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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
By year:
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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD INRO INRPAZ INS INSC INT INTEL INTELLECTUAL INTELSAT INTERNAL INTERPOL INV INVI IO IOC IOM IP IPET IPGRI IPK IPPC IPR IPROP IQ IQNV IR IRAN IRAQ IRAQI IRAQI FREEDOM IRC IRCE IRDB IRE IRL IRLE IRM IRMO IRNB IRPE IRS IS ISA ISAAC ISAF ISCA ISCON ISLAMISTS ISLE ISN ISNV ISO ISPA ISPL ISRAEL ISRAEL RELATIONS ISRAELI ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISSUES ISTC IT ITA ITALIAN ITALY ITECIP ITEIND ITELTN ITER ITF ITIA ITRA ITRD ITU IUCN IV IVIANNA IWC IWI IX IZ IZAORC JA JAM JAMES JAPAN JAT JAWAD JCIC JE JEFFERY JEFFREY JHR JI JIMENEZ JIMENEZ CHILDREN JK JKUS JM JN JO JOHNNIE JOSE NEY MILA ESPINOSA JOSE RAMOS HORTA JOSEPH BIDEN JP JS JSRP JUAN JUS JY KA KACP KACT [+] KACW KADM KAID KALM KALR KANSOU KAPO KARIM WADE KATRINA KAUST KAWC [+] KAWK KAWL KAWS KAWX KAYLA KBCT KBDS KBEM KBIO KBNC KBTC KBTR KBTS KBWG KCCP KCEM KCERS KCFC KCFE [+] KCGC KCHG KCIP [+] KCIS KCM KCMA KCMR KCOG KCOM [+] KCOR [+] KCPS KCRCM KCRI KCRIM KCRM [+] KCRN KCRO KCROM KCROR KCRP KCRS KCRT KCSA KCSI KCSY KCUL KCUM KCVM KCWI KDCM KDDEM KDDG KDE KDEM [+] KDEN KDET KDEV KDGOV KDGR KDHS KDM KDMR KDP KDRG [+] KDRL KDTB KDUM KE KEAI KEBG KECF KEDEM KEDM KEDU KEIM KEM KEMPI KEMR KEMS KEN KENV KERF KERG KESO KESP KESS KEVIN KFAM KFCE KFE KFEM KFGM KFIN KFIU KFLD KFLO KFLU KFOR KFPC KFRD [+] KFRP KFSC KFTFN KFTN KG KGCC KGCN KGHA KGHG [+] KGIC [+] KGICKS KGIT KGIV KGKG KGLB KGOR KGOV KH KHDP KHGH KHIB KHIV [+] KHJUS KHLS [+] KHMN KHOURY KHPD KHSA KHSL KHUM KI KIBL KICA KICC KICCPUR KICR KICT KID KIDE KIF KIFR KIIC KIIP KIL KILS KIMMITT KIMT KIND KINF KINL KINP KINR KINT KIPR [+] KIPT KIRC KIRF [+] KIRL KIRP KIS KISC KISK KISL [+] KISM KISR KITA KIVP KIVR KJAN KJRE KJU KJUS [+] KJUST KJWC KK KKIV KKNP KKOR KKPO KLAB KLAP KLBO KLEG KLFLO KLFU KLHS KLIG KLIP KLPM KLSO KLTN KM KMAC KMAR KMCA [+] KMCC KMCR KMDR [+] KMEPI KMFO KMGT KMIG KMNP KMOC KMPF KMPI KMPIO KMPL KMPP KMPT KMRD KMRS KMSG KMVP KMWN KN KNAO KNAP KNAR KNDP KNEI KNEP KNET KNMP KNN KNNA KNNB KNNC KNNF KNNO KNNP [+] KNNR KNOP KNP KNPP KNPPIS KNPR KNPT KNRG KNRV KNSD KNUC KNUP KO KOC KOCI KOCM KOEM KOGL KOLY [+] KOM KOMC KOMCCO KOMCSG KOMH KOMO KOMS KOR KOSOVO KOUYATE KPA KPAD KPAI KPAK KPAL [+] KPALAOIS KPAM KPAO [+] KPAS KPBT KPDD KPEM KPEO KPER KPET KPIN [+] KPIR KPKO [+] KPKP KPLS KPMI KPMO KPO KPOA KPOKO KPOL KPOP KPOV KPOW KPPAO KPPD KPRD KPRM KPRO KPROG KPRP KPRV KPSC KPTD KPTS KPWG KPWR [+] KQ KQM KQRDQ KR KRAD [+] KRAL KRCIM KRCM KRCS KRD KRDP KREC KREF KREL KRF KRFD KRFR KRG KRGY KRIC KRIF KRIM KRKO KRM KRMS KRV KRVC KS KSA KSAC KSAF KSCA [+] KSCI KSCS KSCT KSEAO KSEC KSEI KSEO KSEP KSI KSIA KSKN KSLG KSMT KSOC KSOCI KSPA KSPR [+] KSRE KSTC KSTCC KSTCPL KSTH KSTS KSTT KSUM [+] KSUP KT KTAO KTBD KTBT KTCRE KTDB KTDD KTDM KTER KTEX KTFIN KTFM KTFN [+] KTFR KTFS KTIA [+] KTIP [+] KTLA KTNBT KTNF KTPN KTRD KTRF KTSC KTSD KTTB KTTC KTTP KU KUAE KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR [+] KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG [+] KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN [+] KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR [+] MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS [+] MATT MB MBM MC MCA MCAP [+] MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCONNELL MCCP MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC [+] MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS [+] MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC OASCC OASS OAU OBAMA OBS OBSP OCBD OCEA OCED OCHA OCII OCRA OCS OCSE ODAG ODC ODIP [+] ODPC OECD OECS OECV OES OESC OEXC [+] OEXP OF OFDA OFDC OFDP [+] OFDPQIS OFFICIALS OFPD OFSO OGAC OGIV OHCHR OHI OHIP OI OIC OICCO OIE OIF OIG OIIP [+] OIL OIM OLY OLYAIR OLYMPICS OM OMB OMIG OMS ON ONA OPAD OPBAT OPC OPCD OPCR OPCW OPDAT OPDC [+] OPDP OPEC OPET OPIC OPID OPOC OPPC OPRC [+] OPREC OPREP OPS OPSC OPVIP ORA ORC ORCA ORECD ORED OREG OREP [+] ORGANIZED ORP ORTA ORUE OSAC OSCE OSCI [+] OSD OSEC OSHA OSIC OSTA OSTRA OTA OTAR OTP OTR OTRA [+] OTRABL OTRAO OTRAZ OTRC OTRD OUALI OVIP [+] OVP OXEC OXEM OZ PA PAARM PAC PACE PAGE PAGR PAHO PAIGH PAK PAL PALESTINIAN PAMQ PAN PANAM PAO PAR PARALYMPIC PARCA PAREL PARK PARLIAMENT PARM [+] PARMS PARN PARP PARR PARTIES PARTM PARTY PAS PASS PATTY PAUM PB PBGT PBIO PBK PBOV PBPTS PBS PBT PBTS [+] PCI PCON PCOR PCRM PCUL PD PDA PDD PDEM PDIP PDOV PDRG PE PEACE PEACEKEEPINGFORCES PEDRO PEL PELOSI PEMEX PENA PENV PEPFAR PEPR PER PEREZ PERL PERM PERSONS PET PETER PETERS PETR PETRAEUS PETROL PF PFIN PFLP PFOR PFOV PG PGGOC PGIC PGIV PGKV PGO PGOC PGOF PGOG PGON PGOR PGOT PGOV [+] PGOVE PGOVQL PGPV PGREL PGREV PGV PH PHALANAGE PHARM PHAS PHEM PHIM PHM PHSA [+] PHU PHUH PHUM [+] PHUMHUPPS PHUN PHUS PHYTRP PI PIA PICES PIF PIN PINB PIND PINER PINF PING PINL PINO PINR [+] PINS [+] PINT PINV PIR PIRF PIRN PJUS PK PKAO PKBL PKFK PKISL PKK PKMN PKNP PKO PKPA PKPAL PKPO PKPRP PKST PL PLAB PLAN PLEC PLN PLO PLUM PM PMAR PMAT PMDL PMIG PMIL PMIN PMR PMUC PN PNAT PNET PNG PNIR PNNL PNR PNRG PNS PNUC PNUK PNUM PO PODC POG POGV POINS POL POLG POLI POLICY POLINT POLITICAL POLITICS POLM POLMIL POLS POLUN POREL PORG POSTS POTUS POUS POV POWELL PP PPA PPAO PPD PPEF PPEL PPKO PPOL PQL PQM PRC PRE PREC PRED PREF [+] PREG PREJ PREK PREL [+] PRELEVU PRELM PRELPLS PRELTBIOBA PREM PREO PREP PRER PRES PRESIDENT PRESL PREV PREZ PRF PRFE PRFL PRGO PRGOV PRIL PRL PRLE PRM PRO PROB PROCESS PROG PROL PROLIFERATION PROP [+] PROPERTY PROTECTION PROTESTS PROV PROVE PRT PRTER PRWL PS PSA PSCE PSEC PSEPC PSHA PSI PSNR PSO PSOC PSOCI PSOE PT PTBS PTE PTEL PTEP PTER [+] PTGOV PTIA PTR PTRD PU PUAS PUBLIC PUNE PUNR PUOS PV PVIP PVOV PVPR PVTS PWBG PWMN PY QA QADRI QEL QI QIZ QM QT QU QUAN QUOC RA RAED RAID RAS RATIFICATION RBI RCA RCMP RE REA REACTION REALTIONS RECIN REF REFORM REFPAN REFUGEE REFUGEES REGION REGIONAL REID REIN REINEMEYER REL RELAM RELATIONS RELFREE RELIGIOUS REMON RENAMO RENE PREVAL REO REPORT REUBEN RF RFE RFIN RFREEDOM RGOV RGY RHUM RI RICE RICHARD RIGHTS RIGHTSPOLMIL RIMC RIVERA RL RLA RM RMA RO ROK ROME ROSS ROW ROY RP RPEL RPTS RQ RR RRB RREL RS RSO RSOX RSP RSZ RTT RU RUEHZO RV RW RWANDA SA SAAD SAARC SACU SADC SAFE SAIR SAIS SAMA SAN SANC SANR SAO SARB SARGSIAN SARS SASC SASEC SB SBA SC SCA SCCC SCE SCENESETTER SCHUL SCI SCIENCE SCNV SCOI SCOL SCOM SCPR SCRM SCRS SCRSERD SCUL [+] SCVL SD SE SEC SECDEF SECI SECRET SECRETARY SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV [+] SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG [+] SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR [+] SNUC SO SOC SOCI [+] SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STET STP STR SU SUCCESSION SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO [+] TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN TNDG TNGD TO TOPEC TORRIJOS TOURISM TP TPHY [+] TPKO TPP TPSA TPSL TR TRAD TRADE TRAFFICKING TRBIO TRBY TRD TREAS TREASURY TREATY TREL TRG TRGV TRGY [+] TRIO TRSY TRT TRV TRY TRYG TRYS TS TSA TSLP TSPA [+] TSPL TSRL TSRY TSY TT TTFN TU TURKEY TV TVBIO TW TWRO TX TY TZ TZBY UA UAE UAID UAM UB UDEM UE UEU UG UGA UK UKR UKRAINE UM UMIK UN UNA UNAF UNAIDS UNAMA UNAMSIL UNAORC UNAUS UNBRO UNC UNCC UNCDF UNCDN UNCHC UNCHR UNCHS UNCITRAL UNCND UNCOPUOS UNCRED UNCRIME UNCSD UNCSW UNCTAD UNDC UNDEF UNDOF UNDP UNECE UNEF UNEP UNESCO UNFA UNFC UNFCYP UNFF UNFICYP UNFIYCP UNFPA UNGA UNGAPL UNGO UNHCR UNHRC UNICEF UNIDCP UNIDO UNIDROIT UNIFEM UNIFIL UNION UNKIK UNM UNMEE UNMIC UNMIK UNMIKI UNMIKV UNMIL UNMIN UNMOVIC UNO UNODC UNOMIG UNOPS UNP UNPAR UNPUOS UNRCCA UNRCR UNREST UNRWA UNSC UNSCAPU UNSCD UNSCE UNSCER UNSCR UNSCS UNSD UNSE UNTAC UNTERR UNTZ UNUS UNVIE UNYI UP UPU UPUO UR US USAID USAU USCC USCG USDA USDELFESTTWO USEU USG USGS USMS USNC USOAS USOP USPS USPTO USSC USTA USTDA USTR USTRD USTRIT USTRPS USTRUWR USUN UUNR UV UX UY UZ VA VANG VAT VC VE VELS VEN VENZ VETTING VI VINICIO VIP VIS VISIT VM VN VO VOA VT VTEG VTFR VTIS VTPREL VTTBIO VTWCAR VXY VY VZ WA WAEMU WAKI WAR WB WBEG WBG WCAR WCI WCL WCO WE WEBG WEBZ WEET WEF WEOG WET WEU WFA WFP WFPAORC WFPO WGC WGG WHA WHITMER WHO WHTI WI WILCOX WIPO WIR WJRO WM WMD WMDT WMN WMO WOMEN WPO WRTO WS WSIS WTO WTRD WTRO WTRQ WW WWARD WWBG WWT WZ XA XAAF XB XC XD XE XF XFNEA XG XH XI XJ XK XL XLUM XM XO XP XQ XR XS XT XTAG XU XV XW XX XXX XY XZ YE YEH YI YL YM YMCS YS YU YURIY ZA ZANU ZB ZC ZCTU ZEALAND ZF ZFR ZH ZI ZIM ZJ ZK ZKGM ZL ZM ZN ZO ZP ZR ZS ZT ZU ZW ZXA
AA AADP AALC ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO ACCOUNT ACDA ACEC ACKM ACOA ACOTA ACS ACTION ADANA ADB ADCO ADCP ADEL ADEP ADIP ADM ADMIRAL ADPM ADRC AE AEC AECL AEGR AEIR AEM AEMED AEMR [+] AER AESC AF AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGS AGUIRRE AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL AL-1 ALAB ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOW ALOWAR AM AMAT AMB AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANET ANTITERRORISM AO AOCR AODE AOIC AOMS AOPR AORC [+] AORD AOREC AORG AORL AOWC AP APCS APDC APEC APECO APER [+] APR APRC APRM AQ AR ARAB ARABBL ARABL ARABLEAGUE ARAS ARC ARCH ARENA AREP ARF ARG ARM ARMITAGE ARMS AROC ARR ARRMZY ARSO AS ASA ASAC ASC ASCC ASCE ASCEC ASCH ASE ASEAN ASEC [+] ASECARP ASECE ASECM ASECSI ASECVE ASED ASEDC ASEG ASEK ASES ASEX ASFC ASIC ASIG ASIR ASJA ASO ASOC ASPA ASR ASSEMBLY ASSK ASUP AT ATFN ATPDEA ATRA ATRD ATRN AU AU-1 AUC AUNR AUSGR AUSTRALIAGROUP AV AVERY AVIAN AVIANFLU AVIATION AW AX AY AZ AZE B. BA BAGHDAD BAIO BAKOYANNIS BALKANS BAPOL BARACK BASHAR BATA BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC BIH BILAT BIMSTEC BINR BIO BIOS BIOTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BIT BITO BK BL BLR BLUE BLUNT BM BMENA BMGT BMOT BN BNUC BO BOIKO BOL BOND BOQ BORDER BOSNIA BOU BOUCHAIB KAKA BOUTERSE BP BPIS BPTS BR BRIAN BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BUSH BV BW BWC BX BXEP BY BZ CA CAC CACM CACS CAFTA CAIO CAJC CAMBODIA CAN CAPC CARC CARE CARIB CARICOM CARSON CAS CASA CASC [+] CASCC CASCR CASE CASTILLO CAVO CB CBC CBD CBE CBG CBIS CBM CBSA CBTH CBW CCSR CCY CD CDB CDC CDCC CDCE CDG CDI CE CEA CEC CEDAW CEN CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR CHRISTIAN CHRISTOF CHRISTOPHER CI CIA CIAT CIC CICTE CIDA CIO CIP CIS CITEL CITES CITIBANK CITT CIVAIR CIVS CJ CJAN [+] CJUS CK CKGR CKOR CL CLEARANCE CLINTON CLMT CLO CLOK CM CMAE CMFT CMGT [+] CMP CMT CN CNAR CNARC CNC CNO CO CODEL COE COL COLIN COLLECTIVE COLOMBO COM COMESA COMMERCE CON CONAWAY CONDOLEEZZA CONDOLEEZZA RICE CONEAZ CONG CONGO CONGRINT CONS CONSULAR CONTROL CONTROLS CORRUPTION COSI COUNTER COUNTER TERRORISM COUNTERTERRORISM COUNTRY COUNTRYCLEARANCE CP CPA CPAS CPC CPCTC CPPT CPUOS CQ CR CRIM CRIME CRIMES CRM CROATIA CROS CRS CRUZ CS CSCE CSEP CSIS CSW CT CTBT CTER CTERR CTM CTR CTRYCLR CU CUCO CUIS CUL CV CVIA CVIC CVIS [+] CVISU CVPR CVR CW CWC CWCM CWG CX CY CYP CYPRUSARMS CZ DA DAC DAFR DAN DANFUNG DANIEL DAO DARFR DARFUR DAVID DAVID LEE HOWES DAVID WELCH DAVID WILLIAM RAY DB DC DCDG DCG DCHA DCI DCM DCOM DCRM DE DEA DEAX DEFENSE DEFENSEREFORM DELTAVIOLENCE DEM DEMARCHE DEMOCRATIC DENNIS DEOC DEPT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER DESI DHA DHLAKAMA DHLS DHRF DHS DHSX DIEZ DIPLOMACY DISENGAGEMENT DJ DK DKEM DMIN DMINE DO DOC DOD DOE DOJ DOMC DOMESTIC DOMESTICPOLITICS DONALD RUMSFELD DOT DPAO DPKO DPM DPOL DPRK DR DRC DRIP DRL DS DSR DSS DTFN DTRA DTRO DU DVC DY EAC EAD EADI EADM EAG EAGER EAGR [+] EAI EAIC EAID [+] EAIDB EAIDCIN EAIDEGZ EAIDMG EAIDNI EAIF EAIG EAIO EAIR [+] EAIS EAIT EAOD EAP EAPC EAR EARI EASS EATO EAUD EAVI EB EBEXP EBRD EBUD EC ECA ECCP ECCT ECE ECIN ECIP ECLAC ECN ECOIN ECOM ECON [+] ECONCS ECONEGE ECONOMIC ECONOMICS ECONOMY ECONOMY AND FINANCE ECOR ECOS ECOSOC ECOWAS ECPC ECPN ECPO ECPS [+] ECPSN ECRM ECTRD ECUN ED EDA EDEV EDRC EDU EDUC EE EEB EEC EENG EENV EEOC EET EETC EFI EFIC EFIM EFIN [+] EFIS [+] EFLU EFN EFND EFNI EFQ EFTA EG EGAD EGAR EGEN EGHG EGOV EGOVSY EH EI EIAD EIAID EIAR EIB EICN EID EIDE EIDN EIFN EIN EIND [+] EINDIR EINF EING EINN EINO EINR EINT [+] EINV [+] EINZ EIPR EIQ EISL EISNLN EITC EITI EIVN EK EL ELA ELAB [+] ELAD ELAINE ELAM ELAN ELAP ELB ELBA ELBR ELEC ELECTIONS ELF ELIN ELN ELND ELNT ELTD ELTM ELTN [+] ELTRN EMAIL EMED EMI EMIN [+] EMN EMS EMW EN END ENDURING ENEG ENER ENERG ENERGY ENFR ENG ENGR ENGRD ENGRG ENGY ENIV ENLT ENNP ENR ENRC ENRG [+] ENRL ENTG ENV ENVI ENVIRONMENT ENVR ENVT EON EOXC EP EPA EPAT EPCS EPE EPEC EPECO EPET [+] EPIN EPIT EPPD EPRT EPSC EPTE EPTED EPWR EQ EQRD ER ERA ERD EREL ERGR ERICKSON ERIN ERTD ES ESA ESCAP ESCI ESDP ESENV ESF ESLCO ESOC ESOCI ESPS ESS ESSO ESTH ESTN ESTRADA ET ETA ETAD ETC ETCC ETD ETDR ETEL ETER ETEX ETFN ETIC ETIO ETLN ETMIN ETR ETRA ETRAD ETRB ETRC ETRD [+] ETRDECD ETRG ETRK ETRN ETRO ETRP ETT ETTC [+] ETTD ETTF ETTN ETTR ETTRD ETTW ETZ EU EUC EUCOM EUE EUEAID EUFOR EUM EUMEM EUN EUR EUREM EURM EURN EV EVENTS EVN EWRG EWT EWTR EWWT [+] EX EXBS EXEC EXIM EXO EXPORT EXTERNAL EZ FA FAA FAC FAGR FAO FARC FARM FAS FATAH FBI FCC FCS FCSC FCSCEG FCUL FDA FDIC FEDULOV FEMA FERNANDO FGM FI FIN FINANCE FINE FINR FINREF FINV FIR FISO FJ FK FKFLO FKLU FLU FM FMC FMGT FMLN FMS FO FOI FOOKS FOR FORCE FORCES FOREIGN FORWHA FP FPC FR FRA FRANCIS FRANCISCO RODENAS RUIZ FRB FREDOM FREEDOM FRELIMO FRIED FRN FRU FSC FSI FT FTA FTAA FWS GA GAERC GAMES GAO GARCIA GASPAR GATT GAZA GAZPROM GB GBSLE GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD 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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
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| 01HOCHIMINHCITY1183 | FORMER SAIGON COMMUNIST PARTY CHIEF REFLECTS ON FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM AND VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS ACT [...] SUMMARY: IN A MEETING WITH EAP/BCLTV DIRECTOR JUDITH STROTZ, FORMER SAIGON COMMUNIST PARTY SECRETARY TRAN BACH DANG EXPRESSED SUPPORT FOR THE U.S. FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM. HE ALSO EXPRESSED HIS EXTREME DISAPPROVAL OF THE VIETNAM HUMAN RIGHTS ACT (PENDING BEFORE THE SENATE) BECAUSE, HE SAID, I [...] | 2001-10-17 08:03:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PTER VM HUMANR CTERR |
| 01PHNOMPENH1740 | CAMBODIAN FOREIGN MINISTER WINS LIBEL CASE AGAINST [...] SUMMARY: A RECENT DEFAMATION/LIBEL CASE AGAINST THE COUNTRY'S LEADING ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER, THE CAMBODIA DAILY, HAS JOURNALISTS CONCERNED THAT THE GOVERNMENT OR POWERFUL INDIVIDUALS CAN MAKE USE OF ANTI-DEFAMATION LAWS AND PLIANT COURTS TO INTIMIDATE JOURNALISTS AND PREVENT THEM FROM PU [...] | 2001-10-23 10:04:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PHUM OIIP CB |
| 02COLOMBO1839 | OFFICIAL INFORMAL NUMBER 137 -0302) [...] (U) The joint Treasury/AID team had a tremendously successful one-week visit here last month. It was packed with meetings from early morning into each evening. Even though it was an office director (and below) level team, we had no problems getting meetings with numerous Ministers (Finance [...] | 2002-10-03 10:41:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT CE LTTE |
| 02HANOI1222 | RELIGIOUS REGULATION STRUCTURE IN VIETNAM [...] (U) SUMMARY: RELIGIOUS REGULATION IN VIETNAM IS CHARACTERIZED BY AN EVOLVING BUREAUCRATIC AND LEGALISTIC APPROACH. WHILE THE SRV CONSTITUTION PROTECTS RELIGIOUS BELIEF (AND NON-BELIEF),THE GVN THOROUGHLY REGULATES RELIGIOUS GROUPS AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICE UNDER THE PREMISE OF MAINTAINING TH [...] | 2002-05-15 10:42:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI VM HUMANR RELFREE |
| 02HANOI2090 | DAK LAK PROVINCE UPDATE ON RELIGIOUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A PROTESTANT PASTOR FROM DAK LAK PROVINCE RECENTLY MET WITH CONGENOFFS TO DISCUSS THE CURRENT SITUATION THERE, WHICH HE CHARACTERIZED AS THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT ATTEMPTING TO "ERADICATE" PROTESTANTISM. HE SAID PROTESTANT FAMILIES WERE NOW FORBIDDEN TO WORSHIP TOGETHER IN GRO [...] | 2002-08-27 10:03:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREF PINS PREL KIRF SOCI VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE |
| 02KATHMANDU2394 | NEPAL: MAOISTS' TOP IDEOLOGUE BHATTARAI [...] (C) Summary: In a December 14 interview with the Washington Times, Maoist ideologue Baburam Bhattarai appeared to back-pedal from the implicit threat against American diplomats conveyed in a November 15 communique issued by a regional commander. While it is always difficult to assess the si [...] | 2002-12-16 12:38:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC CASC NP |
| 02PHNOMPENH1361 | BIO: ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION FOR HOR [...] (S) INR/B BIO FROM 1998 REPORTS THAT HOR NAMHONG'S COLLEAGUES RESENT HIM FOR APPOINTING HIS RELATIVES TO KEY MINISTRY POSITIONS. IN 1992, INR/B DESCRIBED HIM AS AN OPPORTUNIST WHO LACKED HIS OWN POWER BASES, BUT GAINED POSITIONS BY SEEKING ALLIANCES AND DOING FAVORS FOR POWERFUL SOC LEADERS. [...] | 2002-06-06 02:43:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | SECRET | CB PINR |
| 03COLOMBO755 | Norwegians, Japanese press Tigers to return to talks and to attend donors conference [...] (C) SUMMARY: Norwegian and Japanese representatives are urgently trying to convince the Tigers to get back to the peace table and to attend the June donors conference. So far, the Tigers are not playing ball. The next best chance to change their minds seems to be GoJ envoy Akashi´s May 7 meeting [...] | 2003-05-05 04:11:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINS CE NO JA LTTE |
| 03HANOI1554 | Khmer and Cham in Vietnam -- [...] (U) Summary: The Mekong Delta province of An Giang on the Cambodian border is home to members of all of Vietnam's recognized religious faiths and two of its larger ethnic minorities, the Khmer and the Cham. The Khmer follow Theravada Buddhism, while most Vietnamese Buddhists belong to the [...] | 2003-06-20 09:27:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KIRF PGOV SOCI VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE |
| 03HANOI208 | VIETNAM: SON LA DAM APPROVED BY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (U) SUMMARY: In December, the 11th National Assembly gave "final" approval for the long-planned construction of the Son La Dam and hydroelectric plant in northwest Vietnam. The planning phase for this project has spanned more than 30 years and has instigated one of the more lengthy and intere [...] | 2003-01-27 09:24:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON SENV EINV EAID VM ETMIN |
