidate Muhammadu Buhari, Buhari plans go ahead with the launching of his campaign in Port Harcourt on March 8. The campaign team plans to travel to the area with the body of Marsha [...]	2003-03-10 06:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC KDEM NI
03ABUJA502	NIGERIA: INADEQUACIES OF THE INDEPENDENT NATIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After three months delay, INEC published some voter lists week of March 3. With national elections just six weeks away, INEC has missed a key legal deadline. Challenges are almost certain. INEC,s performance remains erratic, and non-transparent. INEC will have to work efficie [...]	2003-03-14 13:48:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA515	TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] The following is post's submission for the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. Paragraphs below are keyed to questions in reftel. Note: Post tried to confine material to respective sections, but several examples have overlapping relevance to the general overview, prevention, prosecu [...]	2003-03-18 16:06:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF
03ABUJA552	NIGERIA OPEN TO DISCUSSION OF ARTICLE 98 [...] (C) Summary: Embassy efforts to obtain GON signature to an Article 98 Agreement continue despite initial resistance and skepticism in several GON quarters. The Ambassador most recently raised the subject on March 20, this time with MFA PermSec Hart. Hart voiced strong "personal" reservation [...]	2003-03-21 18:16:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NI
03ABUJA582	NIGERIA: HEADCOUNT OF POLITICALLY MOTIVATED [...] (SBU) Violence is an integral part of the Nigerian electoral scene. In recent weeks, the pace has picked up, with confirmed incidents of violence occurring in at least 24 of Nigeria's 36 states. The incidents range from rock-throwing at the motorcades of elected officials to midnight assa [...]	2003-03-27 09:28:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA587	GUM ARABIC EXPORTS FROM NORTHERN NIGERIA [...] No summary [...]	2003-03-28 11:24:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	NI
03ABUJA630	IALOGUE BETWEEN U.S. AND NORTHERN [...] Summary: Hosted by the Emir of Kano, a two day dialogue to discuss perceptions about U.S. Middle East Policy, the U.S. and Islam, the Global War on Terror and Poverty Alleviation in Northern Nigeria took place in the ancient Northern Nigerian city of Kano on January 27-28. The conference, t [...]	2003-04-04 11:01:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO SCUL PREL OIIP NI
03ABUJA650	NIGERIA - OPPOSITION PARTIES IN MARCH MEETING [...] (C) Begin Summary: During a March 10 meeting with numerous opposition political party leaders, Ambassador implored the group to do their utmost to conduct fair and credible elections in April, to eschew violence, and not to condemn and compromise the process before it is started. He cautioned [...]	2003-04-07 23:07:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL EAID NI
03ABUJA660	NIGERIA: A SWING THROUGH THE NORTHWEST [...] (C) Poloff completed a pre-election trip toigeria's northeast region, the home of incumbent Vice President Atiku Abubakar and a key to President Obasanjo's re- election bidPoloff found crumbling infrastructure, pessimism about the elections and worried Obasanjo-Atiku campaign officials. Pol [...]	2003-04-09 18:33:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA661	NIGERIA: SPECTRE OF VIOLENCE OVER PLATEAU ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Residents in Plateau State are fearful that April 12 and 19 elections will generate violence. Disappointed with incumbent PDP Governor Joshua Dariye, many are looking to the ANPP and AD candidates for a change. The local elite, political power brokers, workers and a disaffec [...]	2003-04-09 19:10:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA665	NIGERIA: ANPP AND BUHARI FIGHT THE PARTY'S [...] (C) The ANPP, Nigeria's second largest party in the 1999 elections, has survived its subordinate status for the past four years and remains the strongest opposition party. With its power base in the North, the ANPP also has produced the staunchest presidential challenger to President Obasanjo [...]	2003-04-10 18:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA666	RIVERS STATE VIOLENCE COULD IMPACT OIL [...] No summary [...]	2003-04-10 18:55:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EPET NI
03ABUJA668	NIGERIA: VISIT TO KWARA STATE [...] (U) Summary: Poloff traveled to the Kwara State capital of Ilorin on March 17 and met with officials from the People's Democratic Party and with the National Democratic Party gubernatorial Candidate. End Summary. 2. (C) The political situation in Kwara has been extremely tense in recent [...]	2003-04-11 12:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA671	NIGERIA: INEC - LESSONS IN FUZZY MATH [...] (SBU) We have reported extensively on the troubles that have hampered the Independent National Election Commission's conduct of voter registration for the April elections. One of the major factors contributing to the public consternation has been INEC's frequently inconsistent statements an [...]	2003-04-11 17:19:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA674	NIGERIA: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS ON APRIL 12 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The April 12 National Assembly elections will demonstrate if the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was right when it said it was ready to hold these and the April 19 gubernatorial and presidential polls. In addition to being a logistical "dry run" for the April 1 [...]	2003-04-11 19:31:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA681	NIGERIA: INEC UNREADY AS BUHARI AND OBASANJO [...] (C) SUMMARY: POLOFF visited local party officials, domestic and international election monitors, academics, and local INEC officials during an April 3- 4 trip to Benue State. Most believed violence is likely if electoral manipulation is obvious. Only a few people believed INEC is prepared f [...]	2003-04-14 17:26:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NI
03ABUJA683	NIGERIA: CONDUCT OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY POLLS [...] (C) SUMMARY: This preliminary report on Nigeria's April 12 National Assembly elections provides an overview of Nigeria on election day. More detailed observations and analysis will be provided septel. The elections held in a relatively calm atmosphere. Turnout was fair in most of the area [...]	2003-04-14 18:47:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA697	NIGERIA: LEGISLATIVE RESULTS AND REACTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has posted results from about 80 percent of the Senate and House races around the country. Registering over 50 percent of the vote nationwide, the ruling PDP will retain its majority in both chambers unless there is a radical [...]	2003-04-16 19:29:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA717	NIGERIA: SNAPSHOT OF NORTHERN GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As with the Presidential contest, most Northern gubernatorial elections will be fought between the two major parties in Nigeria, the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Nigerians Peoples Party (ANPP). Overall, ANPP candidates are expected to benefit from the popu [...]	2003-04-17 21:05:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA719	NIGERIA: TENSIONS MOUNT LEADING TO THE APRIL 19 [...] (C) Summary: Despite a crowded house of 19 Presidential candidates, the April 19 contest boils down to President Obasanjo and ANPP candidate Muhammadu Buhari. Holding the ace of incumbency, Obasanjo is the likely, but not guaranteed, victor. He has been put on the defensive by recent events [...]	2003-04-17 23:20:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS KDEM NI ELECTIONS
03ABUJA727	NIGERIA ELECTIONS -- THE VIEW FROM THE QUEUE [...] Winding down Shehu Shagari Way in Abuja to an AP station opposite the Hilton is a fuel queue that varies between 300 and 1700 meters. Motorists favor this queue because the AP station often has fuel and because the gentle slope of the final 900 meters means no need to start engines. On Mond [...]	2003-04-22 20:21:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM SOCI NI
03ABUJA739	NIGERIA: GON SAYS NEPAD PEER REVIEW MECHANISM ON [...] Summary. A GON official says Heads of State at a March meeting of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) had concluded negotiations on a Memorandum of Understanding of the African Peer Review Mechanism. The official said the review would be conducted by independent experts and fo [...]	2003-04-24 13:22:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ECIN PHUM EAID PREL PGOV NI
03ABUJA746	NIGERIA: OVERVIEW OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the ruling PDP the major victor in the April 19 and April 12 elections. However, echoing reports of several observers, President Obasanjo's political opponents allege massive irregularities. The GON is striking back wit [...]	2003-04-24 17:00:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KDEM PREL NI US EU XA
03ABUJA749	NIGERIA: MOD DANJUMA SAYS PDP WILL HANDLE BUHARI [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a hurried April 24 meeting, Minister of Defense T.Y. Danjuma and Ambassador Jeter discussed the fallout of the April 19 Presidential and Gubernatorial elections and April 12 National Assembly elections. Danjuma expressed concern about ANPP Presidential candidate Mohammadu [...]	2003-04-24 20:19:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA803	NIGERIA: ARMY MINISTER DISMISSES OPPOSITION [...] (C) During an April 28 meeting, Ambassador Jeter and Minister of State for Defense (Army) Lawal Batagarawa discussed the recent Presidential elections. Batagarawa thought opposition candidate Mohammadu Buhari's calls to reject President Olusegun Obasanjo's electoral victory would be ineffect [...]	2003-04-30 19:09:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA805	NIGERIA: ANPP CHAIRMAN SAYS PARTY WILL SEEK [...] (C) During an April 30 meeting with DCM, All Nigerian People's Party (ANPP) Chairman Chief Don Etiebet expressed anger with ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) manipulation of the recent Presidential, Gubernatorial and National Assembly elections. Citing numerous examples of PDP misconduc [...]	2003-04-30 19:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA808	NIGERIA: BUHARI NOT READY TO CONCEDE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a late night meeting with Ambassador on April 23, ANPP Presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari restated his rejection of the just completed Presidential, Gubernatorial and National Assembly elections. He said he lost because the PDP stole the election. He reiterated his po [...]	2003-05-01 17:02:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM NI
03ABUJA809	NIGERIA: POST-ELECTIONS MEETING WITH NATIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2003-05-01 18:04:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EAID NI
03ABUJA816	NIGERIA: WARRI IJAWS THREATEN RENEWED VIOLENCE; [...] No summary [...]	2003-05-02 19:26:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS EPET ENRG NI
03ABUJA817	NIGERIA - SSS DIRECTOR ON THE ELECTION AND [...] (C) During an April 30 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, the Director General of the State Security Service (SSS) Kayode Are said that all political parties had committed electoral fraud. He also asserted that the outcome of the Presidential contest was a genuine reflection of the actual vote, a [...]	2003-05-02 19:58:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET PINS MOPS NI
03ABUJA819	NIGERIAN MEDIA AND THE RECENT ELECTIONS [...] Summary. GON media officials have reacted angrily to what they view as instances of negative foreign press coverage of Nigeria recent elections and to comments by some international observer missions critical of government-owned media treatment of opposition candidates during the campaign [...]	2003-05-05 14:30:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KDEM PREL NI
03ABUJA860	NIGERIA: OBASANJO'S MANDATE - HOW HE WON IT; [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the Independent National Electoral Commission, President Obasanjo won the election with 62 percent of the vote, with the ANPP's Muhammadu Buhari trailing in the distance at 32 percent. Despite his first Administration not living up to popular expectations, most Niger [...]	2003-05-09 17:31:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA872	NIGERIA: BUHARI'S MOVEMENTS NOT RESTRICTED; [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 30, there was confusion whether ANPP Presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari had been restricted to his house in Daura, Katsina State. Buhari's supporters asserted that he had been placed under de facto house arrest. GON officials disavowed the claim, stating that Bu [...]	2003-05-12 18:32:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA907	NIGERIA: POSSIBLE DEAL FOR WARRI POLITICAL IMPASSE [...] No summary [...]	2003-05-16 18:33:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS NI
03ABUJA909	NIGERIA: POSSIBLE DEAL FOR WARRI POLITICAL IMPASSE [...] No summary [...]	2003-05-19 07:38:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS NI
03ABUJA934	NIGERIA: READOUT ON ELECTION TRIBUNALS [...] (U) Begin Summary: The Nigerian constitution and the Electoral Act of 2002 allow candidates or parties to petition State Election Tribunals to correct alleged electoral irregularities. Defeated Gubernatorial and Assembly candidates in 24 states have filed cases before their states, tribunals. [...]	2003-05-22 15:14:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ABUJA999	NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR ENGAGES POLITICAL ELITES IN [...] (U) Summary: On May 19-20, Ambassador Jeter traveled to the North,s largest city, Kano, for meetings with prominent community leaders and key political players. Four themes dominated the discussions: 1) electoral irregularities; 2) potential for violence after the elections; 3) the independen [...]	2003-06-06 09:57:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR NI
03ACCRA437	TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - GHANA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The following is AmEmb Accra's response to the tasker requesting information for the second annual Trafficking in Persons Report. In summary, Ghana has problems with both domestic and international human trafficking. The GOG and local NGOs have so far combined efforts to focus o [...]	2003-03-03 15:14:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB GH
03ACCRA611	IMF REP'S PRIMARILY POSITIVE READOUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Mary Carlin Yates and econoff visited Enrique de la Piedra, the IMF Resident Representative on March 20. De la Piedra offered a positive readout of the Budget now under Parliamentary review and Multiple Donor Budget Support. The Resident Representative finds affinity [...]	2003-03-27 09:10:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID GH
03ACCRA632	RULING PARTY WINS FOURTH BY-ELECTION IN A ROW [...] (U) On March 25 the Ruling NPP party won its fourth consecutive by-election since assuming power in January of 2001, handily defeating the leading opposition candidate of the NDC, and two small party candidates. By a vote of 12,220 to 4,929 for the NDC (with 3,705 for the PNC candidate and 24 [...]	2003-03-31 15:16:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM GH
03ACCRA689	RULING NPP NOTCHES WIN NUMBER FIVE [...] (U) Thirteen days after its convincing by-election win in Navrongo (reftel),President Kufuor's ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) won by a similarly large margin in the Gomoa East by-election March 8. The NPP candidate received 11,380 votes to the NDC's 5,356 (a minor party candidate received [...]	2003-04-09 17:30:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM GH
03ADANA13	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY, [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for January 14, 2003. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICS, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS -------------------------- [...]	2003-01-15 14:51:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ ADANA
03ADANA167	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY, [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 27, 2003. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS 2. Turkiye, Bolge, [...]	2003-06-27 14:39:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ ADANA
03ADANA214	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY, [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for August 09-10-11, 2003. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS 2. Milli Gazete [...]	2003-08-11 16:58:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ ADANA
03ADANA230	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY, [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for September 02, 2003. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS 2. Milliyet/Evrens [...]	2003-09-02 17:41:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ ADANA
03ADANA269	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY, [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for October 15, 2003. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS 2. HURRIYET/MILLIYET [...]	2003-10-16 16:11:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ ADANA
03ADANA3	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY, [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for January 4-5, 2003. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICS, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS ------------------------- [...]	2003-01-09 09:20:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ ADANA
03ADANA35	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for January 31, 2003. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICS, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS -------------------------- [...]	2003-02-03 08:23:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM IZ TU ADANA
03ADANA36	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY, [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for February 1-2, 2003. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICS, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS ------------------------ [...]	2003-02-04 08:42:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ ADANA
03ADANA4	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY, [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for January 6-7, 2003. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICS, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS ------------------------- [...]	2003-01-09 09:22:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ ADANA
03ADANA41	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for February 6, 2003. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICS, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS -------------------------- [...]	2003-02-07 09:06:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM ADANA
03ADANA45	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for February 7, 2003. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICS, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS -------------------------- [...]	2003-02-18 10:22:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV TU IZ ADANA
03ADANA49	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for February 21, 2003. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICS, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS ------------------------- [...]	2003-02-24 09:13:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ ADANA
03ADANA5	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY, [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for January 8, 2003. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICS, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS --------------------------- [...]	2003-01-09 09:25:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ ADANA
03ADANA57	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY [...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for February 27, 2003. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICS, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS ------------------------- [...]	2003-02-28 13:11:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU IZ ADANA
03AMMAN1191	QUOTA GUARANTEES WOMEN SIX SEATS IN PARLIAMENT [...] (U) A royal decree issued on February 19 formalized a quota system that guarantees six seats for women in the next Parliament. End Summary. -------------------------------------------- NEW QUOTA GUARANTEES FEMALE PARLIAMENTARIANS -------------------------------------------- 2. (U) The G [...]	2003-02-27 12:23:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI JO
03AMMAN1210	EMBASSY AMMAN'S HUMAN RIGHTS STRATEGY [...] (U) Per reftel, Post is providing the following report on actions taken by the USG in Jordan during 2002. 2. (SBU) Begin text: Introduction Our human rights strategy in Jordan seeks to promote human rights through a) direct dialogue with the Jordanian Government and others, b) progra [...]	2003-03-02 06:30:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM KSEP XE XF XM JO
03AMMAN1433	LOOKING AHEAD: JORDANIAN ELECTIONS AFTER AN IRAQ [...] (C) We believe it is essential that we start to think seriously about Jordan's position in a post-Iraq war environment: what the GOJ will expect us to do, and how Jordan can contribute to achieving our longer term regional goals. Assuming that a military campaign is of limited duration and fu [...]	2003-03-11 09:48:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM IZ JO MEPP
03AMMAN1462	RELO AMMAN NOMINEES FOR TESOL 2003 CONVENTION [...] Amman-based Regional English Language Office (RELO) would like to nominate the following nominees: Ms. Shireen Bawab from East Jerusalem, Mr. Abdul Bari Muhajer from Aleppo, and Ms. Samia Abou Hamad from Beirut to attend the TESOL 2003 convention in Baltimore, Maryla [...]	2003-03-12 05:46:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL JO
03AMMAN1531	MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2003-03-13 09:18:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR JO
03AMMAN1620	JORDANIAN BANKS: WILL WEATHER STORM, BUT FACE [...] (SBU) While fundamentally sound, the Jordanian banking sector faces a number of short- and long-term challenges: Exposure to a military conflict with Iraq, a surplus of banks, high infrastructure costs, and implementation of modern banking and technological advances that are only now beginnin [...]	2003-03-18 14:16:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EAID ETRD JO
03AMMAN1650	MEPI: POST PLAN TO SUPPORT GROWTH OF GOOD [...] POST'S INTERAGENCY MEPI COMMITTEE, CONSISTING OF USAID, POL, ECON AND PA HAS DEVELOPED THE FOLLOWING STRATEGY OVER THE NEXT YEAR TO ENCOURAGE GOOD GOVERNANCE IN JORDAN. OUR PLAN AIMS TO STRENGTHEN CITIZEN AWARENESS AND ACTIVISM THROUGH NGO'S AS WELL AS GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS SUCH AS THE LEG [...]	2003-03-19 06:22:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EAID PREL KDEM SCUL KPAO XF JO
03AMMAN1686	FOLLOW UP DEMARCHES TO HOST GOVERNMENTS ON IRAQI [...] (S/NF) Jordan is a unique case in a number of ways. Our close relationship at the most senior levels enables us to maintain a candid and forthright exchange on this specific subject -- the expulsion of Iraqi intelligence officers. ORCA has and continues to work closely on this matter. GID [...]	2003-03-19 16:48:00	Embassy Amman	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER ASEC JO
03AMMAN1855	MEPI ELECTION ASSISTANCE FOR JORDAN [...] (SBU) IN THE COURSE OF A COURTESY CALL BY THE NEW USAID DIRECTOR AND THE AMBASSADOR ON MARCH 27, THE AMBASSADOR DISCUSSED WITH PLANNING MINISTER BASSAM AWADALLAH THE PROPOSED $400,000 MIDDLE EAST PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE (MEPI) ELECTION ASSISTANCE. THE PROJECT IS TO BE CARRIED OUT IN COOPERATION [...]	2003-03-27 14:01:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EAID PREL KDEM SCUL KPAO XF JO
03AMMAN2007	ZARQA BUSINESS COMMUNITY EYES PARLIAMENTARY [...] (sbu) Although they doubt elections will occur as scheduled on June 17, business leaders in Jordan's main industrial center believe a new parliament will redress the balance of political power in Jordan, giving areas outside Amman a greater voice in policy decisions. While a new parliament [...]	2003-04-03 12:02:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON JO
03AMMAN2092	JORDAN WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDACY TO UNESCO [...] No summary [...]	2003-04-07 13:47:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC JO UNESCO
03AMMAN2206	FORMER PARLIAMENT SPEAKER CRITICIZES GOJ'S [...] (S) In a lengthy conversation April 8, former Parliament Speaker Abdul Hadi al-Majali (please protect throughout) told PolCouns that King Abdullah and Prime Minister Ali Abul Ragheb have mis-handled their public approach to the war in Iraq. Majali said that the King and PM have "only an eco [...]	2003-04-10 16:02:00	Embassy Amman	SECRET	PGOV PTER PREL IS IZ JO
03AMMAN2232	JORDAN - REQUEST FOR 2003 EMBASSY SCIENCE [...] SUMMARY: Post welcomes the opportunity to further USG environmental and trade objectives in Jordan and requests an Embassy Science Fellow from EPA for up to three months during the summer of 2003. The fellow will provide technical assistance to the recently created Ministry of Environment, p [...]	2003-04-13 14:53:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPL SENV ETRD AMGT APER KSCA JO
