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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04ISTANBUL1459 |
THE FUTURE OF ORTHODOXY [...] (sbu) Summary: In addition to the struggle to maintain Istanbul as a viable seat for the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Bartholomew faces a rising challenge for moral and ecclesiastical authority within the Orthodox world from Moscow-based Russian Patriarch Alexy II. End Summary. 2. (sbu) Ecumen [...] |
2004-09-22 11:20:00 | Consulate Istanbul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV TU |
| 05ANKARA3387 |
UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO VISITS TURKEY [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko's June 6-8 visit to Turkey, his first since becoming President, focused mainly on commercial issues. The two sides signed six agreements, including on energy, transport, and combating crime. Although Turkey claims to support Ukraine's EU and NATO aspiration [...] |
2005-06-14 14:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ENRG ECON TU UP |
| 05KIEV5150 |
UKRAINE: PRESS COVERAGE OF THE GAS DISPUTE WITH RUSSIA [...] Summary: Most Ukrainian media have described Russia's intention to hike Ukraine's gas prices as politically motivated. Many press reports also highlighted the assertion from Ukrainian leaders that this is a step in Ukraine's transition from patriarchal to pragmatic relations with Russia. Depen [...] |
2005-12-23 10:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO EPET ENRG PREL PGOV RS UP |
| 05TBILISI2897 |
DECLARATION OF THE COUNTRIES OF THE COMMUNITY OF [...] No summary [...] |
2005-11-07 12:14:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GG |
| 06ASHGABAT1322 |
NEW GOVERNMENT OF TURKMENISTAN REBUKES RUSSIA FOR [...] (U) Turkmenistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs on December 28 publicly denounced the Russian media for assertions that the recently announced February 11 election was a farce and that state services have broken down because of a power vacuum following Niyazov's death. Local media continues to [...] |
2006-12-29 13:23:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR KPAO OIIP PREL PGOV AF TX |
| 06ASHGABAT151 |
NIYAZOV WANTS TO "SOLVE GAS ISSUES PEACEFULLY" [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador was called in by Niyazov Monday morning for a briefing on his Moscow meeting with Putin last week. Unexpectedly, it transpired that the Turkish ambassador had been called in for the same briefing. Niyazov said he had resisted Putin,s pressure to take sides against Uk [...] |
2006-01-30 13:09:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET GG KZ PGOV PREL RS TX UP US |
| 06ASHGABAT215 |
NIYAZOV,S 2/17 GAZPROM, UKRAINIAN VISITORS: [...] (C) GazProm CEO Miller,s February 17 visit to Ashgabat came and went without known result; FM Meredov told Ambassador that Niyazov deferred any new energy-sector decisions for at least two months. Far less reassuringly, Ukraine energy officials, talks the same day with GOTX counterparts and [...] |
2006-02-21 12:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL RS TX UP |
| 06ASHGABAT532 |
UKRAINE'S INTERBUDMONTAZH OPERATIONS IN [...] (SBU) GENERAL DIRECTOR OF UKRAINIAN COMPANY INTERBUDMONTAZH VADIM SULIM TOLD POL/ECON OFF ON MAY 11 THAT THE COMPANY HAD NO PART IN THE TURKMENISTAN-UKRAINE BARTER FOR GAS AGREEMENTS AND WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THE OIL AND GAS SECTOR, DESPITE MULTIPLE PRESS REPORTS TO THE CONTRARY. INTERBUDMONTAZH [...] |
2006-05-19 03:40:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EPET UP TX |
| 06BAKU1684 |
AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH MINISTRY OF [...] (U) This is an action request; see para 14. 2. (C) SUMMARY: During a November 14 introductory meeting with the Ambassador, Minister of Defense Industry Yavar Jamalov provided an overview of the new ministry, created in December 2005. Jamalov, who was appointed in March, said the ministry [...] |
2006-11-17 14:23:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ AM RS TU PK UP |
| 06BRATISLAVA972 |
RUSSIANS WAITING FOR CLOCK TO RUN OUT ON [...] (C) Summary - The Slovak government has made little progress towards its stated objectives of regaining control of the Transpetrol pipeline since the November 20 shareholders meeting. Economy ministry representatives have not communicated with either the Yukos Finance officials or the Moscow [...] |
2006-12-18 14:32:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV LO RS |
| 06HELSINKI1173 |
DAS KRAMER AND FINNISH DG ESKELINEN DISCUSS [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary David Kramer on 15 November met with Finnish Director General Eskelinen and other foreign ministry staff to discuss U.S. consultations around the G-8 Political Directors' meeting in Moscow and Finnish preparations for the upcoming EU-Russia summit on 24 [...] |
2006-11-21 14:26:00 | Embassy Helsinki | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RU FI EUN BO MD PL UP |
| 06KIEV1039 |
UKRAINE: CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION CHAIRMAN ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Yaroslav Davydovych told Charge March 16 that Ukrainian authorities were working hard to address the organizational concerns that have arisen regarding the administration of March 26 elections, specifically staffing of polling station [...] |
2006-03-16 15:51:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM |
| 06KIEV2068 |
UKRAINE/GUAM: U.S.-GUAM BILATERAL MEETING [...] (U) Summary: The U.S. delegation of EUR DAS Kramer and Vice-Presidential Deputy National Security Adviser Wood met with GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova) representatives May 22. GUAM representatives favorably noted strong U.S.-GUAM past and present cooperation. Kramer congratulat [...] |
2006-05-30 07:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM ETRD EAID AORC UNMIK PINR YI AZ GG |
| 06KIEV2451 |
UKRAINE: BILATERAL NONPROLIFERATION WORKING GROUP: [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (U) In a letter dated June 19, received by the Embassy June 22, MFA Arms Control and Military-Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov transmitted the Government of Ukraine (GOU)'s proposed agenda for the July 11-12 U.S.-Ukr [...] |
2006-06-22 12:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA PINR UP |
| 06KIEV2932 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO-LED ROUNDTABLE POINTS TOWARD [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko moderated an extraordinary six-hour marathon roundtable July 27 involving all Ukrainian political leaders and additional eminent figures to discuss a way out of the current political impasse. Yushchenko ended the session at 10 pm with a plea for the parti [...] |
2006-07-28 08:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV3185 |
UKRAINE: POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNIFIL FACE [...] (C) Summary. The Government of Ukraine (GOU) is actively considering what contribution Ukraine might offer to the expanded UNIFIL mission and has conducted consultations in New York with UN Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Annabi but faces an August 17 deadline from UN [...] |
2006-08-16 14:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL LE UP |
| 06KIEV3371 |
UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRIED'S SEPT 6-7 [...] (C) Summary: Your visit comes at a critical moment in Ukraine's post-Orange Revolution political development. While the primary gains of the Orange Revolution in societal attitudes, freedom of the press, and foreign and security policy remain, the orange-dominated political season is definiti [...] |
2006-08-31 15:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM ETRD ENRG UP |
| 06KIEV3425 |
UKRAINE: ORANGE VS BLUE CASE STUDY: THE STRUGGLE [...] (C) Summary. The political struggle between Orange and Blue to define policy and make decisions in a government of uneasy cohabitation will unfold in the coming weeks and months on an issue by issue basis, particularly in areas and ministries currently controlled by "Orange" Ministers loyal t [...] |
2006-09-06 12:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV3464 |
UKRAINE: EUR A/S FRIED VISIT: THE FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: While acknowledging PM Yanukovych's inevitable influence in shaping Ukrainian foreign policy, FM Tarasyuk asserted to EUR A/S Fried during their September 6 dinner that President Yushchenko could still maintain his primacy on foreign policy, as established in the Constitution, b [...] |
2006-09-08 15:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS MD GG PL UP |
| 06KIEV3755 |
UKRAINE: ENGAGING THE NEW UKRAINIAN REALITY AFTER [...] (SBU) Note: In preparation for senior-level consideration of our Ukraine policy, this cable assesses the political and economic developments under the new government. 2. (C) Summary. 50 days after Viktor Yanukovych returned to the premiership he vacated in December 2004 in the wake of the [...] |
2006-09-28 14:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM ETRD KDEM UP |
| 06KIEV3865 |
UKRAINE: SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST PROPORTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary. The Commercial Chamber of Ukraine's Supreme Court ruled on October 3 in favor of a lower court's finding that mobile phone operator KyivStar's shareholders are entitled to equal representation on the company's Board of Directors, regardless of how many company shares each share [...] |
2006-10-05 10:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EINV RS UP |
| 06KIEV3866 |
UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE MOVES INTO OPPOSITION - OR NOT [...] (C) Summary: After months of negotiations over whether or not to enter the governing coalition, President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine coalition announced October 4 that it would not join the coalition, but would formally join the opposition in parliament. OU's Roman Bezsmertniy told the press [...] |
2006-10-05 12:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP |
| 06KIEV3919 |
UKRAINE: OVERHAULING THE PRESIDENT'S MEN - [...] (C) Summary. With the appointment of Industrial Union of the Donbas (IUD) executive Vitaly Haiduk as National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary October 10, the overhaul of President Yushchenko's team which started September 16 with the appointment of Viktor Baloha as Presidential [...] |
2006-10-11 15:50:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
| 06KIEV3923 |
UKRAINE: WHAT IF FOREIGN MINISTER TARASYUK GOES? [...] (C) Summary: With rumors rife that Foreign Minister Tarasyuk will leave the Cabinet -- either by resigning with his Our Ukraine colleagues or being voted out of his job by the Rada, pundits tout current Presidential Secretariat Deputy Chief of Staff for foreign policy Oleksandr Chaliy as the l [...] |
2006-10-12 14:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NATO PINR UP |
| 06KIEV3936 |
UKRAINE: ORANGE MINISTERS FATE UNDECIDED [...] (SBU) Summary: Rumors continue to swirl in Kiev as to the fate of the "orange" ministers in the Ukrainian Government. On October 11, an aide to Our Ukraine's Roman Bezsmertniy told us that all "orange" ministers in the Cabinet had submitted letters of resignation, later confirmed publicly by [...] |
2006-10-13 14:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV3998 |
UKRAINE'S NATURAL GAS STORAGE: TANKS ARE FULL BUT WHO OWNS [...] (SBU) Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko announced on October 11 that Ukraine had pumped 25.5 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas into its underground storage facilities. The amount, according to Boyko, was sufficient to both guarantee steady gas transit to Europe and meet increased domestic d [...] |
2006-10-18 09:20:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG PREL RS TX UP |
| 06KYIV4021 |
UKRAINE: WHO WERE THE FATHERLAND'S DEFENDERS? THE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Orthodox feast day of Pokrova (October 14), marked for centuries to honor defenders of the fatherland, occasioned three dueling marches in downtown Kyiv between elderly veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and nationalist supporters on the one hand and Communists [...] |
2006-10-18 10:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM ASEC UP |
| 06KYIV4028 |
UKRAINE: LIKELY GOU ABSTENTION ON UNGA VOTE ON [...] (U) On October 16 we delivered reftel demarche regarding the upcoming UNGA vote on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to Andriy Beshta of the MFA UN Directorate. Neither Australia nor New Zealand have an embassy in Kyiv. 2. (C) While making our points, poloff noted that th [...] |
2006-10-18 12:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KTIA UN UP |
| 06KYIV4062 |
UKRAINE: GUAM STATEMENT CRITICIZES RUSSIAN ACTIONS [...] (U) The Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - GUAM issued a statement dated October 16 on Russia-Georgia tension on the margins of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Council of Foreign Ministers in Minsk. The press reported that Ukrainian delegation head First Deputy [...] |
2006-10-20 16:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PREL KDEM YI RS AZ GG MD UP |
| 06KYIV4063 |
UKRAINE: PREPARATIONS ON TRACK FOR EU SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: With just a week to go, the EU and Ukraine are still working to finalize a key document to be initialed at the October 27 Ukraine-EU summit in Helsinki -- a visa facilitation agreement and an associated readmission agreement. Ukrainians are insisting that the provisions of the r [...] |
2006-10-20 16:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD CVIS EUN UP |
| 06KYIV4089 |
UKRAINE GETS $130 NATURAL GAS FOR 2007 WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych confidently announced October 24 that he had just received word from Moscow that Ukraine in 2007 would receive 55 billion cubic meters of imported natural gas at a price no greater than $130 per thousand cubic meters. All that remained, he said [...] |
2006-10-25 15:14:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG PGOV PREL RS TX UP |
| 06KYIV4106 |
UKRAINE WILL PROBABLY ABSTAIN ON UPCOMING [...] (U) On October 26, 2006, we delivered points in reftels to Andriy Beshta of the MFA UN directorate. 2. (C) Mr. Beshta said Ukraine would "not support" the UNGA resolutions on the situation of human rights and children in Lebanon described in reftel A. 3. (C) Mr. Beshta also stated that U [...] |
2006-10-26 15:40:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA LE IS PHUM PREL PTER UP |
| 06KYIV4132 |
UKRAINE: MINISTER DZHARTY ON VANCO PSA NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Ambassador called on Environment Minister Vasyl Dzharty October 26 to advocate for foreign investment in Ukraine's off-shore and to request an update on the GOU's Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) talks with U.S. company Vanco. Dzharty stated he favored foreign investment for developin [...] |
2006-10-27 15:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG UP |
| 06KYIV4138 |
UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE HAMPERED BY DISORGANIZATION [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko has begun to respond to attempts by the Yanukovych/Regions team to tip the balance of power in its favor. He has brought in a more professional senior team to the Presidential Secretariat and taken steps to counter policies he does not support. However, the [...] |
2006-10-30 15:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4149 |
UKRAINE IN AGREEMENT ON UNSCR 1718 OBLIGATIONS ON DPRK CONVENTIONAL ARMS [...] (C) On October 31, PolCouns delivered the points in reftel A and a copy of the letter in reftel B to Vasyl Pokotylo, Head of Division, MFA Arms Control Department. (Note: As requested, we also forwarded a copy of the letter ref B through official channels addressed to Deputy Foreign Minister [...] |
2006-10-31 16:48:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL PHSA EWWT EAIR PBTS UP PARM |
| 06KYIV4154 |
