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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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02AMMAN2673JORDAN WELCOMES PRESIDENT'S DECISION TO SEEK THE
[...] (U) On May 27, Poloff conveyed reftel information on the President's May 9 decision to seek the Senate's advice and consent to ratify the U.S.-IAEA Additional Protocol to Ayman Aamiri, Deputy Director of the MFA's Department of International and Regional Organizations. Aamiri said that Jordan [...]
2002-05-27 12:34:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KNNP JO IAEA NPT
02ANKARA8568SECRETARY'S LETTER TO IAEA BOARD MEMBERS ON DPRK RESOLUTION: TURKEY ASSESSING SITUATION
[...] No summary [...]
2002-11-22 14:36:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKNNP KN MNUC PREL TU
02ANKARA8787LETTER FROM TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER YAKIS TO SECRETARY POWELL ON IAEA AND NORTH KOREA
[...] No summary [...]
2002-12-03 11:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ODIP TU
02COLOMBO2312GSL MINISTOR MORAGODA SAYS INDIANS MAD AT JAPANESE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: GSL Minister Milinda Moragoda told me over the weekend that the Indians are "really mad" over the attempts by the Japanese to involve themselves in Sri Lanka's negotiation to end the war. Moragoda said Indian Foreign Secretary Sibal, who visited Colombo last week, was SIPDIS [...]
2002-12-16 09:55:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PINR PARM CE LTTE
02ROME4561FAO FINANCE AND PROGRAM COMMITTEES CONSIDER
[...] SUMMARY: THE FAO FINANCE AND PROGRAM COMMITTEES MET AT FAO HEADQUARTERS IN ROME SEPTEMBER 9-13, 2002. THE MAIN TOPIC IN THE JOINT SESSION WAS THE MEDIUM TERM PLAN (MTP) 2004-09 AND PRIORITIZATION OF RESOURCES. THE DIRECTOR GENERAL MADE A STRONG BID FOR INCREASED RESOURCES TO IMPLEMENT THE [...]
2002-09-20 09:52:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDAORC EAGR EAID EFIN KUNR WFPO
02ROME4887A/S RADEMAKER'S ITALY CONSULTATIONS
[...] (C) ITALIAN MFA ARMS CONTROL EXPERTS, MEETING WITH A/S RADEMAKER ON SEPTEMBER 25, WELCOMED THE NEW US POSITION ON THE 5TH BWC REVCON. AFTER RECEIVING CLARIFICATION OF THE PHILOSOPHY UNDERLYING THE US APPROACH TO THE BWC, AND NOTWITHSTANDING THEIR SKEPTICISM THAT THE NAM WOULD ACCEPT AN AGREE [...]
2002-10-08 07:01:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL IT CBW
02ROME5079NORTH KOREANS SIGNAL NEW OPENNESS AT ENERGY
[...] AT A RECENT CONFERENCE IN ITALY ON NORTH KOREAN ENERGY NEEDS, THE DPRK DELEGATION APPEARED TO SIGNAL UNUSUAL OPENNESS. ITS PRESENCE AT A CONFERENCE WITH USG AND ROK REPRESENTATIVES WAS ITSELF REMARKABLE, AND ITS FRANK DISCUSSION OF SHORTCOMINGS AND REFORMS WAS MORE SO. DPRK REPRESENTATIVE [...]
2002-10-17 13:55:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG EAID PARM KN IT
02TEGUCIGALPA3318HONDURAN ACTION ON SEVEN COUNTERTERRORISM
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see para. 10. 2. (SBU) Summary: PolOff met December 6 with Honduran MFA Director General for Treaties Ivonne Bonilla to demarche Bonilla on the 1988 maritime counterterrorism (CT) convention and protocol and to get a status report on the GOH's slow acti [...]
2002-12-09 22:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL KTIA AORC PARM EAIR EWWT KCRM HO
03ABUDHABI140UAEG ATTENDANCE AT CONFERENCE ENCOURAGED
[...] No summary [...]
2003-01-11 13:19:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDIAEA AORC TRGY MNUC KNNP KSAF PINS TPHY TC
03ABUDHABI2988U/S BOLTON DISCUSSES NORTH KOREAN AND IRANIAN NUCLEAR THREAT WITH MFA MINSTATE HAMDAN BIN ZAYID
[...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (S) SUMMARY: Conveying a message from President Bush, U/S Bolton laid out USG concerns on the nuclear weapons programs of both North Korea and Iran in a June 18 meeting with MFA Minstate Hamdan bin Zayid. In t [...]
2003-06-23 12:26:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETPREL PGOV PARM ETTC IR NK TC
03ABUDHABI328 STRENGTHENING GLOBAL SECURITY:
[...] The Ambassador presented ref A letter from the Deputy Secretary to MFA Minstate Shaykh Hamdan Bin Zayid Al-Nahyan during a 1/21 meeting with MFA Assistant U/S for Political Affairs Abdullah Rashid Al-Nuaimi. The Ambassador laid out the reasons for our recommendation to upgrade the IAEA safegu [...]
2003-01-21 12:22:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDIAEA ABUD KNNP TRGY PREL OVIP OPDC TC
03ABUDHABI486 MEDIA REACTION: UN REPORTS ON IRAQ
[...] SUMMARY: ALL MEDIA PROMINENTLY HIGHLIGHTED THE CONTENTS OF THE UNMOVIC AND IAEA REPORTS ON IRAQ. EDITORIALS IN THE ARABIC PRESS LAUDED EUROPEAN OPPOSITION TO A WAR AGAINST IRAQ, DESCRIBING FRENCH AND GERMAN OPPOSITION AS A STUMBLING BLOCK TO AMERICA'S THIRST FOR WAR. ANOTHER EDITORIAL CLAIM [...]
2003-01-29 11:21:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
03ABUDHABI5133 SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL ABIZAID'S VISIT TO THE
[...] (U) Classified by Richard A. Albright, Chargi d'Affaires, a.i., for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) General Abizaid: I would like to welcome you back to the UAE. The highlight of December in the UAE will be the 2003 Dubai Air Show, the third largest air show in the world and the premier a [...]
2003-12-01 12:42:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PARM MOPS GCC IZ TC
03ABUDHABI5138 SCENESETTER FOR AIR FORCE LEADERSHIP VISITS TO
[...] (U) Classified by Richard A. Albright, Chargi d'Affaires, a.i., for reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) I would like to welcome you to the UAE. The highlight of December in the UAE will be the 2003 Dubai Air Show, the third largest air show in the world and the premier aviation and air industr [...]
2003-12-01 15:18:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PARM MOPS GCC IZ TC
03ABUDHABI5295 SCENESETTER FOR CSAF VISIT TO THE UAE, DECEMBER
[...] (U) Classified by Ambassador Marcelle M. Wahba, reasons 1.5 (B) and (D). 2. (C) General Jumper: I would like to welcome you back to the UAE. The highlight of December in the UAE has been the 2003 Dubai Air Show, the third largest air show in the world and the premier aviation and air indus [...]
2003-12-15 13:42:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PARM MOPS GCC IZ TC
03ABUJA294NIGERIA UNLIKELY TO OFFER SUBSTANTIAL SUPPORT FOR
[...] (U) On January 24 ECONOFF passed Deputy Secretary Armitage's letter (REFTEL) to the Ministry's Assistant Director for First United Nations Division A.O. Idowum who said he would pass it to Foreign Minister Lamido. Idowu was aware of the proposed increase in the IAEA's 2004-2005 budget. While [...]
2003-02-10 15:05:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDABUD KNNP TRGY PREL OVIP OPDC IAEA
03AMMAN1188JORDAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION SEEKS U.S. ASSISTANCE
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a 20 February meeting, Jordan Atomic Energy Commission DG Kodah made a strong pitch for U.S. technical and financial assistance in the operation of Jordan's five radiation portals. In addition, Kodah is keen for his staff to participate in upcoming EXBS training on export con [...]
2003-02-27 10:58:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM PTER SENV IZ JO
03AMMAN184MARCH 2003 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SECURITY OF RADIOACTIVE SOURCES: JORDAN PLANS TO ATTEND
[...] (U) On January 8, A/Polcouns conveyed reftel non-paper on the March 2003 Vienna conference on security of radioactive sources to Ayman Aamiri, Deputy Director of the MFA's International Organizations Department. Aamiri offered no substantive comment but promised to convey the information both [...]
2003-01-09 13:03:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDAORC TRGY MNUC KNNP KSAF PINS TPHY JO IAEA
03AMMAN268SESAME--A VIRTUAL REALITY
[...] No summary [...]
2003-01-14 09:54:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPL TPHY TBIO KSCA EAID SENV JO MEPN
03AMMAN4807 SESAME-SOWING THE SEEDS OF REGIONAL SCIENTIFIC
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Second SESAME (Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) Council meeting, hosted in Istanbul in mid-July, yielded a productive discussion among the regional members on key issues such as upgrading of the synchrotron machine, future scie [...]
2003-08-03 12:14:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPL TPHY TBIO KSCA EAID SENV JO MEPN
03AMMAN5569SOLANA 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 16:56:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPREL KPAL PTER IS IR JO
03ANKARA2126IAEA & IRAN: TURKS TO PASS USG POINTS TO THEIR
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) Polmiloff met MFA Disarmament Department Head Ibrahim Yagli on March 31 and delivered reftel points. Regarding the information outlined in reftel para 2, tick 2, Yagli asked whether the USG thought Iran had conducted experiments [...]
2003-04-01 07:34:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPARM KNNP ENRG TU IAEA
03ANKARA2511IAEA AND IRAN: TURKS WELCOME CLARIFICATION ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] No summary [...]
2003-04-17 14:10:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETKNNP PARM PREL TU IR IAEA
03ANKARA3751GOT FULLY SUPPORTIVE OF USG APPROACH FOR JUNE 16
[...] (U) Classified by Deputy Chief of Mission Robert Deutsch. Reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (U) Action Request at paragraph 8. 3. (C) SUMMARY. We delivered reftel demarche on June 9 to representatives of the Turkish MFA, who promised full support for the USG approach at the June 16 IAEA Bo [...]
2003-06-10 13:21:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALIR KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA
03ANKARA3814GOT FULLY CONCURS WITH USG ASSESSMENT OF DG
[...] (U) Classified by Deputy Chief of Mission Robert Deutsch. Reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) On June 12, we delivered ref A demarche, following up on ref B demarche (reported in ref C). The GOT has gone over ElBaradei's report with great care and fully concurred with USG concerns over Iran's [...]
2003-06-12 13:12:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALIR KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA
03ANKARA3934ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2003-06-18 14:26:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
03ANKARA3997ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2003-06-20 13:25:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
03ANKARA4019ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2003-06-23 14:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
03ANKARA4033ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2003-06-24 13:58:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
03ANKARA4239GOT CONCURS WITH USG WAY AHEAD ON IAEA/IRAN,
[...] (U) Classified by Deputy Chief of Mission Robert Deutsch. Reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) Per ref A, we delivered ref B demarche on July 2 to Ibrahim Yagli, Head of the Disarmament Department at the MFA. Yagli concurred with the way ahead outlined in our demarche, and stressed that the GO [...]
2003-07-07 09:16:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALIR KNNP MNUC PARM PREL
03ANKARA4552SCENESETTER 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 10:57:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPGOV PREL PHUM TU
03ANKARA4732TURKEY PROMISES FULL SUPPORT FOR THE USG'S
[...] (U) Classified by Charge d'Affaires ad interim Robert Deutsch. Reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY. NP A/DAS Mark Fitzpatrick and T Senior Advisor David Wurmser were in Ankara on July 24 to consult with a team of Turkish MFA officials, led by Ambassador Turan Morali (Director-General [...]
2003-07-25 12:37:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALDA IR KNNP MNUC PARM PREL
03ANKARA5449IRAN SOLICITING TURKEY'S SUPPORT FOR THE IAEA BOG
[...] (C) Summary: MFA DG for International Security Affairs Morali gave DCM August 26 a detailed readout of the visit of Iranian National Security Council Deputy SYG Hussein Mousavin (spelled Museviyan in the Turkish press) August 25. According to Morali, Mousavin told his Turkish interlocutors tha [...]
2003-08-27 07:57:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC IR TU IAEA
03ANKARA5464AMBASSADOR'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 10:05:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS TU IZ
03ANKARA5576IAEA/IRAN: TURKEY RIDING THE COATTAILS OF THE E.U.
[...] (C) Because higher level GOT disarmament officials were in Vienna for the CTBT discussions, PolMilOff delivered reftel talking points to the new MFA Head of the Disarmament Department Bulent Meric September 4. Meric said his department was still examining the IAEA August 26 report in detail, [...]
2003-09-05 06:38:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC IR TU IAEA
03ANKARA5693IAEA/IRAN: EXPECT MORE COOPERATION FROM TURKEY
[...] (C) Subsequent to receiving clarification from the Department that resolutions described in Refs D and E were in fact the same resolution, MFA Disarmament Head of Department Bulent Meric reiterated to PolMilOff Sept. 8 that Turkey's position on the Iran resolution was the same as the EU's. Pol [...]
2003-09-09 12:33:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC IR TU IAEA
03ANKARA6334FOREIGN TRADE U/S ON IRAQ/IRAN
[...] (C) Foreign Trade U/S Tuncer Kayalar told us October 6 that, during his recent visit to Teheran, State Minister Kursad Tuzmen had warned Iranian President Khatami not to "play games" on nuclear issues and to avoid supporting terrorists. Khatami responded, per Kayalar, that Iran would meet its [...]
2003-10-08 14:16:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL TU IZ IR
03ANKARA6499MFA 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 10:16:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS TU IZ PTER ASEC AF AR
03ANKARA7114TGS 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 15:50:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS TU IZ AF CY ASEC OVIP
03ANKARA7319ANOTHER 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 13:31:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETMARR PREL PTER OVIP PGOV TU
03BRUSSELS5596EU-IRAN: SOLANA'S JANUARY TRIP TO TEHRAN
[...] (C) EU FM'S ON DECEMBER 9 INVITED EU HIGH REP SOLANA TO VISIT TEHRAN IN JANUARY TO DISCUSS ALL ASPECTS OF EU RELATIONS WITH IRAN. ACCORDING TO BJORN LARRSON, SOLANA'S IRAN/IRAQ POLICY ADVISOR (PROTECT),SOLANA WILL TRAVEL TO TEHRAN IN THE SECOND HALF OF JANUARY IN PART TO FOLLOW UP ON THE E [...]
2003-12-11 15:48:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD KNNP AA
03BRUSSELS5635TRANSATLANTIC LEGISLATORS' DIALOGUE MEETING
[...] (SBU) Summary: The biannual Transatlantic Legislators' Dialogue (TLD) meetings were held in Williamsburg, Virginia on November 13-16 (list of participants in paras 20-21). The six members of Congress and ten members of the European Parliament (MEP's) reviewed the draft EU Constitutional Trea [...]
2003-12-16 12:23:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN USEU BRUSSELS
03COLOMBO48 Security of Radioactive Sources: Mission
[...] No summary [...]
2003-01-08 11:11:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PARM MNUC CE MV IAEA
03DJIBOUTI1830DJIBOUTIANS RECEIVE INFO ON TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
[...] (SBU) Charge d'Affaires Tim Smith passed reftel information on high-risk sources of radiation to Djiboutian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary Badri Ali Bogoreh October 2. Bogoreh looked at the information and promised to pass it to the Djiboutian National Research Center. He believes, how [...]
2003-10-06 11:15:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC ENRG DJ IAEA
03HANOI647 VIETNAM ON RIGHTSIZING THE IAEA SFEGUARDS BUDGET
[...] (U) In response to reftel letter from Deputy Secretary Armitage and demarche on rightsizing the IAEA safeguards budget, Standing Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Dinh Bin responded in a letter dated March 17, 2003 indicating Vietnam's support for general and complete disarmament, th [...]
2003-03-17 05:10:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ABUD KNNP TRGY OVIP OPDC VM IAEA
03KUWAIT3441KUWAIT RESPONSE TO IAEA REPORT REQUEST
[...] (C) The Ambassador raised the issue of IAEA Director Dr. ElBaradei's upcoming report on Iran's nuclear program (reftel) with Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah during their July 27 meeting. 2. (C) Jarallah was supportive of the USG position, and said he welcomed the reaction [...]
2003-07-30 06:02:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL KU IR
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 18:35:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL EPET KU IR IZ KNPT IAEA
03KUWAIT4141BIO DATA ON DR. ADNAN SHIHAB-ELDIN, OPEC
[...] (U) Bio Data on Dr. Adnan Shihab-ElDin in reference to Kuwait 04078 para. 4. 2. (U) Name: Dr. Adnan Shihab-Eldin Director, Research Division, OPEC Secretariat, Vienna, Austria Present Position: 8/2001 - present Date of Birth: 1 November 1943 Citizenship: Kuwaiti Marital Status [...]
2003-09-07 12:51:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDEPET IR IZ KU PREL IAEA KNPT
03KUWAIT4534(C) KUWAITI FM DISCUSSES IRAN/IAEA
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah told the Ambassador September 30 that Kuwait has told Iran it must sign the NPT Additional Protocol (AP),and he expects the GCC states to press this point at the OIC Summit in Kuala Lumpur. He also expects Iran to make a big push for support at [...]
2003-10-01 14:10:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM MNUC PREL IR KU IAEA
03KUWAIT4683(C) IRAN: GOK PESSIMISTIC, BUT REMAINS ENGAGED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOK sees no short-term hope that Iranian reformists will be able to challenge the conservative mullahs effectively, but intends to remain engaged with Tehran. It claims to have told Iran the international community is united on the need for it to comply with IAEA conditions [...]
2003-10-14 12:20:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP IR KU IAEA
03KUWAIT4990 KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION, OCTOBER 26-29: ICRC HQ
[...] SUMMARY: The Foreign Minister and the Chairman of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society both condemned the October 27 bombing of the ICRC offices in Baghdad. Amid opposition in the National Assembly to Kuwaiti contributions to Iraqi reconstruction, a former MP argues that, "a stable and civilized [...]
2003-10-30 04:57:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDKU KDMR
03KUWAIT5342(C) FORMER GCC SECGEN OPTIMISTIC FOR THE REGION
[...] (C) Summary: Poloffs met with senior Adviser to the Prime Minister and former GCC Secretary General Abdullah Bishara on November 19. After sharing details of Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed's domestic agenda (septel),Bishara offered an upbeat view on prospects for the region, based on the US [...]
2003-11-22 11:57:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM KU IZ IR SA EG SY
03KUWAIT666DEMARCHES CONCERNING IAEA DG ELBARADEI'S VISIT TO
[...] No summary [...]
2003-02-23 13:46:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALIR KN KNNP PARM PREL RS IAEA NACB
03LAGOS351LOST RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
[...] (S) Summary: CG, LEGATT, and RSO met with Johan Bakker, Vice President of Haliburton Nigeria on 02/18/03. Mr. Bakker advised the CG that a radioactive source used in logging operations was missing. Mr. Bakker advised that the material was approximately 18.5 curries in strength and had been [...]
2003-02-19 20:34:00Consulate LagosSECRETASEC PTER PINS PARM NI
03OTTAWA1022IAEA/IRAN: CANADIAN DEMARCHE TO EL-BARADEI
[...] No summary [...]
2003-04-09 16:14:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM KNNP ENRG IR CA IAEA
03OTTAWA1123CANADA-U.S SECURITY RELATIONS - GETTING PAST IRAQ
[...] (C) With U.S.-Canada relations in flux and the role of the United Nations in question, Canadian foreign policy is at a crossroads. The postponement of the President's state visit to Ottawa, after Canada chose not to participate in Iraq and senior GoC officials criticized the U.S.-led effort, h [...]
2003-04-22 12:56:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR CA IZ
03OTTAWA1556IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM: CANADA PUSHING HARD
[...] (C) Canadian Foreign Minister Graham met with Iranian FM Kharazzi May 24 in Paris, and stressed Canada's strong concerns over the Iranian nuclear program. Terry Wood, Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for Non-Proliferation, said Graham told Kharazzi that Iran's May 6 presentation at the IAEA ga [...]
2003-05-30 20:46:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP IR CA
03OTTAWA1670IAEA/IRAN: CANADA SAYS IT WILL SUPPORT OUR EFFORTS
[...] (C) Canadian Deputy Foreign Minister Lavertu told DCM on June 12 that Canada will support our efforts to get a formal resolution on Iran at the June 16 IAEA Board of Governors (BOG) meeting (ref. A). Despite the Canadian delegation's skepticism in Vienna that such a resolution will be attaina [...]
2003-06-12 21:08:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM MNUC IR CA IAEA
03OTTAWA1875IAEA/IRAN: CANADIAN VIEWS ON NEXT STEPS
[...] (C) Canada would support a summer IAEA Board meeting (reftel) so long as there is consensus for a resolution or other strong statement at that meeting on the Iranian nuclear program. Ron Stansfield, Foreign Affairs' Acting Director for Nuclear and Chemical Disarmament, told us on July 2 that [...]
2003-07-02 20:49:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM MNUC PREL IR CA IAEA
03OTTAWA202CANADA: ARF STATEMENT SHOULD REFLECT CONSENSUS
[...] (C) Post provided Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Regional Security and Peacekeeping Division, Sarah Smith and Deputy Director for Korea, Hartmuth Kroll, talking points and texts of the proposed statement by the Chairman of the ASEAN [...]
2003-01-17 22:55:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL CA ARF
03OTTAWA2115IAEA/IRAN: CANADA AGREES ON NEED TO MOVE UP EL
[...] (C) Canada agrees with us that the IAEA Director General's next report on Iran needs to be issued prior to August 29 in order to mount an effective campaign before the September 8-12 Board of Governors meeting (ref. A),but believes that August 15 may not be feasible. Terry Wood, Foreign Affai [...]
2003-07-24 18:17:00Embassy OttawaSECRETKNNP PARM MNUC PREL IR CA IAEA
03OTTAWA2355IRAN: CANADA WOULD SUPPORT IAEA NON-COMPLIANCE
[...] (C) Canada's Foreign Ministry (DFAIT) informed us on August 15 that should the USG decide to press for a resolution of non-compliance at the September IAEA Board of Governors meeting, Canada will "fully and actively" support us. Foreign Minister Graham has written to IAEA DG El Baradei, urgin [...]
2003-08-18 21:12:00Embassy OttawaSECRETKNNP PHUM IR CA IAEA
03OTTAWA2453CANADA SUPPORTS IRAN NONCOMPLIANCE RESOLUTION AT
[...] (C) Canadian DFAIT Nuclear Non-Proliferation Deputy Director Terry Wood assured us that the GOC fully supports a finding of noncompliance at the September IAEA Board of Governors meeting and wants to assist in any way possible. Though Canada already was inclined to support a resolution, Wood s [...]
2003-08-27 20:32:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC IR IAEA
03OTTAWA461CANADA ON REINFORCING THE NPT IN THE WAKE OF
[...] No summary [...]
2003-02-18 16:51:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM KN CA NPT
03OTTAWA533CANADA ON IAEA DG EL BARADEI'S VISIT TO IRAN
[...] (C) Canada shares our strong concerns over Iran's nuclear program (reftel),and will continue pushing for a tough approach to Tehran by the IAEA. Terry Wood, Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for Non-Proliferation, told us on February 21 that Canada believes Iran is technically in breach of its [...]
2003-02-25 20:22:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL PARM IR CA
03OTTAWA659 MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ; AFGHANISTAN; TURKEY
[...] "Pope has zeal, but no answer on Iraq question" Columnist Marcus Gee noted in the leading Globe and Mail (3/6) that, "John Paul is dead against war and he is not afraid to say so.... To drive his antiwar message home, John Paul has met many of the leading players in the Iraq debate: British [...]
2003-03-10 20:29:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KMDR OIIP OPRC CA
03OTTAWA703CANADA ON NORTH KOREAN AND IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAMS
[...] (S) Canada shares our strong concerns about the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs, and believes that Iran will be emboldened if North Korea abandons the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). We discussed reftel messages with Marc Vidricaire, Director of the Nuclear and Chemical Disarmamen [...]
2003-03-13 23:14:00Embassy OttawaSECRETPREL KNNP PARM KN IR CA NPT
03OTTAWA963CANADA TO RAISE IRAN CONCERNS - AGAIN - WITH
[...] (C) In response to Under Secretary Bolton's request, Canada will make reftel demarche to IAEA Director General El-Baradei as soon as possible through the Canadian Head of Mission in Vienna. Terry Wood, Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for Non-Proliferation, told us that the more Canada learns [...]
2003-04-03 21:41:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM KNNP ENRG IR CA IAEA
03RANGOON1390RUSSIA-BURMA NUCLEAR ISSUE
[...] (S) Russian Ambassador Oleg Kabanov told EAP/BCLTV Director Judith Strotz and DCM October 22 that Russia's proposal to sell a nuclear research reactor to Burma was "basically frozen," adding that Burmese students are in Russia studying (at Burmese expense) nuclear engineering and technology. [...]
2003-11-03 02:29:00Embassy RangoonSECRETPARM KNNP PREL BM RS
03RANGOON147RUSSIAN MIGS AND REACTORS
[...] (C) Summary: Russia now has the only bilateral military and technical cooperation agreement with Burma, according to a Rangoon-based Russian diplomat. A draft agreement for the sale of a 10 megawatt research reactor was approved by the Russian government last year and is now under study by the [...]
2003-02-04 08:53:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM MARR BM IAEA BNUC RU
03ROME1564U/S BOLTON BRIEFS ITALIAN OFFICIALS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. UNDERSECRETARY BOLTON BRIEFED SENIOR ITALIAN OFFICIALS ON IRAQ, NORTH KOREAN, IRAN AND OTHER NON-PROLIFERATION ISSUES IN ROME ON APRIL 9, FOLLOWING HIS MEETINGS AT THE VATICAN (REPORTED SEPTEL). THE ITALIANS ARE ANXIOUS TO REPAIR RIFTS IN THE TRANSATLANTIC ALLIANCE, PARTICULARLY D [...]
2003-04-11 15:59:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM MOPS PREL IT
03ROME2299PDAS RIES CONSULTATIONS WITH GOI ON PRESIDENCY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: ON MAY 20, EUR PDAS RIES DISCUSSED A BROAD RANGE OF US-EU AND ITALIAN EU PRESIDENCY ISSUES DURING SEPARATE MEETINGS WITH MFA SYG GIUSEPPE BALDOCCI AND DIRECTOR FOR EUROPEAN INTEGRATION ROCCO CANGELOSI. BOTH BALDOCCI AND CANGELOSI STRESSED THAT THE GOI'S TOP PRIORITY FOR THE ITAL [...]
2003-05-23 11:05:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL EU IT NATO
03ROME2485 REPORT OF FAO 102ND FINANCE COMMITTEE
[...] Summary. The 102nd session of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Finance Committee met May 5-9, 2003. Committee members were divided on the question of the 2004-2005 budget level, with the U.S. and Japan supporting zero nominal growth, G-77 members supporting real growth, Swit [...]
2003-06-05 13:10:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KUNR ABUD FAO
03ROME26NORTH KOREA: ITALY FLOATS IDEA OF "HUMANITARIAN"
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: ITALIAN MFA EMPHASIZED IT SHARES OUR VIEWS ON THE SITUATION IN NORTH KOREA AND THE NEED TO BE FIRM WITH PYONGYANG. THE MFA'S DG FOR ASIAN AFFAIRS, WHILE UNDERSTANDING THE RATIONALE BEHIND THE USG'S REJECTION OF REWARDING THE DPRK WITH A DIRECT DIALOGUE, STRESSED [...]
2003-01-03 16:44:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKN IT PARM PREL EAID ENRG UN
03ROME3360ITALY'S EU PRESIDENCY: U.S./EU TASK FORCE
[...] (U) U.S., Commission and Council officials and representatives of the Italian EU Presidency discussed a wide range of subjects, from the U.S. Passenger Name Record and Container Security Initiatives to Europe's efforts to assist Africa, at the July 18th U.S./EU task force meeting in Rome. Ta [...]
2003-07-23 16:46:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL PGOV MOPS IT EUN
03ROME3368U.S.-EU TROIKA POLITIAL DIRECTORS - PRODUCTIVE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A/S Jones had broad, frank and productive discussions at the U.S.-EU Troika Political Directors meeting, chaired by Italian MFA POLDIR Giancarlo Aragona in Rome on July 18. Both sides agreed on the need for strengthened and complementary U.S.-EU and EU-NATO security relations un [...]
2003-07-24 09:23:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL EU IT EUN
03ROME3388EUR A/S JONES DISCUSSIONS WITH PM DIP ADVISOR
[...] No summary [...]
2003-07-25 11:14:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EU IT EUN
03ROME3483PUTIN TELLS BERLUSCONI ALL COOPERATION ON BUSHEHR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: DURING THEIR JULY 29 MEETING IN MOSCOW, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN TOLD PM BERLUSCONI THAT RUSSIAN COOPERATION WITH IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM, INCLUDING THE NUCLEAR FACILITY AT BUSHEHR, HAD CEASED. THEY ALSO DISCUSSED CLOSER EU-RUSSIAN RELATIONS, PREPARATIONS FOR PUTIN'S NOVEMBER [...]
2003-08-01 07:07:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALIT MARR PREL RS EUN
03ROME3926U/S BOLTON'S MEETING WITH ITALIANS
[...] (S) Summary. U/S Bolton discussed the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI),North Korea, Iran and the Global Partnership with MFA DG for Political Affairs Giancarlo Aragona and other Italian MFA officials on August 27. Aragona underlined Italy's strong commitment to PSI, and agreed that th [...]
2003-08-29 10:08:00Embassy RomeSECRETPARM PREL MNUC KNNP IT IAEA
03ROME4021ITALY'S EU PRESIDENCY - ON BOARD WITH MOST USG
[...] (C) Poloff discussed all points ref a with MFA European Correspondent Sandro DeBernadin on September 1. He promised to take them under consideration as he continued to draft Foreign Minister Frattini's briefing papers for the Gymnich, in consultation with appropriate bureaus within the MFA. H [...]
2003-09-04 17:37:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR IT EUN ESDP
03ROME4187BERLUSCONI AND PUTIN DISCUSS IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] (U) GUIDANCE REQUEST. SEE PARA 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: DURING THEIR AUGUST 29-31 MEETING IN SARDINIA, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN TOLD PM BERLUSCONI THAT RUSSIA IS INCREASINGLY CONCERNED ABOUT IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM. ACCORDING TO BERLUSCONI'S SENIOR DIPLOMATIC ADVISOR, PUTIN SAID THAT HE WAS DETE [...]
2003-09-12 17:13:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL IT IR RS EUN IAEA
03ROME4585U/S BOLTON AND SPANISH FM PALACIO DISCUSS ARTICLE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. U/S BOLTON MET SPANISH FOREIGN MINISTER ANA PALACIO IN ROME ON OCTOBER 3 TO DISCUSS PROGRESS ON SIGNING ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENTS AND SPAIN'S CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE IAEA BOARD OF GOVERNORS. FM PALACIO AGREED TO REVIEW NEW ARTICLE 98 LANGUAGE THAT MAY SATISFY EU CONCERNS ABOUT SCOPE [...]
2003-10-07 12:52:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM KNNP IR SP IAEA KICC
03ROME4637U/S BOLTON DISCUSSES ARTICLE 98, PSI, IRAN AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY. U/S Bolton discussed Article 98, PSI, North Korea and Iran with senior Italian officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the President's office and Prime Minister Berlusconi's office during meetings on October 2 in Rome. The Italians agreed to review language recently negoti [...]
2003-10-09 15:14:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MOPS MNUC KN IR IT KICC
03ROME4662ITALY'S EU PRESIDENCY - GAERC POSITIONS
[...] (SBU) ON OCTOBER 9, THE MFA'S EU EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT AND ESDP COORDINATOR SANDRO DE BERNADIN BRIEFED POL MINISTER COUNSELOR TOM COUNTRYMAN AND POLOFF ON EXPECTED CONCLUSIONS FOR THE OCTOBER 13-14 GAERC. ---- IRAN ---- 2. (C) DE BERNADIN EXPECTED THAT MINISTERS WOULD ISSUE A STATEMEN [...]
2003-10-10 15:58:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL IT EUN
03ROME5179ITALIAN EU PRESIDENCY - RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE FOR
[...] (C) ESDP: IN RESPONSE TO REFTEL A POINTS, MFA INTERLOCUTORS REITERATED ITALY'S VIEW EXPRESSED IN REFTEL B AND PREVIOUS; THAT THE CHANGES UNDER CONSIDERATION IN THE IGC DEALING WITH ESDP ARE DESIGNED TO STRENGTHEN, NOT MARGINALIZE, THE TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONSHIP. MFA NATO OFFICE DIRECTOR GIOVA [...]
2003-11-14 16:58:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL IT EUN ESDP NATO
03ROME5665ITALY'S EU PRESIDENCY HAS UNEVEN SUCCESS BUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Against the backdrop of EU members' continuing divisions over Iraq, Italy's EU Presidency managed to further U.S. interests in fighting terrorism and in keeping the EU's defense and security policy in accord with NATO and the Berlin-Plus agreement - in line with Italy's Presidency [...]
2003-12-19 16:26:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL IT EUN
03ROME5694ITALY: 2004 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED
[...] (U) The following is Rome's contribution to the 2004 burdensharing report to Congress. For the purpose of this cable, US. dollar amounts are calculated at the exchange rate of USD 1 = Euro .90 except when noted. Embassy point of contact for this report is Pol-Mil Officer Susanne Rose, tel: [...]
2003-12-23 11:24:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYJA KS KU MCAP PREL SA US MARR IT QU TC NATO
03ROME619TAREQ AZIZ'S VISIT TO ROME - PART I
[...] (SBU) FM FRATTINI WILL CALL THE SECRETARY EARLY AFTERNOON EDT FEB. 14 TO DEBRIEF THE SECRETARY ON FRATTINI'S MEETING WITH TAREQ AZIZ IN ROME FEB. 14 (REF A). THE FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF AZIZ'S TRIP/STATEMENTS IN ROME SO FAR. --------------- AZIZ STATEMENTS --------------- 2. (U) EMBAS [...]
2003-02-14 14:22:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM
03SANAA1350YEMENI NATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION CHAIRMAN
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see paragraph 7. 2. (U) Dr. Moustafa Bahran, Chairman of the Yemeni National Atomic Energy Commission (NATEC),requests the Department's assistance in coordinating an important visit to the U.S. to discuss the physical security of radiological materials [...]
2003-06-12 15:01:00Embassy SanaaSECRETPARM PREL PTER YM COUNTER TERRORISM
03SANAA1373SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY BOLTON'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) You are the most senior State Department official to visit Yemen since Secretary Baker came in late 1990. The ROYG thus recognizes your visit as an important opportunity to continue building the positive bilateral relations that have evolved in the aftermath of the Cole and 9/11 attacks, [...]
2003-06-16 05:11:00Embassy SanaaSECRETPARM PREL OTRA OVIP YM COUNTER TERRORISM
03SANAA1453U/S BOLTON'S VISIT TO YEMEN: MEETING WITH
[...] (S/NF) Begin summary: On June 17, Under Secretary John Bolton met with Dr. Moustafa Bahran, Chairman of the Yemeni National Atomic Energy Commission (NATEC) and science advisor to ROYG President Saleh. Discussing the U.S. campaign to target and cut off revenue that funds North Korea's nucle [...]
2003-06-24 07:01:00Embassy SanaaSECRETMARR PARM PREL MNUC MASS KN YM COUNTER TERRORISM
03SANAA2142YEMEN: IAEA DRAFT RESOLUTION AND YEMEN-DEPT ENERGY
[...] (u) This is an action request -- see para 3. 2. (c) Dr. Moustafa Bahran, Chairman of the Yemen National Atomic Energy Commission (NATEC),requests U.S. assistance in delivering Yemen's draft resolution for the September 2003 IAEA General Assembly to appropriate USG officials. Bahran sp [...]
2003-08-26 09:04:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALTRGY TPHY PTER AORC YM IAEA COUNTER TERRORISM ENERGY
03STATE8026A/S KELLY DISCUSSES KOREA, BILATERAL RELATIONS
[...] (C) A/S KELLY BRIEFED AMBASSADOR YANG JIECHI JANUARY 9 ON LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN OUR APPROACH TO NORTH KOREA, PREVIEWED HIS UPCOMING TRIP TO THE REGION AND DISCUSSED OVERALL BILATERAL RELATIONS. ON KOREA, KELLY STRESSED U.S. TACTICAL FLEXIBILITY IN FOCUSING ON OUR KEY OBJECTIVE, WHICH WAS TO [...]
2003-01-10 00:05:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL CH KN KS
03TEGUCIGALPA2656HONDURAS RATIFIES THREE COUNTERTERRORISM
[...] Summary: The GOH has ratified three outstanding counterterrorism (CT) conventions (two ICAO and one IAEA). The GOH is now a party to 10 international CT conventions. Post is pressing hard for the GOH to ratify the two IMO and two OAS CT conventions still outstanding. Persistent efforts by Emb [...]
2003-11-12 17:55:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL KTIA AORC PARM EAIR EWWT KCRM HO
03TEGUCIGALPA349HONDURAN MFA GIVEN SECRETARY ABRAHAM LETTER ON
[...] No summary [...]
2003-02-06 16:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC TRGY MNUC KNNP KSAF PINS HO IAEA
03TEGUCIGALPA350HONDURAS GIVEN USG JANUARY 27 REMARKS ON IRAQ;
[...] PolOff delivered reftel text of Ambassador Negroponte's January 27 to the UNSC and the Secretary's January 27 press statement January 29 to MFA DG for Foreign Policy AMB Mario Fortin. The MFA has not had a substantive reply but Fortin told PolOff that the GOH appreciated the information. 2 [...]
2003-02-06 16:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM MNUC MOPS IZ HO IAEA UNSC
03TEGUCIGALPA824TFIZ01: AMBASSADOR URGES HONDURAN FM PEREZ-CADALSO
[...] (S) Summary. Ambassador met April 1 with Honduran Minister of Foreign Affairs Guillermo Perez-Cadalso to discuss a wide range of issues, with a focus on Iraq and combating terrorism. Ambassador urged the GOH to make stronger public statements on Iraq, including on Iraqi war crimes, and criti [...]
2003-04-02 21:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PHUM AORC KTIA KAWC IZ HO KICC
03THEHAGUE1434IAEA/IRAN: DEMARCHE TO DUTCH
[...] No summary [...]
2003-06-05 15:42:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM MNUC IR NL IAEA
03THEHAGUE1466DUTCH RESPONSE ON IAEA SAFEGUARDS BUDGET INCREASE
[...] No summary [...]
2003-06-10 14:38:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP AORC ABUD TRGY NL IAEA
03THEHAGUE1506IAEA/IRAN: FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE WITH DUTCH ON IRAN
[...] (C) AMBASSADOR MADE REF A DEMARCHE TO DUTCH MFA POLITICAL DIRECTOR HUGO SIBLESZ ON JUNE 12. SIBLESZ SAID HE SAW NO GAP BETWEEN U.S. AND DUTCH VIEWS ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM, ONLY A DIFFERENCE OVER TACTICS. THE DUTCH PREFERENCE FOR THE JUNE 16 IAEA BOARD OF GOVERNORS' MEETING IS FOR SOME FORM [...]
2003-06-12 15:03:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM MNUC IR NL IAEA
03THEHAGUE1888ACTING NP/DAS FITZPATRICK'S MEETING WITH THE DUTCH
[...] (C) Summary: Acting NP/DAS Fitzpatrick and T Senior Advisor Wurmser met with Dutch MFA Security Policy Chief Maurits Jochems on July 21 to discuss next steps concerning Iran and the IAEA. The Dutch are seized with the urgency of the Iranian nuclear issue. They agreed to support encouraging [...]
2003-07-25 12:11:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALKNNP IR NL IAEA
03THEHAGUE2114PDAS SOUTHWICK DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE HAGUE
[...] (C) Summary: DRL PDAS Michael Southwick met with Dutch interlocutors on August 18 to discuss US-led and multilateral efforts in the field of human rights. The Dutch exchanged EU goals for the UNGA 3rd committee as well as thoughts on Cuba, CHR WEOG rotation scheme, and US-EU cooperation on h [...]
2003-08-22 08:40:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPHUM BM CG TH CH ZI CU NL UNHRC UNGA
03THEHAGUE2173IAEA/IRAN: DUTCH MFA ON IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] (C) Summary: PolMilOff delivered ref A demarche to Dutch MFA Nonproliferation Chief Paul Wilke on August 27. The Dutch believe a noncompliance resolution on Iran is merited, but are concerned this may not be achievable as Dir. ElBaradei's latest report is not final, so some board members may [...]
2003-08-28 13:43:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC IR NL IAEA
03THEHAGUE2220IAEA/IRAN: DUTCH MFA ON IAEA BOG NONCOMPLIANCE
[...] (C) Summary: Poloffs delivered ref A demarche to Dutch MFA Nonproliferation Chief Paul Wilke on September 3. The Dutch agree that a noncompliance resolution on Iran is warranted, but believe it may have to wait for Dir. ElBaradei's final report in November. According to Wilke there is "no u [...]
2003-09-04 09:16:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC IR NL IAEA
03THEHAGUE2290ILSA: IRAN-AZADEGAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO ROYAL
[...] (C) Summary. Senior Shell Advisor Gavin Graham confirmed that Shell has no plans to make a proposal or tender for the Azadegan oil field independent of the Japanese. Shell does not feel the time is right to make deals in Iran, and is wary of undermining its relationship with the Japanese [...]
2003-09-11 17:04:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET ETTC IR JA NL UK
03THEHAGUE2366DUTCH RESPONSE TO IAEA ARAB-ISRAELI DISPUTE
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on the IAEA Arab-Israeli dispute at the General Conference (Ref A) to Dutch MFA Deputy Head of Nuclear Affairs and Nonproliferation Division Peter Potman. During the demarche, the MFA received a call from its delegation in Vienna saying the EU had just rea [...]
2003-09-19 14:22:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALAORC KNNP IS EG NL IAEA
03THEHAGUE2647DUTCH ON DEMARCHE TO CPPNM PARTIES
[...] (C) On October 16, PolOff delivered reftel demarche on the revision of the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material (CPPNM) to Pieter van Donkersgoed, Deputy Head of the MFA's Environmental and Nuclear Safety Division. Van Donkersgoed said it was clear the United States had a [...]
2003-10-17 14:57:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPARM ENRG TRGY KNNP KTIA NL IAEA
03THEHAGUE2846IAEA/IRAN: DUTCH MFA NONPRO CHIEF ON ELBARADEI
[...] (C) Poloffs delivered ref A nonpaper to MFA Nonproliferation Chief Paul Wilke on November 13. Wilke (protect throughout) said the GONL shared the U.S. conclusion that the latest ElBaradei report confirms Iran has been pursuing capabilities needed for a nuclear weapons program. In the Dutch vi [...]
2003-11-13 15:42:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC IR NL IAEA
03THEHAGUE2881IAEA/IRAN: DUTCH MFA REACTION TO U.S. APPROACH
[...] No summary [...]
2003-11-17 15:38:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC IR NL IAEA
03THEHAGUE2931IAEA/IRAN: REVISED LANGUAGE DELIVERED TO DUTCH MFA
[...] No summary [...]
2003-11-21 15:44:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL PARM MNUC EU IR NL IAEA
03THEHAGUE2956CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): A/S DESUTTER'S
[...] (U) On November 17-18, Paula A. DeSutter, Assistant Secretary of State for Verification and Compliance, visited SIPDIS The Hague and consulted with officials of the Technical Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of SIPDIS Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and other officials. She so [...]
2003-11-25 15:17:00Embassy The HagueSECRETPARM PREL CWC
03THEHAGUE3150THE NETHERLANDS: 2004 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON
[...] (U) Point of Contact is Pol-Mil Officer Nathaniel Dean, (31) (70) 310-9346, email DeanNP@state.gov. Average exchange rate is one Euro equals 1.22 USD. ------------------ GENERAL ASSESSMENT ------------------ 2. (U) The Netherlands made significant contributions to allied goals in 200 [...]
2003-12-19 15:40:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MOPS MCAP PREL PGOV NL NATO
03THEHAGUE3155CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): OPCW READY TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: USDel briefed the OPCW Chief of Staff and Director for Verification December 22 on Libya's agreement to abandon its chemical weapons, and conveyed U.S. readiness to provide more detailed information in the near future. The OPCW officials welcomed the offer and congratulated the [...]
2003-12-22 12:01:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KNNP LY CWC
03USUNNEWYORK298UN/IRAQ: IRAQ SENDS LETTER PRE-EMPTIVELY TAKING
[...] (U) IRAQI FM NAJI SABRI SUBMITTED THE FOLLOWING LETTER TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL (S/2003/132),CONCERNING THE U.S. PRESENTATION TO THE COUNCIL ON FEBRUARY 5. THE FULL TEXT OF THE LETTER FOLLOWS IN PARA 2. 2. (U) BEGIN TEXT. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES HAS ANNOUNCED THAT IT HAS CAL [...]
2003-02-06 00:21:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM UNSC IZ
03USUNNEWYORK299UNSC/IRAQ: SECRETARY POWELL MAKES THE CASE; THE
[...] (U) SECRETARY POWELL MADE AN HOUR AND FIFTEEN MINUTE-PRESENTATION FEBRUARY 5 TO THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL (SC) IN WHICH HE OUTLINED, IN DETAIL: IRAQI EFFORTS TO DEFEAT UNMOVIC AND IAEA INSPECTIONS; IRAQ'S FAILURE TO ACCOUNT FOR WMD AND OTHER MATERIALS IT WAS KNOWN TO HAVE POSSESSED; AND IRAQ'S [...]
2003-02-06 01:36:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM PTER UNSC IZ
03USUNNEWYORK300UN/IRAQ: COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENTS FOLLOWING THE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: COUNCIL MEMBERS, STATEMENTS TO THE PRESS FOLLOWING SECRETARY POWELL,S PRESENTATION CLOSELY REFLECTED THE CONTENT OF THEIR PREPARED NATIONAL STATEMENTS MADE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, AND LARGELY FELL ALONG PREDICTABLE LINES. WHEN ASKED IF SECRETARY POWELL,S PRESENTATION CONVINCED HIM [...]
2003-02-06 02:21:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC PARM IZ
03USUNNEWYORK634UN/IRAQ:TEXT OF UNDECIDED SIX "COMPROMISE PROPOSAL"
[...] (C) IN A DISPLAY OF THE INCREASING DISCOMFORT WITH THE DECISION BEFORE THE COUNCIL ON IRAQ, THE UNDECIDED SIX (U-6) HAVE PREPARED A "COMPROMISE PROPOSAL" WHICH THEY PLAN TO PUT BEFORE THE COUNCIL. IT IS NOT CLEAR WHEN THIS DRAFT (TEXT AT PARA 2),WHICH WAS PROVIDED BY A FRIENDLY U-6 MEMBER, WI [...]