03AMMAN2240	MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2003-04-14 12:32:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR JO
03AMMAN237	JORDAN FIRST CAMPAIGN PRESSES AHEAD: [...] (C) The "Jordan First" campaign continues to make headlines almost daily as the GOJ moves to implement recommendations put forward in December by the Jordan First Committee--consisting of 31 political and business leaders. While some of the initiatives are straightforward, others--particularly [...]	2003-01-13 06:37:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM JO
03AMMAN2402	PM AFFIRMS GOJ INTENT TO HOLD ELECTIONS JUNE 17, [...] (C) PM Ali Abul Ragheb affirmed publicly on April 18 that the GOJ intends to proceed with parliamentary elections on June 17. However, the King told the British Ambassador that there were 70-30 odds that elections would go forward as planned and the King confided to the Ambassador on April [...]	2003-04-22 04:12:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI JO
03AMMAN2403	SPEAKER REQUEST IN SUPPORT OF JORDAN'S [...] SUMMARY: IN SUPPORT OF JORDAN'S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 17, PA REQUESTS THE RETURN OF U.S. SPECIALIST DARYL GLENNEY, A COMMUNICATIONS AND STRATEGIC PLANNING CONSULTANT, MAY 17-26, 2003, TO ASSIST WOMEN CANDIDATES IN PREPARING FOR THEIR CAMPAIGNS FOR THE 2003 PARLIAMENTARY EL [...]	2003-04-22 06:20:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP OEXC SCUL JO
03AMMAN2529	JORDANIAN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS SET FOR JUNE 17; [...] (S) In a conversation with the Ambassador on April 25, King Abdullah confirmed that Jordan will hold Parliamentary elections on June 17, as PM Ali Abul Ragheb had publicly affirmed a week earlier (ref A). The King told the Ambassador that although some voices had been advising him to delay th [...]	2003-04-29 16:14:00	Embassy Amman	SECRET	PGOV KDEM JO
03AMMAN2539	LABOR SUPPORTING PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE; UNION [...] (C) SUMMARY. Fathallah Omrani, Vice President of the Jordanian International Textile Workers Union, told us April 29 he is optimistic a parliamentary candidate in Irbid endorsed by the textile union would be elected. He was also pleased to report increased contact with the Palace on QIZ/lab [...]	2003-04-30 08:52:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB JO ILAB
03AMMAN2561	EMBASSY AMMAN'S APPLICATION FOR HRDF GRANT FUNDS [...] Embassy Amman welcomes the opportunity to compete for funds from the Department's Human Rights and Democracy Fund (HRDF). The following proposals are tailored to criteria in reftel, i.e. supporting critical mission human rights priorities, relevance to foreign policy objectives, and within E [...]	2003-04-30 14:34:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KDEM KSEP PGOV PHUM
03AMMAN2682	JORDAN'S JUNE 17 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS: TIMELINE [...] (U) Jordan is scheduled to hold parliamentary elections on June 17. This cable provides basic information regarding the legal requirements candidates must fulfill in the run-up to the election, as well as a timeline of when specific actions must occur prior to the sitting of the new Parliament [...]	2003-05-06 14:37:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI JO
03AMMAN2822	ISLAMIC ACTION FRONT ANNOUNCES LIST OF 29 [...] No summary [...]	2003-05-13 15:53:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI JO
03AMMAN2933	ELECTION REGISTRATION OPENS; 622 CANDIDATES APPLY [...] (U) Registration for candidates wishing to run in the June 17 elections officially began on May 18. Candidates have three days to register; afterwards, the GOJ has 4 days to verify the candidates meet the requirements to run. Political parties have been coy about announcing their candidates a [...]	2003-05-19 14:48:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL JO
03AMMAN2989	JORDAN'S POLITICAL PARTIES: ISLAMISTS, LEFTISTS, [...] (U) This cable provides background on Jordan's political parties participating in upcoming parliamentary elections on June 17. Jordan's political landscape, runs the gamut from religious to secular and from left to right, complicated by tribal and family loyalties. The Islamic Action Front, t [...]	2003-05-20 16:13:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI JO
03AMMAN3009	MEDIA REACTION ON MIDDLE EAST [...] No summary [...]	2003-05-21 11:13:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR JO
03AMMAN3039	JORDANIAN CAMPAIGNING AQABA STYLE; INSIGHT INTO [...] (U) PolOff attended a luncheon in Aqaba on May 15 hosted by Dr. Mohammed Badri, a former member of the parliament for the Aqaba Governorate and current candidate for the June 17 parliamentary elections. The Aqaba governorate is composed of one district with two Muslim seats. Dr. Badri discuss [...]	2003-05-21 14:31:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI JO
03AMMAN3078	JORDAN ELECTION MISCELLANY: END OF WEEK ONE [...] (U) At the end of the May 18-20 registration period, 821 candidates had registered nationwide for the 110 Lower House seats to be contested. In a move that surprised few, the Amman governor and the head of the elections committee rejected Toujan Faisal's application for participation in the P [...]	2003-05-22 14:59:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL JO
03AMMAN3135	ELECTION SUPPORT ACTIVITIES [...] (C) Summary. In the three remaining weeks before the June 17 Parliamentary elections the Mission is coordinating with MEPI-funded NGOs, including the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI) to strengthen the electoral process and traditions, to enco [...]	2003-05-29 09:24:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL OEXC OIIP JO
03AMMAN3141	FOLLOW UP ON PRESIDENT'S PROPOSED MIDDLE EAST [...] POST NOMINATES THE FOLLOWING THREE SENIOR LEVEL CANDIDATES FOR THE MIDDLE EAST REGIONAL JUSTICE FORUM IN BAHRAIN: - H.E. MOHAMMAD AL RAQQAD, HEAD OF THE JUDICIAL COUNCIL; - H.E. FARES NABULSI, MINISTER OF JUSTICE; - MS. REEM ABU HASSAN, LAWYER AND KEY PLAYER IN REFORM EFFORTS; PLEASE NOTE [...]	2003-05-29 09:47:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KJUS JO
03AMMAN3175	FY-03 MRP: "ELECTRONIC COMMERCE AND THE GLOBAL [...] THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS SECTION NOMINATES TWO IRAQI CANDIDATES, MS. NISREN KAZIMI, MULTI-MEDIA GRAPHICS DESIGNER, AND MS. WAFA AL-DADA, WEBSITE DESIGNER AND E- COMMERCE EXPERT, RUBICON-JORDAN TECHNOLOGY GROUP. FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM WILL BE ALLOCATED FROM A SPECIAL FUND FOR IRAQI CANDIDATES. F [...]	2003-06-01 07:30:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL JO
03AMMAN3420	ZARQA ELECTION PRIMER [...] (c) Summary: Mohammed Arsalan, a long-time Embassy contact and candidate for the "Chechen" seat representing Zarqa in the new parliament, spoke with econoff at some length about the election process (Byzantine),his chances (good),and the primary concerns of the Zarqa constituency (surpris [...]	2003-06-10 07:07:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI JO INRB
03AMMAN3422	FOLLOW UP ON PRESIDENT'S PROPOSED MIDDLE EAST [...] POST NOMINATES THE FOLLOWING THREE SENIOR LEVEL CANDIDATES FOR THE MIDDLE EAST REGIONAL JUSTICE FORUM IN BAHRAIN: - H.E. MOHAMMAD AL RAQQAD, HEAD OF THE JUDICIAL COUNCIL; - H.E. FARES NABULSI, MINISTER OF JUSTICE; - MS. REEM ABU HASSAN, LAWYER AND KEY PLAYER IN REFORM EFFORTS; PLEASE NOTE [...]	2003-06-10 08:59:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KJUS JO
03AMMAN3464	AMBASSADOR MEETS JORDANIAN MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a June 2 courtesy call on the Jordanian Minister of Environment, Dr. Mohammed Thuneibat, the Ambassador commended the minister for his leadership of Jordan's newest ministry and impressed upon him the need for an environmental regulatory and enforcement body to complement th [...]	2003-06-11 13:36:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV PREL EAID JO
03AMMAN3513	JORDAN ELECTION MISCELLANY: LAST FULL WEEK OF [...] (C) Front page news in Jordan's English daily, The Jordan Times, details the IAF's last minute threat to boycott the elections due to perceived bias against it by the GOJ. IAF Secretary General Hamzeh Mansour accuses the government of SIPDIS bias against his party by alleging that the gover [...]	2003-06-15 06:33:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL JO
03AMMAN3612	LARGE NUMBERS OF JORDANIANS GO TO THE POLLS; [...] (C) According to preliminary estimates, between 50 and 75 percent of Jordanians eligible to vote went to the polls June 17 to elect a new Parliament. Percentages in urban Amman and Irbid seem to be lower. Voting throughout the country was calm, and numerous polling stations had a festive a [...]	2003-06-17 18:19:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM JO
03AMMAN3651	JORDAN'S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION RESULTS: [...] (C) An estimated 1.3 million Jordanians voted in the parliamentary elections June 17, out of 2.3 million registered voters. Surprisingly, the Islamic Action Front (IAF),the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, won only 18 seats, fewer than analysts' predictions of 20-25 seats. Results in [...]	2003-06-18 19:10:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM JO
03AMMAN4038	Jordan MEPI Strategy [...] Following per State 126550 is the post's integrated MEPI strategy divided into the three MEPI Pillars: A) Economic Reform and Private Enterprise b) Political Reform and C) Education. Our approach is based on the good governance and citizen awareness strategy outlined in reftel B plus the Jor [...]	2003-07-03 12:46:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EAID BTIO PGOV SOCI KWMN PREL KDEM SCUL BEXP PHUM KPAO XF JO ETRO
03AMMAN4246	COMPOSITION OF NEW JORDANIAN PARLIAMENT, [...] (C) The new Jordanian Parliament elected June 17 is better-educated and somewhat younger than its predecessor, and includes a large number of former ministers, lawyers, engineers and medical doctors. PolOff has been meeting with newly elected MPs and political analysts to discuss their views [...]	2003-07-10 17:54:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM JO

03AMMAN4332	KING SAYS MINOR CABINET RESHUFFLE SOON, NEW [...] (S) King Abdullah told the Ambassador July 13 that he has been working with Prime Minister Ali Abul Ragheb on the details of a small cabinet reshuffle to be announced in the next few days. The King said that Abul Ragheb had wanted to change 5-6 ministers, but the King told him to limit it to [...]	2003-07-14 16:22:00	Embassy Amman	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PINR JO
03AMMAN4416	GOJ RECEPTIVE TO OPIC SOVEREIGN DEBT FACILITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: OPIC Director for Insurance for Africa and the Middle East Jim Williams and Citibank executives met with King Abdullah, GOJ officials, and representatives of Bechtel July 13 to discuss potential OPIC support for a variety of infrastructure projects in Jordan. While a number of [...]	2003-07-17 09:47:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN EINV JO
03AMMAN4423	KERAK: A CASE STUDY OF THE WOMEN'S QUOTA [...] (C) On July 7, Poloff paid a call to Zakeyeh Shamayleh, one of the newly-elected women to Parliament who benefited from the women's quota. Shamayleh, a retired principal, is a member of a small tribe near Kerak, which saw the women's quota as an opportunity to elect one of its members to Parl [...]	2003-07-17 13:49:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL JO
03AMMAN4441	JORDANIAN ARTICLE ON "HI" MAGAZINE [...] The following is an Embassy translation of a commentary on "Hi", the IIP-funded Arabic language magazine now on the stands in Jordan, that appeared in the independent, mass appeal Arabic language daily, "Al Arab Al Yawm.". Begin Embassy Translation: . "HI: Connection or Communication? T [...]	2003-07-20 05:14:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO JO
03AMMAN4539	PARLIAMENTARY QUOTA EXPOSES DIVISIONS AMONG [...] (C) One of the unforeseen aspects of the new women's quota in Parliament is that it has exposed cultural cleavages and the differing agendas between women who live in urban areas and women who live in tribal-based areas. Neither group believes the other represents their collective interests. [...]	2003-07-23 12:13:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM JO
03AMMAN4577	BIOS FOR NEW JORDANIAN CABINET MINISTERS [...] (U) The official Jordanian news agency, Petra, announced 21 July the release of a royal decree approving the new government of Prime Minister Ali Abul Ragheb. Five ministers from the old cabinet have been removed, and eight new figures have been brought in. Of the newcomers, former jailed [...]	2003-07-24 07:24:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PHUM JO
03AMMAN4629	JORDANIAN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS TO MOVE FORWARD JULY [...] (C) Despite a petition endorsed by the Islamic Action front (IAF) and its allies in the Lower House of Parliament to delay municipal elections and review the electoral laws, the government has decided to move forward with the process on Saturday, July 26. In Amman, low voter turn-out is exp [...]	2003-07-24 17:23:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM JO
03AMMAN4644	MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: LOW TURNOUT PROMPTS [...] (U) Jordan's July 26 municipal elections suffered from low voter turnout causing the government to extend balloting in 9 of the 82 municipalities in which elections were held. In 17 other municipalities, elections were not held because the number of candidates equaled the number of seats. Fin [...]	2003-07-27 14:38:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM JO
03AMMAN4737	JORDAN'S MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: CONTROVERSY, [...] (C) Summary: Jordan's municipal elections concluded July 27 with little fanfare but some controversy. Despite the efforts of the Islamic Action Front (IAF) to seek delay, more than 80 percent of municipal councils held contested elections over the weekend. The IAF remained firm in its ins [...]	2003-07-30 12:08:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI JO
03AMMAN4849	POLL RESULTS REFLECT GROWING POPULAR DESIRE FOR [...] (C) A Jordanian pollster who has conducted a number of studies in the country over the past several years believes that there is a growing disconnect between government pronouncements on democracy and the popular perception of Jordanian "half-democracy." In a recent conversation with Pol In [...]	2003-08-04 07:52:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI KISL JO
03AMMAN5339	BIRTH OF A JORDANIAN "SUPERSTAR" -- AND SOME [...] (U) Diana Corazan, a young Jordanian singing sensation, was declared the new "Superstar" of Lebanon's Future TV August 18 after winning an Arab-world wide vote. Thousands of Jordanians got on the internet or called in to vote for their favorite daughter. After the announcement of Corazan's [...]	2003-08-22 13:12:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI PHUM SY JO
03AMMAN5569	SOLANA IN AMMAN: DOWNBEAT ON ROADMAP, IRAN [...] (S) EU Foreign Policy Chief Xavier Solana briefed EU ambassadors in Amman September 1 on his recent swing through the Middle East and Iran. On the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Solana expressed extreme frustration that Palestinian infighting and Israeli intransigence would scuttle the [...]	2003-09-02 16:56:00	Embassy Amman	SECRET	PREL KPAL PTER IS IR JO
03AMMAN5575	CONSULTANT EMPOWERS JORDANIAN WOMEN POLITICIANS [...] Summary: Jordanian and Palestinian female Members of Parliament and municipal officials praised the workshops and individual consultations by political consultant Daryl Glenney, who focused the newly-elected representatives on their role in advancing both women's empowerment and citizen partic [...]	2003-09-03 09:58:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP OEXC SCUL JO
03AMMAN5832	NEW ISRAELI AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS [...] (U) King Abdallah accepted the credentials of the new Israeli ambassador to Jordan, Yacov Hadas Handlesman, during a ceremony with seven other new ambassadors September 7. Handlesman, Israel's fourth ambassador to Jordan, assumes the post from Ambassador David Dadonn, who left Jordan two weeks [...]	2003-09-10 16:40:00	Embassy Amman	SECRET	PREL PINR IS JO
03AMMAN6281	JORDANIAN MPS EXPECT NEW GOVERNMENT, BUT NOT NEW [...] (C) In recent meetings with new and returning members of Parliament, PolCouns and PolOff were treated to a litany of complaints about lack of job opportunities and the need for continued USG economic support. While many MPs imply corruption on the part of the Prime Minister, most thought th [...]	2003-10-01 10:16:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM JO
03AMMAN6391	USPTO TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING - JORDAN [...] Embassy nominates two Jordanian government officials to participate in the USPTO Visiting Scholars Program. The Embassy USAID mission plans to provide travel and per diem assistance for these candidates. 2. Post nominates: Ms. Zein Al-Awamaleh, Director Office of International Indust [...]	2003-10-06 13:49:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KIPR OTRA
03AMMAN6728	KING ABDULLAH TO APPOINT NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Prime Minister Abul Ragheb told the Ambassador today that he will submit his resignation to the King on October 22. Embassy sources and the press report that King Abdullah will appoint Royal Court Minister Faisal Fayez as the new PM. The King intends to meet with prospective members of a [...]	2003-10-21 15:55:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM JO
03AMMAN673	THE VIEW OF A POTENTIAL FEMALE CANDIDATE FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 21, PolOff met with Nadia Alool, a long-time human rights contact who is contemplating a bid for a parliamentary seat in the forthcoming elections scheduled for this summer. Alool attended Post's political campaign workshop in January. She "is about 65 percent certa [...]	2003-02-02 04:58:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI JO
03AMMAN6741	JORDAN: DEMARCHE ON THE U.S. CANDIDATE FOR THE UN [...] PolCouns delivered dip note, CV, and ref talking points on the candidacy of Ms. Felice Gaer for re-election to the UN Committee Against Torture October 20 to Ali al-Ayed, Director of Foreign Minister Muasher's Private Office. Ayed promised to study the U.S. request and provide a considered re [...]	2003-10-22 10:58:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL US JO
03AMMAN6767	JORDAN'S NEW GOVERNMENT TAKES SHAPE, BUT STILL [...] (C) King Abdullah formally accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Ali Abul Ragheb on October 22 and entrusted Royal Court Minister Faisal Fayez with forming a new government. Political insiders, however, express doubt over Fayez's ability to effectively lead a team of Ministers to implem [...]	2003-10-22 17:29:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KWMN ECON JO
03AMMAN6934	RESPONSE TO INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION - [...] No summary [...]	2003-10-27 16:23:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EWWT KTIA PHSA JO IMO
03AMMAN6999	ISLAMISTS WELCOME KING'S CALL FOR POLITICAL [...] (C) The Jordanian Islamic Action Front (IAF) publicly embraced King Abdullah's call for political development and a more democratic elections law. The IAF sees the current electoral system as limiting its power in Parliament and hopes to capitalize on political reform measures to expand its [...]	2003-10-29 13:49:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM JO
03AMMAN7000	ISLAMISTS WELCOME KING'S CALL FOR POLITICAL [...] (C) The Jordanian Islamic Action Front (IAF) publicly embraced King Abdullah's call for political development and a more democratic elections law. The IAF sees the current electoral system as limiting its power in Parliament and hopes to capitalize on political reform measures to expand its [...]	2003-10-29 13:49:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM JO
03AMMAN7017	UNHCR COMPLETES PROFILE OF KURDS ON JORDANIAN [...] (U) In an October 21 meeting with Amman- and Cairo-based refcoords, UNHCR Sr. Protection Officer Jacqueline Parlevliet reported that UNHCR completed its profile of the 1,070 asylum seekers currently held in no-man's land between the Iraqi and Jordanian border posts. 1,065 individuals (189 cas [...]	2003-10-29 15:50:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL IZ JO
03AMMAN7081	FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE FOR U.S. CANDIDATE TO UN [...] (U) PolOff delivered a follow-up demarche October 30 supporting the candidacy of Ms. Felice Gaer for re-election to the UN Committee Against Torture to Ayman Al-Amiri, Acting Head of the International Organizations (IO) Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Dr. Khaled Takhayneh, [...]	2003-10-30 15:22:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL JO
03AMMAN7226	MINISTER OF ICT AND ADMIN DEVELOPMENT PLEASED WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Reappointed Minister of Information and Communications Technology and Minister of Administrative Development Fawwaz Al-Zou,bi on Nov. 2 provided to the Ambassador an unusually candid insight into the formation of the new Jordanian government and the challenges facing administrat [...]	2003-11-04 17:09:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	ECPS EAID PGOV PREL JO
03AMMAN7392	THIRD (OR FOURTH?) MOBILE LICENSE TENDER PROVOKES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jordan's Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) has announced a tender for what is being billed as a third mobile telephony license in anticipation of the January 1, 2004 end of the current mobile telephony duopoly under its WTO obligations. The tender has provoked unfa [...]	2003-11-13 10:19:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS EINV JO
03AMMAN7412	THINKING ABOUT UNRWA SUCCESSION [...] No summary [...]	2003-11-16 07:45:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL KPAL JO UNRWA
03AMMAN7430	JORDANIAN SUPPORT FOR U.S. CANDIDATE TO UN [...] No summary [...]	2003-11-16 15:28:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM JO
03AMMAN7495	JORDANIAN SUPPORT FOR U.S. CANDIDATE TO COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2003-11-18 16:01:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL JO
03AMMAN7627	RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT STANDING COMMISSION [...] (C) Embassy Amman supports the candidacy of Jordan Red Crescent Society (JRCS) President Dr. Mohamed Al-Hadid for re-election to the Standing Commission of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Al-Hadid supports strong relations with the United States Government and U.S. humanitarian orga [...]	2003-11-23 14:54:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PREF PREL JO ICRC
03AMMAN7909	ISLAMIC PARTY THE KING-MAKER IN JORDAN'S SPEAKER [...] (C) Saad Hayel Srour, former Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament, told PolCouns and PolOff that he withdrew from the Speaker race after the Islamic Action Front made too many demands in exchange for backing his candidacy. He expects only limited progress in approving the backlog of provi [...]	2003-12-04 17:15:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL JO KTER
03AMMAN8071	IRAQI POLICE TRAINING CENTER IN JORDAN SPUTTERS TO [...] (C) The new Iraqi police training center in Jordan recently received its first class of approximately 500 trainees. The center ultimately plans to provide basic police training to 32,000 Iraqi recruits. The GOJ and the training staff, some of whom trained police in Kosovo, understand the i [...]	2003-12-10 17:31:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PGOV IZ JO
03AMMAN8469	SUPPORT FOR IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION IN JORDAN [...] (SBU) This is one in a series of cables highlighting the support that the Government of Jordan and the US mission in Amman are providing to Iraq and CPA reconstruction efforts. Highlights in this installment include the "Outreach 2004" Iraq Reconstruction Trade Show; training of Iraqi police f [...]	2003-12-24 13:30:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON IZ JO
03ANKARA1091	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL WARNER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: We look forward to your upcoming visit. It comes at a key decision time for Turkey. US-Turkey relations have been dominated recently by Iraq. Should the Turks continue delaying a decision to support US military requests related to Iraq, our close regional, economic, and strate [...]	2003-02-19 14:23:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OVIP TU
03ANKARA1092	TURKEY: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HEFLEY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: We look forward to your upcoming visit. It comes at a key decision time for Turkey. US-Turkey relations have been dominated recently by Iraq. Should the Turks continue delaying a decision to support US military requests related to Iraq, our close regional, economic, and strate [...]	2003-02-19 14:24:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV TU
03ANKARA1364	TURKEY: NOTIONAL CALENDAR FOR ERDOGAN'S ASSUMPTION [...] (U) AK leader Erdogan is a candidate for Parliament in the special March 9 election in Siirt province. Assuming he wins a seat in the legislature, the election will serve as a prelude to his eventually assuming the role of prime minister. 2. (U) The following notional calendar represents [...]	2003-03-03 17:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
03ANKARA1420	GOT SYMPOSIUM: "RESTRUCTURING THE CIVIL SERVICE" [...] (U) Summary: Prime Minister Abdullah Gul opened a two-day symposium Feb. 22-23 to support civil service reform. Turkish academics and union leaders participated on panels reviewing the cultural, economic and legal barriers to revising the Turkish civil service and suggested possible changes, b [...]	2003-03-05 16:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ELAB TU