UKRAINE: AIRLINE TICKET PAYMENT SYSTEM UNDER THREAT FROM [...] (SBU) Summary. The Kyiv representative office of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) informed member airlines on October 24 that Ukrainian government agencies were trying to prevent IATA from implementing its billing and settlement plan (BSP) -- the industry-standard clearing [...] |
2006-11-01 11:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EFIN BEXP KCOR UP |
| 06KYIV4156 |
UKRAINE REMAINS DOUBTFUL THAT KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Ambassador and FM Tarasyuk discussed Transnistria and Kosovo, among other issues, October 31 (septel to follow). Tarasyuk, hewing to the line he has maintained since December 2005 (ref B), said the U.S. line on Kosovo independence not being a precedent for frozen conflicts such as Transnist [...] |
2006-11-01 17:28:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SR UP |
| 06KYIV4175 |
UKRAINE: TARASYUK ON COORDINATING FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary. A tired FM Borys Tarasyuk saw Ambassador late October 31 after returning from Estonia and Finland. He diagrammed the current players in Ukrainian foreign policy formulation, stating that his role as the fulcrum was to prevent encroachment by PM Yanukovych's team onto Presidenti [...] |
2006-11-03 14:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KYIV4183 |
UKRAINE MAKES PROGRESS ON WTO LEGISLATION [...] Summary: Ukraine's Parliament adopted on November 2 two laws identified as required for WTO accession. Parliament made further progress on legislation November 2-3, passing another eight WTO-related laws in the first reading, with significantly large majorities. Parliamentary "hearings" on [...] |
2006-11-03 17:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4187 |
UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH ON COOPERATION OR [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with a confident PM Viktor Yanukovych Nov. 2 to discuss Yanukovych's planned trip to Washington in December and the current domestic political situation. Yanukovych centered the conversation around two options going forward vis-a-vis President Yushchenko - cooper [...] |
2006-11-03 17:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4196 |
UKRAINE: POTENTIAL SALE OF CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT TO [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (C) We provided ref A talking points November 6 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Igor Kyzym, who said the information was timely since he would be able to relay the USG position to the interagency Pres [...] |
2006-11-06 16:27:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC EAIR ETRD PARM MARR MASS VE UP |
| 06KYIV4216 |
UKRAINE'S WTO NEGOTIATOR REQUESTS CONSULTATIONS IN [...] (U) This message contains a request for guidance. Please see para 3. 2. (SBU) Econ Counselor met on November 7 with Valeriy Pyatnytskiy, Deputy Minister of Economy and Ukraine's lead WTO negotiator. Pyatnytskiy briefed on recent progress with outstanding WTO-related legislation (ref B) and [...] |
2006-11-08 10:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO UP |
| 06KYIV4229 |
UKRAINE: GO SLOW APPROACH POSSIBLY COMPLICATING [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine is increasingly willing to use the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - GUAM as a policy coordination vehicle, covering everything from joint declarations by GUAM members on regional issues to economic, military and scientific cooperation. However, Ukrain [...] |
2006-11-09 14:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM MARR RS AZ GG MD UP |
| 06KYIV4232 |
UKRAINE: AMBASSADOR URGES RAPID WTO ACCESSION [...] (C) Ambassador delivered ref A points urging rapid WTO accession to Mykola Azarov, First Deputy Prime Minister, in the context of a broad ranging meeting on November 3. Ambassador emphasized that Washington would be watching the status of Ukraine's accession very closely and would consider it [...] |
2006-11-09 15:22:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL WTRO UP |
| 06KYIV4237 |
UKRAINE'S WTO ACCESSION: 11/9 UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The key outstanding tasks for Ukraine to accede to the WTO remain concluding its two remaining bilateral Market Access Agreements, passing WTO-related legislation, and reaching agreement in multilateral negotiations on agricultural support levels. The GOU has made no substantia [...] |
2006-11-13 05:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4251 |
UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH LAYS MARKERS FOR COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary. During a long Sunday afternoon lunch with Ambassador November 12, Prime Minister Yanukovych said that while President Yushchenko held up general, vague concepts like the guarantee of Ukrainian independence as the benchmark for cooperation with the Yanukovych government, the Prime [...] |
2006-11-13 15:21:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4285 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO, YANUKOVYCH MAKE ONE MORE TRY [...] (C) Summary. The Rada's November 15 decision not to vote for now on dismissing Foreign Affairs Minister Tarasyuk and Defense Minister Hrytsenko following an 8-hour marathon meeting between President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych November 13 suggests the two sides are still making a [...] |
2006-11-15 16:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4290 |
UKRAINE: THE LONG ROAD TO REFORMING CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Constitutional reform bill 4180 (now known by its Ministry of Justice number 2222) shifting powers from the President to the Prime Minister-led Cabinet of Ministers and Rada majority was adopted December 8, 2004 as part of the package to solve the political crisis ensuing from t [...] |
2006-11-17 07:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4295 |
UKRAINE: EMBATTLED FM SUPPORTS ENGAGEMENT WITH [...] (C) Summary: "Orange" and embattled Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk told visiting EUR A/S Fried that the U.S. approach to PM Yanukovych and the Party of Regions coalition was correct, arguing that Yanukovych had changed for the better. He noted that the PM's upcoming U.S. visit, and his des [...] |
2006-11-17 12:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4298 |
UKRAINE: DEFMIN HRYTSENKO ON YUSHCHENKO, [...] (C) Summary. Defense Minister Hrytsenko told visiting EUR A/S Fried and Ambassador November 16 that President Yushchenko's remote style interfered with his effectiveness, that PM Yanukovych was the most reasonable of the Regions' team in office and that the U.S. was right to seek to work with [...] |
2006-11-17 15:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KYIV4299 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO FOCUSED ON KEEPING [...] (C) Summary: In a 40-minute meeting November 17, President Yushchenko told visiting EUR A/S Fried that he was optimistic about making cohabitation work and his ability to move his relationship with PM Yushchenko and his team from coexistence to cooperation. He expressed concern about several [...] |
2006-11-17 15:40:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 06KYIV4301 |
UKRAINE: HIGH-PROFILE RUSSIANS BANNED ENTRY INTO [...] (SBU) Chief of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) Ihor Drizhchany told journalists November 6 that the SBU had blacklisted 131 foreigners thus far in 2006 for "activities damaging national security interests." When we inquired, an SBU official advised that the SBU does not release names of [...] |
2006-11-17 15:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PINR RS UP |
| 06KYIV4302 |
UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH TELLS A/S FRIED: UKRAINE'S [...] (C) Summary. PM Yanukovych told visiting EUR A/S Fried and Ambassador November 16 that he was determined to bring Ukraine to Europe, meaning the WTO soon, and eventually into the EU and NATO. The latter would take time, both to change currently ambivalent public opinion and also to strengthe [...] |
2006-11-17 16:08:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4304 |
11/17 WTO UPDATE: UKRAINE MAKES GREAT STRIDES ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Parliament made remarkable progress on outstanding legislation for WTO accession during this week, and has now adopted 12 out of 21 required laws. GOU leaders clearly had given orders to move forward on the legislation, likely in order to help smooth the way for PM Yanukovych's [...] |
2006-11-17 16:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4305 |
UKRAINE: LITHUANIAN MFA U/S PAVILIONIS AND A/S [...] (SBU) Summary: Lithuanian MFA Under Secretary Zygimantas Pavilionis and A/S Fried discussed developments in the region and measures needed to address recent Russian assertiveness. Paviolionis said that the Lithuanian, Polish, and Ukrainian Presidents formed an effective "troika" in working tog [...] |
2006-11-17 16:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BO UP RS GG TU PL LH |
| 06KYIV4313 |
UKRAINE: ENGAGING YANUKOVYCH, THE MAN OF THE MOMENT [...] (C) Summary. Love him or hate him, the Ukrainian political elite and intelligentsia agree that Prime Minister Yanukovych is the man to deal with right now. Four months ago Yanukovych was painted variously as a puppet of oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, the Party of Regions, or the Kremlin, but he ha [...] |
2006-11-20 15:22:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4315 |
EXPLAINING UKRAINE'S BURST OF ENERGY ON WTO [...] (C) Summary: Ukraine's recent progress on WTO-related legislation does not mark a shift in GOU policy, but rather demonstrates that fears of the GOU's lack of commitment to prompt WTO accession were overblown. A fortuitous alignment of several political factors may have accelerated the proces [...] |
2006-11-20 15:48:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4362 |
UKRAINE: "ORANGE" RIFTS DEEPENING TWO YEARS AFTER [...] (C) Summary. On the second anniversary of the Orange Revolution, November 22, a crowd of 500 or so gathered on the Maidan to commemorate the rise of democracy in Ukraine. Few leaders of the Maidan were there to share in the event. Disheartened by the failure to form a new "orange" government [...] |
2006-11-22 16:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4375 |
UKRAINE: COALMINE METHANE-1 PROJECT - OPIC RESPONSE [...] Summary. The following information is sent in response to reftel action request for embassy comments and clearance on OPIC financing for a coalbed methane project involving Ukrainian companies EnergoCapital, EnergoImpex, and Gorlovsky. Post was unable to ascertain definitive ownership informa [...] |
2006-11-28 12:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG EINV PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4383 |
UKRAINE: VOTERS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN [...] (SBU) Summary. The Embassy, representatives from several USG-funded NGO's (NDI, IRI, Freedom House and IOM) and monitors from ENEMO (European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations) observed four repeat mayoral elections this month, all in the central Ukraine heartland which gave plural [...] |
2006-11-29 09:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4386 |
TELECOM REGULATOR DENIES 3G LICENSES TO MOBILE OPERATORS; [...] (U) Ukraine's National Communications Regulatory Commission (NCRC) on November 2 denied applications to issue next-generation, 3G licenses to Ukraine's top four mobile phone operators. With the NCRC refusal, state fixed-line monopolist UkrTelecom remains the sole operator in Ukraine with a 3G [...] |
2006-11-29 13:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4407 |
UKRAINE/POLAND: PM KACZYNSKI'S VISIT SIGNALS [...] (C) Summary: Both the Ukrainian and Polish sides hailed the November 15 visit of Polish PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski to Kyiv as a solid sign of continuity in Poland's working relationship with the government of Ukrainian PM Yanukovych. During his one-day visit, Kaczynski met with Yanukovych, Preside [...] |
2006-11-30 12:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ENRG PL UP |
| 06KYIV4413 |
UKRAINE: INFORMAL POLITICAL DIRECTORS' MEETING - [...] (C) Summary: In what the Ukrainian MFA would like to see morph into a regular informal gathering, political directors from select EU countries and countries of the "Baltic-Black-Caspian seas" region, along with EUR A/S Fried, discussed Ukraine's relationship with the EU and NATO and exchanged [...] |
2006-11-30 15:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO EUN XH ZB ZK UP |
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UKRAINE: THE HOLODOMOR AND THE POLITICS OF [...] (SBU) Summary. In the aftermath of moving commemorations November 25 of the 73rd anniversary of the holodomor ("Great Famine"), Stalin's man-made famine 1932-33 that led to the death of an estimated 5-10 million Ukrainians in Ukraine and the Russian Kuban region, the Rada passed in a single rea [...] |
2006-11-30 16:15:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM UP |
| 06KYIV4415 |
11/30 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine's Parliament continued its progress on outstanding legislation for WTO accession during this week, adopting five additional laws, four of which related to the agricultural sector. Parliament has now adopted 17 out of the 21 required laws. On the eve of PM Yanukovych's [...] |
2006-11-30 16:29:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4425 |
UKRAINE/RUSSIA: DEFENDING NATIONAL INTERESTS [...] (C) Summary/comment: PM Yanukovych came to office on a campaign promise to improve relations with Russia, but, although he has toned down the rhetoric towards Russia, like his predecessors, he must find the right balance between close ties to Moscow and protecting Ukrainian sovereignty. While [...] |
2006-12-01 14:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PBTS PINR RS UP |
| 06KYIV4432 |
UKRAINE: ADDITIONAL MANPADS AND SCUDS INVENTORY: [...] (S) Summary: Deputy Defense Minister Volodymyr Tereshchenko told us November 22 that Ukraine would be willing to provide an additional 1,713 MANPADS, a mix of SA-7s and SA-14s, for destruction in the NATO PfP Trust Fund project. An official notification of this offer was under preparation and [...] |
2006-12-01 16:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP |
| 06KYIV4466 |
EU MAKES BELARUS AN OFFER, AWAITING RESPONSE [...] (C) Summary: EU European Commission official Jean-Eric Holzapfel told us December 4 that the initial Belarusan government reaction was noncommittal to the November 21 delivery of an EU non-paper stating its readiness to assist Belarus if the government implemented democratic reforms. The timi [...] |
2006-12-05 14:48:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM EAID EUN BO UP |
| 06KYIV4468 |
UKRAINE/MTCR: U.S. VIEWS ON CONTROLLING [...] (C) We relayed reftel points on a U.S. proposal to revise the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) approach to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)/cruise missiles December 5 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselors Igor Kyzym and Oleh Belokoles. We stressed [...] |
2006-12-05 15:28:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA UP |
| 06KYIV4469 |
UKRAINE/NIAG 6167: PAKISTAN HEAVY WATER PURCHASE [...] (S) We relayed inquiries regarding Ukrainian State Enterprise Ecoantilid's potential sale of heavy water to the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant in Pakistan (ref A) and Ukrainian Yuzhnoye company's potential cooperation with Chinese 11 Institute on development of the RD-120 liquid rocket engine (re [...] |
2006-12-05 16:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KNNP MTCRE CH PK UP |
| 06KYIV4470 |
UKRAINE: AVIATION TRAINING FOR NORTH KOREA [...] (C) We relayed reftel inquiry for clarification on Ukrainian plans to provide radio electronics training for civil aircraft to two North Koreans during a December 5 meeting with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselors Igor Kyzym and Oleh Belokoles. Kyzym said [...] |
2006-12-05 16:13:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ETTC EAIR PARM PREL KN UP |
| 06KYIV4478 |