2003-03-10 21:25:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC PARM IZ
03USUNNEWYORK707UN/IRAQ: UNDECIDED SIX INITIATIVE DEAD
[...] (C) CAMEROONIAN PERMREP BELINGA-EBOUTOU REPORTED THAT THE U-6 INITIATIVE TO DEVELOP AN ALTERNATIVE PRODUCT FOR THE SECURITY COUNCIL HAD HIT A DEAD END, BASED ON THE OUTCOME OF A MEETING BETWEEN U-6 PERMREPS EARLY AFTERNOON ON MARCH 14. CAMEROON, ANGOLA, GUINEA AND PAKISTAN HAD ALL DECLINED TO [...]
2003-03-14 22:43:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC IZ ETTC
03USUNNEWYORK727UN/IRAQ: NO VOTE ON THE RESOLUTION; SUBDUED COUNCIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A SUBDUED SECURITY COUNCIL MET IN INFORMALS ON MARCH 17 TO RECEIVE WORD THAT THE U.S., UK, AND SPAIN HAD CHOSEN NOT TO BRING THEIR RESOLUTION TO A VOTE, BUT WOULD INSTEAD "RESERVE THEIR RIGHT TO TAKE THEIR OWN STEPS TO SECURE THE DISARMAMENT OF IRAQ." SYG ANNAN AND MOST COUNCIL M [...]
2003-03-17 22:45:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC IZ
03USUNNEWYORK746UN/IRAQ: SYG REPLIES TO IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTER'S
[...] (U) SYG ANNAN CIRCULATED TO THE COUNCIL HIS MARCH 17 RESPONSE LETTER TO IRAQI FM NAJI SABRI AL-HADITHI'S MARCH 13 AND 16 LETTERS REQUESTING THAT UNIKOM NOT BE WITHDRAWN FROM THE DMZ (REF A AND B). THE SYG RESPONDED THAT ALL UN PERSONNEL WOULD BE TEMPORARILY WITHDRAWN FROM IRAQ, THEREFORE SUSP [...]
2003-03-18 20:57:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM KPKO UNSC IZ
03USUNNEWYORK768UN/IRAQ: COUNCIL CLOSES ONE CHAPTER IN IRAQI DISARMAMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A FRANKLY ANTI-CLIMATIC CONCLUSION TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL'S ROLE IN DEBATING THE DISARMAMENT OF IRAQ, THE COUNCIL HELD AN OPEN SESSION MARCH 19 ATTENDED BY MINISTERS FROM FRANCE, GERMANY, RUSSIA, SYRIA, AND GUINEA. (GUINEAN FM FALL WAS IN NEW YORK TO PRESIDE OVER THE COUNCIL [...]
2003-03-19 23:28:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC IZ
03VATICAN1570VATICAN LOOKING FORWARD: U/S BOLTON REVIEWS
[...] (C) HOLY SEE FOREIGN MINISTER TAURAN, CARDINAL STAFFORD, THE AMERICAN HEADS OF THE COUNCIL FOR LAITY, AND ITALIAN CARDINAL RUINI, WHO IS THE VICAR OF ROME AND HEAD OF THE ITALIAN BISHOPS CONFERENCE, TOLD UNDER SECRETARY BOLTON APRIL 9 THAT THEY ARE LOOKING TO IRAQ'S FUTURE AND ARE FOCUSED ON HUMANI [...]
2003-04-13 10:14:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALPREL IZ VT VTPREL
03VATICAN4689HOLY SEE: UNDERSECRETARY BOLTON REVIEWS U.S.
[...] (c) Under Secretary Bolton told Vatican Deputy Foreign Minister Parolin that the U.S. was making steady progress in Iraq, even though the security situation was not what we would like it to be. Bolton briefed Parolin on the President's meeting with Russian President Putin and the state of pla [...]
2003-10-15 05:57:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALIR IZ KN PARM PREL VT
03VATICAN5644ASSISTANT SECRETARY BURNS MEETING WITH VATICAN FM
[...] (C) In a December 12 meeting, A/S Burns told the Holy See's new Foreign Minister Giovanni Lajolo that the U.S. saw an opportunity to move the Middle East peace process forward in the face of anger and frustration on both sides. Lajolo expressed the Holy See's support for the Road Map, noting [...]
2003-12-18 12:44:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALIR IS IZ PREL SY
03ZAGREB2173CROATIA SUPPORTS PSI
[...] On September 18, at a meeting with representatives of embassies of all eleven PSI states, Croatia's Foreign Ministry made an informal declaration of support for PSI principles, but asked questions about the legal framework for PSI and about plans for PSI infrastructure (ref a). After receipt [...]
2003-10-07 15:36:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC PARM PREL PHSA PBTS HR NATO
04ABUDHABI1710UAEG STUDYING ATOMIC ENERGY POTENTIAL; SEEKS USG
[...] (U) Classified by Deputy Chief of Mission Richard A. Albright, for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 5. 3. (C) UAE Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hamdan bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (HbZ) told the Ambassador May 23 [...]
2004-05-24 13:26:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON EINV KNNP TC GM
04ABUDHABI1992SCENESETTER FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER, GEN ABIZAID,
[...] (U) GENERAL ABIZAID: WELCOME BACK TO THE UAE. WE HAVE REQUESTED MEETINGS FOR YOU WITH ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE SHAYKH KHALIFA BIN ZAYED AL NAHYAN, AS WELL AS WITH ABU DHABI DEPUTY CROWN PRINCE AND UAE ARMED FORCES CHIEF OF STAFF LT GEN SHAYKH MUHAMMAD BIN ZAYED AL NAHYAN (MBZ). BOTH SHAYKHS WI [...]
2004-06-16 12:36:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETPINS PREL PTER PGOV TC
04ABUDHABI2262UAEG RECEIVES IAEA CHIEF; ASKS FOR IAEA
[...] (U) Classified by Charge d'Affaires, a.i. Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d). 2. (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 7. 3. (SBU) IAEA Director General Mohammed El-Baradei traveled to the UAE this week and met with senior officials in Abu Dhabi, including A [...]
2004-07-07 11:07:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALETTC PARM PREL PTER KSTC TC
04ABUDHABI2975BUILDING SUPPORT FOR A DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2004-08-31 17:34:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PTER KTIA IAEA TC
04ABUDHABI3078UAE press on El Baradei, Iran nukes
[...] (C) Summary: Iran's nuclear program received an unusual amount of attention in the press this week, with an exclusive interview with IAEA Chief Dr. Mohamed El Baradei in one newspaper, and a strong editorial endorsement of Iran's decision to go on a diplomatic offensive about its nuclear inten [...]
2004-09-08 13:41:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALKNNP IAEA IR TC
04ABUDHABI3096DEMARCHE ON GLOBAL THREAT REDUCTION INITIATIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-13 15:25:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDIAEA KNNP TRGY PTER MNUC TC
04ABUDHABI3123 MEDIA REACTION: IRAN'S RELATION WITH IAEA AND UN
[...] Summary: An editorial in English daily "Gulf News" calls on Iran to put its nuclear program under IAEA supervision and urges the US to follow an agreed international route for a solution. Arabic daily "Al-Ittihad" strongly attacks the international community's silence vis a vis Israeli atroci [...]
2004-09-15 06:29:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
04ABUDHABI3212UAE DEPUTY PM/MINSTATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON CT,
[...] (U) Ambassador presented copies of credentials to Deputy Prime Minister/Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Shaikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (HbZ) on September 14 in a cordial and informal meeting. HbZ, who had spent much of the summer traveling outside of the UAE, was keen to review &nex [...]
2004-09-16 09:20:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL ODIP ETTC PTER TC
04ABUDHABI3412UAE EXPLORES BUILDING NUCLEAR PLANT FOR POWER,
[...] (U) Summary: The UAE signed an MOU with the Government of South Korea to undertake a feasibility study regarding building a nuclear power plant in UAE. If constructed, the plant could potentially double the country,s power and water generation capabilities, and it would be the first nuclear [...]
2004-09-28 13:39:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ECON EINV KNNP GM TC
04ABUDHABI3693A/S BLOOMFIELD MEETS UAE DEPUTY PM SHEIKH HAMDAN
[...] (S) Summary: During an October 17 meeting, UAE Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed and A/S Bloomfield reviewed US-UAE bilateral cooperation and discussed the current situation in Iraq as well as specific military cooperation issues. Sheikh Ha [...]
2004-10-18 11:43:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETPREL PARM MARR MCAP MASS IZ IR GE TC
04ABUDHABI4512SECRETARY'S ORAL MESSAGE TO GCC FOREIGN MINISTERS
[...] (C) Summary: On December 12, DCM delivered reftel points to Ambassador Sultan Al Romeithi, office director for Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Al Romeithi expressed his government's support for the upcoming Iraqi elections, and [...]
2004-12-13 10:41:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETPREL PGOV PTER MOPS OPDC IZ IR TC
04ABUDHABI630SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL ABIZAID'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) General Abizaid: I would like to welcome you back to the UAE. During your visit, we have requested meetings with Abu Dhabi Deputy Crown Prince and UAE Armed Forces Chief of Staff LTG Shaykh Muhammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ),and Dubai Crown Prince General Shaykh Muhammad bin Rashid Al M [...]
2004-03-07 14:09:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PARM MOPS GCC IZ TC
04ABUJA1037STRENGTHENING THE IAEA AND THE NPT REGIME --
[...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche and non-paper to Ministry of Foreign Affairs First United Nations Division Director Ambassador Abdul Bin Rimdap on June 9. Noting the importance of safeguards and that the IAEA already makes use of standing committees, Rimdap said he believed the GON would [...]
2004-06-10 12:13:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALKNNP TRGY MNUC NI IAEA
04ABUJA1038IRAN/IAEA DEMARCHE -- NIGERIA
[...] (C) June 9, POLOFF delivered reftel demarche and non-paper to MFA First United Nations Division Director Ambassador Abdul Bin Rimdap. Rimdap agreed that the IAEA must continue to apply pressure on Iran to fully comply with its NPT obligations, however, he cautioned that the GON would not sup [...]
2004-06-10 12:14:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC TRGY IR NI IAEA
04ABUJA1067LETTER FROM THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF
[...] Following is the text of a letter from Minister Oluyemi Adeniji to Secretary Colin Powell. Original is being sent by pouch. 2. Begin text. Mr. Colin L. Powell United States Secretary of State c/o Embassy of the United States of America 9 Mambilla Street Maitama District Abuja Your [...]
2004-06-16 12:12:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL
04AMMAN2873U.S.-IAEA ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL
[...] No summary [...]
2004-04-15 14:13:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDTRGY KNNP JO IAEA
04AMMAN6305MEDIA REACTION ON DARFUR CRISIS, ISRAEL'S
[...] No summary [...]
2004-07-26 10:16:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR JO
04AMMAN9851MEDIA REACTION ON IRAQ AND IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2004-12-13 12:26:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR JO
04ANKARA1060NONPROLIFERATION CONSULTATIONS: TURKEY WILLING,
[...] (S) Because the Ambassador's schedule did not allow for a timely delivery of reftel points, DCM delivered them to MFA Director General for International Security Affairs Morali on February 24. DCM emphasized that the disarmament of Libya has created an opportunity to learn more about how the K [...]
2004-02-24 15:48:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETKNNP MNUC PARM PREL TU
04ANKARA1767TURKEY HAS HIGH HOPES FOR NPT PREPCOM
[...] No summary [...]
2004-03-24 08:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP TU
04ANKARA2878S/P REISS RAISES GME, IRAQ, IRAN WITH TURKISH MFA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In May 7 meetings in Ankara, S/P Director Mitchell B. Reiss discussed USG policies toward 1) the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq; 2) the Greater Middle East Initiative (GMEI); 3) Iranian nuclear ambitions; and, 4) NATO,s Istanbul Summit. Turkish MFA U/S Ugur Ziyal, Policy Plan [...]
2004-05-21 16:28:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM TU
04ANKARA3740PSI AND NPT: TURKS "DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED" AT LACK
[...] (C) Action Request at Para 8. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) While delivering Refs A and B, PolMilCouns and PolMilOff were treated to an unexpected and emotional reaction to U/S Bolton's PSI letter from usually stoic MFA Director General for Disarmament and Security Affairs Haluk Ilica [...]
2004-07-01 15:01:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPARM KNNP MNUC PREL TU IR
04ANKARA380RFG: TURKEY IMPOUNDS RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL AND
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. 2. (SBU) This is an urgent action request; see para 2. In response to reftel email indicating the IAEA had received reports from Turkish officials that five trucks containing presumably orphaned radioactive material had been intercepted attempting to cross [...]
2004-01-22 09:43:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMNUC PARM TU
04ANKARA4112TURKISH PM ERDOGAN'S JULY 27-29 TRIP TO IRAN: U.S.
[...] (C) In delivering reftel demarche July 22 to MFA DDG for South Asia Evirgen, polcounselor noted our understanding that Turkey shares U.S. views on the need for sharp improvement in Iranian behavior. The USG has strong interest in seeing PM Erdogan deliver crisp, unambiguous messages to Tehran [...]
2004-07-23 13:48:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS ECON ENRG TU IR
04ANKARA4233ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-07-29 15:50:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA4421TURKISH PM ERDOGAN'S JULY 27-29 VISIT TO IRAN
[...] (C) Summary: According to MFA and ruling AKP contacts, PM Erdogan urged the Iranians to cooperate with IAEA on their nuclear program. The visit failed to produce an agreement on an expanded project to transship Iranian natural gas: the Turks sought a price reduction on their 1996 gas deal wi [...]
2004-08-06 13:17:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET IR IZ KNNP PREL PTER TU
04ANKARA4426CEKMECE RESEARCH REACTOR CONVERSION AND FUEL RETURN
[...] EXBS Advisor called on the new Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK) President, Mr. Okay Cakiroglu, on August 6. Cakiroglu assumed these duties this past July. EXBS Advisor the meeting, we raised the Cekmece Nuclear Plants (reftel),noting that DOE is willing to assist in the physical securit [...]
2004-08-06 13:52:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDENRG KNNP PM TRGY TU
04ANKARA5014IAEA/IRAN - TURKEY TO SPEAK OUT AT UNGA, BUT FEARS
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish FM Gul is expected to voice Turkey's concerns about Iran's nuclear program at the UNGA, but MFA worries that referring Iran's case to the Security Council before the outcome there is assured might actually accelerate Iran's efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. End summary. [...]
2004-09-07 15:31:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC TRGY IR TU
04ANKARA5115AMBASSADOR AND DCHOD BASBUG DISCUSS CYPRUS, EU
[...] (S) TGS Deputy Chief GEN Basbug told the Ambassador September 8 that developments regarding Cyprus were "worrisome," pointing at the European Court of Human Rights consideration of Loizidou clone cases and the lack of EU action on ending the isolation of northern Cypriots. He hinted that Anka [...]
2004-09-10 15:47:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MARR PGOV PARM IZ CY IR TU
04ANKARA5535ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT,
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-27 14:47:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA5698SECRETARY ABRAHAM,S SEPTEMBER 21 BILATERAL MEETING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham and Turkey Energy Minister Hilmi Guler covered a range of energy issues in a meeting in Istanbul on September 21. Areas identified for continued and deepened cooperation were Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline completion in mid 2005; promotion [...]
2004-10-04 15:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET EWWT EMIN ETRD EINV OVIP TU
04ANKARA5721DASD BRZEZINSKI DISCUSSES REGIONAL SECURITY WITH
[...] (S) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense (DASD) Ian Brzezinski requested MFA Deputy Under-Secretary Sensoy's assistance to elevate the level of U.S.-Turkey strategic dialogue. He praised Turkey's agreement to command ISAF VII. On Missile Defense, he emphasized the importance of our [...]
2004-10-06 04:36:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETMARR OVIP PGOV PREL TU
04ANKARA5784FM GUL AND STRAW MEET IN ANKARA OCTOBER 7
[...] (C) Summary: UK FM Straw met with Turkish FM Gul the morning after the EC issued its Turkey report. Gul said Turkey is pleased overall with the report but cited some complaints, including on economic issues. Gul wants PM Erdogan to write to the EU about them. Gul urged direct flights to n [...]
2004-10-12 04:49:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETCY IR IZ PREL TU UK AM GG
04ANKARA6000TURKEY'S FIRST CIVILIAN NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
[...] (S) Summary: In an October 15 introductory call by the Ambassador, Yigit Alpogan, the first civilian Secretary-General in the seventy year history of the Turkish SIPDIS National Security Council (NSC),outlined plans to downsize and further "civilianize" the NSC staff. Alpogan provided li [...]
2004-10-22 10:53:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETMARR PGOV PREL PTER TU
04ANKARA6207SCENESETTER: AMBASSADOR SCHNABEL'S VISIT TO TURKEY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit to Turkey provides an excellent opportunity to assure the Turks that the U.S. continues to support Turkey's EU candidacy. Some elements in Turkey view the U.S. and EU as rival power blocs, and question why the U.S. would want Turkey in the EU. By highlighting areas o [...]
2004-11-02 15:29:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EU TU
04ANKARA6648ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2004-11-30 16:43:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
04ANKARA6802CEKMECE REACTOR CONVERSION AND FUEL RETURN
[...] EXBS Advisor and energy officer met with Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK) President Okay Cakiroglu on December 3 to discuss the Cekmece reactors and the possible early return of Highly Enriched Uranium (HUE) fuel rods (ref A). Cakiroglu did not believe that there would be any GOT object [...]
2004-12-07 13:54:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDENRG KNNP TRGY TU
04ANKARA6816 Scenesetter for Codel Hastert
[...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit to Turkey comes at a bumpy period in the bilateral relationship, in large measure connected with developments in Iraq. This message provides a brief overview of the state of bilateral relations, cooperation in Iraq, Turkey's EU accession prospects and the state of t [...]
2004-12-08 11:09:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL MARR PGOV ECON IZ TU
04ANKARA6835 Scenesetter for Treasury DAS Loevinger
[...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit to Turkey comes at a bumpy period in the bilateral relationship, in large measure connected with developments in Iraq. It is also a delicate moment in relations with both the IMF and EU. This message provides a brief overview of the state of bilateral relations, coo [...]
2004-12-09 13:24:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN TU
04ANKARA6877IRAN: MFA OFFICIAL ON NUKES AND INTEREFERENCE IN
[...] (C) PolMilCouns discussed Iran's nuclear program Dec. 9 with MFA Deputy Director General for South Asia Aydin Evirgen. Evirgen said that Turkey is continuing to warn Iran that it must comply with the IAEA and cease any further development of nuclear weapons capability. In the context of the [...]
2004-12-10 14:43:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MNUC IR TU IZ
04ANKARA7059TURKEY: 2004 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT
[...] (U) Combating terrorism has long been a priority for the Government of Turkey (GOT). In 2004, Turkey continued its strong support of the coalition in the global war against terror in Afghanistan by agreeing to assume command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan for [...]
2004-12-20 14:42:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETASEC PGOV PREL PTER TU
04ANKARA7067SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY ARMITAGE'S
[...] (C) You arrive at a time when Turkey, having secured a 2005 start date for EU accession negotiations, will have begun to wake up warily to the enormous challenges entailed by harmonization. You arrive as well in a Turkey where much of the public, fed massive, continuing disinformation by an a [...]
2004-12-20 16:28:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM IZ ECON TU
04BRASILIA1005 ENERGY SECRETARY ABRAHAM MEETS BRAZILIAN MINISTERS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham traveled to Brasilia April 19 to meet with Brazil's Science and Technology Minister Campos, Mines and Energy Minister Rousseff, and Foreign Relations Minister Amorim, as a follow- up to the June 2004 Presidential Summit between President Bush and [...]
2004-04-28 11:45:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG OVIP EINV EFIN PGOV ECON BR
04BRASILIA1018BRAZIL: SCENESETTER FOR BILATERAL POL-MIL
[...] (C) Summary: Mission warmly welcomes your visit to Brazil. Much is changing in Brazil. Under President Lula there has been renewed focus on social issues and structural reform; economic performance, meanwhile, has been mixed. Urban crime poses an increasing threat to public security. The m [...]
2004-04-28 15:41:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL BR POL MIL
04BRASILIA2146BRAZIL: POLICE SEIZE URANIUM ORE
[...] (U) Brazilian Federal Police announced on Aug 24 the seizure last month of 1,320 pounds of uranium and thorium ore, the first time, according to press reports, that such a seizure has occurred in Brazil. (Note: In 2003 GOB officials told Poloff that they were unaware of any illicit traffick [...]
2004-08-26 18:48:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KCRM KNNP PREL TPHY BR IAEA
04BRASILIA2151BRAZIL: RESPONSE TO ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL AS
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered ref A talking points to Ministry of Foreign Relations Sensitive Technologies and Disarmament Division (MRE/DDS) Deputy Director Manuel Montenegro, who is well versed on Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) matters. Montenegro had participated in the recent NSG plenary meeting [...]
2004-08-26 20:32:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKNNP MNUC ETTC PREL PARM BR NPT IAEA
04BRASILIA2303AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON DEFENSE MINISTER VIEGAS, 8
[...] (C) Summary. In a courtesy call on 8 September with Ambassador, Defense Minister Jose Viegas expressed enthusiastic satisfaction with Department responses to GOB suggestions for revisions in the stalled 2000 bilateral Technology Safeguards Agreement on possible U.S. participation in commercial [...]
2004-09-13 20:33:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MASS MARR BR POL MIL
04BRASILIA2428AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON PRESIDENTIAL FOREIGN AFFAIRS
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-24 14:10:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM BR US
04BRASILIA2468SCENESETTER: THE SECRETARY'S VISIT TO BRAZIL, 4-6
[...] (SBU) The United States Mission in Brazil warmly welcomes your visit to Sao Paulo and Brasilia. You are the senior USG official to travel to Brazil during the administration of President Lula da Silva. Your visit has been much sought after by the GOB, and the President and Foreign Minister A [...]
2004-09-29 20:16:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON PREL SOCI BR US
04BRASILIA2513AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON PRESIDENCY CHIEF OF STAFF
[...] (C) Summary. In an affable and candid first meeting with Ambassador, Presidential Chief of Staff and Lula right-hand man Jose Dirceu expressed optimism about bilateral relations, Brazil's economy and the potential for American investment in major new infrastructure projects. At the same time, [...]
2004-10-06 17:58:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BR US
04BRASILIA2762BRAZIL AND THE IAEA: AGREEMENT PENDING ON RESENDE
[...] (SBU) Reacting to press reports concerning preliminary IAEA approval to Brazil's proposed inspection regime at the Resende nuclear enrichment facility, Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies (DDS) Division Chief Santiago Mourao acknowledged that the report [...]
2004-11-04 17:54:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM MNUC BR IAEA
04BRASILIA2781SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY RUMSFELD'S TRIP TO
[...] (C) The United States Mission in Brazil warmly welcomes your visit to Manaus. Your arrival comes on the heels of a major shakeup in Brazil's Ministry of Defense. The resignation of Minister Jose Viegas and his replacement on November 8 by Vice President Jose Alencar is intended to repair a r [...]
2004-11-08 20:31:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MCAP BR POL MIL
04BRASILIA913BRAZIL AND U.S. HOLD FRANK, CONSTRUCTIVE TALKS ON
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: U.S.-Brazil policy discussions in the Joint Standing Committee for Nuclear Energy Cooperation were positive, non-confrontational, and useful to both sides. While Brazil did not express new policy positions on high-profile issues such as the Additional Protocol (AP) or the Resen [...]
2004-04-15 17:27:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNENRG KNNP PREL KSCA BR NPT
04BRATISLAVA138RADIOACTIVE SOURCES: SLOVAK REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2004-02-10 12:29:00Embassy BratislavaUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC PARM OPDC PREL LO IAEA
04BRATISLAVA793 SLOVAK RESPONSE TO ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL
[...] No summary [...]
2004-08-26 14:44:00Embassy BratislavaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL TRGY LO IAEA
04BRUSSELS1401P/DAS RIES DISCUSSES US-EU SUMMIT DELIVERABLES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a March 30 meeting with HR Solana's WMD Rep Annalisa Giannella, EUR P/DAS Charlie Ries shared preliminary USG thoughts about possible nonproliferation deliverables for the June US-EU Dublin Summit. Stressing that these were just early ideas and not formal proposals, Ries su [...]
2004-03-31 12:39:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS1607SUBJECT: MARCH 19 U.S.-EU TROIKA CONSULTATIONS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 19, Special Representative of the President for Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and Geneva CD Ambassador Jackie W. Sanders and NP/PPC Director Christopher Murray led discussions on arms control and disarmament with the EU's Nonproliferation Troika (CONOP). Issues dis [...]
2004-04-14 15:27:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS2262USEU SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY VISIT JUNE
[...] Sensitive but unclassified -- entire text. 2. Summary: You are coming to Brussels during a time of transition in the EU as it absorbs its new members and moves towards a new Parliament, new Commissioners and a new Constitutional Treaty. At the same time, the EU under the Irish Presidency i [...]
2004-05-27 10:28:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PINR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS2368KEY TOPICS FOR EU FMS' MEETING AND SUMMIT, JUNE 14
[...] The headline issues for the June 14 EU FMs' meeting and the June 17-18 EU Summit will be the final round of Constitutional Treaty negotiations and the nomination of the next generation of key EU leaders (Commission President, CFSP High Rep). But a substantial list of other topics will also [...]
2004-06-03 10:46:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV EAID PINR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS2593MANY EU SUMMIT FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY
[...] (C) During the EU Summit June 17-18 in Brussels, EU sources tell us EU leaders will approve a range of pre-cooked decisions on a broad range of foreign policy topics so that they can focus on Constitutional Treaty negotiations and top-level appointments (septel). EU leaders are expected to en [...]
2004-06-17 15:52:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EAID XA XF TU HR RO BG EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS3059US-EU POLITICAL DIRECTORS LOOK AT UPCOMING ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary. US-EU Political Director consultations in Brussels on July 13 discussed a broad agenda including summit follow-up, and compared notes on Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Central Asia. EUR A/S Jones told the EU now is not the time to lift its arms embargo on China, and urged the EU, [...]
2004-07-19 07:11:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID MOPS ETRD MASS EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS36EU ADOPTS NEW NONPROLIFERATION STRATEGY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: EU heads of state and government adopted an "EU Strategy Against Proliferation of WMD" at their December 12-13 Summit in Brussels. The strategy expands and integrates the various pieces of the EU's existing nonproliferation policies -- notably the nonproliferation Principles and [...]
2004-01-06 14:15:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP PINS UNSC EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS3729EU OFFICIALS ON IAEA IRAN REPORT: NOT READY FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff discussed reftel with Council nonproliferation and nuclear policy advisors September 2 and 3. While acknowledging serious unresolved issues, they assessed DG El Baradei's new report as "overall more positive than the last one," and said that EU BOG members were unlikely t [...]
2004-09-03 12:22:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC TRGY IR IAEA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS3772GYMNICH RESULTS ON BURMA, SUDAN, MIDDLE EAST AND
[...] (SBU) The EU Foreign Ministers' informal "Gymnich" meeting in Maastricht on September 3-4 proceeded as expected (reftel). The EU will go ahead with the Asia-EU (ASEM) Summit in Hanoi on October 7-9, as long as Burma attends at the FM or lower level, but the FMs also announced further sanction [...]
2004-09-08 05:02:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID IZ BM SU SR IR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS3840ANTICIPATED RESULTS OF SEPTEMBER 13 GAERC
[...] (C) We have discussed reftel A points on the EU FMs' General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting on Sept. 13 with a variety of EU officials. EU Conclusions on Sudan should dovetail with the main elements of our draft UNSC Resolution. On Iran, we understand the EU will is [...]
2004-09-10 10:42:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL IZ IR BK SU EAID BU CY EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS3843ANNALISA GIANNELLA, LEADING THE EU AGAINST WMD
[...] (C) Summary: Annalisa Giannella, EU High Representative Solana's Personal Representative for WMD Non-Proliferation, is the key official shaping the EU approach to nonproliferation and disarmament. Her results-oriented approach, record of close cooperation with the US, and European contacts m [...]
2004-09-10 11:40:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPARM PINR IT FR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS3897EU FMS SEND LOTS OF SIGNALS, BUT MAKE FEW
[...] (SBU) The September 13 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting of EU Foreign Ministers refined EU positions spelled out over previous months and recently discussed at the Sept. 3 Gymnich (ref B). On Sudan, the EU noted some progress, but insisted the GoS has not complie [...]
2004-09-14 13:29:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID IZ BM SU SR IR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS4107EU IN UN: IO A/S HOLMES IN BRUSSELS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with IO Assistant Secretary Kim Holmes on September 15-16, EU officials: --stressed EU commitment to "effective multilateralism with the UN at its core;" --continued their push for enhanced status for the European Commission (EC) in UN bodies (EU additionality); [...]
2004-09-27 08:11:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS4161SEPTEMBER 3 U.S.-EU TROIKA CONSULTATIONS ON ARMS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. and the Dutch EU presidency on September 3 conducted semi-annual CODUN consultations in Brussels on UN disarmament issues. Subjects covered included U.S./EU priorities, UNFC, UNDC, CD, FMCT, landmines, CWB, BWC, CCW, CTBT, Libya, Luxembourg,s upcoming EU presidency, a [...]
2004-09-29 10:16:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM PREL UNGA CDG EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS4201EU WANTS G8 TALKS ON IRAN BEFORE NEXT IAEA BOARD
[...] (C/NF) According to UK Mission official Karen Betts (strictly protect),the EU-3 are working to coordinate with the EU ideas for a G-8 strategy to "handle Iran between now and the November IAEA Board meeting." On September 29, EU High Rep Solana presented a draft paper to the EU-3 outlining [...]
2004-09-30 14:31:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KNNP ETTC EAID IR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS4274US/EU POLICY PLANNING TALKS
[...] (C) Summary: US and EU policy planners met September 20 to discuss the transatlantic relationship, the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP),Iraq, Iran, and the Broader Middle East and North Africa and the EU's Barcelona Process. Discussions were frank about the challenges in the main message fro [...]
2004-10-05 10:02:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL IZ IR CH IS PTER EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS4335WISHFUL THINKING? EU HOPES G8 CAN KEEP IRAN OUT OF
[...] (C) Summary. In meetings with NEA DAS Dibble and NP A/DAS Fitzpatrick on October 4-5, EU officials from the Dutch Presidency, Council Secretariat and Commission expressed concerns that IAEA referral of Iran to the UNSC in November would cross a major, negative threshold they want to avoid. [...]
2004-10-08 10:32:00Embassy BrusselsSECRETPREL PARM KNNP IR EUN IAEA UNSC USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS4550U.S.-EU NONPROLIFERATION TROIKA: EU LOOKS FOR U.S.
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 28, the U.S. and the EU held their semi-annual exchange on nonproliferation issues. This discussion followed the release of the second U.S.-EU Summit declaration on nonproliferation. The two sides touched on a wide range of nonproliferation issues and explored possib [...]
2004-10-21 16:05:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP UN EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS4625NEA A/S BURNS' CONSULTATIONS WITH EU ON IRAQ,
[...] (C) A/S Burns met October 22 with senior EU officials on the way back from his most recent trip to the region. Topics discused were Iraq, Iran, Forum for the Future (FFtF) preparations, and the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP). The EU outlined its plans to support elections in Iraq, and also [...]
2004-10-27 07:32:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD KNNP IZ IR IS EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS4665EU COMMISSION AND COUNCIL SECRETARIAT VIEWS ON
[...] (C) We shared Ref A and B points with Commission and Council officials in advance of the Nov. 2 EU FMs (GAERC) meeting and the Nov. 4-5 European Council summit meeting. Given the failure of the incoming Barroso Commission to get parliamentary confirmation (REF C) before this meeting, the Commi [...]
2004-10-28 16:41:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID YI CY UP ZR IS SU SO EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS5396EU/IRAN: WMD REP GIANNELLA READOUT ON TALKS, PATH
[...] (S) Summary: In a meeting to review the EU3,s efforts with Iran December 21, EU WMD Rep Annalisa Giannella said she was generally pleased with the process but questioned whether the EU-3 could achieve its goals without eventual US involvement. She said that neither the December 13 ministerial [...]
2004-12-23 14:21:00Embassy BrusselsSECRETKNNP PARM PREL PINR IR IAEA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BUCHAREST3439REPORT ON NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISISON OFFICIALS'
[...] (U) Summary: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Commissioner Jeffrey Merrifield visit to Romania in late September provided the USG insight into the strong Romanian civil nuclear program. End Summary. First Visit to Romania by NRC Commissioner ---------------------------------------- [...]
2004-12-15 11:38:00Embassy BucharestUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP KTIA ENRG ECON RO IAEA
04BUENOSAIRES3310IRAN/IAEA: ARGENTINA ON STRONG NATIONAL STATEMENTS
[...] (C) Polcouns delivered points in reftel to the Argentine MFA Office of International Security, Nuclear and Space Affairs (DIGAN) the afternoon of November 24 to DIGAN counselor Luciano Tanto Clement. Clement reiterated the GOA's longstanding concerns regarding Iran's nuclear program and its [...]
2004-11-24 22:00:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC TRGY IR AR IAEA
04COLOMBO1791IRAN/IAEA: OPTIONS FOR ADDRESSING IRAN'S NUCLEAR
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 29, Ambassador delivered reftel points and non-paper to FM Kadirgamar. Poloff had spoken separately with GSL Assistant Director for UN Affairs Ekanayake. Kadirgamar expressed interest in US views, but acknowledged he was not well briefed on the subject. Ekanayake sa [...]
2004-11-01 10:29:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PREL PARM CE IR UNSC
04DJIBOUTI1139G-8 DEMARCHE ON ADHERENCE TO IAEA COMPREHENSIVE
[...] CDA was approached by French CDA August 26 and asked when we might jointly accomplish the proposed demarche. 2. We subsequently located reftel and will stall with the talkers provided. We would, however, appreciate any indication of when we might be prepared to proceed. Thanks. GRIBBIN [...]
2004-08-26 11:21:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KNNP DJ FR
04DJIBOUTI326DEMARCHE ON POLITICAL COMMITMENT TO IAEA CODE OF
[...] (U) Per reftel, PolOff Erinn Reed delivered the requested demarche to the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Badri Ali Bogoreh, on March 8, 2004. Bogoreh said that while Djibouti did not have any radioactive sources, he would consider the matter and note U.S. concerns. RAG [...]
2004-03-08 12:37:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC PARM OPDC PREL IAEA
04DUBLIN1121GTRI CONFERENCE INVITATION DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2004-07-28 13:58:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP TRGY PTER AORC IAEA
04DUBLIN1258IRISH VIEWS ON ESTABLISHING THE ADDITIONAL
[...] On August 27, Post delivered reftel talking points to Therese Healy, Third Secretary in the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Section. Healy said that Ireland backs the UK/Austrian proposal to make the Additional Protocol (AP) a Condition of Supply (COS) fo [...]
2004-08-27 14:37:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL TRGY IAEA
04DUBLIN1385IRISH RESPONSE TO EUROFAB DEMARCHE
[...] (C) On September 17, DCM and French Charge d'Affaires, Luc Serot Almeras, jointly delivered reftel talking points to James MacIntyre, Department of Foreign Affairs EU Division Counsellor, and Joseph Mooney, Department of the Environment Assistant Principal Officer for Nuclear Safety. Almeras [...]
2004-09-17 15:17:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALKNNP ENRG PREL
04DUBLIN1632IRISH RESPONSES ON PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE
[...] (U) On October 28, Post delivered reftels' talking points to Gerald Keown, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) European correspondent. ---- Iraq ---- 2. (C) Keown noted that Member States' foreign ministers were preparing for November 2 discussions in Brussels on measures to support [...]
2004-10-29 14:23:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN
04DUBLIN990GOI SHOULD SUPPORT US REVCON AIMS, BUT EXPECT A
[...] Summary. Emboff delivered reftel points to Sarah McGrath, Deputy Director, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Section of the DFA. The GOI agrees that proliferation via a vis Iran and the DPRK is a serious problem and supports USG non-proliferation efforts. However, McGrath reminded emboff t [...]
2004-07-02 14:14:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDPARM KNNP NPT
04HANOI2882VIETNAM: EAP DAS HUHTALA DISCUSSES BILATERAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 22, EAP DAS Ambassador Marie Huhtala, accompanied by the Ambassador, met separately with Vice Minister of Trade Luong Van Tu and Vice Minister of Finance Le Thi Bang Tam. DAS Huhtala encouraged the GVN to ensure full implementation of all parts of the U.S.-Vietnam B [...]
2004-10-25 08:18:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EINV ETTC KIPR VM WTRO APEC BTA IPROP WTO MNUC
04HANOI682REPORT ON DOE/STATE VISIT TO VAEC AND DALAT
[...] SUMMARY: A DOE/State delegation participated in meetings in Hanoi and Dalat, Vietnam on February 10 and 12 to discuss with Vietnamese officials and reactor operators a U.S. proposal to ship fresh fuel assemblies containing HEU to Russia and to convert the Dalat Research Reactor to LEU fuel. [...]
2004-03-08 04:21:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP ENRG TRGY VM
04HANOI727IAEA - UPDATE ON VIETNAM'S RESPONSE TO OFFER OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE IN SECURING HIGH RISK RADIOACTIVE SOURCES
[...] This is an action cable. Please see Paragraphs 6 and 7 below. 2. On January 9, 2004, Embassy EST Officer met with Dr. Dang Thanh Luong, Director, Vietnam Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Authority (VRPNSA) to follow-up on the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s proposal regarding Vi [...]
2004-03-11 09:16:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDAORC PTER KNNP VM IAEA ENRG
04HELSINKI1137GYMNICH MEETING: FINLAND SAYS EU "FAIRLY
[...] (C) Summary: In an August 27 meeting with the chief of the MFA's EU coordination unit, we reviewed the agenda for the September 3-4 Gymnich meeting. We were told that the EU is leaning toward a financial contribution to support a UN protection force in Iraq -- and that Finland would consider [...]
2004-09-02 14:58:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALPREL FI IZ CH TU IR SU ZL XF EUN
04HELSINKI1407FINLAND AND THE NOVEMBER 2 GAERC MEETING
[...] (C) We delivered the demarche points from Ref A-C messages to Leena Alto, deputy European Correspondent in the Finnish MFA, and to Jonna Partanen, Counselor in the Secretariat for EU Affairs in the office of PM Vanhanen. Alto and Partanen briefed us on the positions FM Tuomioja will be taking [...]
2004-11-01 15:39:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALPREL XF IZ IR RS SU FI EUN
04HELSINKI1443FINNISH VIEWS ON THE GLOBAL THREAT REDUCTION
[...] On November 2, Acting Econ Chief delivered the reftel demarche to officials at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. 2. Jussi Manninen, Head of the Nuclear Energy Division at the Finnish Ministry of Trade [...]
2004-11-12 14:56:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP TRGY AORC PTER FI IAEA
04JAKARTA5072POLITICAL INTRIGUE IMPERILS BAPETEN'S CHAIRMAN JOB
[...] (C) Summary: Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Control Board (BAPETEN) Dr. Djaloeis (please protect) confided to us 25 July that political intrigue involving one of his deputies and the State Minister of Research and Technology Hatta Rajasa, and a previously unknown radical Islamic group called T [...]
2004-05-28 12:09:00Embassy JakartaSECRETTRGY AORC KNNP KTIA IAEA ENRG PREL
04KINSHASA1492MONUC FEARS URANIUM SMUGGLING IN CONGO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A MONUC official based in Katanga province recently visited Shinkolobwe, a local mining area and source of uranium, and expressed concern to Kinshasa-based diplomats about possible illegal uranium-related mining activity. Although Post sees no cause for immediate alarm, Shinkolobw [...]
2004-08-09 12:47:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS EMIN PINR KNNP CG
04KINSHASA2087UN TEAM TO SHINKOLOBWE: MINE NOT A PROLIFERATION
[...] (U) A UN team, composed of officials from IAEA, UNEP and WHO, visited Shinkolobwe mine in Katanga Province from Oct 25 to Nov 04 and concluded that the mine should remain closed due to risks of mine collapse and potential chronic exposure to ionising radiation. The objective of the trip was to [...]
2004-11-12 15:22:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP EMIN PREL PGOV CG
04KUWAIT1399MEDIA REACTION KUWAIT APRIL 24-28: MIDDLE EAST: VANUNU'S
[...] SUMMARY: Continued criticism of Pres. Bush's perceived closeness to Sharon and tacit approval for Sharon's "crimes" gave way slightly as the week went on to calls for increased security in the wake of the Riyadh bombings. Nabil Al-Fadhl wrote in independent Al-Rai Al-A'am (4/24),"As Kuwaitis, [...]
2004-04-29 09:33:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KU KDMR
04KUWAIT3546SHIITE LEADER SAYS GOK FEARS ISLAMISTS, URGES U.S.
[...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting with Poloff, Shiite religious cleric Sayed Mohammed Bakr al-Mohri, an outspoken advocate for Kuwait's Shia population and a vocal critic of the GOK, lamented that although Kuwait's Shia had recently made great gains, the GOK was "fearful" of conservative Sunni [...]
2004-10-13 14:46:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KU IZ IR
04KUWAIT3658KUWAITI FM TELLS A/S BLOOMFIELD FUEL ISSUE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 20, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah told PM A/S Lincoln Bloomfield Jr., PDASD Peter Flory, and the Ambassador that a fuel contract for OIF support was required by the GOK's constitutional framework and that Parliament would hold the [...]
2004-10-27 04:06:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL PTER KU IZ
04MADRID1099SPAIN: RESPONSE TO NPT PREPCOM III DEMARCHE
[...] (C) We presented reftel points to Marcos Rodriguez Cantero in the office of International Disarmament Affairs at the MFA on March 30. Rodriguez, who will be Spain's delegate to the PrepCom, said Spain would support U.S. proposals to strengthen the IAEA Board of Governors and the Proliferation [...]
2004-04-01 14:31:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKNNP SP NPT IAEA
04MADRID1731DCM'S MEETING WITH MFA STATE SECRETARY BERNARDINO
[...] (C) DCM paid an initial call May 10 on MFA State Secretary Bernadino Leon, who said this was his first meeting SIPDIS with a foreign embassy since taking office. Leon made a point of saying that the new government wanted to have excellent relations with the U.S., especially on counter-terrorism in [...]
2004-05-13 15:10:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SP
04MADRID2205SPAIN: POSITIVE ABOUT U.S. VIEWS ON IRAN/IAEA
[...] No summary [...]
2004-06-13 10:48:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC TRGY SP
04MADRID2206SPAIN AGREES ON U.S VIEWS TO STRENGTHEN IAEA
[...] No summary [...]
2004-06-13 10:48:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC TRGY SP
04MADRID2501Country Clearance granted for USNRC James
[...] No summary [...]
2004-07-02 07:15:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDENRG TRGY AORC KNNP OTRA SP IAEA
04MADRID4179PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE, NOV 2: IRAQ, IRAN, MEPP,
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff discussed Iraq, Iran, the Middle East Peace Process, Russia, Sudan, Somalia, Ukraine, Kosovo, and North Cyprus with Enrique Mora Benavente, MFA Head of EU Planning, on October 26 and October 28. Mora Benavente said that EU police training in Iraq would take place after [...]
2004-10-29 11:29:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP EUN
04MADRID4499SPAIN/IRAN-IAEA: RESPONSE TO US REQUEST FOR STRONG
[...] No summary [...]
2004-11-26 13:26:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC TRGY IR SP IAEA
04MADRID4502SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOHN RUSSELL COCHRAN
[...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to John Russell Cochran and Ahmed A. Hasan, Sandia National Laboratories, National Nuclear Security Administration's Office of Defense Programs, Department of Energy, to travel to Cordoba, Spain from December 8-18, 2004. The purpose of this visit [...]
2004-11-29 07:18:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDENRG TRGY KSCA OTRA SP
04MADRID4547SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MS. MARGARET V.
[...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Margaret V. Federline, Deputy Director, Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, and to Mr. James E. Kennedy, Technical Assistant, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, NMSS, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to travel [...]
2004-12-01 12:08:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDENRG TRGY AORC KNNP OTRA SP IAEA
04MADRID4548SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MS. MARGARET V.
[...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Margaret V. Federline, Deputy Director, Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, and to Mr. James E. Kennedy, Technical Assistant, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection, NMSS, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to travel [...]
2004-12-01 12:08:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDENRG TRGY AORC KNNP OTRA SP IAEA
04MADRID635SPAIN: ELBARADEI TELLS PALACIO IAEA SHOULD MOVE
[...] (C) Poloff queried Guillermo Kirkpatrick, the Foreign Ministry's Deputy Director General for Disarmament, about Minister Palacio's February 19 meeting with IAEA Director General ElBaradei in Vienna. Kirkpatrick said ElBaradei told Palacio he was extremely happy with Libya's cooperation with [...]
2004-02-24 16:35:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPARM PGOV PREL PTER SP
04MADRID755LIBYA/IAEA: CONSULTING WITH BOG MEMBERS ON LIBYA
[...] No summary [...]
2004-03-04 18:08:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PREL PARM LY SP IAEA
04MADRID773IRAN/IAEA: REACTION TO DG'S IRAN REPORT
[...] (C) We met with Marcos Rodriguez Cantero of the International Disarmament division at MFA on March 3 and conveyed US views on the IAEA Iran Report. Rodriguez told us that Spain shares US concerns about Iranian non-proliferation and the findings contained in the IAEA Iran report. Non-prolifera [...]
2004-03-08 06:05:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC SP IAEA
04MADRID807BUDGET LIMITS SPAIN'S CONTRIBUTION TO IAEA
[...] No summary [...]
2004-03-09 15:53:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP AORC TRGY SP AFIN
04MANAMA181 DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGING POLITICAL COMMITMENT TO
[...] No summary [...]
2004-02-09 11:50:00Embassy ManamaUNCLASSIFIEDTRGY ENRG PARM OPDC PREL KNNP KSTC
04MANAMA1886DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HADLEY'S DECEMBER
[...] (C) Deputy National Security Advisor Hadley met with Kuwaiti National Security Council President Shaikh Sabah Khaled Al Sabah December 4 on the margins of the IISS Gulf Security Dialogue conference in Manama. Shaikh Sabah hailed the strong bilateral relationship and stated that Kuwaitis are [...]
2004-12-15 12:35:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PTER ASEC KU IZ IR SY BA
04MANAMA1888DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HADLEY'S DECEMBER
[...] (C) Deputy National Security Advisor Hadley met with UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Abdallah Rashed Al Nuaymi December 4 on the margins of the IISS Gulf Security Dialogue conference in Manama. Al Nuaymi said that the United Arab Emirates was pleased with progress in the bila [...]