03ANKARA1446	TURKISH LABOR: MAINTAINING THE STATUS QUO [...] (C) Summary: Turkish labor-related organizations are focusing on IPEC and employment termination programs. In a climate where the GOT is seen at the very least as not encouraging labor union activity, these organizations are working to preserve benefits already available rather than initiati [...]	2003-03-06 13:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB TU
03ANKARA1579	TURKEY'S NEW GOVERNMENT: MORE ON ERDOGAN'S TIMING [...] (C) Summary: AK leader Erdogan likely to submit his candidate cabinet list March 13. Possible he will emerge as Prime Minister in office as of that date. Still no convincing sign, however, that he intends to pass a parliamentary resolution approving U.S. troop deployment in the next five-six [...]	2003-03-12 21:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN PINS TU
03ANKARA1624	GOT CLOSES PRO-KURDISH HADEP PARTY, OPENS CASE [...] (C) Summary: Turkey's highest court announced the closure of the pro-Kurdish HADEP party the same day a chief prosecutor opened a case to close the closely linked DEHAP party. HADEP is accused of aiding the PKK and other offenses; DEHAP is charged with actions against the democratic state and [...]	2003-03-13 16:30:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
03ANKARA1625	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNESCO: ANNOUNCEMENT OF U.S. [...] Poloffs delivered ref (A) demarche March 13 to MFA Head of Department for Multilateral Cultural Affairs, Gulseren Celik. Celik expressed appreciation for USG's impending re-entry to UNESCO. She stated GOT will give due consideration to Turkish support of USG candidacy to UNESCO Executive Bo [...]	2003-03-14 06:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC FR TU
03ANKARA1632	TURKEY: 59TH COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEMARCHE [...] (C) Poloff March 13 discussed reftel talking points with Kaan Esener, head of the MFA Council of Europe Department, and his deputy, Serhat Aksen. Esener and Aksen noted that Turkey will participate as an EU candidate country in certain EU coordination meetings at the Commission. They said the [...]	2003-03-14 12:12:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL TU UNHRC
03ANKARA1913	THY PRIVATIZATION: ON TRACK...FOR NOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkish Airlines (THY - Turk Hava Yollari) is scheduled for tender in the third quarter 2003, and the GOT official heading THY privatization said that plans are on schedule. THY has managed, largely through timely sales of old planes, to remain profitable in bad times general [...]	2003-03-24 15:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC EAIR ECON EFIN PREL TU
03ANKARA2022	OESI PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: BLACK SEA LONG-TERM [...] No summary [...]	2003-03-27 15:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EFIS
03ANKARA2155	TURKEY: GOT CONCERN ABOUT CYPRUS EU ACCESSION [...] (C) In a March 28 meeting with DCM, MFA Cyprus DG Apakan raised GOT concerns about the draft EU protocol on Cyprus that will be attached to the accession partnership documents new members will sign on April 16. 2. (C) According to Apakan, the draft copy of the protocol obtained by the GOT [...]	2003-04-02 14:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
03ANKARA2186	DRAFT EU PARLIAMENT REPORT CALLS FOR RADICAL [...] (C) Summary: A clear-sighted but controversial European Parliament draft report calls on the GOT to make fundamental changes to the Kemalist State in order to meet EU membership criteria. MFA and reportedly a few members of the European parliament reject the report as biased; several European [...]	2003-04-03 15:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EU TU OSCE
03ANKARA2246	APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS CONVICTION IN LONG-STANDING [...] (C) Summary: An appeals court upheld the torture convictions of 10 police officers in the high-profile 1996 Manisa case; the ruling is final. The officers are expected to serve jail terms ranging from two years to more than four years. Human rights observers and European diplomats welcomed t [...]	2003-04-07 15:36:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
03ANKARA2320	GOT REQUEST FOR USG SUPPORT FOR TURKISH [...] Embassy has just received MFA diplomatic note no. 2003/CKGY/110744 dated March 25, 2003 requesting USG support for its candidacies in the UNESCO elections at the 32nd session of the General Conference in October 2003. Text in para 2. 2. Text of GOT diplomatic note: (Complimen [...]	2003-04-10 10:45:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	IO PREL TU UNESCO
03ANKARA2340	EU SUMMIT DOCUMENTARY ANGERS TURKS AND GERMANS, [...] (C) Summary: A Danish documentary on the December 2002 EU Summit has angered Turks and Germans and embarrassed Denmark. The documentary, covered in the Turkish press, features candid comments by Danish and German ministers critical of Turkey's EU bid. The German Embassy has criticized the do [...]	2003-04-10 15:22:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EU TU
03ANKARA2368	TURKISH PARLIAMENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE: ILL [...] (C) Summary: The parliamentary Human Rights Committee does not play a significant role in the development of reform legislation, and the public comments of its Chairman to date have focused on supposed human rights violations outside Turkey. Committee members are generally not well informed on [...]	2003-04-11 13:23:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU OSCE
03ANKARA2390	TURKISH MFA SAYS EU NOT LOBBYING AGAINST ARTICLE [...] No summary [...]	2003-04-13 13:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PHUM TU
03ANKARA2521	THE TURKISH GENERAL STAFF: A FRACTIOUS AND SULLEN POLITICAL COALITION [...] (C) Summary: As refs (A-E) note, Turkish General Staff (TGS) remains deeply involved in day-to-day political life and policymaking, with attendant strains and divisions among senior military leaders over domestic and foreign policy issues. These divisions are more visible today than at any ti [...]	2003-04-18 08:38:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINS MARR TU
03ANKARA2819	TURKEY SEEKS SUPPORT FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE [...] No summary [...]	2003-04-30 15:19:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	IO SENV TU
03ANKARA2872	APRIL 29 BELGIAN MINI-SUMMIT: TURKS SHARE OUR [...] (C) On May 1, Polmiloff, drawing on reftel talking points, briefed MFA/NATO Department Second Secretary Esra Dogan on USG concern over the April 29 Belgian mini-summit Joint Statement. Dogan, who had also been briefed earlier that day by the UK Embassy, said she was not surprised by the min [...]	2003-05-02 14:54:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL TU NATO
03ANKARA2940	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2003-05-06 14:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
03ANKARA2957	Special 301 Demarche Delivered; GOT Plans to [...] (SBU) Summary: Noting outstanding issues in pharmaceuticals, copyright and trademark protection, Emboffs informed GOT interlocutors that Turkey will remain on the Special 301 Watch List this year. In a change from its earlier position that data exclusivity is not required by the TRIPS Agreem [...]	2003-05-07 08:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR TU USTR WTO
03ANKARA2975	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2003-05-07 13:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
03ANKARA3061	Sauces/Fanta Beverage Base Classification; [...] (U) Econoff presented U.S. positions on classification of sauces and of Fanta beverage base (reftels) to Ercan Saka, General Director, EU and Foreign Relations Department, Turkish Customs Undersecretariat, on May 6. Saka responded that Turkish Customs would take these demarches into account i [...]	2003-05-12 06:49:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON TU
03ANKARA3085	GOT REQUEST FOR USG SUPPORT FOR CANDIDACY IN [...] ACTION REQUEST - PARA 4. 2. Embassy received MFA diplomatic note no. 2003/UKGY/178657 dated May 5 requesting USG support for its candidate to the International Tribunal for Rwanda at the United Nations General Assembly in June 2003 in New York. The body of the diplomatic note is as fol [...]	2003-05-12 14:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL IO TU UN
03ANKARA3093	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2003-05-12 14:26:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
03ANKARA3155	TURKEY: RETURN OF THE HOCA [...] (C) Summary: At Saadet Party's May 11 national convention, long-time leader of Turkey's Islamist movement Necmettin Erbakan returned to active politics as party chairman. Unlike recent conventions of right-of-center DYP and ANAP, Saadet's congress was far more lively and colorful. The mood of [...]	2003-05-13 17:19:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
03ANKARA3410	OPPOSITION FROM TURKEY'S NSC SHARPENS CONFLICT [...] (C) Summary: GOT leaders continue to support passage of a series of reform packages to harmonize Turkey's practices with EU membership criteria. TGS chief Ozkok and his deputy Buyukanit also formally support Turkey's EU candidacy. At the same time the military-dominated National Security Cou [...]	2003-05-23 14:55:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
03ANKARA3480	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2003-05-28 11:22:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
03ANKARA3506	DAS PASCOE'S MAY 21-22 POST-WAR TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (C) State Department DAS for European Affairs Lynn Pascoe told GOT officials May 21-22 the USG was disappointed with Turkey over its handling of issues of major importance to the US, including Iraq and Cyprus. DAS Pascoe said the door to rebuilding relations was open, but it was up to Turkey t [...]	2003-05-29 15:01:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MARR AR TU IZ IS
03ANKARA3509	TURKEY: CHP TAKES A TACTICAL VIEW OF REFORM [...] (C) Summary: Opposition CHP has publicly, and privately in meetings with us, endorsed the AK government's EU reform package but has rejected AK proposals to sell state-owned forestry lands and to allow local administrations more control over health and education services. The CHP stance refle [...]	2003-05-30 07:04:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
03ANKARA3694	DEFINING THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY: GENERAL STAFF AND GOVERNMENT STRUGGLE WITH THEMSELVES AND EACH OTHER [...] (C) Summary: Chief of the General Staff (TGS) Ozkok's attempt to smother disgruntlement in senior ranks and at the same time to warn ruling AK party against perceived anti-secular trends has achieved neither goal. While tensions between the military and AK, and within each, will continue, we [...]	2003-06-06 14:28:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINS TU
03ANKARA373	USG SUPPORTS MANDIL FOR IEA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: [...] No summary [...]	2003-01-15 14:17:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EPET AORC TU IEA OECD
03ANKARA3826	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2003-06-12 15:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
03ANKARA3842	ARTICLE 98: GOT SAYS IT SUPPORTS AGREEMENT IN [...] (C) Summary: GOT officials told a visiting State and Defense Article 98 delegation June 10 that the GOT in principle favors reaching an Article 98 agreement with the US, but cannot do so at this time because of intense EU pressure. The officials noted that Turkey is not a signatory to the Int [...]	2003-06-13 10:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR TU
03ANKARA3992	TURKEY'S LOCAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN ANKARA: LET [...] (C) Summary: In the metropolitan municipality of Ankara, the campaign season has begun anew. Local elections must be held here by April 2004, although some of our contacts continue to speculate that the ruling AK Party could change the constitution to hold local polls sometime this fall. Cand [...]	2003-06-20 13:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
03ANKARA4013	ASSESSMENT OF TURKISH OSCE MEDIA REPRESENTATIVE [...] (U) Bio: Ahmet Tan, currently the head of the Turkish Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, is a journalist, former member of Parliament for Bulent Ecevit's left-of-center DSP, and former Minister of Tourism. He graduated from Ankara University's Faculty of Political Science, and rec [...]	2003-06-23 13:11:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL TU
03ANKARA4121	WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE: RECENT IMPROVEMENTS [...] Summary. Turkey's wastewater resources infrastructure serves its metropolitan populations sufficiently but is unable to provide adequate sanitation services in rural areas. Most wastewater is disposed of untreated in bodies of water. Although the number of wastewater treatment facilities i [...]	2003-06-27 12:50:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TBIO PGOV ECON TU
03ANKARA4161	TURKEY: CORRUPTION CHARGES DIMMING GENC PARTY'S [...] (C) Summary: New corruption charges against Motorola deadbeat Cem Uzan, stemming from his abuse of Uzan-linked companies against Turkish citizens in Turkey, are having a negative impact on his populist, xenophobic Genc Party's standing in the public eye. The controversy surrounding the notori [...]	2003-07-01 09:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
03ANKARA4193	TURKEY: SEZER UNDER FIRE FOR ANTI-REFORM STANCE [...] (C) As reported reftel, President Sezer vetoed an article in the AK Government's sixth EU Copenhagen Criteria harmonization package, which Parliament had passed with a unanimous vote -- a rare occurrence in Turkey. The veto overruled a provision abolishing Turkey's controversial Article 8 of [...]	2003-07-02 13:26:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
03ANKARA4217	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2003-07-03 12:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
03ANKARA4299	TURKEY: PRESS BEGINS TO QUESTION TURKISH MILITARY [...] (C) Summary: Turkish press' sensationalist reaction to July 4 U.S. arrest (and subsequent release) of Turkish special forces soldiers in Iraq shifted somewhat July 9. Even mainstream secularist journalists have begun to question what the Turkish military is or may have been doing in Iraq. Re [...]	2003-07-09 13:32:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
03ANKARA4313	JUDGE BUMIN'S MAY VISIT TO US DEEMED A SUCCESS [...] (C) Summary: Turkish Constitutional Court Chairman Mustafa Bumin called his May visit to the US "intensive and valuable" and said he was exposed to US trial alternatives and police practices that could be beneficial for Turkey. Bumin also said he plans to follow through on a recommendation to [...]	2003-07-09 14:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO TU
03ANKARA4464	IRAQI GOVERNING COUNCIL: TURKS UNHAPPY WITH [...] (U) Baghdad minimize considered. 2. (S) After several unsuccessful attempts to schedule a joint US/UK meeting to deliver reftel points to MFA's Iraq department at the working level, UK Ambassador Westmacott reportedly raised the points with MFA U/S Ziyal and DG Burcuoglu July 15 during a [...]	2003-07-16 13:40:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KPAO IZ TU
03ANKARA4468	IRAQI GOVERNING COUNCIL: TURKS UNHAPPY WITH [...] (U) Baghdad minimize considered. 2. (S) After several unsuccessful attempts to schedule a joint US/UK meeting to deliver reftel points to MFA's Iraq department at the working level, UK Ambassador Westmacott reportedly raised the points with MFA U/S Ziyal and DG Burcuoglu July 15 during a [...]	2003-07-17 05:42:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PGOV PREL KPAO IZ TU
03ANKARA4477	SCENESETTER FOR GENS. ABIZAID AND JONES' JULY [...] (S) Summary: Your visits come as we try to close the July 4 incident and pull Turkey into a more fully helpful role in Iraq. The last year has shaken the confidence of the Turkish public, politicians, and military in the strength of the relationship with the U.S., just as it has shaken our [...]	2003-07-17 08:16:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PGOV PREL TU
03ANKARA4500	SCENESETTER FOR ADM NATTER JULY 20-22 VISIT TO [...] (S) Summary: Your visit comes as we try to close the July 4 incident and pull Turkey into a more fully helpful role in Iraq. The last year has shaken the confidence of the Turkish public, politicians, and military in the strength of the relationship with the U.S., just as it has shaken our c [...]	2003-07-18 05:33:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PGOV PREL TU
03ANKARA4544	TURKISH GENERAL STAFF OBJECTS TO EU REFORM PACKAGE [...] (U) CNN Turk and NTV news channels report July 18 that the Turkish General Staff (TGS) leadership has voiced objections to the AK Government about its latest EU-related reform package. According to the reports, TGS opposes the reforms because: 1) they "restrict the jurisdiction of the National [...]	2003-07-21 07:24:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL PGOV TU
03ANKARA4552	SCENESETTER FOR TURKISH FONMIN GUL'S JULY 24 VISIT [...] (C) Summary: F.M. Gul comes to Washington as we try to pull Turkey into a more fully helpful role in Iraq. The last year has shaken the confidence of the Turkish public, politicians, and military in the strength of the relationship with the U.S., just as it has shaken our confidence in the T [...]	2003-07-21 10:57:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
03ANKARA4591	TURKEY: AMBASSADOR'S JULY 21 FAREWELL CALL ON [...] (C) Ambassador paid a farewell call July 21 on I. Melih Gokcek, long-time and currently independent Mayor of Ankara. Gokcek provided his view on recent U.S.-Turkey tensions and how to repair them. Gokcek observed that anti-Americanism is on the rise and risks becoming a permanent, and decisive [...]	2003-07-22 13:34:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
03ANKARA4656	Turkey Not Yet a Party to the ICCAT [...] No summary [...]	2003-07-23 12:38:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS AORC PHSA SENV
03ANKARA467	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL WARNER [...] (SBU) Your visit comes at a critical time in US-Turkey relations. Over the last two years the US has supported IMF packages of unprecedented proportions to assist Turkey in recovering from its worst economic crisis in decades. The strategic partnership has grown as a result of Turkey's signi [...]	2003-01-17 14:44:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OVIP TU
03ANKARA4767	TURKEY: THE BATTLE OVER CONTROL OF GOT RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS [...] (C) Summary: Recent controversy over AK Parliament and Government proposals to employ an additional 15 thousand imams at Turkish mosques is reawakening an age-old controversy over the role of religion in Turkish public life. It also reveals that: 1) both strict secularists and religious conser [...]	2003-07-28 14:13:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
03ANKARA5058	CAPSTONE DELEGATION DISCUSSES US-TURKEY RELATIONS, [...] (U) Classified by Charge d'Affaires a.i. Robert Deutsch. Reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) The participants in the National Defense University CAPSTONE European Field Studies Program, accompanied by representatives from ODC, DAO, and the pol-mil affairs section of the Embassy, met with MFA [...]	2003-08-11 10:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ TU
03ANKARA5105	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LUGAR'S VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (SBU) Your CODEL arrives in Ankara at a time when Turkey is considering increasing its cooperation in reconstruction and stabilization efforts in Iraq. The GOT is shifting its Iraq policy away from one centered on northern-Iraq and ethnic (Kurd or Turkmen) issues towards a more central Baghda [...]	2003-08-12 12:00:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON TU
03ANKARA5107	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MURTHA'S VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (SBU) Your CODEL arrives in Ankara at a time when Turkey is considering increasing its cooperation in reconstruction and stabilization efforts in Iraq. The GOT is shifting its Iraq policy away from one centered on northern-Iraq and ethnic (Kurd or Turkmen) issues towards a more central Baghda [...]	2003-08-12 12:05:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON TU
03ANKARA5191	TURKS IN GEAR TO DECIDE ON STABILIZATION FORCE [...] (U) Baghdad minimize considered. 2. (S) DG for Mideast Affairs Burcuoglu met with Charge d'Affaires August 14 to lay out additional steps the GOT envisions towards obtaining parliamentary approval for a Turkish contribution to the Iraq stabilization force by September 15. He noted that t [...]	2003-08-14 14:48:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	PREL MARR MOPS PTER TU IZ
03ANKARA5409	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DAVIS' VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (SBU) Your CODEL arrives in Ankara at a time when Turkey is considering increasing its cooperation in reconstruction and stabilization efforts in Iraq. The GOT is shifting its Iraq policy away from one centered on northern-Iraq and ethnic (Kurd or Turkmen) issues towards a more central Baghda [...]	2003-08-25 12:27:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON TU IZ
03ANKARA5436	SENATOR LUGAR DISCUSSES TURKISH PARTICIPATION IN [...] (U) Baghdad minimize considered. 2. (C) Summary: Senator Lugar reaffirmed to the GOT on August 20 the importance of the longstanding U.S.-Turkish relationship. In meetings with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Justice, and Defense, as well as the Chief of TGS, Lugar emphasized that the [...]	2003-08-26 11:34:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PTER IS TU IZ
03ANKARA5464	AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL CALL ON FONMIN GUL: FOCUS ON [...] (C) Summary: FonMin Gul said Aug. 27 the GOT wants a democratic, stable Iraq able to govern itself; GOT will move cautiously toward a decision on possible troop contribution to stabilization force; U.S. response to Turkey's concerns on PKK/Kadek remains a key point for Ankara. Reaffirming U.S. [...]	2003-08-28 10:05:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS TU IZ
03ANKARA5515	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON DEFENSE [...] (C) During the Ambassador's introductory call on Minister of National Defense Vecdi Gonul September 1, Gonul affirmed his desire to foster closer cooperation with the US and to support the US in any way Turkey could. On Iraq, Gonul said he hoped the GOT would persuade the Turkish public and P [...]	2003-09-02 14:11:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MARR MOPS TU IZ
03ANKARA5547	ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH INVITES PRESIDENT BUSH TO [...] (C) Summary: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who will travel to New York in March 2004, hopes he could also see President Bush in Washington then. He wants to invite the President to visit the Patriarchate when he is in Istanbul at the May 2004 NATO Summit. The Patriarch characterized his [...]	2003-09-03 13:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL TU
03ANKARA5566	TURKEY'S EU CANDIDACY: FOCUS NOW ON IMPLEMENTATION [...] (C) Summary: European diplomats in Ankara say the GOT's extensive human rights reforms have brought Turkey close to meeting EU accession criteria; the EU will now focus on how well the reforms are implemented. However, Turkey still falls short of the criteria in some areas, and pro-EU advocat [...]	2003-09-04 10:18:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
03ANKARA5671	TURKEY: OPPOSITION CHP IN DENIAL OVER FLAGGING [...] (C) Summary: Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) continues to argue against sending Turkish troops to Iraq as part of a stabilization force -- so far to no noticeable effect with the voters. Although hurting at the polls, senior members of the party seem unconcerned with the direc [...]	2003-09-08 13:17:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
03ANKARA5791	TURKEY: LOCAL AK PARETY BOSSES CONFIDENT IN [...] (C) Summary: In separate early September meetings, ruling AK Party bosses in Ankara discussed signs of improving economic conditions, local elections, and intra-party politics. Poloff met with Hamdi Balaban of Ankara's left-leaning Yenimahalle district and Orhan Kaya of Altindag, one of Ankar [...]	2003-09-12 08:49:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU

03ANKARA5828	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH CONSTITUTIONAL COURT [...] (U) Summary: In a September 8 introductory meeting, Constitutional Court President Bumin told the Ambassador he plans to establish a Free Speech Committee of Turkish jurists. He said the GOT should advance human rights reform and EU membership by focusing on implementing recent legal amendmen [...]	2003-09-15 09:41:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
03ANKARA5848	COULD AN ELECTION-RELATED COURT CASE CUT AK [...] (C) Summary: Supreme Appeals Court's likely confirmation of the sentence in an election fraud case against pro-Kurdish DEHAP raises the question whether High Election Board (YSK) will subsequently reallocate seats in Parliament, reducing AK's political dominance and enabling right-of-center DYP [...]	2003-09-16 06:34:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINS TU