UKRAINE: STAND BY YOUR MEN: YUSHCHENKO RAISES THE [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko raised the stakes in the accelerating power struggle between his circle and that of PM Yanukovych December 5 by issuing a decree reinforcing Tarasyuk's status as Foreign Minister, notwithstanding the December 1 vote by the Rada to dismiss Tarasyuk. For its [...] |
2006-12-06 15:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4484 |
UKRAINE: NAFTOHAZ PAYS DEBT TO ROSUKRENERGO; STILL OWES [...] (U) On December 4, Ukraine's state oil and gas monopolist NaftoHaz paid off its $306 million debt to RosUkrEnergo (RUE) for 1Q2006 natural gas supplies, according to NaftoHaz Deputy Chairman Aleksandr Kovalko. In a December 7 press interview, Kovalko said NaftoHaz paid the debt with part of a [...] |
2006-12-07 13:11:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EFIN PINR RS TX UP |
| 06KYIV4489 |
UKRAINE: THE RUSSIA FACTOR IN CRIMEA - UKRAINE'S [...] (C) Summary. Discussions with a wide range of contacts in Crimea November 20-22 and officials in Kyiv discounted recent speculation that a return of pro-Russian separatism in Crimea, which posed a real threat to Ukrainian territorial integrity in 1994-95, could be in the cards. However, nearl [...] |
2006-12-07 15:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RU UP |
| 06KYIV4491 |
UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK'S LEGAL LIMBO [...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign Minister Tarasyuk called in EU and NATO ambassadors and charges December 7 to confirm his position as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He reported that he had filed a suit to block the Rada's move to dismiss him on the basis of three procedural errors. The court would hold [...] |
2006-12-07 16:19:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UP |
| 06KYIV4531 |
12/8 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: While Prime Minister Yanukovych and Ukrainian trade negotiators held talks with USTR during a visit to Washington, Dec 4-7 Ukraine's Rada (parliament) passed one more WTO-related law. This brings the total number of laws adopted to 18 out of the proposed 21. One more law remain [...] |
2006-12-08 16:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4537 |
UKRAINE/LITHUANIA: ADAMKUS LOBBIES FOR [...] (C) Summary: Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus' three-day state visit to Ukraine -- his fourth trip here this year -- was intended to demonstrate a willingness to work with the new Yanukovych government, promote bilateral trade and investment ties, and facilitate cooperation in the energy s [...] |
2006-12-11 16:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NATO UP LH |
| 06KYIV4542 |
UKRAINE: UPDATE OF CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR TDA [...] As requested reftel, below Post provides updated information on child labor in Ukraine, for use in the preparation of the 2006 report Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor. Post has chosen to answer each of the questions posed in reftel as "Indicators" under the five topical headings. [...] |
2006-12-13 13:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM UP |
| 06KYIV4558 |
UKRAINE: LAND, POWER, AND CRIMINALITY IN CRIMEA [...] (C) Summary. Land issues dominate the Autonomous Republic of Crimea's local agenda, according to a wide range of Crimean officials, journalists, and community leaders we talked to November 20-22 in the Crimean capitol of Simferopol, the separately administered city of Sevastopol, and Bakhchis [...] |
2006-12-14 09:31:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL PHUM UP |
| 06KYIV4576 |
12/15 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ukrainian Rada (parliament) this week adopted another WTO-related law, on scrap metal and steel, bringing the total number of adopted laws to 19 out of the 21 considered necessary for accession. Local media, however, fueled by some GOU officials, are erroneously reporting th [...] |
2006-12-15 12:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4597 |
UKRAINE: POSSIBLE RESOLUTION OF FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. Party of Regions MPs forcibly prevented Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk from attending the weekly cabinet meeting December 20, initiating a scuffle at the Cabinet of Ministers' building with several Our Ukraine (OU) MPs who had arrived in support of Tarasyuk. Yushchenko's repre [...] |
2006-12-20 15:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4600 |
UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE REGROUPING [...] (C) Summary. The People's Union Our Ukraine (PUOU) party, the dominant party inside the Our Ukraine bloc, is cleaning house in a move to reenergize itself, bring the party back under the President's wing, and possibly to regroup for new elections. The biggest shake-ups came in the party leade [...] |
2006-12-22 07:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4647 |
UKRAINE/BELARUS: PLANNING A POSSIBLE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary/comment: According to the MFA, Ukrainian Presidential Secretariat Chief of Staff Baloha's December 14 visit to Minsk was intended to maintain momentum toward a possible meeting between the Ukrainian and Belarusan presidents in the February-March 2007 timeframe. The meeting, if it [...] |
2006-12-22 10:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MNUC PINR BO UP |
| 06KYIV4648 |
12/22 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukrainian WTO negotiators held consultations with Working Party members in Geneva on December 18. The GOU is anxious for feedback on its recently passed legislation, although anticipates having to make some additional legislative fixes to ensure WTO conformity. A law on biotec [...] |
2006-12-22 11:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4660 |
UKRAINE: MR. PUTIN COMES TO KYIV [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian President Vladimir Putin made a compressed one-day visit to Kyiv December 22, his first since March 2005 and the second since Ukraine's November-December 2004 Orange Revolution. Putin and Yushchenko met for two-and-a-half hours alone, without notetakers. After the for [...] |
2006-12-27 16:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU UP |
| 06KYIV4679 |
UKRAINE: FIGHT OVER NATO/SINGLE ECONOMIC SPACE [...] (C) Summary. The Central Election Commission (CEC) announced on December 29 that more than four million valid signatures had been collected in support of a proposed nationwide referendum on NATO membership and the Single Economic Space (SES), as a result of aggressive pushing from referendum [...] |
2006-12-29 13:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 06KYIV4681 |
UKRAINE: CONFRONTATION AND COMPROMISE--A TALE OF [...] (C) Summary. Two years after the Orange Revolution and Yushchenko's election victory and almost five months into the prime ministership that has marked Yanukovych's triumphant return to the political center stage, the relationship between the two Viktors is rocky and full of mistrust. Althoug [...] |
2006-12-29 13:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 06MINSK1123 |
"16" NOT SO SWEET: DAYS OF SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN [...] (C) September 16, 2006 marked the first anniversary of the "Days of Solidarity" opposition campaign in Belarus. Planned as a series of monthly candle-lighting ceremonies on the 16th of each month honoring the memories of disappeared opponents of the Lukashenko regime, the campaign evolved into [...] |
2006-10-18 11:44:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
| 06MINSK1184 |
LUKASHENKO AND RUSSIA: A TALE OF UNREQUITED LOVE? [...] (C) Lukashenko and Putin likely will achieve little during a possible November 10 meeting in Moscow. Both countries continue to play hardball with one another in energy negotiations, which are expected to drag on until the end of the year. Belarus will eventually have to settle for increased [...] |
2006-11-09 12:39:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV BO |
| 06MINSK1187 |
EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - NOVEMBER 9, [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. This edition includes events thru the November 6- 7 Revolution Day holiday. The next edition will cover items thru November 17. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ----------------------- - U.S. and EU Ambassa [...] |
2006-11-09 13:51:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON KTDB EPET BO |
| 06MINSK1235 |
LUKASHENKO ADMITS RIGGING ELECTIONS [...] (C) President Lukashenko admitted during a press conference with Ukrainian journalists in Minsk that he rigged the March 2006 presidential electionq. Lukashenko claimed that the GOB deliberately understated the official vote tally to satisfy European Q 9QI9M9 The dictator also criticized Ru [...] |
2006-12-01 14:04:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
| 06MINSK1241 |
LOCAL COUNCIL DEPUTIES FACING AN UPHILL BATTLE [...] (C) Pro-democratic local council deputies from the regions of Belarus claimed to have high public support within their districts but doubted it would be enough to win re-election in what they predict will be fraudulent local council elections in January. Deputies informed Ambassador that GO [...] |
2006-12-04 08:30:00 | Embassy Minsk | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
| 06MINSK603 |
BSDP Says Kozulin Not Vote Splitting, Supports Hunger [...] SUMMARY: On June 1, the Belarusian Social Democratic (Gramada) Party (BSDP) held a press conference to discuss March's presidential elections. BSDP described the elections as neither fair nor democratic and argued that Kozulin's candidacy motivated significant participation by Belarusian vot [...] |
2006-06-09 10:03:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL BO |
| 06MOSCOW12231 |
DEMARCHE ON DISRUPTION OF CHISINAU-MOSCOW RAIL [...] (C) We made reftel demarche November 1 to Ambassador Valeriy Nesterushkin, MFA negotiator for Transnistria. Nesterushkin made two notes of fact. In the first tick, he said the decision to cancel trains no. 47 (Moscow-Chisinau) and 48 (Chisinau-Moscow) was taken by Russian Railroads, not the G [...] |
2006-11-02 14:07:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD PBTS MD UP RS |
| 06MOSCOW12257 |
GEORGIA-RUSSIA: FM BEZHUASHVILI GETS RUSSIA'S [...] (C) Georgian FM Bezhuashvili told Ambassador November 2 that he "got the message" passed to him bluntly November 1 by FM Lavrov and Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov: that the Russians believe Georgia will begin military action in Abkhazia or South Ossetia; that Russia will confront Georg [...] |
2006-11-02 14:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR ETRD GG RS |
| 06MOSCOW12528 |
A/S FRIED CONVERSATION WITH RUSSIAN DFM KARASIN, [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin focused on Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova in a two hour discussion November 15. Karasin dismissed Georgian conciliatory steps as cosmetic; Fried said they are real and Russia should respond by ending sanct [...] |
2006-11-20 13:48:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PBTS ETRD GG MD UP RS |
| 06MOSCOW12666 |
RUSSIA'S APPROACH TO POST-ORANGE UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary: Russia has reinvigorated its engagement with Ukraine, focusing on practical cooperation. Last month's Fradkov-Yanukovich meeting, which yielded a gas deal, set the stage for the December 23 Putin-Yushchenko Summit. Russian attitudes, however, still seem to lack an appreciation [...] |
2006-11-28 16:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP RS |
| 06MOSCOW13074 |
BLACK SEA FLEET RELOCATION: A PORT TOO FAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nearly ten years after the 1997 bilateral agreement with Ukraine to use Sevastopol as a base for its Black Sea Fleet, Russia is doing little to plan for the Fleet's possible relocation after the agreement expires in 2017. While the Black Sea Fleet will be on the agenda for the [...] |
2006-12-22 14:30:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MCAP RS UP |
| 06SOFIA1597 |
BULGARIA STRUGGLES TO SHED CAVEATS ON THE ROAD TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the lead-up to the Riga Summit, the GOB supports nearly every item on the U.S. agenda, but continues to struggle with a shortage of funds, equipment, and "capabilities" as it looks toward elimination of national caveats and more demanding missions overseas. Bulgaria's commitme [...] |
2006-11-22 09:59:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS NATO BU |
| 06TALLINN1001 |
ESTONIA: REACTION TO CHISINAU-MOSCOW RAIL LINK AND [...] (C) On November 3 Poloff delivered reftel points (Refs A and B) to Toomas Lukk, MFA Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and Dr. Kaupo Kand, MFA Ukraine and Moldova Desk Officer, regarding the decision to close the Chisinau-Moscow rail link and Ukraine's reform efforts. Foreign Mi [...] |
2006-11-08 12:24:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | ELTN PREL MOPS NATO RS UP EN |
| 06TOKYO2074 |
CHERNOBYL DISASTER COMMEMORATED IN TOKYO [...] (SBU) Summary. On April 16, Japanese anti-nuclear and Chernobyl assistance organizations hosted a 20th anniversary symposium on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Yuri Scherbak, current Foreign Policy Advisor to outgoing Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) Speaker Lytvyn and former Ukrainian Ambassador [...] |
2006-04-17 23:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SOCI PARM TRGY JA |
| 06VIENNA3268 |
AUSTRIA ON DISRUPTION OF CHISINAU-MOSCOW RAIL LINKS [...] (SBU) Charge delivered reftel demarche on November 8 to Hannes Porias, the Austrian MFA's A/S-level Director for Eastern Europe and Russia. DAS-level Russia/Ukraine/Moldova/Belarus Director Josef Litschauer also participated. 2. (C) Porias said the EU had made clear to Kyiv that it is i [...] |
2006-11-08 11:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ELTN EUN RU MD UP AU |
| 06VILNIUS1051 |
LITHUANIA ON TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION PROCESS [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's government agrees with us on the importance of keeping Turkey engaged in the EU accession process, but also wants Turkey to fulfill its Ankara commitments. Going into the December European Council, Lithuania is pushing its EU partners to consider a middle way, suspen [...] |
2006-11-22 14:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN TU LH |
| 06VILNIUS442 |
VILNIUS CDC SUMMIT: DEMOCRACY IS EUROPE'S DESTINY [...] (U) Heads of state from the Baltic, Black Sea and Caucasus regions gathered with EU and U.S. high-level officials May 4 for a regional conference, "Common Vision for a Common Neighborhood," which Lithuania and Poland co-hosted. This second Community of Democratic Choice (CDC) summit enabled f [...] |
2006-05-12 12:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO LT LG EN PL GG BO AM AJ UP RO |
| 06WARSAW2339 |
GOP AGREES COMPLETELY WITH U.S. CONCERNS OVER [...] (C) Pol External Chief delivered reftel demarche (as amended by refmail) on November 3 to Mieczyslaw Kuzinski, action officer for Security Threats and Eurasian Conflicts in the MFA Security Policy Department. Kuzinski confirmed that GOP fully shares U.S. concerns over the Russian shutdown of [...] |
2006-11-06 16:29:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ELTN RS MD UP |
| 07ANKARA1934 |
Turkish MFA on BSEC and Environmental Protection Symposium [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-27 15:45:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN SENV TU |
| 07ANKARA1976 |
TURKEY REQUESTS VERIFICATION OF MILITARY CARGO [...] (U) Action request at para 4. 2. (C) Pol-Mil Counselor was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on August 1 by Deputy Director General for Security Affairs Sakir Torunlar, who requested information on the vessel MV Slavyanin and verification that its military cargo, reportedly destined for the [...] |
2007-08-01 16:24:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EWWT MARR UP TU IZ CY |
| 07ANKARA2273 |
REGIONAL ENERGY CHIEFS OF MISSION CONFERENCE - [...] This message grants country clearance and provides an update on administrative and logistical arrangements for the Regional Energy Chiefs of Mission Conference to be held at the Conrad Hilton hotel in Istanbul September 20-22, 2007. Attendees will receive a notional schedule via email in comin [...] |