2004-12-15 12:39:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR KDEM IZ IR BA TC
04NEWDELHI6967GTRI CONFERENCE FINDINGS DELIVERED TO INDIA
[...] No summary [...]
2004-11-02 03:22:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDAORC PTER KNNP TRGY IN IAEA
04NEWDELHI7013NSSP PHASE ONE: REVIEWING ACHIEVEMENTS AND PENDING
[...] (C) Summary: This is the first of two cables reporting on the Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (NSSP) Implementation Group. USG and GOI counterparts met in two positive and productive sessions of the NSSP Implementation Group on October 20-21 to review accomplishments under Phase One and [...]
2004-11-03 11:50:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KNNP ETTC IN NSSP
04NEWDELHI7061NSSP PHASE TWO: CHARTING THE COURSE
[...] (C) Summary: After reviewing achievements made under Phase One (Ref A),the Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (NSSP) Implementation Group discussed the way forward on Phase Two, including legislation, enforcement, outreach, and training to strengthen export controls; adherence to MCTR and [...]
2004-11-05 09:48:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KNNP ETTC IN NSSP
04NEWDELHI7380IAEA DG ON INDIA'S NUCLEAR ENERGY NEEDS, IRAN,
[...] (U) Summary: The GOI used a recent visit by IAEA Director General Dr. Mohammed El Baradei to press its case for reform of Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) requirements to facilitate India's cooperation with others in the international community in using nuclear power to fill the country's growi [...]
2004-11-19 11:07:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP ENRG IR IN IAEA GOI NSSP
04NEWDELHI7512SENATOR BAYH'S MEETINGS IN NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER
[...] (C) Summary: In a series of senior level GOI meetings on November 23-24 during a private visit to India, Senator Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) heard a strong Indian commitment to move ahead with our bilateral partnership, coupled with concern about the potential disruptive effect of US F-16 sales to [...]
2004-11-29 05:33:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KNNP KIPR MASS IN PK IR
04OTTAWA3347OPPOSING A THIRD TERM FOR IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL
[...] (C) In response to ref demarche, Foreign Affairs Canada Deputy Director for nuclear non-proliferation Terry Wood re-affirmed to polmiloff that Canada shares USG's view on limiting the term of the IAEA Director General to two years. At the same time, Wood said, the next DG must be someone who e [...]
2004-12-13 20:29:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALAORC PARM CA IAEA
04OTTAWA3454CANADA'S OPPOSITION TO A THIRD TERM FOR IAEA DG
[...] (C) POL M/C followed up on our December 13 conversation (Ref B) with Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for Non-Proliferation, Terry Wood on December 23. Canada remains strongly in favor of a two-term limit. However, it did not have a candidate of its own and others rumored to be interested in r [...]
2004-12-23 17:07:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALAORC PARM CA IAEA
04PANAMA345PANAMA READY TO FOLLOW-UP ON IAEA CODE OF CONDUCT
[...] (SBU) On February 9, 2004, Embassy delivered diplomatic note No. 162 containing reftel letter from Secretary Powell to Panama's Minister of Foreign Affairs Harmodio Arias. MFA Director General for International Organizations and Conferences Rodolfo Aleman Zubieta advised Poloff that same day [...]
2004-02-13 19:52:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM KNNP PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
04PARAMARIBO116DEMARCHE ON MAKING A POLITICAL COMMITMENT TO
[...] No summary [...]
2004-02-11 10:14:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC PARM OPDC PREL NS IAEA
04PRETORIA2956SOUTH AFRICA: U.S. OFFICIAL VISIT PAVES THE WAY
[...] (C) Alex Burkart, Deputy Director in the Office of Nuclear Energy at the Department of State, and Ron Cherry, Director, Office of International Safeguards at the Department of Energy (DOE),visited South Africa May 17 to 21 to discuss advancing bilateral relations in the field of nuclear energy [...]
2004-07-01 08:35:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALENRG KNNP TRGY SF
04PRETORIA3991SOUTH AFRICA'S POSITION ON SEPTEMBER BOG:
[...] (C) Ambassador Frazer delivered reftel demarche and passed reftel nonpaper September 2 to Abdul Minty, South Africa's Governor on the IAEA Board of Governors (BOG) and Deputy Director General at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). The ambassador emphasized that the USG believes the Sept [...]
2004-09-02 15:31:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC TRGY IR SF IAEA
04RANGOON412BURMESE-RUSSIAN NUCLEAR REACTOR PROJECT
[...] (C) In a March 24 conversation, the Russian ambassador in Rangoon, Oleg Kabanov, told the COM that he had met with the Burmese Minister of Science and Technology, U Thaung, on March 23 and discussed the status of the proposed Burmese-Russian nuclear reactor project that has been hanging fire, [...]
2004-03-30 09:46:00Embassy RangoonCONFIDENTIALENRG PREL PGOV RS BM
04ROME1109EU GAERC AND COUNCIL - ITALY ON BOARD WITH US
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Italy is on board with US views presented ref A. Our interlocutors predict that statements in draft for next week's General Affairs External Relations Council (GAERC) and European Council (Heads of State) meetings will reinforce the need for US-EU solidarity on Balkans and Midea [...]
2004-03-19 13:44:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL IT EUN MEPP
04ROME1124IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRESIDENT'S NONPROLIFERATION
[...] (U) AS INSTRUCTED, WE TRANSMITTED TO MFA NONPROLIFERATION COORDINATOR CARLO TRIPEPI, THE PRESIDENT'S PROPOSALS TO STRENGTHEN THE NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS' GROUP (NSG) EFFORTS TO CLOSE PROLIFERATION NETWORKS. TRIPEPI SAID ITALY SHARED THE U.S. GOAL OF FURTHER PROTECTION AGAINST PROLIFERATION. 2. [...]
2004-03-19 17:16:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDENRG ETTC IT KNNP MNUC PARM PREL TRGY IAEA
04ROME1527ITALY/IRAQ; FIRM ON TROOPS; WORKING ON HOSTAGES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Italian authorities expressed their strong agreement with points in reftel demarche; they are determined to stay the course with the Italian military deployment in Iraq. With the Italian public still shocked by the brutal murder of an Italian citizen taken hostage, the government [...]
2004-04-20 05:48:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALIT IZ MARR MOPS OPDC PREL IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME1565ITALY SUPPORTS DRAFT NONPRO UNSCR AND US NPT
[...] (C) ITALY SUPPORTS THE LATEST VERSION OF THE DRAFT UNSC RESOLUTION ON NONPROLIFERATION (REFTEL A),ACCORDING TO PIERO SARDI IN THE ITALIAN MFA ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT OFFICER. THE EU WILL MAKE A STATEMENT OF SUPPORT DURING THE APRIL 22 OPEN SESSION, SARDI TOLD POL-MIL OFFICER DURING AN A [...]
2004-04-21 17:19:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL IT NPT UNSC IAEA
04ROME1596FM FRATTINI TELLS IRANIAN FM KHARRAZI TO TOE THE
[...] (C) POST READ WITH INTEREST READOUT (REF) INDICATING THAT IRANIAN NEWS AGENCY IRNA REPORTED THAT FM FRATTINI TOLD IRANIAN FM KHARRAZI THAT IRAN'S POSITION ON COOPERATING WITH THE IAEA WAS "DEFENSIBLE AND UNDERSTANDABLE" AND "CREDIBLE". ACCORDING TO MFA IRAN DESK OFFICER FEDERICA FERRARI BRA [...]
2004-04-23 13:39:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IT IR KNNR IAEA
04ROME1692ITALY ON BOARD WITH IRAN/IAEA BOG VIEWS; MORE
[...] (C) MFA DIRECTOR FOR NON-PROLIFERATION GIOVANNI IANNUZZI SAID THAT ITALY AGREES COMPLETELY WITH US VIEWS ON IRAN'S INTENTIONS FOR ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM, AND THAT THE IAEA BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING SHOULD REINFORCE INTERNATIONAL CONCERNS AS EXPRESSED REF A. "WE COULD HAVE WRITTEN THEM OURSELVES" [...]
2004-04-30 06:43:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC TRGY IR IAEA
04ROME1966U/S BOLTON MEETS WITH ITALY'S G-8 SHERPA ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY. ITALIAN G-8 SHERPA CASTELLANETA TOOK U/S BOLTON'S POINT ON THE NEED TO MAINTAIN PRESSURE ON IRAN, AND EXPRESSED ITALIAN DISPLEASURE OVER "EU THREE" ATTEMPTS TO ARROGATE EU POLICY ON THIS ISSUE. HE ADDED THAT IRAN MAY BE "MORE OPEN" AT PRESENT, PERHAPS DUE TO MOUNTING INSTABILITY [...]
2004-05-20 14:41:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL ETTC KNNP IR IT IAEA
04ROME2168MFA OFFICIALS TELL A/S JONES ITALY WILL HELP PUSH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a June 4 meeting over lunch on the margins of President Bush's Rome visit, MFA Political Director Giampiero Massolo told EUR A/S Jones that the draft UNSC Iraq resolution was "heading for a good result in a relatively short time," and Italy was doing all it could to help. [...]
2004-06-08 09:36:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ IR SR AF EUN NATO IAEA IRAQI FREEDOM AFGHANISTAN
04ROME2217ITALY ON US PROPOSALS FOR STRENGTHENING THE IAEA:
[...] (C) POLOFF DELIVERED REFTEL PAPER TO MFA OFFICE DIRECTOR FOR ARMS CONTROL GIOVANNI IANNUZZI ON JUNE 9. ITALY FULLY AGREES WITH THE PROPOSALS REGARDING THE ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL, WHICH IT CONSIDERS A "PILLAR" OF THE IAEA. ITALY CAN SPEAK MORE SERENELY NOW THAT IT HAS FINISHED ITS OWN IMPLEMENTAT [...]
2004-06-10 09:46:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKNNP TRGY MNUC IT IAEA
04ROME2309ITALY SUPPORTS US VIEWS ON GAERC AND COUNCIL AGENDA
[...] (C) Summary: MFA officials briefed poloffs on positions Italy will take during GAERC and Council meetings during the week of June 14. European Neighborhood Policy debate will continue at both GAERC and Council meetings. The unanimous UNSC approval of the new Iraq resolution has prepared the [...]
2004-06-15 16:28:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL IZ IR IT MEPP EUN
04ROME2363IRANIAN DIPLOMAT SOUNDS OUT THE BRITS
[...] (S) ON JUNE 17, UK EMBASSY POL COUNS FRANCIS CAMPBELL (STRICTLY PROTECT) BRIEFED POLOFF ON HIS MEETING THE PREVIOUS DAY WITH IRANIAN EMBASSY SECOND SECRETARY ALI GHOLAMPOUR. THE MEETING TOOK PLACE IN CAMPBELL'S OFFICE IN THE UK EMBASSY. 2. (S) ACCORDING TO GHOLAMPOUR, IRAN IS "THANKFUL" THA [...]
2004-06-18 12:08:00Embassy RomeSECRET//NOFORNPREL PINR IR IZ UK IT EUN IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME2885GOI RESPONSE TO NPT PREPCOM III
[...] (C) Summary. Italy judged PrepCom III as failing to deliver on both substantive and organizational issues. The GOI welcomed US explanations of the US Article VI record, but suggests that the US now should also seek more concrete steps to convince Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries of its [...]
2004-07-26 12:41:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP IT NPT
04ROME3116U/S BOLTON'S JULY 10 MEETING WITH LIBYAN OFFICIALS
[...] (S) Summary. U/S Bolton July 10 told Libyan officials that Libya had to end military cooperation with Iran as a sine qua non of concluding Phase III cooperation. The Libyans responded that all ongoing activity was linked to closing out existing contracts, which would be terminated on Septemb [...]
2004-08-11 19:16:00Embassy RomeSECRETPARM PREL KNNP MNUC LY IAEA
04ROME3285IAEA: ITALY AGREES TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR IRAN
[...] (C) Summary. The Italian MFA continues to prefer a strategy that avoids risking breaking off all dialogue with Iran, but at the same time acknowledges that the situation in the IAEA is getting worse. While Italy did not explicitly say it would vote against a referral to the UNSC, it does not [...]
2004-08-26 16:38:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALIR PREL IT IAEA
04ROME3381ITALIAN VIEWS ON GYMNICH ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary. Charge, accompanied by PolOff, met with MFA Director General for Multilateral Political Affairs Giampiero Massolo and NATO Office Director Giovanni Brauzzi on September 1 to convey points from Ref A demarche. Italy shares US views on most of the issues that EU Foreign Ministers w [...]
2004-09-03 04:35:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL IZ IR IT EUN
04ROME3399ITALY TALKING TOUGH ON IRAN -- WITH THE EMPHASIS
[...] (C) Pol M/C discussed Ref A non-paper with Paolo Dionisi, Diplomatic Advisor to PM Berlusconi, on September 3. Dionisi, commenting that the US always delivers a tough message on Iran, said that Italy also will send a tough message to Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council R [...]
2004-09-03 16:40:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALIR PREL IT IAEA
04ROME3480ITALIAN RESPONSE TO 9/13 GAERC DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A/DCM and A/PolMinCouns discussed Ref A points with MFA Deputy Political Director Claudio Bisogniero on September 10, as did PolOff with MFA Director for EU CFSP Luigi Mattiolo on September 9. We have also raised Ref A with various other Italian government interlocutors (Refs B [...]
2004-09-13 04:36:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL IT EUN
04ROME3520ITALY: SENIOR MFA OFFICIAL PESSIMISTIC ON MIDDLE
[...] (C) Summary. DCM hosted a lunch in honor of MFA Under Secretary for the Middle East and Africa Alfredo Mantica and SIPDIS his Chief of Staff Paola Imperiale, along with Pol M/C and Poloff, on September 8 . Mantica presented a fairly pessimistic outlook for the situations in Iraq, Iran, and [...]
2004-09-14 10:45:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL IZ IR SU IT EUN IAEA
04ROME3989IRAN: ITALY APPRECIATES US THINKING ON UNSC OPTIONS
[...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel non-paper with Giovanni Iannuzzi, head of the MFA's nonproliferation office, on October 15. Iannuzzi responded very positively to the non-paper, which he had shared with MFA DG for Multilateral Political Affairs Giampiero Massolo the evening before Massolo's depart [...]
2004-10-15 16:42:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALIR PREL IT IAEA
04ROME4180ITALIAN POSITIONS ON NOVEMBER 2 GAERC AGENDA
[...] (C) MFA Director for EU CFSP Luigi Mattiolo told poloff that the PSC was busy preparing documentation on Iraq for the GAERC and follow-on Council meeting. He also confirmed that Iraqi PM Allawi will have lunch with the Council at 25 plus 3 on November 5. Member States are firming up an econ [...]
2004-10-28 16:10:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL IT EUN
04ROME4216ITALIAN CONCEPT PAPER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary. Pol M/C met with MFA Office Director for the Gulf States Luigi Maccotta on October 29 to discuss Iraqi PM Allawi's November 3-4 visit to Rome and the upcoming international conference on Iraq in Egypt. Maccotta had requested the meeting to present Italy's non-paper for the confe [...]
2004-11-03 08:10:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL IZ IT NATO
04ROME4280ITALIAN VIEWS ON ISRAELI WEOG MEMBERSHIP
[...] (C) Summary. Pol M/C discussed reftel demarche with key MFA officials on November 5. While our Italian interlocutors are sympathetic to Israel's membership in consultative groups at selected UN agencies, it is unlikely to take action in the absence of EU consensus and pending the outcome of UN [...]
2004-11-08 14:50:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALOPDC PHUM PREL AORC KIPR IS IT UNEP WIPO ILO IAEA
04ROME792IRAN/IAEA: ITALY (STILL) SEES THE GLASS AS HALF
[...] (C) SUMMARY. ALTHOUGH ITALY HAS NOT YET FORMED A FINAL ASSESSMENT OF THE DG'S FEBRUARY 24 REPORT ON IRAN, THE HEAD OF THE MFA'S OFFICE FOR DISARMAMENT ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE ARE SOME "VERY DISTURBING" BREACHES. ITALY WILL CONSULT FURTHER WITH ITS EU PARTNERS BEFORE DRAWING ANY FINAL CONCLUSI [...]
2004-03-02 06:36:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC IR IT IAEA
04ROME994ACTIVITY REPORT SUBMITTED BY THE POLITICAL, POL-MIL AND LABOR SECTIONS FOR THE PERIOD OF MARCH 12, 2004
[...] No summary [...]
2004-03-12 16:14:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALAMGT IT
04SANAA1091ROYG RESPONSE TO U.S. SENATE APPROVAL OF U.S.-IAEA
[...] Pursuant to action request in reftel a, Post informed the Chairman of the National Atomic Energy Commission (NATEC) Moustafa Bahran of U.S. Senate approval of U.S.-IAEA additional protocol via letter, using background and points from reftel a, on or about April 14, 2003 (ref b). 2. On or ab [...]
2004-05-03 12:11:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDTRGY KNNP YM IAEA
04SANAA1578YEMEN'S NATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (NATEC):
[...] (u) This is an action request; see paragraphs 4-6. 2. (c) Summary: In a 6/23 meeting with the Ambassador, Yemen's National Atomic Energy Commission (NATEC) Director Moustapha Bahran renewed earlier requests for assistance on border security and radiological detection equipment (reftels). [...]
2004-06-29 12:37:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALKNNP ENRG KSTC PARM PREL YM IAEA
04SANAA2724IRAN/IAEA: OPTIONS FOR ADDRESSING IRAN'S NUCLEAR
[...] (U) On September 16 Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche to Deputy Foreign Minister Mustafa Noman concerning options for member nations to address Iran's nuclear program at the UNSC in preparation for the November IAEA meeting. 2. (SBU) Noman responded that he believes Iran has reach [...]
2004-10-20 13:33:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM KNNP IR YM DEMARCHE
04SANTODOMINGO5227GTRI PARTNERS' CONFERENCE IN VIENNA: DOMINICAN
[...] No summary [...]
2004-09-19 15:01:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KNNP TRGY PTER MNUC DR
04TAIPEI36752004 AIT-TECRO JSCCNC - SIDE MEETINGS
[...] (C) Summary. AIT and TECRO held bilateral discussions on the margins of the 20th annual Joint Standing Committee on Civil Nuclear Cooperation in Seattle (JSCCNC) (Nov 4-5). The two sides discussed: UN Security Council resolution 1540, environmental samplings from the 1980s, the International [...]
2004-11-18 03:48:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALKNNP TRGY ENRG TW
04TELAVIV1390ISRAELI READOUT OF IRAN NUCLEAR CONSULTATIONS WITH
[...] (S) SUMMARY: In a readout of their consultations with French officials about Iran and other IAEA issues, Gideon Frank and Eli Levite of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) said the French MFA poldir had told them that the EU-3 agreement with Iran could not be twisted to justify removal [...]
2004-03-05 14:33:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETKNNP PARM MNUC PREL IS IR FR GOI EXTERNAL
04TELAVIV1493LIBYA/IAEA: ISRAEL UNHAPPY WITH REVISED
[...] (C) In response to March 10 ref (C) demarche to his deputy, MFA Deputy DG for Strategic Affairs Jeremy Issacharoff told polmiloff that the GOI, while fully cognizant of "what's at stake" in gaining consensus for a Libya resolution, is unhappy with the reftel Libya resolution language because i [...]
2004-03-10 10:42:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC LY IS GOI EXTERNAL
04TELAVIV1568COMBATING RADIOLOGICAL TERRORISM; USG-GOI DISCUSS
[...] (C) U.S. and Israeli delegations discussed efforts to combat radiological terrorism during February 24-25 talks held in Israel. The parties reviewed existing institutional structures and technologies as well as strategy and approaches for research, development, testing and evaluation. Also [...]
2004-03-12 10:07:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPTER TSPL PARM IS COUNTERTERRORISM ISRAEL RELATIONS
04TELAVIV2079ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Both Ha'aretz (Hebrew Ed.) and Maariv led with, and all media reported on the "Shi'ite Intifada" (Ha'aretz) in Iraq. All media also reported on the confrontation with U.S. troops in and a [...]
2004-04-07 12:18:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
04TELAVIV2327VANUNU, UPON RELEASE, CLAIMS U.S. AGENT LURED HIM
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Immediately upon his April 21 release from prison, "nuclear spy" Mordechai Vanunu charged that the woman who lured him into a Mossad trap in 1986 worked for the CIA or FBI. Nevertheless, Vanunu told the press that he would like to emigrate to the U.S. The head of the [...]
2004-04-22 14:39:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PGOV PHUM PREL IS ISRAEL RELATIONS GOI INTERNAL
04TELAVIV2436ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Syria 3. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot and Jerusalem Post reported that PM Sharon will travel to Washington to attend the AIPAC (Jewish lobby) convention, which will open on May 15. Yediot reported that th [...]
2004-04-29 11:11:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
04TELAVIV6200ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran Nuclear Program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that the U.S. has no information regarding the achievement of a framework agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, as indicated in reports comin [...]
2004-12-08 11:50:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
04TELAVIV6546ISRAELI REASSURANCES ON NONPROLIFERATION SECTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli officials told the Ambassador on December 22 that the nonproliferation section of the EU-Israel plan of action under the framework of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) contained "absolutely nothing new." They described the plan as another attempt by the EU to lock Is [...]
2004-12-23 14:33:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM IS GOI EXTERNAL MILITARY RELATIONS
04TELAVIV6547ISRAELI VIEWS ON IAEA FORUM ON "EXPERIENCE OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Gideon Frank and Eli Levite of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission told the Ambassador on December 22 that the ground rules and agenda for the upcoming IAEA forum on nuclear-weapon-free zones reflect understandings between Israel and the IAEA. The only outstanding issue is that DG [...]
2004-12-23 14:35:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL MNUC TRGY IS GOI EXTERNAL
04TELAVIV6630ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Tsunami 2. Mideast 3. Pakistan: Nuclear Program 4. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media cited assessments that the casualty toll of the tidal waves in South Asia has reached 60,000 or even 70,000, and cited UN officia [...]
2004-12-29 10:32:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
04THEHAGUE1247DUTCH MFA ON PROHIBITED MATERIAL LEAVING IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2004-05-21 15:29:00Embassy The HagueSECRETPREL IZ NL IAEA
04THEHAGUE1391CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WEEKLY WRAP-UP
[...] (U) The Director General presented the FY 2005 budget proposal on May 27 (faxed to AC/CB),stating that it was consistent with the objectives set by the Review Conference and maintained the spending power of the TS. The nominal increase is 4.8 percent, which means that, if accepted, annual [...]
2004-06-04 10:52:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL CWC
04THEHAGUE2138INFORMAL EU FOREIGN MINSTERS MEETING (GYMNICH),
[...] (C) Summary. MFA Political Affairs Department Director Jaap Werner told emboffs that although the Gymnich agenda must remain open until very shortly before the meeting, he expects that it will cover ASEM, the Middle East, Iraq, Iran, the Balkans, and the Sudan. On ASEM the Dutch are looking [...]
2004-08-26 15:01:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL NL EUN
04THEHAGUE2261IRAN/IAEA: DUTCH MFA VIEWS ON POSSIBLE UNSC
[...] (C) Summary: PolMilOff discussed refs A and B with Dutch MFA Nonproliferation Chief Paul Wilke on September 7. Wilke does not believe it will be possible to gain support within the EU for referring Iran's non-compliance to the UNSC in September. He doubts ElBaradei's November report will be [...]
2004-09-07 15:06:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL IR NL UNSC
04THEHAGUE2289SEPT 13-14 GAERC: DISCUSSION WITH DUTCH OFFICIALS
[...] (C) Summary. Emboffs discussed Sept 13-14 GAERC agenda and reftel subjects with MFA Political Affairs Department Director Jaap Werner on September 8 and with MFA European Correspondent Joep Wijnands on September 9. The Dutch clearly signaled that EU member states on the IAEA board will not s [...]
2004-09-10 09:56:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL NL EUN
04THEHAGUE2290SEPT 13-14 GAERC: DISCUSSION WITH DUTCH OFFICIALS
[...] (C) Summary. Emboffs discussed Sept 13-14 GAERC agenda and reftel subjects with MFA Political Affairs Department Director Jaap Werner on September 8 and with MFA European Correspondent Joep Wijnands on September 9. The Dutch clearly signaled that EU member states on the IAEA board will not s [...]
2004-09-10 09:56:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL NL EUN
04THEHAGUE2344IRAN/IAEA: IAEA NEGOTIATIONS ON IRAN RESOLUTION
[...] (C) Political Counselor and Poloff shared ref A demarche text and ref b points with Dutch Government officials on September 16. Poloff reached Elka Merks, in the Dutch MFA Nonproliferation office, to convey points in advance of the morning meeting in Vienna at the IAEA. Poloff drew on reft [...]
2004-09-16 14:03:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL IR NL UNSC
04THEHAGUE2346SEPT. 13-14 GAERC: READ-OUT FROM DUTCH
[...] (C) Summary. Emboffs discussed Sept. 13-14 GAERC with MFA Political Affairs Department Director Jaap Werner on September 16. He said the the EU's foreign ministers had discussed Secretary Powell's comments about genocide in Darfur, the financing of the UN Protective Force in Iraq, and EU rel [...]
2004-09-16 14:18:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALNL PREL EUN
04THEHAGUE2531AC/PDAS RECORD'S SEPTEMBER 28 MEETING WITH DUTCH
[...] (C) Summary: AC/PDAS Frank Record met with Dutch MFA Security Policy Director Maurits Jochems on September 28. The two reviewed a broad resume of arms control issues including the NPT, Non-strategic nuclear weapons, missile defense, FMCT, and a proposed U.S. landmine export ban. They also di [...]
2004-10-05 14:54:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL NL EUN NATO
04THEHAGUE2757PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE: DUTCH RESPONSES
[...] (C) Summary. PolCouns and PolOff met with Jaap Werner, Director, Political Affairs, MFA, and Adriaan Palm, MFA Political Affairs Officer, on October 26 to deliver points in reftel. Werner said the only addition to the agenda as set forth reftel was the African Great Lakes, where the Belgians [...]
2004-10-26 18:19:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL NL EUN
04THEHAGUE282CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC) - BRIEFING THE
[...] (C) In preparation for OPCW Director-General Pfirter's February 4-6 trip to Libya, the U.S. and U.K. provided a joint briefing to the DG and some of the accompanying staff members. Ambassador Javits utilized the points in reftel, and the U.K. provided one of its technical experts who recent [...]
2004-02-04 12:42:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL LY CWC
04THEHAGUE2924NETHERLANDS/EU/INDIA: "NEW PARTNERSHIP" HAS LITTLE
[...] (C) Summary: Beyond welcoming a new "strategic partnership," the November 8 EU-India Summit was perhaps more notable for what it lacked than what it included. The new "strategic partnership" appears to be little more than a wishlist of topics for cooperation to be fleshed out over the next ye [...]
2004-11-12 14:09:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KNNP IN NL EUN
04THEHAGUE3166NETHERLANDS/EU: FM BOT ON CHINA, TURKEY,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a one and one half hour discussion with Ambassador Sobel on December 2, Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot laid out his priorities for the last few weeks of the Dutch EU presidency. Bot stated categorically that he will not lift the Chinese Arms Embargo, but predicted (agai [...]
2004-12-03 16:47:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR CH RS NL EUN
04THEHAGUE3338NETHERLANDS/IAEA: THIRD TERM FOR ELBARADEI REMAINS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Dutch contacts say the EU will likely not coordinate on the issue of supporting another term for ElBaradei, letting individual EU member states on the BOG develop their own positions. The Dutch have not yet staked out a position on the issue, and claim to have little informati [...]
2004-12-23 16:03:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALAORC PARM NL IAEA
04THEHAGUE556LIBYA/IAEA: DUTCH RESPONSE ON DRAFT RESOLUTION
[...] No summary [...]
2004-03-04 14:42:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PREL PARM LY NL IAEA
04THEHAGUE587CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WEEKLY WRAP-UP
[...] (U) Simply put, the RBB Workshop was a success. There were no objections to implementing RBB in the 2005 budget document, and the objectives of the workshop were accomplished. As summarized by the Mark Mathews (U.K.),the workshop demonstrated that 1) the OPCW has been living in "the middl [...]
2004-03-10 12:30:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL CWC
04THEHAGUE610IRAN/IAEA: DUTCH VIEWS ON RESOLUTION
[...] No summary [...]
2004-03-12 12:11:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL MNUC IR NL IAEA
04THEHAGUE687DUTCH REACTION TO DEMARCHE ON IAEA NUCLEAR
[...] No summary [...]
2004-03-17 16:02:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC ABUD ENRG KNNP PTER NL IAEA
04THEHAGUE725THE NETHERLANDS: NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS GROUP PROPOSALS
[...] No summary [...]
2004-03-19 09:52:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP ENRG ETTC MNUC PARM PREL TRGY NL IAEA
04THEHAGUE768DELIVERY OF NPT PREPCOM III NONPAPER TO THE DUTCH
[...] No summary [...]
2004-03-24 09:44:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP NL NPT IAEA
04THEHAGUE774CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): - U.S./U.K.
[...] (C) AC DAS Don Mahley and Patrick Lamb, Deputy head of the Counterproliferation Department of the U.K.'s FCO, met with senior OPCW officials and delegations from the Western Group on March 19 to discuss Libya. There was substantial interest in what procedure the U.S./U.K. supported to addres [...]
2004-03-25 06:44:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL CWC
04THEHAGUE787AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 24 MEETING WITH DUTCH POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Sobel met with Dutch MFA Political Director Hugo Siblesz on March 24. They discussed Iraq, Afghanistan, the Greater Middle East, the March 22-23 EU GAERC meetings and China human rights issues. Siblesz said a new UNSCR would help the government secure broad support [...]
2004-03-26 05:04:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PARM PHUM IZ AF IR CH NL
04VATICAN1968U/S BOLTON PREVIEWS SEA ISLAND NON-PROLIFERATION
[...] (C) Under Secretary Bolton previewed Sea Island G-8 Summit non-proliferation initiatives for Holy See Foreign Minister Giovanni Lajolo May 17, emphasizing the President's desire to ensure that efforts to address WMD threats were a priority for G-8 nations. Bolton highlighted progress in imple [...]
2004-05-20 14:43:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL IR LY IN PK IS VT
04VATICAN4760A/S BURNS UPDATES VATICAN ON MEPP, IRAQ
[...] (C) Holy See Foreign Minister Lajolo agreed with NEA A/S Burns December 9 that there were signs of "a better situation" in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and he emphasized that "both sides" now needed to move forward with the Road Map. On Iraq elections, Lajolo welcomed Burns' assurance th [...]
2004-12-16 12:11:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALIS IZ KPAL PREL VT
04WELLINGTON737NEW ZEALAND TAKES FIRM LINE WITH IRAN FOREIGN
[...] (U) Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi visited New Zealand August 23-24 to explain Iran's position in the IAEA. Kharrazi met with Prime Minister Helen Clark, Foreign Minister Phil Goff, Disarmament Minister Marian Hobbs, Communications Minister Paul Swain and Agriculture and Trade Ministe [...]
2004-08-29 22:15:00Embassy WellingtonCONFIDENTIALNZ
04YEREVAN1192 ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE TO U.S.
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------------------ DEMARCHE DELIVERED ------------------ 2. (SBU) On May 4, we presented talking points per reftel regarding the U.S. Senate approval of the US-IAEA Additional protocol. Ashot Martirosyan, Head of the Armenian [...]
2004-05-21 10:47:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTRGY KNNP AM IAEA
04YEREVAN1800 GOAM RESPONSE ON PROPOSED GLOBAL THREAT REDUCTION
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------------------ ARMENIANS ON BOARD ------------------ 2. (SBU) We presented ref A talking points regarding the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) to Armen Israelian, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Head of the Depar [...]
2004-08-13 11:44:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTRGY KNNP AORC AM IAEA
04YEREVAN2526UPDATE ON CESIUM-137 CONFISCATED FROM ARMENIAN
[...] (C) We met November 18 with Ashot Martirosyan, head of the Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ANRA) and underscored the USG's continued interest in this cesium-137 seizure case (refs A and B). Martirosyan stated that he had still not received any substantive information from the Armenian Nat [...]
2004-11-24 08:18:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPINR KNNP MNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC AM KPRP
04YEREVAN456 ARMENIAN NUCLEAR REGULATION IN FLUX
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. Not for internet distribution. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On February 18, 2004, we met with Ashot Martirosyan, the head of the Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ANRA) to encourage Armenia to commit to the IAEA Code o [...]
2004-02-24 11:49:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KNNP ECON AM
04YEREVAN659 ARMENIA: SEIZURES AND INVESTIGATIONS OF RADIOLOGICAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOAM has, for the first time, shared information with EXBS Advisor about ongoing export violation investigations and radiological seizures. This is the result of ongoing efforts to obtain statistical data from Armenian National Security Service to measure the effectiveness [...]
2004-03-18 14:05:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSTC ETTC MNUC PARM PREL AM
05ABUDHABI257DEMARCHE ON IAEA COMPREHENSIVE SAFEGUARDS
[...] (C) On January 16, Pol Chief and G-8 representatives (France, Japan, Russia, Italy, Canada, and UK -- Germany had a schedule conflict) jointly delivered reftel points to MFA Director for International Organizations, Yacub Al Hosani. Pol Chief also provided Al Hosani with a copy of the letter e [...]
2005-01-17 09:01:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALKNNP TRGY PREL AORC IAEA TC
05ABUDHABI2815UAE-IRAN RELATIONS: AN UNEASY CALM
[...] (C) Summary: The UAE and Iran have long had a wary co-existence. While the two countries enjoy robust trade ties and have historical social and cultural links, Iran's nuclear program and the possibility of a clandestine weapons component, interference in Iraq's internal affairs, and continued [...]
2005-06-21 11:57:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNPREL ETRD PINR IZ IR GCC TC
05ABUDHABI3068MTCR REGIME OUTREACH MISSION TO THE UAE
[...] (C) Summary: Given the UAE's strategic geographic location, booming economic activity, and outstanding shipping facilities, the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) identified the UAE as a priority country for outreach. South Korea, as current MTCR Chair, led a June 7-9 mission to the UA [...]
2005-07-12 07:19:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPARM KNNP MNUC ETTC TC
05ABUDHABI326SCENESETTER FOR YOUR VISIT TO THE UAE
[...] (C) I look forward to welcoming you back to the United Arab Emirates January 30-February 1. Your visit will provide a timely opportunity to discuss our common concerns about the Iranian nuclear program with the UAEG as well as to review progress on the UAEG,s export controls program. The UAE [...]
2005-01-23 11:06:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNPARM ETTC KNNP KOMC KSTC IZ IR TC
05ABUDHABI4227SUBJECT: UAE PROMISES CONTINUED COOPERATION ON COUNTERPROLIFERATION
[...] (S) Summary: On October 1-2, 2005, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Robert Joseph, National Security Director for Counterproliferation Strategy David Stephens, and T Senior Advisor Patricia McNerney met with UAE officials to discuss the issue of Iran,s nuclear progr [...]
2005-10-05 13:11:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNETTC KNNP PARM IR PK TC SY NK
05ABUDHABI510U/S BOLTON VISITS UAE
[...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton met with UAE officials on January 31 to discuss the status of Iran,s nuclear weapons programs and to present future options for addressing the threat on the UAE,s doorstep, including referral to the [...]
2005-02-05 02:09:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRETETTC IR IZ KNNP PARM PK TC
05ABUDHABI5129GCC SUMMIT COMMUNIQUE: IRAN ESCAPES CONDEMNATION
[...] (C) Summary: The Gulf Cooperation Council concluded its 29th annual summit in Abu Dhabi December 19 by expressing support for Iraq's December 15 elections, condemning the assassinations of "Lebanese symbols and leaders," calling for a Middle East weapons of mass destruction-free zone, and urgi [...]
2005-12-20 13:56:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KNNP KPAL IR IZ SY LE IS AE
05ABUDHABI718HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISOR TOWNSEND MEETS WITH
[...] (C) Summary: In a February 7 meeting with Dubai Crown Prince (and UAE Defense Minister) Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid (MBR),White House Homeland Security Advisor Frances Townsend expressed appreciation for the UAE's contributions to our counterterrorism efforts. Noting that it was a hopeful time [...]
2005-02-15 12:11:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALIR IZ PREL PTER SA TC
05ABUJA1334NIGERIA TO ENACT PEACEFUL USE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY;
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-21 16:31:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG KNNP TRGY PARM NI IAEA
05ABUJA1870IAEA SAFEGUARDS COMMITTEE DEMARCHE
[...] Embassy economic officer met on Sept. 7, 2005 with Director (EPA) of the Energy Commission of Nigeria, Professor O. L. Hoeje and Director General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria Professor A. S. Sambo. 2. Econoff presented ref talking points on the Board of Governors of the International [...]
2005-09-30 10:54:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG KNNP AORC TRGY ECON IAEA
05ABUJA2151DEMARCHE DELIVERED- IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S EXTREMISM
[...] (U) On November 7, Poloff delivered reftel demarches to Ambassador Abdul bin Rimdap, Director for International Organizations at the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Rimdap was aware of the Iranian President's inflammatory remarks but said that the GON had not yet publicly rea [...]
2005-11-09 15:28:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PHUM IR NI
05ACCRA1885IAEA DECISION ON IRAN: GHANA SYMPATHETIC BUT NOT
[...] (C) On September 15, Charge and EconChief delivered Ref A points on reporting Iran to the UN Security Council to the Foreign Ministry. EconChief also delivered these points and Ref B points on safeguards and verification to GoG representatives to the IAEA. Deputy Foreign Minister Kwasi Osei- [...]
2005-09-19 07:11:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL IR TRGY MNUC ENRG AORC GH IAEA
05ACCRA416GHANA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS - FEBRUARY 2005
[...] This report covers noteworthy economic events and activities in Ghana for the period December 2004 to February 2005. The issues covered are: -- IAEA in Ghana -- UK Firm Negotiating Power Deal -- West African Agribusiness Conference -- Information Technology Conference -- World Bank Water [...]
2005-02-28 10:41:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAGR EINV ENRG ETRD GH
05ALGIERS1920ALGERIAN FM'S READOUT ON IRANIAN ENVOY'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) In an August 31 meeting devoted to a number of issues, FM Bedjaoui gave Ambassador a readout of Iranian envoy Alaadine Broujardi's August 29 meeting with President Bouteflika in Algiers. Bedjaoui, who attended the meeting, said Broujardi had given many facts and arguments to bolster Iran [...]
2005-09-12 16:44:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER IR AG
05ALGIERS2247IRAN RELATED BRIEFING
[...] (S) Ambassador called on Energy Minister Chakib Khelil November 7 to deliver reftel talking points and introduce SIMO, who presented a sensitive briefing on Iranian nuclear weaponization efforts. (Reaction to the SIMO brief will be reported in separate channels.) Khelil heads Algeria's interm [...]
2005-11-07 16:17:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETKNNP PARM PREL AORC IR EU AG
05ALGIERS2292RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR ARGUES RUSSIA CAN'T SUPPORT
[...] (S) We do not follow Moscow reporting on the Iran nuclear issue but report the following November 7 conversation between Russian Ambassador Vladimir Titorenko and Ambassador in case it sheds additional light on Russian thinking and actions in the leadup to the IAEA board meetings later this mo [...]
2005-11-14 15:37:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETPREL PINS PARM MARR MNUC AG
05ALGIERS2317IRAN-RELATED BRIEFING DELIVERED TO MFA SECRETARY
[...] (S) AMBASSADOR, ACCOMPANIED BY POLEC CHIEF AND ACTING SIMO, CALLED NOVEMBER 16 ON MFA SECRETARY GENERAL LAMAMRA TO DELIVER REF A TALKING POINTS AND INTRODUCE SENSITIVE SIMO BRIEFING ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR WEAPONIZATION EFFORTS. AMBASSADOR NOTED THAT DUE TO LAMAMRA'S ABSENCE ABROAD THE PREVIOUS WE [...]
2005-11-20 14:12:00Embassy AlgiersSECRETPARM PREL KNNP IR EU AG
05ALGIERS692BOUTEFLIKA URGES IRANIAN COOPERATION ON NUCLEAR
[...] (C) Ambassador took advantage of April 5 meeting on other issues with Presidential Chief of Staff Belkheir to inquire about the April 2-4 visit to Algeria of Iranian Defense Minister Shamkhani. Belkheir said the visit was part of a programmed exchange of bilateral visits, reciprocated the v [...]
2005-04-06 15:34:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP AG IR IAEA
05ALMATY2589 KAZAKHSTAN: APPROVAL OF TAX- AND DUTY-EXEMPT DOE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ten months after the U.S. first requested confirmation of tax and customs exemptions for a DOE shipment to the Ulba Metallurgical Plant (Ref B),the MFA has forwarded a letter from the Tax Committee stating that the shipment will be exempt. End summary. 2. (SBU) On June 24, [...]
2005-07-14 01:39:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KNNP KZ ECONOMIC
05ALMATY3454KAZAKHSTAN: SHKOLNIK ON CANWFZ, CWC, INDIA
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Ordway met with Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Vladimir Shkolnik on September 27 in Astana. Shkolnik assured the Ambassador that there will not/not be a signing ceremony for the proposed Central Asia Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (CANWFZ) Treaty in the near term [...]
2005-10-04 14:49:00US Office AlmatyCONFIDENTIALPREL CW KNNP KZ PARM POLITICAL
05ALMATY3629KAZAKHSTAN: DEMARCHE ON PROPOSALS TO ENABLE CIVIL
[...] (SBU) In a September 27 meeting with Foreign Minister Tokayev, Ambassador delivered Ref A demarche outlining U.S. support of India's pursuit of civilian nuclear energy in exchange for a stronger non-proliferation regime. The United States, he continued, would like to raise this further with t [...]
2005-10-06 13:19:00US Office AlmatyCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP PARM KZ POLITICAL
05ALMATY4143KAZAKHSTAN: HIGH INTEREST IN CIVIL NUCLEAR
[...] (C) POEC chief passed Ref A information on civil nuclear cooperation with India by the Nuclear Suppliers Group to Olzhas Togyzbayev, head of the MFA's Security Institutes Division, on November 4 in Astana. Togyzbayev commented that Kazakhstan is developing good, intensive relations with India [...]
2005-11-22 05:25:00US Office AlmatyCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP KZ IN ECONOMIC
05AMMAN5043 UNEP Supporting Study of Depleted Uranium in Iraq;
[...] Summary: The United Nation Environment Program (UNEP) organized a one-day training seminar on May 31 in Amman to review depleted uranium (DU) in Iraq. Iraqi officials at the seminar said that DU presents serious health risks and is responsible for higher cancer rates in and around Basra. In [...]
2005-06-23 11:09:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TBIO MOPS JO
05AMMAN6440MEDIA REACTION ON IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-11 08:59:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR JO
05AMMAN9562SESAME Synchrotron: Middle East Sees the Light
[...] Summary: SESAME (Synchrotron Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East),an international project to operate the first synchrotron in the Arab world, met in Amman on December 5-7 to assess progress, plan a strategy, and attract potential users. SESAME will upgrade a [...]
2005-12-12 09:26:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDTPHY XF JO
05ANKARA1IRANIAN FONMIN KHARRAZI'S VISIT TO TURKEY: IRAQI
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish MFA interlocutors tell us PM Erdogan strongly underscored Turkish concerns about Iran's nuclear program to visiting Iranian FonMin Kharrazi. End summary. 2. (C) In separate, coordinated Dec. 29 calls on MFA, Polcounselor met DDG for South Asia (including Iran) Evirgen [...]
2005-01-01 05:01:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV MNUC PARM ENRG TU IR IZ
05ANKARA104CODEL KYL SCENESETTER FOR TURKEY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit to Turkey comes at a bumpy period in the bilateral relationship, in large measure connected with developments in Iraq. This message provides a brief overview of the state of bilateral relations, cooperation in Iraq, Turkey's EU accession process and the state of the [...]
2005-01-07 09:48:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL MARR PGOV ECON TU IZ
05ANKARA1104SCENESETTER FOR 3-4 MARCH VISIT OF US ARMY EUROPE
[...] (S) Summary: While your visit comes on the heels of a series US visits since the first of the year (Deputy Secretary of State Armitage, NATO Supreme Allied Commander SIPDIS General Jones, Commander US Central Command General Abizaid, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Feith and Secretary [...]
2005-02-23 17:26:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MARR
05ANKARA1128ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-03 14:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA1474U.S. EFFORTS TO SUPPORT EU-3 IRAN DIPLOMACY
[...] (C) We made reftel points on March 15 to MFA Middle East Department Head Ulku. Ulku welcomed the U.S. position, which he said Turkey would view positively. Ulku averred that Turkey will continue to press Iran privately to work with the EU-3 and IAEA. EDELMAN [...]
2005-03-15 15:12:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAO TU IR
05ANKARA1571TURKEY UPDATE FOR THE VISIT OF COMNAVEUR ADM MIKE
[...] (S) Summary: Your visit comes on the heels of a series of US visits since the first of the year (Deputy Secretary of State Armitage, NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Jones, Commander US Central Command General Abizaid, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Doug Feith, Secretary of State [...]
2005-03-18 12:17:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETOVIP MARR PREL TU
05ANKARA1952SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF GENERAL JOHN HANDY,
[...] (S) Summary: Your visit comes on the heels of a series of US visits since the first of the year (Deputy Secretary of State Armitage, NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Jones, Commander US Central Command General Abizaid, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Feith, Secretary of State Rice, [...]
2005-04-05 11:19:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETOVIP MARR PREL TU
05ANKARA2333UPDATE; CESIUM 137 CONFISCATED AT THE
[...] (C) EXBS Advisor met with the President of the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority, Okay Cakiroglu, on April 22 to request an update on the status of the Cesium 137 that was seized in December. Cakiroglu stated that the Cesium 137 was still safely stored at a Turkish secure facility near Istanbul [...]
2005-04-26 05:44:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALAM ASEC KCRM MNUC PARM PINR PTER TU
05ANKARA2738ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-12 14:29:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA2832SCENESETTER FOR WASHINGTON VISIT OF TURKISH
[...] (C) Summary: Courteous but highly protocol-conscious and volatile Speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly Bulent Arinc looks forward to a highly ceremonial May 24-26 visit to Washington at the invitation of Speaker of the House Hastert. What matters above all to Arinc, who sees his visit [...]
2005-05-18 15:29:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS TU
05ANKARA2910TURKEY SCENESETTER FOR MAY-JUNE CODELS
[...] Summary: The Erdogan government's drift on relations with the U.S., with the EU, and on reform is of concern, as are trends inimical to religious freedom. U.S. Turkish relations remain solid in specific areas and we look for new opportunities to expand cooperation, but our relations are not [...]