03ANKARA5866	LETTER TO HHS SECRETARY THOMPSON FROM TURKISH [...] Post received Turkish MFA dip note no. 2003/CKGY/360370 requesting embassy to forward a letter to HHS Secretary Thompson from Minister of National Education Huseyin Celik announcing GOT support to the U.S. candidacy to the Executive Board. BEGIN TEXT Tommy G. THOMPSON Secretary of H [...]	2003-09-17 09:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PREL TU
03ANKARA5938	URGENT DEMARCHE: UN ACTION ON THE MIDDLE EAST: [...] (C) DCM presented reftel demarche September 18 to MFA Middle East AND Africa General Director Tahsin Burcuoglu. 2. (C) Burcuoglu accepted the U.S. views and reiterated Turkey's support for the Road Map and its continuing good relationship with both Israelis and Palestinians. He indicated [...]	2003-09-19 10:20:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS TU
03ANKARA6002	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2003-09-23 14:37:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
03ANKARA6163	TURKEY: VIEW FROM THE HEARTLAND III: KURDS IN [...] (C) Summary: Kurds in the southeast insist recent human rights reforms have not been implemented, and that practices such as torture, lack of attorney access for detainees, and restrictions on the use of the Kurdish language continue unabated. Even if the reforms are implemented in the rest of [...]	2003-10-01 14:59:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
03ANKARA6230	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2003-10-03 12:25:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
03ANKARA6238	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MCCONNELL VISIT TO TURKEY [...] Your CODEL arrives in Ankara at a time when Iraq remains the focus of the US-Turkish relationship and where Turks are seized with two primary Iraq-related issues: the presence of PKK/Kadek terrorists in northern Iraq and whether Turkey will contribute troops to the stabilization force in Iraq [...]	2003-10-03 14:02:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON TU IZ
03ANKARA6306	Turkish MFA Proposes Mutual Support for [...] This message contains an action request in para 3. 2. Econoff delivered reftel demarche seeking Turkish support for the U.S. candidacy to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Council in Category "A" to Orkun Ersoy, of MFA's Maritime and Aviation Department, on October 7. Ersoy r [...]	2003-10-08 06:43:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EWWT KTIA PHSA TU
03ANKARA6322	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SAXTON VISIT TO TURKEY [...] You arrive in Ankara at a time when Iraq remains the focus of the US-Turkish relationship which in fact is much broader. The Turks are seized with two primary Iraq-related issues: The decision, approved by Parliament October 7, to contribute troops to the stabilization force in Iraq, and the [...]	2003-10-08 11:51:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON IZ PGOV PHUM PREL TU
03ANKARA6342	NO AGREEMENT WITH IMF LIKELY UNTIL AT LEAST NEXT [...] (Sbu) Summary: IMF Resident Representative told Econoffs October 8 that the Fund Mission is highly unlikely to wrap up agreement on the Sixth Review until early next week at the earliest. Though the Turkish economic team had a long meeting with the Prime Minister October 7 on the IMF issues, [...]	2003-10-08 15:36:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PGOV TU
03ANKARA6344	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SAXTON VISIT TO TURKEY [...] You arrive in Ankara at a time when Iraq remains the focus of the US-Turkish relationship which in fact is much broader. The Turks are seized with two primary Iraq-related issues: The decision, approved by Parliament October 7, to contribute troops to the stabilization force in Iraq, and the [...]	2003-10-09 06:34:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON IZ PGOV PHUM PREL TU
03ANKARA6375	Turkish MFA Proposes Mutual Support for [...] This message contains an action request in para 4. 2. MFA followed up our October 7 demarche on elections to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Council with a diplomatic note proposing mutual support for Turkish and U.S. candidacies. The text of the October 7 note is reproduce [...]	2003-10-10 08:53:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EWWT KTIA PHSA TU
03ANKARA6411	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SAXTON VISIT TO TURKEY [...] You arrive in Ankara at a time when Iraq remains the focus of the US-Turkish relationship which in fact is much broader. The Turks are seized with two primary Iraq-related issues: The decision, approved by Parliament October 7, to contribute troops to the stabilization force in Iraq, and the [...]	2003-10-14 13:20:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON IZ PGOV PHUM PREL TU
03ANKARA6424	CODEL MCCONNEL'S OCTOBER 10 MEETINGS WITH PM [...] (C) Summary: PM Erdogan told visiting Codel McConell October 10 that elements within Turkey and Iraq were making "ugly" statements about the possible deployment of Turkish troops to Iraq as part of the stabilization force there. Erdogan said he was not familiar with the details of the discuss [...]	2003-10-15 07:23:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS TU IZ
03ANKARA6446	DEMARCHE TO GOT ON US CANDIDATE FOR COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2003-10-15 15:33:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM TU
03ANKARA6447	TURKEY: AK PARTY CONGRESS REAFFIRMS PM ERDOGAN'S [...] (C) Summary: PM Erdogan emerged from the ruling AK Party's Oct. 12 well-organized congress more in control of his party. In his acceptance speech, Erdogan focused primarily on AK's commitment to achieving a just, democratic system in Turkey. On Iraq, he reiterated the GOT's commitment to send [...]	2003-10-15 15:37:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
03ANKARA6499	MFA DEPUTY U/S TUYGAN STRESSES THE IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) MFA Deputy U/S Tuygan told Ambassador October 16 that the GOT was grateful for the US assistance before and after the recent bombing in front of the Turkish embassy in Baghdad. Tuygan agreed that it was important for the US and Turkey to manage and "get right" the issue of a possible Turk [...]	2003-10-17 10:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS TU IZ PTER ASEC AF AR
03ANKARA6613	TURKEY: BAYKAL SET TO BE RE-ELECTED OPPOSITION CHP [...] (C) Summary: With party delegates firmly in his grasp, CHP leader Baykal is likely to be re-elected chairman at an Oct. 23-24 general convention. Although our contacts expect a contentious atmosphere, they do not expect major changes to the CHP administration. Former state minister Kemal Derv [...]	2003-10-22 12:23:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
03ANKARA6619	MFA DEPUTY U/S BOZKIR OPTIMISTIC ABOUT TURKEY'S EU [...] (C) Summary: In a Oct. 20 courtesy call, MFA Deputy U/S for EU affairs Bozkir told the Ambassador that he is optimistic about Turkey's EU prospects. The GOT has passed the necessary laws related to the Copenhagen Criteria. Bozkir admitted that Cyprus is a looming problem but added that a posi [...]	2003-10-22 13:47:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TU
03ANKARA6620	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL ROYCE VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (SBU) Summary: Your CODEL arrives in Ankara at a time when Iraq and resolution of the PKK/KADEK question remain the focus of the US-Turkish relationship. Turks are seized with two Iraq-related issues: whether the U.S. will work out with the Interim Governing Council the eventual deployment of [...]	2003-10-22 13:59:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON TU IZ
03ANKARA6695	EU REPORT ON TURKEY WILL PRAISE REFORMS, CRITICIZE [...] (SBU) Summary: The upcoming EU report on Turkey will praise GOT human rights reforms while criticizing the slow pace of implementation. Ankara-based contacts from EU states agree that Turkey's candidacy is progressing, but could be derailed by a failure to reach a Cyprus settlement. End Summ [...]	2003-10-24 13:16:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
03ANKARA6702	TURKEY: BAYKAL MANEUVERS TO EASY VICTORY AT CHP [...] (C) Summary: At a contentious but unenthusiastic convention, CHP leader Baykal won re-election easily after he rammed through by-laws that made challenging him nearly impossible. In his speech opening the convention, Baykal focused on what he termed CHP's historical role in Turkish politics a [...]	2003-10-24 15:35:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
03ANKARA6728	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2003-10-27 14:48:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
03ANKARA6857	THE VIEW FROM SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY: PART ONE [...] (C) SUMMARY: THIS IS THE FIRST OF THREE MESSAGES ABOUT THE AMCON ADANA REPORTING TEAM VISIT TO SOUTHEASTERN TURKEY FROM SEPTEMBER 14-26. REFTELS REPORT SOME ASPECTS OF THIS TRIP. THE REGION'S KURDISH POPULATION WAS DISTRUSTFUL OF STATE INITIATIVES; SAW THE "RETURN TO HOME" LAW AS INDISTINGU [...]	2003-11-04 07:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM PINR KNNP TU
03ANKARA6994	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2003-11-07 13:41:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
03ANKARA7070	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2003-11-13 15:11:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
03ANKARA7090	DEMARCHE TO GOT ON UN COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION [...] No summary [...]	2003-11-14 11:12:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM TU
03ANKARA7114	TGS D/CHOD BASBUG'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON - AN [...] (C) Turkish General Staff Deputy Chief Basbug will visit Washington November 16-21 to lead the Turkish delegation to the US-Turkey High-Level Defense Group (HLDG). He has requested meetings with National Security Advisor Rice, DepSecDef Wolfowitz, CJCS Myers and VCJCS Pace. Basbug may also s [...]	2003-11-14 15:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS TU IZ AF CY ASEC OVIP
03ANKARA7229	SCENESETTER FOR TURKISH JUSTICE MINISTER CICEK'S [...] (C) Summary: Justice Minister Cicek's visit to Washington allows us to raise high-profile global issues with one of the Turkish cabinet's most influential and outspoken figures. Our priorities for his visit should be: 1) to urge continued GOT progress on EU-related human rights reform, and und [...]	2003-11-20 12:08:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM CASC EFIN IZ TU
03ANKARA7319	ANOTHER STEP TOWARD A "SOFT LANDING": VCJCS GEN [...] (C) You arrive in Turkey at a time when our focus is on increasing Turkish cooperation on Iraq reconstruction and minimizing the fallout from the decision to forego Turkey,s offer to contribute forces to the stabilization efforts in Iraq. The Turkish General Staff (TGS) saw deploying forces t [...]	2003-11-25 13:31:00	Embassy Ankara	SECRET	MARR PREL PTER OVIP PGOV TU
03ANKARA7411	TURKEY: LEFT-OF-CENTER OPPOSITION CHP SCORNS CALLS [...] (C) Summary: Opposition left-of-center CHP has rejected calls for unity on the political left in the run-up to March 2004 local elections. Optimism in CHP higher ranks is belied by growing frustration among CHP M.P.s with the party's prospects. Rather than focus on the party leadership's sho [...]	2003-12-03 15:10:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
03ANKARA7510	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL COX VISIT TO TURKEY [...] (SBU) Summary: Your CODEL arrives in Ankara at a time when the GOT is seized with the issues of security and counterterrorism. GOT leaders and security forces have reacted responsibly to the November terrorist attacks in Istanbul, though some politicians and commentators have tried to score p [...]	2003-12-08 16:28:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP AMGT AFIN ASEC PTER PGOV PREL TU
03ANKARA7641	TURKEY: CENTER-RIGHT MOTHERLAND PARTY STRUGGLING [...] (C) Summary: Unable to regain political momentum or solve ANAP's deepening financial difficulties, colorless chairman Ozdemir resigned days before the party's Dec. 13-14 general convention. Former M.P. Nesrin Nas is likely to emerge as the next ANAP leader. However, her ability to boost ANAP' [...]	2003-12-12 15:21:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
03ANKARA7649	2004 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON TURKEY'S CONTRIBUTION [...] (U) This is Embassy Ankara's submission to the 2004 Report to Congress on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense. = = = = = = = = = = General Assessment = = = = = = = = = = 2. (SBU) In aiming to accelerate democratization, pursue its EU candidacy, revive the economy and tackle ch [...]	2003-12-15 08:21:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MCAP PREL TU
03ANKARA7691	NEW HIGHER EDUCATION PRESIDENT TAKES OVER TURKEY'S [...] (C) Summary: On December 8, President Sezer appointed Erdogan Tezic, the rector of Galatasaray University, as head of the Higher Education Council (YOK),replacing Kemal Guruz. Like President Sezer, Erdogan Tezic is a specialist in constitutional law, having served as a law professor in Istan [...]	2003-12-16 10:27:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO OEXC SCUL TU
03ANKARA7700	NOVEMBER ATTACKS HAVE NOT STOPPED REFORMS, BUT [...] (U) Summary: Members of Parliament, the bureaucracy and NGO community agree the GOT will continue its EU-related reform process despite the November terrorist attacks in Istanbul, but they fear that further attacks could undermine Turkey's EU candidacy. Human rights observers say police and G [...]	2003-12-16 15:10:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
03ANKARA808	TURKEY: ARINC FLEXING PARLIAMENT'S MUSCLES [...] (C) Summary: The growing popular desire in Turkey for comprehensive, systemic change and a more open society gives Parliament, under leadership of AK Party heavyweight Bulent Arinc, room to assert itself and its constitutional prerogatives. In principle the process should be a boon to democra [...]	2003-01-31 14:06:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS TU
03ANKARA838	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2003-02-03 12:58:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
03ANKARA855	GERMAN DIPLOMATS OPTIMISTIC, BUT STILL CONCERNED [...] (C) Summary: PM Gul told German FM Fischer be believes five German foundations facing charges in Turkey will be acquitted. German diplomats agree the judge appears to be preparing to acquit, but consider the indictment a form of harassment and warn a conviction could weaken German support for [...]	2003-02-03 15:50:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TU
03ANKARA971	ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2003-02-07 14:55:00	Embassy Ankara	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR TU
03BEIJING2438	NPC SET TO VOTE FOR NEW CHINESE GOVERNMENT [...] (C) THE UPCOMING NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS (NPC) PLENARY SESSION WILL SELECT CHINA'S NEW STATE AND LEGISLATIVE LEADERS, ALONG WITH THE LEADERS OF THE NEW STATE COUNCIL, STATE CENTRAL MILITARY COMMISSION (CMC) SUPREME PEOPLE'S COURT (SPC) AND SUPREME PEOPLE'S PROCURATORATE (SPP). WHILE THE N [...]	2003-03-05 07:36:00	Embassy Beijing	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON EFIN ETRD CH
03BOGOTA3994	FARC KILLS TWO HIGH PROFILE HOSTAGES [...] (S) ON MAY 5, THE FARC EXECUTED TWO HIGH PROFILE HOSTAGES- ANTIOQUIA GOVERNOR GUILLERMO GAVIRIA AND FORMER DEFENSE MINISTER AND PEACE ADVISER GILBERTO ECHEVERRI- IN AN AREA NEAR URRAO, ANTIOQUIA DEPARTMENT. EIGHT SOLDIERS WHO THE FARC ALSO HAD KIDNAPPED WERE KILLED AS WELL. SOURCES INDICATE [...]	2003-05-06 00:07:00	Embassy Bogota	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PREL PTER CO
03BRASILIA3682	BRAZIL'S PROSPECTS FOR A RETURN TO ECONOMIC GROWTH [...] SUMMARY. Brazil's government, economists and media all now voice expectation of forthcoming relative economic relief. Hardly anyone dissents from the forecast of 3/3.5% GDP growth in 2004. Optimists suggest a parallel with 2000, when Brazil's GDP grew 4.4% after the previous year's 0.7%, des [...]	2003-11-18 13:44:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PGOV ELAB PHUM PREL EINV SOCI BR
03BRASILIA43	LULA GETS STARTED - FIGHTING HUNGER ON A TIGHT [...] No summary [...]	2003-01-07 13:02:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EAID BR
03BRASILIA907	BRAZIL: SERVICES HELD HOSTAGE TO AGRICULTURE [...] (U) Econoff met on March 12 with Felipe Hees of the Services, Investment and Financial Issues Division of Itamaraty to discuss prospects for Brazil's submission of services offers in the WTO (reftel) and FTAA negotiations. WTO - Submission by Deadline Is Doubtful 2. (U) Although Hees stre [...]	2003-03-24 13:12:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON WTRO FTAA
03BUENOSAIRES1662	ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT-ELECT KIRCHNER NAMES CABINET [...] (U) SUMMARY. PRESIDENT-ELECT NESTOR KIRCHNER ANNOUNCED THE COMPOSITION OF HIS CABINET ON MAY 20. AS KIRCHNER HAD STATED DURING THE CAMPAIGN, ROBERTO LAVAGNA WILL CONTINUE ON AS ECONOMY MINISTER. THE BIGGEST SURPRISES WERE HIS SELECTION OF JUDICIAL AFFAIRS EXPERT RAFAEL BIELSA AS FOREIGN M [...]	2003-05-20 20:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR US
03BUENOSAIRES1747	ARGENTINA: KIRCHNER TAKES OFFICE WITH PREDICTABLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: NESTOR KIRCHNER'S MAY 25 INAUGURAL ADDRESS WAS CONSISTENT WITH HIS CAMPAIGN MESSAGES ADVOCATING A GREATER STATE ROLE IN THE ECONOMY WHILE AT THE SAME TIME MAINTAINING FISCAL DISCIPLINE. HE REPEATED HIS CAMPAIGN PROMISE TO GIVE PROMINENCE OF PLACE TO ARGENTINA'S RELATIONS WITH [...]	2003-05-28 20:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR PREL AR CU
03COLOMBO1046	FY-2004 IV SOUTH ASIA RP ON "RELIGIOUS [...] POST NOMINATES VEN. KIRINDE ASSAJI THERO, BUDDHIST MONK/PRINCIPAL, SRI SUMANGALA DHAMMA SCHOOL, FOR PARTICIPATION IN SUBJECT PROJECT. 2. NOMINATION IS AS FOLLOWS: START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT): : The following data is in a fixed format which enables : automated processing in [...]	2003-06-16 07:36:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO
03COLOMBO1384	Maldivian presidential selection process set [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Maldivian presidential selection process is set to kick off in September, with the Majlis (parliament) selecting a candidate who will stand in a referendum in October. President Gayoom is widely expected to win with ease. Gayoom seems a popular ruler, though the selection [...]	2003-08-07 10:37:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM MV
03COLOMBO1490	OFFICIAL INFORMAL NUMBER 123 (08/26/03) [...] (C) FYI. Just wanted to flag the following peace track items: -- Paris Meeting: Beyond that reviewed in Colombo 1482, we have no new news to report re the LTTE's Paris meeting. The Norwegian Embassy here told us that Special Envoy Erik Solheim was slated to join the LTTE meeting today or [...]	2003-08-26 10:55:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT CE MV LTTE
03COLOMBO1601	LANDMINES AND TIGERS AND "BEARS" OH MY! ECONOMIC INTEGRATION [...] No summary [...]	2003-09-15 08:14:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID PTER PGOV CE LTTE ECONOMICS
03COLOMBO1602	The Ambassador reviews the peace process, aid [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a September 14 introductory meeting, the Ambassador and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe agreed that last week's donor roundtable on the occasion of Japanese envoy Akashi's visit had usefully demonstrated that the donors were holding firm to the Tokyo linkage between progress at [...]	2003-09-15 08:14:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EAID CE US UN LTTE
03COLOMBO1605	Maldivian presidential election process kicks [...] (U) In an announcement made late last week and reported on the website of the government-controlled newspaper "Haveeru," the Maldivian Elections Commission has begun soliciting applications from possible candidates for the 2003 presidential election. Applications will be accepted for a one-we [...]	2003-09-15 11:17:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM MV
03COLOMBO1623	2003 Human Rights Report for the Republic of [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified entire text. 2. (U) Following is the 2003 Country Human Rights report for the Republic of Maldives. BEGIN TEXT: 3. (U) The Republic of Maldives, which is made up of 1,190 islands, less than 200 of which are inhabited, has a parliamentary style of gove [...]	2003-09-18 10:14:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB PREL KSEP MV
03COLOMBO1632	2004-05 SRI LANKA FULBRIGHT JUNIOR SCHOLAR PROGRAM [...] THE US-SLFC RECEIVED A RECORD TOTAL OF 597 APPLICATIONS IN RESPONSE TO ITS PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SUBJECT AWARDS PROGRAM. AFTER A PRELIMINARY INTERVIEW OF ALL ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES BY THE COMMISSION'S COMMITTEE ON STUDY AND TRAINING, A SHORT LIST OF 20 CANDIDATES WAS PRESENTED TO THE US-SL [...]	2003-09-19 05:56:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC CE
03COLOMBO1660	Maldives: Recent rioting in capital sparks [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Mission team visited the Maldives, September 22-24. In the aftermath of the rioting that took place on September 20, Male appeared calm with little sign of any tension. In discussions on the unrest, GoRM officials ritually blamed "drug users" and "miscreants." Observers, ho [...]	2003-09-24 11:31:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM CASC MV
03COLOMBO1665	Maldives: President Gayoom wins first phase [...] (U) Maldivian President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom won the first phase of the country's presidential selection process on September 25. Gayoom took all 50 votes in the People's Majlis (Parliament). The three other candidates, Abdul Ghafoor Hussain, Mohammed Shareef, and Nazeer Ahmed Jamaal, faile [...]	2003-09-25 10:00:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM PINR MV
03COLOMBO1673	"When do we sign an FTA?" GSL perspectives, [...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Jeffrey J. Lunstead for reasons 1.5 B and D. 2. (C) Summary: Given the high profile in Sri Lanka of this issue and local expectations for the upcoming TIFA round, Post believes it is time to take concrete steps to move towards an FTA. Specific recommendation [...]	2003-09-26 05:13:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAID ECON EFIN KIPR ELAB PREL CE ECONOMICS
03COLOMBO1688	Biographic sketches of up-and-coming Sri [...] (C) Para two contains brief biographic sketches of ten up-and-coming Sri Lankan politicians. Four of the sketches are of governing United National Party (UNP) politicians, three are of opposition People's Alliance (PA) politicians, and one each from the radical Janantha Vimukthi Peramuna (JV [...]	2003-09-29 10:47:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL CE
03COLOMBO1725	2003 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT FOR SRI LANKA [...] No summary [...]	2003-10-03 06:06:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CE ELAB KSEP PGOV PHUM PREL
03COLOMBO1762	Tamil MPs candidly discuss peace process [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met October 9 with key MPs from the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). Asked for their views on the peace process, the MPs said the inability of internally displaced persons to return to their lands was causing great discontent. The MPs said progress toward peace wou [...]	2003-10-10 05:10:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PINS PHUM CE LTTE
03COLOMBO1784	Campaign for US Candidate for Committee [...] No summary [...]	2003-10-15 02:06:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNHCR CE
03COLOMBO1819	Maldivian President wins another five-year [...] (C) SUMMARY: Maldivian President Gayoom handily won reelection for a sixth term in a national referendum held on October 17. In other local political developments, the government continues to investigate the causes of the rare outbreak of unrest last month. Although he won the referendum in [...]	2003-10-20 10:52:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS SOCI MV
03COLOMBO1820	SRI LANKA - AN EXCELLENT CANDIDATE MODEL [...] Summary: Sri Lanka is an ideal model candidate on water. The GSL has identified water as a priority and has the political will and adequate good governance to see it happen. Because of the government's intentions to provide safe water to the entire population by 2010, improve water manageme [...]	2003-10-20 11:18:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID KSCA SENV TSPL CE
03COLOMBO1836	SMOOTH SAILING AS DUSTR SHINER LEADS THIRD ROUND [...] (U) Classified by Amb. Jeffrey J. Lunstead. Reasons 1.5 (b,d). 2. (C) Summary: The GSL's assertive international trade policy to generate growth and become a leader in the South Asia region and broader developing world earned kudos from the USTR delegation during the third round of TIFA ta [...]	2003-10-23 09:48:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAID ECON EFIN KIPR ELAB PREL CE
03COLOMBO1862	Campaign for US Candidate for Committee [...] No summary [...]	2003-10-29 10:36:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM CE UN
03COLOMBO1924	Sri Lanka supports Felice Gaer for UN [...] No summary [...]	2003-11-06 12:03:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM CE UN
03COLOMBO1925	UN CERD Candidate Ralph Boyd [...] No summary [...]	2003-11-06 12:07:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM CE MV
03COLOMBO2137	2004-05 S.L. FULBRIGHT SENIOR SCHOLAR PROGRAM [...] OUT OF A TOTAL OF 28 APPLICANTS FOR THE SUBJECT AWARDS, THE US-SLFC'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS INTERVIEWED 13 CANDIDATES SHORT LISTED FROM THE ORIGINAL POOL AND SELECTED THREE PRINCIPAL AND TWO ALTERNATE NOMINEES. OF THE THREE PRINCIPAL CANDIDATES, THE FIRST TWO, IN ORDER OF MERIT, WERE OFFERED 9 M [...]	2003-12-18 06:50:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	CE OXEC OEXC