| 03HANOI669 | VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA: LOOKING FORWARD [...] (U) SUMMARY. Vietnam and Cambodia have a complex relationship with a volatile history, but both sides now appear to focus on the future. Cross border smuggling of drugs and other goods as well as human trafficking have emerged as significant problems. Vietnam reportedly does not view the [...] | 2003-03-19 02:49:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR SOCI PHUM ETRD ECON EAID CB VM ETMIN CNARC ASEAN TIP |
| 03HOCHIMINHCITY1100 | BALANCING ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN SOC TRANG AND [...] (SBU) Summary: DCM (then Charge) and ConGen Poloff visited Soc Trang and Tra Vinh Provinces during October 1-3, to examine firsthand the situation for the ethnic Khmer in the Mekong Delta, in light of continuing reports of discrimination from sources overseas. Situated in an area that once be [...] | 2003-11-10 07:29:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ECON PGOV PREL EINV ETRD SOCI KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN |
| 03HOCHIMINHCITY1141 | CA MAU PROVINCE: AT THE END OF THE LINE, BUT BLESSED BY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Lying at the southern tip of Vietnam, Ca Mau is one of the country's more isolated provinces. Heavily dependent upon aquaculture, especially shrimp, the province has enjoyed strong recent economic growth. While the province actively touts its natural resources and advantages, [...] | 2003-11-21 11:06:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ECON SOCI PGOV PREL EFIS VM HUMANR RELFREE |
| 03HOCHIMINHCITY1142 | KIEN GIANG PROVINCE: PRACTICALLY PERFECT, IF NOT FOR THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The southern Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang faces significant challenges in attracting foreign investment and reducing poverty. Despite impressive recent economic growth, mostly due to rice farmers converting to more profitable shrimp farming, the province is still underd [...] | 2003-11-21 11:18:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ECON PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
| 03HOCHIMINHCITY426 | AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO VINH LONG [...] SUMMARY: On May 5, 2003, Ambassador Burghardt, DPO, and Conoff traveled to Vinh Long province in the Mekong Delta with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Country Representative Chris Gilson. The Ambassador met with representatives of the provincial People's Committee and Union of Friendship Organi [...] | 2003-05-13 10:52:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV ECON VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE |
| 03HOCHIMINHCITY604 | CAN THO AND AN GIANG UNIVERSITIES - SEEKING [...] (SBU) Summary. During a recent trip to the Mekong Delta region, DCM met with the Vice-Rector of Can Tho University and the Rector of An Giang University. Both expressed disappointment at the slow start to the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) scholarship program and expressed hope that it [...] | 2003-07-03 10:48:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI EAGR ECON OEXC VM |
| 03KATHMANDU117 | NEPAL: AN EXTRAORDINARY TRAINING GROUND FOR U.S. [...] (C) Dear Bob: I was disappointed to learn that Nepal is not included on USSOCOM,s High Value Target List. As I understand it, if Nepal is not on this list, it will be difficult for U.S. Special Operations Forces to conduct deployments and training here. I hope I can enlist your support t [...] | 2003-01-23 04:58:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS MCAP PREL PTER NP |
| 03OTTAWA2306 | MEDIA REACTION: AFRICA; NATO; IRAQ; NORTH [...] "Taylor's odious exit' The liberal Toronto Star opined (8/12): "Charles Taylor has finally been pried from power in Liberia, and that's a relief. It offers hope, however faint, for the 3.3 million people who have endured 14 blood-spattered years under his kleptocratic reign of terror first a [...] | 2003-08-12 20:33:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KMDR OIIP OPRC CA |
| 04HANOI327 | RESURGENCE OF TRADITIONAL BELIEF CELEBRATIONS [...] (U) Summary. The expansion of religious freedoms and resurgent interest in local culture over the past two decades has also sparked new pride in local folk belief and led to the resurgence of large, well-organized festivals dedicated to local gods and heroes. Poloffs attended one major fes [...] | 2004-02-06 09:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI PGOV VM RELFREE |
| 04HOCHIMINHCITY1554 | SHRIMP, DEVELOPMENT AND MINORITY RIGHTS IN SOC [...] (SBU) Shrimp farming in the coastal Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang is driving economic growth and poverty eradication. Beneficiaries include the large ethnic Khmer minority. Reports from exile groups of disenfranchisement and oppression of the Khmer appear out of date. The GVN began a l [...] | 2004-12-17 03:46:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID EAGR PREL SOCI PHUM PGOV KIRF VM ETMIN HUMANR HIV AIDS |
| 04HOCHIMINHCITY336 | FORMER UBCV MONK THICH TRI LUC: RELIEVED AT HIS RELEASE, [...] (SBU) Summary: Pham Van Tuong (protect),formerly known as Thich Tri Luc, met with CG and ConGenoffs for two hours on March 30, 2004, four days after his release from prison. The former monk from the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) appeared to be in good physical and mental c [...] | 2004-03-31 00:44:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF VM RELFREE HUMANR |
| 04PHNOMPENH1985 | CAMBODIA'S BOHEMIAN KING - THE HONEYMOON IS NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: King Norodom Sihamoni continues to reach out to people across Cambodia, bringing a new sense of dignity to the royal house. Though most of his forays into the countryside are carefully scripted, on occasion he breaks the bonds and makes a solid connection with the crowds. His [...] | 2004-12-23 08:05:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV CB PINR PREL |
| 04RANGOON158 | FIELD OBSERVATIONS OF UNICEF BURMA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Thirty-five percent of Burma's children are malnourished, while one out of ten dies by age five, according to UNICEF. Emboff traveled with a UNICEF team to Karen and Mon States recently to observe UNICEF's field operations. Embassy Rangoon is highly supportive of UNICEF's act [...] | 2004-02-04 09:10:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREL BM UNICEF NGO |
| 04ROME2218 | WFP food diversions in Cambodia [...] WFP has uncovered a major case of commodity theft related to food for work (FFW) distributions in Kampong Speu cluster. An external team headed by an international consultant (a former WFP staff member who speaks Khmer),and two engineers seconded by Red R Australia, is carrying out physical v [...] | 2004-06-10 10:33:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR |
| 05BANGKOK2260 | THAILAND: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's March 28 courtesy call on the leader of Thailand's official Islamic community, the Chularatchamontri stated his support for the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) headed by former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun. The 89-year-old Muslim cleric expr [...] | 2005-03-30 11:21:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM TH BIO NRC |
| 05BANGKOK3327 | THAILAND: MAY 1992 DEMOCRACY HEROES TO BE [...] (SBU) Summary: Families of democracy demonstrators killed, injured or missing from a military crackdown in May 1992 laid the foundation stone for a new memorial in Bangkok. Opposition Democrat Party leader Abhisit spoke in praise of those who "sacrificed to bring democracy" to the Thai people. [...] | 2005-05-19 08:31:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TH HUMAN RIGHTS |
| 05BANGKOK3333 | THAIS CONTENT WITH LOCAL NEGOTIATIONS TO DEFUSE BORDER TENSIONS WITH CAMBODIA AT ANCIENT KHMER TEMPLE [...] Summary: Recent news stories about a dispute at a historically sensitive ancient Khmer temple at the border between Thailand and Cambodia inaccurately reported increased Thai troop deployments and explosion of a landmine inside the temple. Tensions at this temple site, which flare periodically, app [...] | 2005-05-19 10:31:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PREL CB TH CAMBODIA |
| 05CANBERRA1218 | AUSTRALIA DOES NOT SUPPORT MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) On July 11, Poloff delivered ref A demarche to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) ASEAN, Burma, and Cambodia Director Lynette Wood and Executive Officer Gillian Walker seeking to gauge Australian interest in establishing a Management Committee for the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. [...] | 2005-07-18 06:55:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KAWC CB AS |
| 05HANOI1172 | VIETNAM: THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S CALL ON THE [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: On May 5, Deputy Secretary Robert Zoellick met with Minister of Planning and SIPDIS Investment Vo Hong Phuc. The Deputy Secretary advocated in favor of broadening the U.S.-Vietnam relationship. He identified HIV/AIDs and education as areas of good collabor [...] | 2005-05-19 03:59:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV PREL PGOV SENV TBIO VM WTRO AFLU HIV AIDS WTO BTA ETMIN SOE |
| 05HANOI2040 | UNHCR Bangkok rep visits Hanoi, debriefs [...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR Regional Representative Hasim Utkan briefed the Ambassador August 5 on his recent trip with UNHCR's Hanoi Chief of Mission, Vu Anh Son, to Gia Lai Province in the Central Highlands. Gia Lai is where nearly all of the 94 migrants recently deported from Cambodia arrived. [...] | 2005-08-10 10:11:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM CB VM ASEAN ETMIN HUMANR |
| 05HANOI3114 | UNHCR PLEASED WITH PROGRESS IN ETHNIC MINORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: UNHCR Asia/Pacific Director Janet Lim and other UNHCR representatives briefed the Ambassador November 21 on the current positive tone of UNHCR- GVN relations and the state of play of Vietnamese ethnic minorities in Cambodia. Although the GVN remains reluctant to al [...] | 2005-11-23 09:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PREF VM CB DPRK ETMIN HUMANR |
| 05HOCHIMINHCITY132 | DEPUTY GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR VISITS HCMC [...] (SBU) Summary. Dr. Joseph O'Neill, Deputy U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, heard from government officials, health care providers, and NGO directors who expressed thanks for USG assistance to combat HIV/AIDS and pointed out the need for further anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment and technical traini [...] | 2005-02-02 10:21:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KHIV PGOV EAID PREL SOCI VM HIV AIDS |
| 05HOCHIMINHCITY162 | DEVELOPMENT AND BORDER ISSUES IN THE NORTHERN MEKONG [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent visit by the Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) to the Mekong Delta provinces of Dong Thap and Vinh Long revealed that, like much of the rest of the Mekong Delta, these provinces rely heavily on agri- and aquaculture to fuel their economic growth. Plentiful harvests of rice [...] | 2005-02-16 13:09:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EINV PREL SOCI ETRD PHUM EAGR SNAR VM |
| 05HOCHIMINHCITY811 | UNHCR REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE UTKAN VIEWS ON EVE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: In HCMC before his August 2-4 visit to the Central Highlands, UNHCR Regional Representative Utkan, accompanied by Hanoi-based UNHCR representative Vu Anh Son, told ConGenOffs that cooperation with the GVN on issues related to the return of ethnic minority refugees from Cambodia [...] | 2005-08-02 11:02:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF SOCI PREL PGOV CB VM |
| 05KUWAIT2893 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: KUWAITI OPINION ON IRANIAN [...] Summary: The election of Iranian president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stirred unease among Kuwaiti observers. While few voices predict Iranian foreign policy will substantially change under the new president, the perceived continuation of the status quo has prompted calls for GCC unity and [...] | 2005-06-28 14:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO KISL PHUM PINR KU |
| 05PARIS4879 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED - MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE FOR [...] (U) We provided reftel points July 8 to MFA IO Asia action officer Didier Gonzalez. Gonzalez told us July 9 that the GoF had no position on the establishment of a Management Committee. The idea, he said, would require some reflection. 2. (U) We also provided the points to MFA Cambodia d [...] | 2005-07-13 10:07:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KAWC CB FR |
| 05THEHAGUE2023 | NETHERLANDS/CAMBODIA: MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-20 09:31:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | KAWC PREL CB NL |
| 06BANGKOK5564 | EASTERN BURMA: GRIM FINDINGS ON HEALTH AND HUMAN [...] The findings of a recent survey of health indicators in eastern Burma reveal a severe health crises made worse by continuing conflict and widespread human rights abuses. On September 7, the Back Pack Health Worker Team (BPHWT),chaired by Dr. Cynthia Maung, released their report entitled: "C [...] | 2006-09-11 09:25:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF TH BM |
| 06BANGKOK6203 | NEW INTERIM CABINET AND SELECT BIOS [...] (U) Interim PM Surayud Chulanont announced his cabinet over the weekend and received the King's royal endorsement on October 9. Dubbed the "cabinet of old men," the 26-member interim cabinet have been tasked to improve Thailand's image abroad. They are as follows: Deputy PM and Finance Mi [...] | 2006-10-10 10:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR TH |
| 06DHAKA630 | SOLICITATION FOR INCLE FUNDS [...] Per 2005 STATE 221416, post is forwarding the following TIP proposal submitted by The Asia Foundation (TAF). Given the limited resources available through INCLE this year, we do not feel this is this is a strong proposal. The problems addressed in this proposal are either adequately address [...] | 2006-02-08 01:39:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL BG |
| 06HANOI1999 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH UNHCR REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE [...] (SBU) On August 1, UNHCR provided the Ambassador with a readout of recent Vietnmam-related developments. UNHCR is working to resolve the status of 9,500 Cambodians (Khmer Krom) living in southern Vietnam through a joint working group with the GVN and Government of Cambodia, though progress is [...] | 2006-08-07 08:43:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PREF VM CB |
| 06HANOI3059 | COMMITTEE FOR RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS AND PROTESTANT ORGANIZATION [...] (SBU) The Government Committee on Religious Affairs (CRA) told Poloff on December 19 that it will issue recognition certificates to two previously unrecognized church organizations on December 23. The CRA also confirmed the existence of a controversial training manual on Protestantism. The man [...] | 2006-12-22 08:52:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM |
| 06HANOI638 | GVN REPORT ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (SBU) On March 10, the GVN's Committee on Religious Affairs (CRA) sent the Ambassador a report on religious conditions in Vietnam in 2005 (unofficial translation in paragraph 4). The first part of the report lists Vietnam's achievements in promoting religious freedom in 2005, and the second p [...] | 2006-03-20 07:52:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM VM |
| 06HANOI992 | UNHCR ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER IN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) UNHCR's Assistant Commissioner for Protection Erika Feller visted Gia Lai Province April 26-27 and met Vice Foreign Minister Nguyen Phu Binh April 28. While in Gia Lai, she met with six returnees (including two individuals who were singled out by Human Rights Watch),who described their [...] | 2006-04-28 10:12:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF VM CB |
| 06HOCHIMINHCITY1014 | STAFFDEL BLANK IN THE MEKONG DELTA: AVIAN INFLUENZA, LOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary: During a visit to the Mekong Delta province of An Giang August 25 and 26, Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) Staffer Jonah Blank reviewed government efforts to control Avian Influenza, visited a women's shelter and examined the status of the ethnic Cham Muslim community. [...] | 2006-09-07 08:30:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU AMED PREL PREF KJUS EAGR SOCI VM |
| 06HOCHIMINHCITY590 | ETHNIC KHMER OF TRA VINH PROVINCE [...] (SBU) Summary: In early May, the Ambassador visited Tra Vinh Province in the Mekong Delta and discussed ethnic Khmer issues with provincial officials, local Khmer and a leading Khmer Buddhist cleric. Ethnic Khmer make up 30 percent of the population of Tra Vinh and conditions for this minorit [...] | 2006-06-02 11:28:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL ECON EAID KIRF SOCI PGOV VM |
| 06HOCHIMINHCITY87 | ANALYSIS OF PROVINCIAL PARTY CONGRESSES IN CENTRAL AND [...] (SBU) Summary: In late 2005, provincial Communist Party Committees in southern and central Vietnam conducted their Party Congresses to select the new crop of provincial leaders for the 2006-2010 term. The results may offer some indication of the thinking and direction of the Party as it prepa [...] | 2006-01-25 08:58:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL SOCI KIRF PHUM VM DPOL |