2005-05-23 14:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV OREP PINS ECON MARR TU
05ANKARA3385ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-14 14:18:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA3499READOUT OF TURKISH MFA U/S TUYGAN'S MEETING IN
[...] (C) Summary: MFA Iran Department Head Ulku (who did not go on the trip) asserts U/S Tuygan delivered a "crystal clear" message on Iran's nuclear program and the need to cooperate with the EU-3 and IAEA to DFM Aminzadeh June 11 but admitted Tuygan cloaked his message in diplomatic niceties. Wi [...]
2005-06-20 15:17:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER EPET ECON TU IR
05ANKARA371ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-24 14:48:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA4037REPORT OF MEETING BETWEEN DOE INTERNATIONAL THREAT
[...] (U) Summary: Members of the DOE Office of International Radiological Threat Reduction Program (IRTR) visited Ankara June 28, 2005 to discuss with officials of the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK) shared concerns for the security of radioactive materials in the region and to explore oppo [...]
2005-07-12 07:39:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALENRG IZ KNNP OTRA PARM TRGY TU JO
05ANKARA426SCENESETTER FOR JAN.31-FEB.1 VISIT OF UNDER
[...] (S) Summary: Your visit will extend a series of January visits by Deputy Secretary of State Armitage, NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Jones and Commander of Central Command General Abizaid, and will provide an opportunity to echo their pledge that the US will fight all forms of terroris [...]
2005-01-26 15:39:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETOVIP PREL MARR TU
05ANKARA4645TURKEY AND THE U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR
[...] (C) In response to polmilcouns August 9 presentation of reftel points, MFA South Asia Deputy Director General Aydin Evergin said Ankara saw the growing potential of India as a positive contributor to the international community in much the same light as does Washington. As a result, the GOT wa [...]
2005-08-09 11:33:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALENRG ETTC KNNP PARM PREL IN
05ANKARA4742SCENESETTER FOR THE SEPT. 2-3 VISIT OF SENATOR TED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your visit comes at a time when our bilateral relations are on the mend from a difficult period when events in Iraq and Turkey's focus on getting a date from the EU to start accession negotiations overshadowed our traditionally close cooperation. With a growing economy, a sched [...]
2005-08-12 10:02:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV OREP TU
05ANKARA4791ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-15 15:40:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA561SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY RICE'S VISIT TO ANKARA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: You arrive in Turkey as we begin to recalibrate bilateral relations emphasizing renewed dialogue on areas of mutual concern to maximize achievable cooperation. We are working with a different democratizing Turkey as elites rotate and under the impact of widespread, and disaffect [...]
2005-02-01 11:41:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON TU IZ
05ANKARA5634TURKISH MEDIA COVERAGE - VISIT OF APNSA HADLEY
[...] Turkish media coverage of APNSA Hadley's September 23-25 visit to Ankara has generally been straightforward, accurate, and positive. Not surprisingly, most papers focused on Hadley's public remarks on the the need for the United States to do more to address Turkey's concerns about PKK terrori [...]
2005-09-27 14:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA5825APNSA HADLEY'S MEETING WITH TURKISH PM ERDOGAN:
[...] (C) Summary: In a 90-minute meeting with APNSA Hadley on September 23, Turkish PM Erdogan spoke of the challenges in the Middle East and the need for concrete steps to promote democracy. In that context, he stressed his theme of building personal relations with leaders of Turkey's neighbors, [...]
2005-09-30 13:23:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MNUC TU US EU IR IZ SY IS KPAL CY
05ANKARA5843APNSA HADLEY'S MEETING WITH TURKISH MFA U/S TUYGAN
[...] (C) Summary. U/S Tuygan and APNSA Hadley both stressed the importance of U.S.-Turkish strategic partnership and agreed on the need for a bilateral strategic dialogue concerning the full range of cooperation on regional issues. Tuygan, however, also implied that Turkey feels overburdened by EU [...]
2005-09-30 15:33:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MNUC TU US EU IR IZ SY IS PA
05ANKARA6248U/S JOSEPH DISCUSSES NONPROLIFERATION IN TURKEY,
[...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary Joseph urged Turkey to take a resolute stand on Iran's nuclear weapons program during his September 29-30 visit to Ankara. Finance Minister Unakitan pledged to work with the United States to address proliferation financing and requested additional information on c [...]
2005-10-14 12:00:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETKNNP MNUC PARM PREL TU
05ANKARA6258REPLY TO PROPOSAL TO ANALYZE LEU SEIZED IN ISTANBUL
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of Turkey is willing to support a visit of U.S. experts to review previous tests conducted by the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority and other evidence seized in a police sting operation in Istanbul. Turkey is also conceptually willing to participate in the joint foren [...]
2005-10-14 13:50:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETAU KNNP PARM RS TU
05ANKARA6546TURKEY: FM GUL DODGES ISSUE OF IRANIAN EXTREMISM
[...] (C) We delivered reftel demarches to the MFA on October 31, emphasizing the need for the GOT to make clear its rejection of Ahmadi-Nejad's violent and irresponsible rhetoric. Acting Director General for Middle Eastern Affairs Ambassador Aydin Evirgen promised us that Gul would deliver a stro [...]
2005-11-02 10:25:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PINS IR TU
05ANKARA7099ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-04 06:29:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7216ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-08 16:03:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
05ANKARA7443TURKEY: 2005 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) Combating terrorism has long been a priority for the Government of Turkey (GOT). In 2005, Turkey continued its strong support of the coalition in the global war against terror in Afghanistan by commanding the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) from February to August 2005. T [...]
2005-12-20 09:33:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPTER ASEC KCRM EFIN KHLS KPAO
05ANKARA810UPDATE: CESIUM 137 CONFISCATED AT THE
[...] (C) EXBS Advisor met with MFA Energy Department First Secretary Basak Tug on February 11 to discuss the truck that SIPDIS was stopped at the Turkish/Georgian border due to the presence of cesium 137 in the scrap metal it was carrying. Tug confirmed the facts presented previously in ref A. [...]
2005-02-11 15:22:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALAM ASEC KCRM MNUC PARM PINR PTER TU
05ANKARA97SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL ABIZAID'S JANUARY 11-12
[...] (C) Summary: Our bilateral relationship with Turkey has become quite bumpy over the last years. The comfort of our NATO Alliance has been tested by Turkish perceptions of our operations in Iraq, developments on the domestic scene, and the movement toward the EU. Turkey shares our overall poli [...]
2005-01-06 16:15:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS TU IZ AF
05BAGHDAD3894INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA) PHYSICAL
[...] (U) An IAEA Safeguards team out of Vienna conducted their required safeguard physical inventory verification of the Tuwaitha nuclear materials storage facility from 17-18 September, in coordination with Iraqi Ministry of Science and Technology officials and scientists. The team consisted of [...]
2005-09-21 08:24:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ KNNP PGOV PREL IAEA
05BANGKOK1024THAILAND: NPT 2005 REVIEW CONFERENCE
[...] (U) PolOffs delivered reftel non-paper February 7 to representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Departments of International Organizations (IO) and ASEAN Affairs. One MFA official noted in the non-paper the line reading, "The United State will seek support for other measures t [...]
2005-02-09 04:34:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PARM KPAO TH NPT IAEA
05BANGKOK5128APEC RADIOACTIVE SOURCES INITIATIVE DEMARCHE: RTG
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered demarche (reftel A) to Chutintorn Gongsakdi, Director of International Economic Policy at MFA; Katanawadee Kalayanamit, International Organizations/Peace, Security and Disarmament Division at MFA; and Amornsate [...]
2005-08-10 05:07:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM ETTC KSTC EAID ETRD ECIN TH APECO IAEA
05BANGKOK5627THAI MFA OFFICIAL GIVES READOUT ON FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary: North Korean officials told Thai Foreign Minister Kantathi in Pyongyang earlier this week that six-party talks could resume by mid-September if U.S.-ROK military exercises are concluded by the 10th. DPRK officials also reiterated their determination to maintain a civilian nucle [...]
2005-09-01 08:19:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPREL TH
05BANGKOK7030U.S.-THAI STRATEGIC DIALOGUE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 7 and 8, following up on the President's and Prime Minister Thaksin's commitment, senior U.S. officials met with Thai counterparts to inaugurate a bilateral dialogue on strategic and security issues. The U.S. side was lead by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Eri [...]
2005-11-10 07:37:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR MASS PTER PREL KPAO TH
05BERLIN2235FM FISCHER ON IRAN
[...] (S) During a meeting on June 29 with visiting New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, Foreign Minister Fischer said he was extremely concerned about Iran after the election of President Ahmadinejad. He said no one expected Ahmadinejad's victory, least of all Iranian negotiators on the nuclear [...]
2005-07-01 13:37:00Embassy BerlinSECRETIAEA KNNP MNUC PREL EU IR GM
05BOGOTA10953NOVEMBER 24 IAEA BOARD MEETING; IRAN NUCLEAR
[...] (C) Poloff delivered the points contained in Ref A to Coordinator for the United States and Canada Francisco Gonzalez, stressing the need to make clear the international community's serious concerns about Iran's nuclear ambitions. Gonzalez promised to pass them to Diana Aguilar, Director of M [...]
2005-11-23 22:55:00Embassy BogotaSECRETIAEA PARM PREL AORC KNNP KISL IR CO
05BRASILIA1044 BRAZIL: FORMER U.S. AMBASSADORS DISCUSS UN
[...] (SBU) Summary. From March 30 to April 1, former Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Ambassador Alec Watson met with former Brazilian Ambassador to the U.S. Rubens Barbosa; former Foreign Minister Luiz Lampreia; Marcelo Vasconcelos and Paulo Alvarenga from the US and Canada Division at the Minist [...]
2005-04-15 19:31:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PGOV PREL PTER BR UNSC
05BRASILIA1130BRAZIL: A/S RADEMAKER'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN
[...] (C) Introduction: Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Stephen G. Rademaker met on 11 April with his Brazilian Foreign Ministry counterpart, Ambassador Antonio Guerreiro, Assistant Secretary for International Organizations (in the MRE structure this includes UN [...]
2005-04-28 12:01:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL BR
05BRASILIA1152(CORRECTED COPY) BRAZIL: A/S RADEMAKER'S MEETING
[...] (C) Introduction: Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control Stephen G. Rademaker met on 11 April with his Brazilian Foreign Ministry counterpart, Ambassador Antonio Guerreiro, Assistant Secretary for International Organizations (in the MRE structure this includes UN and arms control/non-p [...]
2005-04-29 16:53:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL BR
05BRASILIA122IAEA COMPREHENSIVE SAFEGUARDS AGREEMENTS AND
[...] (SBU) Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies (DDS) Division Chief Santiago Mourao confirmed that reftel letter regarding IAEA comprehensive safeguards and the Additional Protocol was provided to Foreign Minister Amorin in December. Mourao acknowledged tha [...]
2005-01-12 17:36:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP TRGY PREL BR IAEA
05BRASILIA2282BRAZIL: A/S DESUTTER'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN
[...] (U) INTRODUCTION. Assistant Secretary for Verification and Compliance Paula A. DeSutter met on 15 August with Foreign Ministry Officials for compliance diplomacy discussions, led on the Brazilian side by Ambassador Antonio Guerreiro, Assistant Secretary of International Organization Affairs (in [...]
2005-08-24 19:34:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIALAORC KNNP PARM PREL BR CWC
05BRASILIA2798BRAZIL'S RESPONSE TO U.S. PROPOSALS TO ENABLE
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche October 18 to Acting Director Jandyr Santos of the Foreign Ministry's Disarmament Division. Calling the briefing very timely given the ongoing Nuclear Supplier's Group (NSG) meeting in Vienna -- where Division Director Santiago Mourao is heading the Brazil [...]
2005-10-19 18:54:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP BR IN
05BRASILIA289BRAZIL AND THE IAEA: LATEST ON RESENDE NUCLEAR
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-01 12:53:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM MNUC BR IAEA NPT
05BRASILIA295NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE: BRAZIL PERSPECTIVE
[...] (C) Poloff discussed ref B non-paper with Ministry of External Relations' (MRE) Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies Division Chief, Santiago Mourao, who is preparing the GOB position for the 2005 NPT Revcon. Mourao strongly defended the NPT. He agreed that the Treaty required "strengthen [...]
2005-02-01 19:09:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIALPARM KNNP MNUC BR IAEA NPT
05BRASILIA3124BRAZIL: IAEA/IRAN NOVEMBER 24 IAEA BOARD MEETING
[...] (C) Embassy presented reftel demarche November 28 to Santiago Mourao, director of the Foreign Ministry's Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies Division. Mourao said the GOB had maintained frequent contact with the EU3 on the issue and had also had two recent discussions of the issue with th [...]
2005-11-29 18:31:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL AORC BR IR IAEA
05BRASILIA516BRAZIL: RAISING IRAN AT THE 28 FEBRUARY IAES BOG
[...] (C) Per reftel, on 24 February PolCouns provided to the Foreign Ministry (MRE) Disarmament and Sensitive Technoligy Division Chief Santiago Mourao the USG position paper on the IAEA BOG meeting scheduled for 28 February to review developments in the agency's investigation of Iran since Novembe [...]
2005-02-28 14:31:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL BR IAEA POL MIL
05BRASILIA691PART I: BRAZIL'S CONTROL OF SENSITIVE
[...] (SBU) Summary & Introduction: The GOB possesses an effective, Internet-based export control licensing system (SISCOMEX),and in discussions with emboffs Brazilian officials could not identify any cases of unauthorized transfers of sensitive items since SISCOMEX has been functioning. Long, p [...]
2005-03-14 14:06:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PGOV ETTC KNNP BR IAEA
05BRATISLAVA552SLOVAK VIEWS ON JULY 18 GAERC
[...] (C) Pol-Econ Chief shared ref A pre-GAERC points with Lubomir Rehak, European Correspondent, on July 8. Rehak was pleased to discuss U.S. positions and stated that he would share the talking points with others within the Ministry prior to the GAERC meeting, adding that Foreign Minister Kuka [...]
2005-07-12 15:23:00Embassy BratislavaCONFIDENTIALPREL EU UZ TU HR LO UN
05BRATISLAVA938SLOVAKIA SHARES U.S. CONCERNS ON IRAN
[...] (S) Per ref A, Ambassador and Embassy staff briefed MFA State Secretary Magda Vasaryova, MFA PolDir Miroslav Lajcak, MFA Director General for International Organizations Anton Pinter, and a Slovak Intelligence Service representative on U.S. concerns that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons capa [...]
2005-11-23 16:13:00Embassy BratislavaSECRETKNNP PARM PREL AORC IR LO
05BRUSSELS2748A/S FRIED - EU POLITICAL DIRECTORS TROIKA, JULY
[...] (C) Following a luncheon discussion with all 25 EU Political Directors on transatlantic relations, the EU's neighborhood policy, and the Middle East (reported septel) A/S Fried met with the EU "troika" led by UK Political Director Sawers, Council DG for CFSP Robert Cooper, and Commission RELEX [...]
2005-07-20 09:33:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PARM ZK IR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS3558EU FOREIGN MINISTERS TO FOCUS ON TURKEY, IRAN,
[...] (C) EU FMs will meet in an extraordinary session the evening of October 2 to focus on Turkey. On October 3 EU foreign ministers will hold their scheduled meeting (GAERC) and will focus on strategy regarding Iran, decide whether current Croatian cooperation with the ICTY merits a start of acce [...]
2005-09-29 16:06:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL HR RS TU IZ IR EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BUCHAREST228EURATOM TO ROMANIA TRANSFER OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL
[...] EconOff transmitted the Department's inquiry regarding EURATOM's shipment to Romania of nuclear material to Dr. Lucian Biro, President of the National Commission for Nuclear Activity Control (CNCAN) and Dr. Serban Valeca, President of Romanian Nuclear Agency. 2. On January 24, Dr. Biro sen [...]
2005-01-25 14:54:00Embassy BucharestUNCLASSIFIEDENRG KNNP TRGY KSCA RO
05CAIRO4172EGYPT COMFORTABLE WITH "NON-RESULT" OF NPT REVCON;
[...] (C) Summary: In a June 1 conversation with a member of the Egyptian delegation to the NPT Review Conference, Poloff heard Egypt's view that the RevCon's inability to agree on a final document was a satisfactory outcome for Egypt. "We did your work for you" in preventing discussion of intrac [...]
2005-06-02 16:31:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPARM PHSA OIIP KNNP KSTC ETTC EG IAEA NPT
05CAIRO7452EGYPT SUPPORTS AVERTING A MIDDLE EAST SHOWDOWN AT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-27 08:28:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL EG IS IAEA
05CAIRO8877IAEA DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO EGYPT
[...] (S/NF) Following coordination through liaison channels and in the absence of the Deputy Foreign Minister and the Assistant Minister for Multilateral affairs, ECPO Minister Counselor and RMAS Deputy and briefer presented reftel demarche and associated briefing to Deputy assistant minister for D [...]
2005-11-23 16:25:00Embassy CairoSECRET//NOFORNKNNP PARM PREL IR EG AORC
05CAIRO9055SENATOR HAGEL'S DECEMBER 4 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT
[...] (C) In a December 4 meeting, President Mubarak discussed with visiting Senator Hagel Egypt's efforts to promote peace and reconciliation in Iraq and outlined some of the obstacles that stood in the way. Mubarak stressed his dim view of the Shi'a and opined that its ties to Tehran and their "d [...]
2005-12-06 06:24:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV OREP ECON EG
05CAIRO9263SCENESETTER FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO EGYPT
[...] (C) Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit to Egypt, which comes at a critical time not only in our relations, but also in Egyptian history: the slow sunset of a quarter century of benevolent but authoritarian rule. At 77, beginning his fifth Presidential term, Hosni Mubarak is the indispe [...]
2005-12-13 15:17:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD KPAL PHUM EAID KDEM IS IZ SY EG
05CAIRO9316EGYPT'S PROPOSAL FOR BILATERAL NON-PROLIFERATION
[...] (C) The Foreign Ministry's primary point of contact for disarmament and non-proliferation Dr. Hossam Aly provided poloff with an unofficial proposal for the agenda for the non-proliferation bilateral talks. The unofficial proposals for the agenda include the following, and clearly reflect MFA [...]
2005-12-15 15:36:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL EG IS
05CANBERRA1361AUSTRALIA COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RADIOACTIVE
[...] Embassy Canberra, with the concurrence of Consulate General Sydney, welcomes and grants country clearance to Mark Samuel Soo Hoo, Paul Ebel, and Frederick Allen Morris to travel to Sydney, Australia on August 27 - September 2, 2005. The purpose of their visit is to participate in a Regional T [...]
2005-08-12 01:02:00Embassy CanberraUNCLASSIFIEDENRG TRGY AORC KNNP OTRA AS IAEA
05CANBERRA322NPT ENVOY AMBASSADOR SANDERS HEARS AUSTRALIAN
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: In a February 9 lunch with Australian officials, Ambassador Jackie Sanders, Special Representative of the President for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, discussed mainly IAEA matters, hearing Canberra's views on the prospects of a third term for IAEA DG ElBaradei and i [...]
2005-02-18 04:21:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL AORC PARM AS IAEA
05CANBERRA323NPT ENVOY SANDERS DISCUSSES IRAN WITH AUSTRALIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: At a February 10 luncheon with senior Australian officials hosted by the DCM, Ambassador Jackie Sanders, Special Representative of the President for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, discussed how to handle Iran's nuclear programs at the IAEA. GOA officials were candid i [...]
2005-02-18 04:28:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP AORC PARM AS IR IAEA
05CANBERRA341NPT ENVOY AMBASSADOR SANDERS CONSULTS ON NPT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During February 10 consultations at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in Canberra on preparations for the May 2005 Review Conference (RevCon) on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT),Ambassador Jackie Sanders, Special Representative of th [...]
2005-02-22 08:06:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP AORC PARM AS IR IAEA
05CANBERRA354COMMANDER OF UN FORCES IN KOREA GENERAL LAPORTE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on February 16, U.S. General Leon LaPorte, Commander of the UN Command in Korea, described the dramatic changes taking place in the ROK, in particular at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ),where the UN Command's role is a [...]
2005-02-24 06:39:00Embassy CanberraSECRET//NOFORNMARR PARM PREL KNNP AS KS KN IAEA
05CANBERRA374AUSTRALIAN VIEWS ON STRENGTHENING THE IAEA AND
[...] (C) We presented Ref A demarche on February 7 to DFAT Arms Control Office Director David Mason and ASNO DG John Carlson, and continued discussions during and after the visit of NPT Envoy and CD Ambassador Jackie Sanders (Refs D - F) about the U.S. proposals to strengthen the IAEA. Mason, Car [...]
2005-02-28 05:36:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP AORC PARM AS IR IAEA
05CANBERRA387NPT REVCON: AUSTRALIAN VIEWS ON USG PROPOSALS
[...] (C) Summary. GOA officials have provided additional comments on U.S. preparations for the 2005 NPT Review Conference (Ref A) to those they offered to NPT Envoy Ambassador Jackie Sanders (Ref B) during her February 9-10 visit. The additional comments reinforce Australian support for the over [...]
2005-03-02 02:26:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KNNP AORC AS IR IAEA
05CANBERRA403AUSTRALIA WANTS MORE PRESSURE ON NORTH KOREA
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: In a February 25 courtesy call on DFAT Secretary L'Estrange, North Korean Ambassador Chon engaged on the question of whether North Korea would return to the Six-Party Talks (6PT). According to DFAT, Chon launched into the DPRK's "standard diatribe" about the U. [...]
2005-03-02 07:16:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KNNP MNUC AS KN IAEA
05CANBERRA432DISCUSSIONS BEGIN FOR CHINA TO BUY AUSTRALIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: John Carlson, Director General of the Australian Safeguards and Nonproliferation Office (ASNO),told us his late-February trip to Beijing to begin exploratory discussions on an "agreement for cooperation" on uranium sales to China went well overall. He described his interactions [...]
2005-03-04 04:34:00Embassy CanberraSECRETPARM ENRG KNNP PREL ETTC MNUC AS CH
05CANBERRA509IRAN: FM DOWNER TO EXPRESS AUSTRALIAN VIEWS ON
[...] (C) DFAT Arms Control Assistant Secretary Peter Shannon told us March 9 that Iranian MP Boroujerdi, Chairman of the Parliament's National Security Committee, would visit Canberra on March 15. On March 11 we raised with Ben Burdon, Policy Director of the Iraq Task Force (ITF),Ref A points ur [...]
2005-03-14 06:16:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP PARM AS IR IZ IAEA
05CANBERRA806APEC: AUSTRALIA WILLING TO CO-SPONSOR USG'S
[...] (C) We presented ref A points on May 4 to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Assistant Secretary for Arms Control and Counterproliferation Peter Shannon, and separately to International Safeguards Director Russell Leslie in the Australian Safeguards and Nonproliferation Office (AS [...]
2005-05-09 05:03:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MNUC ETTC EAID ETRD KNNP KSTC AS
05CARACAS1822NUCLEAR VENEZUELA A LONG WAY OFF
[...] (C) In public comments on May 22, President Chavez raised the prospect of Venezuela (with Iranian assistance) developing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. But to undertake any new nuclear program the GOV would have to start from scratch. Venezuela's small research reactor, built in the [...]
2005-06-15 19:19:00Embassy CaracasCONFIDENTIALENRG MNUC PREL VE
05CARACAS42DEMARCHE ON IAEA SAFEGUARDS AND ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-06 17:19:00Embassy CaracasUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP TRGY PREL AORC XM XL OPDC VE IAEA
05COLOMBO1159SRI LANKA WILL SUPPORT U.S. POSITION ON NEW
[...] Embassy presented Ref A demarche to the Sri Lankan Ministry of Foreign Affairs on February 24. As reported Ref B, at that time the MFA could provide no specific response. 2. On June 28 the Embassy received a diplomatic note by fax from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs communicating Governm [...]
2005-07-05 11:47:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KNNP MNUC TRGY CE IAEA
05COLOMBO1408IRAN/IAEA: SRI LANKA ALREADY IN TOUCH WITH TEHRAN
[...] (S) Charge' called on Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar August 11 and reviewed with him Ref A talking points calling for firm IAEA action against Iran. Kadirgamar said he shared the U.S. and EU sense of urgency and said the Foreign Ministry would review the U.S. points closely w [...]
2005-08-11 13:12:00Embassy ColomboSECRETPARM PREL IR EU CE
05COLOMBO1654SRI LANKA SUPPORTIVE OF EU ON IRAN/IAEA ISSUE
[...] (SBU) On September 16 poloff delivered Reftel A demarche to V. Krishnamoorthy, Director of UN and Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Poloff followed up on September 20, when Krishnamoorthy responded that the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) is "waiting to see" whether the m [...]
2005-09-20 10:21:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KNNP PARM IR MNUC TRGY CE IAEA
05COLOMBO1864DEMARCHE - IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S INCREASING EXTREMISM
[...] (SBU) The Ambassador raised reftel points on Ahmadi-Nejad's October 25 remarks on wiping Israel off the map with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Anura Bandanaraike during an October 28 conversation (other subjects reported septel). Bandanaraike was not familiar with the Iranian president's spe [...]
2005-10-28 07:23:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM CE IR IAEA
05COLOMBO1991SRI LANKA WILL TRY TO BE HELPFUL AT IAEA BOARD
[...] (C) Ambassador spoke to Foreign Secretary Palihakkara November 23 regarding upcoming IAEA Board meeting, explaining our decision not to seek referral of Iran to the UNSC at this time and also our desire that this not be seen as an endorsement of Iran's behavior. Palihakkara said that he unde [...]
2005-11-23 09:32:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL IR EU AORC IAEA
05COLOMBO2003CONFIDENT PRESIDENT VOWS TO MOVE FORWARD ON PEACE
[...] (C) Summary. President Rajapakse told the Ambassador he is committed to maintaining historically close ties with the United States and welcomes co-chair involvement in the peace process. There is a role for an "independent and balanced" Norway although they should not head the SLMM in Rajap [...]
2005-11-28 06:02:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON KIRF EAID CE LTTE
05COLOMBO2042NEW FOREIGN MINISTER EAGER TO MAINTAIN CLOSE U.S.
[...] (C) Summary. New Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera said the GSL has proposed CFA talks to the LTTE via the Norwegian facilitators and would be flexible on the location of those talks. The landmine killings of soldiers in Jaffna make such talks especially urgent. The FM outlin [...]
2005-12-06 10:04:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER CE LTTE
05COLOMBO411SRI LANKA: DEMARCHES ON IAEA
[...] (U) On February 24 poloff presented reftel demarches to Sumedha Ekanayake, Assistant Director for UN and Multilateral Affairs, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ekanayake thanked us for the information but offered no immediate reaction to either demarche, noting only that Aruni Wijewardena [...]
2005-02-24 10:38:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM PREL MNUC IR CE IAEA
05DHAKA1096Media Reaction: U.S. Human Rights Report on
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-14 04:15:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OIIP OPRC KPAO PREL ETRD PTER ASEC BG OCII
05DHAKA3943Media Reaction: Iran; Dhaka
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-11 04:04:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OIIP OPRC KPAO PREL ETRD PTER ASEC BG OCII
05DHAKA4151MEDIA REACTION: IRAN; DHAKA
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-22 09:39:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OIIP OPRC KPAO PREL ETRD PTER ASEC BG OCII
05DUBLIN1075PRE-GYMNICH DEMARCHE: IRELAND SUPPORTS TURKEY
[...] Summary: On August 29, Post delivered ref A talking points on the September 1-2 Gymnich Meeting to Jim Kelly, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) EU correspondent (who replaced Gerard Keown on August 25). Kelly conveyed Ireland's hope that EU accession talks for Turkey would begin as origina [...]
2005-08-31 16:16:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL EUN
05DUBLIN112GAERC: GOI POSITIVE ON U.S.-EU RELATIONSHIP
[...] (C) On January 27, POL/ECON Chief met with Gerard Keown, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) EU correspondent, to get Irish views on the upcoming GAERC (reftel points had been shared earlier in the week). Keown opened the meeting with high praise for A/S Jones' January 15 consultations with E [...]
2005-01-28 16:52:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER EUN
05DUBLIN1152IRELAND: NO POSITION YET ON U.S.-INDIA NUCLEAR
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-16 15:42:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP
05DUBLIN884IRISH RESPONSE TO PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE
[...] (C) Summary: On July 14, Post delivered reftel demarche to Gerard Keown, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) EU Foreign Correspondent. According to Keown, the GOI was optimistic that EU accession talks for Turkey would begin October 3. He noted that Ireland would favor referring any Iranian [...]
2005-07-15 14:27:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL UN
05DUSHANBE1840HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ISTANBUL CENTRAL ASIA TECHNICAL WORKSHOP
[...] The goal of the workshop was to build a partnership between technical advisors and export control agencies on a regional level. The objectives were to find regional common ground against smuggling of weapons of mass destruction and propose projects to support the primary goal. 2. Regiona [...]
2005-11-21 13:00:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM TI
05DUSHANBE2052TAJIKISTAN WMD EXECUTIVE SEMINAR IN BUDAPEST
[...] SUMMARY: The Tajikistan Weapons of Mass Destruction executive seminar held in Budapest 12-17 December ended Friday with mixed reviews. Although the seminar was an opportunity to assess Tajikistan's ability to combat the proliferation of WMD and exchange information, some Tajiks complained di [...]
2005-12-19 12:16:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM TI
05HANOI1121VIETNAM'S RESPONSE TO DOE LETTER ON DALAT NUCLEAR
[...] The Deputy Chief of Mission received a letter (in Vietnamese) dated May 4, 2005 from Vice Minister of Science and Technology (MOST) Dr. Tran Quoc Thang responding to DOE's February 14, 2005 letter regarding the Dalat Nuclear Research Reactor. According to the letter, MOST appreciates DOE's co [...]
2005-05-13 10:25:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP ENRG TRGY VM
05HANOI2708APEC OFFICIAL MICHALAK'S MEETINGS AT THE MINISTRY
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 10 U.S. Senior Official for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Michael Michalak met separately with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Vice Minister Le Cong Phung and Vice General Director of the General Department of Customs (GDC) Vu Ngoc Anh to discuss b [...]
2005-10-17 08:52:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV VM WTRO APEC WTO
05HANOI2715APEC OFFICIAL MICHALAK'S MEETING AT THE MINISTRY OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a meeting between Deputy Director General at Multilateral Trade Policy Department of the Ministry of Trade (MOT) Tran Thi Thu Hang and U.S. Senior Official for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Michael Michalak, the two frankly discussed upcoming opportunitie [...]
2005-10-17 09:24:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV VM WTRO APEC AFLU WTO IPROP
05HANOI835 VIETNAM: IAEA Additional Protocol and Other Arms
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST for NP and EAP/EP. Please see Paragraph 8. 2. (SBU) Summary and Comment: We met with our primary GVN arms control and nonproliferation counterpart April 6 to discuss a wide range of outstanding arms control/nonpro issues and the constraints faced by the GVN. [...]
2005-04-08 10:04:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM ABUD VM AROC CWC CBW OPCW APEC
05HELSINKI1170FINNISH VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF NOVEMBER GAERC
[...] (SBU) PolChief delivered reftel demarche to EU Correspondent Jarno Syrjala, who highlighted the Balkans, ICTY cooperation, Syria, Iran and the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP) among Finnish priorities for the November GAERC. 2. (SBU) BALKANS: Syrjala anticipated (correctly) that former Mar [...]
2005-11-02 13:29:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID BO KPAL IZ SY YI EAGR MK ETRD FI EUN EU GAERC
05HELSINKI224NPT 2005 REVCON: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PD STRATEGY
[...] On February 7, the Embassy delivered the Ref A non-paper on the upcoming NPT RevCon to Laura Kansikas-Debraise, new director of the Finnish MFA's Arms Control, Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation Unit. In doing so we noted that a USG-GoF dialogue on RevCon issues already has started in New York [...]
2005-02-22 12:34:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALKPAO PARM KNNP FI NPT IAEA
05KUWAIT2548IRANIAN NSA VISITS KUWAIT, CALLS FOR AMERICAN
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: Following a number of official exchanges, the Secretary General of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Dr. Hassan Rouhani, visited Kuwait June 4-6, during which he held a series of meetings reportedly focusing on security cooperation in the fight against terroris [...]
2005-06-08 14:21:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KU IR KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS
05KUWAIT2587PM SENIOR ADVISOR SAYS IRAQ TOP PRIORITY,
[...] (C) Summary: During a June 11 meeting which focused largely on Kuwait's relations with regional neighbors, Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister Mohammed Abulhassan told the Ambassador that Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah, who left June 11 for Riyadh, was attempting to break stalemates between Gulf [...]
2005-06-12 07:50:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPREL KU IR IZ KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS IRAQ
05KUWAIT2624SECURITY BUREAU HEAD ON COUNTERTERRORISM, IRAQ,
[...] (C) Summary: During a June 12 meeting with the Ambassador, National Security Bureau (NSB) President Shaykh Sabah Al-Khaled said the GOK remained committed to fighting terror and was taking all appropriate steps to arrest and prosecute those who practice or advocate violence. He reported th [...]
2005-06-13 15:09:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL PHUM PARM KU IZ IR
05KUWAIT327UPDATE ON KEY ISSUES FOR UNDERSECRETARY BOLTON'S
[...] (S) Since your last visit, the GOK welcomed the transfer of sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government and has been a strong supporter of holding elections on January 30. The GOK has also encouraged Sunni participation in elections and Kuwaitis are hoping greater stability will result from [...]
2005-01-19 14:05:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPREL PGOV PTER MARR KISL KU IR IAEA
05KUWAIT3902FOREIGN MINISTER ON HIS VISIT TO IRAN; PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah sat with the Ambassador on August 30 to discuss his trip to Tehran, two days earlier. The visit itself last four hours on the ground and included meetings with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the new Foreign Minister, M [...]
2005-08-30 14:26:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPARM PGOV PREL PBTS IZ IR KU
05KUWAIT4334KUWAITIS PRESS IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO
[...] (C) In a very brief exchange as Ambassador was leaving the Foreign Ministry with Ambassador Jeffrey's Iraq-related delegation on October 5, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah advised that he had pressed visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Manoucher Mottaki to c [...]
2005-10-05 13:33:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPARM PGOV PREL PBTS IZ IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS
05KUWAIT4449FOREIGN MINISTER COMMENTS ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR
[...] Summary: (C) During an October 15 meeting with Ambassador, Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Al-Salem Al-Sabah spoke about Iranian unity regarding the development of their nuclear program but division regarding the country's public handling of the situation. He reported that the Iranian chie [...]
2005-10-17 08:28:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL PGOV IR IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS IRAN
05KUWAIT481FM AND SENIOR MP TELL U/S BOLTON IRANIAN NUCLEAR
[...] (C) Summary: During a January 29 visit to Kuwait, Under Secretary Bolton shared with FM Shaykh Dr. Mohammed and MP SIPDIS Mohammed Al-Sager U.S. concerns about Iran's nuclear activities and the firm belief that UNSC involvement is necessary. Bolton said the U.S. was following the Europea [...]
2005-02-02 12:39:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL PGOV PTER KU
05LIMA3468IRAN/IAEA: URGING SUPPORT FOR FIRM ACTION AGAINST
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-11 16:44:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL PE
05LIMA3838IAEA COMMITTEE ON SAFEGUARDS AND VERIFICATION
[...] Polcouns delivered the demarche on the IAEA Committee on Safeguards and Verification (Reftel) to Julio Garro, the Foreign Ministry's Director of Multilateral Affairs, on 9/2. Garro expressed satisfaction on the creation of the Committee. He added that while Peru will leave the IAEA Board at t [...]
2005-09-06 15:10:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP AORC TRGY ENRG PE
05LIMA4024IRAN/IAEA: SEEKING SUPPORT FOR EU3 EFFORTS TO
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-16 16:12:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM PREL TRGY MNUC IR EU PE IAEA
05LIMA4377PERUVIAN FOREIGN POLICY UNDER TOLEDO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Under the Toledo Administration, Peru's foreign policy has become more aligned with that of the United States than it has probably been at any time since the 1968 Velasco coup. While Peru continues to advocate policies that we disagree with, such as adherence to the Internation [...]
2005-10-11 18:25:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALPREL PE US
05LJUBLJANA808SLOVENIA ON IRAN RELATED BRIEFING
[...] (S) On November 23, DCM, C/SIMO, and PolMiloff delivered reftel demarche and presentation to MFA Director for Policy Planning and Multilateral Policy (A/S equivalent) Stanislav Rascan, Security Department Head Stanislav Vidovic, and Security Department staffer Rina Pavlin Gnidovec. During the [...]
2005-11-23 08:41:00Embassy LjubljanaSECRETKNNP PARM PREL AORC SI
05MADRID113SPAIN'S VIEWS ON U.S. NONPROLIFERATION AMENDMENTS
[...] (C) Poloff discussed policy issue papers and reftel talking points concerning U.S. nonproliferation amendments to the Convention against the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (SUA) with Marcos Rodriguez Cantero, MFA Deputy Director General for Disarmament [...]
2005-01-12 16:40:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM PREL KTIA PHSA EWWT
05MADRID1687SPAIN NOT SUPPORTIVE ON WHO INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS
[...] (U) ESTHOFF passed reftel points April 21 to appropriate MFA and Health Ministry contacts. POLMILOFF passed reftel points that same day to the Defense Ministry. The MFA contacted ESTHOFF to inform the Embassy that it would deliver the combined GOS response to our demarche. This response was [...]
2005-04-29 15:05:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO PREL PTER SP WHO
05MADRID2397SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOE/NNSA/DPTRAV ROGER
[...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Roger L. Clough, from Sandia National Laboratories to travel to Madrid, July 8-20 to attend and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) International Advisory Group Meeting on Controlling Radiation Degradation in Polymers. 2. Embassy unde [...]
2005-06-21 14:15:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDENRG TRGY KSCA OTRA SP
05MADRID2813SPAIN ON U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-01 15:52:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALENRG ETTC PARM PREL KNNP IN SP
05MADRID3150SPANISH VIEWS ON IAEA COMMITTEE ON SAFEGUARDS AND
[...] (U) ESTHOFF passed reftel points August 30 to MFA Disarmament Affairs Deputy Director General Marcos Rodriguez Cantero, thanking Spain for supporting the creation of the IAEA's Committee on Safeguards and Verification and requesting Madrid's views on membership, leadership and agenda-related [...]
2005-09-06 12:58:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKNNP AORC TRGY ENRG SP IAEA
05MADRID633SPAIN SUPPORTS USG INITIATIVE TO STRENGTHEN IAEA
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-16 16:44:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM TRGY SP IAEA
05MANAMA101SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY BOLTON'S JANUARY
[...] (S) We warmly welcome your visit to Bahrain. On the key issues of Iran, counter-terrorism, and Article 98, you will find the Bahraini government to be fully supportive of U.S. foreign policy objectives and interests. However, on CT and Article 98, you will find that there are specific areas [...]
2005-01-24 10:04:00Embassy ManamaSECRETPREL PTER PARM ASEC KISL BA IR IZ KICC IAEA
05MANAMA158U/S BOLTON PRESSES FOR MOVING IRAN NUCLEAR ISSUE
[...] (C) Under Secretary Bolton January 30 met with Foreign Minister Shaikh Mohammed, Defense Minister Shaikh Khalifa, and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Abdul Ghaffar to discuss Iran's nuclear program and bringing into force the bilateral Article 98 agreement. In response to U/S Bolton's [...]
2005-02-03 14:20:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL PGOV PTER BA IR KICC
05MANAMA361BAHRAINI LEADERS DISCUSS REFORM AND IRAN WITH
[...] (C) GOB officials expressed their commitment to continued political and economic reform in the kingdom and advocated a diplomatic solution to the disagreement with Iran over its nuclear program in meetings with visiting NEA/ARPI Director Alan Misenheimer February 21. Members of parliament also [...]
2005-03-14 11:47:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PHUM KDEM BA
05MANAMA393BAHRAIN: GUIDANCE ON U.S. EFFORTS TO SUPPORT EU-3
[...] (C) The Ambassador March 15 delivered reftel demarche concerning U.S. efforts to support EU-3 diplomacy on Iran to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs/Information Minister Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar. Abdul Ghaffar took note of the demarche but had to depart the meeting before he had a chance t [...]
2005-03-16 13:33:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAO BA IR
05MAPUTO74DEMARCHE ON ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL TO IAEA SAFEGUARDS
[...] (SBU) On December 30, Emboff delivered demarche and talking points to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, urging Mozambique to adopt the Additional Protocol to the comprehensive standards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The MFA official receiving the demarche, Fernando Chomar, a [...]
2005-01-12 15:15:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP TRGY PREL AORC XA MZ ASEC IAEA
05MINSK1155Chernobyl Report Met with Criticism by Some
[...] (C) Summary: The Chernobyl Forum, comprised of several UN organizations, recently released its report on the consequences of the Chernobyl accident 20 years later. The report predicts much lower deaths and health effects than previously predicted and calls earlier assessments "exaggerated an [...]
2005-09-22 10:23:00Embassy MinskCONFIDENTIALENRG PGOV MNUC SENV TBIO TRGY BO
05MINSK1169EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - September 23,
[...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk over the past week. ------------- Civil Society ------------- 2. GOB Customs Service "Stays Outside Politics" On September 16, the State Customs Committee announced that the GOB has not ordered the Belarusian customs [...]
2005-09-27 05:22:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM ECON BO
05MINSK1199EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - September 30,
[...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk over the past week. ------------- Civil Society ------------- 2. Hail to Luka Youth! President Lukashenko signed a presidential edict on September 24 restoring the Soviet era name, Lenin Komsomol of Belarus, to the [...]
2005-09-30 13:12:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM ECON BO
05MINSK1525WORLD BANK IN BELARUS: FUTURE ENGAGEMENT RESTS ON
[...] SUMMARY: Increasing GOB impediments to the provision of foreign assistance and further resistance to outside advice call into question the future of World Bank operations in Belarus. The Bank is pinning its hopes on realization of a proposed $50 million project in energy conservation and gas [...]
2005-12-22 07:38:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAID ENRG SENV UNDP BO
05MUSCAT1255FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIALS CAUTIOUS ON IRAN
[...] (C) Though Iran's new president is still largely an unknown quantity in Oman, two Foreign Ministry officials suggested that his recent provocative statements on resuming uranium conversion are more likely political bluster than actual policy. They preached engagement with Iran as the best way [...]
2005-08-11 10:30:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP MNUC IR MU
05MUSCAT1473SULTAN'S ANNUAL ADDRESS
[...] (SBU) Sultan Qaboos' October 1 annual address to the Majlis Oman, lasting under 15 minutes, focused almost entirely on the human resource development, making only a brief reference to foreign affairs and offering little in the way of new initiatives or reforms. Popular hopes that long-unchang [...]
2005-10-03 14:23:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON ELAB MU
05MUSCAT1481MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, THE SUPERPOWERS, AND PALESTINE
[...] The privately owned Arabic daily "al-Watan" published an editorial entitled "Could the Tug Of War Succeed In Politics?" on October 1: "The tug of war between the West and the Islamic Republic of Iran over Tehran's nuclear program seems dangerous, but it might actually be a successful policy. [...]
2005-10-04 05:29:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDIR KPAL NOTAG IS
05MUSCAT1482OMAN ONLINE: STORMS, WEAPONS, ALIENS, AND DIPLOMATS
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-04 05:29:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO SOCI MU
05MUSCAT1512MEDIA REACTION: NOBEL PRIZE, IRAN, MIDDLE EAST
[...] The privately-owned Arabic daily "al-Watan" published an editorial on October 9 entitled "Has Alfred Nobel's Mission Been Achieved?": "Granting the Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its director, Dr. Mohammed al-Baradei, is in itself a noble message. However, we [...]
2005-10-10 12:56:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KMDR OIIP MU
05MUSCAT1876OMANI INSIGHTS INTO IRAN AND IRAQ FOR NEA DAS GRAY
[...] (C) Calling Iran's political scene and new government a sea of "shifting sands," royal adviser Abdulaziz al-Rawas suggested that U.S. threats have only served to shore up hardliners' support in Iranian society, and that a more positive approach should be adopted. Separately, MFA Under Secreta [...]
2005-12-17 04:32:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER IR IZ MU
05MUSCAT2OMAN FM ON IRAN, IRAQ, GCC AND PALESTINE
[...] (C) FM Yusuf bin Alawi shared his views with the Ambassador on Iran's relations with the region, noting his interest in visiting Tehran but ruling out a state visit by the Sultan. He is optimistic that Qatar will take positive action to rein in abuses by the Al Jazeera network, and is likewis [...]
2005-01-01 03:59:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS ETRD XF MU
05MUSCAT232OMAN NOT READY TO COMMIT TO PSI
[...] (S) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the Embassy by note verbale February 9 that while Oman seeks to comply with international laws, agreements and norms, "the government of the Sultanate welcomes the idea of the Proliferation Security Initiative without joining it or being committed t [...]
2005-02-09 13:32:00Embassy MuscatSECRETPARM PREL KNNP EWWT MU
05MUSCAT34IAEA COMPREHENSIVE SAFEGUARDS STATUS
[...] (SBU) Following the Ambassador's December 27 discussion with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi to encourage Oman's bringing into force its IAEA safeguards agreement and approving the Additional Protocol (ref A),A/DCM also raised the matter in a January 5 meeting on othe [...]
2005-01-05 14:35:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM TRGY PREL AORC OPDC XF MU ESTH
05MUSCAT6SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY'S TRANSIT OF OMAN
[...] (C) Team Muscat was delighted to learn of your transit of Oman en route to the tsunami-stricken Asia region. In the event your brief refueling stop in Muscat offers the opportunity for an airport meeting with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi, we offer the following ba [...]
2005-01-02 10:35:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL MU
05MUSCAT831OMAN ADOPTS IAEA'S CODE OF CONDUCT ON THE SAFETY
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-22 11:39:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC PARM PREL MU ESTH
05NEWDELHI1141LOOKING AT DPRK, GOI COMPLAINS OF LACK OF TRANSPARENCY RE AQ KHAN
[...] (C) For the Indian government, North Korea's explicit reaffirmation of its nuclear status has revived concern about the nexus with Pakistan. MEA Director of Disarmament and International Security Affairs Venu Rajamony complained to PolCouns on February 9 that neither Pakistan nor the U.S. ha [...]
2005-02-14 11:01:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL IN PK KN
05NEWDELHI1175AIYAR DEFENDS IRAN-INDIA OIL AND GAS RELATIONSHIP
[...] (C) Summary: In a February 11 meeting with the Ambassador, Indian Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar said that India's national security compelled it to look towards Iran for natural gas. He pointed out that India is competing in Iran with many others, including some of th [...]
2005-02-15 09:03:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET ECON ETTC IR IN
05NEWDELHI1248INDIA READY FOR REGIONAL RADIOLOGICAL SECURITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a trilateral meeting with USG and IAEA officials on February 9, the GOI agreed to join the Regional Radiological Security Partnership (RRSP); identified a lead technical contact within the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE); offered to serve as a venue for radiological securi [...]