03COLOMBO2201	Maldivian Gleanings: Human rights commission [...] (C) This edition of Maldivian gleanings reviews the following: >> Maldivian government establishes national human rights commission >> Report on September rioting submitted to President Gayoom >> Former attorney general reflects on Gayoom and country's political system >> Tourism b [...]	2003-12-31 10:15:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM ECON PINR MV
03COLOMBO239	Colombo Plan: Consensus emerging on [...] (U) This is an Action Request -- Please see Para 4. 2. (C) Poloff attended a February 11 Colombo Plan meeting focused on selecting a new secretary general of the organization. (Note: The new secretary general, who will serve a four-year term, will take over in June from the current incu [...]	2003-02-11 11:06:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC EAID SNAR CE TH IR
03COLOMBO381	Adviser to president indicates that PA party [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met March 5 with Ronnie De Mel, a close adviser to the president and a senior MP. In a change of tune from a previous meeting, De Mel indicated that a formal linkup between the PA and the radical JVP party was a real possibility and could come soon. If it happen [...]	2003-03-06 10:51:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PTER PHUM PINR CE
03COLOMBO500	UNESCO: Mission conveys points on US reentry; [...] Per Ref B, Mission conveyed the points on the United States' decision to seek reentry into UNESCO and our candidacy for the executive board to the Sri Lankan and Maldivian governments. The Maldivian government has replied that it welcomes the decision by the U.S. to rejoin UNESCO and looks fo [...]	2003-03-25 10:59:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL CE MV UNESCO
03COLOMBO576	Leading Tamil politicians criticize Tigers in [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two key Tamil politicians have ramped up their criticism of the Tigers in recent weeks. The politicians, V. Anandasangaree and N. Raviraj, charge the Tigers with using strong-arm tactics in their bid to control the Tamil community in Jaffna. The course the two have chosen is a c [...]	2003-04-03 09:50:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS PHUM NO JA PINR CE LTTE
03COLOMBO740	FY-2003 VOLUNTARY VISITOR PROGRAM: SRI LANKAN [...] PAS COLOMBO REQUESTS FOR A FUNDED VOLVIS (TWO INDIVIDUALS TRAVELING TOGETHER - ITT) PROGRAM ON CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS. POST NOMINATES MR. NAUFEL ABDUL- RAHMAN, SECRETARY TO THE LEADER OF THE PARLIAMENT, AND MR. N.V. KEERTHIRATNE KARUNASENA WERAGODA, SECRETARY TO THE CABINET OF MINISTERS, FOR P [...]	2003-05-05 02:24:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO
03COLOMBO769	FY-2003 IV PROGRAM: MALDIVIAN NOMINATION FOR [...] POST NOMINATES MR. MUHSIN ABDULLA, DIRECTOR FINANCE, MALDIVES TRANSPORT AND CONTRACTING COMPANY (PLC) LTD., FOR PARTICIPATION IN SUBJECT PROJECT. MR. MUHSIN WAS ORIGINALLY NOMINATED FOR MRP ON "ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE U.S." BUT WOULD LIKE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS PROJECT. 2. NOMINATION I [...]	2003-05-08 07:08:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO
03COLOMBO83	FY-2003 IV PROGRAM: MALDIVIAN NOMINATION FOR [...] POST NOMINATES MR. MUHSIN ABDULLA, DIRECTOR FINANCE, MALDIVES TRANSPORT AND CONTRACTING COMPANY (PLC) LTD., FOR PARTICIPATION IN SUBJECT PROJECT. MR. MUHSIN WAS ORIGINALLY NOMINATED FOR MRP ON "ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE U.S." BUT WOULD LIKE HIM TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS PROJECT. 2. NOMINATI [...]	2003-01-14 07:49:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO
03COLOMBO859	IN MOVE THAT COULD HAVE BIG IMPACT, ACCORD BETWEEN RADICAL JVP AND PRESIDENT'S PARTY SEEMS IMMINENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The radical JVP and President Kumaratunga's party seem set to ink a MOU very soon. Due to differences, the two sides have reportedly agreed to be vague on peace process issues. If the accord is indeed concluded, it could impact the peace process, with Tamils complaining that it [...]	2003-05-22 09:55:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM CE KWMM
03COLOMBO994	Domestic Politics Update: Meeting between PM- [...] (C) This update of Sri Lanka's domestic political situation reviews the following: -- In meeting, prime minister and key presidential aide reportedly discuss coalition government -- Supreme Court ruling puts provincial chief ministers in jeopardy -- Sri Lanka debates whether to lift lo [...]	2003-06-09 11:44:00	Embassy Colombo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS PHUM SOCI CE
03FRANKFURT10308	Responses to Commission Communication on Company [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Commission has published a synthesis of the results of the consultation on its Communication on "Modernising Company Law and enhancing Corporate Governance in the European Union". While there was widespread support for a very large majority of the proposals, [...]	2003-12-18 08:33:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT10353	CDU CONVENTION DEBACLE IN BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG SETS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The December 5-6 Christian Democratic (CDU) convention / leadership election in Boeblingen/Baden- Wuerttemberg has raised doubts about Minister President Erwin Teufel's political future. Although Teufel was reelected with 76 percent of the vote, this was his worst showing as C [...]	2003-12-19 13:23:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GM
03FRANKFURT1549	FRANKFURT AIRPORT EXPANSION: 2006 COMPLETION TOO [...] (U) Summary and Comment: The expansion of Frankfurt airport, Europe's second largest, is moving forward, though several obstacles may delay the new runway planned for 2006. Legal complaints, a chemical factory in the flight path of the planned northwest runway, a controversial night flight b [...]	2003-02-20 08:10:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON EFIN PGOV SENV GM
03FRANKFURT1785	NEW HESSE CABINET: KOCH PICKS THREE NEW MINISTERS, [...] Summary: (SBU) After winning an absolute majority in February 2 state elections, Hesse Minister-President Roland Koch (Christian Democratic Union - CDU) announced three new ministers for his state cabinet on February 24. Two of them, Stefan Gruettner (Minister of the State Chancellery) and Ud [...]	2003-02-28 09:17:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR ECON SCUL GM
03FRANKFURT2231	MINISTER-PRESIDENT KOCH'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON MAY [...] (SBU) Hesse Minister-President Koch will have an official visit Washington May 13-15. Koch would like to focus on international affairs, the U.S.-German relationship, potential U.S. military base closings in Germany, Iraq, US- EU issues, and counter-terrorism and security issues and will be s [...]	2003-03-13 16:02:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL GM
03FRANKFURT2252	RHINELAND-PFALZ OFFICIALS CALL FOR DRASTIC [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with the Consul General on March 11 and 12, Rhineland-Pfalz Minister for Economics, Transportation, Agriculture and Viniculture, Hans-Artur Bauckhage (FDP) and State Secretary Karl-Heinz Klaer (SPD),Representative of the State in Berlin and Brussels, called for comp [...]	2003-03-14 14:11:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR ECON GM
03FRANKFURT2451	SOUTHWEST GERMANY ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL NEWS [...] (U) Summary: This is the first in a series of monthly cables planned to summarize political and economic events in ConGen Frankfurt's consular district. End summary. Political News -------------- 2. New Hesse Cabinet: Corts and Gruettner on the Rise (SBU) Roland Koch named the minis [...]	2003-03-21 13:46:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV GM
03FRANKFURT3665	SCENESETTER FOR MINISTER-PRESIDENT KOCH'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Hesse Minister President and Hesse CDU chairman Roland Koch will visit Washington for meetings with senior USG officials on May 13-15. Koch is widely discussed as a CDU Chancellor candidate in 2006 and is in competition with CDU Chairperson Angela Merkel for influence in the pa [...]	2003-05-07 15:04:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL ECON GM
03FRANKFURT5345	ECB's Next President Trichet: No Obstacles [...] (SBU) Summary: European Central Bank (ECB) senior officials do not foresee any obstacles to Jean-Claude Trichet becoming the next President of the European Central Bank. Finance Ministers are scheduled to make their official recommendation at the Ecofin meeting on July 15. The ECB Governin [...]	2003-07-01 08:38:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT550	HESSE MINISTER-PRESIDENT ROLAND KOCH: POLARIZING, [...] (SBU) Summary: Hesse's Minister President Roland Koch (Christian Democratic Union - CDU),is the most prominent state politician in the CDU and is a strong leader of his party's conservative wing. He is a potential CDU chancellor candidate in 2006. If the CDU-FDP coalition wins state electi [...]	2003-01-22 09:24:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL GM
03FRANKFURT682	CDU LIKELY TO WIN HESSE ELECTIONS, PERHAPS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Hesse will see a clear victory for Minister-President Roland Koch and the governing CDU-FDP coalition in state elections February 2. All major opinion polls put the CDU ahead of the SPD by up to 18 percentage points. The dramatic erosion of support for the SPD is attributed [...]	2003-01-24 14:38:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV GM
03FRANKFURT7786	Protests Follow Hesse/Koch Austerity Plan of Less [...] SUMMARY: Hesse Minister-President (M-P) Roland Koch's announcement of austerity measures, including a one-billion Euro cut in the Hesse state budget, longer working hours for public employees, cuts in wages and subsidies, and the sale of state assets resulted in demonstrations by public sect [...]	2003-09-18 14:41:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON PINR PREL GM
03FRANKFURT7909	CDU Stumbles on Welfare Reform as Saarland Jumps [...] The CDU-led Saarland government has rejected a Christian Democratic proposal for paying unemployment benefits at the local level. Together with poorer CDU-led states in eastern Germany, Saarland could give the Schroeder government a Bundesrat majority on welfare reform -- and hand a defeat to [...]	2003-09-23 14:10:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON GM
03FRANKFURT8335	HEADSCARF VERDICT LIKELY TO GENERATE NEW [...] SUMMARY: In a landmark decision, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe ruled September 24 that Fereshta Ludin (a German teacher of Afghan descent) may teach in a public school without removing her headscarf, but strengthened the authority of German states to regulate religious expressi [...]	2003-10-08 05:38:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV GM
03FRANKFURT926	B-W CDU CAUCUS CHIEF EXPECTS M-P TEUFEL TO STEP [...] Summary: In a meeting with Consul General on January 29, Baden-Wuerttemberg (B-W) caucus chief Guenther Oettinger, the possible successor to B-W Minister President Erwin Teufel (CDU),spoke about the upcoming elections in Hesse and Lower Saxony and his own political future. He also used the [...]	2003-01-31 09:54:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL GM
03FRANKFURT9404	European Financial Market Regulatory [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Commission's November 6 launch of measures to extend the Lamfalussy procedures beyond securities to banking and insurance means all financial services governed at the EU level will be covered by a combination of policy and supervisory committee [...]	2003-11-14 08:45:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EUN
03FRANKFURT9706	LAFONTAINE STEPS ASIDE IN SAARLAND CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Saarland Social Democratic Party (SPD) selected chairman Heiko Maas to challenge Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Minister-President (M-P) Peter Mueller in the September 2004 state elections. Maas' nomination to challenge the popular Mueller ended long speculation that th [...]	2003-11-25 11:29:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV GM PINR
03FRANKFURT986	KOCH AND CDU WIN ABSOLUTE MAJORITY IN HESSE [...] (U) The Hesse CDU, led by Minister President Roland Koch won the February 2 elections in Hesse with an absolute majority, a first in the state's postwar history. The SPD recorded an unprecedented defeat, falling ten percent from its 1999 results. The Green Party received more than 10 percen [...]	2003-02-03 13:21:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR EAIR GM
03GUATEMALA1	DRUGS, TRADE, AND HUMAN RIGHTS: AMBASSADOR'S FIRST [...] (C) Summary: At an informal dinner at the home of President Portillo December 28 that also included FM Gutierrez and the DCM, the Ambassador emphasize the need to focus in Portillo's remaining year in office on being recertified and on making progress in other areas -- human rights, corrupt [...]	2003-01-02 13:41:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID SNAR KDEM PHUM CASC US GT
03GUATEMALA102	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES MILITARY-TO-MIILTARY [...] (C) Summary: During an introductory call on MOD Robin Moran, the Ambassador restated USG policy in dealing with the Guatemalan military and reviewed the benchmarks for possibly establishing normal military-to-military relations. The Ambassador said that the military needs to improve its human [...]	2003-01-14 22:16:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PINR MASS PGOV SNAR PHUM GT

03GUATEMALA1172	PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT BERGER LEAVES THE PAN, [...] (SBU) Summary: Presidential front-runner Oscar Berger announced on May 1 that he was leaving the National Action Party (PAN) to head a coalition of three smaller parties. Berger broke with the PAN after internal tensions erupted April 30 when the PAN Executive Committee (controlled by his ri [...]	2003-05-06 22:12:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GT
03GUATEMALA1243	PRESIDENT OF SUPREME ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: During a courtesy call by the Ambassador, the President of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) indicated his belief that General Rios Montt is prohibited by law from being a candidate for president, but noted that if the TSE is asked to decide this question, other magistrates ma [...]	2003-05-13 16:44:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PREL PINR KDEM GT
03GUATEMALA128	PAN IN THE PROCESS OF OVERCOMING INTERNAL RIVALRY [...] (C) Summary: The National Advancement Party's two rival leaders, presidential candidate Oscar Berger and party Secretary General Leonel Lopez Rodas, announced their accord SIPDIS to work together in support of Berger's presidential candidacy. In a symbolic media event on January 13, bull [...]	2003-01-16 17:41:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SNAR GT
03GUATEMALA1281	NATIONAL ELECTIONS CONVOKED FOR NOVEMBER 9 [...] The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) officially announced on May 15 the convocation of elections for President, all 158 seats in Guatemala's unicameral Congress and mayors and city council members to take place on November 9, 2003. If no candidate for President receives more than 50% of the v [...]	2003-05-16 14:59:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PHUM GT
03GUATEMALA1299	PRESIDENT PORTILLO DISCUSSES CAFTA, PEACE ACCORDS, [...] (C) Summary: In a May 14 breakfast at the Ambassador's residence with visiting senior USG officials, President Portillo expressed hope for the prompt conclusion of a free trade agreement with the U.S. which, he said, "will transform Guatemala;" said that in his remaining months in office he [...]	2003-05-19 22:34:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD SNAR PHUM KDEM EAID ELAB GT
03GUATEMALA1357	FRG NOMINATES RIOS MONTT FOR PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: The ruling Guatemalan Republican Front (FRG) nominated its founding leader, Efrain Rios Montt, for President; former Agriculture Minister Edin Barrientos for Vice President; and corrupt former Minister of Public Works Luis Rabbe was nominated for Mayor of Guatemala City by a p [...]	2003-05-27 20:00:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR GT
03GUATEMALA1375	GUATEMALA MAKES COUNTER REQUEST ON OAS CANDIDATES [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (U) Per ref A, following up on our previous demarche (ref B) and diplomatic note, PolOff discussed post-specific and Central American points with Sylvia Corado, Director for Multilateral Affairs at the Foreign Ministry on May 28. Corado ex [...]	2003-05-29 15:26:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM GT OAS
03GUATEMALA1435	ASSISTANT SECRETARY STRUBLE'S MAY 29-31 VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: During a May 29-31 visit to Guatemala, to participate in a WHA Entry Level Conference, Acting Assistant Secretary Curt Struble met with Vice President Reyes Lopez, SIPDIS Acting Foreign Minister Aguilera and Minister of Interior Reyes Calderon to discuss the full range of bila [...]	2003-06-05 14:46:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB ETRD CASC GT
03GUATEMALA145	PORTILLO SPEECH TURNED FRG CAMPAIGN RALLY [...] (SBU) Summary: The FRG used the occasion of President Portillo's January 14 state of the union speech to bus in to the capital thousands of former self defense committee patrollers (ex-PACs). After delivering his annual review of his government's accomplishments and priorities in Congress, [...]	2003-01-17 17:51:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR GT
03GUATEMALA1454	FRG REACTS TO USG STATEMENT ABOUT RIOS MONTT CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...]	2003-06-05 22:56:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	GT PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SNAR
03GUATEMALA1479	RIOS MONTT CANDIDACY FACES FIRST LEGAL CHALLENGE [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOG's Registry of Citizens announced on June 6 its rejection of Efrain Rios Montt's presidential candidacy. Rios Montt announced his intention to appeal the decision, a process involving several different institutions which could take months. The deadline for candidates t [...]	2003-06-09 22:31:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR GT
03GUATEMALA1548	RIOS MONTT STONED BY MOURNERS IN RABINAL [...] (U) Summary: During a poorly-timed campaign stop in the highland town of Rabinal on June 15, former General and FRG presidential candidate Rios Montt was greeted with stones and bottles thrown by a group of war victims participating in an inhumation of 67 community members killed by the army du [...]	2003-06-17 14:35:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS MOPS GT
03GUATEMALA1561	RIOS MONTT CAMPAIGN SUFFERS THIRD LEGAL DEFEAT [...] No summary [...]	2003-06-17 22:58:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR KDEM PREL GT
03GUATEMALA1581	BERGER SELECTS EDUARDO STEIN AS VP CANDIDATE [...] (C) Summary: The front-running Gran Alianza Nacional (GANA) officially nominated former Foreign Minister and chief of two OAS missions to Peru, Eduardo Stein, as its Vice Presidential candidate. The move, announced on June 16, broadens the appeal of the Berger ticket providing it with needed [...]	2003-06-19 20:46:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM GT
03GUATEMALA1743	SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN RIOS MONTT CANDIDACY, [...] (U) On July 4, the Supreme Court denied the appeal of FRG presidential candidate Efrain Rios Montt against a decision of the Registry of Citizens (Ref A) which stated that he could not be a candidate for President based on prohibitions contained in Article 186 of the Constitution. Twelve of th [...]	2003-07-07 19:57:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PINR PREL GT
03GUATEMALA1774	RECUSAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL COURT MAGISTRATES [...] (SBU) Summary: The recusal of one Constitutional Court magistrate and attempted recusal of five others on July 9 created a temporary crisis in the Court's consideration of the case involving the eligibility of Efrain Rios Montt to be a presidential candidate. The crisis was resolved when the [...]	2003-07-10 20:13:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINR KJUS GT
03GUATEMALA1805	CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECLARES RIOS MONTT ELIGIBLE [...] (U) By a vote of 4 to 3, the Constitutional Court issued a decision on the evening of July 14 striking down the earlier findings of the Registry of Persons, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and the Supreme Court (reftels),which had found that former de facto President Efrain Rios Montt was not [...]	2003-07-15 16:29:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL MOPS PHUM KDEM GT
03GUATEMALA1813	SECOND LABOR WORKING GROUP: LIMITED PROGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador attended the second bilateral working group meeting on labor issues with the GOG on July 10 and emphasized the need for concrete progress prior to submission of a CAFTA to the U.S. Congress. He reiterated USG concern about impunity for violence against union le [...]	2003-07-15 22:10:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ETRD PHUM PGOV GT
03GUATEMALA1815	BILATERAL TIP WORKING GROUP FORMED [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to RefTel, on July 7, the Ambassador and visiting G/TIP Program Officer Greg Holliday met with an inter-governmental group including the Minister of Government, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vice Minister of Labor, Secretary of Social Welfare, a Supreme Court m [...]	2003-07-15 22:15:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM SMIG PREL ASEC KSEP KFRD CA CVIS GT
03GUATEMALA1862	SUPREME COURT SUSPENDS REGISTRATION OF RIOS MONTT [...] (U) On July 20, the Supreme Court accepted two appeals filed by opposition political parties against the presidential candidacy of former General Efrain Rios Montt, and suspended registration of the candidate until the court hears the appeal. The President of the Supreme Court immediately rec [...]	2003-07-21 23:22:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL PHUM KDEM GT
03GUATEMALA1888	CONSTITUTIONAL COURT UPHOLDS APPEAL IN RIOS MONTT [...] (SBU) The Constitutional Court met on July 23 to hear the FRG's appeal ("ocurso" in Spanish) to the appeal filed by two political parties against the earlier Constitutional Court decision which allowed former de facto President Efrain Rios Montt to become a presidential candidate (reftels). Ag [...]	2003-07-23 23:22:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PINS PREL PHUM KDEM GT
03GUATEMALA1896	INDIGENOUS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) Summary: Indigenous presidential candidate and mayor of Guatemala's second city Rigoberto Queme told the Ambassador July 18 that the Constitutional Court's decision to allow Rios Montt to run for President was fracturing the indigenous movement politically, with some groups calling for a [...]	2003-07-24 17:12:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM GT
03GUATEMALA1900	FRG ORGANIZES VIOLENT PROTESTS [...] (C) Summary: In response to a major legal reversal in Rios Montt's bid for the Presidency (reftel),thousands of well-organized Rios Montt supporters took to the streets of the capital on July 24, closing off strategic intersections with burning tires. Mobs have targeted opposition newspapers [...]	2003-07-24 22:02:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CASC ASEC KDEM PINR PINS GT
03GUATEMALA1906	UPDATE ON VIOLENT POLITICAL PROTESTS IN GUATEMALA [...] (U) At 2:00 PM local time on July 25, the disturbances seem to be winding down. In a second day of protests, pro-Rios Montt demonstrators focused their morning activities around the Constitutional Court, Supreme Court, and Supreme Electoral Tribunal buildings--all related to Rios Montt's effo [...]	2003-07-25 21:07:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC PHUM KDEM PINR PINS GT
03GUATEMALA1908	FRG PROTEST AFTERMATH: GUATEMALA MORE FRAGMENTED [...] (C) Summary: Unexpected legal setbacks to the registration of former General Rios Montt's presidential candidacy have led to profound frustration among FRG leaders. They view Rios Montt as the only FRG candidate who has a chance of winning the elections, and the biggest draw for voters to sup [...]	2003-07-27 18:58:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KDEM PREL PINR PHUM ASEC GT
03GUATEMALA1944	POLICE CHIEF MANCHAME FIRED; CONSTITUTIONAL COURT [...] (U) Summary: Responding to accusations that the Police did not ensure public order during the protests of July 24-25, Government Minister Reyes Calderon fired Police Chief Manchame on July 27. On July 28, the Constitutional Court rejected the FRG's latest appeal on behalf of Rios Montt. The F [...]	2003-07-30 21:44:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM ASEC GT PJUS
03GUATEMALA1952	RIOS MONTT REGISTERED AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE [...] (C) Summary: FRG leader Efrain Rios Montt was registered as a presidential candidate on July 31, following a ruling by the Constitutional Court ordering the electoral institutions to carry out its decision to that effect of July 14 and void all appeals. Opposition and civil society leaders cal [...]	2003-07-31 17:54:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PHUM KJUS KDEM GT