| 06PHNOMPENH1086 | TONLE BASSAC LAND DISPUTE CONTINUES [...] (U) Summary: A land dispute in the heart of Phnom Penh is emblematic of the increasing number of land conflicts in Cambodia. On June 6 and 7, local police evicted 500 families from the Tonle Bassac community. Another group of families with land documentation from the UNTAC days is being th [...] | 2006-06-09 10:33:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH1118 | Inaugural Meeting of the Friends of the ECCC [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 12, the Japanese and French Ambassadors co-chaired the inaugural Friends of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) meeting. Donors agreed that the Friends group would serve to disseminate information on the ECCC's progress, provide non-judicial adv [...] | 2006-06-15 00:46:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KJUS CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH1124 | CAMBODIAN GARMENT SECTOR WORRIED ABOUT DRAMATIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Following several months of increased garment sector strikes, the number of working days lost to strikes reached 87,000 in May--more than four times typical levels. These strikes are largely the result of two irresponsible unions, but also reflect growing union rivalry, worke [...] | 2006-06-15 10:38:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON KTEX PGOV CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH1174 | CAMBODIA: AMBASSADOR URGES RESTRAINT IN GARMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a June 22 meeting, the Ambassador praised the role of labor unions, but also urged eleven union leaders to exercise restraint in conducting strikes, noting that a recent spike in garment sector strikes is threatening Cambodia's economic development. While strikes are valid [...] | 2006-06-26 11:02:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KTEX ECON CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH1201 | CAMBODIA'S LABOR AND COMMERCE MINISTERS DOING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During separate June 28 meetings with the Ministers of Commerce and Labor, the Ambassador relayed embassy efforts to encourage both unions and garment manufacturers to negotiate a resolution to the general strike threatened for July 3 and urged the government to do everything [...] | 2006-06-29 11:54:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV KTEX KIPR CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH1264 | CAMBODIA: FELONY CHARGES TO BE DROPPED AGAINST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A labor dispute threatened to erupt into violence on July 6 after striking workers illegally blockaded the main gate at the Genuine garment factory and the garment factory had three union leaders arrested on trumped-up felony charges of human confinement, the first time unionis [...] | 2006-07-10 11:30:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH1268 | PHNOM PENH OFFICE OF UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR [...] (SBU) The Phnom Penh office of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has done a good job of monitoring and publicizing human rights abuses in Cambodia. Its staff has for the most part been responsible and professional. In a sea of NGO and inter-governmental organiza [...] | 2006-07-11 07:28:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH1362 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL BUILDING MOMENTUM [...] (U) Summary. Following initial criticism of a slow start, progress of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal on a variety of fronts has picked up in July, according to the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI). OSJI believes the most significant new development is the court's adoption of the ICC Code o [...] | 2006-07-27 09:03:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS PREL CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH1374 | REACTION TO KHMER ROUGE LEADER'S DEATH [...] (SBU) Summary. Ung Choeun, widely known as Ta Mok, age 82, passed away on July 21 at a military hospital where he had been hospitalized since June 29. Since his passing, government officials, the media, and civil society leaders have discussed the impact of his death on the proceedings of t [...] | 2006-07-31 06:55:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS PREL CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH1396 | CAN CAMBODIA'S DEMOCRATIC FORCES UNITE FOR [...] (SBU) Summary. On July 30, FUNCINPEC President Prince Norodom Ranariddh called on all parties to unite in 2008 and form an Alliance of Nationalists. In practice, the weakened FUNCINPEC leader seeks to realign his party with the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) and other pro-democracy forc [...] | 2006-08-03 00:27:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH1406 | PHNOM PENH'S CHINESE SEX TOURISM INDUSTRY [...] (U) Summary. Typically shrouded behind legitimate businesses, Phnom Penh's sex establishments catering to the Chinese operate relatively discretely. Generally, Chinese men come to Phnom Penh for business reasons, not for the purpose of sex tourism. Chinese clientele refrain from the low-e [...] | 2006-08-07 08:49:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KJUS CB KWMN SNAR |
| 06PHNOMPENH1643 | DISINFORMATION/INCITEMENT LAWS: NEW TOOLS TO SUPPRESS [...] (U) Summary: The government's legal means to suppress criticism has not been eliminated despite the partial decriminalization of defamation. Three recent cases, including those of two journalists and a former professor, illustrate that disinformation and incitement laws may be the new tools [...] | 2006-09-12 09:46:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CB KJUS |
| 06PHNOMPENH1700 | CAMBODIA: MONTAGNARD UPDATE, RESPONSE TO NGO [...] (SBU) Summary. The Cambodian government (RGC) granted permission for a joint UNHCR expedition to Mondolkiri province to rescue Montagnards following approaches from the Ambassador and A/DCM. Separately, 14 Montagnards arrived directly at UNHCR's Phnom Penh office from Mondolkiri on Septembe [...] | 2006-09-19 09:27:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL CB VM |
| 06PHNOMPENH1723 | C O R R E C T E D C O P Y (PARA. 10): CAMBODIA: [...] (SBU) Summary. The Cambodian government (RGC) granted permission for a joint UNHCR expedition to Mondolkiri province to rescue Montagnards following approaches from the Ambassador and A/DCM. Separately, 14 Montagnards arrived directly at UNHCR's Phnom Penh office from Mondolkiri on Septembe [...] | 2006-09-20 10:44:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL CB VM |
| 06PHNOMPENH1757 | CORRUPT CAMBODIAN UNION UNDER INVESTIGATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Cambodian government has formed a commission to investigate the Khmer Youth Free Trade Union (KYFTU),a labor union notorious for extorting garment factory management and beating rival union leaders. If the commission can find sufficient evidence of illegal activities, the [...] | 2006-09-27 08:56:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KCOR PGOV CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH1845 | CAMBODIA'S ECCC MAKING GOOD PROGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary. During an October 1-5 visit to Cambodia, S/WCI and INR officials met with a wide range of interlocutors concerning the work of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). ECCC officials from the office of Administration underscored budgetary gaps and unfill [...] | 2006-10-10 10:40:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH1871 | CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT AND NGOS BEGIN EFFORT TO FORM [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Hun Sen opened a two-day meeting in Siem Riep September 26-27 by asking NGOs to draft legislation to create a national human rights commission in one year. Members of civil society, Cambodian lawmakers, government officials and foreign observers participated in [...] | 2006-10-16 06:33:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH1891 | THAI PM SURAYUD PROMISES CONTINUITY TO CAMBODIA [...] (SBU) Thai interim Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont's one-day visit to Phnom Penh October 15 was intended to reassure the Cambodian government of Thailand's stability and that the Thai government (RTG) would continue to strengthen ties between the two countries despite the change in governmen [...] | 2006-10-18 08:48:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM ENRG CB TH |
| 06PHNOMPENH1927 | CAMBODIAN RESPONSE ON NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Pol/Econ Chief raised the North Korean refugee issue with MFA Secretary of State Long Visalo on October 19. Visalo said that he would provide the copy of reftel non-paper to the Minister and brief him on the USG request. On the question of sensitivity to [...] | 2006-10-24 08:14:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL ASEC PINR CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH1934 | A/S LOWENKRON MEETS OPPOSITION LEADER SAM RAINSY [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 16 and 17, A/S Lowenkron met with various leaders of Cambodia's civil society, union leaders and labor experts, and opposition party leader Sam Rainsy. Human rights leaders discussed impunity, the difficulties involved in the RGC's proposal to form a human rights [...] | 2006-10-25 11:06:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH1960 | CAMBODIA REVIEWS DEMOCRATIC PROGRESS SINCE 1991 [...] (U) Summary. On October 21, the International Relations Institute organized a 15-year anniversary academic forum reviewing the successes and failures of the 1991 Paris Peace Accords and their implementation during the subsequent UNTAC period. Cambodian government officials dominated the li [...] | 2006-10-30 10:11:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID ASEC KDEM CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH1965 | CAMBODIA INCSR PART I SUBMISSION [...] The following is Embassy Phnom Penh's submission for the narcotics section of the 2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report as requested reftel. 2. Begin text: Cambodia I. Summary The number of drug-related investigations, arrests and seizures in Cambodia continued to [...] | 2006-11-01 09:21:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH1983 | RECENT ECCC DEVELOPMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Recent meetings concerning the Extraordinary Chambers have highlighted funding gaps and the need for additional support from donors. The role of the judicial police is looming as an issue requiring clarification and possible donor intervention with the RGC to ensure that the [...] | 2006-11-02 11:06:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH2046 | ECCC ISSUES DRAFT INTERNAL RULES [...] (SBU) Summary. The Khmer Rouge Tribunal's (ECCC) Rules Committee released the draft internal rules for public comment on November 3, providing two weeks for civil society and others to give feedback on the proposed rules. Informal soundings from sources within the ECCC, the diplomatic comm [...] | 2006-11-16 11:24:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS EAID CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH2095 | CAMBODIA'S ECCC STUMBLES AND STALLS [...] (U) Summary. During the ECCC judges' plenary session from November 20-25, international and Cambodian judges were sharply divided over issues concerning the primacy of Cambodian law versus international law. News about the impasse leaked out and appeared on the Internet. Running parallel [...] | 2006-11-28 11:04:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH2138 | DRUG PRECURSORS AND DEFORESTATION IN CAMBODIA'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In addition to being home to a multitude of endangered and threatened flora and fauna, the Cardamom Mountains in southwestern Cambodia also contain aromatic trees being harvested and processed illegally to produce high quality sassafras oil, a substance used to produce methamp [...] | 2006-12-05 04:39:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR ESTH PGOV CB VN |
| 06PHNOMPENH2144 | NRP Approved; Ranariddh Loses Assembly Seat [...] (U) Summary. The MOI formally recognized the Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) on November 28. With approval for the Prince to form his own party, FUNCINPEC expelled Ranariddh from the royalist party, which means the loss of Ranariddh's National Assembly seat and parliamentary immunity. The Pr [...] | 2006-12-05 10:11:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KDEM CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH2172 | PM'S BODYGUARD LEADS MONKS IN PATH TOWARDS HARMONIOUS [...] (SBU) Summary. Hing Bun Heang, the Commander of the Prime Minister's Personal Bodyguard Unit, was appointed in September 2006 as Supreme Consultant to a newly formed Monk Assembly, which is designed to investigate and resolve disputes involving monks across Cambodia. The Royal Government of [...] | 2006-12-11 11:13:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KDEM CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH2180 | HUMAN RIGHTS DAY IN PHNOM PENH: MULTIPLE [...] (U) Summary. Post participated in three celebrations of International human Rights Day, two of which received partial funding from USAID. On December 8, the Cambodian senate organized its own celebration: focusing on the legislature's role in human rights and highlighting the needs of speci [...] | 2006-12-13 11:24:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH2210 | REACTION TO FINNISH VISA FOR CONVICTED CAMBODIAN COP [...] (SBU) Summary. While the Cambodian government has reacted angrily to the Finnish government's decision to offer a visa to convicted senior police official Heng Pov, Cambodian human rights NGOs and the political opposition are pleased with the decision. Following the announcement on December [...] | 2006-12-21 01:20:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KJUS PREF CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH2212 | UPDATE ON CAMBODIA'S CWC STATUS [...] (SBU) On December 20, Acting DCM met with Lt. General Chau Phirun, Director General of the MOD's General Department of Material and Technique; Major General Chey Son, Chief of the Directorate of Chemical Protection, and his deputy, Lt. Colonel Yin Sothy. Acting DCM reviewed reftel B demarche [...] | 2006-12-21 01:20:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM CWC KTIA PREL CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH2241 | CAMBODIA CHILD LABOR REPORT UPDATE 2006 [...] Please find below post's update of the child labor report for Cambodia. An electronic version of the report, including updated footnotes listing sources, will be emailed to Tina McCarter. Begin Text: Cambodia Incidence and Nature of Child Labor Forty-five percent of children ages 5 [...] | 2006-12-28 06:26:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH327 | SAM RAINSY'S POLITICAL STRATEGY: PUSH HUN SEN, [...] (C) Summary. Opposition leader Sam Rainsy says that reconciliation with Hun Sen was the only way to improve his party's position in upcoming national elections and provide hope for the democratic future of Cambodia. Rainsy hopes that his continued ability to move the government towards des [...] | 2006-02-17 09:20:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH348 | CAMBODIAN LAND DISPUTES MORE FREQUENT, MORE VIOLENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Land disputes--which often pit poor villagers against the powerful and wealthy--have affected 12% of Cambodians and are on the rise. The disputes take many shapes, including large economic land concessions on land claimed by indigenous groups in the northeast and a plethora of [...] | 2006-02-22 11:21:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SENV ECON CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH361 | CAMBODIA'S PRIME MINISTER: WORKING FOR THE [...] (C) Summary. During an hour and one-half February 23 meeting with Staffdel Grove, PM Hun Sen outlined his vision for moving Cambodia forward along the path to democratic reform in concert with the opposition Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) and civil society, claiming that his dramatic turnaround was [...] | 2006-02-24 04:39:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH365 | ANATOMY OF A LAND DISPUTE: TWO CASESQOM WESTERN [...] SUMMARY. Land disputes affect 45% of the population of the western province of Banteay Meanchey and 10% of the population in neighboring Battambang province, according to estimates by local NGO activists. During a Feb. 1-3 trip to the region, Econoff and Econ FSN learned that such disputes [...] | 2006-02-24 07:47:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV SENV ECON CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH600 | CAMBODIA: FOUR FUNCINPEC GOVERNORS SACKED, [...] (SBU) Citing incompetence and corruption, Prime Minister Hun Sen last week removed four FUNCINPEC provincial governors from their posts, and promised to remove any others who permitted illegal logging to continue in their provinces or who could not resolve land disputes. Additional pressure [...] | 2006-03-30 08:01:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH655 | CAMBODIA: GARMENT SECTOR STRIKES RISE SHARPLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. More than twice as many workers (16,000) were involved in strikes in February and March of this year than in the two previous months. The dramatic increase is probably due to a number of factors: resurgence of activism after months of economic and political uncertainty, lea [...] | 2006-04-07 03:40:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV KTEX CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH661 | CAMBODIA: SEX AND SLAVERY IN SIEM REAP [...] Summary. PolOff traveled to Siem Reap to meet with NGOs, government officials, and conduct direct observations and interviews at commercial sex establishments to better assess the trafficking in persons (TIP) problem and the action that is being taken to combat TIP in the province. NGOs una [...] | 2006-04-07 09:02:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH662 | TIP ON THE COAST OF CAMBODIA [...] (SBU) Summary. PolOff traveled to Cambodia's coastal regions to meet with anti-trafficking NGOs and government officials to assess the human trafficking problem and the efforts being made to combat TIP. NGOs in the port city of Sihanoukville report good cooperation with the government and [...] | 2006-04-07 09:15:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH742 | SCENESETTER FOR DAS ERIC JOHN'S APRIL 30-MAY 2 [...] (SBU) Your visit will come at a time when things are looking better for Cambodia than they have in a long time and at a time when Prime Minister Hun Sen and his party are feeling comfortable about their performance. The political environment has turned around dramatically, the economy is up [...] | 2006-04-21 10:09:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH818 | U.K., AUSTRALIA HOST COUNTER-TERRORISM CONFERENCE [...] (U) The U.K. and Australian governments sponsored a seminar on counter-terrorism for Cambodian government (RGC) officials April 27-28. Intended to exchange information on strategies, arrangements and capabilities for meeting the terrorist threat in Cambodia, the seminar received high-level s [...] | 2006-05-02 09:47:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH887 | KRT JUDGES NAMED: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY [...] (C) Summary. On May 7, the Cambodian Government announced the names of the Cambodian and international judges selected by the Supreme Council of the Magistracy and approved by the King. The results are a mixed bag of good, middling, and poor choices. Initial soundings within the diplomati [...] | 2006-05-09 09:48:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PREL CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH894 | CAMBODIA: DAS JOHN'S REINFORCES BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary. In a May 4 discussion with visiting DAS Eric John, FM Hor Namhong lauded US-Cambodia bilateral relations and said Cambodia would seriously consider DAS John's request that the RGC support Guatemala's candidacy for the UNSC. The FM was open on Burma and prospects for democratic [...] | 2006-05-10 02:32:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KJUS PHUM EAID CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH982 | UN HIGH COMMISSIONER: HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRAL TO [...] (SBU) Summary. During her May 13-19 visit to Cambodia, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour's agenda focused on the consolidation of democracy and rule of law, as well as the independence of the judiciary. She defended the work of UNSYG Special Representative (SRSG) Yash Gha [...] | 2006-05-23 11:48:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KJUS CB |