2005-02-17 09:04:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL TRGY KNNP KRAD IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI1264NRC COMMISSIONER MERRIFIELD MEETS MEA ADDITIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: On February 11 NRC Commissioner Merrifield met MEA Additional Secretary Meera Shankar who has the non-proliferation portfolio within her purview. Commissioner Merrifield expressed satisfaction with his visit to Indian facilities and suggested that further cooperation could bring [...]
2005-02-17 12:33:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALCVIS ENRG ETTC IN KNNP KSCA PREL TRGY TSPL NSSP
05NEWDELHI1422ASSESSING NEAR-TERM OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE NSSP
[...] (C) Summary: In hopes of avoiding a slowdown on key issues in the Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (NSSP),MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar outlined specific matters that require resolution during a February 18 meeting with visiting SA/RA Director John Schlosser, PolCouns, and [...]
2005-02-24 11:52:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPGOV PARM MASS TRGY KNNP ETTC IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI1427NOTHING MAJOR FROM JACK STRAW'S NEW DELHI VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Secretary Jack Straw's February 16-18 visit to India yielded "nothing major," according to the UK High Commission, and was distinctly low key compared to earlier stops in Kabul and Islamabad. Straw signed two immigration/law enforcement agreements, and discussed Indo-Pak [...]
2005-02-24 14:09:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KCRM IN NP BG AF UK INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI1481INDO-US SECURITY COOPERATION: THE WAY AHEAD
[...] (C) Summary: Meeting on 23 February, MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar and DSCA Director for Middle East, Asia and North Africa Ed Ross agreed that a large cooperative defense program, such as a P-3 or C-130 sale, would build trust and demonstrate US reliability as a defense suppli [...]
2005-02-25 13:43:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALKSTC MARR MASS PGOV PREL IN US
05NEWDELHI1824REVITALIZING THE US-INDIA ENERGY RELATIONSHIP
[...] (C) Secretary Bodman, now that you have had a few weeks to settle into your new role, I want to share with you some thoughts and ideas on our relationship with India. You already know from our meeting last November my views on the emerging India, a vibrant, multi-faceted democracy that is a [...]
2005-03-09 12:36:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET ECON ETTC PREL KNNP TRGY IN US NSSP
05NEWDELHI3242EXBS: EXPORT CONTROL SYSTEM STANDARDS FOR INDIA
[...] (SBU) Export Control System Standards for India, in response to Ref A. The GOI is in the process of introducing new legislation aimed at licensing and controlling the export of WMD and their delivery systems. MEA contacts have stated that they expect to introduce and seek approval of the legi [...]
2005-04-29 10:20:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KSTC PARM PREL IN GOI
05NEWDELHI3810PUTIN: "MANY GUESTS IN MOSCOW, BUT ONLY ONE INDIA"
[...] (C) Summary: According to our Indian contacts, President Putin offered India a range of defense and energy cooperation proposals during PM Manmohan Singh's May 8-10 visit to Moscow, renewing top-level bonhomie after his scratchy visit to New Delhi last December. Commenting on Putin's offer to [...]
2005-05-20 12:30:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG ETRD KNNP TSPA RS CH IN
05NEWDELHI4715INDIAN NON-PAPER ON BARC COOPERATION WITH IRAN
[...] (C) During the June 16 US-India Strategic Stability and Nonproliferation Dialogue, MEA Additional Secretary (International Security) Meera Shankar gave A/S for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker the following nonpaper regarding possible cooperation between a Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) s [...]
2005-06-21 11:20:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP IR IN
05NEWDELHI4862INDIA PONDERS NEW IRANIAN PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Indian foreign policy watchers predict that the June 25 Iranian presidential election outcome will upset the equilibrium in India's balancing act between its energy and trade interests in Iran and its growing strategic partnership with Washington. New Delhi's improved ties with Tehran in [...]
2005-06-27 12:52:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL IN IR
05NEWDELHI4961US-INDIA NON-PROLIFERATION DIALOGUE
[...] (C) Summary: Arms Control A/S Stephen Rademaker and representatives from AC, NP, SA, OSD, and Embassy met GOI counterparts, led by MEA Additional Secretary (International Security) Meera Shankar on June 16 to continue the ongoing bilateral dialogue on strategic stability and nonproliferation [...]
2005-06-29 13:08:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP PARM ETTC KSTC IR PK CH IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI5048U/S BURNS' DISCUSSIONS ON SOUTH ASIAN ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary: U/S Nicholas Burns met with Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran on June 25 to review Indo-Pak SIPDIS relations, Iran, Nepal, Bangladesh, and briefly Sri Lanka. Although pleased with the groundswell of support for people-to-people exchanges with Pakistan, Saran warned that a single [...]
2005-07-01 12:12:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PK AF IR NP BG CE IN US
05NEWDELHI5446GOI WANTS TO HELP US IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha told us on July 14 that India is very committed to its Afghan reconstruction projects, is looking for opportunities to do more in reconstruction, vocational training, and election and governance technical assistance, a [...]
2005-07-14 13:22:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KDEM PTER IN PK AF IR
05NEWDELHI5616PM SINGH'S US TRIP MEETS NEW DELHI'S HIGH
[...] (C) Summary: Initial reactions to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's highly anticipated July 18-19 meetings in Washington have been overwhelmingly positive. Most commentators believe that the US decision to normalize our civil nuclear relationship puts substance behind the US promise to assist [...]
2005-07-20 13:23:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KNNP ETRD ENRG IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI5680PRIME MINISTER SINGH'S NUCLEAR LEADERSHIP
[...] (C) Summary: Our contacts in the Indian nuclear establishment welcomed the July 18 announcement of potential civil nuclear cooperation and are confident that Prime Minister Singh's experience with the nuclear sector will be critical to rapid implementation of the commitments that India made [...]
2005-07-22 11:46:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALENRG ETRD IN KNNP PGOV PREL NSSP
05NEWDELHI5815INDIAN LEFT OPPOSES "PRO-US SHIFT" BUT WILL
[...] Summary: The Left Front heavily criticized agreements reached during the PM's visit to Washington, claiming that the UPA has abandoned its pledge in the Common Minimum Program (CMP) to pursue "multipolarity," in favor of a "pro-US shift" initiated by the previous NDA government. The CPI and C [...]
2005-07-27 13:04:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PARM KNNP ECON IN CH IR
05NEWDELHI5879INDIAN PM BRIEFS PARLIAMENT ON US TIES: IT'S ALL
[...] (C) Summary: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh heralded his first state visit to the US as an unqualified success for India's foreign and economic policy in a speech to Parliament on July 29, and emphasized that India's relationship with the US was based on equality and reciprocity, sentim [...]
2005-07-29 11:46:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MNUC ENRG EINV KNNP IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI6250IRAN/IAEA: URGING SUPPORT FOR FIRM ACTION
[...] (U) This is an action message please see para 3. 2. (S) In coordination with EU partners, PolCouns presented reftel demarche to MEA Joint Secretary (Disarmament) Dilip Sinha on August 11. The Charge double-tracked in an August 11 meeting with Deputy NSA Vijay Nambiar. Both the Charge and [...]
2005-08-11 12:28:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPARM PREL IR EU IN
05NEWDELHI6294THE US-INDIA NUCLEAR DEAL: SHAPING PUBLIC OPINION
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Singh,s appearances before Parliament (Ref. A, B and C) and our contacts in the Indian scientific community allow an early assessment of how the GOI interprets the July 18 Joint Statement (JS) on civil nuclear cooperation and where challenges are likely to arise in [...]
2005-08-12 11:06:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALENRG ETRD IN KNNP PREL IAEA US
05NEWDELHI6804INDIA WALKING IRAN TIGHTROPE
[...] (C) Summary: As Natwar Singh travels to Tehran September 2 to meet the new regime, India's overriding goal is securing energy, followed by preserving access to Afghanistan, maintaining influence in what India perceives as a swing state in the debate over Islam, and advancing other business relati [...]
2005-09-02 14:39:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG PBTS IR IN
05NEWDELHI6840A NUCLEAR IRAN STILL UNACCEPTABLE TO INDIA, BUT DELHI QUESTIONS EVENTUAL ARMED CONFRONTATION
[...] (S) Summary: Indian FS Saran listened attentively to Ambassador's views on Iran, including our disappointment with FM Natwar Singh's public statements on his September 3-4 visit to Tehran; and reaffirmed India's long-standing policy on Iran, ie, that Iran must comply with its international commitm [...]
2005-09-06 13:34:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETMNUC PREL KNNP PINS MOPS IN IR
05NEWDELHI6915INDIAN DEPUTY NSA UPBEAT ON PAKISTAN, HESITANT ON
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy NSA VK Nambiar told A/DCM and Poloff on September 7 that he was optimistic the Indo-Pak peace process would continue to make slow progress, and looked forward to PM Manmohan Singh's meeting with President Musharraf during the UNGA summit. Nambiar highlighted instability i [...]
2005-09-08 08:39:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KNNP IN IR PK BG INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI6974INDIA NOTES US IRAN VIEWS; TRYING TO CLARIFY ITS POSITION
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Our efforts here and Congress' reaction in Washington seem to be encouraging the Indians to review their public postures on Iran. According to a senior MEA contact, they are mulling ways to restate their position in an unambiguous and helpful way. Our MEA contacts cite Indian engage [...]
2005-09-09 10:35:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETKNNP PREL MNUC IR IN
05NEWDELHI7100SCENE-SETTER FOR MEETINGS WITH MANMOHAN SINGH & NATWAR SINGH IN NEW YORK
[...] (C) Summary: Madame Secretary, your meetings this week with (we hope) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Foreign Minister Natwar Singh provide an occasion to sketch the real challenges we face in implementing legislative actions necessary for us to fulfill the civil nuclear vision of the July 18 Jo [...]
2005-09-13 12:49:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IN
05NEWDELHI7261NUCLEAR ISSUES OVERSHADOWED NATWAR'S TRIP TO IRAN
[...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan/Iran/Afghanistan) Dilip Sinha complained to CDA and Poloff during a September 15 office call that nuclear proliferation issues overshadowed in the press the rest of Foreign Minister Natwar Singh's September 2-4 trip to Iran. The trip's substantive fo [...]
2005-09-16 13:36:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG EPET KNNP PARM PINR IN IR UK GM
05NEWDELHI7493INDIAN GOVERNMENT AGGRESSIVELY DEFENDING ITS VOTE ON IRAN
[...] (C) Summary: India's decision to support the US/EU resolution on Iran at the IAEA was the most important signal so far of the UPA's commitment to building a transformed US-India relationship. To counter the domestic backlash, the GOI launched an aggressive campaign to explain to its domestic con [...]
2005-09-26 13:06:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KNNP IR IN
05NEWDELHI7693INITIAL INDIAN OUTREACH TO THE NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS
[...] (C) Summary: India has begun to lobby Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) members in advance of the 19-20 October meeting of the Consultative Group (CG),MEA Joint Secretary for Disarmament and International Security Hamid Ali Rao told PolCouns and PolMilOff on 3 Oct. So far, the GOI has engaged [...]
2005-10-03 12:18:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ENRG KNNP IS IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI7725COMBATING EXTREMISM - MISSION INDIA RESPONSE
[...] (C) Summary: India enjoys a democratic, multi-religious, multi-cultural, heterogeneous, multi-ethnic society where all major world religions are practiced freely. Isolated elements of religious extremism of many varieties have, however, occurred in India -- notably among Hindus, Muslims, and [...]
2005-10-05 05:52:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI PGOV IN
05NEWDELHI7759CONGRESS MOVES TO CALM COALITION JITTERS
[...] (C) Summary: The virulent criticism by the Left Front (LF) and the opposition BJP of India's anti-Iran vote in the IAEA and their efforts to politicize the debate on economic reform has caught many Congress leaders by surprise, and fed rumors that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) governm [...]
2005-10-05 12:21:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON ELAB KISL PREL PINR EINV IR IN
05NEWDELHI7767SECOND ANNUAL SOUTH ASIA POLITICAL REPORTING
[...] (U) Summary: The September 29 South Asia Political Reporting Officers' Conference in New Delhi brought together almost 50 officers and FSNs from Indian consulates, South Asian countries, the broader region and Washington to discuss recent developments. Participants discussed the July 18 Indo [...]
2005-10-05 13:11:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER BD PK NP IN
05NEWDELHI7909CONGRESS ON DEFENSIVE OVER SUPREME COURT DECISION
[...] (C) Summary. On October 7, the Indian Supreme Courts ruled that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) May 22 dissolution of the Bihar State Assembly and its declaration of President's rule was unconstitutional. However, the Court refused to cancel the October 18-November 19 state elections, [...]
2005-10-11 12:12:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KJUS PHUM PREL IN
05NEWDELHI8049INDIA'S OUTREACH AND ADHERENCE TO NSG
[...] (C) Outlining India's efforts to seek support for the July 18 Civil Nuclear Agreement in advance of the upcoming NSG meeting, MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar passed copies of presentations the GOI was making to NSG member states to Charge, PolCouns, and PolMilOff on October 14 (c [...]
2005-10-17 12:43:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP ENRG IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI8162INDIA'S STANCE ON IRAN AND THE IAEA CONTINUES TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: The spate of media and political criticism touched off by the GOI's decision to vote with the US and the EU3 (UK, France, and Germany) at the September 24 IAEA meeting on Iran is increasing rather than dying down. Foreign Secretary Saran recently summoned Ambassadors from the EU3 to [...]
2005-10-20 12:37:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KNNP ENRG IR IN
05NEWDELHI8231JASWANT SINGH BELIEVES THE UPA IS INCAPABLE OF MANAGING THE INDO/US RELATIONSHIP
[...] (C) Summary: Meeting with U/S Burns and the Ambassador in New Delhi on October 21, former Foreign Minister and BJP leader Jaswant Singh expressed wholehearted support for the India/US agenda and its many components, but reading between the lines, that support was actually qualified. Singh seemed [...]
2005-10-24 10:56:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON PGOV PINR IN PK IR
05NEWDELHI8237U/S BURNS AND F/S SARAN CLARIFY POSITIONS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: U/S Nicholas Burns' meeting with GOI Foreign Secretary Saran on U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation SIPDIS clarified differing perceptions on how to sequence each side's fulfillment of obligations in order to build sufficient confidence in the other side's executive and legisl [...]
2005-10-24 11:30:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KNNP ENRG IN
05NEWDELHI8245BURNS-SARAN OCTOBER 21 MEETING ON BILATERAL ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary: Much progress was made in the October 21 opening meeting in Delhi between Under Secretary for Political Affairs Burns and Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran which reviewed the US-India joint ventures launched at the July 18 Summit. Both agreed that the two sides must ensure that smal [...]
2005-10-24 11:45:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV MASS EAID EAGR ENRG EINV KNNP ETRD EAIR ETTC ECPS TSPA TBIO TSPL CVIS KDEM SENV IN PK US
05NEWDELHI8254INDIA EMPHASIZES SUPPORT FOR NON-PROLIFERATION IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a landmark October 24 speech aimed at an elite group of strategic analysts, Foreign Secretary Sham Saran forcefully defended the India-US civil nuclear framework, offered helpful interventions on NSG and MTCR harmonization, and highlighted India's vigorous support for the glo [...]
2005-10-24 14:45:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KNNP MNUC PREL ENRG IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI8394LEFT RAISES THE STAKES IN CONFRONTATION WITH
[...] (C) Summary: On October 27, after a four month hiatus, the Left Front (LF) deigned to meet their Congress coalition partners again in their formal Coordination Committee, but instead of being cowed by their recent pummelling in the press, the Communists were even more combative and rigid, an [...]
2005-10-28 12:19:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ETRD PREL SCUL PINR EINV ELAB SOCI IN
05NEWDELHI8397SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY SNOW'S VISIT TO INDIA
[...] (C) Mr. Secretary, I want to warmly welcome you to India, a vibrant, diverse, multi-ethnic, multifaceted democracy -- much like our own in important respects -- that is emerging as an economic powerhouse and has growing global ambitions. Your visit will help set the stage for President Bush's [...]
2005-10-28 13:32:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON BEXP PGOV PREL IN US
05NEWDELHI8535THE UPA DESCENDS DEEPER INTO THE VOLCKER REPORT
[...] (C) Summary: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government continued to descend into the quagmire created by the release of the Volcker Report (reftels),while its embattled Foreign Minister has veered to the left in a desperate attempt to win support from the Left Front (LF). The UPA has [...]
2005-11-07 12:43:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR ETTC EPET KCRM IN IR
05NEWDELHI8537GOI FINDS NEUTRON SOURCE IN MUMBAI CONTAINER
[...] (C) MEA Director (Americas) gave PolCouns a note on October 7 detailing further radiation measurements that the GOI's Atomic Energy Regulatory Board carried out on the suspect shipping container following USG requests for additional scrutiny (reftels). According to the note, after negative r [...]
2005-11-07 14:02:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALENRG ETRD KNNP PREL IN IAEA
05NEWDELHI8682AMBASSADOR TAHIR-KHELI URGES GOI LEADERSHIP ON
[...] (C) Summary. In her second round of consultations with senior MEA officials on November 14, Special Advisor on UN Reform Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli discussed areas of common consensus on UN reform and urged the GOI to take leadership and build coalitions of support before the review of the [...]
2005-11-15 11:53:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PHUM IN UNSC GOI
05NEWDELHI8711THE COMMUNISTS THREATEN THE UPA AGAIN OVER
[...] (U) While addressing campaign meetings in Kerala on November 15 Communist Party of India (Marxist) General Secretary Prakash Karat and Communist Party of India (CPI) SIPDIS General Secretary AB Bardhan demanded that the GOI change its stance in the IAEA regarding Iran's nuclear program. Bo [...]
2005-11-16 12:27:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL IN IR
05NEWDELHI8741CONGRESS PUSHES THE LEFT TO MOVE TOWARD COMPROMISE
[...] (U) On November 15, Communist leaders from the CPI(M) and CPI demanded that the GOI reverse its position and vote with Iran at the November 24 IAEA meeting or "face the consequences," but left the door open for face-saving "consultations," (ref A). On November 16, the GOI took advantage of t [...]
2005-11-17 12:31:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KNNP MNUC IN IR
05NEWDELHI8748DUE TO INTERNAL POLITICS, INDIA RELUCTANT ON IRAN
[...] (C) Charge delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran during a November 15 meeting with Special Advisor on UN Reform Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli. Saran promised to examine the issues raised, but pointed out that India is already in a difficult position with Iran (as a result [...]
2005-11-17 12:41:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPHUM MNUC KNNP IN IR
05NEWDELHI8799INDIA'S NAM BAGGAGE STILL HOLDING IT BACK ON UN
[...] (C) Summary: At a November 17 meeting with Senior Advisor on UN Reform Ambassador Tahir-Kheli, Deputy National Security Advisor Nambiar insisted that India's "stereotype as a representative of developing countries" at the United Nations will hinder its ability to play a leading role with the [...]
2005-11-18 14:17:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PHUM IN UNSC GOI
05NEWDELHI8844CONGRESS FACING A DOMESTIC "PERFECT STORM"
[...] (C) Summary: With Parliament set to convene on November 23, the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is reeling from assaults from its left and right and faces a series of political events that could undermine its stability, including the UPA defeat in the important Biha [...]
2005-11-22 14:02:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR EPET ETTC KCRM IN IR
05NEWDELHI8891IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED, EU-3 ALSO PUSHING
[...] (C) PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Joint Secretary (Disarmament and International Security) Hamid Ali Rao on November 23, emphasizing the importance of India conveying through a strong national statement that the international community remains seriously concerned about Iran's nuclear [...]
2005-11-23 12:42:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP AORC IN IR
05NEWDELHI9128NEW ALLEGATIONS BREATHE LIFE INTO NATWAR OIL
[...] (C) Summary: The NDA's anti-UPA, anti-Natwar Singh campaign got a new lease on life December 2 when longtime Natwar Singh confidant (and serving Indian Ambassador to Croatia) Aneil Mathrani claimed in a television interview that the former Foreign Minister was deeply and personally involved [...]
2005-12-02 12:55:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL PHUM PTER EPET ETTC IN
05NEWDELHI9319INDIA SEEKS TO PROTECT CITIZENS, SECURE ENERGY INTERESTS IN MIDDLE EAST (C-NE5-00945)
[...] (C) Summary: While India has major interests in the Middle East (energy, trade, expatriate workers, and religious ties),it has historically had lackluster relations in the area. GOI attention focuses on a few nations of particular importance to those interests, primarily Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq [...]
2005-12-12 01:08:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPREL PGOV ETRD ENRG EPET PTER PINR IN BA IR IS IZ QA MU AE XF
05NEWDELHI9421AHMADINEJAD'S IRRATIONALITY: AN INDIAN
[...] (C) Summary: During PolCouns's introductory call on new MEA Additional Secretary (UN and International Security) KC Singh, Singh shared his impressions from his recent posting as India's Ambassador in Tehran, emphasizing that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's perspective is skewed by his fer [...]
2005-12-15 09:12:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPREL PGOV KNNP PINR IN IR
05NEWDELHI9758MTAG: GOI WILL FOLLOW UP ON IRAN BROKERING, PUSHES
[...] (S) Summary: A/DCM and Poloff delivered Ref A demarche to MEA officials, who promised to provide the additional information to concerned GOI agencies and report the status to us at an early date. New Delhi remains concerned by Ref C decision to sanction Indian entities for INPA violations, p [...]
2005-12-28 08:45:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA IN IR
05NEWDELHI9761THE BJP ATTACKS UPA FOREIGN POLICY
[...] (C) Summary: The BJP leadership, meeting in Mumbai on December 26-27, continued its twisting foreign policy trajectory, issuing a public statement on ""The UPA's Mismanagement of our Foreign Policy,"" that was so shrilly critical of Congress initiatives that it drew a public rebuke from former Pr [...]
2005-12-28 09:04:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IN
05OTTAWA1166CANADA SCENESETTER FOR POL-MIL BILATS
[...] (C) Your leadership of the U.S. delegation at the inaugural US-Canada political-military consultations is greatly appreciated. While the United States and Canada meet regularly in continental security and defense forums, there has been growing recognition in both governments that broader poli [...]
2005-04-18 15:37:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR CA
05OTTAWA2748IRAN/IAEA: CANADA CALLS IN IRANIAN CHARGE
[...] (C) In a September 12 meeting with Charge on another matter, Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) for International Security Policy Jim Wright took the opportunity to underline Canada's frustration with Iran and its snubbing of the IAEA. Wright reported that he had just called in the Iranian Charge [...]
2005-09-13 17:19:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL PHUM CA IR IAEA
05OTTAWA2768U.S. PROPOSALS TO ENABLE CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION
[...] (C) In a meeting on September 14, Pol M/C and polmiloff solicited Canada's engagement and support to advance civil nuclear cooperation with India by the Nuclear Suppliers Group; they emphasized that this was a top priority of President Bush. Emboffs left reftel non-paper outlining obligations [...]
2005-09-15 13:04:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP IN CA
05OTTAWA2909CANADA NUCLEAR "COOPERATION" WITH INDIA:
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-28 14:30:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPARM MNUC PREL CA
05OTTAWA302DEMARCHE ON NPT 2005 REVCON DELIVERED TO CANADA
[...] (C) As instructed in reftel, nonpaper was delivered to FAC Nonproliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Division Deputy Marina Laker on January 31, 2005. Laker expressed appreciation for USG's efforts to initiate consultations early in the process. She said she would be circulating the U.S [...]
2005-02-01 13:32:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM CA IAEA FAC
05OTTAWA304A/S RADEMAKER,S MEETINGS WITH CANADIANS ON ARMS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During a day of consultations in Ottawa on January 11, Assistant Secretary for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker and AC/PDAS Frank Record exchanged views with Canadian Foreign Affairs (FAC) and National Defense officials on U.S. and Canadian arms control and disarmament policy. [...]
2005-02-01 18:52:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM CD CA NPT FAC
05OTTAWA3116CANADA OPEN TO "CREDIBLE" AND "DEFENSIBLE" MODUS
[...] (C) Polmiloff delivered reftel demarche points to Terry Wood, Deputy Director for Nuclear Non-Proliferation (IDN) at Foreign Affairs Canada on October 18. Wood expressed appreciation for timely briefing materials in light of last week's discussions at the G-8 Senior Group meeting in London, a [...]
2005-10-18 18:11:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM KNNP PREL CA IN
05OTTAWA3283US-EU-CANADA DISCUSSIONS OF IRAN (CORRECTED
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 26, NEA DAS Gordon Gray and a U.S. delegation met with senior EU Commission and Canadian officials in Ottawa to exchange views on Iran and discuss prospects for addressing human rights and security-related concerns. Topics covered included Iran's internal situation, [...]
2005-11-03 20:34:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP PARM IR CA
05OTTAWA3400 US-EU TROIKA CONSULTATIONS ON MIDDLE EAST
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 26 in Ottawa, NEA DAS Gordon Gray and a U.S. delegation exchanged views with EU Troika officials on developments in Iran and countries in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. Tri-lateral consultations with the EU and Canada on Iran are reported reftel. END SUMMARY. [...]
2005-11-15 20:14:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP IR IZ
05OTTAWA578IRAN/IAEA: CANADA SUPPORTS USG APPROACH FOR
[...] (C) Polmiloff conveyed reftel points to Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for Nuclear Nonproliferation Terry Wood on February 24, encouraging Canada to make a national statement. Wood said he was pleased to see that the USG's assessment of the upcoming BOG briefing on Iran tracked with Canada's [...]
2005-02-24 18:46:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL TRGY MNUC CA IAEA
05PARIS1139CODEL SMITH MEETS CHIRAC, FRENCH OFFICIALS, JANUARY 31, 2005
[...] (C) Summary: During their January 31st stop in Paris, Senators Smith, Biden, Leahy, Chambliss, Shelby and Hatch discussed the status of the bilateral relationship, Iraq, Iran proliferation, Afghanistan, the EU´s arms embargo on China, and anti-Semitism in France in separate meetings with French [...]
2005-02-23 11:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL KNNP MARR IZ AF FR
05PARIS1225IRAN-EU3: FEBRUARY 24 MEETING BETWEEN FRENCH
[...] SUMMARY. Iranian chief nuclear negotiator Hassan Ruhani, on one stop of a tour that will include visits to each EU3 capital, met with French President Jacques Chirac February 24. Chirac's Middle East advisor, Dominique Boche, told us that Ruhani's purpose was to move the discussions from the [...]
2005-02-25 15:19:00Embassy ParisSECRETKNNP PARM PREL TRGY MNUC IR UK FR IAEA GE
05PARIS1232FRANCE MORE COMFORTABLE WITH REVISED TERMS OF
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-25 17:21:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY FR IAEA
05PARIS1233IRAN/IAEA: FRANCE WILL RAISE IRAN AT THE FEB 28
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-25 17:33:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALIR KNNP PARM PREL TRGY MNUC IAEA
05PARIS1834IRAN HOSTS CONFERENCE MARCH 5-6 TO SHOW ITS
[...] (C) MFA Deputy Director for Policy Planning Philippe Errera (please protect) provided us with a brief readout of Iran's March 5-6 conference entitled "Nuclear Technology and Sustainable Development," sponsored by the Iranian Center for Strategic Research (CSR),the Foreign Ministry, the Atomic [...]
2005-03-18 15:11:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC IR FR
05PARIS2950FRENCH VIEWS ON WHO/INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
[...] Acting Science Counselor contacted the MFA and the Health Ministry on April 25 to convey USG position concerning the revision of International Health regulations (reftel) and explain the U.S. position on outstanding issues. 2. Our MFA contact stated that while France had [...]
2005-05-02 08:30:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO PREL PTER FR WHO
05PARIS3234IRAN: EU-3 LETTER WARNS TEHRAN AGAINST CHANGES TO
[...] (S) SUMMARY: MFA Political Director Laboulaye discussed with Charge May 11 the EU-3 letter to Rohani warning against resumption of uranium conversion. Laboulaye said that it may be necessary to convene an extraordinary meeting of the IAEA board and stressed the need to build international cons [...]
2005-05-12 11:03:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL PGOV PARM IR FR
05PARIS3414NO ALGERIAN REQUEST TO FRANCE FOR NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-18 16:51:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKNNP TRGY AORC ENRG AG FR IAEA
05PARIS3796FRANCE TO HELP LIBYA WITH IAEA-MONITORED NUCLEAR
[...] (C) Summary: In response to a Libyan request, France is studying how it might assist Libya with its Russian-built Tajoura plant. No formal agreement has been signed yet, but Libyans have asked for assistance in producing radio isotopes for medical and industrial use, as well as aid in using th [...]
2005-06-01 15:22:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPARM KNNP ENRG LY FR IAEA
05PARIS5032IRAN/EU3: LETTER FROM U/S BURNS AND U/S JOSEPH TO
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Post delivered letter from U/S Burns and U/S Joseph to MFA Director for Political and Security Affairs Stanislas LeFebvre de Laboulaye on July 11. In a follow-up conversation on July 19 with Nicolas Roche of the MFA Directorate for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, Roc [...]
2005-07-20 13:08:00Embassy ParisSECRETIR EU KNNP PREL PARM FR IAEA
05PARIS5077OECD/NEA: REPORTING CABLE: FIRST MEETING OF
[...] The meeting was opened by C. Nordborg, head of NEA Nuclear Science Section, who welcomed the participants and indicated that the Expert Group had been established as a follow-up activity to the former Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) activity on "R&D Needs in Nuclear Science". He also informed [...]
2005-07-22 09:17:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDENRG KNNP TRGY KSCA OECD UNVIE
05PARIS5214RESPONSES TO EU-3 REQUESTS - FRANCE
[...] (C) During introductory calls July 28, incoming and outgoing DCMs provided reftel response to the EU-3's July 20 questions regarding the proposal to Iran to MFA Political Director Laboulaye. Laboulaye already had received substance from the French embassy in Washington. He commented only t [...]
2005-07-28 13:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KNNP FR
05PARIS5443MEDIA REACTION REPORT - IRAN NASA - DISCOVERY LANDING
[...] IRAN 2. NASA - DISCOVERY LANDING B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: IRAN'S RESUMPTION OF ITS NUCLEAR ENRICHMENT PROGRAM IS ONE OF TODAY'S MAJOR STORIES, WITH CATHOLIC LA CROIX HEADLINING: "WORLD PRESSURE ON IRAN." THE EDITORIAL URGES THE EUROPEANS NOT TO GIVE UP TOO SOON: "IRAN MAY BE BARTERING FOR [...]
2005-08-10 10:26:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS5458MEDIA REACTION REPORT - IRAN IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-11 10:52:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS5866INITIAL FRENCH COMMENTS RE IAEA COMMITTEE ON
[...] (SBU) We presented August 30 reftel talking points and non-paper to MFA action officer for IAEA issues Hugues de Longevialle. He confirmed that he was aware of the June IAEA decision to establish a committee on Safeguards and Verification, but noted that the MFA had not had an opportunity to [...]
2005-08-31 07:55:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM TRGY ENRG FR IAEA
05PARIS6113EUR A/S FRIED AND GERMAN POLITICAL DIRECTOR
[...] (C) Summary: A/S Dan Fried met with German Political Director Michael Schaefer September 1 in Paris, just prior to the latter's departure for the EU's Gymnich in Cardiff. Schaefer noted the EU3 considered the Paris Agreement negotiations to have ended, given that Iran had resumed conversion ac [...]
2005-09-09 09:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP PARM FR NATO EUN
05PARIS6133MORE FRENCH THOUGHTS ON IAEA COMMITTEE ON
[...] (C) MFA official covering IAEA issues Hugues de Longevialle shared with us September 7 some additional comments on U.S. proposals for the Committee on Safeguards and Verification. His general assessment was that the MFA agreed with many of our proposals. He also shared the following thoughts [...]
2005-09-09 16:19:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM TRGY ENRG FR IAEA
05PARIS6418MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Nuclear Issues: Iran - North
[...] Nuclear Issues: Iran - North Korea 2. Iraq - British Operation in Basra 3. NATO B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: Le Monde prominently features an interview with A/S Dan Fried about the German elections, Europe and France's role in the negotiations with Iran. The interview is announced on the fr [...]
2005-09-21 10:39:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS6644MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq: Abu Azzam Assassination
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-28 10:23:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS670U.S.-FRANCE DISCUSSIONS ON PHYSICAL PROTECTION AND
[...] (U) Summary: Following up on high-level discussions held in July 2004 (see ref B),U.S. and French delegations held three days of meetings in Paris on physical security measures for nuclear facilities and materials, agreeing on a path forward to coordinate and accelerate future bilateral coop [...]
2005-02-02 16:51:00Embassy ParisSECRETENRG FR KNNP MNUC PREL
05PARIS6961MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Nuclear Issues - Nobel Prize
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-11 12:12:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS6980EMBASSY PARIS' POC'S FOR IAEA ISSUES
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-11 16:43:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP TRGY FR IAEA UNAUS
05PARIS7202U/S BURNS DISCUSS INDIA NONPRO, BALKANS, CENTRAL
[...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary Burns met with Russian DFM Sergei Kislyak on October 19 in Paris to discuss, among other issues, India nonproliferation, the Balkans (especially Kosovo),and Secretary Rice's recent trip to Central Asia. Kislyak raised Russian concerns regarding access for its dipl [...]
2005-10-21 08:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SR IN FR KO
05PARIS734FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES IRAQ, IRAN
[...] (C) Summary: Senator John Kerry (D-MA) completed a nearly two-week trip that had taken him to Iraq, major Middle East capitals, the Palestinian territories, Berlin and London, with a stop in Paris and meetings with President Chirac (septel) and Foreign Minister Barnier January 14. Barnier sh [...]
2005-02-04 17:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL IZ IS FR
05PARIS7521FRENCH REACTION TO DEMARCHE FOR EU GAERC
[...] (SBU) Deputy Political Minister-Counselor met November 3 with MFA Common Foreign and Security Policy CFSP unit deputy director Pascal Le Deunff to receive an informed French reaction to ref A and B demarches for the November 7 meeting of EU foreign ministers. The points were also shared with [...]
2005-11-03 17:02:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR EAID BO KPAL IZ SY YI EAGR MK ETRD EUN
05PARIS7920FRENCH THINK TANKER ON VISIT TO IRAN
[...] (C) Summary: French think-tanker Francois Gere, who claims to have extensive ties to the local Iranian Embassy as well as the Quai and Israeli Embassy met with us November 18 to report on his recent trip to the Isfahan nuclear facility at the Iranian government's invitation. Gere -- who many [...]
2005-11-21 16:06:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR MNUC IR PINR KNUP
05PARIS8072DNSA ABRAMS' 11/22 MEETINGS WITH SENIOR FRENCH MFA
[...] (C) Summary: November 22 discussions between Deputy National Security Advisor (DNSA) Elliott Abrams and senior French officials focused on Syria/Lebanon, Iran, and Israeli-Palestinian issues, with Morocco, Iraq, and BMENA discussed in passing. Presidency officials predicted Syrian non-coopera [...]
2005-11-29 10:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR IR IS IZ KDEM KPAL LE MO PARM SY
05PARIS879REVIEW OF ISSUES RAISED IN SECSTATE MEETINGS WITH
[...] (C) In a February 10 meeting with MFA Cabinet Director Vimont (protect),DCM discussed follow up to issues raised during Secretary's meetings in Paris February 8. Vimont said the French side had been pleased by the visit and the level of discussion with the Secretary. Review of specific issue [...]
2005-02-11 12:03:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR IR IZ SY
05PARIS888FRANCE SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. INITIATIVE TO STRENGTHEN
[...] (C) On February 10, Hugues de Longevialle, MFA disarmament specialist responsible for IAEA issues, provided us with initial feedback on our initiative to strengthen the IAEA (reftel),which we had conveyed earlier in the week. Longevialle cautioned that a more formal French reaction was still [...]
2005-02-11 17:00:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM TRGY AORC FR IAEA
05PARIS89IAEA: FRANCE HAS NOT TAKEN A DECISION ON A THIRD
[...] (C) In the absence of MFA DAS-equivalent director for disarmament issues Francois Richier, we presented reftel demarche December 21 to the desk officer covering the office during the holidays. On January 5, we met with Richier's deputy, Veronique Vouland-Aneini, who voiced skepticism that IAE [...]
2005-01-06 11:36:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPARM AORC PREL FR IAEA
05PRAGUE1407CZECHS ON OCT 3 GAERC
[...] (C) Summary. The Czechs are optimistic that the upcoming GAERC will find a way forward on Turkey. The GOCR has formally stated that they support launching talks with Turkey without establishing a privileged partnership or other status as an option. They also insist that there is no linkage w [...]
2005-09-30 16:51:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL EZ TU EUN
05PRAGUE183CZECH GOVERNMENT UNDER PRESSURE TO IMPROVE TRADE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Czech government has been looking at ways to improve its anemic trade ties to Iran. The Iranians have limited Czech imports in retaliation for broadcasts of the Prague-based Radio Farda as well as legislation passed in 2000, at U.S. request, to bar supplies to the Bushehr n [...]
2005-02-08 16:04:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALETTC PREL EZ IR
05PRETORIA2175SOUTH AFRICAN URANIUM PRODUCTION
[...] (U) South Africa is ranked fourth in world uranium reserves and tenth in uranium production. In 2004, all uranium production came from AngloGold Ashanti's Vaal River mine and dump treatment operations. Currently, South Africa has two concentration plants,both owned by AngloGold Ashanti,that p [...]
2005-06-02 15:09:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN ENRG TRGY PARM KNNP EIND ECON MI NG WA ZA SF DRC
05PRETORIA2830SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES SAFARI NUCLEAR
[...] (U) On July 18, 2005, the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) issued a press release announcing the South African Government's intention to phase out the use of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) fuel in its Safari research reactor located in Pelindaba. The press release states that the remain [...]
2005-07-18 15:07:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP ENRG TRGY SF
05PRETORIA3477SOUTH AFRICA: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MINISTER OF
[...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Frazer and DCM met with Minister of Minerals and Energy Lindiwe Hendricks on August 22 to discuss the path forward on nuclear energy bilateral cooperation. Ambassador Frazer framed U.S.-South African cooperation on nuclear energy in the context of the broader bilate [...]
2005-08-26 14:28:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALKNNP ENRG TRGY OPDC SF
05PRETORIA4297SAG MAKES NO PROGRESS ON STALEMATE WITH IRAN
[...] (C) Ali Larijani, Iranian Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC),visited South Africa October 19 for consultations on Iran's nuclear dossier with President Mbeki and Abdul Minty, DFA Deputy Director General and SAG Representative on the IAEA Board of Governors. Minty told A/ [...]
2005-10-24 12:44:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KNNP IR SF IAEA
05PRETORIA4618RESULTS REPORT: DVC WITH U.S. PERMANENT
[...] Activity: On November 16, PAS hosted a DVC featuring U.S. Perm Rep to the UN Mission to International Organizations Ambassador Gregory Schulte. The focus of the program was U.S. perspectives on Iran's nuclear aspirations, and targeted a media audience. The program resulted in print and broa [...]
2005-11-21 12:58:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAGR ETRD KPAO SF
05QUITO2116ECUADOR SUPPORTS IAEA REFORMS
[...] (SBU) PolOff delivered RefTel points on September 12 to MFA Director for Multilateral Affairs, Miguel Mendez, congratulating the GOE for its work on establishing the IAEA Committee on Safeguards and Verification and requesting GOE views on organizational and substantive issues related to the C [...]
2005-09-13 16:57:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP AORC TRGY ENRG PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO2152GOE STILL NOT CONVINCED ON UNSC REFERRAL FOR IRAN
[...] (SBU) PolOff faxed RefTel points on September 15 and followed up with a telephone call on September 19 to MFA Director for Multilateral Affairs, Miguel Mendez, requesting that the GOE consider referring Iran to the UN Security Council. PolOff mentioned that the Secretary had raised this issu [...]
2005-09-19 20:35:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM PREL IR EU MNUC IAEA
05QUITO2607IRAN: GOE AGAINST NO ACTION, FAVORS UNSC REFERRAL
[...] (C) The DCM delivered RefTel points on November 15 to MFA U/S for Multilateral Affairs Mauricio Montalvo, requesting GOE support in opposing the no action motion against the pending human rights resolution on Iran. The DCM stressed the importance of maintaining the Third Committee's credibil [...]
2005-11-15 22:17:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPHUM EC UNHRC
05QUITO400ECUADOR "STILL STUDYING" NPT STRENGTHENING
[...] In response to Reftel, the Embassy delivered non-paper to Ruben Herrera, the Technical Agencies officer in the MFA's Multilateral Affairs directorship general. In a follow-up telcon February 17, Herrera stated the Foreign Ministry could not yet comment on the U.S. proposal to beef up Nuclear [...]
2005-02-17 19:57:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIEDPARM KNNP EC NPT IAEA
05ROME1859UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' MAY 13 DISCUSSIONS IN ROME
[...] (C) Summary. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Burns exchanged views with senior Italian Foreign Ministry officials on UN Security Council reform, the Balkans, Afghanistan, Syria/Lebanon, Darfur, and Iran during his May 13 stopover in Rome. On most issues, Italian positions were [...]
2005-06-01 09:45:00Embassy RomeSECRETPREL MOPS SY LE AF SR IT EUN BI
05ROME3080PROMOTING GREATER TRANSATLANTIC COOPERATION: EUR
[...] (C) Summary. EUR PDAS Volker discussed BMENA, Iraq, Iran, Turkey's accession to the EU, and the Balkans with senior Italian MFA officials during his September 6 stopover in Rome. Greater transatlantic cooperation, especially in dealing with challenges outside of Europe, provided the backdrop [...]
2005-09-15 10:44:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS IR IZ IT EUN
05ROME469ITALIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON U.S. INITIATIVE TO
[...] (SBU) On February 7, 2005 SCICOUNS delivered reftel demarche to Counselor Giovanni Battista Iannuzzi, Director of Office VII (National Authority for Conventions on Nuclear, Bacteriological and Chemical Disarmament) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Directorate General for Multilateral Polit [...]
2005-02-11 18:00:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM TRGY AORC IT IAEA
05ROME897ITALIAN AMBASSADOR TO TEHRAN SHARES INSIGHTS ON
[...] (C) Summary. Italy's Ambassador to Iran believes that most Iranians favor better relations with the United States, but at the same time support Iran's efforts to obtain nuclear capabilities. The upcoming Presidential elections could help resolve this dilemma by offering prospects, if Rafsanjan [...]
2005-03-16 15:20:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL TRGY MNUC IR IT IAEA
05SANAA213PRESIDENT SALEH SAYS YEMEN WILL VOTE WITH US ON IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-07 14:37:00Embassy SanaaSECRETPREL PARM KNNP YM
05SANAA2317EXBS ADVISOR VISIT AND PROGRAM STRATEGY JULY, 2005
[...] (U) SUMMARY. During the period July 9-19, 2005, Export Controls and Related Border Security (EXBS) Advisor met with Yemeni officials and principal Embassy staff to discuss the current state of EXBS in Yemen. Advisor met with senior representatives of the Ministry of Interior, the Yemen and A [...]
2005-08-14 07:59:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP YM MARITIME SECURITY
05SANAA2791FM QIRBI DISCUSSES IRAN, SALEH VISIT, CT ISSUES
[...] (S) Summary: In a September 18 meeting with Ambassador, Foreign Minister Abubakr Qirbi discussed potential IAEA action against Iran and Saleh's November visit to Washington. Discussions also focused on several counter-terrorism issues, including support for the extradition of an Iraqi form [...]
2005-09-20 12:15:00Embassy SanaaSECRETPREL PTER KNNP KAWC YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA2994IAEA/BOG: U.S. POINT OF CONTACT IN SANAA
[...] IAEA-related issues are handled at post by Political Officer Melissa Cline. Contact information below: Name: Melissa Cline e-mail: clinem@state.gov (unclass); clinemr@state.sgov.gov (secure) Phone: 967-1-755-2156 Krajeski [...]
2005-10-17 09:57:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP YM IAEA
05SANAA974NATEC'S BAHRAN: WE NEED USG SUPPORT, INVITE TO US
[...] (C) Summary: In an April 17 meeting with Ambassador, Director of the Yemen National Atomic Energy Commission (NATEC),Dr. Moustafa Bahran, asked for USG assistance to train NATEC staff and pushed for Yemen's acquisition of radioactive detection equipment. Bahran also invited Under Secretary ( [...]
2005-04-19 04:01:00Embassy SanaaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL KNNP YM IAEA NPT COUNTER TERRORISM ENVIRONMENT
05SANTIAGO1057CHILE SUPPORTS US APEC INITIATIVES ON NUCLEAR
[...] (SBU) EconOff met yesterday with German King, Director, and Graciela Fernandez, Deputy Director, of the APEC Department of the Directorate of International Economic Relations (DIRECON) to discuss the GOC position on the APEC Radioactive Sources Initiative. King reiterated Chile's support for [...]
2005-05-13 16:31:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP ETTC KSTC ETRD ECIN PARM CI APEC IAEA
05SANTIAGO1616SUPPORT FOR REVISED U.S. APEC RADIOACTIVE SOURCES
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-29 21:52:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PARM ETTC KSTC EAID ETRD CI APECO IAEA
05SANTIAGO1681A/S DESUTTER'S AUGUST 18-19 VISIT TO CHILE:
[...] Summary: Following a successful run on the international stage, Chile is shifting its focus to domestic issues and its December 11 presidential and congressional elections. Former Defense Minister and ruling coalition candidate Michelle Bachelet is the favorite to succeed President Lagos. Chi [...]
2005-08-10 14:44:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PARM EAID MARR HA VE CI SOFA
05SINGAPORE2420SINGAPORE SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY JOSEPH
[...] (C) I look forward to welcoming you to Singapore next week. My staff and I are working to ensure a very positive and productive visit. Your visit comes at an ideal time to: -- thank Singapore for its strong commitment to the Proliferation Security Initiative and global counterproliferation [...]
2005-08-11 07:29:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM ETTC PREL OTRA SN
05SINGAPORE2501UNDER SECRETARY JOSEPH PRESSES SINGAPORE ON
[...] (C) Summary. Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Robert Joseph visited Singapore August 15 and 16 to attend the opening ceremony of the Singapore-hosted Proliferation Security Initiative exercise, Deep Sabre. The Under Secretary engaged his hosts in bilateral discussio [...]
2005-08-19 08:47:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM ETTC KNNP MNUC KN IR MTCRE
05SINGAPORE3443SINGAPORE SCENESETTER FOR A/S HILL
[...] (SBU) We warmly welcome your December 14-15 visit to Singapore. Singapore's leadership highly values access to senior Washington policymakers and will regard your visit as a testament to the importance we attach to the relationship. They will be very interested in your views on developments in [...]