03GUATEMALA1981	POLITICAL TENSIONS RELATED TO RIOS MONTT'S [...] (SBU) Following the Constitutional Court's controversial July 30 decision to order the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) and Registry of Persons to register FRG leader Efrain Rios Montt as a presidential candidate in the November elections (reftel),the political opposition and civil society gr [...]	2003-08-01 18:39:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM GT
03GUATEMALA2014	CODEL BALLENGER VISIT ADVANCES U.S. INTERESTS [...] (SBU) Summary: A U.S. Congressional delegation led by Rep. Cass Ballenger, and including U.S. Representatives Kevin Brady, Jerry Weller, and Marsha Blackburn, visited Guatemala August 4-6. The CoDel conveyed to the GOG, civil society, the private sector and the press USG concern over recent [...]	2003-08-06 23:30:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ETRD SNAR ELAB CASC GT
03GUATEMALA2040	GETTING AHEAD OF THE POLICY CURVE IN GUATEMALA [...] (C) Summary: We need to be planning now as to how we would respond to a variety of contingencies during the campaign and as a result of the November 9 elections. I believe we have in place most of the policy elements we need: a sound public position on the Rios Montt candidacy in the May 27 [...]	2003-08-12 00:00:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM ETRD GT
03GUATEMALA2052	NEW ELECTION POLL PUTS RIOS MONTT FIFTH, WITH [...] (SBU) Election poll results released on August 12 show GANA presidential candidate Oscar Berger leading the pack with 44% (up from 37% in July); followed by UNE candidate Alvaro Colom with 17% (up from 13% in July) and FRG candidate Efrain Rios Montt with 3% (down from 8% in July in the same p [...]	2003-08-12 22:14:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PINR PHUM GT
03GUATEMALA2080	MEETING WITH PRESIDENT PORTILLO [...] (C) Summary: In an August 13 meeting with the Ambassador and DCM, President Portillo promised to veto a badly flawed law on the new civilian presidential security force, to reinstate the highly-regarded, recently-fired head of the national disaster relief agency, to look into a decision taken [...]	2003-08-14 17:37:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR GT
03GUATEMALA2094	Vital Voices Meets With Guatemalan Women [...] (U) Summary: Vital Voices Global Partnership held a two-day Women's Leadership Retreat in Guatemala City in July. Present at the conference were approximately 40 women leaders from diverse backgrounds. The Ambassador hosted a reception in honor of the group attended by more than 100 women [...]	2003-08-18 14:37:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL GT WHA PDA
03GUATEMALA218	TOUR D'HORIZON WITH PRESIDENTIAL PRE-CANDIDATE [...] (C) At a January 24 breakfast meeting with the Ambassador, presidential pre-candate Alvaro Colom of the center-left Union for National Hope Party (UNE) said that the main challenge for the winner in this year's presidential election will be to jump-start the economy and to shut down the transn [...]	2003-01-28 13:35:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SNAR PHUM ETRD GT
03GUATEMALA2255	RIOS SOSA SUDDENLY RESIGNS [...] (U) General Enrique Rios Sosa, Army Chief of Staff and son of Presidential Candidate Efrain Rios Montt, retired without warning or explanation from the Guatemalan military on Monday, September 1. He has been replaced by Deputy Chief of Staff General Fredy Raul Ramirez Giron. Brigadier General [...]	2003-09-02 22:29:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV MOPS GT
03GUATEMALA2288	VIOLENT CRIME: GROWING THREAT TO GUATEMALAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Guatemalans have become numbed by the daily press reports of violent crime, and an increasing number identify the lack of public security as the nation's number one problem. The emergence of gangs ("maras") has taken the violence even to the remote rural areas of the country, an [...]	2003-09-04 22:33:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCRM KDEM ASEC PINR PHUM GT
03GUATEMALA2371	AMBASSADOR'S TOUR D'HORIZON WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Edgar Gutierrez on September 10 to discuss re-certification; Article 98; Belize; a draft law on the successor to the Presidential Guard (SAAS); the Commission to Investigate Parallel Groups (CICIACS); and trafficking in persons. Gutierrez [...]	2003-09-12 00:11:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KCRM PHUM GT
03GUATEMALA2412	CAMPAIGN POLITICS UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: With the registration of twelve presidential tickets complete, the presidential race has narrowed to four main contenders (only the top two in the first round, on November 9, will contend in the second round, on December 28). Oscar Berger of the tripartite GANA coalition is a [...]	2003-09-18 19:49:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM GT
03GUATEMALA243	AMBASSADOR AND RIOS MONTT DISCUSS DECERTIFICATION, [...] (C) Summary: In a January 27 meeting with the Ambassador, President of Congress Rios Montt professed to be a strong supporter of CAFTA (which he views as reducing the political influence of the traditional economic elites),and expressed understanding for Guatemala's impending counternarcotics [...]	2003-01-29 20:00:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR PHUM ETRD PINR MOPS GT
03GUATEMALA2473	SCENE SETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL KOLBE [...] (U) Summary: Your September 27-29 visit to Guatemala comes in the final weeks of Guatemala's heated national election campaign, leading up to the November 9 election of the President, all members of the unicameral Congress and all local government officials. The sometimes violent confrontatio [...]	2003-09-25 16:25:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	OVIP PREL PGOV ETRD PHUM GT
03GUATEMALA2500	MILITARY PENSION FUND: MILITARY FOCUS ON [...] (S) Summary: EmbOffs met with General Alfredo Gonzalez to discuss recent developments in the theft and mismanagement of the Military Pension Fund. Gonzalez, who has been involved in the military's internal investigation of the matter, alleged payoffs were made to current and former top milit [...]	2003-09-29 17:42:00	Embassy Guatemala	SECRET	KCOR EFIN PGOV MOPS PINR GT PM
03GUATEMALA2550	ELECTION UPDATE: OAS CRITICIZES ELECTORAL [...] (C) Summary: The OAS Electoral Observation Mission (EOM) issued its second report, criticizing the GOG's failure to investigate and prosecute electoral violence, especially the murders of political activists and the violent FRG protests of July. On October 1, the OAS EOM opened offices in sev [...]	2003-10-02 20:34:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM PREL GT
03GUATEMALA2563	HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE: COURT UPHOLDS GERARDI [...] (U) Summary: The following is an update of significant recent developments in human rights in Guatemala. Topics include: -- Constitutional Court Rejects Defense Request to Annul Gerardi Sentence -- Murder of Community Organizer in Chichicastenango -- Ovalle Shooters Sentenced to Life [...]	2003-10-03 17:10:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PINR KDEM GT
03GUATEMALA2623	GUATEMALA: SUPPORT FOR LEVITSKY NOMINATION TO THE [...] No summary [...]	2003-10-09 22:24:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL GT
03GUATEMALA2634	JUST ANOTHER LATIN AMERICAN ELECTION, FOR NOW [...] (C) Summary: The election campaign, which got off to a violent start, marred by allegations of expected fraud, has settled in recent weeks into what the UN mission aptly described as "just another Latin American election." The continuing heated confrontation between the ruling FRG and the opp [...]	2003-10-10 18:55:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PINR GT UN
03GUATEMALA2635	RIGOBERTA MENCHU HARASSED BY FRG SUPPORTERS [...] Summary: Nobel Peace Prize winner and indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchu Tum was harassed by supporters of FRG presidential candidate Efrain Rios Montt inside the Constitutional Court building on October 9. Although she was not harmed, Menchu still sounded shaken by the incident ear [...]	2003-10-10 18:56:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL PINS GT OAS
03GUATEMALA264	PRESIDENTIAL PRE-CANDIDATE WHITBECK DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: Former senior FRG member Harris Whitbeck told the Ambassador that it is almost certain he will run for President as the candidate of the Partido Patriota, and said the FRG has lost much of its popular support. He believes Rios Montt would be defeated at the polls if he runs. The [...]	2003-01-31 16:41:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ETRD PHUM GT
03GUATEMALA2649	DEMARCHE TO THE GOG ON CANDIDATE FOR UN COMMITTEE [...] DCM and Polcouns met with Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabriel Aguilera and MFA Director of Multilateral Affairs Carla Rodriguez on October 15 to request GOG support for the candidacy of Ms. Felice Gaer for re-election to the UN Committee Against Torture. The DCM provided the MFA with a d [...]	2003-10-15 23:35:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM GT UNHCR
03GUATEMALA2664	ELECTION ROUND UP WITH THREE WEEKS TO GO [...] (SBU) Summary: Polls continue to show GANA candidate Berger significantly ahead in voter preferences, followed by UNE's Colom and the FRG's Rios Montt in a dead heat for second place. Some electoral experts believe the FRG will not make it into the second round, though poll results suggest th [...]	2003-10-17 18:06:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINR PINS GT
03GUATEMALA2705	WITH TWO WEEKS TO GO, VOTER PREFERENCES REMAIN [...] (C) Summary: The polls continue to show GANA candidate Oscar Berger in a clear lead in the run up to the November 9 national elections, followed by Colom and Rios Montt vying for second place. Fears of potential electoral fraud are much diminished, and pre-election violence and electorally m [...]	2003-10-23 22:24:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR PREL EAID GT
03GUATEMALA2707	ELECTIONS SNAPSHOT 1: ALL QUIET ON THE EASTERN [...] (SBU) Summary: EmbOffs visited the eastern provinces of Zacapa and Chiquimula to conduct man-on-the-street interviews and to discuss the ongoing election campaign with resident international election observers. Widespread disillusionment with the Portillo Administration was reflected in our [...]	2003-10-24 12:36:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINR GT
03GUATEMALA2728	ELECTION SNAPSHOT #2: SOUTH COAST HOT SPOTS [...] Summary: Election officials in Suchitepequez and Esquintla provinces generally anticipate a transparent process, with minimal vote fraud. Election officials, OAS observers, and men and women encountered in the street all anticipate high voter turnout. Based on a tiny, unscientific sample, [...]	2003-10-24 18:44:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PHUM GT
03GUATEMALA2744	FORMER CIVIL PATROL MEMBERS TAKE JOURNALISTS [...] (C) Summary: A group of approximately 500 ex-PACs blocked the inter-American highway in La Libertad, Huehuetenango on October 26 and took four journalists hostage, in an attempt to get the government to compensate them for wartime service. The former civil patrol members had originally taken t [...]	2003-10-28 18:25:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR PINS ASEC GT
03GUATEMALA2764	ELECTION SNAPSHOT #3: LEGACY OF NEGLECT LIVES ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Voters in Quiche, historically a bastion of the FRG, told us that their votes this time would be for any candidate other than the former General. Berger and Colom led the pack of presidential preferences. While there is little concern among the international observers or the loc [...]	2003-10-29 20:37:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR EAID GT UN
03GUATEMALA2769	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ELECTIONS WITH RIOS MONTT [...] (C) Summary: In an October 29 breakfast with the Ambassador, FRG presidential candidate Rios Montt said he would respect the outcome of the election, whatever it is. He expressed concern about technical problems with the voter registration list ("padron") and locally organized acts of violenc [...]	2003-10-29 23:26:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM MOPS PREL EAID GT
03GUATEMALA2783	FOLLOW UP DEMARCHE ON CANDIDATE FOR UN COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2003-10-30 21:21:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM GT UNHCR
03GUATEMALA2787	ELECTION SNAPSHOT #4: CONCERNS IN THE INDIGENOUS [...] (SBU) Summary: EmbOffs visited the indigenous highland areas of Quetzaltenango and San Jose Poaquil to continue to meet with local and international election monitoring organizations and test the pulse of the electorate outside the capital. Our unscientific polling suggests widespread frust [...]	2003-10-31 15:27:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR GT
03GUATEMALA2794	GUATEMALAN ELECTION UPDATE: ONE WEEK TO BALLOTING [...] (C) Summary: Polls show voter preferences largely unchanged, with Berger ahead with 41%, followed by Colom (22.3%) and Rios Montt (13.3%). Informal polling conducted by Embassy in the countryside supports these results. The OAS and EU Observer Missions say the TSE has addressed problems with [...]	2003-10-31 18:39:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM EAID GT OAS
03GUATEMALA2802	VOTERS IN JALAPA SET TO CAST BALLOTS FOR "ANYBODY [...] Summary: Man-on-the-street interviews with voters in the Department of Jalapa suggest a strong backlash against the ruling FRG party and its candidate Efrain Rios Montt in the November 9 election. Jalapa voted overwhelmingly for the FRG in the past two elections, but respondents said the curren [...]	2003-11-03 18:11:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR KDEM GT
03GUATEMALA2827	IN PORTILLO'S ABSENCE, ELECTION HOLIDAY LAW [...] (C) Summary: President Portillo traveled to Panama without vetoing the controversial election holiday bill (reftel),and opposition to the legislation has taken on a fever pitch. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal called on Portillo (who returns on the afternoon of November 4) to veto the law beca [...]	2003-11-04 22:47:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID PINR GT OAS
03GUATEMALA2850	SCENE SETTER FOR GUATEMALA'S ELECTIONS: A GROWING [...] (C) Summary: The November 9 elections will pit Guatemala's past (represented by General Rios Montt and his authoritarian vision of Guatemala rooted in the armed internal conflict) against the region's future (represented by Oscar Berger and Alvaro Colom, and their vision of private sector-drive [...]	2003-11-06 19:42:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EAID PHUM GT
03GUATEMALA2867	GUATEMALAN ELECTIONS: POLLS OPEN WITH LONG LINES [...] The polls opened on time, and reports from around the country indicate that voter participation is larger than in previous elections. Lines are long, and moved slowly at the beginning, frustrating many voters, but reports from many precincts indicate that by the second hour of voting, lines w [...]	2003-11-09 16:51:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR EAID KDEM ASEC GT
03GUATEMALA2871	BERGER AND COLOM WIN FIRST ROUND OF GUATEMALAN [...] (U) At 0630 hrs local time on November 10, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal announced preliminary results of the national elections. With 21% of voting tables reporting, GANA presidential candidate Oscar Berger is ahead with 47.7% of the vote, followed by UNE candidate Alvaro Colom with 26.4%. [...]	2003-11-10 13:52:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM EAID GT
03GUATEMALA2889	BERGER AND COLOM BEGIN SECOND ROUND CAMPAIGN; FRG [...] (C) Summary: Guatemalan voters turned out in history-making numbers on November 9 to say "no" to General Rios Montt's presidential bid, but gave his FRG a large bloc in Congress and a majority of the municipalities. Preliminary vote results, with 94% of tables counted, give Berger 35% of the v [...]	2003-11-12 21:01:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EAID PHUM GT
03GUATEMALA2916	FRG CONGRESSMAN COMMENTS ON ELECTORAL DEFEAT [...] (C) Summary: FRG Congressman-elect Antonio Arenales told the Ambassador on November 13 that the FRG accepts its electoral defeat and will not challenge the election results. The FRG will not endorse a candidate in the second round elections. Within the party there are those who want the FRG [...]	2003-11-13 22:46:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL EAID GT
03GUATEMALA2937	INTERNATIONAL OBSERVATION CONTRIBUTES TO DECLINE [...] Summary: Protests, some violent, continue in communities where dissatisfaction with the mayoral election results is ongoing, but violence overall is much decreased from the 1999 elections. Allegations of 29 "political" murders during the electoral campaign were disputed by international observ [...]	2003-11-17 19:20:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PINR EAID GT
03GUATEMALA2942	EMBASSY ELECTION OBSERVATION: DISORGANIZATION, NOT [...] Summary: Guatemalans refused to be intimidated by predictions of violence and fraud, and braved the disorganized election process to vote in record numbers. Thirty-nine Embassy observers of the November 9 national elections witnessed this display of democratic participation by Guatemalans wh [...]	2003-11-17 22:45:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EAID KDEM GT
03GUATEMALA2948	RIOS MONTT CONCEDES, AND OTHER POST-ELECTION [...] Summary: On November 14, FRG presidential candidate Rios Montt publicly accepted the election results which put an end to his presidential aspirations. No challenges have been filed to the results of the national elections (and only minor challenges in municipal races). The Supreme Electoral [...]	2003-11-18 16:33:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR EAID PHUM GT
03GUATEMALA471	VIVANCO MISSION: STATE OF PLAY [...] (SBU) Summary: Human Rights Watch Latin America Director Jose Miguel Vivanco visited Guatemala February 11-14 to consult with the GOG, the Human Rights Ombudsman, and human rights leaders about the Ombudsman's proposal to create an international Commission to Investigate Clandestine Groups ( [...]	2003-02-21 17:18:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV GT
03GUATEMALA473	PROTESTS IN FINAL YEAR OF PORTILLO ADMINISTRATION [...] (C) Summary: Portillo's virtual absence from public during a time of mounting social protests has led to growing concern about governability. The latest challenges, from teachers, ex-PACs and the "campesinos," are not easily attributed to Portillo's traditional opponents in the private secto [...]	2003-02-21 17:23:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID PINS ETRD ELAB KDEM PINR GT
03GUATEMALA511	FEBRUARY 25 DINNER WITH PRESIDENT PORTILLO [...] (S) Summary: In a one-on-one dinner, President Portillo committed to making his decision on the UNHRC Cuba issue "in a calm moment," promised to energize his Labor ministry on issues of labor justice, issued instructions to his Agriculture Minister (by phone during dinner) to get the Mediter [...]	2003-02-26 16:15:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CU ELAB PHUM SNAR GT
03GUATEMALA533	VICE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO CUBA SPURS SPECULATION [...] (C) Summary: A glowing press conference by Vice President Reyes after an official visit to Cuba fueled speculation that some in the GOG are reconsidering Cuba policy. Reyes hinted that Guatemala would abstain on the Cuba vote at the UNCHR, did not rule out voting with Cuba, and said that he b [...]	2003-02-27 18:02:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU GT UNCHR
03GUATEMALA57	PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BERGER SUPPORTS CAFTA AND A [...] (C) Summary: In a tour d'horizon with the Ambassador on January 7, PAN Presidential candidate Oscar Berger said that the PAN believes it will win the 2003 national elections, and that their priorities as a government would be completing negotiation of a free trade agreement with us, "rightsizi [...]	2003-01-08 22:29:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ETRD MOPS SNAR GT
03GUATEMALA577	GUATEMALA NOT FOCUSED ON REINFORCING THE NPT TREATY [...] PolOff conveyed reftel points to Sylvia Corado, Acting Director General for Multilateral Affairs at the Foreign Ministry, on February 19. Corado agreed that the DPRK's announced intention to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was worrisome but had no o [...]	2003-03-04 21:42:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KNNP GT NPT
03GUATEMALA696	GUATEMALAN MFA DISCUSSES FUTURE OF BORDER TALKS [...] (C) In a March 11 meeting with PolCouns and PolOff, the Belize Border Commission of the Guatemalan MFA said that resolution of the long-running border dispute would be passed along to the new Guatemalan government that will take office in January, 2004, and said the new government will have to [...]	2003-03-17 20:59:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL PGOV GT OAS BZ
03GUATEMALA77	AMBASSADOR AND MINUGUA CHIEF TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador and USAID Director met with MINUGUA Chief Koenigs, who was thankful for USG support on extension of MINUGUA's mandate through 2004, and was cautiously optimistic about further implementation of the Peace Accords. The Ambassador discussed possible counternarcoti [...]	2003-01-10 18:18:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM EAID PGOV MOPS GT
03GUATEMALA770	MEETING WITH PRESIDENT PROTILLO [...] (C) Summary: Over dinner at the residence March 22, President Portillo acknowledged that Guatemala ought to support a UNHCR resolution on Cuba but said he has a problem with General Rios Montt's resentment over U.S. opposition to his presidential candidacy. Portillo said Guatemala agreed with [...]	2003-03-24 18:31:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ELAB PGOV KTIA MARR SNAR KDEM PHUM EFIN ETRD CU IR GT
03GUATEMALA783	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GOG ON U.S. INTENTION TO [...] (SBU) Polcouns delivered talking points (reftels) on the USG's intention to rejoin UNESCO and our candidacy for the Executive Board to the MFA Director General for Multilateral Affairs Giovanni Castillo on March 25. Castillo said that Guatemala welcomed the USG decision to rejoin UNESCO, and [...]	2003-03-25 22:36:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AORC GT FR UNESCO
03GUATEMALA929	NGOS UPBEAT ON CICIACS DEVELOPMENTS [...] (U) Summary: Embassy officers met with human rights activists Frank LaRue, Claudia Samayoa, and Orlando Blanco on April 2 to discuss both the recent protest by human rights groups in front of the Embassy and their silence on Cuban dissident jailing (Ref A),as well as steps that the Embassy ca [...]	2003-04-08 13:46:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL GT UN OAS
03GUATEMALA932	GUATEMALA STILL NON-COMMITTAL ON UNHRC CUBA [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Edgar Gutierrez on April 3, and raised reftel talking points requesting GOG co-sponsorhip of a UNHRC resolution on Cuba. The Ambassador noted that, to avoid unnecessary controversy, the draft resolution presented by three Latin American countries di [...]	2003-04-08 15:53:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL CU GT UNCHR
03HANOI1043	MONITORING VISIT TO KY SON PHASE II PROJECT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Much to the relief of district officials and following extensive delays, the UNODC-funded Ky Son Phase II is up and running. Agriculture and livestock models -- the focus of the USG assistance to this project -- are being implemented in a number of communes dispersed around [...]	2003-04-29 05:56:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL PGOV EAID LA VM UNODC CNARC
03HANOI135	Vietnam on Religious Freedom [...] (SBU) Summary: In two recent meetings with the Ambassador, GVN officials discussed religious freedom issues originally raised by Ambassador Hanford at the November 2002 Human Rights Dialogue in a frank manner, but had little specific information. The most welcome news was that the Southern [...]	2003-01-16 09:26:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KIRF VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE
03HANOI1411	TRAINING VIETNAM'S JUDGES: MORE WORK NEEDED [...] (U) Summary: The low quality of professional skills among Vietnamese judges at all levels -- local, provincial and national -- is a well-recognized problem (refs c & d). Judges for the high-profile Nam Cam trial in Ho Chi Minh City (ref a) were carefully picked from among the best available [...]	2003-06-09 06:28:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM EAID SOCI VM
03HANOI1556	TRAINING CATHOLIC PRIESTS IN NORTHERN VIETNAM [...] (U) SUMMARY. Hanoi's Catholic seminary offers training to over 200 would-be priests over a seven year period. Local Committees on Religious Affairs screen out some candidates, allegedly on grounds of "personal conduct." Virtually all graduates become priests; a small percentage is able to c [...]	2003-06-20 09:35:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV VM RELFREE HUMANR
03HANOI1559	VIETNAM: REORGANIZATION OF IPR AGENCIES - FUTURE OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a move that has left Vietnamese IPR agencies, foreign donors, and trademark holders/seekers stunned and seriously concerned, the Government of Vietnam has decided to transfer the trademark function from the National Office of Industrial Property (NOIP) in the Ministry of Sc [...]	2003-06-20 10:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV ECON KIPR VM IPROP
03HANOI2175	KEEPING A FOCUS ON CORRUPTION [...] (U) Summary. According to CPV officials and official media reports, corruption remains an endemic problem in Vietnam at all levels, but the GVN and CPV are actively taking steps to go after at least some officials. Sweden is assisting with a grant for a "research" project on "root causes" [...]	2003-08-27 06:27:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SOCI VM DPOL