2007-09-06 07:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ENRG TU |
| 07ANKARA2618 |
TURKEY: GOVERNMENT TRIES TO QUELL PUBLIC FURY; PKK [...] (S) SUMMARY: In the face of growing public outrage over PKK terrorism, senior government officials have urged the public to remain calm and the media to report responsibly. They also have emphasized that Turkey should not lash out in anger but rather take action that is in the nation's best in [...] |
2007-10-23 11:56:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL TU IZ US |
| 07ASHGABAT1089 |
TURKMENISTAN'S BALKAN PROVINCE: ALUMNI KEEPING THE FLAME [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Meetings with FLEX alumni during a recent trip to Balkan province demonstrated the considerable thirst for greater exposure to the world beyond Turkmenistan's borders. Emboff also met a blind pastor of a still-un [...] |
2007-10-09 13:49:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI SCUL KPAO TX |
| 07ASHGABAT1359 |
RUSSIAN DCM PLAYS UP GREAT GAME TO EXPLAIN U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: In what was supposed to be a briefing by Russian DCM Aleksey Demin on the recent visit of Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov to Turkmenistan, we instead got an earful regarding American favoritism toward Ukraine and the U.S. hidden agenda on a trans-Caspian pipeline. He also alleged t [...] |
2007-12-14 16:05:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENERG EPET SOCI TX |
| 07ASHGABAT230 |
BERDIMUHAMMEDOV APPOINTS TOP OIL/GAS DEPUTY [...] (SBU) The first, mild surprise in the formation of Turkmenistan,s new government is a positive one: the appointment of Tachberdy Tagiyev as Deputy Chairman with the oil/gas portfolio of the Council of the Cabinet of Ministers. Another February 22 personnel decision from Berdimuhammedov qui [...] |
2007-02-23 13:27:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG PGOV PREL TX |
| 07ASHGABAT242 |
PDAS MANN SCENESETTER: TURKMENISTAN'S POST-NIYAZOV OIL/GAS [...] (SBU) In marked contrast to Niyazov, President Berdimuhammedov has no past or expertise in the hydrocarbon sector. His and his new government's first concern has been not to introduce any instability into the status quo, and they may initially be even more unready to enact new directions than [...] |
2007-02-28 13:12:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI EAID TX US |
| 07ASHGABAT55 |
Gazprom's Turkmenistan Contract Secure [...] (SBU) A December 12 visit to Turkmenistan by Gazprom Board Member Valeriy Golubev, a December 21 conversation with the local Gazprom representative, and statements by Turkmenistan's Acting President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov and Russian President Vladimir Putin after Niyazov's death, confirm [...] |
2007-01-16 13:33:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ECON ENRG ETRD PREL PGOV RU TX |
| 07ASHGABAT941 |
TURKMENISTAN NOMINATIONS FOR U.S. BASED TRAINING PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Post is nominating two (2) educational advisers from Turkmenistan to the U.S. based training program to be held May-June 2008. End Summary. NOMINATION ---------- 2. NAME OF NOMINEE: MRS. AFANASYEVA NINA V. D. NATIONALITY, DATE OF BIRTH, PASSPORT NUMBER: Turkmenistan, August 15, 19 [...] |
2007-09-11 03:54:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OIIP OEXC SCUL KPAO TX |
| 07ASHGABAT980 |
TURKMENISTAN NOMINATION FOR NAFSA: ASSOCIATION OF [...] (U) Post is nominating an educational adviser from Turkmenistan to the NAFSA: Association of International Educators Annual Conference & EXPO - Shaping the Future of International Education to be held in Washington, DC, May 25-30, 2008. End Summary. NOMINATION ---------- 2. (SBU) NAME OF [...] |
2007-09-18 04:36:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OIIP OEXC SCUL KPAO TX |
| 07BAKU136 |
AZERBAIJAN,S APPROACH TO THE "NEW" GUAM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the past year, Azerbaijan's primary interest in GUAM appears to have been regional security, especially resolving the region,s "protracted" or "frozen" conflicts. As Azerbaijan prepares to assume the Chair of GUAM in June, Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov said GUAM should f [...] |
2007-01-30 06:37:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM AJ GG MD UP |
| 07BAKU792 |
BAKU GUAM SUMMIT: LOOKING FOR RELEVANCE [...] (SBU) The GOAJ hosted the second annual Summit of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - GUAM on June 18-19 in Baku. The summit included meetings of GUAM members' heads of state, foreign ministers, national coordinators, and several GUAM working groups. There were also se [...] |
2007-06-25 11:59:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AJ GG UP MD KZ TX |
| 07BISHKEK1354 |
KYRGYZ REJECT PRESSURE ON UKRAINE WTO ACCESSION [...] (C) Summary: A Kyrgyz MFA official asked visiting SCA Senior Advisor Robert Deutsch November 8 to relay Bishkek's readiness for "constructive" talks with Kyiv over Ukraine's WTO accession to Washington, but argued against continued "politicization" and "third party political pressure" with res [...] |
2007-11-13 12:43:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO PREL KTIA ECON KG |
| 07BISHKEK984 |
VIEWS FROM BISHKEK ON UKRAINIAN-KYRGYZ WTO TALKS [...] (C) Summary: A Ukrainian memorandum proposing $14 million in humanitarian and technical assistance to cover an outstanding $27 million Ukrainian debt to Kyrgyzstan may not unlock obstacles preventing the conclusion of bilateral negotiations relating to Ukraine's WTO accession. The Ukrainian [...] |
2007-08-03 07:54:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO PREL KTIA ECON KG |
| 07BRATISLAVA40 |
SLOVAKS LOOK TO RUSSIA FOR TRANSPETROL SOLUTION, [...] (C) Summary - In stark contrast to the strong concerns about Russia's reliability as an energy partner expressed this past week throughout Central Europe, Slovak Economy Minister Lubomir Jahnatek believes the Russian-Belarus spat illustrates the need to strengthen ties with Moscow. Jahnatek ha [...] |
2007-01-19 16:30:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV LO RS |
| 07BRATISLAVA612 |
SLOVAKIA: FOREIGN MINISTER KUBIS ON KOSOVO AND [...] (C) In a brief one-on-one meeting prior to a luncheon hosted by FM Kubis in his honor, Ambassador Vallee and FM Kubis discussed Kosovo and Missile Defense. On Kosovo, Kubis again highlighted the need for legal "cover" to facilitate an ESDP mission in the absence of a new UNSCR. Regarding Mi [...] |
2007-11-14 16:57:00 | Embassy Bratislava | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LO MARR NATO KV |
| 07BRUSSELS3046 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: EU MOVING AHEAD ON PLAN FOR [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, USEU delivered the Black Sea Strategy demarche to Janos Herman, Principal Advisor for Regional Cooperation, DG RELEX on September 27. Herman agreed that the U.S. regional strategy complemented the EU's new "Black Sea Synergy" initiative approved by EU Foreign Mi [...] |
2007-10-02 11:38:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PARM PBTS PHSA SENC ECON EWWT BU |
| 07CHISINAU1330 |
CHISINAU ESTABLISHING SEVEN WORKING GROUPS ON [...] (C) Summary: As a follow up to President Voronin's confidence-building outreach to Transnistria (TN), the Government of Moldova is establishing seven working groups to elaborate specific projects for normalizing relations. Transnistria's "foreign minister" has already indicated interest in roa [...] |
2007-11-02 13:17:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV EAID MD |
| 07CHISINAU1362 |
SHEVCHUK: MOLDOVA NOT A RELIABLE PARTNER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador's November 9 meeting with Transnistria's Parliamentary Speaker Evgeny Shevchuk took place against the backdrop of a controversial decree adopted by the Government of Moldova on November 7, requiring that all TN vehicles register with Chisinau. Shevchuk charged tha [...] |
2007-11-14 05:31:00 | Embassy Chisinau | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS EAID PGOV MD |
| 07KYIV1023 |
UKRAINE: CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (C) We met April 20 with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Deputy Director Pokotilo to discuss the May 15 next session of the UN Conference on Disarmament (CD) at MFA's request. Counselor Oleksandr Bondarenko and a [...] |
2007-04-27 13:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNGA CDG UP |
| 07KYIV1027 |
UKRAINE: LITTLE POLITICAL OR LEGAL PROGRESS, BOTH [...] (C) Summary. With President Yushchenko on a one-day trip to Poland April 27 and the ruling coalition trying to decide on its strategy in the face of the new decree ordering Rada elections for June 24, little progress was made on April 27 toward resolving the political crisis. The Constitutiona [...] |
2007-04-27 15:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1036 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO PUSHING, REGIONS NOT BACKING [...] (C) Summary. During what normally would have been a quiet, five-day holiday weekend, the presidential and Rada/government teams were hard at work upping the ante in the current political crisis, with neither side appearing ready yet to relinquish hardball tactics and return to negotiations. [...] |
2007-05-03 14:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1051 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENT AND PM REACH GENERAL AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych on May 4 finally reached a preliminary agreement to hold early Rada elections, after more than a week when the two leaders did not speak. At a press conference after the meeting, Yushchenko announced that a working group would [...] |
2007-05-04 14:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1064 |
(S) UKRAINE/MTCR: TRAINING TO CHINA FOURTH ACADEMY [...] (S) We relayed reftel points May 4 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Oleh Belokolos. Although we were prepared with if-asked guidance to respond to possible arguments that MTCR was not intended to impede space development or that the RD-120 preparation [...] |
2007-05-07 14:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC TSPA CH UP |
| 07KYIV1066 |
UKRAINE/AUSTRALIA GROUP: PLENARY INFO EXCHANGE AND [...] (C) We transmitted reftel points May 4 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Oleh Belokolos. Belokolos, who is directly responsible for MTCR and the Wassenaar Arrangement, thanked us for the information and said he would provide our non-paper to his collea [...] |
2007-05-07 14:35:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CBW UP |
| 07KYIV1076 |
UKRAINE: GAS PIPELINE EXPLODES--SUPPLIES TO E.U. STABLE [...] On May 7 a large explosion hit the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod natural gas pipeline in the Tarashcha Region, about 100 km south of Kyiv, at 14:12 p.m. The explosion took out 30 m of the pipeline built in 1983, which is capable of shipping more than 30 billion cubic meters of Russian gas annually t [...] |
2007-05-08 10:48:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET ECON UP |
| 07KYIV1085 |
UKRAINE 2007 SPECIAL 301 NOTIFICATION DELIVERED [...] Deputy Econ Counselor delivered ref B points and Special 301 report language to Volodymyr Zharov, Deputy Chairman of the State Department of Intellectual Property, on May 8. Zharov thanked the USG for its recognition of progress made in recent years, and said he hoped the GOU's further efforts [...] |
2007-05-08 14:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR UP |
| 07KYIV1088 |
UKRAINE: ELECTION DATE HOLDING UP COMPROMISE [...] (C) Summary. Negotiations may be almost complete on the "small package" of laws considered necessary to resolve Ukraine's six-week political crisis, but continued wrangling over whether the elections should be held in the summer or fall have slowed the pace of compromise. The working group n [...] |
2007-05-08 14:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1092 |
Ukraine: Struggle for Nikopol Ferroalloy Works Nearing [...] (U) Pitting oligarch against oligarch and featuring surprising plot twists and turns, the two-year struggle over the ownership of Ukraine's Nikopol Ferroalloy Works (NFW) makes for nearly as good drama as the country's prolonged political crisis. The State Property Fund (SPF) has been trying s [...] |
2007-05-10 07:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND EFIN EINV PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV1104 |
UKRAINE: MANPADS ACQUISITION FOR COUNTERMEASURES [...] (S) Ukrainian MFA provided the written response May 9 of the Ukrainian government position previewed ref A to the U.S. request for a mixture of 500 Igla-1 and 1,000 Igla MANPADS missiles for countermeasures development (ref C). In a nutshell, the reply states that such MANPADS missiles are st [...] |
2007-05-10 13:10:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP |
| 07KYIV1107 |
UKRAINE: BELARUS UN HRC CANDIDACY - AMBASSADOR'S [...] (C) Our soundings with the Ukrainian MFA, detailed below, indicate the Ukrainians are on the razor's edge regarding whether to support Belarus' candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). Their concern is to ensure that this year's vote not result in keeping Slovenia off the Council (Slov [...] |
2007-05-10 14:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC BO UP |
| 07KYIV1108 |
UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR DIA DIRECTOR LTG MAPLES [...] (S/REL UP) General Maples: We look forward to welcoming you to Kyiv at a time of political turmoil as the President and Prime Minister search for ways to reach agreement on a date for pre-term parliamentary elections and a way forward on resolving contradictions in a newly-amended constitution [...] |
2007-05-10 14:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS UP |
| 07KYIV1117 |
UKRAINE: NEGOTIATIONS ON EARLY ELECTIONS STALL, [...] (C) Summary. Continued disagreement over the date of elections has paralyzed what initially seemed like a breakthrough agreement on May 4 between President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych to hold early parliamentary elections. The working group Yushchenko and Yanukovych named May 4 [...] |
2007-05-11 10:10:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV113 |
UKRAINE: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] As requested reftel, below is the 2007 Investment Climate Statement (ICS) for Ukraine. Post is transmitting the ICS in three separate parts due to its large size. Post will send the ICS in Microsoft Word version to EB/IFD/OIA by email. Begin Text: A.1. Openness to Foreign Investment G [...] |
2007-01-18 12:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR UP |
| 07KYIV1133 |
UKRAINE: SEPTEMBER ELECTIONS IN THE WIND? HAYDUK [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych resumed meetings to resolve the political impasse May 12 after Yanukovych returned to Ukraine from his Spanish knee surgery; Yushchenko said afterwards that the two would meet again May 16 to agree on the date for early elections. Presidentia [...] |
2007-05-15 03:21:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV114 |
UKRAINE: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Ref A contained part one of the 2007 Investment Climate Statement (ICS) for Ukraine. Part two of the ICS continues below. Text Continued: A.5. Performance Requirements/Incentives PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS There are no known cases of performance requirements imposed on foreign investo [...] |
2007-01-18 13:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR UP |
| 07KYIV118 |
UKRAINE: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Refs A and B contained parts one and two of the 2007 Investment Climate Statement (ICS) for Ukraine. The third and final part of the ICS is below. Text Continued: A.9. Efficient Capital Markets and Portfolio Investment BANKING The Ukrainian banking system consists of the National Ban [...] |
2007-01-18 14:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR UP |
| 07KYIV1180 |