| 06PHNOMPENH983 | CAMBODIA: DRUG SEIZURES AND ARRESTS UP [...] (U) SUMMARY: May 19 and 20 arrests of two Taiwanese nationals attempting to smuggle a total of nearly 7 kg of heroin to Taiwan highlight increased drug arrests and seizures in Cambodia. The quantity of heroin seized during the weekend airport busts is large by Cambodian standards--authoriti [...] | 2006-05-23 11:49:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | SNAR PGOV CB TW |
| 06THEHAGUE2048 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) Budget consultations were held on September 12 and 14. The consultations covered the International Cooperation and Assistance Division (ICA),the Secretariat for the Policy Making Organs (PMO),the External Relations Division (ERD),and the Executive Management (EM) sections of the budget [...] | 2006-09-20 06:48:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 06USUNNEWYORK402 | MEETING WITH LEBANESE TO DISCUSS OPTIONS FOR [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: Ralph Riachy, Chief Justice of Lebanon's Supreme Court, and Choucri Sader, President of the Legislative Service of Lebanon's Ministry of Justice, discussed options for trying the persons responsible for the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri with USUN [...] | 2006-03-03 16:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC LE |
| 07BRUSSELS3543 | WAR CRIMES DEPUTY ASKS EU FOR HELP ON GUANTANAMO [...] (C) Summary: Milbert Shin, Deputy for War Crimes Issues, met with EU officials Dec. 12-13 to request EU assistance in facilitating U.S. agreements with European states to accept transferees from Guantanamo. While obtaining no commitments, he did receive assurances from officials in the Council [...] | 2007-12-28 10:17:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KJUS CB EUN |
| 07HANOI1463 | UNHCR ON CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, STATELESS KHMERS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-14 17:19:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF CB VM |
| 07HANOI1651 | UNHCR CLAIMS "BIG STEP FORWARD;" PLAN OF ACTION WITH GVN ON [...] (SBU) In a new development, the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) has claimed a "big step forward" toward resolution of the 30-year old cases of more than 9,000 stateless Khmer persons in Southern Vietnam. According to UNHCR, in August, the Cambodian Government (GOC) informed [...] | 2007-09-14 16:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF CB VM |
| 07HANOI1852 | USCIRF MEETING WITH VICE MINISTER OF PUBLIC SECURITY NGUYEN [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 23, members of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) met with GVN Vice Minister of Public Security (MPS) Nguyen Van Huong. Members asked Huong about the registration of Protestant organizations, establishing independent Buddhist reli [...] | 2007-10-29 09:07:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KIRF PINR VM |
| 07HANOI2019 | FOREIGN MINISTER ENGAGES DONOR AMBASSADORS ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a November 28 meeting, ambassadors from key donor countries engaged Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem in an exchange on human rights issues. Discussion at the event, hosted by DPM Khiem, focused largely on the recent appellate hearing of two human rights l [...] | 2007-11-30 07:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM BM CONS VM |
| 07HANOI288 | PRM A/S SAUERBREY MEETS WITH INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS IN [...] (SBU) On February 5, Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration Ellen Sauerbrey met separately with representatives of UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Hanoi. In her UNHCR meeting, UNHCR officials discussed in familiar terms the organizat [...] | 2007-02-14 10:11:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PREF KWMN SOCI VM CB |
| 07HANOI301 | UNHCR ADDRESSES STATELESSNESS IN VIETNAM [...] (SBU) In a February 12 meeting with the Charge, UNHCR Regional Representative for Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Hasim Utkan and UNHCR colleagues described their ongoing efforts to work with the GVN to resolve the situation facing several thousand stateless ethnic Cambodians, resident in [...] | 2007-02-15 10:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM HUMANR PREF CB VM |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY1145 | TIM SAKHORN SENTENCED TO ONE YEAR IN PRISON [...] (SBU) On November 8, 2007, defrocked Khmer Krom monk Tim Sakhorn was sentenced to one year in prison by the An Giang Provincial People's Court for "sabotaging national unity," as defined by Article 87 of the GVN criminal code. The one-year sentence includes time already served in detention, wh [...] | 2007-11-13 10:29:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PREF KIRF PREL PGOV PHUM CB VM |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY1232 | USCIRF IN HCMC: MEETING THE SECV [...] (SBU) USCIRF Commissioners Cromartie, Bansal, Argue, Gaer and Eid and staffers Dettoni and Flipse met with the Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam (SECV) leaders Pastor Ngo Van Buu (Vice President),Pastor Phan Quang Thieu (Senior Pastor) and Pastor Nguyen Vinh Cu (Treasurer General) on Octo [...] | 2007-12-14 03:38:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY1236 | USCIRF URGES GVN TO EASE ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS TENSIONS IN [...] (SBU) The USCIRF delegation, on the final leg of their 12-day long assessment of religious freedom in Vietnam, visited Soc Trang to examine issues pertaining to the Mekong Delta province's significant Khmer Buddhist population. The delegation, which included Commissioner Leonard Leo and two s [...] | 2007-12-14 09:54:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KIRF SOCI PINR VM |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY234 | THE AMBASSADOR IN THE CENTRAL MEKONG: FOCUS ON ETHNIC KHMER, [...] (SBU) Summary: Discussions on economic development, trafficking in persons, religious freedom and NGO activities headlined the agenda during the Ambassador's March 4-7 visit to the Mekong Delta provinces of Soc Trang, Vinh Long and Dong Thap. Vinh Long's more favorable geographic locale and [...] | 2007-03-15 14:32:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY489 | ARREST AND DEFROCKING OF ETHNIC KHMER BUDDHIST MONKS IN THE [...] (C) Post has confirmed recent incidents of detention and/or defrocking of ethnic Khmer Buddhist monks in two Mekong Delta provinces, despite official denials (Ref B). Venerable Tang No, head monk of Kleang pagoda in Soc Trang (strictly protect),confirmed to us in early May that three monks -- [...] | 2007-05-08 07:56:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KIRF SOCI PINR VM |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY520 | FIVE ETHNIC KHMER MONKS IMPRISONED IN THE MEKONG DELTA [...] (SBU) Five ethnic Khmer monks from the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang were sentenced by the local provincial court on May 10 to between two and four years imprisonment for "disturbing public order." The five allegedly were organizers of protests in Soc Trang on February 8. The incident r [...] | 2007-05-11 10:14:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KIRF SOCI PINR VM |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY622 | ETHNIC CHINESE IN SOUTHERN VIETNAM: A PRIMER [...] (SBU) Summary: The ethnic Chinese community is Vietnam's most influential and affluent minority group. Accounting for no more than two percent of Vietnam's population, the ethnic Chinese -- concentrated in HCMC and the Mekong Delta -- are responsible for generating roughly 10 percent of the n [...] | 2007-06-13 06:51:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI ECON CH VM |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY733 | EXPULSION OF ETHNIC KHMER MONK FROM CAMBODIA [...] (SBU) Post has been seeking to confirm Ref A reporting that an ethnic Khmer monk, Tim Sakhorn, was allegedly forcibly deported from Cambodia to Vietnam. ConGen contacts in An Giang and Soc Trang provinces confirmed that Sakhorn is from Tinh Bien district in An Giang province. Chief Monk Chau [...] | 2007-07-09 08:41:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL KIRF SOCI CB VM |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY836 | KHMER KROM MONK TIM SAKHORN RESURFACES IN VIETNAM COURTS [...] (SBU) On August 2, Vietnamese newspaper Thanh Nien reported that Tim Sakhorn, the Khmer Krom monk believed to have been defrocked and deported by Cambodian officials (Refs A and B),is now being held in the southern Vietnam province of An Giang for "sabotaging the solidarity policy." In the re [...] | 2007-08-10 07:07:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PREF KIRF PREL PGOV PHUM CB VM |
| 07HOCHIMINHCITY880 | TIGHT LIPPED DEPORTEES IN GIA LAI [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-27 03:07:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM CB VM |
| 07PHNOMPENH1000 | CAMBODIAN BAR ASSOCIATION ALTERING POLICIES, [...] (SBU) Summary. Last week, the Ambassador met with Cambodian Bar Association (CBA) President Ky Tech laying the groundwork for dialogue to rebuild a relationship between USAID and the CBA after USAID suspended support earlier this year (ref). A renewed relationship addresses the need for a s [...] | 2007-08-03 03:52:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KJUS CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH103 | RGC WORRIED ECCC PROSECUTIONS COULD AFFECT PEACE [...] (C) Summary. Former Ambassador David Scheffer's January 19-21 consultations in Cambodia with DPM Sok An and members of the ECCC staff suggest there is room for possible compromise on ongoing discussions over the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) internal rules. However [...] | 2007-01-22 10:59:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KJUS PHUM CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH1034 | CAMBODIA'S TOP TEN TYCOONS [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Hun Sen is making efforts to bridge the gap between the political and private sector by cultivating mutually beneficial relationships with the country's most prominent business tycoons. These business leaders contribute money to the ruling Cambodian Peoples Par [...] | 2007-08-09 10:34:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PHUM PINR CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH1059 | CHHAY HOUR II JUDGE REMOVED [...] (U) Summary: This weekend, a Cambodian Royal Decree removed Appeals Court President Ly Vouch Leng from her position for taking bribes to overturn a prison sentence for managers of the Chhay Hour II brothel. The development comes at the heels of Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) commitments t [...] | 2007-08-14 10:41:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN KJUS CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH1098 | ICRC'S ROLE IN BURMA, SOUTHERN THAILAND, CAMBODIA [...] (U) On August 23, incoming and outgoing heads of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation Bangkok paid a courtesy call on the Charge. The Delegation's new Head, Christian Brunner, said that he has already met with Embassy Bangkok officers, and that the ICRC Hea [...] | 2007-08-24 09:35:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREF CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH1156 | STEADY AS SHE GOES: CAMBODIA'S CONTINUED ECONOMIC [...] Summary. Business leaders and government officials gathered to tout economic reforms already made and highlight areas needing further attention during the 12th Government-Private Sector Forum, held September 5. Cambodia's economic growth and stability remain impressive, as the country expect [...] | 2007-09-11 09:30:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB KTEX EAIR ELTN EAGR EFIN CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH1189 | DAMMING THE MEKONG: HYDROPOWER'S HIGH PRICE [...] (SBU) Summary. Existing and planned hydropower projects along the world's eighth largest river reflect the development dilemma of cheaper, low-polluting power vs. healthy fisheries and the interests of downstream communities. Villagers along eastern Mekong tributaries in Cambodia complained [...] | 2007-09-17 10:12:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ENRG EIND SENV VM LA CH CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH1193 | LAW AND REALITY CLASH IN CAMBODIA'S FORESTS [...] (SBU) Summary: While Cambodian law provides for environmental and social safeguards in the sale of land and in the establishment of Economic Land Concessions (ELCs),poor enforcement of these laws means that land sales and large concessions threaten both the environment and community livelih [...] | 2007-09-18 08:21:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR SENV PHUM PGOV CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH1203 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL ACHIEVES BENCHMARK OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The September 19 announcement of the detention of Nuon Chea, Khmer Rouge "brother number two", marks a turning point in the proceedings of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). For the first time, a senior KR leader stands in the dock of a credible tribu [...] | 2007-09-19 10:23:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KJUS PREL PINR EAID CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH1239 | PHNOM PENH: 2008 HOLIDAY SCHEDULE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-28 07:52:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | APER AMGT ACOA CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH1247 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES CAMBODIA TO TAKE FIRMER STAND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In back-to-back meetings with Acting Foreign Minister Long Visalo and Prime Minister's Adviser Om Yentieng, Ambassador delivered reftel demarche, expressing U.S. gratitude for the strong ASEAN statement on Burma, noting that more would need to be done to support the Gambari mis [...] | 2007-10-01 09:54:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV BM CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH1308 | CAMBODIA TIP ACTION PLAN RECEIVED WITH INTEREST, [...] (SBU) Summary. Royal Government of Cambodia anti-TIP contacts eagerly received the Cambodia Tier 2 Watch List Action Plan and stated their intent to work towards the goals of the plan's high-priority action items. MOJ Secretary of State Chan Sotheavy was not confident that anti-TIP court ac [...] | 2007-10-17 09:47:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KWMN CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH131 | PDAS STEPHENS MEETS CAMBODIA'S POLITICAL AND CIVIL [...] (SBU) Summary. EAP Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Stephens visited Cambodia January 20-24. Stephens spoke at EAP Management Conference, met with PM Hun Sen (reftel) and visited a number of USG-funded programs. She also met Interior Minister Sar Kheng, Foreign Minister [...] | 2007-01-25 07:35:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH1374 | DEFENSE DAS RAY'S VISIT TO CAMBODIA REINFORCES [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW and Missing Personnel Affairs Charles A. Ray visited Cambodia from November 3-6, to review ongoing POW/MIA recovery efforts. Discussions included the current state of the U.S.-Cambodia relationship as well as TIP, upcoming electio [...] | 2007-11-06 10:51:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PREL PHUM KWMN CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH1376 | CAMBODIA INCSR REPORT PART I [...] The following is post's submission for the 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report Part 1. 2. Begin text: Cambodia I. Summary With the recent discovery of a major methamphetamine laboratory, Cambodia now has a confirmed role in drug production, consumption, and traff [...] | 2007-11-07 01:27:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH1454 | CONGRESSMAN FALEOMAVAEGA PROMOTES STRONGER TIES, [...] Summary. Building stronger relations through educational, economic, and agricultural cooperation were key themes of Congressman Eni Faleomavaega's visit to Cambodia from November 22 to 24. During an informal dinner, Congressman Faleomavaega, Delegate from American Samoa and Chairman of the [...] | 2007-11-30 06:22:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI ECON EAGR ELAB CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH1575 | INVESTOR INTEREST IN CAMBODIA SURGES DESPITE CHALLENGES [...] (U) Summary: A dramatic surge in investor interest in Cambodia was evident during a recent investment conference held in Phnom Penh. Presenters emphasized a realistic view of Cambodia--a country with tremendous business opportunities, but where operating challenges such as corruption, poor in [...] | 2007-12-31 10:42:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD KCOR EAGR EAID CB CH |