2005-12-06 07:39:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON ETRD SN
05TAIPEI2039SEEKING SUPPORT FOR U.S. APEC RADIOACTIVE SOURCES
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) AIT Econoff met May 4, 2005 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA),APEC Task Force Chief Lisa Li-hsin Chuang to deliver reftel demarche requesting that Chinese-Taipei support the U.S. radioactive sources initiative at the Sen [...]
2005-05-05 05:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALKNNP KSTC PARM ETTC EAID ETRD ECIN
05TAIPEI2669ADVOCATING FOR HOLTEC: NUCLEAR SAFETY & THE AEC
[...] (SBU) Summary: On June 10, AIT/T Economic and Commercial Chiefs met with Ouyang Min-sheng, Chairman of Taiwan's Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to deliver reftel talking points on behalf of Holtec International Corporation. In addition to the nuclear safety issues, AIT/T emphasized Washington [...]
2005-06-20 03:02:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA TRGY ENRG BEXP KNNP TW
05TAIPEI279MEDIA REACTION: BUSH'S INAUGURAL SPEECH, U.S.-
[...] Bush's Inaugural Speech A) "Bush's New Unilateralism and the Iran Crisis" Commentator Nan Fang-shuo wrote in the "Weekly Comment" column of the centrist, pro-status quo "China Times" (1/24): ". We can say that the Bush administration is facing the reality that the United States has beco [...]
2005-01-24 08:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI4246AIT VISITS TAIWAN'S NUCLEAR SAFETY OPS CENTER
[...] (C) Summary: AIT ECONOFF met with officials from Taiwan,s Atomic Energy Council (AEC) to discuss arrangements for the upcoming 2005 AIT/TECRO Joint Standing Committee on Civil Nuclear Cooperation. AEC officials provided a surprise tour of the new Nuclear Safety Duty Center (NSDC). A 24 hour [...]
2005-10-19 08:31:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG PARM KNNP TW IAEA
05TEGUCIGALPA273HONDURAN RESPONSE TO G-8 FM'S LETTER ON IAEA
[...] As reported ref A, Embassy delivered the G-8 Foreign Ministers' letter on the IAEA Comprehensive Safeguard Agreements and the Additional Protocol in English (ref C) and Spanish (ref B),under cover letter from the Ambassador, to Minister of Foreign Affairs Leonidas Rosa Bautista in December 20 [...]
2005-02-07 17:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP TRGY PREL AORC PARM OPDC HO IAEA
05TELAVIV1267ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Lebanon 3. Iran: Nuclear Program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz cited the IDF's expectation that the PA will act soon to replace the senior echelon in the PA's security services in the West Bank. The newspaper [...]
2005-03-03 12:05:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV1289ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-04 11:32:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV1424TECHNICAL TALKS ON POSSIBLE RETURN OF U.S.-ORIGIN
[...] (C) Summary: A joint DOE/State technical team led by Kasia Mendelsohn from DOE's Office of Global Nuclear Material Threat Reduction met with officials from the Israeli Atomic Energy Agency (IAEC) on January 12-13 to discuss possible Israeli participation in the Foreign Research Reactor (FRR) S [...]
2005-03-10 14:54:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALKNNP ENRG TRGY PREL IS ISRAEL RELATIONS COUNTERTERRORISM ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
05TELAVIV1593C-NE4-01083: ISRAELI INTENTIONS REGARDING THE
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Israel sees Iran as the primary threat to its security and sees the enrichment cycle as the "point of no return" for Tehran's nuclear weapons program. The GOI believes that diplomatic pressure with teeth, such as sanctions, can affect Iranian behavior, and is lobbying the EU-3 a [...]
2005-03-17 14:58:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPARM PREL MNUC KNNP EU IR IS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV163IDF CHIEF OF STAFF DISCUSSES PALESTINIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli Defense Force (IDF) Chief of Staff LtG Moshe Ya'alon told CoDel Kyl January 7 that recent events have ushered in "an era of strategic opportunity" in the Middle East. He said that Israel is facilitating Palestinian elections and believes that Abu Mazen is strong enough to [...]
2005-01-10 13:41:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL IS GOI EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV199ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-11 11:14:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV2054FM SHALOM TO CODEL DREIER ON THE PALESTINIANS,
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told CODEL Dreier that the situation is better than 3-4 months ago because Mahmud Abbas is more moderate than Yasir Arafat. He also opined that "something is happening" in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, and Lebanon, and concluded that these countries want [...]
2005-04-04 13:01:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALOREP PREL PGOV IS GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISRAEL RELATIONS
05TELAVIV2777ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. NPT Review Conference May 2-27 New York ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Most major media led with various aspects of the disengagement plan. Ha'aretz (banner) and other media quoted Justice Minister Tzipi Livni as saying Tues [...]
2005-05-04 09:59:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4107MOSSAD CHIEF ON WEAKNESS OF SYRIA, PREDICTS NO
[...] (C) Summary: Mossad Chief Meir Dagan told NEA A/S David Welch, Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams, and the Ambassador June 17 that, despite the weakness of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, he is unlikely to be replaced any time soon. Syria,s neighbors prefer to keep Assad in pow [...]
2005-06-29 13:24:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PGOV PTER MNUC IR SY IS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV5155FM SHALOM TELLS A/S WELCH THAT ISRAELIS MUST SEE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 17 meeting, FM Silvan Shalom told Assistant Secretary Welch and the Ambassador that disengagement is proceeding better than expected, but still carries a heavy price for Likud politicians. Shalom expressed concern that Palestinian extremists could launch attacks agai [...]
2005-08-21 17:16:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS UNGA GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV544DOE DELEGATION DISCUSSES EXPORT CONTROLS WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli officials briefed a visiting DOE delegation on nuclear export-control measures during meetings in Tel Aviv on January 18-20. In recognition of their adherence to the NSG Guidelines and promulgation of new export control legislation, the Israelis requested U.S. help in obt [...]
2005-01-31 10:05:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETKNNP MNUC PARM IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ISRAEL RELATIONS
05TELAVIV5705IRAN-IAEA: ISRAELI ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
[...] (S) Senior Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC) officials Gideon Frank and Eli Levite told the Ambassador September 8 that a renewed international push on Iran, including referral to the UN Security Council, is necessary, because, based on the response to date of the international community [...]
2005-09-16 11:09:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL KNNP AORC TRGY ENRG PARM IR IS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV59ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-05 12:02:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV6025ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Nobel Peace Prize to ElBaradei and IAEA ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Almost all media bannered the bestowing of the Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday upon Hebrew University Professor of Mathematics Robert J. Aumann for his [...]
2005-10-11 11:53:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV6683ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran, nuclear program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media report that former Labor Party Chairman Shimon Peres has finalized his decision to leave the Labor Party, Prime Minis [...]
2005-11-29 11:31:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV6751SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR BROOKS' DECEMBER 6-9
[...] (C) Mr. Ambassador: Your visit to Israel will be taking place at a time when Israel's domestic political situation is in flux and progress is being made on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Anxiety in Israel is high about Iran and its nuclear weapons program, political instability in Syria and [...]
2005-12-02 12:38:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV PTER EAID ENRG ETTC MASS OTRA PARM TRGY TSPL GOI INTERNAL EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISRAEL RELATIONS
05TELAVIV6815ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Iranian Nuclear Race ------------------------------ Key stories in the media: ------------------------------ The Jerusalem Post and other media reported the IDF is gearing up for a crackdown on the Islamic Jihad in the West Bank, wishing to apprehend "all of the terrorists" there. The [...]
2005-12-07 11:01:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV7030NNSA ADMINISTRATOR BROOKS' DECEMBER 6-9 VISIT TO
[...] (U) Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security/Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Linton Brooks visited Israel December 6-9 for a series of discussions of ongoing cooperation between NNSA and the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC). IAEC Director Gene [...]
2005-12-21 13:26:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL OTRA ENRG KNNP PARM PINR PGOV PTER EAID TRGY TSPL IR IS ISRAEL RELATIONS GOI EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
05THEHAGUE161NETHERLANDS/EU: EXPECTATIONS FOR JAN 31 FOREIGN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The U.S. and EU need to agree to disagree on China and prepare a soft landing for the transatlantic relationship after the inevitable lift of the China arms embargo, Jaap Werner (MFA, Political Director) and Bahia Tahzib (MFA Deputy European Correspondent) told Poloff during di [...]
2005-01-21 15:32:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER EAID KPAL BK CU IR IZ UP CH NL EUN
05THEHAGUE164NETHERLANDS/EU: EXPECTATIONS FOR JAN 31 FOREIGN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The U.S. and EU need to agree to disagree on China and prepare a soft landing for the transatlantic relationship after the inevitable lift of the China arms embargo, Jaap Werner (MFA, Political Director) and Bahia Tahzib (MFA Deputy European Correspondent) told Poloff during di [...]
2005-01-21 16:54:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER EAID KPAL BK CU IR IZ UP CH NL EUN
05THEHAGUE2271NETHERLANDS: MFA OFFICIAL ON IRAN/IAEA, AFRICA,
[...] (U) This is a action request; please see para 9. 2. (C) Summary: DCM and Polmiloff met August 15 with Director Robert de Groot and Section Head Hans Sandee of the Security and Defense Policy Division at the Dutch MFA. On Iran, de Groot suggested there are no alternatives at present than co [...]
2005-08-17 14:38:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALNL AF PARM PREL IR NATO
05THEHAGUE2666NETHERLANDS: RESPONSE TO INVITE ON FUEL SUPPLY
[...] Post delivered ref A letter to the office of Hugo Siblesz (Director General for Political Affairs, MFA) on September 30. On October 4, Charge followed up directly with Siblesz. Siblesz said the Dutch definitely plan to participate in the October 12 and 13 London meetings on fuel supply assura [...]
2005-10-04 15:15:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDPARM KNNP NL
05THEHAGUE3121NETHERLANDS/EU: APPROACHING THE DUTCH IN ADVANCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During the November 21-22 GAERC, the Dutch will advocate for a "non-binding regime for civ-mil coordination" that favors development of national capacities and express concern on Iran. While the Dutch are proud of EU involvement in the Iraqi elections, they do not advocate for a [...]
2005-11-18 15:28:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL ETRD SR SY UP YI NL EUN
05THEHAGUE3169NETHERLANDS/IRAN: IRAN-RELATED BRIEFING DELIVERED
[...] (S) On November 16, Washington-based analysts, accompanied by Charge, POLCOUNS, and MPP Deputy Chief, delivered a classified briefing on Iran's nuclear weaponization program to senior Dutch MFA officials. The Dutch side included Hugo Siblesz (Political Director),Pieter de Gooijer (Deputy Pol [...]
2005-11-25 08:26:00Embassy The HagueSECRETPARM PREL KNNP IR EU NL
05THEHAGUE530IRAN/IAEA: DUTCH ON FEBRUARY 28 BOG MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-25 14:48:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL TRGY MNUC IR NL IAEA
05TOKYO1349U.S.-JAPAN INFORMAL POLICY PLANNING BILATERAL:
[...] (C) Summary: During informal policy planning talks with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Vice Minister Tsuneo Nishida on March 2, Director of Policy Planning Stephen D. Krasner discussed East Asian architecture, China, North Korea and the President's democratization agenda. Nishida said Ja [...]
2005-03-08 07:50:00Embassy TokyoSECRETECIN PREL PARM PINR KDEM CH TW KN JA ASEAN
05USNATO3NATO MOVES FORWARD WITH LANDMARK BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT ASSESSMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-05 16:59:00Mission USNATOSECRETNATO KNNP PARM MNUC
05VIENNA2684 IRAN EXILE GROUP SAYS NEW REGIME DETERMINED TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) claimed at an August 8 press conference in Vienna that the new Iranian regime was determined to continue its nuclear program "to build the bomb." An NCRI official argued that the "cat and mouse game" with [...]
2005-08-10 06:34:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP MNUC PREL PGOV ETTC IR AU UNSC EUN
05VIENNA372NPT 2005 REVCON PREPARATIONS: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE
[...] (C) Embassy conveyed reftel demarche to Austrian MFA Non-Proliferation Bureau on February 2. PolOffs followed up on February 4 with Robert Zischg, MFA director for Nuclear Nonproliferation, Disarmament, and Arms Control. Zischg's likely successor, Alexander Kmentt, also participated. Zischg [...]
2005-02-08 15:34:00Embassy ViennaCONFIDENTIALPARM KNNP AU NPT IAEA EUN
05VILNIUS289AMBASSADOR VISITS LITHUANIA'S REACTOR, DISCUSSES
[...] Ambassador Mull made a day-long tour of northeastern Lithuania on March 16. During his visit, he heard concerns from local mayors about the lack of local employment opportunities to absorb the large (3,500) Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) reactor workforce once the only remaining functi [...]
2005-03-18 14:31:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDENRG PGOV PREL LH
05WARSAW3234POLISH APPROACH TO SEPTEMBER 1-2 EU GYMNICH
[...] (C) Responding to reftel points, Polish MFA Director for CFSP Beata Kolecka confirmed that Poland will hold a firm line against any new conditions for the start of Turkish accession talks, resist efforts to soften ICTY conditionality for Croatia, and maintain positions complementary to the U.S. [...]
2005-08-30 14:02:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM TU PL EUN
05WELLINGTON233NPT: AMBASSADOR SANDERS DISCUSSES REVCON 2005 WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Special Representative of President for the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Ambassador Jackie Sanders, told New Zealand officials that the May 2005 Review Conference on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons must focus on the greatest threats to global secur [...]
2005-03-21 02:52:00Embassy WellingtonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NZ NPT
05WELLINGTON301NPT REVCON: EMBASSY FOLLOW-UP WITH NZ OFFICIALS
[...] (C) Summary: Minister for Disarmament Marion Hobbs has expressed regret at causing offense during her February meeting on Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) issues with Ambassador Sanders (Ref B),claiming she had only been trying to say that all parts of the NPT are equally important and should [...]
2005-04-12 04:14:00Embassy WellingtonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NZ NPT
05WELLINGTON385NEW ZEALAND SUPPORTS U.S. APEC RADIOACTIVE SOURCES
[...] (U) This message contains an action suggestion, at para 5. 2. (U) Post shared reftel demarche with the Disarmament Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). The Division takes the lead at MFAT on all bilateral and multilateral disarmament-related issues. 3. (U) [...]
2005-05-13 04:57:00Embassy WellingtonCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM ETTC KSTC EAID ETRD ECIN NZ APECO
05WELLINGTON637 New Zealand on U.S. APEC Radioactive Sources
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-22 01:24:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PARM ETTC KSTC EAID ETRD ECIN APEC IAEA
05WELLINGTON875NEW ZEALAND ON UN THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS, US
[...] (C) Pol-Econ Counselor discussed reftel points with Val Meyer, Deputy Director of the UN, Human Rights, and Commonwealth Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. P-E Couns said that she hoped New Zealand would support all the resolutions, especially those involving countries wi [...]
2005-11-09 23:08:00Embassy WellingtonCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL NZ
05YEREVAN312LITTLE PROGRESS ON INVESTIGATING SEIZURE OF
[...] (C) Armenia asserts that it has still not received formal notification that from either the IAEA or from the Turkish authorities that Cesium-137 seized on the Georgia-Turkey border in December 2004 originated in Armenia. Armenian MFA experts tell us they will insist on a formal investigation [...]
2005-02-24 09:00:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALMNUC PARM KCRM PTER ASEC AM TU KPRP
05ZAGREB298IRANIAN PRESIDENT TO MAKE LONG-EXPECTED VISIT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Iranian President Mohammad Khatami is expected to visit Croatia on March 17 as part of a multi-nation tour. He is returning a visit President Stjepan Mesic made to Tehran in 2001 before he leaves office. Mesic,s office and GoC contacts have told Post that the timing [...]
2005-02-25 13:34:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV XF IR HR
05ZAGREB391KHATAMI VISIT: MESIC HITS KEY NON-PRO AND MIDEAST
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: President Mesic made good use of the ill-timed March 7-8 visit of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami (ref A) to stress that Croatia shares the international community's key concerns about Iran, including its uranium enrichment program and its support for groups that je [...]
2005-03-11 12:54:00Embassy ZagrebCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV XF IR HR
06ABUDHABI183IAEA DONOR CONFERENCE ON DECOMMISSIONING IRAQ'S
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-23 12:57:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC KNNP OTRA AE IAEA
06ABUDHABI1835UAE LEADERS RECEIVE IRAN'S ALI LARIJANI
[...] (C) UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Vice President/Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum separately received Secretary General of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani May 3. According to local press reports, President Khalifa ur [...]
2006-05-03 12:47:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS KPAO IR AE
06ABUDHABI1903UAE RESPONSE TO IRANIAN EFFORT TO REASSURE GCC
[...] (U) On May 6, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) spoke to the press at the conclusion of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) consultative summit in Riyadh. According to WAM, the UAE's official news agency, when asked if the GCC had received any assurances from Iran that its n [...]
2006-05-08 13:20:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM IR AE
06ABUDHABI2285FM SHEIKH ABDULLAH, PM SHEIKH MOHAMMED ON IRAN
[...] (C) Summary: UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) chaired the GCC Foreign Ministers meeting in Riyadh June 3 where the main point of deliberation was Iran's nuclear program. Both AbZ and UAE VP/PM Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid (MbR) made public statements in recent days expressin [...]
2006-06-05 11:03:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM IR AE
06ABUDHABI2780DEADLINE FOR EXPORT CONTROL LAW "INTERFERENCE IN
[...] (S/NF) Summary. On July 4, Ambassador received a letter from Brigadier Mohamad al-Qemzi, Chairman of the U.S./UAE Counterproliferation Task Force and director of the Dubai security service. The letter responded to Ambassador's ref A demarche on "Improving the UAE Counterproliferation Effort" [...]
2006-07-05 12:47:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNPARM PREL ETTC AE
06ABUDHABI605A/S RADEMAKER LAUNCHES US/UAE COUNTERPROLIFERATION
[...] (S) Summary. On February 11, the U.S. and UAE met for the first meeting of the U.S./UAE Counterproliferation Task Force (CTF). Acting Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN) Stephen Rademaker led the U.S. interagency delegation, and the UAE team was led by Du [...]
2006-02-20 05:46:00Embassy Abu DhabiSECRET//NOFORNETTC PARM PREL IR AE
06ABUDHABI850IRAN ENVOY MOSTAFAVI VISIT TO UAE
[...] (SBU) Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, Mehdi Mostafavi, was scheduled to meet with the UAE leadership March 6 to brief them on Iran's nuclear issue and other regional developments. Mostafavi was to meet at the MFA, according to an Embassy source, but we have no further details about the meetin [...]
2006-03-06 14:22:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL IR AE GCC IAEA
06ABUDHABI866UAE TELLS IRANIAN ENVOY MIDDLE EAST MUST BE
[...] (C) Summary: Iranian President Ahmadinejad's special envoy, Deputy Foreign Minister Mahdi Mustafavi, met separately March 6 with UAE President Sheikh Khalifa and UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid (MbR),to deliver letters from Ahmadinejad containi [...]
2006-03-07 13:45:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL GCC IR AE
06ACCRA1141SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO GHANA OF GENERAL JONES
[...] (SBU) Ghana is democratic, market-oriented, pro-American, and has one of the best human rights records in Africa. President John Kufuor is in his second term. Ghana is on the UN Security Council and the IAEA Board of Governors this year. As the first sub-Saharan country to achieve independen [...]
2006-05-16 16:57:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON GH MARR MCAP PGOV PREL
06ACCRA1357ADDRESSING THE IRAN ISSUE AT THE JUNE 12-16 IAEA
[...] (SBU) Charge made Ref A points with FMA Chief Director Ellen Serwaa Nee-Whang on June 9. Nee-Whang said the GoG had consistently supported the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes only and that it would back the role of the IAEA to verify that Iran's nuclear program was peaceful. Nee-W [...]
2006-06-14 07:29:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIAEA PREL KNNP AORC UNSC GH
06ACCRA164IAEA AND IRAN: GHANA'S VIEWS
[...] (C) On January 19, Ambassador raised ref A points on Iran and the IAEA with Ghanaian Deputy Foreign Minister Awasi Osei-Adjei (the Foreign Minister was out of the country.) The Ambassador mentioned that she had raised the IAEA issue on January 13 with Professor Bekowe, Chairman of the Council [...]
2006-01-20 12:17:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALAORC GH KNNP PREL TRGY IAEA
06ACCRA217SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL ULRICHT,S VISIT TO GHANA,
[...] (SBU) Introduction/Summary: Ghana is a democratic, market-oriented, pro-American country in a region marked by conflict and authoritarian rule. It has one of the best human rights records in Africa and has made significant efforts to combat trafficking in persons. President John Kufuor just [...]
2006-01-26 14:33:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON EFIN ELAB GH MAS PGOV PREL
06ACCRA2808SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO GHANA OF HUD SECRETARY
[...] (SBU) Ghana is a democratic, market-oriented, pro-American country in a region marked by conflict and authoritarian rule. In 2007, Ghana will celebrate 50 years of independence. President John Kufuor is nearly two years into his second four-year term, which has so far been marked by solid ec [...]
2006-11-22 16:19:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON GH OTRA PGOV PREL
06ACCRA3005GHANA HOSTS REGIONAL SEMINAR ON UNSCR 1540
[...] SUMMARY: Ghana hosted Africa's first outreach activity on United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540, the UN Regional Seminar on Implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) in Africa, in Accra on November 9-10, 2006. Representatives from 23 African countries attended [...]
2006-12-18 17:35:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP ETTC PARM PREL PTER AORC XA GH
06ACCRA335AMBASSADOR AND CANADIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER DISCUSS
[...] (C) On January 30, 2006, Ambassador Bridgewater paid a courtesy call on Canadian High Commissioner Donald Bobiash. They agreed Ghana has been slow to seize the opportunities it has to become a middle-income country, and also agreed the U.S. and Canada appear to care more about corruption and p [...]
2006-02-07 14:44:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALEFIN ENRG EINV PGOV GH
06ACCRA418DEMACHE DELIVERED: U.S. CANDIDATE FOR ICAO
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Bridgewater discussed Mr. Voss's candidacy with Secretary of the President, Ambassador D.K. Osei during a meeting February 8 and mentioned again it to President Kufuor after the meeting. FAA Regional Rep and EconOff delivered reftel demarche to Ghana Civil Aviation [...]
2006-02-15 15:22:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAIR CM GH MZ NI SF ICAO
06ACCRA439SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO GHANA OF CODEL PELOSI
[...] (SBU) Ghana is a democratic, market-oriented, pro-American country in a region marked by conflict and authoritarian rule. It has one of the best human rights records in Africa and has made significant efforts to combat trafficking in persons. President John Kufuor just completed the first yea [...]
2006-02-17 14:51:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT ECON GH OREP OTRA PGOV PREL
06ACCRA566GHANA PROMISES SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA,S UNSC
[...] (U) The Ambassador spoke with Ghanaian Foreign Minister Nana Akufo-Addo March 8 and raised ref A points regarding support for Guatemala,s candidacy as Latin America,s next non-permanent member of the UNSC. Akufo-Addo quickly stated that the GOG would support Guatemala and asked when the vot [...]
2006-03-10 09:11:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYGH GT KPKO PREL SU VE NATO UNSC UN
06ADDISABABA2505DEMARCHE ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM DELIVERED
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points on September 13 to Head of the MFA's UN Directorate, Counsellor Abdulkadir Risku, and to UN Directorate officer Eyob Tekalegn. Ethiopia did not want a nuclear Iran, Risku said, and believed that UNSCR 1696 was binding on member states. Risku said he did not [...]
2006-09-14 14:03:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL IAEA UNSC IR ET
06AITTAIPEI1855TAIWAN RESPONSE TO U.S. INITIATIVE ON IRAN
[...] (C) AIT Director met with Taiwan National Security Secretary General Chiou I-jen June 1 in the absence of the SIPDIS Foreign Minister,as instructed reftel. The Director reviewed the background to the Secretary's announcement of the United States' new initiative on Iran and requested that Tai [...]
2006-06-01 22:21:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IR TW
06AITTAIPEI1856TAIWAN RESPONSE TO U.S. INITIATIVE ON IRAN
[...] (C) AIT Director met with Taiwan National Security Secretary General Chiou I-jen June 1 in the absence of the SIPDIS Foreign Minister,as instructed reftel. The Director reviewed the background to the Secretary's announcement of the United States' new initiative on Iran and requested that Tai [...]
2006-06-01 22:21:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IR TW
06AITTAIPEI2879LOS ALAMOS ASSISTS TAIWAN INER IN MEASURING
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-21 00:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALKNNP ENRG TRGY KSCA IAEA TW
06AITTAIPEI719NRC COMMISSIONER VISIT TO TAIWAN NUCLEAR PLANTS
[...] (C) Summary: Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner Jeff Merrifield visited Taiwan Feb 22-24 to meet with his counterparts at the Atomic Energy Council (AEC) and to visit the Institute for Nuclear Energy Research (INER) along with two nuclear power plant sites in northern Taiwan. AEC chairman Ouyang [...]
2006-03-08 07:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG PARM IAEA KNNP TW
06ALGIERS399AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES IRAN WITH FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) Ambassador, accompanied by DCM, delivered reftel demarche during a March 5 meeting with Foreign Minister Bedjaoui, leaving points in French translation as non-paper. Ambassador stressed that IAEA DG ElBaradei's report had confirmed U.S. concerns; Iran has not taken any of the steps called [...]
2006-03-08 10:57:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL IAEA UNSC IR AG
06ALGIERS500HAMAS, IRAN, LEBANON, SYRIA, AND THE WESTERN
[...] (C) Over a March 14 working lunch with MFA Secretary General Lamamra, NEA A/S Welch explained the U.S. view that taking the Iran nuclear issue to the Security Council would strengthen possibilities of resolving the problem through diplomacy; urged Algeria to ensure assistance was channeled to [...]
2006-03-21 07:38:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PBTS IR WI MO SY LE AG
06ALGIERS501NEA A/S WELCH'S MARCH 14 DISCUSSION OF HAMAS,
[...] (C) In their March 14 meeting, PM Ouyahia and NEA A/S Welch primarily focused on the Palestinian issue and dealings with Hamas. A/S Welch stressed that U.S. assistance to the Palestinians would continue but not through government channels so long as Hamas was in government and failed to reco [...]
2006-03-21 07:39:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM IR IZ IS PA SU AG
06ALMATY1719KAZAKHSTAN ENVIRONMENTAL UPDATE, APRIL
[...] Summary: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani press and has not been verified. The opinions expressed in this report, therefore, should not be interpreted as official positions and/or policy of the U.S. Government. -- Karagachaganak Petroleum Operation Fined for Gas Fl [...]
2006-05-16 01:22:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV ENRG EPET KZ ECONOMIC
06ALMATY1922KAZAKHSTAN: SECOND ROUND OF NUCLEAR SMUGGLING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following up on their February meeting, the U.S. outreach delegation, augmented by IAEA and European Commission representatives, met in Astana May 25 with a Kazakhstani delegation comprising 14 representatives from seven ministries and organizations. The sides reached provisio [...]
2006-05-31 01:22:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KNNP KZ
06ALMATY2673KAZAKHSTAN: THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The nuclear fuel cycle in Kazakhstan is wholly managed by the state-owned Kazatomprom company, and dominated by uranium mining and milling operations. Kazatomprom is investing heavily in increasing uranium production not only to profit from the projected increase in world demand, [...]
2006-07-25 09:02:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KNNP MARR KZ
06ALMATY2953 KAZAKHSTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER ON GUANTANAMO
[...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 17 meeting, Foreign Minister Tokayev told Ambassador Ordway that he would recommend to President Nazarbayev that Kazakhstan send a "fact finding" team to Afghanistan to investigate possible Kazakhstani participation in a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT). T [...]
2006-08-19 03:39:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KZ
06ALMATY2955 KAZAKHSTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER ON GUANTANAMO
[...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 17 meeting, Foreign Minister Tokayev told Ambassador Ordway that he would recommend to President Nazarbayev that Kazakhstan send a "fact finding" team to Afghanistan to investigate possible Kazakhstani participation in a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT). T [...]
2006-08-19 03:39:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KZ
06ALMATY602KAZAKHSTAN INTENSIFIES EFFORTS TO DEVELOP NUCLEAR
[...] (C) Summary: Kazakhstan plans to develop its nuclear industry, from increased uranium production to nuclear power generation. The topic has attracted a significant amount of press coverage in recent weeks, primarily due to a joint statement on cooperation issued by President Nazarbayev and P [...]
2006-02-14 12:03:00US Office AlmatyCONFIDENTIALMNUC PREL KZ
06AMMAN1059EXBS-JORDAN ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE JANAURY 2006
[...] On January 4-6, EXBS Advisor completed a program Consultation Visit to Washington D.C. to discuss country and regional plans with representatives of the EXBS interagency working group. The following is a summary of discussions and EXBS events: A. Wednesday January 4, 2006. Â [...]
2006-02-14 07:05:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL MASS KSTC KNNP JO
06AMMAN1083EXBS-MIDDLE EAST REGION ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE
[...] On January 4-6, EXBS Advisor completed a program Consultation Visit to Washington D.C. to discuss country and regional plans with representatives of the EXBS interagency working group. The following is a summary of discussions and EXBS events: A. Wednesday January 4, 2006. Â [...]
2006-02-14 14:12:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP JO
06AMMAN6972NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT / IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-10 15:07:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PTER UNGA IAEA UNSC CU JO IR
06AMMAN883JORDANIAN REPRESENTATIVE TO THE IAEA DONOR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-07 13:59:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KNNP OTRA IZ JO IAEA
06ANKARA1065ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-02 15:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1121ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-06 15:37:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1137ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-07 13:01:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1213TURKISH MFA READ-OUT OF IRANIAN PARLIAMENTARY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: MFA Deputy Director General (DDG) for Arms Control and Disarmament Bulent Meric briefed select missions about the March 3 visit of a delegation led by Iranian Parliamentary Foreign Policy, National Security and Defense Affairs Committee Chair Alaadin Boroujerdi to Ankara to disc [...]
2006-03-09 12:38:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU FR UK AU GR CH IS
06ANKARA1227ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-09 14:30:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1253SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRIED'S MARCH 16-17 VISIT TO
[...] (C) We look forward to your visit to Ankara, which is very timely in view of events in the Caucasus. The Turkish government has heard conflicting accounts of the Rambouillet talks, is disappointed at the apparent lack of progress, and is anxious to hear your and Steve Mann's views on the way [...]
2006-03-10 13:11:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ IR SY IS KWBG AR AJ TU
06ANKARA1330ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-13 15:11:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1400TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, February 2006
[...] Turkey's National Security Council (NSC) held its first meeting of 2006 on February 23. Turkey-Iran relations, February 4 IAEA decision on Iran's nuclear program, and Turkey's foreign assistance policy topped the agenda. Turkish media coverage of the meeting was wider than other months. The [...]
2006-03-16 09:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL TU UP KS TC PK SU IR AL RU
06ANKARA1410SCENESETTER FOR MARCH 22-23 VISIT OF CODEL WARNER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your March 22-23 visit comes at a time when Turkey is attempting to balance its commitments to the West against its desire to maintain harmonious relations with its neighbors and to play a constructive role with other Muslim countries. Turkey remains a significant contributor to [...]
2006-03-16 14:48:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MARR MASS TU IZ AF IR IS
06ANKARA1421U. S. EXPERTS MEET WITH TURKISH OFFICIALS ON
[...] (U) Summary: Officials from the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK) and Turkish National Police (TNP) shared information concerning the August 2005 seizure of uranium (ref tels) with a US delegation from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on March 2-3, 2006. TAEK officials and the US [...]
2006-03-17 12:09:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALAU KNNP PARM RS TU
06ANKARA1463TURKEY: EVOLVING VIEWS ON IRANIAN NUKES
[...] (SBU) In recent weeks, AKP officials have gradually been ratcheting up public pressure on Iran, simultaneously sending messages to their domestic constituencies that the situation has reached a more serious level. Over the weekend of March 11, Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdulla [...]
2006-03-20 16:08:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PINS IR TU
06ANKARA1468SCENESETTER FOR THE 23-26 MARCH VISIT OF CHAIRMAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Your March 23-26 visit comes at a time when progress has been made in improving the character of US-Turkish relations that frayed badly in 2003-2005. Senior level dialogue, including on the military-to-military side, has resumed; Turkey has downplayed its whining about the PDD and [...]
2006-03-21 08:27:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNMARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV TU IZ AF RU
06ANKARA1575SCENESETTER FOR THE MARCH 31-APRIL 1 VISIT OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Your visit comes at a time when Turkey is trying to balance its role as regional good neighbor with its responsibilities as a NATO member and EU candidate. The Government of Turkey (GOT) counsels engagement over isolation in dealing with countries like Iran and has presented itsel [...]
2006-03-24 14:37:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS TU IZ IR
06ANKARA1579ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-24 15:17:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1581TURKISH INTEREST IN NUCLEAR ENERGY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's need for energy diversification has become a more prominent issue after this winter's problems with the supply of hydrocarbon products provided by Iran and Russia. Nuclear power is being actively considered and several countries have offered to assist in this developm [...]
2006-03-27 04:48:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALBEXP ECON ENRG IR KNNP PARM TRGY TU
06ANKARA1651A/S FRIED'S MEETINGS WITH TURKISH MFA U/S TUYGAN
[...] (C) A/S Daniel Fried, accompanied by Special Negotiator Steven Mann and EUR/NCE Director Elizabeth Rood, discussed Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian genocide resolution, Cyprus, Iran and the Balkans with MFA Undersecretary Ali Tuygan and Deputy Undersecretary Ahmet Uzumcu on March 16. Fried said [...]
2006-03-28 13:50:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPGOV PREL AM AJ GG IR KPAL IS CY TU
06ANKARA168ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-17 15:10:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1813ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-05 12:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA1858DAS GRAY DISCUSSES IRAN WITH TURKISH MFA OFFICIALS
[...] (C) Summary. DAS Gordon Gray visited Ankara on March 22 to discuss USG ideas on the Iranian nuclear program with several senior Turkish MFA officials. DAS Gray delivered a strong message emphasizing that, while Washington has taken no option off the table, the USG remains committed to a dipl [...]
2006-04-06 14:21:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PINS IR TU
06ANKARA188IRAN/TURKEY - DISCUSSION WITH ACTING TURKISH FM
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and British Ambassador Westmacott used a meeting on Cyprus with Acting Turkish FM Tuygan January 18 to register US concerns on Iran and urge stronger Turkish support of diplomatic efforts to persuade Iran to abandon its nuclear program and cooperate with the internatio [...]
2006-01-18 15:18:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MNUC TU IR
06ANKARA2004ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-12 14:21:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2199SCENESETTER: YOUR APRIL VISIT TO ANKARA
[...] (S) Thank you for coming to Turkey. The Mission and I look forward to seeing you here. Your visit can help us achieve three things. -- First, we need to restore lost confidence --on both sides -- about intent and capacity for genuine collaboration. Announcing the start of a strategic dialo [...]
2006-04-21 09:12:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PGOV TU VISIT
06ANKARA2416SCENESETTER FOR MAY 7-8 VISIT OF CODEL PENCE TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your visit follows a successful visit by Secretary Rice which paved the way for a new "strategic SIPDIS dialogue" with Turkey on issues of mutual import. Turkey is a strong ally in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT),facilitating the distribution of critical supplies and fuel [...]
2006-05-02 14:14:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP TU
06ANKARA2472ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-04 14:24:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2529ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-08 13:40:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2587ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-09 13:34:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA2595TURKEY/IRAN: FM GUL'S MEETING WITH ALI LARIJANI
[...] (C) MFA Deputy Undersecretary for Security Affairs Akgunay Larijani provided Ambassador an initial readout of Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani's May 8 meeting with FM Gul. (Larijani's meeting with Turkish NSC SecGen Alpogan is described septel.) Akgunay reporte [...]
2006-05-09 14:24:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL KNUC PTER IR TU
06ANKARA2598TURKISH NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER BRIEFS CODEL
[...] (C/REL GBR) Turkish National Security Council Secretary-General Yigit Alpogan told CODEL Pence May 8 that SIPDIS he and other leaders delivered a tough message to his Iranian counterpart, Ali Larijani, during his visit to Ankara the same day. Alpogan said he told Larijani that Iran's attemp [...]
2006-05-09 14:47:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL UN IR TU
06ANKARA2640TURKEY CALLS ON IRAN TO STOP URANIUM ENRICHMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The MFA characterized Turkey's May 8 talks with visiting Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani as direct. Larijani took a hard line SIPDIS on Iran's right to nuclear energy and Turkey responded that the onus is on Iran to overcome international suspic [...]
2006-05-11 10:58:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKNUC PARM PREL UN IR TU
06ANKARA2664TURKEY/DPRK: MFA BRIEFING ON DPRK VISIT TO ANKARA
[...] (C) Turkish MFA Deputy Director General for Africa and East Asia Erdem Mutaf briefed several diplomatic corps representatives May 10 on MFA meetings with Democratic People's Republic of North Korea (DPRK) Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials on May 4. The DPRK had requested the visit as part [...]
2006-05-11 14:19:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KN KS TU
06ANKARA2666TURKEY/IRAN: PM ERDOGAN'S MESSAGE TO LARIJANI
[...] (C) Summary. Prime Ministry advisor Ahmet Davutoglu told Ambassador May 10 that PM Erdogan delivered a strong message to Iranian National Security Secretary Ali Larijani during the latter's May 8 visit to Ankara, warning Iran that it must regain the international community's trust by behaving [...]
2006-05-11 14:30:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKNUC PARM PREL UN IR TU
06ANKARA2677ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-12 12:26:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA273EUCOM DCDR DISCUSSES IRAN, CAUCASUS, BLACK SEA
[...] (C) Summary: EUCOM Deputy Commander Gen Charles Wald emphasized the risk to Turkey of Iran's WMD program on January 17 in separate sessions with Turkey's CHOD and Deputy CHOD as well as at a roundtable with TGS staff chaired by DCHOD GEN Isik Kosaner. In all meetings, TGS officials acknowled [...]
2006-01-24 14:13:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PARM TU IR ZJ ZL
06ANKARA284TURKEY/JAPAN: PM KOIZUMI'S MAKES LONG-AWAITED
[...] (C) Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi paid a four-day official visit to Ankara and Istanbul January 9-12, the first by a Japanese head of government since 1990. While the visit was largely symbolic, the two sides discussed common approaches to the Iran nuclear issue, Iraq reconstruction, and t [...]
2006-01-26 12:11:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON JA TU
06ANKARA2897ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-22 14:09:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA3004SCENESETTER FOR MAY 30 VISIT OF CODEL BLUNT TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Ankara warmly welcomes the visit of CODEL Blunt on May 30. Turkey is a strong ally in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT),facilitating the distribution of critical supplies and fuel to the coalition in Iraq and supporting the NATO Training Mission (NTM-I) there; publicly [...]
2006-05-25 11:38:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP TU
06ANKARA3203SCENESETTER FOR THE JUNE 4 VISIT OF DEPUTY
[...] (S) Your visit to Turkey comes at an important moment. Foremost on our immediate agenda is ensuring Turkey's sustained support for Secretary Rice's May 31 announcement that we will join EU-3 talks if Iran suspends enrichment and reprocessing. Turkish officials will be interested in hearing U. [...]
2006-06-02 08:41:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPGOV PREL TU
06ANKARA3256ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-05 12:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA331SCENE-SETTER FOR THE VISIT OF MARINE CORPS COMMANDANT GENERAL HAGEE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-30 13:38:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETMARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV TU IZ AF RU
06ANKARA3352SCENESETTER FOR JUNE 14 VISIT OF GENERAL SCHWARTZ TO TURKEY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-08 06:52:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNMOPS PREL PARM TU IZ IR AJ AF
06ANKARA347ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-30 16:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA3641ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-20 14:35:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA386AMBASSADOR'S MEETINGS WITH THE TURKISH GENERAL STAFF: IRAQ, PKK, IRAN AND DEFENSE PROCUREMENT
[...] (S) Summary: During separate meetings with Turkish General Staff (TGS) Chief GEN Hilmi Ozkok, TGS Deputy Chief GEN Isik Kosaner, and Turkish Land Forces (TLFC) Commander GEN Yasar Buyukanit January 26 and 27, the Ambassador asserted that Turkey should do nothing to disrupt the fragile situat [...]
2006-02-01 12:49:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MARR PTER MASS TU IZ IR
06ANKARA4103TOURISM MINISTER AND PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION
[...] (C) Summary. Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Atilla Koc led a Turkish delegation to Iran in late June to promote tourism. At the same time, MP Ahmet Inal led a separate parliamentary delegation to Iran. The Koc delegation signed a cultural exchange agreement with Iran, but was unable to [...]
2006-07-13 13:48:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS IR TU
06ANKARA4145POSITIVE TURKISH RESPONSE TO US-RUSSIAN GLOBAL
[...] The Turkish Foreign Ministry made the following public announcement on July 17 in reaction to the joint U.S. - Russia Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism announced on July 15 (reftels). The MFA provided this to us in the form of a diplomatic note as well. Informal Embassy translati [...]
2006-07-17 14:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDMCAP PINR PINS PTER KNNP IAEA RU TU
06ANKARA4249BREATHING LIFE INTO THE U.S.-TURKEY STRATEGIC
[...] (SBU) Secretary Rice and Turkish FM Gul have put their imprimatur on the Structured Strategic Dialogue. We must now implement it. Over the next six months, we should focus on some of the most pressing bilateral and regional issues through continued high-level dialogue, consultations and ste [...]
2006-07-21 14:04:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL US TU
06ANKARA4314TURKEY FAMILIAR WITH P5+1 INCENTIVE PACKAGE FOR
[...] (C) We passed to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Head Osman Yavuzalp on July 25 reftel points on the P5 1 incentive package for Iran. Yavuzalp confirmed his government's familiarity with the specifics. He said Iranian officials told Turkey's embassy in Tehran that the package was [...]
2006-07-26 14:12:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL IR EU AORC
06ANKARA443TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER COMPLAINS TO IRAN;
[...] (s) Ambassador was convoked February 3 by FM U/S Tuygan to be briefed on a call FM Gul made to Iranian FM Mottaki the day before to urge Iran to turn away from confrontation with the IAEA. Reading from the foreign ministry,s memcon, Tuygan said that Gul: -- Referred to earlier conversations [...]
2006-02-03 12:52:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL MNUC KPAL IR IS TU
06ANKARA454ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-03 16:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA478ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-06 15:34:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA5392TURKISH REPLY TO DEMARCHE ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-15 14:20:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALIR PREL PTER IAEA UNSC
06ANKARA562FRENCH FM DOUSTE-BLAZY IN ANKARA: PLAYING TO TWO
[...] (C) Summary: During a February 1-2 trip to Ankara, French FM Douste-Blazy reminded GOT leaders that France had supported the opening of EU accession talks with Turkey, despite opposition from the French public. The French FM recommended that the French and Turkish governments work together to [...]
2006-02-09 11:52:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON FR TU EU
06ANKARA586TURKEY REQUEST DELAY OF IRAN NUCLEAR BRIEFING
[...] (C) As reported in ref (b),the Government of Turkey welcomes the opportunity to be briefed by the United States interagency team concerning the Iran nuclear program. We were informed the afternoon of Feb. 7 that due to the Feb. 15 visits by the Sheik of Bahrain, as well as the foreign mini [...]
2006-02-09 14:45:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALAORC EUN IR KNNP PARM PREL TU
06ANKARA5900 U.S. - TURKEY PEACEFUL NUCLEAR COOPERATION - SISTER LABS
[...] (SBU) We presented reftel points to MFA Energy Officer Gulsun Erkul on October 6. During the discussion, we encouraged the Government of Turkey to participate in the DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) "Sister Laboratory" program for bilateral technical cooperation in peaceful [...]
2006-10-12 14:45:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIAEA ENRG TRGY AORC KNNP OTRA TU
06ANKARA6036TURKS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO
[...] (C) Summary: Turkey has enthusiastically endorsed plans for the first meeting of partners of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GI) and will send a high-level delegation to Rabat on October 29-31. The MFA is coordinating an interagency review of the of Statement of Principles, [...]
2006-10-18 13:57:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKGIC MCAP PINR PINS PTER KNNP TU
06ANKARA6056 TURKEY'S NUCLEAR POWER QUEST AS BEAUTY CONTEST
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Energy Ministry U/S Sami Demirbilek explained that due to legal and financial limitations, Turkey will rely on the private sector to realize its decision to add nuclear power to its energy mix. He told us that the government's role is limited to providing an electricity purchas [...]
2006-10-20 05:10:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV BEXP TU
06ANKARA622TURKEY/IRAN -- NOT UPSETTING THE NEIGHBORS
[...] (C) Summary. While the Turkish government publicly declares that a nuclear-armed Iran is not in Turkey,s interest, it will not get out front on the issue for fear of irritating a neighbor with which Turkey has a delicate political and growing economic relationship: -- Turkey does not wish [...]
2006-02-10 16:36:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PINS IR TU
06ANKARA623DEFENSE PROCUREMENT ISSUES DOMINATE AMBASSADOR'S
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish Air Forces (TUAF) Commander Comert, launched his initial meeting Feb. 1 with the Ambassador by laying out a series of defense equipment issues currently frustrating TUAF training and programs. Ambassador countered with USG and US industry concerns that strict Terms and C [...]
2006-02-13 06:02:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS MASS PREL PGOV TU RU IR
06ANKARA647SCENESETTER FOR THE FEB 15- 17 VISIT OF AMB
[...] (S) Summary: Your visit to Ankara provides a welcome opportunity to accomplish two things in our Iran diplomacy: brief the Turks on what we know about Iran's nuclear weapons development efforts and consult with them on the way forward. Turkey is at best a reluctant supporter of the internatio [...]
2006-02-14 06:01:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETAORC EUN IR KNNP PARM PREL TU
06ANKARA6519TURKISH ATTITUDES TOWARD IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] (C) Summary: Official Turkish views about Iran's nuclear development program have shifted over the past year. Senior GOT officials question the bona fides of the Iranian nuclear program and believe that a nuclear armed Iran would pose a military threat. They are more concerned, however, abo [...]
2006-11-28 13:28:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL IR TU KNNP MNUC
06ANKARA6697TURKISH COMPANIES AND SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN
[...] (C) Summary: Turkey has a lopsided trade relationship with Iran, with two-way trade consisting mostly of Turkish oil and gas imports. This situation leads Turkish officials to continue to push for more exports to Iran. Turkish Government officials show no signs of linking the issue of the Iran [...]
2006-12-19 14:08:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPINR ETTC ETRD EINV TU IR
06ANKARA703ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-15 15:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA722HAMAS -- TURKS DESCRIBE PLANNED MEETINGS IN ANKARA
[...] (c) Summary: Turkey will host probably two meetings with Hamas on February 16, according to two senior government officials. One will be at the Deputy Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs level and will take place over lunch at a government guesthouse. A second meeting is likely follow betwee [...]