UKRAINE: NEGOTIATIONS STALLING OUT AGAIN? [...] (C) Summary. Despite talk over the weekend that President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych would finalize a political compromise that included early parliamentary elections on May 16, talks between the two leaders fizzled out as disagreements over the date of a new vote and what the le [...] |
2007-05-16 15:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1184 |
UKRAINE'S KREMENCHUK: NOT YOUR TYPICAL POST- [...] Summary: Kremenchuk, an industrial city of 232,000 in central Ukraine, is home to several thriving enterprises. A visit to a local meat plant revealed a company transforming itself from a post-Soviet mess to a modern, competitive facility. The city administration is focused on a series of ma [...] |
2007-05-18 05:11:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV EAID UP |
| 07KYIV1195 |
UKRAINE: BALOHA SUGGESTS THAT TIME RUNNING OUT FOR [...] (C) Summary. Head of the Presidential Secretariat Baloha told the Ambassador that there were now two options on the table for a political compromise: either on Monday, May 21, the President, PM and their teams would announce the date for early elections and the contents of the legislative pack [...] |
2007-05-18 15:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1205 |
UKRAINE: MICROSOFT AND GOU GO AFTER SOFTWARE PIRATES [...] Summary: A local Kyiv court sentenced a convicted distributor of pirated software on May 7 to one year and one month imprisonment. Although the judge then suspended the prison term, the severity of the sentence attracted significant media attention. The case is part of an invigorated campaign [...] |
2007-05-22 06:21:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR EINT UP |
| 07KYIV123 |
UKRAINE: GRAIN EXPORTS BLOCKED; TRADERS SUFFERING [...] (SBU) Summary: Exports of wheat, barley, corn, and rye from Ukraine remain completely blocked as the GOU has not yet implemented the export quota system it authorized on December 8, 2006. Traders estimate that there are over 1.5 million tons of grain in storage at ports, where it is beginning [...] |
2007-01-19 05:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAGR ECON PREL UP |
| 07KYIV124 |
UKRAINE: GRAIN EXPORTS BLOCKED; TRADERS SUFFERING [...] (SBU) Summary: Exports of wheat, barley, corn, and rye from Ukraine remain completely blocked as the GOU has not yet implemented the export quota system it authorized on December 8, 2006. Traders estimate that there are over 1.5 million tons of grain in storage at ports, where it is beginning [...] |
2007-01-19 05:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAGR ECON PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1243 |
UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR UNDERSECRETARY SEGA [...] (SBU) Undersecretary Sega: We look forward to welcoming you to Kyiv. For more than seven weeks Ukraine has been in political turmoil and paralysis as the President and Prime Minister search for ways to reach agreement on a date for pre-term parliamentary elections and a way forward on resol [...] |
2007-05-24 14:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV1244 |
UKRAINE: DAS KRAMER VISIT: POSSIBLE WAY FORWARD ON [...] (C) Summary. Visiting DAS Kramer met with all the key players in the Ukrainian political crisis May 23-24: President Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, opposition leaders Yuliya Tymoshenko and Yuriy Lutsenko; National Security and Defense Council Secretary Plyushch; and FM Yatsenyuk. Amidst backgrou [...] |
2007-05-25 03:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1245 |
UKRAINE: DAS KRAMER VISIT: POSSIBLE WAY FORWARD ON [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-25 03:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1246 |
UKRAINE: MODERATE MUSLIM LEADER ACCUSES ARRAID [...] (C) Summary: Tensions are increasing within Ukraine's small Muslim population, with the head of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims in Ukraine (SDMU) Sheikh Tamin accusing the Muslim Association of Civic Organizations - Arraid of promoting Islamic extremism. Tamim, who is known for his mod [...] |
2007-05-25 06:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL UP |
| 07KYIV125 |
UKRAINE: SCUD INVENTORY UPDATE [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (S) During a January 17 meeting, Deputy Defense Minister Tereshchenko expressed optimism to visiting EUR/PRA Director Anita Friedt, PM/WRA Deputy Director Steven Costner, and DOD and Embassy Kyiv representatives that the Ukrainian government wo [...] |
2007-01-19 09:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC UP |
| 07KYIV126 |
UKRAINE: BILATERAL NONPROLIFERATION WORKING GROUP [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 8. 2 (S) Summary: We delivered draft agenda contained ref A to MFA Director Belashov January 17. His specific comments on the agenda contained below in para 4. Belashov also complained that USG suspicions about possible transfer cases were often ba [...] |
2007-01-19 09:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC ETTC PHSA PINR CA UK PL UP |
| 07KYIV1299 |
UKRAINE: MANPADS FOR DESTRUCTION AND [...] (S) Summary: Deputy Defense Minister Tereshchenko told visiting PM/WRA Deputy Director Steven Costner May 16 that the Ukrainian offer to provide 2,101 Man-Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS) missiles and 582 gripstocks (ref E) for the NATO PfP Trust Fund destruction project had been made in [...] |
2007-05-25 14:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP |
| 07KYIV1300 |
UKRAINE:SCENESETTER FOR COMMANDER, U.S. ARMY [...] (SBU) General MacKiernan: We look forward to welcoming you to Kyiv. The past couple of months have been marked by political turmoil as the President and Prime Minister search for ways to reach agreement on a date for pre-term parliamentary elections and a way forward on resolving contradictio [...] |
2007-05-25 15:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR MOPS UP |
| 07KYIV1305 |
UKRAINE: DEAL FOR SEPTEMBER 30 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: After all night discussions, President Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, and Rada Speaker Moroz emerged after 4 a.m. May 27 to issue a seven-point joint statement that set early elections for September 30 and aimed to resolve the ongoing political crisis. Reactions ranged from relief [...] |
2007-05-29 10:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV131 |
UKRAINE/GUAM: NEW MFA TEAM IN CHARGE, TIMING OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ukrainian MFA team overseeing GUAM issues told us they anticipate approval of the GUAM Charter bill in the Rada session that starts February 6. However Rada Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Vitaliy Shybko, a Socialist Party member, was more pessimistic. He noted the oppo [...] |
2007-01-19 12:09:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM MARR RS AZ GG MD UP |
| 07KYIV1324 |
UKRAINE: GUAM AS A REGIONAL ORGANIZATION -- A TWO [...] (C) Summary: Executive Director of the GUAM Information Office Heorhiy Nazarov acknowledged that the impasse over scheduling early parliamentary elections had made it unlikely that the parliament (Rada) would vote on the GUAM Charter anytime soon. He said Ukraine's failure to ratify the GUAM [...] |
2007-05-31 13:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM MARR RS AZ GG MD UP |
| 07KYIV1326 |
UKRAINE: RADA CONTINUES TO DRAG HEELS WHILE [...] (C) Summary. Despite frequent meetings between President Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, Speaker Moroz, and opposition leader Tymoshenko, the Rada has so far failed to approve the legislation needed to enable early elections on September 30, as agreed to in the May 27 compromise. Many MPs attribut [...] |
2007-05-31 14:21:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1327 |
UKRAINE: CFE EXTRAORDINARY CONFERENCE: REQUEST FOR [...] (U) This is a guidance request. See para 6. 2. (U) We met May 31 with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov at his request to discuss the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Extraordinary Conference called by Russia for June 12-15. Bela [...] |
2007-05-31 14:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE UP |
| 07KYIV133 |
UKRAINE: KOSOVO STATUS PROCESS TIMELINE: DEMARCHE [...] (C) Summary/comment: In view of Ukrainian officials' previous concerns about the impact of Kosovo independence on "frozen conflicts" in Moldova and elsewhere, acting DCM drew on ref A background to brief DFM Veselovsky January 18 on the Kosovo settlement process. While underscoring that Ukrain [...] |
2007-01-19 14:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS OPDC UNMIK UN YI MD RS UP |
| 07KYIV1335 |
UKRAINE: CBA Special Representative Mermoud Meetings on [...] (SBU) Summary: Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs Frank Mermoud met on May 17-18 with government officials and U.S. business in Kyiv to discuss business climate and economic policy issues. The tone of the meetings with the State Customs Service, and the Ministers of Fu [...] |
2007-06-01 07:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ETRD UP |
| 07KYIV1338 |
UKRAINE: GOU RUSHES WTO LEGISLATIVE PACKAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine's Rada (parliament) voted on May 31 to adopt 11 laws considered necessary for WTO accession. The drafting process was rushed to meet the timeline for the Rada's planned dissolution, however, and close scrutiny will be necessary to ensure the adopted laws are WTO consiste [...] |
2007-06-01 13:28:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV1340 |
UKRAINE: RADA WORKS FOR ANOTHER "ONE MORE DAY" - [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko relented again and extended authorization for the Rada to convene again June 1 in the hope that it would finish all its election-related business. Yushchenko, arriving back in Kyiv from his trip to Zagreb at 3 a.m., held morning meetings separately with PM [...] |
2007-06-01 14:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV135 |
UKRAINE: ONE VICTOR? CABINET OF MINISTERS LAW [...] (C) Summary. A landmark Cabinet of Ministers law passed January 12 via a presidential veto override (ref A) will remake the Ukrainian political landscape once it comes into effect, although President Yushchenko cited a technicality to issue a renewed veto January 19 and returned the bill to t [...] |
2007-01-19 15:09:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1354 |
UKRAINE: JUNE 4 UPDATE - KYIV QUIET AS POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Actions by key political players June 1-2 gave greater cause for optimism that the political compromise announced May 27 is being implemented, although public statements from Prime Minister Yanukovych and Speaker Moroz on June 3-4 suggested that progress may continue to be slow [...] |
2007-06-04 13:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1391 |
UKRAINE: KYIV'S BOOMING REAL ESTATE MARKET, A BUBBLE READY [...] (U) Summary: This report analyzes the real estate market in Kyiv, which has experienced a sizeable boom over the past 12 months as average citizens have rushed to throw their savings into the market. Mortgage lending has dramatically increased but has room to expand. Some bankers are concerne [...] |
2007-06-06 11:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV1396 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO DECREE FOR SEPT 30 ELECTIONS, [...] (SBU) Summary: President Yushchenko issued a June 5 decree which established pre-term elections September 30 in accordance with the May 27 joint statement between Yushchenko, PM Yanukovych, and Speaker Moroz. Yushchenko delivered a 55-minute address to the diplomatic corps June 6 summarizing [...] |
2007-06-06 13:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV1417 |
PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR 2007 IPR ENFORCEMENT TRAINING [...] Summary: Post proposes a project entitled "Creating a Sustainable Ukrainian IPR Training Capability" to be funded as part of the 2007 IPR Enforcement Training Funds Program. Improving IPR enforcement in Ukraine remains a serious USG priority. Since 2004 there has been progress toward good gov [...] |
2007-06-08 08:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR ECON EAID UP |
| 07KYIV1418 |
UKRAINE: CRIMEA UPDATE - LESS TENSE THAN IN 2006; [...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador's May 29-30 visit to Simferopol, Crimea and an earlier poloff visit May 17-18, all of our interlocutors agreed that the situation in Crimea appears less tense than it did six months ago (reftels). The primary issues in play remain control/ownership of land; the [...] |
2007-06-08 08:50:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KDEM PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1422 |
Ukraine: Grain Export Quotas Lifted, but New Controls In [...] (SBU) Summary: Citing crop damage from drought, the GOU appears poised to institute a new regime of export restrictions on Ukraine's grain market for the 2007/2008 market year. According to a June 4 decree, as well as the statements of GOU officials, the GOU will build up its reserves of whea [...] |
2007-06-08 10:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV1425 |
UKRAINE: MILITARY EXERCISE LEGISLATION PASSES, SEA [...] (C) Summary and Comment: President Yushchenko signed the annual military exercise authorization bill June 6 and Rada (parliament) passage on May 29. Despite support from PM Yanukovych and most of the Party of Regions (the Rada's largest faction), Socialist and Communist party opposition remai [...] |
2007-06-08 11:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS MASS PREL PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV1450 |
UKRAINE: IPR ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION GROUP [...] Summary: GOU, Embassy, and industry representatives discussed the destruction of IPR-infringing material at a June 5 Enforcement Cooperation Group (ECG) meeting. GOU reps reviewed recently-passed legislation that provides the authority for destruction and said that implementation will be a ch [...] |
2007-06-12 13:31:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR ECON UP |
| 07KYIV1452 |
UKRAINE: WORKSHOP ENCOURAGES JUDGES, PROSECUTORS, [...] Summary: Post, in coordination with U.S., UK, and Ukrainian institutions, held an IPR enforcement workshop in Kyiv June 5-7. Ukrainian judges, prosecutors, police, and IP inspectors participated in the workshop, which focused on court proceedings for IPR-related cases. Discussions revealed s [...] |
2007-06-13 06:22:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR ECON UP |
| 07KYIV1458 |
UKRAINE: ELECTIONS PROCESS STILL BUMPY [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Yanukovych and Party of Regions members are now openly talking about their election preparations and have told us that June 15 will be the last day the Rada is in session. The Rada must still acknowledge the resignations of at least another 72 members of the oppos [...] |
2007-06-13 12:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1459 |
UKRAINE: MISSILE DEFENSE TALKING POINTS DELIVERED: [...] (U) This is a request for guidance. See para 6. 2. (U) Ambassador, accompanied by Army Attache and poloff, met with Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko June 11 to deliver the response to Ukrainian missile defense questions (ref B). We provided written talking points, a Ukrainian courtesy [...] |
2007-06-13 13:07:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PARM OPRC PREL RS AZ US UP |
| 07KYIV1469 |
UKRAINE: RADA LOSES QUORUM, BUT HURDLES MAY REMAIN [...] (C) Summary. After weeks of stalling by the coalition, and especially by Speaker Moroz, Deputy Speaker Martynyuk on June 15 read aloud from the Rada rostrum the final group of names of opposition deputies who have resigned from their Rada factions, reaching the total of 156 and formally depri [...] |
2007-06-15 12:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1507 |
UKRAINE: OLIGARCH AKHMETOV CONSIDERS STAYING OUT [...] (C) Summary: During a June 14 dinner, oligarch and Party of Regions financier Rinat Akhmetov said he was considering making a graceful exit from Parliament. He was disappointed and frustrated with his role as a Parliamentary Deputy and preferred to focus his efforts on his business activity a [...] |