| 07PHNOMPENH16 | SCENESETTER FOR PDAS KATHLEEN STEPHENS JANUARY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION. U.S. strategic interests are at play in Cambodia, although they relate as much to Cambodia's neighbors as to Cambodia. As has long been the case, Cambodia remains something of a "sideshow" in which world and regional powers (China, Vietnam, Thailand and the U [...] | 2007-01-05 06:39:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH160 | SAVING CAMBODIA'S FRESHWATER DOLPHINS: NGOS AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A 120-mile stretch of the Mekong River in northern Cambodia is home to the world's largest group of Irrawaddy dolphins, a critically endangered freshwater species. The dolphins, which are a significant tourist draw in a little-visited corner of the country, have been dying in [...] | 2007-01-30 10:55:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH286 | CAMBODIA: COMMENTS FOR SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary. Post recommends that Cambodia not be placed on the Special 301 Watch List for the time being. Cambodia is not fully TRIPS compliant and its IPR enforcement is weak. Although pirated optical discs and counterfeit products are pervasive in the market place, virtually all of the [...] | 2007-02-22 01:15:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH315 | CAMBODIA AND NEXT STEPS ON BURMA [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador called on MFA Secretary of State Ouch Borith on February 22 at the latter's request, and used the occasion to raise reftel demarche points regarding Burma. Borith, however, was more eager to discuss North Korean affairs, and related his recent discussions with J [...] | 2007-02-26 05:56:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM CB BM |
| 07PHNOMPENH318 | A VIOLENT WEEKEND IN CAMBODIA: POPULAR SINGER [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 23, popular singer Pov Panhapich was shot by an unidentified gunman and later evacuated to Vietnam for medical treatment. She is in stable condition, and media reports speculate that she was linked romantically to a high-level RGC official and vengeance may have [...] | 2007-02-27 01:15:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS ELAB KTEX CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH342 | VIETNAMESE MONKS PROTEST SITUATION IN SOUTHERN [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 27, approximately 40 Buddhist monks -- mostly from southern Vietnam -- staged a four-hour protest demonstration near the Vietnamese Embassy to protest conditions affecting the ethnic Khmer in Vietnam; in particular, the defrocking of monks. The unapproved but pea [...] | 2007-03-02 10:20:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM PREL CB VM |
| 07PHNOMPENH408 | PROMINENT HUMAN RIGHTS LEADERS DISCUSS PROGRESS OF [...] (SBU) Summary. Kek Galabru, president of LICADHO, a local human rights NGO and Margo Picken, head of the Cambodia Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR),recently discussed the latest developments as Cambodian civil society and the Cambodian government dis [...] | 2007-03-13 09:49:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH42 | AMBASSADOR AND DPM SOK AN REVIEW BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. In a two-hour meeting on December 28, 2006, the Ambassador called on Deputy Prime Minister Sok An to review the advances in bilateral relations in 2006 and outline the new USG Operational Plan Framework for foreign assistance. The Ambassador stated that the current projections [...] | 2007-01-11 09:46:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KTEX ETRD EAID CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH429 | FRIENDS OF THE ECCC OR RGC? [...] (C) Summary. The main donor coordinating body for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Tribunal, the Friends of the ECCC, has proven an effective information-sharing group for reviewing ECCC progress and donor activities in support of the Tribunal's work. The ECCC's problems since the November 2006 plen [...] | 2007-03-16 09:42:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH489 | CAMBODIAN MONEY LAUNDERING VULNERABILITIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. An external assessment team recently rated Cambodia as falling far short of international financial regulatory standards and described government officials as being in a "state of denial" about the potential for money laundering. Poor coordination among Cambodian government a [...] | 2007-03-29 10:23:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN SNAR KCRM CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH491 | SCENESETTER FOR DAS JOHN'S APRIL 4-7 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Eric, your visit to Cambodia comes roughly just one month shy of a similar regional trip last year. Remarkably, in the intervening period, there have been no major bilateral problems and relations between our two countries have continued to grow. Recent positive developments and signs [...] | 2007-03-30 10:18:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH530 | CAMBODIAN PM LAUDS PEACE CORPS ARRIVAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Peace Corps Director Ron Tschetter visited Cambodia April 2-5, 2007, during which he officiated at the swearing-in ceremony for the first Peace Corps volunteers in Cambodia, had an audience with King Norodom Sihamoni and met with Prime Minister Hun Sen. The meeting with the P [...] | 2007-04-10 01:56:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID SOCI CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH534 | CAMBODIAN PM DISCUSSES UPCOMING BURMA TRIP WITH [...] (C) Summary. During an April 4-7 visit to Cambodia, EAP DAS John met with PM Hun Sen and FM Hor Namhong on US-ASEAN relations, the PM's planned visit to Burma in May, North Korea, elections, and Cambodia's bilateral debt to the U.S. The PM claimed that the ROK and Japan are using Cambodia to [...] | 2007-04-10 04:27:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EFIN ASEAN CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH551 | MONDULKIRI PROVINCE: TRADITION, ELECTIONS AND THE CHINESE [...] (U) Summary. During the Embassy's recent election monitoring program, Emboffs visited Cambodia's remote Mondulkiri Province on the Vietnamese border. Mondulkiri is a rapidly-changing region that encapsulates most of the major issues affecting Cambodia and its minority population -- property [...] | 2007-04-13 08:41:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KDEM ENV CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH58 | CAMBODIA'S UNIONS STUMBLE TOWARD DEMOCRACY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the last week of 2006, three labor union federations, representing more than 120,000 garment, shoe, and rubber workers and teachers, held their congresses to elect new leaders. While the congresses fell short of democratic ideals, the increasing number of unions that are ch [...] | 2007-01-16 01:29:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON KTEX CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH582 | CAMBODIA: 2007 1ST QUARTER REPORT ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (U) Summary. During the first quarter of 2007, the Cambodian police arrested seven human traffickers and eighteen pimps. At least 60 victims of sexual trafficking and 39 victims of labor trafficking were identified during the reporting period, and 52 sex workers removed from brothels. Three [...] | 2007-04-25 02:44:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH586 | GUILTY VERDICT UPHELD IN CONTROVERSIAL LABOR [...] (SBU) Summary. On April 12, the Appeals Court upheld guilty verdicts against Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun, two men accused of assassinating national labor leader Chea Vichea on January 22, 2004. The two men have protested their innocence, and a vocal local and international community of la [...] | 2007-04-25 08:58:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KJUS PHUM PGOV CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH682 | BUCKING A DISTURBING TREND IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: [...] (SBU) Summary. According to a 2006 study by Freedom House, Cambodia stands alone among mainland Southeast Asian countries as having improved its commitment to freedom of the press. At Embassy urging, Cambodia removed all prison terms for criminal defamation -- a weapon of choice in this part [...] | 2007-05-17 03:21:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM KPAO CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH765 | EAP/MLS DEPUTY DIRECTOR NAGY MEETS POLITICAL PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary. Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) Secretary General Mu Sochua told visiting EAP/MLS Deputy Director Eleanor Nagy that 2007 commune council election flaws are a preview of problems likely to arise during the 2008 national elections. Sochua expressed hope for a U.S. delegation visit to Camb [...] | 2007-06-06 10:00:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL PHUM KWMN KDEM CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH77 | UPDATE ON THE ECCC; DAVID SCHEFFER COMING TO [...] (SBU) Summary. The Open Society's Justice Initiative (OSJI) has requested and will fund former Ambassador David Scheffer to visit Cambodia from January 19-21 to intervene with senior RGC officials on the future of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Recent OSJI dis [...] | 2007-01-17 10:12:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH788 | CAMBODIA'S STRIKES WANE, BUT CONTENTIOUS LABOR [...] (SBU) Summary. Cambodia's often tumultuous labor sector has been notably calm so far in 2007, with working days lost to strikes down 50% from 2006 levels. A crackdown on a particularly notorious union, a recent minimum wage increase, embassy efforts to discourage illegal strikes, and slowly [...] | 2007-06-11 01:38:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH820 | GLOBAL WITNESS REPORT: ACCUSATIONS, THREATS, [...] (C) Summary. On June 1, U.K.-based Global Witness made public a 95-page "Cambodia's Family Trees" report. The report's content is extremely confrontational by Cambodian standards as it accuses well-connected government and military officials of illegal logging activity, kidnapping, and attempted mu [...] | 2007-06-15 05:28:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON PGOV PHUM SENV CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH826 | ECCC PASSES INTERNAL RULES [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 12, the judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) approved a set of internal rules governing the court's work. While both the national and international sides of the court hailed the passage of the rules as a major step forward in the court [...] | 2007-06-15 09:45:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS PHUM CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH905 | KHMER KROM MONK'S POSSIBLE FORCED RETURN TO VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary. Over the weekend a Khmer Krom monk in Cambodia was reportedly defrocked and carried off by uniformed authorities. While the monk's whereabouts are not yet confirmed, Ministry of Interior Spokesperson Kheiu Sopheak verified that the monk went to Vietnam. Whether the monk was [...] | 2007-07-03 11:41:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM CB |
| 07PHNOMPENH926 | ENCOURAGING CHINESE ENGAGEMENT WITH CAMBODIA'S [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 13. 2. (SBU) Summary: China's economic influence in Cambodia is immense and growing. Already Cambodia's largest donor and foreign investor, China's aid comes with no overt conditions and often serves to build infrastructure used to shi [...] | 2007-07-10 07:05:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL ECON PGOV CB CH |
| 07SINGAPORE1851 | BURMA: LEADING ACADEMIC CALLS FOR ASEAN TO SUSPEND [...] (C) Summary: ASEAN should suspend Burma's membership in the organization, one of Singapore's leading academic and establishment figures argued in an October 4 op-ed piece in the government-linked Straits Times Newspaper. Think tank director and former Ambassador Barry Desker said Burma has be [...] | 2007-10-04 09:52:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BM SN |
| 07TOKYO1185 | EAP DIRECTOR RAPSON'S MARCH 12 MEETING WITH MOFA [...] (C) Summary: Officials from MOFA's Southeast Asia Division told visiting EAP/MLS Director Robert Rapson March 12 that pressuring Burma to release political prisoners, promote dialogue on national reconciliation, improve access for international organizations, and end violence directed at eth [...] | 2007-03-16 10:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CH BM TH VM RO IN CB RP JA |
| 07TOKYO153 | JAPAN'S VIEWS ON WAR CRIME ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: During a series of meetings on December 21-22, 2006, Senior Advisor to the Office of War Crime Issues Milbert Shin met with academics, Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA) think tank scholars, and government officials to discuss progress in the establishment of the K [...] | 2007-01-12 07:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KAWC KJUS KLIG PHUM PREL AS ID JA KCRM |
| 07TOKYO2696 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/15/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-15 02:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3966 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/27/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-27 08:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO542 | ASO REMARK THAT U.S. IRAQ POLICY "NAIVE": REACTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Public remarks by Foreign Minister Aso on February 3 that the U.S. post-conflict planning in Iraq was "extremely naive" have made headlines here in the wake of more pointed criticism of the U.S. stance on Iraq and troop realignment by Defense Minister Kyuma. Vice FM Yachi said in [...] | 2007-02-06 11:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ JA |
| 07USUNNEWYORK1080 | BRIEFING ON THE KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL AT THE UN [...] (U) BEGIN SUMMARY: The UN Secretariat hosted a briefing on November 27, 2007 on recent developments concerning the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials (UNAKRT) and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Larry Johnson, Assistant-Secretary-General for [...] | 2007-11-28 16:52:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREF PREL |
| 08BANGKOK1933 | THE PARLIAMENT'S TURN - NO CONFIDENCE DEBATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: While peaceful demonstrators continue to surround Government House, the government has agreed to send the affected ministers to participate in the no-confidence debate requested by the opposition Democrat Party on June 24-25, and to appear before the Senate to answer questions on [...] | 2008-06-23 11:02:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TH |
| 08BANGKOK2167 | THAIS DENY MILITARY INCURSION INTO CAMBODIA AFTER [...] (SBU) On July 15, a senior monk and two other Thais crossed into disputed territory between Thailand and Cambodia in protest of Preah Vihear temple's World Heritage status. Tempers flared on both sides when Cambodian and Thai press reported that large numbers of Thai troops had entered Cambodi [...] | 2008-07-16 10:36:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNESCO SCUL MOPS PBTS TH CB |
| 08BANGKOK2428 | THAI-CAMBODIAN DISPUTE OVER PREAH VIHEAR: [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Meetings between Thai and Cambodian regional military commanders in Thailand's Surin Province August 13 and between Foreign Ministers planned August 18-19 in Hua Hin indicate bilateral efforts to reduce tensions in the spat over the territory near the Khmer Preah Vi [...] | 2008-08-13 10:30:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS TH CB |
| 08BANGKOK2592 | THAILAND PROTESTS: A PAD PRIMER [...] (SBU) Summary: The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) behind the ongoing street protests against PM Samak's government first surfaced in 2005 in reaction to growing discontent over the alleged corruption of then-PM Thaksin. It largely disappeared following the September 2006 coup that ended [...] | 2008-08-29 10:14:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL TH |
| 08BANGKOK2854 | THAI CAMBODIAN BORDER DISPUTE: THAI CLAIM [...] (C) Summary: MFA Permanent Secretary Virasakdi Futrakul engaged the Ambassador September 16 regarding the Thai-Cambodian border dispute and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's September 15 reported comments that Thailand should give up the chair of ASEAN. Virasakdi claimed that border tension [...] | 2008-09-19 07:46:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TH CB |
| 08BANGKOK3069 | THAILAND BELIEVES CAMBODIA RECENTLY PLACED MINES [...] (C) Two Thai soldiers were severely injured October 6 by landmines that the Thai government believes were recently placed by the Cambodian military in disputed territory near the Preah Vihear temple. The Thai government is analyzing fragments from the landmines in hopes of proving whether the [...] | 2008-10-10 09:40:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TH CB |