03HANOI2287	RELIGION IN VIETNAM - THREE CONTRASTING VIEWS [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings on September 4 in Hanoi with DRL/IRF's William Inboden, prominent Buddhist, Protestant, and Catholic leaders provided personal perspectives on the religious situation in Vietnam that ranged from rosy to troubled. (Ref a reported on EAP/BCLTV's discussions with reli [...]	2003-09-10 00:22:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
03HANOI2323	TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS IN VIETNAM [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 5. 2. (U) Summary: A large interagency conference chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem in Ho Chi Minh City September 9 articulated the GVN's intended next steps in a coordinated antitrafficking policy. The Deputy Prime Minister recomme [...]	2003-09-15 00:10:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN KCRM VM CH TW CA OMIG TIP
03HANOI2630	VIETNAM -- CANDIDATE FOR THE UN COMMISSION ON [...] SUMMARY: Post nominates Vietnam as a candidate country for the water initiative of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (see reftel). Vietnam has an incredibly diverse geography with accompanying water issues. Vietnam has a national water plan, and on-going research projects with a wid [...]	2003-10-15 10:54:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID EAGR KSCA SENV TSPL VM
03HANOI2996	THE CPV TRIES TO RE-VET ITSELF; PR STUNT? [...] (U) Summary. By Ho Chi Minh's 115th birthday anniversary in 2005, the CPV will in principle have re- certified the qualifications of each and every member to ensure that all meet the CPV high standards for behavior. Only then may they receive one of the new, more hi-tech membership cards. [...]	2003-11-19 09:23:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SOCI VM DPOL
03HANOI3232	VIETNAM TIP: THE TAIWAN MARRIAGE PHENOMENON [...] Summary: Taiwan has become the export destination of choice for Vietnamese brides. 73,000 women - 95 percent of Vietnamese marrying foreigners - have married Taiwanese men since the phenomenon began to take off in 1995. Demand is growing, driven by (1) the desire of lower-middle class Taiwa [...]	2003-12-15 02:03:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN KCRM VM TW OMIG TIP
03HANOI3252	THE SECOND U.S.-VIETNAM LABOR DIALOGUE [...] SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) and Vietnamese Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs (MOLISA) held a half-day labor dialogue on November 6 in Hanoi. This discussion, the second since the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in November 2000, covered Vietnam' [...]	2003-12-16 08:47:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EAID ECON ETRD VM LABOR
03HANOI785	DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER ON IRAQ, RELATIONS WITH U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary. Over an informal dinner on March 27, Deputy Foreign Minister Le Van Bang and the Ambassador discussed differences over Iraq and their effect on the bilateral relationship. They also explored ways to move the relationship forward, including a series of high level visits, a poss [...]	2003-03-28 09:48:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL IZ VM
03HANOI812	THE ROLE OF THINK TANKS IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The GVN supports an extensive network of research institutes ("think tanks") under the National Center for Social Sciences and Humanities (NCSSH). Among its 25 think tanks, five focus on Vietnam's external relations. While their influence appears modest, the think tanks provid [...]	2003-04-02 03:54:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SOCI VM
03HANOI935	Lay Assessors: More symbolic than useful [...] (SBU) Summary: "Lay assessors" in courts below the appellate level are Vietnam's rough equivalent of trial by jury. Officials describe this system as an example of the GVN's commitment to promote public democracy. Training remains inadequate and is likely to continue to be underfunded, virt [...]	2003-04-15 09:10:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SOCI VM
03HARARE1130	AFTER MUGABE: POST RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A U.S. [...] (c) Summary: While it is still uncertain whether President Robert Mugabe will depart in the next days or months, Post considers it prudent to offer policymakers "day after" recommendations at this stage. Assuming a transition government is committed to political and economic reform, the U.S. [...]	2003-06-04 10:47:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV ECON EFIN KDEM PHUM PREL SENV SOCI ZI EXIM
03HARARE1252	MDC MAKES PLANS WHILE WAITING FOR ITS LEADER TO BE [...] (C) Although the MDC is clearly missing its leader who continues to be imprisoned on new treason charges, it remains united and strong according to Special Presidential Advisor Gandi Mudzingwa. Criticisms leveled against the MDC leadership are just that, criticisms, not indications of any sp [...]	2003-06-19 14:20:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR ZI MDC
03HARARE1333	SIMBA MAKONI ON ZIMBABWEAN CRISIS [...] (C) Former Finance Minister and still ZANU-PF Politburo member Simba Makoni called on the Ambassador July 1. Makoni, who recently lost his 23-year old son to suicide, told the Ambassador July 1 that he was focused on family and his growing consultancy business and relatively disconnected fro [...]	2003-07-01 13:16:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI ZANU PF
03HARARE1446	MUGABE SUCCESSION ELUSIVE [...] (C) Summary. Over the past two months the domestic written press, both government and opposition, has churned out a stream of reporting on President Mugabe,s possible retirement. The local rumor mill has kept pace. Competing succession scenarios and successor lists have appeared, and differ [...]	2003-07-17 07:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ZI ZANU PF
03HARARE1475	MDC RELATES MORE CONTACTS ABOUT DIALOGUE [...] (C) Contacts with ZANU-PF: MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai and Secretary General Welshman Ncube told the SIPDIS Ambassador over lunch July 22 that Zanu-PF and the South African Government(SAG) had reached out to them recently. ZANU-PF Minister for Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Patrick C [...]	2003-07-22 14:33:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ZI SF

03HARARE1491	MDC NOMINEES HARASSED, PREVENTED FROM FORWARDING [...] (C) On July 21, about 20 cities across Zimbabwe opened nominations for candidates to stand in mayoral and urban council elections to be held on August 30-31, but at least 20 would-be opposition candidates were prevented from registering by ruling party youths. This occurred before the MDC rec [...]	2003-07-24 13:35:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR ZI
03HARARE1507	HOW MUCH GIVE IN ZANU-PF OPENNESS TO DIALOGUE [...] No summary [...]	2003-07-25 09:34:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI
03HARARE151	ZANU-PF, MDC YOUTHS CLASH IN HARARE [...] Youths from the ruling ZANU-PF clashed with counterparts from the opposition MDC late on January 20 in Harare's high-density suburb of Kuwadzana. Although precise details of what occurred remain sketchy, police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena told journalists that one person died from severe burn [...]	2003-01-22 12:08:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC ZI
03HARARE1548	TSVANGIRAI BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) The Ambassador met with MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai on July 29 to discuss the mediation effort by the SIPDIS Manicaland Bishops. Tsvangirai reported that when the Bishops' discussion with President Mugabe turned to the possibility of a unity government, Bishop Mutume said they woul [...]	2003-07-31 15:37:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR ZI
03HARARE1555	CHEGUTU ZANU-PF CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO SUSPEND MDC [...] (C) On July 31 the ZANU-PF dominated city council of Chegutu voted to suspend the MDC Mayor of Chegutu Francis Dhlakama and withdraw all benefits of his office. Dhlakama facilitated an early July Ministry of Local Government audit which detailed corruption perpetrated by various members of th [...]	2003-08-01 10:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR ZI
03HARARE1711	TALKS ON TALKS: MOMENTUM TOWARD ZIMBABWE POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: A series of meetings between political players here and HIRC Africa Subcommittee staffer Malik Chaka illuminated the tentative state of play of various efforts to get ZANU-PF/MDC talks resumed. ZANU-PF Chairman John Nkomo highlighted improvements in the political atmosphere and [...]	2003-08-28 14:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI MDC ZANU PF
03HARARE1717	MIXED REPORTS IN RUN-UP TO ZIMBABWE'S LOCAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Zimbabwe will hold two parliamentary by-elections, and mayoral and urban council elections in twenty cities across the country on August 30 - 31. Embassy Harare has been coordinating with other missions in Harare to mount an observation effort to cover most of the constituencies. [...]	2003-08-29 10:21:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR ASEC ZI
03HARARE1731	OPPOSITION SCORES WELL IN ZIMBABWE ELECTIONS [...] SUMMARY. (C) The MDC retained its parliamentary seat, won six out of seven mayoral races, and gained more than half of the urban council seats that were up for grabs in local elections held August 30 - 31. Voting at polling stations, observed by independent observers including emboffs, was g [...]	2003-09-02 17:52:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI ZI
03HARARE1794	UNDAUNTED BISHOPS SEEK BENCHMARKS TO STIMULATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The bishops troika on September 10 updated Ambassador Sullivan on their efforts to facilitate inter-party talks. They were encouraged by ZANU-PF Chairman John Nkomo's invitation to a meeting earlier that day, although they did not expect ZANU-PF to re-activate the bishops' initi [...]	2003-09-11 14:47:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
03HARARE1861	MINISTER OFFERS INSIGHTS ON ZANU-PF POSTURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Mines Edward Chindori-Chininga on September 11 spoke with Ambassador Sullivan on ZANU-PF succession issues and internal party elections. Chindori-Chininga did not break any new ground but confirmed party elections' potential implications for succession and the govern [...]	2003-09-15 13:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI PREL ZI ZANU PF
03HARARE1931	DEATH OF VICE-PRESIDENT MUZENDA [...] (U) The GOZ officially announced the passing on September 20 of Vice-President Simon Muzenda. The death of the 81-year-old ZANU-PF Politburo member from Masvingo province, who had been critically ill for weeks, was not unexpected. Government sources announced publicly that the Politburo will [...]	2003-09-22 12:14:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ZI
03HARARE1973	MUNICIPAL POLITICS TESTING THE MDC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Saddled with the responsibility to provide services in often far-flung communities, new MDC mayors' and councils' effectiveness will be constrained by legal battles, a lack of resources, and the threat of interference from the Ministry of Local Government. The MDC's victories in [...]	2003-09-30 06:22:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR EAID ZI
03HARARE1993	MDC ANNOUNCES NEW STRATEGY [...] SUMMARY. (SBU) On September 30, MDC President Morgan Tsvangirai briefed the diplomatic community on the MDC's SIPDIS position on various current issues. While Tsvangirai did not reveal anything earth shattering, he did acknowledge that some contact with ZANU-PF was ongoing but said that the [...]	2003-10-01 08:39:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ZI MDC
03HARARE2105	VIOLENCE IN REDCLIFF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Inter-party violence in Redcliff over the weekend reportedly left the homes of eight MDC members and two former ZANU-PF urban councilors damaged and one former ZANU-PF urban councilor (the father of an Embassy FSN) hospitalized. Hundreds of MDC supporters assaulted a senior ZANU [...]	2003-10-23 12:51:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI ASEC ZI
03HARARE2179	GOZ BLAMES HARARE CITY COUNCIL FOR WATER [...] (C) SUMMARY: For the past several weeks, the government press has blamed Harare's MDC-dominated City Council for myriad woes and has depicted a Council mired in personnel conflicts and improper procedures. It is possible the GOZ is gearing up to dismiss the entire Council and replace it with [...]	2003-11-03 09:27:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR ZI MDC
03HARARE2185	ELECTION PETITION HEARINGS UNDERWAY [...] (U) Presided over by High Court Justice Hlatshwayo, hearings on the MDC's petition seeking invalidation of Zimbabwe's 2002 election results commenced November 3. Attorneys for the MDC spent the day reviewing arguments advanced in the party's petition (e-mailed to AF/S),interrupted occasional [...]	2003-11-03 15:24:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI
03HARARE2204	MDC LEGAL AFFAIRS SECRETARY ON RECENTLY CONCLUDED [...] (C) SUMMARY: MDC Secretary for Legal Affairs David Coltart on November 4 confirmed to the Embassy the party's expectation that the court would delay issuance of judgment on the election petition (hearings on which concluded November 4) before eventually rejecting it. He outlined to Ambassado [...]	2003-11-05 15:00:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ZI MDC
03HARARE2253	PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR SHUFFLE SHOWS SOME HEAT, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The recent appointment of four new provincial governors reflects factional infighting that so far appears unlikely to yield any meaningful shift in government policy. The appointments are part of an anticipated broader personnel shake-up that will underscore President Mugabe's full [...]	2003-11-17 14:20:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ZI
03HARARE2286	MEETING WITH BROKERS OF POLITICAL RECONCILIATION [...] (SBU) Summary. Disparaging remarks about "talk about talks" between the ruling Zanu-PF party and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have replaced hopeful reports of imminent breakthroughs. A meeting on November 19, 2003, between Ambassador Sullivan, Director of USAID Paul Weisenfeld, [...]	2003-11-24 13:39:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ZI MDC ZANU PF
03HARARE2332	ZANU-PF TAKES PARLIAMENTARY SEAT FROM MDC - TWO [...] (C) SUMMARY: ZANU-PF took a parliamentary seat from the MDC in a by-election held on November 29 - 30 in Kadoma Central. Neither candidate articulated a campaign message in interviews with poloff who visited the area the day before voting began. The MDC candidate alleged intimidation and vot [...]	2003-12-02 15:25:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR ZI MDC ZANU PF
03HARARE2359	RULING PARTY SUCCESSION RACE: IS ZVINAVASHE THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The retirement of Vitalis Zvinavashe as commander of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces (ZDF) and his emergence on the national political scene underscore uncertainties surrounding the ruling party's contortions over prospective leadership succession. His possible appointment as Vice-P [...]	2003-12-05 10:20:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ZI ZANU PF
03HARARE2364	RULING PARTY CIRCLES WAGONS AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The ZANU-PF annual conference December 5-8 in Masvingo projected a ruling party united under the unquestioned leadership of Robert Mugabe and ever-resistant to outside influence. The conference ended suspense over succession speculation by indicating unambiguously that the party [...]	2003-12-08 15:04:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI ZANU PF
03HARARE2412	MDC MEMBERSHIP DESPONDENT AT PERCEIVED LACK OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Various MDC Officials have commented that there is increasing despondency and frustration within the party rank and file. The MDC is planning mass action for early in the New Year, but much homework remains undone, and with an increasingly resigned public, it is unclear whether [...]	2003-12-15 14:25:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR ASEC ZI MDC
03HARARE2455	MDC CONSOLIDATES PLATFORM AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Under the firm leadership of Party President Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC's national conference in Harare December 20-21 yielded a comprehensive policy platform and "blueprint" for national recovery. The party reiterated its commitment to unconditional ta [...]	2003-12-23 15:27:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PHUM SOCI ZI MDC
03HARARE450	ZIMBABWE: SIMBA MAKONI ON PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION [...] (C) Former Finance Minister Simba Makoni said the recently-announced modest fuel hike and announcement of an export support mechanism were supported by every ZANU-PF politburo member except Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, but the measures were unlikely to have much of an effect on Zimbab [...]	2003-03-03 14:37:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ECON ZI ZANU PF
03HARARE636	TWO BY-ELECTIONS CRITICAL TO ZANU-PF PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Upcoming parliamentary by-elections pit the MDC's National Youth Chairman, Nelson Chamisa, against ZANU-PF businessman David Mutasa in Kuwadzana, and MDC businessman Pearson Mungofa against ZANU-PF heavy Joseph Chinotimba. The pre-election period has been marred by violence perpetrated mo [...]	2003-03-28 10:10:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR ASEC ZI ZANU PF
03HARARE648	MDC WINS HIGHFIELD AND KUWADZANA [...] (C) The opposition MDC won by-elections in the Harare high-density suburbs of Highfield and Kuwadzana by significant margins, despite an electoral process tilted heavily in favor of ZANU-PF. The March 29-30 voting process itself was peaceful and orderly, if at times slow. The environment in [...]	2003-03-31 16:02:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR ASEC ZI
03HARARE653	GOZ Ups Grain Subsidy [...] (U) Summary: The GOZ has increased nearly 4-fold the amount it pays growers for maize. By leaving the crop's low consumer price intact, however, the cash-starved GOZ assumes a weighty subsidy. End summary. 2. (U) The GOZ also announced an approximate doubling of the producer price for whe [...]	2003-04-01 14:43:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EINV ETRD ZI
03HARARE685	LIKELIHOOD OF A TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY LOW [...] (C) The Movement for Democratic Change party (MDC) victory in the Kuwadzana and Highfield by-elections held on March 29 and 30 is a blow to the Zimbabwe African National Unity Patriotic Front,s (ZANU-PF) plans to engineer a two-thirds majority in Parliament needed to change the constitution. Z [...]	2003-04-07 14:11:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ZI
03HARARE795	STAYAWAY, DAY TWO: NO BUSINESS, AS USUAL [...] (SBU) Summary. The second day of the ZCTU-called stayaway continued with widespread industrial shutdown, many banks closed, and more shops and grocery stores closed than Wednesday. The GOZ seems determined to find a scapegoat that minimizes public support, claiming that the ZCTU has paid tr [...]	2003-04-25 09:49:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB PGOV ZI
03HARARE874	REPRESSIVE ELECTORAL AND MEDIA AMENDMENTS TOP [...] Parliament resumed on May 6, after a two-month adjournment in which several parliamentary portfolio committees met to discuss proposed legislation. Top among the Bills to be debated when Parliament begins are the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Bill and the Electora [...]	2003-05-07 14:50:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ZI
03HOCHIMINHCITY1087	AMBASSADOR HANFORD CALLS ON LOCAL OFFICIALS, LEGAL [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 18 meeting with Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford, three leaders of the GVN-recognized Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam (SECV) urged continued, focused USG pressure on the GVN to relax restrictions on unregistered house chur [...]	2003-11-06 11:18:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR
03HOCHIMINHCITY337	CHURCH AND STATE MAINTAIN BALANCE IN TAY NINH PROVINCE [...] (U) On a recent one-day trip to meet with provincial and Cao Dai Church leaders in Tay Ninh Province, the Ambassador came away with a mostly positive impression of the current state of health of both the province and the religion which predominates there. Tay Ninh, while still on the fringes [...]	2003-04-08 11:21:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PHUM PREL ETRD EINV VM HUMANR RELFREE
03HOCHIMINHCITY466	KEEPING THE LID ON FREEDOM OF THE PRESS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite a flurry of economic reforms and trade liberalization heralded by the signing of the Bilateral Trade Agreement over a year ago, Ho Chi Minh City's press reporting and cultural programs remain mired in self-censorship, media "guidelines" and an arbitrary permit process t [...]	2003-05-30 08:56:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO OEXC SCUL VM HUMANR
03HOCHIMINHCITY468	THE YIN AND YANG OF THE SEA STAR CATHOLIC SEMINARY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met with Father Tran Thanh Phong, director of the Nha Trang Sea Star Seminary during a visit to Khanh Hoa province, May 15-17. During the discussion, which took place in a large, well- maintained reception hall, Father Phong was careful not to explicitly critic [...]	2003-05-31 08:44:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF SOCI VM RELFREE HUMANR
03HOCHIMINHCITY604	CAN THO AND AN GIANG UNIVERSITIES - SEEKING [...] (SBU) Summary. During a recent trip to the Mekong Delta region, DCM met with the Vice-Rector of Can Tho University and the Rector of An Giang University. Both expressed disappointment at the slow start to the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) scholarship program and expressed hope that it [...]	2003-07-03 10:48:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI EAGR ECON OEXC VM
03HOCHIMINHCITY833	A/S DEWEY IN VIETNAM'S CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: KON TUM [...] (U) Summary: In a visit to Kon Tum Province, PRM Assistant Secretary Dewey met with Provincial People's Committee Chairwoman Y Veng and with the province's Committee on Ethnic Minority and Religious Affairs. He also visited a village in Ia Sia commune where 15 UNHCR- repatriated ethnic mino [...]	2003-09-09 06:04:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PGOV PREL PINS SOCI KIRF VM CB RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
03HOCHIMINHCITY842	A/S DEWEY VISIT TO VIETNAM'S CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: [...] (SBU) Summary: PRM Assistant Secretary Dewey visited Gia Lai Province in the Central Highlands on August 16-17. His meeting with Provincial People's Committee Chairman Ha was cordial, with a frank exchange of ideas on treatment of ethnic minorities and freedom of worship. Ha said that at le [...]	2003-09-10 08:46:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PGOV PREL PINS SOCI KIRF VM CB HUMANR ETMIN RELFREE
03ISTANBUL1231	CHP ISTANBUL CONGRESS: ONE INJURED, NO FATALITIES [...] (U) Summary: The Republican People's Party's August 3 Istanbul congress showcased a spirited contest between supporters of party leader Deniz Baykal and opposition groups within the party. When the votes were counted, Baykal's candidate, Sinasi Oktem, won easily, but a brawl on the congress [...]	2003-08-20 13:59:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV TU
03ISTANBUL1384	THE ISTANBUL BAR AND ITS DETRACTORS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The Istanbul Bar is at once a defender of the legal profession and historically a leader in promoting respect for human rights and rule of law in Turkey. With a broad and ambivalent membership and a new nationalist/statist administration, however, the Bar currently ap [...]	2003-09-18 12:08:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TU
03ISTANBUL1409	ISTANBUL REPUBLICAN PEOPLE'S PARTY: HOPING FOR [...] (C) Summary: Istanbul Republican People's Party (CHP) contacts report widespread internal discontent with CHP Chairman Baykal and the CHP's performance over the last several months. Although Baykal has successfully taken firm control of the Istanbul party organization, the party has so far be [...]	2003-09-24 05:49:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TU
03ISTANBUL1616	AKP LAYS ISTANBUL GROUNDWORK FOR MARCH 28 LOCAL [...] (sbu) Summary: Following Ruling AK Party national congress (reftel),the Istanbul AK Party organization is gearing up vigorously at the grassroots level for next year's March 28 municipal elections. Not content merely to rely on the party's performance at the national level, the Istanbul AK P [...]	2003-10-31 13:56:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TK
03ISTANBUL162	TURKEY ALPHABET SOUP: ISTANBUL'S MYRIAD BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Istanbul, Turkey's economic, commercial and cultural capital, hosts a rich diversity of business voices, all seeking to influence both government policy and international perceptions of Turkey. Leader of the pack is the venerable TUSIAD-- Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen [...]	2003-02-06 14:15:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL TU