2007-06-21 06:41:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR UP |
| 07KYIV1515 |
UKRAINE: RADA SPUTTERS TO A CLOSE AS ATTENTION [...] (C) Summary. Speaker Moroz closed the Rada's aimless plenary sessions on June 19, clearly under some pressure by Party of Regions leaders and despite earlier vows by Socialists and Communists to continue sessions into July. Moroz read a letter to the Rada written by PM Yanukovych in which the [...] |
2007-06-21 14:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1516 |
UKRAINE: DNIPROPETROVSK LUKEWARM ON RADA [...] (C) Summary. On an early June trip to Dnipropetrovsk city, the capital of a major industrial center in the East, poloff found a wealthy city more blue than orange, but with a great deal of distrust of both Donetsk-based Party of Regions and Dnipro-native Tymoshenko, leaving an opening for othe [...] |
2007-06-21 14:16:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1521 |
UKRAINE: DPM KLYUYEV ON NUCLEAR SUPPLY, OIL AND GAS, [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting with Ambassador June 20, Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Klyuyev told Ambassador that Ukraine intends to pursue diversification of nuclear fuel supplies. He stated that Ukraine is not seeking to have Russia supply all Ukrainian reactors in the next contract for nuclear fue [...] |
2007-06-22 13:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EAID EINV ECON BEXP UP |
| 07KYIV1522 |
Ukraine: GOU Imposes New Grain Export Limits [...] (U) Summary: As foreshadowed by recent official statements (reftel), Deputy Prime Minister Victor Slauta announced June 20 that the Cabinet of Ministers has made a decision to limit exports of grain, beginning July 1, in order to form a state grain reserve and limit growth in bread prices. Po [...] |
2007-06-22 13:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV1544 |
RUSSIA USES GAS HIKE TALK TO TURN HEAT UP ON [...] (C) Summary. Russian President Vladimir Putin reawakened Ukraine's anxieties about future natural gas prices in his speech at the G8 summit on June 4, asserting Russia would no longer subsidize Ukraine's gas purchases. During the same week, Ukrainian Minister of Fuel and Energy Yuriy Boyko s [...] |
2007-06-26 10:14:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV PREL RS UP |
| 07KYIV1560 |
UKRAINE: U.S.-RUSSIAN MISSILE DEFENSE DISCUSSION: [...] (U) EUR/PRA Director and head of delegation to the U.S.-Ukraine non-proliferation Working Group (NPWG) talks Anita Friedt delivered ref A's notification June 26 to Ukrainian MFA Arms Control and Military-Technical Cooperation Department Director General Volodymyr Belashov on the margins of NPW [...] |
2007-06-27 11:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PARM OPRC PREL RS AZ US UP |
| 07KYIV1561 |
UKRAINE: SCUD INVENTORY FINALLY PROVIDED [...] (S) During the U.S.-Ukraine Non-Proliferation Working Group meeting June 27, Volodymyr Popovych, special advisor to Deputy Defense Minister Volodymyr Tereshchenko, grinning broadly, handed over the SCUD missile and component inventory long requested by the U.S. (note: see ref A from 2005. The [...] |
2007-06-27 12:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC UP |
| 07KYIV1563 |
UKRAINE: JUNE 27 DOMESTIC POLITICAL SCENE UPDATE - [...] (SBU) Summary: In advance of the long (June 28 Constitution Day) weekend, Ukraine's political scene sputtered slowly forward towards summer holidays and election campaigns. President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych spent significant time out of Kyiv, meeting twice at Boryspil airport to discuss [...] |
2007-06-27 12:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV1595 |
UKRAINE'S UKRTELECOM: NOT THE DINOSAUR IT APPEARS TO BE? [...] (SBU) Summary. Georgiy Dzekon, Chairman of the Board of Ukraine's state-owned telecommunications provider, Ukrtelecom, charged that the State Property Fund's (SPF) attempt to sell 1% of Ukrtelecom stock in a trial run was counterproductive, noting that any money raised would not go back to bo [...] |
2007-07-03 09:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON BEXP EINT UP |
| 07KYIV163 |
UKRAINE: MANPADS ACQUISITION AND THE NATO PFP [...] (S) Summary: As a result of a January 17 meeting with Deputy Defense Minister Tereshchenko on the proposals regarding man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) contained ref A, PM/WRA will work with the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency (NAMSA) to develop an amendment to the NATO/PfP Trust F [...] |
2007-01-22 12:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP |
| 07KYIV1704 |
UKRAINE: ELIMINATION OF SCUD MISSILES [...] (C) We delivered ref A response July 13 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov and Counselor Oleksandr Bondarenko. Belashov directed Bondarenko to pass the information immediately to Deputy Minister of Defense Tereshchenko. Belashov also [...] |
2007-07-13 13:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | MTCRE PARM PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1722 |
UKRAINE: FLAWED LOCAL ELECTION REVEAL POTENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: Contentious repeat mayoral elections June 17 in Irpin, a town of 40,000 people located one hour northwest of Kyiv, underscored the potential for problems in the upcoming September 30 national Rada elections as a highstakes fight for land and power brought troublesome irregularitie [...] |
2007-07-17 12:11:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV1761 |
UKRAINE: CFE POSITION PARALLELS U.S. [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. (U) During a July 18 press conference with his visiting Canadian counterpart, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk expressed a position that closely tracked Department's July 14 statement on Russia's announcement that it would su [...] |
2007-07-19 12:15:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE UP |
| 07KYIV1776 |
UKRAINE: USITC REVIEW OF STEEL ANTIDUMPING AND [...] (U) In response to reftel, Post formally requested the GOU to provide information regarding the production of steel products covered by the upcoming ITC five-year review of antidumping and countervailing duty orders. We received a response from the Ministry of Economy on July 18. An unofficia [...] |
2007-07-20 10:50:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON UP |
| 07KYIV1790 |
UKRAINE: POLITICS AND MONEY BEHIND GRAIN EXPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: Fear of rising bread prices was the driving force behind the GOU's decision to reintroduce grain export restrictions as of July 1. Bread prices are very politically sensitive in Ukraine, and a number of government officials also have a financial stake in the quotas through busin [...] |
2007-07-23 09:35:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV1808 |
UKRAINE: POLITICAL WILL, NOT LAWS, WILL DETERMINE [...] (C) Summary. Parliament (Rada) adopted a number of amendments to the law on parliamentary elections June 1 as part of the compromise to hold early parliamentary elections on September 30. Some changes were needed, but a number of others reintroduced loopholes that contributed to election frau [...] |
2007-07-24 14:16:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV1825 |
UKRAINE: SHIPMENT OF WEAPONS FROM UKRAINIAN PORT [...] (C) We delivered ref A inquiry regarding the destination of the St. Vincent-flagged vessel Slavyanin July 27 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov. When doing so, we emphasized the urgency of the request. Belashov said he would immediat [...] |
2007-07-27 12:59:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EWWT MARR UP TU IZ |
| 07KYIV1826 |
UKRAINE: HUNGARY LENDS QUIET SUPPORT TO UKRAINE'S [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-27 13:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD EINV HU UP |
| 07KYIV183 |
UKRAINE: PROLIFERATION SECURITY INITIATIVE AND [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 9. 2. (SBU) Summary: After a year-long hiatus (refs A and B were transmitted in January 2006), a Ukrainian MFA official said Ukrainian comments on a draft PSI ship-boarding agreement might be provided by the end of January, after which the Ukrainian [...] |
2007-01-25 13:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM KNNP PHSA KTIA EWWT PL UP |
| 07KYIV1837 |
UKRAINE: MOROZ BLUFFING ON NEW RADA SESSION [...] (C) Summary: The Ukrainian media was abuzz over the July 28-29 weekend with Rada Speaker Moroz's announcement that he would call an extraordinary Rada session July 31. Moroz said he was responding to a request from 179 deputies to hold the session, but Party of Regions leaders immediately res [...] |
2007-07-30 11:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1843 |
UKRAINE: AKHMETOV WING OF REGIONS GEARS UP FOR [...] (C) Summary. In meetings with Party of Regions leaders Raisa Bohatyreva and Borys Kolesnikov--both members of the business-oriented wing of Regions dominated by oligarch Rinat Akhmetov--it was clear that there was an ongoing and heated debate within the party over strategies for the election, [...] |
2007-07-30 13:19:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV186 |
UKRAINE: TURKMEN OPPOSITION VISA SCANDAL REALLY [...] (C) Summary. The scandal that has erupted over Socialist Transportation Minister Mykola Rudkovskiy pressuring Ukrainian ambassadors to issue visas to Turkmen opposition figures to travel to Kyiv in late December in the wake of former Turkmen President Niyazov's death is, at its heart, the lat [...] |
2007-01-25 15:21:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EPET TX UP |
| 07KYIV1862 |
UKRAINE: POLITICAL CLASH HIGHLIGHTS CORRUPTION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOU attempted to push through a controversial amendment to the government procurement law, causing indignation among political opponents and spurring claims that the Party of Regions was trying to grab public funds for their election coffers. Opposition by President Viktor [...] |
2007-08-01 05:08:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EIND EFIN EINV PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV187 |
UKRAINE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN COESPU [...] Italian DCM Sergio Martes, Italian military attache Colonel Claudio Ritacca, Embassy Kyiv Office of Defense Cooperation Chief LTC Rob Timm, and poloff delivered reftel demarche January 25 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov and Counselor [...] |
2007-01-26 04:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PGOV IT TU PK ID UP |
| 07KYIV1888 |
UKRAINE IPR: ENGAGING LAW ENFORCEMENT ON INTERNET [...] (SBU) Summary: Econ Counselor met on August 1 with leaders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' (MIA) Economic Crime Department to push for improved IPR enforcement. The MIA officials expressed a firm commitment to protecting IP rights, and described the Ministry's increased enforcement effor [...] |
2007-08-02 14:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON UP |
| 07KYIV1897 |
UKRAINE: MISSILE DEFENSE COOPERATION AND CFE; [...] (C) Visiting EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary David Kramer briefed Foreign Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk August 2 on the results of the July 30 U.S.-Russia experts' meeting on missile defense cooperation as requested reftel, as well as on parallel Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) discussions. Ya [...] |
2007-08-03 11:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO AJ CZ PL RS UP |
| 07KYIV1912 |
UKRAINE: AEROSVIT, BOEING SIGNING WORTH UP TO $1 BILLION [...] On August 2, Ukraine's largest carrier Aerosvit and Boeing signed a purchase agreement for seven 737s valued at $523 million. Aerosvit also secured an option to purchase another seven 737S, potentially making the deal worth more than $1 billion. This order marks Aerosvit's first direct purchas [...] |
2007-08-06 11:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP EAIR UP |
| 07KYIV1916 |
UKRAINE: NATO SEA BREEZE EXERCISE AN "UNQUALIFIED [...] (C) Summary: Sea Breeze 2007, the largest ever multinational exercise in the Black Sea, concluded July 22. Over two weeks, exercise participants from 13 NATO PfP member countries enhanced interoperability through peacekeeping operations, search and rescue, and communications training. Despite [...] |
2007-08-06 13:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV1932 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARIAT ON VOTING AND [...] (C) Summary. Roman Bezsmertniy, deputy head of the Presidential Secretariat for information policy and political tactician, told Ambassador July 27 that there was no truly good outcome for the upcoming elections, but he was focused on making sure Party of Regions stays committed to participat [...] |
2007-08-07 12:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV1940 |
UKRAINE: REGIONS'S PARTY CONGRESS: A HANDSHAKE, A [...] (C) Summary. The Party of Regions August 4 party congress was the least predictable of the major party congresses, featuring both moderate speeches by Prime Minister Yanukovych and faction leader Raisa Bohatyreva and well-received speeches from Communist Party leader Symonenko and a representa [...] |
2007-08-08 09:27:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV196 |
UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR EUR DAS GRAFFY'S FEB 7-12 [...] (C) Summary: Your visit to Ukraine comes at a time when the struggle between President Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych for political dominance and the right to define national security, defense, and foreign policy has intensified. Recent legislation passed by Yanukovych's majority in the Rada (p [...] |
2007-01-26 12:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV1968 |
UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH, OTHERS ANALYZE PRE- AND [...] (C) Summary: Key GoU leaders varied on their assessment of the upcoming pre-term elections in their August 1-2 meetings with EUR DAS Kramer but all acknowledged the importance of free and fair elections and the need to resolve tensions that have dominated the domestic political scene since A [...] |
2007-08-10 10:43:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV1971 |
UKRAINE: THE ORANGE REVOLUTION AND UNEASY [...] (C) Summary. The nine parties of the democratic megabloc came together August 7 to formally become the Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense (OU-PSD) election bloc, with a youth-oriented message and an attempt to rekindle the fervor of the Orange Revolution. The bloc consists of People's Union O [...] |
2007-08-10 12:51:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1972 |
UKRAINE: REQUEST FOR USG SUPPORT FOR UKRAINIAN AS [...] (U) This is an action request - please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) PolCouns was called in August 9 by Acting Director of the MFA's Second Territorial Department Larisa Myronenko to receive a request for U.S. support for Ukraine's candidate to be the next OSCE Head of Mission in Kosovo, Ambas [...] |
2007-08-10 13:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM OSCE UP |
| 07KYIV1973 |
UKRAINE: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE RE ASSISTANCE TO [...] (S) As requested, on August 9, 2007, PolCouns delivered talking points contained ref A to Vasyl Pokotilov, Acting Director of the Foreign Ministry's Department for Arms Control and Military-Technical Cooperation, and asked for full details on the cooperation between the Ukrainian National Sp [...] |
2007-08-10 13:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC UP NI |
| 07KYIV1974 |
UKRAINE: GOU SAYS IATA TICKET STOCK ILLEGAL-THREATENS SHUT [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting with representatives from Ukraine's State Aviation Authority (SAA), Economic officers verified the SAA had indeed found the International Air Transport Association's (IATA) ticket stock to be invalid under Ukrainian law. As a result, the SAA ordered IATA to refrain [...] |
2007-08-10 13:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ERTD KTIA UP |
| 07KYIV1986 |