| 08BANGKOK3120 | SITUATION CALM OCTOBER 16 AROUND DISPUTED PREAH [...] (C) The situation in the Preah Vihear temple area appeared calm October 16 as the two sides reportedly agreed to conduct joint patrols in the disputed area. The Thai MFA asserted in a briefing for the diplomatic corps that Cambodia had recently placed mines in the disputed area and presented w [...] | 2008-10-16 11:52:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TH CB |
| 08BANGKOK3234 | THAI PARLIAMENT APPROVES FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT TO [...] (C) Summary. The Thai Parliament October 28 approved the August 19 Thai-Cambodian Foreign Ministers' Agreement that provides an interim framework to address the border conflict prior to final resolution. Thailand can now legally proceed through the Foreign Ministry-led Joint Border Commission [...] | 2008-10-29 09:40:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB |
| 08BANGKOK3376 | PROGRESS IN THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER TALKS [...] (C) Summary: Thai and Cambodian Foreign Ministers agreed November 12 to a series of measures that will initiate the process of delineating disputed border areas. The two sides prioritized settling overlapping claims adjacent to the Preah Vihear temple for survey work scheduled to begin in Dece [...] | 2008-11-14 09:23:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB |
| 08BANGKOK871 | THAILAND'S VIEW OF THE PREAH VIHEAR TEMPLE ISSUE [...] (SBU) Thailand supports UNESCO's inscription of the Preah Vihear Temple as a World Heritage Site as long as Thailand's territorial rights are preserved; the temple sits in Cambodian territory at a point where the Thai-Cambodian border is not demarcated. As MFA Deputy Director General for Eas [...] | 2008-03-19 10:27:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | UNESCO PREL TH CB |
| 08BRUSSELS180 | VISIT OF S/WCI AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON TO BRUSSELS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson visited Brussels January 8 and 9 to discuss war crimes issues with EU and Belgian officials. Discussions focused on current operations of war crimes tribunals, judicial development programs in Rwanda, and the general fut [...] | 2008-02-05 09:13:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL EUM |
| 08EFTOPHNOMPENH416 | UN CT BODY ASSESSES STRONG INTEREST BUT WEAKER [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN Counter Terrorism Committee's Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED) visited May 5-9 to assess Cambodia's compliance with UNSCR 1373. The CTC/CTED delegation was composed of representatives of ADB, INTERPOL, IOM, UNODC, as well as the UN Secretariat, and was led [...] | 2008-05-20 11:24:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL CB |
| 08HANOI100 | UNHCR SAYS MONTAGNARD CAMPS MAXED; STATELESS KHMER PLAN [...] (SBU) In a January 23 farewell call with Ambassador Michalak, retiring UNHCR Regional Representative Hasim Utkan reviewed the progress UNHCR had made in Vietnam over the last several years. Working cooperatively with the GVN, the USG and the international donor community, Utkan said UNHCR had h [...] | 2008-01-30 00:23:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF KIRF CB VM |
| 08HANOI1043 | (U) Deputy Secretary Negroponte's September 11, 2008 [...] (U) September 11, 2008; 14:00; Hanoi, Vietnam. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Michael Michalak Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel PolCouns Brian Aggeler D Special Asst. Kaye Lee D Special Asst. Ted Wittenstein Jane Bocklage (Embassy Notetaker) Vi [...] | 2008-09-12 08:50:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV AMGT CONS MARR CH VM |
| 08HANOI1044 | (U) Deputy Secretary Negroponte's September 11, 2008 [...] (U) September 11, 2008; 14:00; Hanoi, Vietnam. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Michael Michalak Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel PolCouns Brian Aggeler D Special Asst. Kaye Lee D Special Asst. Ted Wittenstein Jane Bocklage (Embassy Notetaker) Vi [...] | 2008-09-12 08:51:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV AMGT CONS MARR CH VM |
| 08HOCHIMINHCITY1054 | TRA VINH PROTESTANTS AND OFFICIALS EXCHANGE VIEWS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: During a November 18 visit to Tra Vinh, PolOffs raised a number of issues reported by both recognized and unrecognized Protestant congregations over the past year with provincial officials. These incidents of religious freedom violations represent a small number of the worst typ [...] | 2008-12-04 11:45:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KIRF PHUM VM |
| 08HOCHIMINHCITY1056 | OFFICIALS AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS PORTRAY POSITIVE PICTURE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Ben Tre and Soc Trang authorities attribute the positive religious freedom situation in their respective provinces in part to their sponsorship of annual training on 2004 and 2005 central government regulations on religion. Ben Tre officials cautioned, however, that religious be [...] | 2008-12-05 03:54:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF PREL VM |
| 08HOCHIMINHCITY134 | TENS OF THOUSANDS ATTEND RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY EVENTS THROUGHOUT [...] (SBU) 2007 Christmas celebrations held by Protestant and Catholic congregations throughout Southern Vietnam were an exuberant affirmation of Vietnam's progress on religious freedom in recent years. While some celebrations were a first, like the soccer stadium rally of fifteen Protestant house c [...] | 2008-01-31 14:10:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF VT VM |
| 08HOCHIMINHCITY413 | CLASHES OVER LAND IN THE MEKONG DELTA [...] (SBU) Summary: Small-scale but violent clashes sparked by unresolved land disputes have reportedly broken out between Khmer ethnic minority people and Government of Vietnam (GVN) military in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang. Local contacts confirm a Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) [...] | 2008-04-21 08:05:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV VM |
| 08HOCHIMINHCITY606 | TIM SAKHORN'S RELEASE CONFIRMED; CURRENT WHEREABOUTS [...] (SBU) Summary: A reliable Consulate contact has confirmed that former Khmer Krom monk Tim Sakhorn was released from prison after completing his 12-month term for "undermining national unity" (reftels) but reports conflict as to his actual date of release and current whereabouts. Post has requ [...] | 2008-07-07 10:55:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF CB VM |
| 08PARIS123 | S/WCI AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH A/S [...] (C) SUMMARY:On January 7, Ambassador Williamson met with acting A/S-equivalent for international organizations Marc Giacomini and Christian Bernier, Special Assistant for international tribunals, to discuss various war crimes issues, particularly the International Criminal Court (ICC) and res [...] | 2008-01-24 10:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM FR |
| 08PARIS1828 | FRANCE: S/WCI AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON DISCUSSES WAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: S/WCI Ambassador Williamson met with French MFA officials on September 12 to discuss human rights abuses in Georgia and the status of the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ICTY and ICTR),the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL),the Khmer Rouge Tribunal [...] | 2008-10-03 09:48:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KAWC FR UN |
| 08PHNOMPENH1021 | CAMBODIA STILL CONSIDERING RATIFICATION OF [...] (SBU) In a series of meetings over the past two months, Royal Government of Cambodia officials have made slow but steady progress in evaluating the Montreal Convention. Emboffs delivered reftel demarche and talking points October 27 to Mr. Soy Samkhan, Undersecretary of State, State Secretaria [...] | 2008-12-24 08:48:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ICAO CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH1024 | CAMBODIA'S YEAR OF CHINA (C-AL8-02576) [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-24 11:24:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV CH CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH1025 | CAMBODIA'S YEAR OF CHINA (C-AL8-02576) [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-24 11:30:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV CH CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH1027 | CAMBODIA'S YEAR OF CHINA (C-AL8-02576) [...] (SBU/NF) SUMMARY: China has spared no effort this year in celebrating the 50th anniversary of bilateral relations with Cambodia. This elaborate and lavish effort to court Cambodia,s top leadership -- with royal banquets, trips to Beijing, the first-ever visit by a Chinese warship, and high-l [...] | 2008-12-25 03:52:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV CH CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH103 | CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS TOUT MEASURED PROGRESS, HIGHLIGHT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: Civil society leaders presented a "glass half full" picture of Cambodian progress on a variety of political, economic, and human rights issues to Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel during his January 16 [...] | 2008-01-23 07:40:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV ECON ELAB CB CM VN |
| 08PHNOMPENH128 | CHEVRON DOWNGRADES PETROLEUM ESTIMATES IN [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive and proprietary business information. It is sensitive but unclassified (SBU) and not for distribution via the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Chevron's analysis of Block A, the offshore oil block widely believed to have the most heavily endowed oil reserve [...] | 2008-02-01 12:14:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ECON PGOV CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH180 | CAMBODIA: COMMENTS FOR SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Post believes that Cambodia falls below the threshold for inclusion in the Special 301 Report Watchlist at this time. Cambodia is not fully TRIPS compliant and its IPR enforcement is currently weak. However, senior government officials have publicly committed to improving the [...] | 2008-02-20 01:26:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON KIPR CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH316 | (C) TWO NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES HEADED TO THE U.S., [...] (C) Summary: Two North Korean refugees in Cambodia have been approved for U.S. resettlement and are scheduled to depart for the U.S. on April 16. Police Commissioner Hok Lundy granted exit permission for the two individuals on April 9, after receiving the request only a few days before. Of th [...] | 2008-04-09 05:10:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF KS KN CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH318 | INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR CAMBODIA [...] Cambodia, a developing country, began the transformation from a command economy to the free market in the late 1980s. It is now integrating into the regional and world trading framework. In 1998, Cambodia joined the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and in September 2004, became [...] | 2008-04-10 01:07:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV OPIC USTR KTDB CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH360 | CAMBODIA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE: LAND ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Prominent human rights organization leaders ranked land disputes, impunity, limits on freedom of assembly and the lack of rule of law among their top concerns, and predict the trends will continue through 2008. Land grabbers are using some new, fraudulent methods to claim land [...] | 2008-05-02 05:23:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM KWMN CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH381 | PHNOM PENH RESPONSE TO ACTIVISTS FOR DEMOCRACY AND [...] (S) Summary: This is a response to Ref A requesting a summary of Post's outreach and activities to support, seek out and meet with activists for democracy and those who demand human rights. There are no known major dissidents from other countries living in Cambodia, however the Embassy has [...] | 2008-05-06 09:45:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | SECRET | PHUM PREL |
| 08PHNOMPENH398 | CAMBODIA'S EMERGING MINING SECTOR: FOREIGN [...] (SBU) Summary: International interest in northeastern Cambodia's mining potential has increased sharply in recent years with a number of large, well-respected international firms joining smaller domestic and international companies in the search for gold and bauxite. While no major discoveri [...] | 2008-05-12 06:41:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN PGOV SENV SOCI PHUM CB AS |
| 08PHNOMPENH399 | HOR NAMHONG, SAM RAINSY SEEK EMBASSY INTERCESSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Hor Namhong summoned the Ambassador on May 8 for a one-on-one meeting to explain to the Ambassador his defamation and disinformation cases against Sam Rainsy regarding Rainsy's assertion that Hor Namhong was a former Khmer Rouge prison camp chief. The aged and [...] | 2008-05-13 09:04:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KJUS CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH403 | CAMBODIA PUBLIC OPINION: FAVORABLE TOWARD U.S. AND [...] (SBU/NOFORN) In a recent Cambodia public opinion poll, 87 percent of respondents had a favorable opinion of the United States. International Republican Institute (IRI) conducted the public opinion survey in February 2008 and found public opinion of the U.S. higher than for any other country [...] | 2008-05-15 07:52:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KDEM CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH472 | CAMBODIA OPPOSITION NEWSPAPER EDITOR ARRESTED FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On Sunday, June 8, the Cambodian editor-in-chief of an opposition party affiliated newspaper was arrested on criminal disinformation charges and is currently being held in pre-trial detention in a Phnom Penh prison. Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong filed the charges ag [...] | 2008-06-10 10:06:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PJUS KDEM PHUM CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH495 | PRIME MINISTER SECURES OPPOSITION NEWSPAPER [...] (U) Sam Rainsy Party affiliated newspaper editor-in-chief Dam Sith was released June 15 from pre-trial detention (reftel),after Prime Minister Hun Sen submitted a letter to the Phnom Penh Court President the previous day containing a personal guarantee for Dam Sith's release. The letter, whi [...] | 2008-06-16 10:32:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH499 | THREAT TO SAM RAINSY'S PARLIAMENTARY IMMUNITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A bid by the prosecution in the Sam Rainsy defamation/disinformation case to lift Sam Rainsy's parliamentary immunity has been rejected in yet another rebuff to a court seemingly out of control. The court's request submitted June 16 through the Ministry of Justice to National [...] | 2008-06-18 12:36:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS KPAO CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH503 | WORKING CONDITIONS IMPROVED, BUT LABOR UNIONS STILL [...] Summary: Even as a recent report touted Cambodia's low labor costs, labor union leaders and employers report that working conditions and respect for the labor law and regulations have continued to improve in Cambodia's garment sector in recent years due largely to the USG-funded Better Factor [...] | 2008-06-19 08:20:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON KTEX CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH554 | CAMBODIAN ELECTIONS: LADIES FIRST, AS DEBATES GO [...] (SBU) Summary: The first multi-party candidate debate in preparation for Cambodia's July 27 election took place in Phnom Penh July 8. This initial debate featured women candidates from four parties, as a key theme of the National Democratic Institute (NDI's) USAID-financed program in Cambodia [...] | 2008-07-08 08:26:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KWMN CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH570 | CAMBODIA ELECTIONS: SMALLER PARTIES REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: While the ruling and main opposition parties vie for ground in the public spotlight during the month-long campaign period before Cambodia's July 27 National Assembly elections, the country's lesser-known parties are seeking votes without much ado. Smaller party representatives [...] | 2008-07-15 02:12:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH601 | CAMBODIA ELECTION: SAM RAINSY PARTY STANDS TO GAIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: One day before the official cooling-off period ahead of the July 27 election, the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) is assessing its chances as good in many of Cambodia's 24 provinces. In more sober moments - when not rhetorically claiming imminent victory - party regulars will say they [...] | 2008-07-25 04:10:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH684 | UNSRSG FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN CAMBODIA: CAMBODIANS [...] (C) Summary: An upcoming U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) vote on whether to extend the mandate of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for human rights in Cambodian (SRSG) prompted the recent visit of Japanese MFA officials from Tokyo and Geneva with the delegation reporting [...] | 2008-08-18 09:57:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL PGOV CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH701 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON FM HOR NAMHONG: DEEPER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In an August 21 farewell call on Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, the Ambassador congratulated the FM on his diplomacy in respect to the dispute over Preah Vihear, highlighted the continued strengthening of bilateral relations, expressed his optimism about proposed KRT funding from [...] | 2008-08-22 10:02:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PBTS MARR TH CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH702 | AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON DPM SAR KHENG: [...] (SBU) Summary: During the Ambassador's farewell call, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sar Kheng expressed his appreciation efforts to expand and strengthen cooperation, and Sar Kheng's desire to maintain cooperation with the U.S. Mission. Sar Kheng stated that he still has se [...] | 2008-08-25 01:57:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KWMN KJUS CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH735 | SCENESETTER FOR D'S VISIT: A MATURING CAMBODIA? [...] (SBU) Summary: In his departure cable, "Seven Significant Failures", outgoing Ambassador Joseph Mussomeli framed the U.S.