03ISTANBUL1739	DUZCE: BLESSED BY NATURE, CURSED BY NATURE [...] (sbu) Summary: On November 12-13, the fourth anniversary of a major earthquake, Poloff visited Duzce, a small Black Sea province halfway between Istanbul and Ankara. Impoverished by natural disasters and cruel circumstances, Duzce is Turkey's newest province and has placed its trust in the Jus [...]	2003-11-19 14:14:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON EAGR TU
03ISTANBUL1821	U/S GROSSMAN'S 12/9/03 MEETING WITH ISTANBUL [...] (C) Summary: U/S Grossman met with the Governor of Istanbul to express U.S. solidarity with the people of Istanbul and Turkey, and our ongoing cooperation in the war on terror. Guler outlined a series of "lessons learned" from the attacks, and expressed optimism that Turkey would be better pr [...]	2003-12-11 10:42:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC OVIP PGOV PREL TU
03ISTANBUL349	RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN: CLUES FROM ISTANBUL [...] (U) Summary: In assessing the outlook for the new government to be led by Justice and Development (AK) Party leader Tayyip Erdogan, we look back at his only major previous government experience --- as Istanbul Mayor from 1994 to 1998. End Summary. Refah and Grassroots Politics ---------- [...]	2003-03-14 14:11:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI KISL TK
03ISTANBUL636	ISTANBUL MAYORALTY: UP FOR GRABS? [...] (C) Summary: The Istanbul Mayoralty, often characterized as the second most desirable political prize in the country, has become the focus of a back-room power struggle as players jockey for ground in advance of the April 2004 local elections. Mayor Ali Mufit Gurtuna, an independent since the [...]	2003-05-05 11:03:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TK
03ISTANBUL752	CEM UZAN STUMPS YOUTH IN ISTANBUL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Genc Party leader Cem Uzan's recent speech to a gathering of university student leaders in Istanbul provided insight into both his political skills and shortcomings as he seeks to build on his surprisingly strong showing in last year's election. While charismatic in some ways, [...]	2003-05-28 04:40:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL TU
03ISTANBUL776	TURKISH ARMED FORCES DEPUTY AFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO [...] (C) Summary: Declaring at a globalization conference that the Turkish military is not against Turkey's pursuit of EU membership, deputy chief of the TGS Buyukanit further qualified the military's stance with a series of reservations and an indirect but clear set of jabs at the U.S. End summar [...]	2003-05-31 09:26:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU
03ISTANBUL953	SULTANBEYLI: A HIGHWAY RUNS THROUGH IT... AND [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: A recent visit to Sultanbeyli, one of Istanbul's poorer Asian districts, highlights how Turkey's uneven economic gains in recent years have widened the gap between the "haves" and "have-nots." The modern Istanbul-Ankara highway runs right through this conservative, [...]	2003-07-09 08:32:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI TK
03JERUSALEM2293	HAMAS READY TO EXTEND TRUCE, PA MINISTER CLAIMS [...] (C) Following up on his conversation with Embassy PolOff last week (reftel),PA Minister of Culture Ziad Abu-Amr, in a meeting with A/PO in Ramallah on 8/4, said that Hamas leaders would tell PA Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza this week that they are prepared to extend the cease-fire for [...]	2003-08-05 15:28:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG KPAL IS
03JERUSALEM2771	FATAH LEADER HINTS AT PM ABBAS'S DOWNFALL [...] (C) Summary: Fatah Central Committee member and frequent Arafat ally Sakher Habash, in a conversation with Pol/C in Ramallah 9/3, said he saw only two ways out of the ongoing political crisis in the Palestinian Authority: either PM Abbas makes amends with Arafat and the Fatah leadership, or h [...]	2003-09-04 16:06:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG PGOV IS
03KABUL1006	AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 8 MEETING WITH CAPTAIN DAOUD: [...] (C) Captain Daoud, an Afghan-American investor interested in establishing a private airline in Afghanistan, met with Ambassador on April 8. Daoud is seeking OPIC support for the establishment of Oxus Air, a private airline serving the U.S. and Europe from Afghanistan with a projected fleet of [...]	2003-04-18 04:02:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF
03KATHMANDU1011	NEPAL: PARTISAN RIVALRY MAY PREVENT CONSENSUS ON [...] (C) It seems unlikely that the seven political parties will be able to offer King Gyanendra a consensus candidate for Prime Minister by the June 2 deadline he gave them on May 30 (Ref A). Three smaller parties--each of whom is pressing its own leader as a potential PM--might succeed in unde [...]	2003-06-02 12:23:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
03KATHMANDU1033	NEPAL: KING NAMES NEW PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) On June 4 King Gyanendra named former National Democratic Party President and four-time former Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa to head a new interim government. The Palace is reportedly seeking the participation of other mainstream political parties in the Cabinet. Many observers bl [...]	2003-06-04 11:14:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP GON
03KATHMANDU1060	NEPALI CONGRESS SAID TO BE JOINING NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (C) The Nepali Congress will likely join a Cabinet headed by new Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa, according to a party Central Committee member, primarily because of Indian pressure. If the Nepali Congress joins, the Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (UML) will have to o [...]	2003-06-09 09:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
03KATHMANDU1071	NEW NEPAL PRIME MINISTER ASKS U.S. FOR [...] (C) Summary. Nepal's Foreign Secretary, Madhu Raman Acharya, convoked the Charge' privately on June 10 under instructions from the new Prime Minister and Acting Foreign Minister, Surya Bahadur Thapa. The Secretary explained the PM's current efforts to persuade the major political parties to [...]	2003-06-11 05:49:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP
03KATHMANDU1072	WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT: JUNE 3 - 9, 2003 [...] POLITICAL AFFAIRS KING APPOINTS NEW PRIME MINISTER -- King Gyanendra appointed (6/4) Surya Bahadur Thapa as the new Prime Minister. Thapa's appointment bri ngs to an end the controversy over "transfer" of the executive powers from [...]	2003-06-11 05:56:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP
03KATHMANDU1424	NEPAL: DELIVERING USG MESSAGE TO MAOIST FACILITATOR [...] No summary [...]	2003-07-30 10:57:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PTER ASEC PINS NP
03KATHMANDU1484	INDIAN NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR PLEDGES TO [...] (S) Summary. According to the Indian Ambassador to Nepal, India's National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra has reaffirmed the Indian Government's (GOI's) policy of synchronizing with the U.S. its tough talking points for Nepal's Maoist leaders. Mishra reportedly also pledged that his Governm [...]	2003-08-05 09:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV NP IN
03KATHMANDU1507	NEPAL: NEPALI CONGRESS (DEUBA) PARTY ALSO WILL NOT [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with former Prime Minister Deuba on August 7, Ambassador Malinowski reiterated U.S. concerns over recent Maoist activity in Nepal and stressed the need for the King, government and political parties to join forces against the Maoist threat. Deuba replied that his pa [...]	2003-08-07 09:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
03KATHMANDU1516	MEETING WITH ONE OF NEPAL'S MOST SENIOR DEMOCRATS: [...] (C) On August 7, the Ambassador met with Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, a founding father of Nepal's democracy, and Narayan Khadga, a former Vice Chairman of the National Planning Commission, to discuss the internal dynamics of the Nepali Congress Party, Bhattarai's recent discussions with the Kin [...]	2003-08-08 09:54:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER NP
03KATHMANDU1674	NEPAL: POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS SEEKING US MEDIATION [...] (S) Mainstream political parties are reassessing plans for a large joint demonstration to be held in the capital on September 4 in light of the Maoists' unilateral decision to break the ceasefire and return to violence. Party leaders have indicated that they are seeking an overture from King [...]	2003-08-29 10:48:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PGOV PREL NP GON
03KATHMANDU1758	WEEKLY NEPAL MEDIA REPORT: [...] POLITICAL AFFAIRS -- Parties' protest to continue despite blasts: The five agitating parties will not halt their protests scheduled for the afternoon despite the series of bomb blasts in the Valley Monday morning, a UML leader said Monday. (Nepalnews.com, 9/8) - - UML back on stree [...]	2003-09-09 07:17:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC PGOV PREL KMDR NP
03KATHMANDU1814	NEPAL: COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER ON ALL-PARTY [...] (C) In a September 16 meeting with the Ambassador, Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninist (UML) General Secretary Madhav Nepal emphasized that he hopes the Palace will invite the political parties to form an all-party government. A strong leader is needed to deal with the Maoist [...]	2003-09-16 10:39:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER NP
03KATHMANDU2298	NEPAL: COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER MEETS MAOIST LEADERS [...] (C) Summary. On November 20, Communist Party of Nepal - United Marxist Leninst (CPN-UML) leader Madhav Kumar Nepal met with Maoist leaders in northern India. Nepal's public statements following the meeting provoked criticism -- but not denial -- from the Maoists, as well as condemnation by o [...]	2003-11-24 09:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL NP
03KATHMANDU2318	NEPAL: MORE MURMURINGS, BUT HOW MUCH MOVEMENT [...] (C) Once again, political circles in Kathmandu are reporting signs that King Gyanendra may be considering another initiative to broaden multi-party participation in the government. The Palace reportedly has sent initial feelers out for separate meetings with the heads of the two largest pol [...]	2003-11-26 09:11:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IN NP GON
03KATHMANDU2385	BHUTANESE REFUGEES: UNHCR'S FAKHOURI FEARS CURRENT [...] (C) Summary. After a two-day visit to Nepal, UNHCR Director for Asia, Jean-Marie Fakhouri met with Ambassador Malinowski privately to share his impressions and to discuss UNHCR's future role in the Bhutanese refugee camps. Fakhouri fears that Nepal-Bhutan negotiations on refugee repatriation [...]	2003-12-05 07:42:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL BH NP
03KATHMANDU2432	BHUTANESE REFUGEES: FRIENDS OF BHUTAN VISIT TO [...] (C) During a recent visit to Kathmandu, the Swiss and Austrian Ambassadors resident in New Delhi reported on their visit December 1-3 to Thimpu. The five-nation Friends of Bhutan demarched the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB),urging it to increase transparency in the repatriation process, t [...]	2003-12-15 05:45:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM BH NP
03KATHMANDU280	US-INDIAN COOPERATION AND MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) Summary: US security assistance to Nepal has brought the ancillary advantage to the US of providing a new arena for fruitful US-Indian dialogue and collaboration. Top Indian diplomats in Kathmandu clearly appreciate not only US support for common US-Indian security objectives in Nepal, but al [...]	2003-02-14 05:16:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER IN NP
03KATHMANDU329	USG HUMAN RIGHTS STRATEGY FOR NEPAL [...] In CY 02 our Mission engaged with the Government of Nepal (GON),the military, and members of civil society on a variety of fronts to advance the USG human rights agenda. Such programs have addressed needs in areas as diverse as voter education; advocacy in a democracy; trafficking in persons [...]	2003-02-25 11:43:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL EAID NP
03KATHMANDU351	USG HUMAN RIGHTS STRATEGY FOR NEPAL [...] In CY 02 our Mission engaged with the Government of Nepal (GON),the military, and members of civil society on a variety of fronts to advance the USG human rights agenda. Such programs have addressed needs in areas as diverse as voter education; advocacy in a democracy; trafficking in persons [...]	2003-02-27 10:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL EAID NP
03KATHMANDU440	NEPAL: MAOIST STUDENTS LOCK OUT UNIVERSITY [...] (SBU) On March 9 members of the Maoist-affiliated All Nepal National Independent Student Union-Revolutionary (ANNISU-R) padlocked administrative offices at 25 branches of Tribhuvan University. Maoist student leaders threaten that the lock-out will continue until the Government of Nepal (GON) [...]	2003-03-11 11:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER SOCI PGOV NP
03KATHMANDU886	NEPAL: FOREIGN AND COMMERCE SECRETARIES PLEAD [...] (U) Please see paragraph 4 for action request. GoN Presses Ambassador and DCM for USG Support --------------------------------------------- - 2. (SBU) On a number of recent occasions, Nepal's Foreign Secretary Madhu Raman Acharya, and Secretary for Industry, Commerce, and Supply Lava De [...]	2003-05-13 09:54:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD NP
03KATHMANDU961	NEPAL: KING KEEPS PARTIES AT BAY [...] (C) His public and private statements of support for the principle of multiparty democracy notwithstanding, King Gyanendra continues to hold mainstream political parties at arm's length. Contrary to recent widespread expectations, he has taken no visible steps to form an all-party government. [...]	2003-05-23 11:03:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
03KATHMANDU991	NEPAL: PM RESIGNS; NEW GOVERNMENT,PROBABLY WITH [...] (S) Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur Chand resigned from office on May 30. Well-placed Palace sources predict the Palace will approach leaders of the Parliamentary parties to form an all-party government. A confidant of the King credits US (and, we believe, Indian) pressure with encouraging [...]	2003-05-30 09:31:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PGOV PREL NP GON
03KATHMANDU999	NEPALI KING ASKS PARTY LEADERS FOR CONSENSUS [...] (C) Breaking with past practice, Nepal's King Gyanendra convoked on May 30 leaders of the seven parties that had held seats in the last Parliament to offer them an opportunity to constitute a new, more broadly-based government (Ref A). The King assured the leaders that a new Prime Minister wo [...]	2003-05-31 04:55:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV NP
03KUWAIT115	BAGHDAD ON HIS MIND: GOK'S PRE-OCCUPATION WITH IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a recent meeting with a visiting delegation led by former US senior diplomat Frank Wisner, Kuwait's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Sabah shared candid views on pressing priorities for his government. Discussion centered on four main themes: Sa [...]	2003-01-15 09:49:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ IR KU
03KUWAIT138	GETTING THEIR HANDS DIRTY; INFLUENTIAL KUWAITI [...] (U) This message contains biographical information. Please see para. 8 for biographical information. 2. (C) Summary. Faced with ineffectual political leadership, some of the large commercial families of Kuwait have stepped into the political fray to derail the rising tide of Islamism here, [...]	2003-01-15 12:52:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KU IZ
03KUWAIT1948	TFIZ01: DART ASSESSMENT OF AL HILLAH [...] The DART conducted a security assessment of Al Hillah, capital of the Babil governorate, on 2 May. The town has approximately 400,000, mostly Shia, residents. Coalition forces ranked the threat assessment as "low to none," but acknowledged that there was a problem with organized crime. Ther [...]	2003-05-10 10:33:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF IZ WFP
03KUWAIT2062	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION, MAY 14: TERRORISM IN SAUDI [...] SUMMARY: The May 13 terrorist bombings in Riyadh are interpreted as attacks against the Saudi government, rather than American interests. Commentary on the future of the Middle East generated earlier in the week by President Bush's May 9 address at South Carolina University continues. One wr [...]	2003-05-14 14:17:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU KDMR
03KUWAIT2296	DART VISIT TO AN NAJAF [...] DART Field Team West traveled to An Najaf on 24 May to participate in special Marine and Army civil affairs briefings for ORHA in which a 5 June mayoral election was announced, possibly the first mayoral election in the country. WFP and MOT told the DART that they were ready to begin governo [...]	2003-05-28 15:27:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF IZ WFP
03KUWAIT2417	DART WESTERN IRAQ UPDATE [...] Following multiple trouble-shooting visits with WFP and Ministry of Trade teams in the upper south region of Iraq, the DART Field Team West Food Officer believes the public distribution system is prepared to meet June distribution expectations. Upcoming visits to Al Muthanna and Wasit Govern [...]	2003-06-03 11:20:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF IZ WFP
03KUWAIT2452	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION, MAY 29-JUNE 4: TERRORISM; DE- [...] No summary [...]	2003-06-04 14:21:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU KDMR
03KUWAIT2545	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION SPECIAL, JUNE 10: GOVERNMENT [...] SUMMARY: All media report that Mohammed al-Jassim, the liberal editor-in-chief of Kuwaiti Arabic daily "Al Watan," was summoned to the office of the public prosecutor and charged with "contesting the authority of the Amir," a charge that can carry a five-year prison term, before being relea [...]	2003-06-10 14:13:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU KDMR
03KUWAIT2657	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION, JUNE 14-16: ISRAELI [...] SUMMARY: Kuwait's State Minister for Foreign Affairs condemned the June 10 attack by Israeli helicopters that injured senior Hamas leader Abdul Aziz Al-Rantissi as "terrorism." One conservative writer calls for Jihad as the only option for Palestinians in an editorial titled, "No Peace With [...]	2003-06-17 12:47:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU KDMR
03KUWAIT2704	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION: GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION AND [...] SUMMARY: Op/ed by Ambassador Jones on the Middle East Roadmap receives fulsome coverage in today's print media, including four Arabic and two English newspapers. Charges of corruption and governmental malfeasance dominate all Arabic dailies over the past week as the country prepares for Jul [...]	2003-06-18 13:58:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU KDMR
03KUWAIT2705	DART WESTERN IRAQ UPDATE 10 JUNE [...] Interventions by the DART have paid dividends this week with increased security at food distribution points and improvements in supply procurement. Also this week, CARE began work on rehabilitating the frail water-treatment system of Al Hillah that serves 750,000 people. The project, funded [...]	2003-06-18 16:32:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF IZ WFP
03KUWAIT284	KUWAIT'S HOLD ON LDI NOT SANCTIONED BY MFA [...] (C) The Ambassador raised Kuwait's request (refs A and B) for a hold on the French proposal to include the Kuwaiti-based organization Lajnat ad-Da'wa al-Islamiya (LDI) on UN freeze orders with Kuwaiti Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Shaykh Mohammed al-Sabah in a one-on-one meeting o [...]	2003-01-26 03:58:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL EFIN ETTC FR KU UN
03KUWAIT2847	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION, JUNE 21-25: US-KUWAIT [...] SUMMARY: In widely reported remarks, an Islamist MP lashes out at former Kuwait oil minister Sheikh Saud Al- Sabah for the latter's establishment of a committee to collect donations for the families of coalition soldiers killed in Iraq. MP Busairi goes on to denounce normalization of relations [...]	2003-06-26 19:21:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU KDMR
03KUWAIT2908	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION, JUNE 28-30: PROSPECTS FOR [...] SUMMARY: A top Kuwaiti official said Kuwait welcomes the ceasefire by three Palestinian factions saying, "Hamas' position has changed, and we welcome this positive change." One commentator writes that Israel bears most of the responsibility for whether the ceasefire will lead to a lasting se [...]	2003-06-30 16:01:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU KDMR
03KUWAIT2957	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION, JULY 1-2: PARLIAMENTARY [...] SUMMARY: The parliamentary elections to be held on July 5 dominate the news pages. One candidate believes that "embassies buy individuals and have pushed them to run in the election to serve their interests," while an Islamist candidate rails against "secularists trying to tamper with our ed [...]	2003-07-03 10:42:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU KDMR
03KUWAIT2993	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION SPECIAL, JULY 7: NATIONAL [...] SUMMARY: Kuwaiti media report that liberal incumbents and members of Kuwait's Islamic Constitutional Movement were the biggest losers in the July 5 parliamentary elections that resulted in nearly half of all members losing their seats. Most commentators believe that acting Prime Minister She [...]	2003-07-07 16:26:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU KDMR
03KUWAIT2994	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION SPECIAL, JULY 7: NATIONAL [...] SUMMARY: Kuwaiti media report that liberal incumbents and members of Kuwait's Islamic Constitutional Movement were the biggest losers in the July 5 parliamentary elections that resulted in nearly half of all members losing their seats. Most commentators believe that acting Prime Minister She [...]	2003-07-07 16:30:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KDMR KU
03KUWAIT3043	KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION SPECIAL, JULY 8-9: NATIONAL [...] News Stories: All newspapers continue to analyze and interpret the election results. Defeated incumbent and liberal Ahmed Al-Rubie refutes claims that the new assembly is an "Islamic parliament," while defeated incumbent and Islamist, Mubarak Al-Duwaila, denies that the new assembly is pro- [...]	2003-07-09 16:26:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KU KDMR
03KUWAIT3217	(C) DEFEATED ISLAMIST OFFERS VIEWS ON KUWAITI [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Poloff visited ex-MP and unabashed Islamist Mubarak Al-Dowailah on July 16. During an unusually candid conversation, Dowailah offered his views on his defeat, the new government, the future of Islamism in the upcoming National Assembly, and the prospect of estab [...]	2003-07-19 15:24:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KU
03KUWAIT3950	(U) "SCIENTIFIC SALAFIS" PRESS FOR BIDOON RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hardline Islamists are spearheading a push to resolve the status of the Bidoon, stateless persons resident in Kuwait who number in the tens of thousands. This appears to be an attempt by the so-called Scientific Salafis to portray themselves as principled, compassionate defender [...]	2003-08-26 12:35:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KISL PINR KU
03KUWAIT4078	(U) IRANIAN FM VISITS KUWAIT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi met with PM Shaykh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah and FM Shaykh Dr. Mohammed al-Sabah, during a one-day visit to Kuwait on September 1. According to MFA, the visit was previously planned and not prompted by Kuwaiti PM Shaykh Saba [...]	2003-09-04 18:35:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET KU IR IZ KNPT IAEA
03KUWAIT4613	(C) SPEAKER KHORAFI PREDICTS INCREMENTAL PROGRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: National Assembly Speaker Jassem al-Khorafi told the Ambassador October 6 the Government should be able to muster a majority in the Assembly, but it will only become clear after parliament reconvenes later this month whether the Assembly (elected in July) will be more or less co [...]	2003-10-08 05:54:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KWMN KISL ETRD PINR KU
03KUWAIT5045	(U) SHAYKH NAWAF UPGRADED TO "FIRST DEPUTY PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Shaykh Nawaf al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah, half-brother to both the Amir and the Prime Minister, has just been officially elevated to First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister. This changes nothing in practice, but cements the a [...]	2003-11-03 05:39:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KU

03LAGOS102	NIGERIA; A VISIT TO THE SOUTHEAST - PART 1: ABIA [...] (C) Summary. Orji Kalu, dubbed the "Action Governor" by President Obasanjo for his aggressive style and ability to get programs and projects going in Abia state, recently won a year-long administrative and political tussle with his disgruntled Deputy Governor and half the State legislators. [...]	2003-01-14 09:37:00	Consulate Lagos	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM NI

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