UKRAINE: CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION DELAYS BYUT [...] (C) Summary. Leaders of the Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) on August 10 accused the coalition-dominated Central Election Commission (CEC) of refusing to register its candidates for the September 30 parliamentary election in order to keep the largest opposition force in Ukraine out of the election and [...] |
2007-08-13 13:11:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV200 |
UKRAINE WTO UPDATE: JANUARY 26 [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOU is anxious to push ahead as quickly as possible on its WTO accession. Minister of Economy Volodymyr Makukha is requesting to hold bilateral consultations in early, rather than late, February. Makukha continues to work to ensure U.S. beef and pork imports flow freely, al [...] |
2007-01-26 15:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV2001 |
UKRAINE: TEN YEARS AFTER THE SIGNING OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Ten years after the signing of the NATO-Ukraine Charter and two and a half years after the Orange Revolution, many policy makers and experts in Ukraine and in the West hoped that Ukraine would jump on a fast track to NATO membership. However, today public support for NATO members [...] |
2007-08-15 07:35:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV2010 |
UKRAINE: BYUT REGISTERED FOR ELECTION [...] (C) Summary and comment. After a court ruled August 14 that the Central Election Commission (CEC) needed to review BYuT's candidates list within one day, the CEC complied and finally approved all 450 candidates of the bloc late in the day August 15. Tymoshenko herself attended the August 14 [...] |
2007-08-15 13:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2075 |
UKRAINE: BYUT CONGRESS--NATIONALIST WRAPPINGS, BUT [...] (C) Summary. In a congress that emphasized Ukrainian nationalism and loyalty to Tymoshenko, the diminutive opposition leader presented her detailed program for the country's future, "the Ukrainian Breakthrough." In a 75-minute speech, Tymoshenko laid out her ideas for everything from increasi [...] |
2007-08-17 12:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2093 |
UKRAINE'S FY 2008 FOREIGN ASSISTANCE OPERATIONAL [...] In response to reftel request, the following person is Post's Operational Plan Coordinator (OPC), responsible for the FY 2008 Foreign Assistance Operational Plan: Douglas Kramer Counselor for Economic Affairs U.S. Embassy Kyiv Office tel.: 011-380-44-490-4056 Cell outside Ukraine: 38-050-3 [...] |
2007-08-21 11:44:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV210 |
UKRAINE: MANPADS ACQUISITION FOR COUNTERMEASURES [...] (S) On January 29, Ambassador, accompanied by DATT and poloff, passed ref A non-paper to Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko. Hrytsenko said he was frankly relieved the U.S. had elected to pursue an approach that involved some level of compensation to the Ukrainian government to transfer MANPA [...] |
2007-01-29 15:08:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP |
| 07KYIV211 |
UKRAINE: NATO REFERENDUM ON HOLD AFTER [...] (C) Summary. President Yushchenko's January 26 decision to refer two constitutional articles on holding a referendum to the Constitutional Court for clarification effectively pushes down the road the need to decide whether there will be a referendum on membership in NATO and the Single Economi [...] |
2007-01-29 15:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NATO UP |
| 07KYIV2114 |
UKRAINE: U.S. NON-PAPER ON CFE DELIVERED; [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. (C) As agreed ref email, PolCouns met with MFA Director for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Volodymr Belashov August 23, to follow up on Acting EUR A/S Volker's meeting with the Ukrainian Charge and Moldovan Ambassador August 22 in Washin [...] |
2007-08-23 12:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KCFE NATO OSCE RS UP |
| 07KYIV214 |
UKRAINE: UNCERTAIN FUTURE FOR COMMUNITY OF [...] (C) Summary. The Community of Democratic Choice (CDC), as described in an August 2005 joint statement by Ukrainian President Yushchenko and Georgian President Saakashvili, was to be a continuing dialogue and series of meetings to promote democracy, human rights, and civil society in former Sov [...] |
2007-01-30 14:10:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM GG UP |
| 07KYIV2165 |
UKRAINE: LITTLE PROGRESS IN INVESTIGATION OF [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Journalist Artem Skoropadiskiy, who claimed that an August 13 assault on him by two assailants was because of a critical story he wrote on Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetskiy, told PolOff on August 21 that there had been no progress in the police investigation. Althoug [...] |
2007-08-29 11:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV2185 |
UKRAINE: U.S. REACTION TO CFE NON-PAPER DELIVERED [...] (U) We delivered U.S. comments contained ref A on the Ukrainian Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) non-paper (ref B) to MFA Arms Control Director Volodymyr Belashov August 31. Belashov thanked us for the speedy U.S. response and welcomed the information that the U.S. had briefed Georgia and [...] |
2007-08-31 13:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE NATO RS UP |
| 07KYIV220 |
UKRAINE: USITC ANTIDUMPING INVESTIGATION ON SILICON METAL [...] Post provides the following information regarding silicon metal production in Ukraine in response to reftel request. This response contains no business proprietary information. Overview of Metallurgy Industry ------------------------------- 2. Metallurgy is one of the Ukrainian economy's [...] |
2007-01-31 11:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON UP |
| 07KYIV2202 |
UKRAINE: PORA CONTROVERSY ANOTHER TEST OF ELECTION [...] (C) Summary. The sudden appearance of a "second" Pora political party, its quick registration by the Central Election Commission (CEC) and the CEC's deregistration of eight representatives of the "real" Pora on the OU-PSD list at worst raised questions about the use of dirty tricks, and at a [...] |
2007-09-04 13:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV2204 |
UKRAINE: PERSONALITIES, NOT PROGRAMS, [...] (C) Summary. The conscious decision of the three main parties in Ukraine to focus their campaigns on the same themes -- populist social and economic promises and anti-corruption slogans -- means that the vote will come down once again to personalities and perceived leadership types. The offic [...] |
2007-09-04 13:13:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2206 |
UKRAINE: EXTRAORDINARY RADA SESSION TAKES AIM AT [...] (U) Summary: The Rada's majority coalition held an extraordinary parliamentary session on September 4, at Speaker Moroz's behest. With 269 MP's registered as present, they voted to amend two clauses of the constitution in order to eliminate parliamentary and presidential immunity, thereby pr [...] |
2007-09-04 13:50:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL UP |
| 07KYIV223 |
UKRAINE: TARASYUK RESIGNS AS FOREIGN MINISTER, [...] (SBU) Summary. Borys Tarasyuk ended two months of uncertainty and political confrontation over his lame-duck tenure as Ukraine's Foreign Minister by offering his resignation to President Yushchenko January 30, after a district court deferred a decision on his legal challenge to the Rada's Dec [...] |
2007-01-31 16:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU UP |
| 07KYIV2239 |
UKRAINE: ELECTIONS IN ODESA HEAVILY FAVOR REGIONS [...] (C) Summary. During the Ambassador's August 31 meetings in Odesa with leaders from Party of Regions (POR), Bloc of Yuliya Tymoshenko (BYuT), and Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD), all agreed that POR remained the overwhelming favorite in the predominately blue region -- in 2006, Regio [...] |
2007-09-07 12:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV224 |
UKRAINE: REACTION TO MISSILE DEFENSE MEDIA REPORTS [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 9. 2. (C) Summary: Defense Minister Hrytsenko told Ambassador January 29 that the U.S. announcement about its preparedness to locate missile defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic had the unintended consequence in Ukraine of reinforcing [...] |
2007-01-31 16:40:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PREL PINR US UP |
| 07KYIV2245 |
UKRAINE: APPEAL FOR USG FORBEARANCE ON INDIA SPACE [...] (C) This is a request for guidance. Request that the Department provide the U.S. position regarding Ukraine company Yuzhnoye's contract to prepare blueprints for a semi-cryogenic, liquid-oxygen/kerosene-fueled rocket engine for the Indian Space Research Organization, as detailed below, and es [...] |
2007-09-07 13:31:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM ETTC MTCRE TSPA PREL IN UP |
| 07KYIV2247 |
UKRAINE: EVEN SMALL ELECTION ABUSES COULD [...] Summary. As the campaign heats up for Ukraine's September 30 preterm parliamentary elections, few anticipate there will be massive election fraud. However, in what is expected to be a very tight race, even abuses on the margins could influence the outcome. Greater transparency in the electio [...] |
2007-09-07 13:50:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV225 |
UKRAINE: MOROZ, REGIONS PLAYING GAMES WITH THE [...] (C) Summary. Rada Speaker Moroz and the Yanukovych government have used "creative" interpretations of the constitution and the Rada rules of procedure to try to bring into force the controversial law on the Cabinet of Ministers, despite presidential claims that the law was vetoed (reftel). T [...] |
2007-01-31 16:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2256 |
UKRAINE: ACTING FM URGES USG SUPPORT FOR UKRAINIAN [...] (C) The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry continues to press for U.S. support for Ukraine's candidate to be the next OSCE Head of Mission in Kosovo, Ambassador Anatoliy Oliynyk, currently Ukraine's Ambassador to both Serbia and Montenegro. During an August 31 meeting with the Ambassador, Acting Fo [...] |
2007-09-10 11:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV2260 |
UKRAINE IPR CONFERENCE HOSTS LATEST ROUND IN FIGHT [...] Summary: Ukraine's annual IPR Conference, held September 3-7, brought together GOU officials, industry reps, and international experts to promote better IPR protection in the country. Discussion of possible Copyright Law amendments and the operation of royalty collecting societies proved most [...] |
2007-09-11 08:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR ECON UP |
| 07KYIV2266 |
UKRAINE: PREVIEW OF SEPTEMBER 14 SUMMIT WITH EU [...] (C) Summary: An EU delegation of Portuguese Prime Minister Socrates, EU Council Secretary General Solana, European Commission President Barroso, and Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner will participate in the EU-Ukraine summit September 14 in Kyiv. In their private meetings, the EU delegation will [...] |
2007-09-11 12:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECIN ETRD ENRG EUN PO UP |
| 07KYIV2272 |
UKRAINE: GOU AGREES IN PRINCIPLE TO SCANNING [...] On September 6, EconOff delivered reftel points to Viacheslav Voloshyn, Director of Ukraine's Maritime Security Agency. Voloshyn stated that in principle the State Maritime Agency, under the direction of the Ministry of Transport, supported future cooperation with the Departments of Homeland [...] |
2007-09-12 06:10:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ETRD EWWT PTER UP |
| 07KYIV2286 |
UKRAINE: IUD'S TARUTA ON REGIONS, ELECTIONS, AND [...] (C) Summary. In a marathon three-hour meeting, reclusive Industrial Union Donbas (IUD) owner Serhiy Taruta and his more politically-active partner Vitaliy Haiduk gave the Ambassador their views on the elections, Regions party leaders, and the current gas deal with Russia, especially their conc [...] |
2007-09-13 10:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EPET PINR UP |
| 07KYIV2290 |
UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE DISCOURAGED FROM THE TOP DOWN [...] (C) Summary. Conversations with Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense (OU-PSD) Leader Yuriy Lutsenko, First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko, and members of the bloc's regional headquarters show a political movement struggling to keep pace with the more aggressive Tymoshenko Bloc. Lutsenko and Mrs. Yushc [...] |
2007-09-13 10:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV2336 |
UKRAINE: LEADING POLITICIANS VIE FOR REPUTATION AS MOST [...] (U) Summary: PM Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leader Yuliya Tymoshenko held dueling meetings with investors on September 10 to present their plans to improve the investment and business climate. Tymoshenko promised to push forward transparent privatizations, open up energy exploration to for [...] |
2007-09-14 08:14:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON PGOV UP |
| 07KYIV235 |
UKRAINE: SHCHERBAN CASE BEING SWEPT UNDER RUG [...] (C) Summary. It appears increasingly unlikely that former Sumy governor Volodymyr Shcherban, accused of election rigging and a number of other serious charges, will end up in court. Shcherban, who fled to the U.S. in the spring of 2005 to avoid arrest in Ukraine, was detained for overstaying h [...] |
2007-02-01 12:43:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV2383 |
GOU RAISES THE STAKES AGAINST IATA, AND BACKS DOWN [...] (C) On August 30 the GOU suspended all cross border activities of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in its latest move against the world airline industry's trade group. In a subsequent meeting with the Ambassador, however, Minister of Economy Anatoly Kinakh agreed to stop imp [...] |
2007-09-14 11:28:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ETRD KTIA PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2385 |
UKRAINE: INDUSTRY WINS LANDMARK INTERNET PIRACY CASE [...] Summary: A Ukrainian record company won a court case on September 13 against the infamous Ukrainian music download site mp3.ua. To our knowledge, it is the first time a music company has successfully won a civil case against an online music pirate in a Ukrainian court. The court ruling impose [...] |
2007-09-15 12:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR ECON UP |
| 07KYIV2392 |
UKRAINE'S WTO NEGOTIATOR WANTS TO WRAP UP [...] (C) Summary: During a September 17 meeting, Ukraine's lead WTO negotiator Valeriy Pyatnytskiy complained that talks with Kyrgyzstan on a WTO bilateral agreement had stalled. Kyrgyzstan had rejected Ukraine's most recent proposal, and Pyatnytskiy believed that "one or more third parties" were [...] |
2007-09-18 04:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO KG UP |
| 07KYIV2401 |
UKRAINE: COALITION SCENARIOS IN A CLOSE RACE [...] (C) Summary and comment. With reliable polling suggesting that no one party will win an outright majority on its own in the September 30 elections, a coalition will have to be formed either based on an orange variant, a broad coalition that in some way joins the Party of Regions and Our Ukrai [...] |
2007-09-18 13:14:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV2402 |
UKRAINE: KIROVOHRAD: IT'S A TWO PARTY RACE, [...] (SBU) Summary: In conversations with Kirovohrad's Communist mayor, Our Ukraine Governor, and various campaign workers regarding preparations for the September 30 elections, opinion across the spectrum was that Regions and BYuT will be the top two vote getters with about 25-30 percent each, w [...] |
2007-09-18 13:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2417 |
UKRAINE: NATO, RUSSIAN LANGUAGE ISSUES ENTER [...] (C) Summary. Party of Regions' recent decision to call for a referendum on neutrality (local shorthand for no NATO membership), and an official status for the Russian language resurrects divisive election themes, present in 2004 and 2006, that the major parties had tried to keep quiet so far [...] |
2007-09-19 12:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NATO PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV2479 |
UKRAINE: SEPTEMBER 30 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS A [...] (C) Summary. Ukrainians will go to the polls on September 30 -- for the fifth time in the past three years -- to elect a new parliament, and attempt to end the political deadlock that has gripped this country since President Yushchenko's April 2 decree dissolving the Rada. With the polls show [...] |