-Cambodia relationship as hovering on the brink of a transformation: better than it has ever been, but with clearly identifiable areas for improvement. In the weeks since t [...] | 2008-09-03 10:39:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV ECON CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH75 | CAMBODIA TRANSFORMATIVE DEVELOPMENT NOTED BY STAFFDEL [...] (SBU) Summary: Cambodia's significant economic and political developments were highlighted by a visiting Senate State Foreign Operations Subcommittee staff delegation led by Paul Grove January 12-14. Grove, Minority Clerk of the Senate Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Prog [...] | 2008-01-16 11:19:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH786 | EMBASSY IFTAR REACHES CHAM COMMUNITY, ANSWERS QUESTION, [...] SUMMARY: The Embassy hosted a successful Iftar for over 130 guests, mainly from the Cham Islamic minority in Cambodia. At the end of the event, while looking over the Muslim Life in America paper show that PA translated into Khmer, a teenage guest asked an Embassy staffer "are there really Mu [...] | 2008-09-19 09:42:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KPAO KIRF EAID CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH840 | CAMBODIA PREPARING FOR DOWNGRADED THAI VISIT; [...] (SBU) Cambodian officials learned late October 10 that the Thai Prime Minister has postponed his official visit to Cambodia originally scheduled for October 12-13. Nonetheless, the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) is awaiting the visit of Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Som [...] | 2008-10-10 11:40:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KTIA MOPS TH CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH841 | CORE DONORS UPDATED ON KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL ARE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT) Deputy Director Knut Rosandhaug and UNDP Country Director Jo Scheuer October 9 briefed core donors on their recent trip to New York to follow up on the conclusion of ASG David Tolbert's mission to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (E [...] | 2008-10-10 11:50:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KJUS PGOV EAID PHUM CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH883 | SOK AN ON THE KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: As a follow-up to a coordinated donor strategy to engage Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) officials on corruption allegations in the Cambodian administrative side of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) and in the context of ongoing discussions with othe [...] | 2008-11-03 12:37:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS EAID PHUM CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH922 | INFORMATION ON CIVIL SOCIETY IN CAMBODIA [...] (SBU) Post's response to questions posed in reftel are as follows: A. NGOs 1) (U) WHAT IS THE REGISTRATION PROCESS FOR LOCAL NGOS OR ASSOCIATIONS, INCLUDING THE LENGTH OF TIME, THE GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES RESPONSIBLE, AND ANY DIFFERENCE IN REGISTRATION FOR PARTY ORGANIZATIONS? Prospect [...] | 2008-11-14 08:52:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR ECON PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH947 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL: ROCKY ROAD FOR NEW CASES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The next weeks will see major developments in the work of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC),as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal is called. In a confidential development, the Cambodian co-prosecutor reportedly disagrees with the submission of additional case f [...] | 2008-11-28 10:38:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KJUS PHUM CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH95 | U.S.-CAMBODIA BILATERAL DIALOGUE STRENGTHENS TIES, [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel led U.S. participation in a successful senior-level U.S.-Cambodia bilateral dialogue hosted by the Royal Government of Cambodia Ministry of Foreign Affairs January 17. Both sides opened with statements of enthusiasm for strengthening ti [...] | 2008-01-22 10:53:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV KJUS PHUM PTER KWMN PREL BM CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH968 | WHATEVER HAPPENED TO UMM AL-QURA? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Cambodia is home to approximately 320,000 Cham Muslims, the majority of whom belong to the Sunni Shafi,i school of Islam. From 1975-1979, the Khmer Rouge ruthlessly targeted the Cham, annihilating all but a few of the Islamic leaders, teachers, and scholars. In an effort to re [...] | 2008-12-08 10:45:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH97 | DAS MARCIEL RAISES LAND ISSUES, ELECTIONS WITH SAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Deputy Assistant Secretary For East Asian And Pacific Affairs Scot Marciel met with Deputy Prime Minister of Interior Sar Kheng January 17 to discuss preparations for Cambodia's 2008 National elections and the issue of forced land evictions. Sar Kheng raised security issues re [...] | 2008-01-23 01:19:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KWMN CB |
| 08PHNOMPENH982 | UN/OLA TEAM BUILDS BRIDGES WITH SOK AN TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: During talks in Phnom Penh December 9-10, a delegation from the UN Office of Legal Affairs (UN/OLA) led by ASYG Peter Taksoe-Jensen appeared to make significant progress with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Council of Ministers Sok An on the issue of establishing an in [...] | 2008-12-11 09:47:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KJUS PHUM CB |
| 08STATE116304 | U.S. AND EU DISCUSS DEVELOPMENTS IN EAST ASIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. and EU officials held their biannual discussions on East Asia (termed COASI, or Consultations on Asia) in Washington on October 3. In addition to a general review of developments in the region, this session included an exchange of views on the future of India, China, and ASEA [...] | 2008-10-31 14:10:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR EU XB NK CH |
| 08TOKYO178 | AMB. WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH JAPANESE OFFICIALS [...] (C) Summary. The international community will need to convince the Cambodian government that it must take immediate action with regard to the corruption issue at the ECCC, visiting Ambassador at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson told Japanese officials on December 3. Amb. William [...] | 2008-01-23 09:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KJUS PHUM JA TH BM CB |
| 08TOKYO204 | JAPAN STRENGTHENING TIES WITH MEKONG REGION [...] (C) Summary. The Japanese Government plans to fund infrastructure and poverty reduction programs in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, including $20 million to develop poverty-stricken areas and another $20 million for construction projects on the two "East-West Corridors." Former Prime Minister Abe [...] | 2008-01-25 06:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TH CB BM LA VM JA |
| 08TOKYO217 | DAS MARCIEL ENGAGES JAPANESE INTERLOCUTORS ON SE [...] (C) Summary: Japanese government officials and Diet members discussed Japan's relations with Southeast Asia and told DAS Marciel that Japan and the United States need to continue to work closely together to coordinate on aid and other projects; Cambodia needs to take more of an "ownership rol [...] | 2008-01-28 09:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID JA |
| 08TUNIS444 | FOREIGN MINISTER "REVOLTED" BY "UNJUST" WHITE [...] (C) The Foreign Minister summoned the Ambassador on May 5 to complain that the White House Statement commemorating World Press Freedom day had been "revolting" and "unfair" in likening the press freedom situation in Tunisia to that in countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, China, and North Korea. [...] | 2008-05-05 16:42:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM TS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1148 | MISSION CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR S/WCI [...] Mission Clearance is granted for Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson, Deputy Milbert Shin, and Foreign Affairs Officer Brendan Doherty to visit USUN on December 11-12. The purpose is to hold meetings on the margins of the ICTY/ICTR briefings to the UN Security Council, [...] | 2008-12-08 20:02:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | KAWC KJUS OTRA UNSC XA XH |
| 08USUNNEWYORK342 | KHMER ROUGE TRIALS EXPERT BEGINS WORK [...] USUN Legal Adviser met on April 9 with David Tolbert (US),newly appointed UN Assistant Secretary-General and Expert on United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials (UNAKRT),his assistant Michael Pan (U.S.) and Giovanni Basra (Italy) an attorney assigned to the Tribunal in Cambodia. T [...] | 2008-04-11 22:27:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL CB KJUS PGOV |
| 08USUNNEWYORK872 | CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS DOMINATE KHMER ROUGE TRIALS [...] (C) Summary. On September 24, USUN attended a meeting of the steering committee of the UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials (UNAKRT). While all participants praised the progress made by the UN special expert David Tolbert and the recently appointed Deputy Director (UNAKRT Administration [...] | 2008-09-29 14:57:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PREL PHUM CB |
| 09BANGKOK1200 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES POLITICS AND THE WAY FORWARD [...] (C) A leading associate of former Prime Minister Thaksin told the Ambassador in mid-May that pro-Thaksin supporters had poorly served their interests by engaging in violent riots in mid-April; a second associate reiterated his earlier assertion that the redshirt movement was now "way beyond Th [...] | 2009-05-15 10:06:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM TH |
| 09BANGKOK2587 | THAILAND'S LOWER NORTHEAST: A LOOK AT NEWIN [...] (C) Newin Chidchob, godfather of government coalition partner Phumjai Thai, has had a good year by almost any measure. His father is Parliament Speaker; his party holds a disproportionate number of cabinet jobs compared to its 32 MPs; Phumjai Thai aspires to increase its share of MP seats in [...] | 2009-10-09 00:33:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM TH |
| 09BANGKOK3145 | THAILAND: A KEY, IF SOMETIMES RELUCTANT, PARTNER [...] (C) Introduction: Thailand is one of our closest partners on refugee affairs, having hosted perhaps the largest number of long-term refugees in the world over the past four decades. Over the past thirty-five years, some half-million refugees have moved through Thailand to resettle in third countrie [...] | 2009-12-15 09:41:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM TH BM |
| 09BANGKOK324 | THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER DISPUTE: JOINT BORDER [...] (C) Summary. The Thai and Cambodian Joint Border Commission met February 3-4 in Bangkok for friendly talks but was unable to make substantive progress in resolving their border dispute. The two sides could not agree on the official name for the temple at the heart of the border dispute and fo [...] | 2009-02-06 10:11:00 | Embassy Bangkok | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS TH CB |
| 09BEIJING3507 | PRC: VICE PRESIDENT XI JINPING STRENGTHENS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cambodian and Chinese official sources told EmbOffs that no connection exists between Cambodia's December 19 forced repatriation to China of 20 Uighur asylum-seekers and the PRC's announcement of USD 1.2 billion in bilateral assistance during Vice President Xi Jinping's December 2 [...] | 2009-12-31 05:12:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG EAID ECON CH CB |
| 09BEIJING398 | FEBRUARY 17 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SECRETARY OF STATE VISIT, [...] Key points at the February 17 MFA Press Briefing: -- China hopes to "increase mutual trust" and promote "the sound and stable development" of relations "in the new era" during the Secretary of State's visit. -- China hopes that North and South Korea will "increase mutual trust" and "solve [...] | 2009-02-17 09:06:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM CH KS KN IN PK CB VM VT |
| 09BERLIN580 | GERMAN VIEWS ON THEMES FOR THE MAY 29 MEETING OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. Germany agrees that more forces are needed for counterpiracy operations off the coast of Somalia, but feels it is already doing its fair share; others with the requisite capability who are not yet contributing should answer the call. Germany welcomes the planned NATO counterpirac [...] | 2009-05-18 13:28:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR ECON POL EUN GM |
| 09BERLIN831 | CGPCS: GERMANY AGREES ON PARTICIPATION ISSUE, BUT [...] (C) Post delivered ref A points to MFA UN Security Council Action Officer Dirk Stockhausen on June 30 and then followed up with him on July 2, emphasizing the importance that the U.S. placed on reaching a resolution that would allow the six aspirant countries to participate in the Contact Group [...] | 2009-07-09 17:15:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL MOPS GM |
| 09CHIANGMAI2 | CITIZENSHIP MANUAL OUTLINES LEGAL MAZE FACING STATELESS HILL [...] UNESCO has collaborated with the Thai Government (RTG) and an NGO to publish a Citizenship Manual that will serve as a "how to" guide for government officials and civil society on citizenship procedures among stateless hill tribe minorities. Broadly speaking, a highlander who is born in Thaila [...] | 2009-01-06 02:01:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SMIG ELAB PREF PGOV PREL SNAR KWMN TH BM |
| 09HANOI1182 | Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue Scenesetter [...] (SBU) U.S. ties and engagement with Vietnam have advanced significantly since the last Human Rights Dialogue meeting in May 2008. Cooperation on trade, health and education, coupled with high-level visits and regular dialogues on defense, security and policy planning, have moved relations to [...] | 2009-11-05 07:06:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI363 | UNHCR on Montagnards, Naturalization of Khmer Rouge Era [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNHCR continues to have an extremely active presence in the Central Highlands, conducting regular trips to the region to meet with Montagnard returnees from Cambodia. In the past month, UNHCR traveled to Gia Lai province and met with 78 returnees one-on-one and without accompan [...] | 2009-04-20 08:55:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI694 | DCM Raises Buddhist and Catholic Disputes, Other Issues, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 22, the DCM met with Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA) Vice Chairman Nguyen Thanh Xuan to press for a resolution to the ongoing dispute between Buddhist sects at the Bat Nha Pagoda in Lam Dong Province, express concern over the reported beating of Catholic parishione [...] | 2009-07-27 09:59:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
| 09HANOI784 | Khmer Krom Religious Freedom in Mekong Delta [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Vietnam's leadership continues to pay close attention to the country's Khmer Krom community, and has spent considerable resources to build new Theravada Buddhist pagodas, a Pali-language high school, and a university-level Theravada Buddhist Institute. Contrary to reports from [...] | 2009-08-17 08:54:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
| 09HANOI79 | Defrocked Monks and Dissidents Released During Tet Amnesty [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In addition to former Thanh Nien journalist Nguyen Viet Chien, four defrocked Khmer Krom monks, a member of the For the People's Party and a land rights activist were released as part of Vietnam's Tet Amnesty. While we are still awaiting the release of the formal list of those [...] | 2009-02-04 00:17:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HOCHIMINHCITY213 | CAMBODIA BORDER AND CENTRAL HIGHLANDS PROVINCES BRUSHING OFF [...] (SBU) Summary: While provinces on the outskirts of Vietnam's Southern Key Economic Zone (SKEZ) feel cushioned from the global economic downturn because their largely agricultural economies can easily absorb unemployed workers, these areas are suffering from declining global commodity prices. [...] | 2009-03-24 09:17:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EIND EINV ETRD PGOV PREL SOCI VM |
| 09HOCHIMINHCITY28 | MONTAGNARD RETURNEES POOR AND FRUSTRATED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Home visits from November 24-26 with 28 Montagnards in two of the poorest provinces in Vietnam revealed that economic factors, particularly a desire to escape from poverty, continue to be the main factors that drove these ethnic minority highlanders to flee to Cambodia, with th [...] | 2009-01-12 09:12:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM KIRF UNHCR CB VM |
| 09HOCHIMINHCITY34 | CHRISTMAS SERVICES GO SMOOTHLY FOR MAJORITY OF CHURCHES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The majority of Catholic and Protestant congregations in Southern Vietnam reported smooth sailing during their 2008 Christmas celebrations, though Protestant church leaders noted they scaled back events due to the downturn in the economy. State press reported official GVN parti [...] | 2009-01-13 11:24:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PGOV VM |