2006-02-16 10:29:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETPREL PTER XF TU
06ANKARA733ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-16 13:23:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA737TURKEY/IRAN NUCLEAR: TURKEY TOUGHENS STANCE ON
[...] (SBU) Speaking to the press on February 15, MFA spokesman Namik Tan previewed the visit by Ambassador Schulte and the USG Iran briefing team (reftel). Using language stronger than in previous government statements, Tan said that "the crisis between Iran and the international community has re [...]
2006-02-16 14:03:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KNUC IR TU
06ANKARA803ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-21 07:13:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA934ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-24 11:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
06ANKARA972BRIEFING TURKEY ABOUT IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] (C) Summary: UNVIE Ambassador Greg Schulte led a three member team to brief and consult with the Turkish government February 15-17 on the Iranian nuclear program and related diplomacy. MFA, Turkish General Staff and Turkish Intelligence officials were clearly already convinced of Iran's inten [...]
2006-02-28 10:23:00Embassy AnkaraSECRETKNNP PARM PREL TU IR
06ASHGABAT581TURKMENISTAN'S FOREIGN MINISTER AGREES TO CONSIDER
[...] (C) Charge met with Turkmenistan's Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov to thank him for Turkmenistan's public statement in support of the U.S. initiative on Iran and to urge him to issue an additional public statement requesting Iran to do the right thing and also to follow up with Iran through d [...]
2006-06-02 13:46:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC IAEA KNNP UNSC IR TX
06ASHGABAT582TURKMENISTAN'S FOREIGN MINISTER AGREES TO CONSIDER
[...] (C) Charge met with Turkmenistan's Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov to thank him for Turkmenistan's public statement in support of the U.S. initiative on Iran and to urge him to issue an additional public statement requesting Iran to do the right thing and also to follow up with Iran through d [...]
2006-06-02 13:46:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC IAEA KNNP UNSC IR TX
06ASHGABAT821SCENE SETTER FOR PDAS MANN'S AUGUST 13-15 VISIT TO
[...] (U) PDAS Mann, welcome back to Ashgabat, we look forward to your return. Your visit will provide us with an opportunity to meet President Niyazov to discuss oil and gas issues and review progress on the key priorities of our bilateral relationship: -- Promotion of democratic reform and h [...]
2006-08-02 13:22:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALENRG OVIP PGOV PHUM PREL TX
06ASMARA162DEMARCHE: DEFEATING VENEZUELA IN THE 2006 ELECTION
[...] (C) Ambassador delivered ref a demarche to MFA Director General for the Americas and International Organizations, Ghirmai Ghebremariam on February 9. Ambassador reminded Ghirmai as well that Venezuela was only one of three nations that had opposed the IAEA reporting Iran to the Security Cou [...]
2006-02-09 14:59:00Embassy AsmaraCONFIDENTIALPREL ER
06ASUNCION1195PARAGUAY CONTINUES TO WAFFLE ON WAY AHEAD ON
[...] Action Request. See paras. 5. 2. (C) The Ambassador impressed upon Vice President Castiglioni November 27 the need for a GOP decision on the way ahead on military cooperation as regards immunities for U.S. participants. The U.S. had approved $1.1 million in GPOI funds and another $3.5 i [...]
2006-11-30 21:06:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS PTER PA
06ASUNCION447PARAGUAY: RESPONSE TO IRAN'S CANDIDACY TO UN HUMAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-28 15:56:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIEDKUNR PHUM UNHRC PREL PA
06ASUNCION507PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE, MAY 7-13,
[...] SUMMARY: -- Paraguay Signs $35 Million Threshold Program -- VP Hosts Conference on Nuclear Security -- Another Patria Libre Member Captured -- Ambassador Attends Book Fair -------------------------------------------- Paraguay Signs $35 Million Threshold Program ---------------------------- [...]
2006-05-12 18:24:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR PHUM PARM ENRG MCAP MNUC PA
06ATHENS1057GREECE SUPPORTS INCREASING DIPLOMATIC PRESSURE ON
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-19 14:11:00Embassy AthensSECRETPREL AORC EU EUN IAEA KNNP UNSC IR GR WMD
06ATHENS1058SCENESETTER: YOUR APRIL 27 VISIT TO ATHENS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Thank you for agreeing to make a quick stop in Athens on April 27. The Greek Government is delighted you are able to visit so soon after FM Bakoyannis' March 23 trip to Washington, and sees your visit as more proof of the deepening U.S.-Greece strategic partnership, or as Bakoya [...]
2006-04-19 14:42:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GR CY TU VISIT
06ATHENS2282LEBANON/IRAN: GREECE FOCUSES ON MIDDLE EAST IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 30, DCM met with Ambassador Kostas Chalastanis, director of FM Bakoyannis' cabinet, for a readout of Bakoyannis' visit to Middle East capitals August 22-25. Chalastanis informed us that, in addition to her consultations in Beirut, Amman, and Tel Aviv, Bakoyannis woul [...]
2006-08-31 12:35:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MOPS UNSC IAEA GR IS CY LE
06ATHENS767SCENESETTER FOR GREEK FOREIGN MINISTER BAKOYANNIS'
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Thank you for agreeing to see Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis in Washington on March 23. This will be her first trip to Washington as Foreign Minister since assuming her post on February 15 of this year. Bakoyannis' objective will be to establish her credentials with you [...]
2006-03-21 14:53:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GR CY TU BAKOYANNIS
06BAGHDAD3370IRAQ SUPPORTIVE ON NAM SUMMIT IRAN STATEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-10 15:18:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC IAEA IR IZ
06BAGHDAD4386(C) IAEA INSPECTION AT TUWAITH NUCLEAR COMPLEX
[...] (C) On November 20, Pol-Mil officer and Coalition forces assisted a four-person International Atomic Energy Agency team, in completing the annual Physical Inventory Verification of approximately 550 tons of yellow cake uranium and other accountable nuclear materials including uranium oxide s [...]
2006-11-28 16:28:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALMOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PNAT PREL
06BAKU163AZERBAIJAN MUM ON P5+2 STATEMENT ON IRAN, LIKELY
[...] (C) Pol/Econ Counselor delivered ref a demarche on Iran's nuclear programs to MFA Americas Desk Director Ilgar Mukhtarov on February 2. Mukhtarov had no substantive comment and, in response to emboff's query, said the GOAJ had not issued a public statement on the P5 2's agreement that the IA [...]
2006-02-03 14:02:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KNNP AORC EU IR AJ
06BAKU234AZERBAIJANI FM MEETS WITH CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met February 13 with leaders from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Mammadyarov characterized Azerbaijan's relations with the United States as a "strategic partnership" and said that Azerbaijan wants [...]
2006-02-15 13:34:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALAM ENRG IR IS KZ PREL RU
06BAKU741PORTAL MONITOR TRAINING, CALIBRATION AND MAINTENANCE -
[...] SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE) and the IAEA have provided, and continue to provide, radiation detection equipment and training to two different agencies within the Government of Azerbaijan resulting in a fragmented approach to the detection of radioactive material transiting the bord [...]
2006-05-19 13:01:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PBTS PREL KSTC KNNP RU AJ
06BAKU804AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT SUPPORTS U.S. ANNOUNCEMENT
[...] (C/NF) Charge d'Affaires met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev June 1 to deliver reftel points on Iran. President Aliyev told Charge he would immediately instruct Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov to follow-up on our request that the GOAJ issue a public statement welcoming the initiativ [...]
2006-06-01 14:50:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV IR AJ
06BAKU805AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT SUPPORTS U.S. ANNOUNCEMENT
[...] (C) Charge d'Affaires met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev June 1 to deliver reftel points on Iran. President Aliyev told Charge he would immediately instruct Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov to follow-up on our request that the GOAJ issue a public statement welcoming the initiative. [...]
2006-06-01 15:02:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IR AJ
06BAKU836AZERBAIJAN HOPES TO STRENGTHEN OIC'S INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister (DFM) Vagif Sadiqov told Charge June 5 that the GOAJ planned to use its chairmanship of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to expand the OIC's cooperation with regional bodies such as the OSCE, ASEAN and other organizations, on ter [...]
2006-06-07 11:07:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KISL AJ
06BANDARSERIBEGAWAN460BRUNEI RECEPTIVE TO NAM DEMARCHES
[...] (C) DCM delivered ref B demarche on general NAM Summit issues on Sept. 7 to Arni Abu Bakar, USA Desk Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She welcomed U.S. views in advance of the Summit. Although she could not give a formal reply to the issues raised, Abu Bakar indicated tha [...]
2006-09-11 06:48:00Embassy Bandar Seri BegawanCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PTER IAEA UNSC BX
06BANGKOK3371DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FOLLOW-UP ON NAM STATEMENT ON
[...] (U) Poloff furnished Reftel A demarche points to the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on June 2, 2006. On June 5, the MFA notified Poloff that they have forwarded the points to Mr. Charn Jullamon, Director of the Office for Peace, Security, and Disarmament of the International Organiza [...]
2006-06-05 09:30:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC KNNP IR IAEA UNSC
06BANGKOK5553THAILAND: DEMARCHE ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-11 06:27:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PTER IAEA UNSC TH
06BANGKOK6096THAI STATEMENT ON POSSIBLE DPRK NUCLEAR TEST
[...] Thailand is gravely concerned with the recent announcement by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) that is will conduct a nuclear test in the future. 2. Thailand urges DPRK to abide by the principles of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the International Atomic Ener [...]
2006-10-05 08:16:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPREL TH NK
06BANGKOK6195THAI REACTION TO ALLEGED DPRK NUCLEAR TEST
[...] (C) Charge delivered ref points on October 10 to Nongnuth Phetcharatana, Director-General of the Department of American and South Pacific Affairs at the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and expressed thanks for the strong RTG public statement (below). Nongnuth asked for an update on UNSC [...]
2006-10-10 09:36:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPREL TH NK
06BANGKOK6941THAILAND: IRAN BRIEFING
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Ambassador spoke on November 9 to MFA Permanent Secretary Krit Garnchana-Gooncharn regarding reftel briefing. SIPDIS Given the nature of the issue, Krit recommended that the briefing be given to the MOD Permanent Secretary [...]
2006-11-16 10:08:00Embassy BangkokSECRETIAEA TRGY ENRG MNUC KNNP PARM PREL IR AORC TH
06BANGKOK885THAILAND'S BALANCED REACTION TO IRAN-IAEA VOTE
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered ref points and statements to MFA Director for Middle East Affairs Udomsak Sritangos on February 10. In a follow-up meeting on February 14, Udomsak explained that Thailand supports world opinion on this issue but must balance this position with its growing economic ties [...]
2006-02-14 09:28:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPARM PINS PREL TH
06BANJUL441VCI BUREAU PDAS FORD COMPLIANCE DIPLOMACY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: VCI Bureau PDAS Christopher Ford accompanied by Maher Tadros, Office of Nuclear Affairs, and Eric Wong, U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, met June 30, 2006 with Egypt's Deputy Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Taher Farahat in Banjul on the margins of the Summit of the [...]
2006-07-12 16:35:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM KNNP PREL TRGY XA EG
06BEIJING10104PRC/UN: MFA BRIEFS ON UNSYG ANNAN VISIT
[...] (C) UN SYG Annan asked President Hu Jintao what opinions or advice the UN can offer to help break the current Six-Party Talks impasse, MFA International Organizations Department Officer Guo Xuejun told Poloff on May 23. Hu said China continues to work with the other Partiesto resume the Six-P [...]
2006-05-24 10:50:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PGOV UN CH
06BEIJING10734PRC/GERMANY: MERKEL VISIT READOUT
[...] (C) China supports a more important role for Germany in the United Nations, China's leaders told visiting German Chancellor Merkel, according to MFA European Affairs Division Director Wang Shunqing. Wang said that during Mrkel's May 21-23 visit to China, China and Germany agreed to initiate a [...]
2006-05-31 08:42:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PGOV GE CH
06BEIJING1305GERMAN POLITICAL DIRECTOR TO PRESSURE BEIJING ON
[...] (C) The German Political Director will travel to Beijing January 23-24 to lead the EU-3 effort to pressure China to support its position on Iran's nuclear program, according to German Embassy Officer Aron Mir Haschemi. In a January 19 meeting and follow-up conversation on January 20, Aron sai [...]
2006-01-20 10:34:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP IR EU AORC CH
06BEIJING14345BEIJING WILL SERIOUSLY CONSIDER THE GLOBAL
[...] (SBU) China attaches great importance to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism and will study the presidential announcement carefully, stated Assistant Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai. In response to the joint presentation of reftel points on July 7 by the DCM and the Russian Charge [...]
2006-07-10 08:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MCAP PINR PINS PTER KNNP CH RS IAEA
06BEIJING1665JANUARY 26 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: CHINA'S SUPPORT FOR
[...] Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing stated China's concern over current developments in the Iran nuclear crisis to visiting Iranian National Supervisory Council Security Advisor Ali Larijani, MFA Spokesperson Kong Quan said at the regular January 26 MFA Press Briefing. China considers Russia's prop [...]
2006-01-26 11:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL CH IR XA
06BEIJING19546SEPTEMBER 12 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: NORTH KOREA, KIM
[...] KEY POINTS MADE AT THE SEPTEMBER 14 MFA PRESS BRIEFING WERE: -- RESUMING THE SIX-PARTY TALKS REQUIRES EFFORTS BY ALL PARTIES. ON U.S. "SANCTIONS" AGAINST THE DPRK, CHINA SUPPORTS PROSECUTION OF THOSE COMMITTING FINANCIAL CRIMES BASED ON THE FACTS AND EVIDENCE. -- THERE ARE "NO ARRANGEME [...]
2006-09-14 11:21:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL CH KN JA
06BEIJING23814NOVEMBER 16 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS,
[...] Key Points made at the November 16, 2006 Press Briefing were: -- China hopes the Six-Party Talks will resume as soon as possible, but has no information on whether State Councilor Tang Jianxuan will return to Pyongyang anytime soon. -- UNSCR 1718 does not specify what constitutes "luxury [...]
2006-11-16 10:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL CH JA
06BEIJING23933PRC SUPPORTS UNSC ACTION ON IRAN; DIFFERS ON SCOPE
[...] (C) Given Iran's failure to cooperate with the IAEA and comply with UNSCR 1696, it is imperative that the UN Security Council reach agreement as soon as possible on a sanctions resolution based on the EU3 draft text, Poloff stressed to MFA IO UN Division Director Yang Tao when delivering refte [...]
2006-11-20 08:53:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALMNUC PREL CH
06BEIJING24310DECEMBER 5 MFA BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS AND
[...] Key Points at the December 5 MFA Press Conference were: -- China hopes for the early resumption of the Six-Party Talks, but this requires the consensus of all parties. No date has been set. Luxury goods prohibited for import to the DPRK have not been defined. -- China is closely followin [...]
2006-12-05 10:34:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM RP JA KS TC CH
06BEIJING24377DECEMBER 7 MFA BRIEFING: IRAN NUCLEAR, SIX- PARTY
[...] Key Points at the December 7 MFA Press Conference were: -- China believes diplomacy on the Iran nuclear issue needs more time and space. -- The DPRK nuclear issue will likely be discussed during upcoming ASEAN meetings. -- It is "inappropriate" for UNHCR to call DPRK refugees in China [...]
2006-12-07 15:31:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ENRG ECON KN IR CH
06BEIJING24779CHINA/ENERGY: EMBASSY OBJECTS TO CNOOC ON REPORTED
[...] (SBU) Reuters reported on December 20 that the China National Overseas Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and Iran reached agreement to develop Iran's northern Pars gas field and build liquefied natural gas. The Department asked us to confirm with CNOOC if the report was accurate (ref. B). While CNOOC, [...]
2006-12-26 10:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ETTC ENRG EPET PREL IR CH
06BEIJING4023PRC/IRAN: VFM LU GUOZENG'S TRIP TO IRAN
[...] (C) Vice Foreign Minister Lu Guozeng focused during his February 24-26 visit to Iran on discussing the gravity of the international situation that Iran faces with regard to the nuclear issue, according to MFA Arms Control and Nonproliferation Department Dputy Director General Wang Qun. Lu del [...]
2006-03-03 12:50:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP IR EU AORC CH
06BEIJING4219PRC/IRAN: VFM LU GUOZENG STRESSES COMMITMENT TO
[...] (C) Summary. China shares the international community's common goal of ensuring that Iran does not get nuclear weapons, Vice Foreign Minister Lu Guozeng stated. In a March 7 meeting with the CDA, Lu said he told Iranian officials during his late February trip to Iran that the "world does not [...]
2006-03-07 11:56:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP IR EU AORC CH
06BEIJING4479MARCH 9 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT,
[...] Key points made at the March 9 MFA press briefing are as follows: - The State Department's 2005 Human Rights Report turned a blind eye to the basic facts and made irresponsible remarks regarding the status of human rights in China. - China hopes Iran will fully cooperate with the IAEA a [...]
2006-03-09 10:27:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PARM CH JP IR KN
06BEIJING4893PRC/IRAN: CHINA OFFERS COMPROMISE SOLUTIONS TO P5
[...] (C) Summary: The PRC is prepared to adopt what it believes are compromise solutions to the current P5 disagreements over the text of a UNSC Presidential Statement (PRST),according to MFA International Organization Department Division Director Yang Tao. Noting Ambassador Wang Guangya,s discus [...]
2006-03-15 09:49:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP IR EU AORC CH
06BEIJING5077PRC/IRAN: IRANIAN PRESIDENTIAL ENVOY MOHAMMED
[...] (C) Summary: Iranian Presidential Envoy Mohammad Larijani, the elder brother of Iranian Supreme Security Council Secretary General Ali Larijani, hewed closely to Iran's standard positions on its nuclear program during his March 14-16 Beijing visit, but he did not repeat threats that Iran woul [...]
2006-03-17 09:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP ENRG IR EU AORC CH
06BEIJING5618DOE OLYMPIC RADIATION SECURITY WORKSHOP IN BEIJING
[...] (SBU) The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA),in conjunction with the China Institutes for Contemporary International Relations (CICIR),held an Olympic Radiation Security Workshop on February 28. DOE officers made two presentations titled: "The DOE's Emerge [...]
2006-03-27 09:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER KNNP MNUC ENRG ECON ETRD BTIO RGY
06BEIJING5698MARCH 28 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: U.S.-CHINA TRADE
[...] Key points made at the March 28 MFA press briefing are as follows: - U.S.-China trade frictions should not be politicized or overstated, while China's exchange rate regime must be rational and remain in line with the reality of the country's situation. - The March 30 foreign ministers' m [...]
2006-03-28 11:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON PARM PHUM CH IR KN
06BEIJING5965MARCH 30 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: EXCHANGE RATE,
[...] Key points made at the March 30 MFA press briefing are as follows: - An appropriate decision on the RMB exchange rate must take into account China's level of economic development and the potential impact on the global economy. - China hopes the March 29 UNSC Presidential Statement will [...]
2006-03-30 09:37:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON PHUM PARM CH IR JP
06BEIJING5972PRC/INDIA: ACADEMICS SKEPTICAL OF U.S.-INDIA
[...] (C) In reaction to the U.S.-India civilian nuclear cooperation agreement, China should review the multilateral agreements it participates in that the United States is also a party to, according to the China Institutes for Contemporary International Relations Assistant President Yang Mingjie. [...]
2006-03-30 11:45:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP ETTC ENRG IAEA IN PK CH
06BEIJING6316APRIL 4 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S
[...] Key points made at the April 4 MFA press briefing are as follows: - Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff and Politburo Standing Committee Member Luo Gan discussed bilateral cooperation in law enforcement, counterterrorism and repatriation of illegal immigrants. - China hopes relevant cou [...]
2006-04-04 11:42:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PARM ECON KNNP CH JP
06BEIJING683U.S.-CHINA WORKING GROUP MEETS VFM QIAO ZONGHUAI
[...] (SBU) Maintaining close relations with the DPRK and Iran gives Beijing the ability to play a constructive role in resolving their nuclear issues, VFM Qiao Zonghuai told Congressmen Mark Kirk, Rick Larsen and Tom Feeney on January 10. China remains dedicated to fulfilling commitments it made [...]
2006-01-13 04:56:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL TSPA KIPR KN IR TW CH
06BEIJING6852APRIL 11 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: PRESIDENT HU'S U.S.
[...] Key points made at the April 11 MFA press briefing are as follows: - President Hu Jintao will visit the United States April 18-21, Saudi Arabia April 22-24, Morocco April 24-26, Nigeria April 26-27 and Kenya April 27-28. - Beijing hopes President Hu's U.S. trip will help reduce bilateral [...]
2006-04-11 10:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON PHUM PARM KNNP CH IR
06BEIJING746U.S.-CHINA WORKING GROUP MEETS WITH NPC SECRETARY
[...] (SBU) Parliamentary exchanges between the United States Congress and the NPC have been very successful over the past year, NPC Secretary General Sheng Huaren told a visiting delegation from the U.S.-China Working Group led by Congressmen Mark Kirk, Rick Larsen and Tom Feeney. China is keeping [...]
2006-01-13 08:15:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CH
06BEIJING7652PRC/IRAN: MFA SAYS TEHRAN SHOWS LITTLE FLEXIBILITY
[...] (C) Assistant Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai went to Tehran April 15)16 to deliver the message that Iran must stop its uranium enrichment activities in order to prevent the current situation from spiraling out of control, according to MFA Iran Desk Director Xu Wei. Xu, who served as Cui's inter [...]
2006-04-21 10:39:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP IR CH
06BEIJING7837APRIL 25 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: HU VISIT, NEPAL,
[...] Key points made at the regular April 25 MFA press briefing are as follows: - The United States apologized for the Falungong incident but has to answer for the lapse in security. Washington should take firmer steps to stop FLG activities. - The MFA spokesman said he had no specifics on th [...]
2006-04-25 12:16:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PARM PTER KNNP CH
06BEIJING8028APRIL 27 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: IRANIAN NUCLEAR
[...] Key points made at the April 27 MFA press briefing are as follows: - China is awaiting IAEA Director General ElBaradei's upcoming report on Iran and expects the report to provide a comprehensive and objective assessment. - China firmly opposes Taiwan political figures conducting activiti [...]
2006-04-27 11:43:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PARM PTER KNNP CH IR TW
06BEIJING9934PRC MAY 23 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK FM TO VISIT
[...] Key points made at the May 23 MFA press briefing are as follows: -- DPRK Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun will visit China May 30-June 6 for talks on bilateral and regional security issues, meet senior PRC leaders and tour Guangzhou. -- EAP A/S Christopher Hill will visit Beijing May 24- 2 [...]
2006-05-23 10:02:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL CH JP KN GE
06BELIZE530BELIZE: FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE ON NAM STATEMENT ON IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-14 14:34:00Embassy BelmopanCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC IAEA KNNP UNSC IR BH
06BERLIN1165INDIAN PRIME MINISTER SINGH'S VISIT TO GERMANY
[...] (C) (Summary) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Germany from April 23-25 raised India's profile as an international partner for Germany and gave Singh a chance to address German concerns about the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Initiative. In her public comments about the initiative, [...]
2006-04-28 15:04:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GM IN
06BERLIN1502FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE ON NAM STATEMENT ON IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-02 15:33:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALKNNP IAEA AORC PREL UNSC IR EU GM
06BERLIN1781SPD CALLS FOR MORE NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
[...] (U) Summary: On June 26 the Social Democratic party (SPD) held a conference under the rubric: "Peace through Disarmament: International Law and Nuclear Nonproliferation." FM Steinmeier (SPD) and IAEA DG ElBaradei were the keynote speakers. During the conference, Steinmeier and other SPD l [...]
2006-06-27 15:54:00Embassy BerlinSECRET//NOFORNPARM KNNP IAEA NATO PGOV GM
06BERLIN2793GERMANY WILL PARTICIPATE IN INITIAL MEETING OF
[...] (C) EMIN, accompanied by Global Affairs officer, and Russian Embassy Deputy Political Counselor Dmitri Cherkashin delivered ref A demarche and accompanying draft documents September 21 to German MFA Deputy Director General for Economic Affairs Michael Witter and MFA Desk Officer for Internatio [...]
2006-09-21 15:56:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALKGIC PREL PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS IAEA GM
06BERLIN2976GERMAN NONPROLIFERATION PRIORITIES INCLUDE G-8
[...] (C) Summary: German MFA Office Director for Nuclear Nonproliferation, International Energy, and Nuclear Energy Policy Thomas Meister told Global Affairs Counselor October 6 that Germany is still in the process of formulating nonproliferation priorities for its G-8 Presidency, but will focus i [...]
2006-10-11 15:56:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALETTC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL TRGY KGIT IAEA IN GM
06BERLIN3030GERMAN MFA BRIEFING ON FUEL CYCLE INITIATIVE
[...] (C) German MFA Deputy Office Director for Nuclear Nonproliferation and International Energy Dietrich Becker briefed Global Affairs officer October 17 on FM Steinmeier's proposed Fuel Cycle Initiative. The initiative, first presented at the IAEA General Conference in September (ref B),propose [...]
2006-10-18 16:57:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALETTC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL TRGY IAEA GM
06BERLIN3058NSG - GERMAN REACTION TO INDIA PRESENTATION ON
[...] (C) German MFA NSG Desk Officer Joerg Polster told Global Affairs officer October 20 that India's October 12 presentation on the margins of the NSG Consultative Group meeting (ref A),while helpful, had done little to change German thinking on civil nuclear cooperation with India. Polster stat [...]
2006-10-20 17:18:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL TRGY IN GM
06BERLIN3507GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM:
[...] (SBU) Global Affairs Officer and Russian Embassy Deputy Political Counselor Dmitri Cherkashin jointly delivered the Global Initiative (GI) draft Plan of Work and accompanying documents (ref) to officials from the German MFA's Division for International Energy and Nuclear Energy Policy December [...]
2006-12-14 17:54:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KGIC KNNP PREL ASCH CACM GM AS CA CH
06BERLIN3520SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY PAULSON'S VISIT TO BERLIN
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY. Your December 21 meetings in Berlin with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck are an excellent opportunity to push economic reforms and boost German, European and global growth as Germany assumes the leadership of the G-8 and the EU. The Chancellor an [...]
2006-12-15 17:53:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EFIN PREL GM
06BERN1280IRAN: LARIJANI MEETS WITH SWISS FM CALMY-REY \
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-10 14:51:00Embassy BernCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP PARM ETTC SZ
06BERN2060SWISS-DPRK TRADE VERY LIMITED
[...] (S) Summary: In response to REFTELS A and B, on November 7 Emboffs spoke with Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, Bilateral Economic Relations Division, Export Controls and Sanctions Chief Othmar Wyss about Swiss-DPRK trade relations. According to Wyss, Swiss trade with North Korea [...]
2006-11-08 16:20:00Embassy BernSECRETETTC KNNP PARM TRGY MNUC IAEA SZ
06BISHKEK1516OCTOBER 25 NUCLEAR SMUGGLING OUTREACH TALKS IN
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On October 25, 2006, the Nuclear Smuggling Outreach Delegation met a Kyrgyz Republic delegation representing eight agencies and ministries to continue the discussions begun in May 2006 on improving the Kyrgyz Republic's capabilities to combat nuclear smuggling. The two delegati [...]
2006-10-27 11:00:00Embassy BishkekUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KG KNNP PREL
06BOGOTA144WHY JANUARY 2006 IS DIFFERENT FROM JANUARY 2005 IN
[...] (C) President Uribe broke the political custom of decades by winning the right to run for re-election. But campaign dynamics are complicating some of his policies. Absent tragedy, we can look to four-and-a-half more years of partnership like the last three-and-a-half years. In the face of [...]
2006-01-06 20:14:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIALPREL SNAR CO
06BOGOTA4947COLOMBIA ISSUES STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF U.S. OFFER
[...] (C) Ambassador Wood encouraged President Uribe's office on May 31 to issue a statement in support of the U.S. offer to join the EU-3 negotiations if Iran fully and verifiably suspends its enrichment and reprocessing activities (reftel). In a follow up meeting with Foreign Minister Carolina Ba [...]
2006-06-02 15:57:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOC IR CO
06BOGOTA5201COLOMBIA LIKELY TO MAKE STATEMENT ON IRAN AT JUNE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-09 19:15:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIALIAEA PREL KNNP IR CO
06BOGOTA553COLOMBIA SUPPORTS CONVENING MEETING OF THE IAEA
[...] (C) Polcouns demarched Vice Minister for Multilateral Affairs Alejandro Borda and others at MFA on January 12, encouraging Colombia to support convening an emergency meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors to report Iran to the Security Council because of continued failure to comply with the I [...]
2006-01-23 14:12:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL AORC KNNP CO
06BRASILIA1132NSG PRELIMINARY READOUT
[...] Summary: The May 29-June 2 NSG Plenary in Brasilia featured a low-key review of the India civil nuclear cooperation initiative, with the USDEL Chairman suggesting that India be invited to the October 2006 NSG Plenary in Vienna to brief the group on its plans. Participating Governments expresse [...]
2006-06-07 18:43:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDTRGY TNGD EMIN KSCA BR
06BRASILIA264REQUESTED TRANSFER OF RADIOACTIVE COBALT-60 TO BRAZIL
[...] In response to reftel, Brazil's MFA has informed Scioff that the request, made by the NRC to CNEN (Brazilian Nuclear Regulatory Commission) on 12-06-05, to authorize Engalt Sistemas Medicos Ltda. to import sealed quantities of Co-60 from International Isotopes, Inc. was denied on 12-12-05 becau [...]
2006-02-06 19:05:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDTRGY ENRG KNNP KSCA BR
06BRATISLAVA192A/S SILVERBERG VISIT TO BRATISLAVA: SLOVAKIA HOLDS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The March 5-7 Bratislava visit of IO A/S Kristen Silverberg provided the occasion to engage Slovakia on UNSC issues, congratulate the country on two successful months at the table, and coordinate our approaches to the upcoming challenges of the Council's agenda. A/S Silverber [...]
2006-03-08 08:07:00Embassy BratislavaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC UN IR YI SR LO
06BRATISLAVA28SLOVAKIA RELEASES STATEMENT SUPPORTING REFERRAL OF
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-12 14:44:00Embassy BratislavaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PARM KNNP IR LO UNSC
06BRATISLAVA309SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS CHAPTER VII RESOLUTION ON IRAN
[...] (C) CDA delivered reftel demarche April 18 to MFA Acting Political Director Stefan Rozkopal, Director for Disarmament, OSCE, and Counter-Terrorism Karol Mistrik, and UNSC Coordinator Marcel Pesko. They affirmed that Slovakia's position is clear: Slovakia supports a strong Chapter VII resol [...]
2006-04-18 15:59:00Embassy BratislavaCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC EU EUN IAEA KNNP UNSC IR LO
06BRATISLAVA31SLOVAKIA UNHAPPY WITH IRAN, SUPPORTS UNSC
[...] (C) DCM and Poloff delivered ref A points to State Secretary (Deputy Foreign Minister) Magda Vasaryova on SIPDIS January 13. Vasaryova, whose portfolio includes the United Nations, told us that Slovakia, as a member of the Security Council, a country with a bilateral relationship with Ira [...]
2006-01-13 15:21:00Embassy BratislavaCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL IR EU AORC LO
06BRATISLAVA311SLOVAKIA RELEASES STRONG STATEMENT ON IRANIAN
[...] (U) The Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs released the following statement on Irans pursuit of a nuclear weapons program on April 13. The original text is available in Slovak at www.mzv.sk: BEGIN UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Slovak Republic is f [...]
2006-04-19 09:15:00Embassy BratislavaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM PREL KPAL UNSC LO
06BRATISLAVA432SLOVAKIA RELEASES STATEMENT WELCOMING P5 + 1
[...] (U) The Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs released the following statement in reaction to the P5 plus 1 meeting regarding Iran's nuclear weapons program on June 1. The original text is available in Slovak at www.mzv.sk: BEGIN UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA [...]
2006-06-02 12:20:00Embassy BratislavaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL UNSC UN IR LO
06BRATISLAVA749MEETING OF FM KUBIS WITH DEPUTY SECRETARY OF
[...] (C) Summary. Slovak FM Jan Kubis met Deputy Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Nahavandian, on September 4 in Bratislava. Nahavandian made clear that Iran does not regard UNSCR 1669 as legally valid and confirmed that Iran plans to continue with the development of a peaceful [...]
2006-09-08 14:29:00Embassy BratislavaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNSC IR LO
06BRATISLAVA77SLOVAK VIEWS BEFORE JAN 30 GAERC
[...] (SBU) Pol-Ec Chief discussed reftel points 1/24 with European Correspondent Lubomir Rehak. He was joined by Anna Petrasova, Third Secretary stationed at the Slovak mission to the EU, covering COTRA and COLAT/AMLAT, who wanted to see "how our transatlantic coordination works." Pol-Ec Chief en [...]
2006-01-30 11:31:00Embassy BratislavaCONFIDENTIALPREL EU LO
06BRUSSELS1175HAMAS LIKELY TO DOMINATE MEETING OF EU FOREIGN
[...] (C) Judith Gebetsroithner, an advisor to External Relations Commission Ferrero-Waldner, told us April 6 that discussion of Hamas would likely be the main issue for EU Foreign Ministers to tackle at their monthly meeting (GAERC) in Luxembourg April 10. Gebetsroithner noted that member states [...]
2006-04-06 15:35:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PHUM KPAL BO UP XF EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS2203BELGIUM: 2005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED
[...] SUMMARY: Belgium continues to provide important contributions to the common Transatlantic defense, by assisting resident and transiting U.S. forces and with its own forces supporting stability in Afghanistan, the Balkans and the Congo. The Belgian military is hobbled by an aging force structur [...]
2006-06-27 16:42:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MCAP MOPS PREL BE
06BRUSSELS2463PM: BELGIUM CAN DO MORE ON AFGHANISTAN, WANTS HELP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Verhofstadt told Ambassador Korologos July 20 that he was trying to secure coalition approval to "double" the Belgian troop contribution to Afghanistan, adding some 200 troops around Kabul. In principle, he accepted the need for NATO common funding, but that NATO's budgeting n [...]
2006-07-14 12:48:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PARM MCAP MOPS KNNP AF CG IR BE
06BRUSSELS2603BELGIAN RESPONSE TO P5+1 INCENTIVE PACKAGE FOR IRAN
[...] (SBU) Summary. In response to reftel, Belgian MFA Nonproliferation chief Werner Bauwens believed the Iranians would accept the P5 1 proposal as a basis of negotiation in mid-late August, and at the same time voluntarily suspend an unspecified degree of enrichment activities. He also believes [...]
2006-07-27 09:06:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKNNP PARM PREL AORC
06BRUSSELS2606BELGIAN RESPONSE TO P5+1 INCENTIVE PACKAGE FOR IRAN
[...] (SBU) Summary. In response to reftel, Belgian MFA Nonproliferation chief Werner Bauwens believed the Iranians would accept the P5 1 proposal as a basis of negotiation in mid-late August, and at the same time voluntarily suspend an unspecified degree of enrichment activities. He also believes [...]
2006-07-27 13:50:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKNNP PARM PREL AORC
06BRUSSELS3799BELGIAN NUCLEAR ENERGY REASSESSED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Pressed by global energy concerns and climate change targets, Belgium is reassessing the country,s use of nuclear energy and its future energy policy options. Although current law commits Belgium to decommissioning its nuclear-powered generating installations from 2015-2025, med [...]
2006-11-13 11:54:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV EFIN SENV BE
06BRUSSELS4121EU SUMMIT TO ISSUE TOUGH MESSAGE TO IRAN
[...] EU Foreign Ministers will prepare a tough declaration on Iran and the Middle East for European leaders to approve at their December 15 summit in Brussels, according to Jesper Hostrup, Principal Administrator and Iran Coordinator in the European Commission,s Directorate General for External Re [...]
2006-12-13 18:22:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALEUN IR KDEM PGOV PREL
06BRUSSELS899EU PUSHING FOR MORE DIALOGUE ON ASIA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Chris Hill met with EU Foreign Policy Advisor Robert Cooper during a brief stop-over in Brussels February 17. Hill's perspective on key developments in DPRK, China, Burma and Indonesia were well-received by a fully [...]
2006-03-15 17:18:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR XE EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS975EU FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS HAMAS, BELARUS, OTHER
[...] (U) EU foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels March 20, agreed with the preliminary conclusions of the OSCE/ODIHR that the Belarusian elections were "severely flawed." FMs reportedly discussed Hamas' proposed list of cabinet members but did not issue a substantive statement on Hamas. Rather [...]
2006-03-21 13:47:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD EAID KPAL BO XF ZL EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BUCHAREST309ROMANIA RECEIVED GAERC DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-22 15:47:00Embassy BucharestCONFIDENTIALKPAL PREL RO
06BUCHAREST460BLACK SEA BORDER SECURITY INITIATIVE REAL TIME
[...] (C) Summary: On January 30-31, Romaia hosted the Black Sea Border Security Initiativ (BSBSI) "real-time operation." As the final evnt of the &STYX 20058 scenario, the Romanians deonstrated a mock seizure of a truck carrying a rdiological commodity to representatives of Bulgari, Ukraine, Moldo [...]
2006-03-16 16:39:00Embassy BucharestCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ETTC KCRM PTER KNNP RO
06BUENOSAIRES1099 Argentina: Disaster Management System Overview
[...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified - Not For Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: The GOA has a number of agencies in place to deal with disaster management, many with well-trained personnel and established action plans. Of them, the GOA Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ARN) is particularly wel [...]
2006-05-15 14:44:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID OFDA PREL SENV KNNP KSCA AEMR ASEC KESS AR
06BUENOSAIRES1225U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN
[...] (C) I delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana on June 1. I emphasized to Taiana that if Iran was prepared to suspend all enrichment and reprocessing activities and resume cooperation with the IAEA, the U.S. would become a full party to the EU-3 negotiations with Iran. I a [...]
2006-06-01 20:31:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IR
06BUENOSAIRES141REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY
[...] (C) Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan phoned the Ambassador on January 18 to follow up on the Ambassador's January 12 demarche on reporting Iran to the Security Council (Reftel B). Garcia Moritan told the Ambassador the GOA would support both the call for an emergency [...]
2006-01-19 17:26:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL IR EU AR AORC
06BUENOSAIRES1460ARGENTINA SCENE-SETTER FOR CODEL CORNYN
[...] (U) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina on July 3. Your visit comes at a time of considerable ferment in the Argentine political and economic arenas. On October 23, 2005 President Kirchner won a resounding victory in mid-term l [...]
2006-06-29 14:48:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECON PARM AR SNAR
06BUENOSAIRES184ARGENTINA: IAEA ARREARS AND IRAN VOTE
[...] (U) Ambassador delivered talking points on the upcoming IAEA Board of Governors meeting and Argentina's arrears to the IAEA to Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana on January 24. As in previous discussions with Taiana on the Iranian nuclear program (reftels b and c),the Ambassador unders [...]
2006-01-24 20:45:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAFIN AORC AR IR KNNP PREL IAEA
06BUENOSAIRES1888ARGENTINA TO EXPAND NUCLEAR POWER SECTOR, RESTART
[...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina plans an expansion of its nuclear energy infrastructure, including a return of its uranium enrichment program, according to MFA Director General for International Security Issues Ambassador Elsa Kelly. Planning Minister Julio De Vido is expected to lay out the plans d [...]
2006-08-23 19:12:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALKNNP ENRG IAEA OTRA PREL ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES1906ARGENTINA CONFIRMS PLANS TO EXPAND NUCLEAR POWER
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) President Nestor Kirchner presided over a ceremony August 23 at which Planning Minister Julio De Vido announced that Argentina was going to expand its nuclear power program and reactivate a dormant ura [...]
2006-08-24 20:41:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP ENRG IAEA OTRA PREL ECON AR
06BUENOSAIRES1929WAR IN LEBANON; WAR ON TERRORISM; ARGENTINE NUCLEAR PLANS
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major international stories include the implications of the war in Lebanon; the ongoing war on terrorism; USG's support for Argentina's nuclear program; and USTR Susan Schwab's statement that the US does not believe it should revive global commercial talks through a [...]
2006-08-25 20:19:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES20ARGENTINA SCENE-SETTER FOR CODEL MCCONNELL
[...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina on January 10-12. Your visit comes at a time of considerable ferment in the Argentine political and economic arenas. On October 23, President Kirchner won a resounding victory in mid-term [...]
2006-01-04 18:25:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON PARM AR SNAR
06BUENOSAIRES2037PRESIDENT BUSH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF CIA PRISONS; DVC WITH US
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Local international stories include US President George W. Bush acknowledging the existence of previously secret CIA prisons around the world; a DVC with US Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Gregory Schulte on the diplomatic challenge posed by Iran's nucl [...]
2006-09-08 10:02:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2040PRESIDENT BUSH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF CIA PRISONS; DVC WITH US
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Local international stories include US President George W. Bush acknowledging the existence of previously secret CIA prisons around the world; a DVC with US Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Gregory Schulte on the diplomatic challenge posed by Iran's nucl [...]
2006-09-08 14:51:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2280ARGENTINE STATEMENT ON NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST
[...] The Argentine Foreign Ministry released the following statement regarding the North Korean nuclear test on October 9, 2006. 2. Begin text: The Argentine Government condemns the underground nuclear test conducted today by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK),which poses a thre [...]
2006-10-10 14:12:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KN PARM KNNP AR
06BUENOSAIRES23ARGENTINA SCENE-SETTER FOR CODEL MCCONNELL
[...] (U) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina on January 10-12. Your visit comes at a time of considerable ferment in the Argentine political and economic arenas. On October 23, President Kirchner won a resounding victory in mid-term [...]
2006-01-04 21:27:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECON PARM AR SNAR
06BUENOSAIRES2435US FENCE BILL; THE AMIA CASE; AMBASSADOR EARL ANTHONY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-27 18:41:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2499AMBASSADOR WAYNE; US LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS; NICARAGUAN
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend papers report on the arrival of Ambassador Wayne to Argentina; the upcoming US legislative elections; Nicaraguan presidential elections; an alleged White House's Website containing detailed information on how to manufacture a nuclear bomb; Saddam Hussein sentenced t [...]
2006-11-07 09:05:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES250MEDIA REACTION STATE OF THE UNION, IRAN-IAEA,
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Papers lead with the State of the Union message, in which President Bush defends his foreign policy, warns Iran and Hamas that the U.S. will fight tyranny in the world, urges them to set aside terrorism; refers to Iraq saying that if the U.S. leaves, 'then Bin Laden will r [...]
2006-02-01 20:15:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2541WAR IN IRAQ; IRAN; AMIA BOMBING CASE; AFTERMATH OF US
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories during the weekend and today include the status of the war in Iraq and the USG's alleged withdrawal plans; the reasons pointed out by the media for the Republicans' defeat in US legislative elections; the Argentine judicial decision on the AMIA bom [...]
2006-11-14 13:10:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES255MEDIA REACTION STATE OF THE UNION, IRAN-IAEA,
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key stories focus on the State of the Union message, noting that Latin America is hardly mentioned; the complicated international scenario posed by President Ahmadinejad's challenges to the UNSC and the Western world; speculation about a possible truce between Hama [...]
2006-02-03 12:58:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2636ARGENTINA SCENE-SETTER FOR CODEL GOODLATTE
[...] INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina November 29-December 3. As one of the world,s major agricultural producers and exporters, Argentina,s policies in this sector have an important impact on U.S. agriculture. You will have the [...]
2006-11-28 20:53:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECON PARM SNAR AR
06BUENOSAIRES2696ARGENTINA'S ROLE IN UPGRADING LIBYAN NUCLEAR
[...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) A December 3 article in a local daily reported that Argentine high technology firm INVAP (Ref A) had won a contract to upgrade a Libyan nuclear power plant. For clarification and details, the Embas [...]
2006-12-06 14:00:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP ENRG IAEA OTRA PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES2711ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR PM/DAS MICHAEL COULTER AND THE POL/MIL BILATS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-07 16:05:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALMARR PARM PREL PGOV PTER AR
06BUENOSAIRES278MEDIA REACTION HAMAS-ARGENTINA, IRAN-IAEA,
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Main stories today refer to Hamas' declarations to a Brazilian daily announcing its trip to South American countries in search of political and financial support, with the FMA saying they haven't received any request for a visit or interviews; Argentina's possible vote on [...]
2006-02-07 10:55:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES2838ARGENTINA-U.S. POLITICAL-MILITARY CONSULTATIONS
[...] (U) Summary: The United States and Argentina held a successful round of political-military bilateral consultations on December 15, 2006 in Buenos Aires. Both delegations shared their foreign policy principles and objectives. The Argentine delegation explained their government's goals for c [...]
2006-12-28 21:13:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PARM AR
06BUENOSAIRES308MEDIA REACTION IRAN-IAEA-ARGENTINA, GLOBAL
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Papers continue to lead with the Iran case at the IAEA, with France and Russia seeking to stop the escalation against Tehran, and Argentina's public stance on the up-coming vote at the UNSC; the growing violence between the Muslim world and the West, following the publicat [...]
2006-02-08 19:42:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES317ARGENTINA ON REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNSC
[...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel points to Minister Ricardo Boccalandro, Deputy Director of the MFA's Office of International Security, Nuclear, and Space Issues (DIGAN) and Claudia Corti, who covers IAEA issues in the same office. POLOFF also e-mailed copies of the President's and Secretary's Febr [...]
2006-02-09 13:20:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPARM KNNP IAEA AR
06BUENOSAIRES350CONVERSATION WITH CASA ROSADA INSIDER OSCAR
[...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging conversation with DCM, Secretary General of the Presidency Oscar Parrilli said GoA SIPDIS efforts to control prices were working and that the 2006 inflation rate would be lower than generally expected. He defended the government's approach to controllin [...]
2006-02-13 19:00:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES382ARGENTINA INTERESTED IN ATTENDING APRIL 11-12 PSI
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) At a February 15 lunch hosted by Ambassador, the MFA's new Director of International Security, Nuclear, and Space Issues (DIGAN),Elsa Kelly, said the GOA would like to send an interagency delegation to the April 11-12 PSI Operat [...]
2006-02-16 14:57:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPARM MARR PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES398MEDIA REACTION ABU GHRAIB, IRAN, HAITI;
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Papers lead with the new scandal following the broadcast by an Australian TV station of previously unpublished images of apparent abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Bush's request of funds to 'democratize' Iran and the growing allegations of fraud in Haiti which could lead [...]