2007-09-27 14:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV2481 |
UKRAINE: REGIONS FOCUSES ON CAMPAIGN; PUTS ASIDE [...] (C) Summary. Pouring money and manpower into its campaign effort, Party of Regions leaders have put aside their differences to aim for another win in the September 30 Rada election -- as all polls show them doing -- but squabbles over policy direction and coalition formation could resurface in [...] |
2007-09-28 02:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV2489 |
UKRAINE/MTCR: SECURING SUPPORT FOR MODIFIED U.S. [...] (C) We relayed ref A points September 27 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Oleh Belokolos. Belokolos, who was at the Oslo meeting, said he would have the U.S. UAV/cruise missile proposal translated as soon as possible, distribute it to the relevant Uk [...] |
2007-09-28 10:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA TSPA UP |
| 07KYIV2490 |
UKRAINE: U.S. FEEDBACK ON SLV ENGINE COOPERATION [...] (S) We relayed ref A points September 27, on both the planned cooperation with the Indian Space Research Organization and a possible batch mixer sale to India's Cyano Chemisive Systems, to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Oleh Belokolos. Belokolos thank [...] |
2007-09-28 10:48:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PARM ETTC MTCRE TSPA PREL IN UP |
| 07KYIV2491 |
(S) UKRAINE/MTCR/NSG: CENTRIFUGAL CHARGING PUMPS [...] (S) On September 27, MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Oleh Belokolos provided us with a non-paper regarding delivery to China of centrifugal charging pumps to China from the Ukrainian company, Sumy Frunze Machine Building Scientific Production Associatio [...] |
2007-09-28 10:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC TSPA PK CH UP |
| 07KYIV2496 |
UKRAINE: MYKOLAYIV -- RUNNING ON ISSUES BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The southern industrial city of Mykolayiv wrestles with a number of local issues revolving around the question of who will control the city's economic assets. Controversy centers in particular on ownership of the Black Sea Shipyard, currently in the hands of Russian businessmen, [...] |
2007-09-28 12:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EIND EINV PREL RS UP |
| 07KYIV2498 |
UKRAINE: PARTIES LAY OUT CONCERNS, PLANS ON EVE OF [...] (C) Summary. As the campaign comes to a halt September 28 at midnight, all three major parties -- Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense, BYuT, and Party of Regions -- have laid out their final positions, telling international observers that they will abide by any election results that the internat [...] |
2007-09-28 13:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV2500 |
UKRAINIAN GOVT RELAXES QUOTAS ON GRAIN EXPORTS [...] (SBU) Summary: A September 26 GOU decision imposes new quota levels on grain exports as of November 1. The new quotas are significantly looser than the excessively restrictive ones currently in place, but still appear to be on the conservative side, especially since they cover a longer-than-ex [...] |
2007-10-01 02:35:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR WTRO UP |
| 07KYIV2501 |
UKRAINIAN ELECTIONS: A NEW ORANGE COALITION COULD [...] (C) Summary: A renewed "orange coalition" could potentially capture enough Rada seats to form the new government, according to several nationwide exit polls. As of noon October 1, counting continues and the Central Election Commission (CEC) has posted about 54% of the results, although there [...] |
2007-10-01 07:07:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV2505 |
UKRAINE: CABINET OF MINISTERS APPROVES VANCO PSA [...] THIS INFORMATION IS COMMERCIALLY SENSITIVE AND SHOULD NOT BE SHARED OUTSIDE OF THE USG. 2. (C) Summary. On September 26 the Cabinet of Ministers approved the production sharing agreement (PSA) for oil and gas exploration in the Black Sea with Houston-based Vanco. Vanco told the GOU it woul [...] |
2007-10-02 11:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PINR EINV UP |
| 07KYIV2508 |
UKRAINE: ALL SIDES WAIT WHILE ELECTIONS SLOWLY [...] (C) Summary. As votes continued to trickle into the Central Election Commission on October 2, parties remained for the most part constrained, holding off on both court challenges and coalition negotiations until the final count is announced. With more than 97 percent of the vote counted by 5 [...] |
2007-10-02 12:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2515 |
UKRAINE: MILITARY HELICOPTERS FOR UNAMID REQUESTED [...] (U) Per input received ref A, we joined UK Embassy Head of Political Section Duncan Allan on a joint demarche October 3 to MFA UN Directorate head Petro Datsenko to request that Ukraine consider providing six to twelve military utility helicopters (ref C) for UNAMID (United Nations-African Unio [...] |
2007-10-03 12:15:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPKO SU UK UP |
| 07KYIV2517 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO CALLS FOR PARTIES TO BEGIN [...] (C) Summary. With less than one half of one percent of the vote still uncounted, the political parties are starting to slowly extend feelers on various coalition formations. President Yushchenko made the biggest stir of the day by holding a press conference in which he called on all the parti [...] |
2007-10-03 13:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2522 |
UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH SUGGESTS REGIONS WON'T ACCEPT [...] (C) Summary: PM Yanukovych told the Ambassador October 3 that Regions had the right to form the government as the party with the most votes and was willing to negotiate with all of the parties to form a coalition, but that it could not accept an orange coalition and government. According to Y [...] |
2007-10-04 13:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 07KYIV2533 |
UKRAINE: FRUSTRATION UP IN ORANGE CAMP AS [...] (C) Summary. Key players in the past two days have told us that they believe President Yushchenko is leaning towards a broad coalition, although BYuT and part of Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense are fighting hard for an orange government. An ebullient Presidential Administration head Baloha [...] |
2007-10-05 13:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2542 |
UKRAINE: GOU TELLS IATA ALL ISSUES RESOLVED: IATA [...] (SBU) On September 20, the GOU told the International Air Transport Association (IATA) that all issues regarding IATA's Billing and Settlement Program (BSP), including its ticket stock, had been officially resolved and IATA was no longer in danger of being shut down (ref C). The Ministry of Fi [...] |
2007-10-09 11:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRD KTIA PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2546 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENT PUSHES FOR QUICK COALITION [...] (C) Summary. President Yushchenko has tried to jump start negotiations on forming a new governing coalition by calling all five political forces represented in the new Rada to a meeting October 8 and instructing them to submit proposals on the prime minister and coalition within five days. He [...] |
2007-10-09 14:07:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2555 |
UKRAINE: NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE, BALL IN BALOHA'S [...] (C) Summary. Conversations on October 10 with key advisers for Yuliya Tymoshenko and PM Viktor Yanukovych, Hryhoriy Nemyria and Serhiy Lyovochkin respectively, underscore what we have been hearing for the past week -- the ball on coalition formation is in Yushchenko's court, but it may be Pre [...] |
2007-10-10 13:43:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2566 |
UKRAINE: DASD CAGAN REQUESTS PLUS-UP IN IRAQ [...] (U) Action Request: See paragraph 13. 2. (C) Summary. In consecutive meetings with Ukrainian Chief of Defense, General of the Army Serhiy Kyrychenko, Minister of Defense Anatoliy Hrytsenko, and Deputy Foreign Minister Andriy Veselovsky on October 8, visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of [...] |
2007-10-12 02:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS IZ UP US |
| 07KYIV2575 |
UKRAINE: COALITION SOUNDING ORANGE--FOR TODAY [...] (C) Summary. As the five-day timeline President Yushchenko gave to the parties to submit coalition proposals draws to a close, BYuT and Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense took public steps intended to demonstrate that the orange coalition is close to becoming a reality. Tymoshenko and three re [...] |
2007-10-12 12:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2588 |
UKRAINE: CLOCK TICKING ON RADA AND COALITION [...] (SBU) Summary. The Central Election Commission announced the official election results late on October 15, which triggers the next steps in seating the new Rada and then the formation of a government. The CEC must promulgate the results within 5 days, the Rada must open within 30 days after [...] |
2007-10-16 12:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2634 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARIAT AND OU-PSD [...] (C) Summary. Leader of Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense Bloc Yuriy Lutsenko and Deputy Head of the Presidential Secretariat Roman Bezsmertniy told the Ambassador in separate SIPDIS meetings October 16 that OU-PSD and President Yushchenko would support an orange coalition and Tymoshenko to [...] |
2007-10-17 12:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2653 |
UKRAINE: REGIONS AND SOME IN OU OPPOSE TYMOSHENKO, [...] (C) Summary. As they await the official promulgation of the election results, which has been slowed by court appeals, the major parties are clarifying their positions on coalition formation. Prime Minister Yanukovych rejected the idea of the technocratic government outlined by members of the [...] |
2007-10-19 12:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2671 |
UKRAINE:TALK OF REMOVING RUE FROM GAS DEAL [...] (C) Summary: Local reaction to Gazprom Chairman Medvedev's comments (ref b) about removing RosUkrEnergo (RUE) from the gas deal have ranged from positive to muted. Minister of Fuels and Energy Boyko told Ambassador he had heard nothing from the Russians about possibly removing RUE from the ga [...] |
2007-10-23 12:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ETRD PREL RS UP |
| 07KYIV2672 |
UKRAINE: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) [...] (C) We provided ref A report October 23 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov. At the same time, we provided information copies of U.S. papers and positions contained refs B-E (on space launch vehicles and ballistic missiles, U.S. propos [...] |
2007-10-23 12:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA TSPA UP |
| 07KYIV2673 |
UKRAINE: READ-OUT OF MOSCOW TWO-PLUS-TWO MEETING [...] (U) We drew on ref A October 23 to brief MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov and Counselor Rustam Rustamov on the results of the U.S.-Russia "2-plus-2" discussions held October 12-13 in Moscow. Belashov, who was on his way the same aftern [...] |
2007-10-23 13:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MASS KPAO NATO EU EZ PL RS UP |
| 07KYIV2676 |
UKRAINE: SAA TELLS IATA TICKET STOCK OK, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 19 in Kyiv, State Aviation Administration (SAA) officials confirmed to visiting International Air Transport Association (IATA) officials that the dispute surrounding IATA's paper tickets (ref D) had been solved, and that sanctions against IATA had been lifted. Howeve [...] |
2007-10-24 09:22:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRD KTIA PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2677 |
UKRAINE: MILITARY HELICOPTERS FOR UNAMID -- SECOND [...] DCM spoke October 24 with MFA Second Territorial Department Director Ihor Hrushko to relay ref A request for Ukraine to consider contributing helicopters or other critical force multipliers/enablers required for the UN/African Union hybrid peacekeeping operation in Darfur, Sudan (UNAMID). DCM [...] |
2007-10-24 12:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KPKO SU UP |
| 07KYIV2678 |
UKRAINE: FORMER PM YEKHANUROV ON TYMOSHENKO, [...] (C) Summary. Our Ukraine-People's Self Defense Rada deputy and former Prime Minister Yekhanurov told the Ambassador October 24 that he did not believe Tymoshenko would be a good prime minister, but he will vote for her if that is the decision his bloc makes. He added, however, that his conti [...] |
2007-10-24 12:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2713 |
UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH AND TYMOSHENKO WAIT FOR [...] (C) Summary and Comment: PM Yanukovych and his potential successor, Yuliya Tymoshenko, met separately October 24-26 with Colin Powell and Richard Holbrooke, both of whom were in Kyiv to deliver speeches at the invitation of the Pinchuk Foundation, established by businessman and Kuchma son-in-la [...] |
2007-10-26 12:40:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2714 |
UKRAINE: Cuba Embargo Resolution at UNGA -- Demarche [...] (SBU) DCM delivered reftel points regarding the Cuba embargo resolution October 26 to MFA Second Territorial Department Director (A/S equivalent) Ihor Hrushko. Hrushko noted that Cuba continues to provide substantial assistance for the "Chornobyl children" (belonging to families affected by th [...] |
2007-10-26 12:44:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ETRD UNGA UN CU US UP |
| 07KYIV2720 |
UKRAINE: MILITARY HELICOPTERS FOR UNAMID -- UPDATE [...] (SBU) As noted ref A, DCM had a follow-up meeting October 26 with MFA Second Territorial Department Director Ihor Hrushko concerning ref B request for Ukraine to consider contributing helicopters or other critical force multipliers/enablers required for the UN/African Union hybrid peacekeeping [...] |
2007-10-29 13:29:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPKO SU UP |
| 07KYIV2721 |
UKRAINE: CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER FOR UN [...] DCM delivered reftel talking points and David Walker's biographic information October 26 to MFA Second Territorial Department Director Ihor Hrushko, after we had earlier conveyed the biographic information to MFA UN and Other International Organizations Counselor Petro Datsenko. Hrushko promis [...] |
2007-10-29 13:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UNGA UN UP |
| 07KYIV2744 |
UKRAINE: RADA PREPARATIONS SLOWLY ADVANCING [...] (C) Summary. The process of preparing to seat the new Rada is moving forward slowly, while fissures in the orange coalition continue to appear even before it has officially become a coalition. As required by law, the Central Election Commission is now registering MPs and all five factions h [...] |
2007-11-02 13:28:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV2748 |
UKRAINE: YOUNG DEPUTIES UNDERSCORE PARTY DIVIDES [...] (C) Summary. A lunch with three young MPs, all under 35 years old, underscored the fact that the three main factions share common policy ideas, but have such strained relations that any cooperation in the next year or two could be situational and uneven. Olena Bondarenko (Regions), Yuriy Pav [...] |
2007-11-05 11:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV2752 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO FINALLY TO VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Israeli Embassy DCM Shahar Arieli confirmed that President Victor Yushchenko plans to visit Israel in mid-November and that he would also visit Ramallah and meet with Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, although he noted that previous planned visits did not m [...] |
2007-11-06 08:20:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL IS UP |
| 07KYIV2753 |
UKRAINE: PSI Eastern Shield Exercise, October 29-31, Odesa, [...] (U) Summary: Ukraine and Poland sponsored a Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Eastern Shield demonstration, with Romanian, Georgian, Moldovan, and Bulgarian participation, October 29-31 in Odesa, Ukraine. The demonstration, planned as the first PSI exercise in the Black Sea region, empl [...] |
2007-11-06 09:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PTER KCRM PREL |