2006-02-17 19:46:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES407ARGENTINA POLITICAL ROUNDUP
[...] (U) Reftels and other Mission reporting available at http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires 2. (U) TABLE OF CONTENTS: -- Ambassador Meets with New MFA International Security Director -- Rumors of Kirchner Cabinet Changes -- Paper Mill Dispute: Blockage of Bridges into Uruguay Contin [...]
2006-02-17 21:00:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES448ARGENTINA ON IAEA SAFEGUARDS COMMITTEE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-24 18:54:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDPARM IAEA KNNP AR
06BUENOSAIRES469MEDIA REACTION IRAN-RUSSIA IRAQ US-BOLIVIA US-
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend stories cover Iran and Russia agreeing to establish a joint uranium enrichment venture; the danger of civil war in Iraq; Palestinian PM-designate Haniyeh's statement that Hamas would establish "peace in stages" if Israel were to withdraw to the borders it held befor [...]
2006-02-28 12:15:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES477MEDIA REACTION US, COLOMBIA SIGN FREE TRADE
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories include a free trade agreement reached between the US and Colombia; a US Embassy press release asking for a fast solution of the dispute between the Argentine Government and Monsanto corporation; implications of the nuclear agreement b [...]
2006-02-28 20:56:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES500MEDIA REACTION US PRESIDENT BUSH TO INDIA
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major international stories include US President Bush's trip to India; the IDB granting a loan to Argentina "in spite of US objections;" Argentina's supporting the strengthening of Haiti's Congress; and President Kirchner urging a 90-day halt to the construction of [...]
2006-03-03 16:19:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES505MEDIA REACTION US-INDIAN NUCLEAR DEAL A/S
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include the implications of the nuclear cooperation deal reached between the US and India; the press conference with Eric M. Bost, US Assistant Secretary for Food, Nutrition and consumer Service, US Department of Agriculture; and Argentina [...]
2006-03-03 19:08:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES524MEDIA REACTION US PRESIDENT BUSH TO INDIA AND
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include US President Bush praising Pakistan as crucial ally in the war on terrorism; the implications of a nuclear deal between the US and India; the civil war in Iraq; the confrontation between the US and Iran on the latter's nuclear prog [...]
2006-03-06 20:46:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES535MEDIA REACTION IRAN MIDDLE EAST US-BOLIVIA
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major international stories include US President Bush's speech on the International Women's Day; US Vice President Dick Cheney's threats to Iran if it does not suspend its enriched uranium-related activities; the US and Russia rejecting Iran's proposal to enrich ur [...]
2006-03-08 20:31:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES572MEDIA REACTION IRAN US HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT US-
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's major international stories include Iran warning the US that it could inflict "harm and pain" to match whatever punishment Washington persuaded the UN Security Council to dole out for Tehran's refusal to halt atomic research; the 2006 US State Department Human Righ [...]
2006-03-10 20:35:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES573MEDIA REACTION IRAN IRAQ VISIT OF A/S OF THE
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT All major local newspapers cover the press conference with Patrick O'Brien, US Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Terrorist Financing, at the US Embassy in Buenos Aires as well as his meetings with members of the Argentine government. Papers highlight that, in spite of th [...]
2006-03-10 20:36:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES611ARGENTINA SCENESETTER FOR CODEL GRASSLEY
[...] (C) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina on March 23-26. Your visit comes as President Nestor Kirchner continues to consolidate his resounding victory in mid-term legislative elections last October 23. Based on these results, Kirchner has tightened his [...]
2006-03-15 19:01:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EAGR PARM SNAR AR
06BUENOSAIRES746THE IRANIAN DIPLOMATIC PRESENCE IN ARGENTINA
[...] (S) Reftel asked the Embassy to forward the most current records of official Iranian diplomatic representation in Argentina. Poloffs visited the MFA March 30 and spoke with Minister Bibiana Jones and Maria Ruth de Goicochea of the Office of Northern Africa and The Middle East. MFA officials [...]
2006-03-31 18:04:00Embassy Buenos AiresSECRETPINR PREL AR
06BUENOSAIRES782MEDIA REACTION TIES BETWEEN TRI-BORDER AND
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today include the alleged ties between the Tri-Border and terrorist organizations through a New York bank account; US President Bush favoring a US law including temporary work permits; and the nomination of Earl Anthony Wayne as new US Ambassador [...]
2006-04-06 18:41:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES785MEDIA REACTION TIES BETWEEN TRI-BORDER AND
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today include the alleged ties between the Tri-Border and terrorist organizations through a New York bank account; US President Bush favoring a US law including temporary work permits; and the nomination of Earl Anthony Wayne as new US Ambassador [...]
2006-04-06 20:32:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES787ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S POST MEMORANDUM FOR OIG
[...] (SBU) BACKGROUND: Argentina's size, importance to the regional economy, and ability to contribute to U.S. security goals make the bilateral relationship important to U.S. interests. Argentina is the size of the United States east of the Mississippi, with a population of 39 million inhabitants [...]
2006-04-06 21:53:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT ASIG BBG
06BUENOSAIRES85REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY
[...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana on January 12. Argentine Deputy Foreign Minister Roberto Garcia Moritan was also in attendance. Drawing on points in reftel, which were left as a non-paper, the Ambassador urged the GOA to continue its effor [...]
2006-01-13 15:12:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL IR EU AR AORC
06BUENOSAIRES886ARGENTINA ON PRESSURING IRAN
[...] (C) Ambassador, accompanied by POLOFF, met with FM Jorge Taiana April 18 to discuss reftel points and asked for Argentina's support for a strong Chapter VII resolution requiring Iran to comply with the steps called for in the UNSC Presidential Statement and in past IAEA Board of Governor resol [...]
2006-04-19 14:17:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC EUN IAEA KNNP UNSC IR AR
06CAIRO1232A/S RADEMAKER'S BILATERAL NONPROLIFERATION
[...] (C) Acting Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation Stephen Rademaker discussed Iran's nuclear weapons program with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and held bilateral nonproliferation discussions with the Assistant Minister for Multilateral Affairs Ambassador Na [...]
2006-02-28 07:43:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PGOV IS IR EG KNNP IAEA UNSC
06CAIRO1233ISN A/S RADEMAKER DISCUSSES IRAN WITH ARAB LEAGUE
[...] (C) Summary: International Security and Nonproliferation Assistant Secretary Stephen Rademaker, joined by DCM Stuart Jones, discussed Iran and a proposed Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone (MEWMDFZ) with Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa on February 16. Moussa ackno [...]
2006-02-28 07:44:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IAEA EG IR IS KNNP
06CAIRO1319IRAN/IAEA: EGYPT AND U.S. "SEE EYE TO EYE,"
[...] (C) MFA Office Director for Disarmament Affairs Dr. Hossam Eldeen Aly conveyed to Emboff that Egypt saw "eye to eye" with the USG on dealing with Iran at the IAEA. After reviewing USG analysis (reftel) of the latest IAEA Director General's report and recommended elements to include in nation [...]
2006-03-02 15:15:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP EG IR IAEA
06CAIRO1367ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS PREP FOR KHARTOUM
[...] (SBU) Arab foreign ministers met in Cairo March 4-5 to prepare for a March 28-29 Arab League Summit in Sudan. Among the topics discussed were Iraq, Palestine, Sudan/Darfur, and Arab reform. We understand the meetings were generally uncontentious, with ministers agreeing to support the polit [...]
2006-03-06 16:15:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL PTER EG IS IZ UNSC
06CAIRO1653 EGYPTIAN MEDIA THEMES, MARCH 6-12, 2006:
[...] Summary: Throughout the week, all papers highlighted President Mu and European trip, and commentators analyzed his role and message to importance as a counter-balance to the U.S. While simultaneously arg Egypt as a regional power-broker, columnists turned inward to demand momentum on domestic [...]
2006-03-16 11:24:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO KMDR OPRC EG DA XZ IS XF IZ
06CAIRO172SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY SILVERBERG'S
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit. It has been difficult to gain Egyptian cooperation on UN reform. During his meeting with Ambassador Tahir-Kheli in December Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit signaled a willingness to compromise, but this has not yet materialized. The FM w [...]
2006-01-13 17:47:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KUNR PHUM IS IZ LE SY SU EG UN
06CAIRO1811SCENESETTER FOR GEN ABIZAID'S VISIT TO CAIRO
[...] (C) GEN Abizaid, Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit as an opportunity to review our agenda on regional security and the future of our FMF assistance to Egypt. President Mubarak believes, and the MoD's senior leadership will reiterate, that our mil-mil relationship is the cornerstone of [...]
2006-03-23 17:29:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS IS IZ IR EG SU KPAL KNNP
06CAIRO2162CAIRO: SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY JOSEPH
[...] (C) Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit and the opportunity to continue our dialogue with the GOE on counterproliferation, Iran, and security assistance. Egypt values its role as a regional leader on nonproliferation and its influence in multilateral fora. Your visit will reassure Egy [...]
2006-04-09 14:27:00Embassy CairoSECRETPREL PGOV MOPS UNSC EG IR KNNP
06CAIRO224EGYPT ON REFERRING IRAN TO THE UNSC: INCHING
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit told IO Assistant Secretary Silverberg on January 16 that if "compelled" to SIPDIS vote on whether the IAEA should refer Iran to the UNSC, he would do so to prevent another nuclear capable state in the region. Aboul Gheit qualified that he believes referra [...]
2006-01-17 07:57:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALKNNP EG IR IAEA UNSC
06CAIRO2350ARAB LEAGUE WITH U/S JOSEPH ON IRAN AND POLICY ON
[...] (C) Arms Control and International Security U/S Robert Joseph and Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amre Moussa discussed Iran's nuclear program and the idea of a Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone (MEWMDFZ) in their April 13 meeting. U/S Joseph told Moussa that the Iran nucl [...]
2006-04-19 11:24:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM IS IR EG KNNP KPAL
06CAIRO2364DEFMIN TANTAWI AND U/S JOSEPH DISCUSS IRAN, MIDDLE
[...] (C) Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi told Arms Control and International Security Under Secretary Robert Joseph April 13 that Egypt: shares U.S. concerns over Iran's effort to acquire nuclear weapons, will discuss possible measures to combat Iran's aims, resents threats of a possibl [...]
2006-04-19 14:57:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PTER EG IR KNNP
06CAIRO2417U/S JOSEPH'S APRIL 13 MEETING WITH EGYPTIAN
[...] (C) Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Robert Joseph met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit in Cairo April 13 to discuss regional security issues. The meeting focused on efforts to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions, with U/S Joseph pressing for solid GOE s [...]
2006-04-23 08:28:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP KPAL EG IR IS
06CAIRO258PRESIDENTIAL SPOKEMAN'S STATEMENT FOLLOWING
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-18 11:03:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV SY IZ IS IR EG UN IAEA
06CAIRO2648PM A/S HILLEN DISCUSSES FMF, SINAI SECURITY, IRAN,
[...] (C) Visiting PM A/S Hillen, joined by the Ambassador, discussed Darfur, security assistance, Sinai security and regional cooperation with FM Aboul Gheit and Defense Minister Tantawi April 30. On Sudan, Aboul Gheit said that Egypt would only send more forces to Sudan with Khartoum's full suppo [...]
2006-05-07 15:06:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM MASS UN EG IS IR SU KPAL KNNP KMFO
06CAIRO269EGYPTIAN POSITION ON POSSIBLE IAEA REFERRAL OF
[...] (C) Summary: Following the visits of Vice President Cheney and IO Assistant Secretary Silverberg, the GOE position on IAEA referral of Iran to the UNSC is still evolving. While GOE statements suggest some positive movement, Egypt continues to raise regional concerns and its desire for a Mi [...]
2006-01-18 16:45:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALKNNP IS IR EG IAEA UNSC
06CAIRO305EGYPT: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: Nazif asked the Ambassador for help dealing with Congress, complaining that Egypt could not get a fair hearing. Particularly regarding Ayman Nour, the full story of the case needed to be communicated; "Nour is a crook." The Ambassador raised Egypt's reluctance to refer Iran to t [...]
2006-01-19 14:30:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ETRD
06CAIRO3128POTENTIAL IMPACT OF A REDUCTION OF EGYPT'S FMF
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph two. 2. (U) During a recent meeting with Office of Military Cooperation-Egypt Chief MG Byron Bagby, Congressman Kolbe requested an outline of the potential impact of a reduction or reprogramming of Egypt's Foreign Military Financing. P [...]
2006-05-25 11:15:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MASS MOPS EG
06CAIRO313CODEL WOLF DISCUSSES AYMAN NOUR, RELIGIOUS
[...] (C) In a January 17 meeting with President Hosni Mubarak, Congressman Frank R. Wolf (R-VA) pressed the GOE on: --finding a solution to the Ayman Nour issue; --supporting and expanding religious freedom; --supporting US positions at the UN, especially with regard to Human Rights Commission [...]
2006-01-19 16:25:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KISL IR SY EG OVIP
06CAIRO3348EGYPTIANS WELCOME U.S. WILLINGNESS TO ENGAGE IRAN
[...] (U) Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit issued a statement June 1 welcoming reftel announcement and calling for the creation of a Middle East zone free of weapons of mass destruction. The full text of the statement follows. Begin text: Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit welcomed the statement by [...]
2006-06-01 14:48:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM IAEA EG IR IS KNNP
06CAIRO3358EGYPTIANS WELCOME U.S. WILLINGNESS TO ENGAGE IRAN
[...] (U) Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit issued a statement June 1 welcoming reftel announcement and calling for the creation of a Middle East zone free of weapons of mass destruction. The full text of the statement follows. Begin text: Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit welcomed the statement by [...]
2006-06-01 15:09:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM IAEA EG IR IS KNNP
06CAIRO3419EGYPTIAN DISARMAMENT OFFICE COMMENTS ON NAM
[...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, the MFA's Disarmament Office Director Dr. Hossam Aly told poloff June 4 that Egypt did work to moderate the NAM statement on Iran at the ministerial meeting in Malaysia. Dr. Aly said that the original proposed Ministerial Statement had been much worse and [...]
2006-06-04 14:00:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL IAEA UNSC EG IR KNNP
06CAIRO358CODEL WOLF MEETINGS WITH GOE MINISTERS
[...] (C) In January 15 meetings with the Ministers of Interior, Justice, and Trade-Industry, as well as with senior MFA officials, Congressman Frank R. Wolf (R-VA) pressed the GOE on the Ayman Nour case, as well as religious freedom, support for the U.S. in international fora, and discussed regio [...]
2006-01-23 11:02:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV OVIP KDEM PHUM KIRF EG IR MFA
06CAIRO3638EGYPT ON JUNE 12-16 IAEA MEETING; VISIT OF ALI
[...] (C) The Ambassador discussed with Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit June 11 the U.S. desire that Egypt make a strong statement at the upcoming IAEA Board of Governors meeting calling on Iran to accept the offer made by P5 governments and Germany. Referring to his discussions with the Secretary G [...]
2006-06-12 14:27:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL IAEA MNUC IR EU EG KNNP
06CAIRO3743EGYPT VIEWS ON OIC MINISTERIAL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-15 12:13:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL IR EG KNNP
06CAIRO5237EGYPT'S INTERIM RESPONSE ON NUCLEAR FUEL CONCEPT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-21 14:25:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL IAEA UN EG
06CAIRO601IRAN: CENTRIFUGE BRIEFING TO EGYPTIAN MFA
[...] Lawrence Livermore representative Roger Miller and Department of Energy representative Richard Nephew briefed the MFA's Assistant Minister for American Affairs Ali al Hefny and MFA disarmament specialists on Iran's Gas Centrifuge Program on January 29. Al Hefny said Egypt appreciated the opp [...]
2006-02-01 18:02:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL IS IR EG KNNP IAEA UNSC
06CAIRO6016NO SURPRISES AT NDP PARTY CONFERENCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The ruling National Democratic Party's annual party conference, convened under the banner "New Thinking ... and the Second Leap Towards the Future," closed on September 21, following three days of animated speeches, discussion panels, plenary sessions, and discourse on policy paper [...]
2006-09-25 12:34:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM EG
06CAIRO6038MUBARAK FOCUSES ON NUCLEAR ENERGY IN EGYPT'S FUTURE
[...] (C) Summary: At last week's National Democratic Party (NDP) conference, both President Mubarak and his son Gamal highlighted nuclear energy as an alternative to continued reliance on fossil fuels. Prime Minister Nazif convened the Supreme Council for Energy for the first time in 18 years to d [...]
2006-09-26 10:10:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALENRG PGOV TSPL KNNP EG
06CAIRO604EGYPT AND IRAN/IAEA: PRESSING FOR REFERENCE TO
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-01 21:19:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP IR EG IAEA UNSC
06CAIRO6143EGYPT "DISAPPOINTED" WITH U.S. POSITION AT
[...] (C) Deputy Assistant Minister for Multilateral Affairs Ihab Fouzy, acting on Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit's instructions, summoned the DCM on October 1 to express Egypt's disappointment at the U.S. decision to oppose Egypt's "Application of Safeguards in the Middle East" resolution and to de [...]
2006-10-02 11:12:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL IAEA IR EG KNNP
06CAIRO6459UNSCR 1718 WILL DEFINE EGYPT'S NORTH KOREA POLICY
[...] (C) Poloff delivered ref A demarche on October 17 to MFA Cabinet Advisor for Asian Affairs Moataz Al Zahran, stressing USG concerns over North Korea's test of a nuclear device, and the importance of strict implementation of UNSCR 1718. Poloff emphasized resolution language on prevention of ma [...]
2006-10-18 14:48:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC PNUK PTER EG NK
06CAIRO647IRAN/IAEA: GOE PRESSES FOR REFERENCE TO ZONE FREE
[...] (C) Following the Ambassador's discussion with Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit on referring Iran to the UNSC on February 1 (Ref A.),ECPO MinCouns followed up with Americas' Affairs Assistant Minister el-Hefny February 2 (as the Ambassador had traveled to visit the Gaza border/MFO)(Ref [...]
2006-02-02 19:12:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPARM IR AORC EG KNNP IAEA EUC
06CAIRO6748EGYPT: MINISTER OF ELECTRICITY ON NUCLEAR, CUTTING
[...] (SBU) Minister of Electricity and Energy (MOE) Hassan Younes reported on November 2 that the GOE has not yet finally decided to pursue nuclear power development, but may do so following the presentation of an economic analysis to a PM-chaired Supreme Council on Energy meeting on November 7. Th [...]
2006-11-07 09:29:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALENRG PGOV TRGY KNNP IAEA EG
06CAIRO6938EGYPT: IAEA/IRAN TECHNICAL COOPERATION DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-21 15:57:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMNUC EG
06CAIRO7165ARAB LEAGUE'S AMRE MOUSSA TO SENATOR KERRY ON
[...] (C) SENATOR JOHN KERRY MET WITH ARAB LEAGUE SECRETARY GENERAL AMRE MOUSSA ON NOVEMBER 15 TO DISCUSS EVENTS IN LEBANON, IRAQ, AND THE REGION. MOUSSA BRIEFED ON HIS LEBANON MEDIATION, CLAIMING LIMITED SUCCESS ON ELECTION-RELATED ISSUES, AND NOTED PLANS TO VISIT BEIRUT, DAMASCUS, AND SAUDI ARAB [...]
2006-12-17 15:42:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER UNSC EG LE
06CAIRO7208EGYPTIAN-IRANIAN RELATIONS: WARMING IN PUBLIC ONLY
[...] (C) Summary: Visits by Iranian FM Motakki to Cairo and other high-level meetings between Egyptian and Iranian officials in 2006 have created public perceptions of a thaw in the historically chilly relationship, but GOE contacts stress privately that they remain deeply suspicious about Tehran' [...]
2006-12-21 07:42:00Embassy CairoSECRETPREL KNNP IR EG
06CAIRO7232EGYPT COMMITTED TO IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1737;
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on December 24 to MFA Disarmament Affairs Office Director Hossam Aly, seeking Egyptian reactions to the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1737 and its likely impact on Iran's nuclear activities. Aly believed the final resolution language was caref [...]
2006-12-26 12:58:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP MNUC UNSC EG IR
06CAIRO855SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY RADEMAKER'S
[...] (C) Embassy Cairo warmly welcomes your visit for nonproliferation discussions. Nonproliferation has been a key agenda item in the U.S.- Egyptian bilateral relationship in recent months, and expanding our dialogue will facilitate greater cooperation. Because Egypt takes seriously its role a [...]
2006-02-13 09:54:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IS IR EG KPAL KNNP IAEA
06CALCUTTA495INDIA'S COMMUNISTS LOBBY FOR CHINA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In anticipation of Chinese President Hu Jintao's November 20-24 visit to India, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) has been pressuring the GOI to conduct a more conciliatory foreign policy towards China. In its September Central Committee meeting, the CPM criticized the r [...]
2006-11-01 12:35:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON CH ETRD ENRG PBTS IN PGOV PREL
06CANBERRA2044AUSTRALIA PLANS TO IMPLEMENT UNSCR 1737 SANCTIONS
[...] (U) In a media statement released December 24, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer affirmed that Australia would proceed to implement sanctions on Iran's nuclear and missile programs, in accordance with the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 1737. He noted specifically the requ [...]
2006-12-28 06:49:00Embassy CanberraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMNUC KNNP IR AS
06CARACAS1276BRAZIL STILL INTERESTED IN TUCANO SALES, PROPOSES
[...] Actions requested - see para 12. Summary ------- 2. (C) Brazilian Ambassador Joao Carlos da Sousa Gomes, acting on instructions, proposed that we trade licensing for U.S. components in the Tucano aircraft for Brazilian support for Sumate with the BRV. That sounds like a bad trade to [...]
2006-05-11 19:24:00Embassy CaracasCONFIDENTIALECON EPET PREL PTER BL BR IR VE UN CU
06CARACAS1461BRV VICE MINISTER DISCUSSES TERRORISM, EXTRADITION
[...] (S//NF) Venezuelan vice foreign minister Maria Pilar Hernandez called in the Ambassador on May 17 to discuss the status of BRV extradition requests on alleged terrorist bombers Jose Antonio Colina, German Varela, and Luis Posada Carriles. She said her government had taken the position that [...]
2006-05-22 17:44:00Embassy CaracasSECRETPREL SNAR PTER KSAF VE
06CARACAS2367CASTRO'S ILLNESS; IMPACT ON THE BRV, ON BRV-GOC
[...] (S/NF) BRV reaction to the announcement of Castro's illness and recovery directly mirrored that of the Cuban regime. There is no reason to believe that the fundamentals of the Cuba-Venezuela relationship -- with Venezuela providing huge resource flows, and the Cubans providing tens of thousand [...]
2006-08-10 02:26:00Embassy CaracasSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV KDEM VE CU
06CARACAS458IRANIAN PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION VISITS VENEZUELA
[...] (U) On February 14, the Venezuelan National Assembly received a delegation of Iranian legislators, including the President of the Iranian Parliament Gholamali Haddad Adel. Adel emphasized that the governments of Venezuela and Iran were united in the fight against imperialism and committed to s [...]
2006-02-17 19:38:00Embassy CaracasCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL VE
06CARACAS492AMBASSADOR DELIVERS IRAN DEMARCHE TO BRV MFA
[...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel points on Iran's nuclear program to Vice Foreign Minister for Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific Alcides Rondon on February 10. Rondon said the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) saw no evidence of non-peaceful purposes for Iran's nuclear program and cha [...]
2006-02-22 20:53:00Embassy CaracasCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ELAB KDEM VE
06CARACAS661TAMPING DOWN IRANIAN URANIUM RUMORS IN VENEZUELA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-13 11:04:00Embassy CaracasSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL MASS PARM VE IR
06COLOMBO131U/S BURNS DISCUSSES PEACE PROCESS, IRAN AND UN
[...] (C) Summary. Jayantha Dhanapala told U/S Burns that the security situation in Sri Lanka "looks bad," but that President Rajapaksa remains patient and is committed to a non-military solution. He agreed with Burns that Iranian behavior in the IAEA is unacceptable but cautioned that Sri Lanka [...]
2006-01-23 05:44:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM IAEA CE IR
06COLOMBO134SRI LANKA: UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' MEETING WITH
[...] (C) In a January 23 meeting with President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Under Secretary Burns, accompanied by the Ambassador, stressed U.S. support for Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) efforts toward a peaceful resolution to the conflict and urged Rajapaksa to ensure that Sri Lankan security forces would [...]
2006-01-23 15:15:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KUNR IR CE
06COLOMBO135UNDERSECRETARY BURNS DISCUSSES PEACE PROCESS AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 23, Undersecretary Burns met with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera. The Foreign Minister told U/S Burns that Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) remains committed to negotiation and a peaceful solution despite continued provocation by the Liberation Tigers of T [...]
2006-01-23 15:36:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL IR CE
06COLOMBO136SRI LANKAN OPPOSITION LEADER GIVES FRANK
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 23 Under Secretary Burns and Ambassador Lunstead met with United National Party (UNP) leader and former Prime Minister and presidential contender Ranil Wickremesinghe. Wickremesinghe thanked U/S Burns for showing support for Sri Lanka and the peace process. The veteran [...]
2006-01-23 15:59:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER CE
06COLOMBO1636POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST
[...] (C) Ambassador reviewed reftel points with Foreign Secretary Palihakkara on 10/5/06 emphasizing the importance SIPDIS the U.S. attaches to Sri Lankan support for a possible Presidential statement from the UN Security Council. Palihakkara thanked the Ambassador for his presentation. He sai [...]
2006-10-05 11:41:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL PARM CE
06COLOMBO180SRI LANKA TO SUPPORT IAEA REFERRAL OF IRAN TO UNSC
[...] (C) President Mahinda Rajapaksa called the Ambassador early February 2 to tell him that the cabinet had decided the night before to support the U.S. position on Iran and the IAEA by voting in the February 2 IAEA Board of Governors meeting to refer the issue to the United Nations Security Coun [...]
2006-02-02 09:32:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC IAEA KNNP CE IR
06COLOMBO1811DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SRI LANKA WILL "GENTLY PUSH"
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-01 11:53:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE
06COLOMBO940U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN; DEMARCHE ON NAM STATEMENT
[...] (C) Ambassador delivered demarche requested ref (A) to Foreign Secretary Palihakkara June 5. Palihakkara said that he had not read the NAM document, and presumed that as usual this "112-member monster" had produced a lowest common denominator document. Ambassador said that did not seem to be t [...]
2006-06-05 11:49:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC IAEA KNNP UNSC IR CE
06COLOMBO966DEMARCHE ON ADDRESSING IRAN ISSUE AT JUNE 12-16
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-08 09:59:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER PGOV CE
06DAMASCUS2822Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/US, Syria/Venezuela,
[...] Summary: Syrian papers reported that FM Walid al-Mouallem received James Abourezek, Chairman of the American-Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee and former US Senator, and that they talked about American-Syrian relations, the situation in Iraq, and the Arab-Israel conflict. In a statement to S [...]
2006-06-14 09:08:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS4609Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Iran, UNGA Session,
[...] Summary: Syrian papers today reported the visit to Damascus of Ali Larijani, Head of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, and his meetings with President Asad and VP Shara, focusing on regional and international developments, especially in Iraq, Lebanon, and the occupied Palestinian [...]
2006-09-21 13:13:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS4635Damascus Media Reaction: UNGA session, UNSC Session on
[...] Summary: Papers continued to report meetings held by FM Walid al-Mouallem on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meetings in New York, citing his meetings with Iraqi President Jalal Talbani, Costa Rica's Foreign Minister Bruno Ugharti, Iranian FM Manouchehr Mottaki, German Foreign Minist [...]
2006-09-25 08:20:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DAMASCUS602Damascus Media Reaction: Syria/Lebanon, Iran, Danish
[...] Summary: Syrian papers reported a press statement to Lebanese magazine "al-Mughtarib" by Lebanese FM Fawzi Salloukh saying "there is a need for good ties with Arab countries, especially Syria." Salloukh considered the continuous Israeli violations of Lebanon's sovereignty and the maintenance of [...]
2006-02-13 13:44:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY
06DARESSALAAM1012TANZANIA VIEWS NAM STATEMENT ON IRAN AS A
[...] (C) According to Ambassador Liberata Mulamula, head of the Multilateral Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International cooperation, the Government of Tanzania (GOT) worked in committee for several weeks with Non Aligned Movement (NAM) partners to tone down the language of the NAM [...]
2006-06-22 02:56:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC IAEA KNNP UNSC IR TZ
06DARESSALAAM1059COMPLIANCE DIPLOMACY VISIT TO DAR ES SALAAM: DR.
[...] (U) SUMMARY: VCI/PDAS Ford and his VCI team visited Dar es Salaam June 19-23, 2006, to hold compliance diplomacy discussions with key host country interlocutors and embassy staff on the U. S. approach to verification, compliance assessment, and compliance enforcement of arms control, nonprol [...]
2006-06-27 12:39:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIEDPHARM UNGA CDG NPT IAEA CWC OPCW
06DARESSALAAM125IRAN: TANZANIA BELIEVES MORE DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS,
[...] (C) Ambassador Liberata Mulamula, Head of the Multilateral Division of Tanzania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told PolOff January 19 that Tanzania believes recognizing the competency of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and allowing the IAEA to follow procedures is the preferred a [...]
2006-01-24 04:04:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL IR EU AORC TZ
06DARESSALAAM1376TANZANIA ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION UNAWARE OF
[...] (SBU) In response to an August 6 London Sunday Times report of a shipment of uranium 238 uncovered by customs officials in Tanzania on October 22, Poloff spoke with A.M. Nyanda, Director General of the Tanzania Atomic Energy Commission (TAEC). Nyanda said he had not read the article and had [...]
2006-08-13 14:24:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIEDPTER IAEA PGOV CG TZ
06DARESSALAAM1593URANIUM IN DAR COMMON KNOWLEDGE TO SHIPPING
[...] (C) According to a senior Swiss diplomat, the shipment of uranium through Dar es Salaam is common knowledge to two Swiss shipping companies. Hans Peter Schoni, Counsellor at the Embassy of Switzerland in Tanzania, referred to the allegations of uranium from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) pa [...]
2006-09-27 08:38:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALPTER PINR IAEA PGOV CG TZ
06DARESSALAAM306TANZANIA: IAEA REPORT ON IRAN TO UN SECURITY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-16 12:01:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIEDPARM KNNP PREL IR EU AORC TZ UN
06DARESSALAAM640TANZANIA GIVES IRAN BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT
[...] (S) SUMMARY. Charge delivered reftel demarche regarding increasing diplomatic pressure on Iran to Ambassador Liberatta Mulamula, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Multilateral Division, on April 18, 2006. The Government of Tanzania (GOT) is waiting for the International Atomic Ener [...]
2006-04-19 16:41:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamSECRETPREL AORC EU EUN IAEA KNNP UNSD IR TZ
06DARESSALAAM641TANZANIA GIVES IRAN BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT
[...] (S) SUMMARY. Charge delivered reftel demarche regarding increasing diplomatic pressure on Iran to Ambassador Liberatta Mulamula, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Multilateral Division, on April 18, 2006. The Government of Tanzania (GOT) is waiting for the International Atomic Ener [...]
2006-04-19 16:42:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamSECRETPREL AORC EU EUN IAEA KNNP UNSD IR TZ
06DARESSALAAM864NAM STATEMENT ONE OF PRINCIPLE, PER TANZANIA
[...] (S) Poloff reviewed points in reftel with Ambassador Liberata Mulamula, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Multilateral Division, on May 25. Mulamula said the statement being considered by the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a general message which would underline the position that [...]
2006-05-26 14:29:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamSECRETPREL AORC IAEA KNNP UNSC IR TZ
06DHAKA3060DEMARCHE IN ADVANCE OF NAM MINISTERIAL MEETING MAY
[...] (S) On May 25, we conveyed reftel points to MFA UN Director Hamid Rashid, stressing the importance of addressing Iran's pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability and holding it accountable to its international obligations. Rashid expressed appreciation for the points and undertook to ensure the [...]
2006-05-25 08:15:00Embassy DhakaSECRETPREL AORC IAEA KNNP UNSC IR
06DHAKA758Media Reaction: Prophet's Cartoon, Iran Nuclear
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-13 06:51:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OIIP OPRC KPAO PREL ETRD PTER ASEC BG OCII
06DHAKA767BANGLADESH DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON THE IAEA REPORTS
[...] (U) Acting Deputy Chief of Mission delivered information (reftel) on February 13, 2006 to Mr. Fazlul Karim, Director General of United Nations Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Karim had no substantive response. CHAMMAS [...]
2006-02-13 09:18:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PARM PREL AORC BG UNSC UNGA
06DOHA1791REPORT OF VISIT TO TEHRAN FOR IAEA TRAINING COURSE
[...] (S) Summary. A Qatar-based Jordanian nuclear expert believes he and other participants of an IAEA workshop in Tehran in December were targeted by internal security services. He said the Iranian nuclear agency had increased its security. The Iranian official in charge of safety at the Bushehr p [...]
2006-12-28 11:16:00Embassy DohaSECRETPREL KNNP IR QA
06DOHA524FOREIGN MINISTER ON DEMOCRACY, TERRORISM, IRAN
[...] Summary. First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani (HBJ) gave a speech on democratization in the Middle East April 1 during the Doha Cultural Festival. Answering questions afterwards, he said that Qatar will hold the first elections for the country's legislative body in ear [...]
2006-04-06 04:08:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM ECON PTER IZ IR QA
06DOHA562U/S JOSEPH MEETING ON IRAN WITH MINISTER OF STATE
[...] (S) Summary. Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security Robert Joseph told Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmed al-Mahmoud that Iran was approaching the "point of no return" on its nuclear program, after which it will be much more difficult and costly to stop the country [...]
2006-04-12 14:15:00Embassy DohaSECRETPREL KNNP IR QA UNSC
06DOHA616INCREASING DIPLOMATIC PRESSURE ON IRAN: QATAR'S
[...] (S) Ambassador delivered ref A message to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmed al-Mahmoud April 18. Al-Mahmoud said that, as he told U/S Joseph during his recent visit (ref B),Qatar is in a "difficult position." He said Qatar's main interest is to resolve the crisis peacefully so that [...]
2006-04-20 12:03:00Embassy DohaSECRETPREL AORC EU EUN IAEA KNNP UNSC IR QA
06DUBAI5191IRPO: IRANIAN MPS INDICATE US MESSAGE NOT REACHING POPULACE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-14 12:07:00Consulate DubaiSECRETPGOV PREL ECON ENRG ETTC IR ZP AE
06DUBAI523IRANIAN GOVERNMENT REACTS TO IAEA VOTE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-05 13:10:00Consulate DubaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC IAEA KNNP EU IR
06DUBAI543IRANIANS CLAIM NUCLEAR CRISIS HELPS GOVERNMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-06 12:08:00Consulate DubaiSECRETAORC IAEA KNNP EU IR
06DUBAI6065IRAN HINTING AT TEMPORARY SUSPENSION?
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-26 13:40:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IR KNNP
06DUBLIN156IRELAND STILL IN STEP WITH THE UNITED STATES ON
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-10 15:54:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM KNNP PREL IR EU AORC EI
06DUBLIN292IRELAND AWAITING INFORMATION ON U.S.-INDIA NUCLEAR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-21 18:24:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KNNP PREL IN EI
06DUBLIN530PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE: GOI EXPECTS PRELIMINARY
[...] (C) Summary: On May 11, Post delivered ref A pre-GAERC demarche to Jim Kelly, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) EU correspondent, and, on May 12, further discussed ref A's Iran points with Stephen Dawson, DFA First Secretary for the Middle East and North Africa. Dawson expected GAERC minis [...]
2006-05-12 15:21:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM UN EUN MW SR BO IR IZ CG SU LI
06DUBLIN54IRELAND SUPPORTS REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNSC
[...] (C) Ireland fully supports the EU-3's intention to request that the IAEA Board of Governors report Iran's nuclear safeguard violations to the UNSC, said Therese Healy, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) First Secretary for Disarmament and Nonproliferation, to whom Post delivered reftel demar [...]
2006-01-19 13:41:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL IR EU AORC EI
06DUBLIN98PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE: IRELAND URGES CALM ON HAMAS,
[...] (C) Summary: On January 26, Post delivered reftel points to Jim Kelly, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) European Correspondent, and Siobhan Coyne, DFA Deputy European Correspondent. The GOI, said Kelly, regards the Iranian regime's behavior as unacceptable and supports the EU-3's intent [...]
2006-01-27 15:27:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN EI
06DUSHANBE1434IRANIAN AND AFHGAN PRESIDENTS' VISIT TO DUSHANBE BRINGS NO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Iranian President Ahmadinejad's July 25-26 visit to Dushanbe confirmed the close linguistic and cultural ties between Tajikistan and Iran; the multiple agreements signed further strengthened the bonds forged during Tajik President Rahmonov's January visit to Tehran. When Afghan [...]
2006-07-27 13:11:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ENRG TI AF IR
06DUSHANBE1435IRANIAN AND AFHGAN PRESIDENTS' VISIT TO DUSHANBE BRINGS NO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Iranian President Ahmadinejad's July 25-26 visit to Dushanbe confirmed the close linguistic and cultural ties between Tajikistan and Iran; the multiple agreements signed further strengthened the bonds forged during Tajik President Rahmonov's January visit to Tehran. When Afghan [...]
2006-07-27 13:11:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ENRG TI AF IR
06DUSHANBE279TAJIKISTAN: IRAN POINTS DELIVERED
[...] (C) Post delivered reftel talking points on February 10 on the IAEA decision to report Iran to the UN Security Council along with the President's and Secretary's talking points. Ismatullo Nasredinov, Head of the Department of European and American Countries at the MFA accepted the points and sa [...]
2006-02-13 05:28:00Embassy DushanbeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PARM KNNP IR AORC TI
06DUSHANBE337TAJIKISTAN: FINANCING NEEDED TO PROTECT URANIUM STORAGE
[...] SUMMARY: Central Asian Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health Officer (REO),Regional Environmental Specialist and Embassy PolOff visited three of ten uranium waste sites in Tajikistan's northern Sughd region where processed uranium waste has been stored since 1942, the start of [...]
2006-02-23 05:29:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECON EIND SENV TI
06GEORGETOWN170STATEMENT DELIVERED: IAEA REPORTS IRAN TO UN
[...] (U) Per reftel, Ambassador briefed Foreign Minister Insanally on the IAEA's reporting of Iran to the UN Security Council during February 15 meeting on another matter. Ambassador provided copies of President's and Secretary's statements. 2. (U) Post will forward any response by the Governmen [...]
2006-02-17 19:04:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM KNNP PREL IR EU AORC GY
06GEORGETOWN903DEMARCHES DELIVERED: NAM SUMMIT AND IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] EmbOff delivered Iran NAM demarche using talking points in Ref A to Jackie Hamer, Director for Multilateral and Global Affairs, Guyana Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Hamer said she will convey the points to Minister Rudy Insanally, who is currently attending the NAM ministerial in Havana. H [...]
2006-09-12 15:03:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PTER IAEA IR GY
06GUATEMALA1803GUATEMALA: DEMARCHE ON IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-11 22:02:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PTER IAEA UNSC IR GT
06HANOI1255 IRAN/NAM: Demarche Delivered to Vietnam
[...] (SBU) Senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials have been completely tied up with the visit of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, so Poloff delivered reftel demarche January 20 to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Arms Control Expert Vu Van Mien. Mien is responsible for drafting the pap [...]
2006-05-25 09:39:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP AORC TRGY ENRG IAEA IR VM
06HANOI169 IRAN/UNSC: Demarche Delivered to Vietnam
[...] (SBU) In the absence of available higher-level officials without a lengthy wait for an appointment, Poloff delivered reftel demarche January 20 to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Arms Control Expert Vu Van Mien. Poloff made the point that this is an exceedingly important issue not just [...]
2006-01-19 10:29:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP AORC TRGY ENRG IAEA IR VM
06HANOI2080VIETNAM REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR UN SECURITY COUNCIL SEAT
[...] (SBU) On August 15, the Ambassador met with MFA International Organizations Department Director General Pham Binh Minh and was officially informed of Vietnam's candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the term 2008-2009. The texts of a diplomatic note and aide memoire [...]
2006-08-16 07:38:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV UN VM
06HANOI2102MFA SAYS IAEA ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL IN THE WORKS, BUT OFFERS
[...] (SBU) On August 16, Poloff met with MFA International Organizations Department Desk Officer Nguyen Hai Luu and asked for an update regarding Vietnam's progress in regards to the IAEA Additional Protocol. Luu responded that his government is "seriously preparing" to sign the Additional Protocol [...]
2006-08-17 10:00:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM KNNP PREL VM
06HANOI2163S&T VICE MINISTER ON CONVERSION OF VIETNAM'S REACTOR AND
[...] (SBU) Summary. During an August 23 meeting with Science and Technology Vice Minister (VM) Tran Quoc Thang, the Ambassador strongly encouraged Vietnam to approve DOE's proposal for converting the Dalat experimental reactor's fuel from highly enriched uranium to low enriched uranium. He pushe [...]
2006-08-25 02:22:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP ENRG TRGY KIPR VM
06HANOI2352NAM SUMMIT POINTS ON DARFUR AND IRAN DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-15 06:15:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNSC PREL PTER PHUM KPKO IAEA IR SU VM
06HANOI2734MFA GIVES NOD ON FUEL CONVERSION OF VIETNAM'S RESEARCH
[...] (SBU) Summary. On October 24, 2006, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration Assistant Deputy Administrator (ADA) Andrew Bieniawski met separately with Vice Minister of Science and Technology Le Binh Dinh and Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Phan Binh Minh to c [...]
2006-10-26 10:18:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP ENRG TRGY KIPR VM
06HANOI2765PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO VIETNAM
[...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung's recent trip to Japan was intended to reaffirm the two countries' friendship and cooperation in a highly visible manner. The PM's schedule included a full array of high-level events and meetings (Ref B). In addition to protocol-driven events, t [...]
2006-10-30 10:00:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON ETRD EINV ENRG KIPR JA VM
06HANOI2767PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO JAPAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dzung's recent trip to Japan was intended to reaffirm the two countries' friendship and cooperation in a highly visible manner. The PM's schedule included a full array of high-level events and meetings (Ref B). In addition to protocol-driven events, t [...]
2006-10-30 10:49:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON ETRD EINV ENRG KIPR JA VM
06HANOI2817MFA SIGNALS APPROVAL ON REACTOR FUEL CONVERSION PROPOSAL,
[...] (SBU) Summary. On October 26, 2006, Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) staff and ESTHOff discussed with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) staff details of NNSA Assistant Deputy Administrator (ADA) Andrew Bieniawski's letter to Assistant Minister of Foreign [...]
2006-11-07 06:44:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG TRGY KIPR KNNP KGIT VM
06HANOI289IAEA REPORTS IRAN TO THE UNSC
[...] (SBU) During a meeting February 10, Charge delivered reftel points to Assistant Foreign Minister and Americas Department Director General Nguyen Duc Hung. Hung had no substantive response, but promised to report our points to his leadership. 2. (SBU) Comment: We will follow-up with the MF [...]
2006-02-10 09:12:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM KNNP PREL IR EU AORC VM
06HANOI293MEETING WITH AFM HUNG: VFM LE VAN BANG MAY TRAVEL
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Assistant Foreign Minister Nguyen Duc Hung informed the Charge February 10 that National Assembly Vice Chairman Nguyen Van Yeu tentatively plans to lead an Assembly delegation to Washington February 26 for discussions with Congress on WTO and the PNTR vote. VFM Le [...]
2006-02-10 10:12:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM OTRA VM
06HANOI2962 GVN ANNOUNCES PLANS TO SIGN IAEA ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: On December 4, MFA Department of International Organizations Acting Director General Le Hoai Trung met with representatives of the diplomatic community to announce State President Nguyen Minh Triet's decision that Vietnam will sign the IAEA Additional Protocol (AP). [...]
2006-12-05 08:03:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL KNNP KGIT VM
06HANOI3006IAEA DG ELBARADEI'S VISIT BOOSTS VIETNAM'S NUCLEAR ENERGY
[...] (SBU) Summary. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei visited Hanoi December 9-11 to review the Agency's cooperation with the GVN. DG ElBaradei's objectives for the visit were to promote the potential for Vietnam's nuclear power program to become a region [...]
2006-12-13 08:01:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ETTC PARM PREL KNNP VM
06HANOI911 Discussions of Agreements for the Dalat Reactor
[...] (SBU) Summary: On March 13-15, 2006, a DOE-DOS team met with Vice Minister of Science and Technology Tran Quoc Thang and other Government of Vietnam (GVN) officials in Hanoi to discuss the Vietnam's participation in the Russian Research Reactor Fuel Return (RRRFR) Initiative. The USG delegati [...]
2006-04-21 08:23:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP ENRG TRGY KTIA VM
06HELSINKI72FINNISH VIEWS ON JANUARY GAERC
[...] (U) European Correspondent Jarno Syrjala said Finland supports nearly all the views outlined in our pre-GAERC demarche (reftel). His other comments of note follow. 2. (C) IRAN: Finland views the cooperation of the EU, the U.S. and, to an increasing extent, Russia as very encouraging. Howe [...]
2006-01-26 12:24:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALPREL FI EUN GAERC
06HELSINKI871FINNS URGE IRAN TO STOP ENRICHMENT PROGRAM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In Helsinki August 29, Finnish FM Tuomioja urged Iran to cease its uranium enrichment program immediately and to announce its acceptance of negotiations with the EU3 3 now. Tuomioja also told the Iranian Deputy FM that Iran must begin playing a constructive role in the Middle Eas [...]
2006-08-30 12:07:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL PARM IR FI PGOV IS
06ISLAMABAD10142GOP WELCOMES U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN
[...] (C) On the evening of May 31, the Ambassador conveyed key points on the Secretary Rice's announcement that the U.S. will to join the EU-3 in direct talks with Iran, if Tehran first verifiably stops its enrichment and reprocessing program, to Foreign Minister Kasuri (Ref A). The Foreign Minis [...]
2006-06-01 10:11:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALIR KNNP PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD10554DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NAM STATEMENT ON IRAN
[...] (C) On June 3, Poloff delivered reftel demarache points to the Ministry of Foreign Affair's UN Director, Imran Siddiqui. Siddiqui explained that for many delegations the preoccuption with the potential use of force against Iran drove the NAM's statement in support of Iran. Siddiqui said that [...]
2006-06-06 12:30:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC IAEA KNNP UNSC IR PK
06ISLAMABAD22617FM KASURI DESCRIBES VISIT TO DECEMBER VISIT TO IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-28 05:35:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNAF IR PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD6419PRIME MINISTER AZIZ BRIEFS SENATOR HAGEL ON
[...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging conversation with visiting Senator Hagel (R-NE),Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz reiterated Pakistan's opposition to any nuclear weapons program in Iran, but supported Iran's right to a civil nuclear energy program. He praised Afghan President Karzai, and highligh [...]
2006-04-14 14:54:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALMNUC PREL MARR PK AF IN PGOV IR
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