| 09HOCHIMINHCITY533 | BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME, OR MAYBE NOT: THE LAOS-VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Summary. Although the bridges, the state-of-the-art tunnel, and the all-weather road that knit Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam together via the "East-West Economic Corridor" (EWEC) have been built, initial hopes for a surge in investment and trade along the route remain unfulfilled. For a n [...] | 2009-07-02 08:32:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV ELTN EWWT PREL PGOV LA VM |
| 09HOCHIMINHCITY535 | PATHS TO LEADERSHIP IN THE PROVINCES OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over the past eighteen months ConGen Officers have travelled to each of the provinces south of Thua Thien Hue, engaging local leaders on issues of U.S. interest ranging from trade and investment to human rights and education. At the same time, we have been observing a strong co [...] | 2009-07-02 10:10:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PGOV SOCI VM |
| 09KABUL3910 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES STRATEGY ROLL-OUT WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Mussomeli met with Ulema Council President Shinwari on December 3 to discuss President Obama's December 1 speech and to address any questions Shinwari might raise regarding the President's policy. Shinwari said the President's speech was good and the Ulema Council s [...] | 2009-12-07 09:24:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AF |
| 09PARIS956 | GOF HAS LIMITED INFORMATION ON ALLEGATIONS OF WAR [...] (C) Summary: In July 10 discussions with Ambassador Williamson, GOF officials highlighted FM Kouchner's efforts to secure a ceasefire in Sri Lanka and his personal concern over the status of IDPs there. While the GOF is concerned by allegations of violations of international humanitarian law [...] | 2009-07-16 09:16:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | BG CB CE IN JA PGOV PREL KAWC FR |
| 09PARISFR48 | SEOUL MEETINGS ON THER RETURN OF CULTURAL PROPERTY TO ITS [...] Begin Summary. From November 26-28, two international meetings were held in Seoul, South Korea to address the issue of the return of cultural property to its country of origin. On November 26, independent Experts met under the auspices of the Korean Government to review selected case studies [...] | 2009-01-14 17:37:00 | Mission UNESCO | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL UNESCO KPAO KS FR JA |
| 09PHNOMPENH10 | SUPREME COURT RULING ON CHEA VICHEA CASE - A STEP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a surprising turn of events on the final day of 2008, Cambodia,s Supreme Court ruled against the controversial April 2007 Appeals Court decision to uphold the original convictions of two individuals in the murder of popular labor leader and opposition party supporter, Chea V [...] | 2009-01-05 11:45:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH101 | DPM SOK AN IS FIRM BUT PATIENT ON THAI BORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an initial courtesy call on Deputy Prime Minister Sok An February 12, the Ambassador emphasized the U.S. commitment to a re-invigorated and growing relationship with Cambodia and support for the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Sok An outlined mixed developments in negotiations with the [...] | 2009-02-13 07:34:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG KJUS KTIA EPET PINR SCUL TH CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH105 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL OPENS FIRST TRIAL OF S-21 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-17 13:51:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS PHUM PREL KTIA CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH114 | 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT FOR CAMBODIA [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 06:06:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CB ELAB KCRM KFRD KTIP KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG |
| 09PHNOMPENH142 | HOR NAMHONG WELCOMES GROWING U.S. COOPERATION IN ASEAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister (FM) Hor Namhong focused on ASEAN, the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT) and U.S. support for the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) joining regional and larger international institutions during EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) and U.S. Am [...] | 2009-03-04 09:58:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PBTS MARR TH CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH143 | AMBASSADOR MARCIEL URGES CONTINUED DIALOGUE ON [...] (C) Summary: During a March 3 discussion with Deputy Prime Minister Sok An, EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary and Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs Scot Marciel praised the Cambodian government for working bilaterally with the Thais to find a long-term solution to the Preah Vihear area border disput [...] | 2009-03-04 10:26:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KJUS KTIA SCUL TH CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH148 | CAMBODIA: 2008 4TH QUARTER REPORT ON TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) Summary: During the fourth quarter of 2008, Cambodian police arrested 10 persons on human trafficking charges and two on prostitution charges in connection with two cases in which seven rescued prostitutes were under age 18. During the same period, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court convic [...] | 2009-03-05 09:25:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN KTIP SOCI CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH16 | 30 YEARS AFTER THE KHMER ROUGE: MUCH TO CELEBRATE, [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the January 7 "fall of the Khmer Rouge" marks a milestone in Cambodia's progress towards peace, stability, and development. However, the event was also a lost opportunity to put past divisions behind and embrace all elem [...] | 2009-01-07 10:49:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH168 | DONORS URGE RESUMED FUNDING, MORE NEGOTIATION ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nearly on the eve of the opening of the first Khmer Rouge trial on March 30, ambassadors from seven major donor nations to the hybrid Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT) reviewed March 17 a looming crisis in the funding of the court and a March 23 deadline for resolution by a joint UN-Ca [...] | 2009-03-17 10:15:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KJUS EAID PGOV KTIA CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH170 | CAMBODIA'S HIGHEST MUSLIM LEADER DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a March 12 meeting, Cambodia's Mufti, who is appointed by the King for life as the Supreme Leader of all Muslims in the country, described to Poloff some of the challenges facing his community. Although many of the difficulties faced by Muslims in Cambodia are also experienc [...] | 2009-03-18 01:52:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH212 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL BRINGS DUCH TO JUSTICE [...] (SBU) Summary. The first substantive hearings of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal got off to a smooth start March 30 with the reading of charges against S-21 torture center director Eang Geuk Eav, known as Duch. The Ambassador and Emboff joined 500 spectators in the auditorium looking into the ultra [...] | 2009-04-01 10:45:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS PHUM PREL KTIA CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH213 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL BRINGS DUCH TO JUSTICE [...] (SBU) Summary. The first substantive hearings of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal got off to a smooth start March 30 with the reading of charges against S-21 torture center director Eang Geuk Eav, known as Duch. The Ambassador and Emboff joined 500 spectators in the auditorium looking into the ultra [...] | 2009-04-01 10:54:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS PHUM PREL KTIA CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH243 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL: UN FORMALIZES OWN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Council of Ministers Sok An continues to deliberate over a joint anti-corruption mechanism for the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT) proposed by UN Assistant Secretary General Peter Taksoe-Jensen of the UN Office of Legal Affairs (UN/OLA),afte [...] | 2009-04-10 10:59:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM KTIA CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH261 | CAMBODIA: 2009 1ST QUARTER REPORT ON TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) Summary: During the first quarter of 2009, Cambodian police arrested six persons on human trafficking charges and four on procurement of prostitution charges in connection with two cases in which three rescued prostitutes were under age 18. Police reported that seven foreign pedophiles [...] | 2009-04-23 06:09:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN KTIP SOCI CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH264 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL: DONORS CHART A MORE UNIFIED [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an Ambassador Level Meeting April 23, the major donors to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) gave provisional support to a U.S. proposal to issue a joint statement on stalled talks (Ref A) between the UN and the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) to e [...] | 2009-04-24 10:42:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KJUS EAID PHUM CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH270 | ENGAGING CAMBODIA'S MUSLIM MINORITY THROUGH DIALOG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although numbers vary, it is estimated that there are approximately 400,000 Muslims in Cambodia. This makes them the largest minority group, accounting for over 2.5 percent of the total population. Over the past year, the U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh has been able to focus attentio [...] | 2009-04-29 08:50:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH271 | ENVIRONMENTAL OUTREACH FOR EARTH DAY 2009 AND BEYOND [...] SUMMARY. Embassy Phnom Penh celebrated Earth Day 2009 through two outreach events that promoted environmental awareness and conservation and celebrated Cambodia's biodiversity. On April 22, the DCM discussed environmental challenges and participated in a community cleanup event with universi [...] | 2009-04-29 09:27:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH273 | CAMBODIA PRIME MINISTER HUN SEN AND MP MU SOCHUA [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 27, opposition lawmaker Mu Sochua of the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) filed a lawsuit against Prime Minister Hun Sen for defamation of character. The Prime Minister immediately filed countersuit against Mu and co-conspirators, also for defamation, which is a civil infractio [...] | 2009-04-30 10:48:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH283 | CLIMATE CHANGE RISING ON THE RGC'S RADAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Climate change is a relatively new issue in Cambodia, but it is increasingly gaining the attention and concern of the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC). As a Least Developed Country (LDC),Cambodia stands to lose much if the predicted effects of climate change come true. The [...] | 2009-05-04 09:08:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR ENRG EAID EIND CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH287 | GOVERNMENT-DONOR QUARTERLY MEETING: ECONOMIC CRISIS TAKES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) April 28 hosted the 14th Meeting of the Government-Donor Coordination Committee (GDCC) to review progress made toward their national development strategy and discuss policy impediments. The RGC presented thoughtful economic analyses and s [...] | 2009-05-05 08:58:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH316 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL "FRIENDS GROUP" MEETS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In its first meeting in a year, the "Friends Group" of donors at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) focused May 6 on the substantive work of the court and the array of administrative challenges the court faces to meet external problems. The judicial pro [...] | 2009-05-14 14:07:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH327 | ROYALIST PARTIES PLAN TO MERGE FOR 2013 NATIONAL ELECTION [...] (U) National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful, and Cooperative Cambodia (FUNCINPEC) and Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP) officials announced May 15 that the two royalist parties had set aside their differences and planned to formally merge under the FUNCINPEC name and brand. FUN [...] | 2009-05-20 08:01:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH333 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL: S/WCI AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Sok An May 20 warmly welcomed Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson's proposal to mediate differences between Sok An and UN Office of Legal Affairs (UN/OLA) Assistant Secretary General Peter Taksoe-Jensen over an anti-corruption mechanism [...] | 2009-05-22 09:43:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH336 | CAMBODIA CONTINUES TO BATTLE PHYSICAL REMINDERS OF [...] Summary: Nearly three decades of war and civil unrest have left Cambodia as one of the most heavily mined and explosive remnants of war (ERW) contaminated countries in the world. In addition to landmines, contamination includes cluster submunitions as well as abandoned explosive ordnance droppe [...] | 2009-05-26 09:35:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID MOPS CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH343 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL: SOK AN ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a palpably relaxed meeting May 22 with Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson, Deputy Prime Minister Sok An reiterated his strong support for a proposed new anti-corruption mechanism at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Ref A). Within minutes of reviewing desired [...] | 2009-05-28 15:29:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS EAID PHUM CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH364 | U.S. Companies Eye Opportunities in Cambodian Agriculture [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As the effects of the global economic crisis hit Cambodia's other important growth sectors, the government is pinning its hopes on growth in the expanding agriculture sector to shelter Cambodians from the global downturn. In an effort to support the government's growth initiat [...] | 2009-06-03 08:09:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EINV ETRD EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH370 | CORRECTED COPY: U.S. COMPANIES EYE OPPORTUNITIES IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As the effects of the global economic crisis hit Cambodia's other important growth sectors, the government is pinning its hopes on growth in the expanding agriculture sector to shelter Cambodians from the global downturn. In an effort to support the government's growth initiat [...] | 2009-06-04 09:17:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EINV ETRD EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH384 | CAMBODIA'S MUSLIM LEADERS DISCUSS THE PRESIDENT'S [...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador hosted a group of Cambodian Muslim religious, business, NGO and government leaders June 8 to discuss issues raised in President Obama's Cairo speech. Cambodia has a very small Muslim minority, commonly known as the Cham or Khmer Islam, which enjoys tolerance and acc [...] | 2009-06-09 10:20:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPAO PREL CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH395 | Khmer Rouge Tribunal: A Day in the Trial of S-21 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy is sending staff to observe the proceedings of the trial against the notorious Khmer Rouge torture center head, widely known as Duch, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Five judges (three national and two international) are presiding over th [...] | 2009-06-12 12:44:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH406 | CAMBODIA PREPARES PREAH VIHEAR PLAN FOR UNESCO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In advance of his participation in the 33rd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Seville, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Council of Ministers Sok An asked to see the Ambassador June 16 to outline progress by the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) in develo [...] | 2009-06-17 10:53:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL KTIA KJUS UNESCO EAID TH CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH410 | SOK AN ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND RULE OF LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 12 meeting to deliver a UN proposal on an anti-corruption mechanism at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Council of Ministers Sok An (Ref B),the Ambassador repeated earlier remarks on her duty to speak out against corruption on behalf [...] | 2009-06-19 10:15:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS PTER CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH411 | Khmer Rouge Tribunal: A Day in the Trial of S-21 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy staff routinely observes the proceedings of the trial against the notorious Khmer Rouge torture center head, widely known as Duch, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) (Reftel). This report summarizes the ninth week of activities inside the cou [...] | 2009-06-22 00:56:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH412 | Khmer Rouge Tribunal: A Day in the Trial of S-21 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy staff routinely observes the proceedings of the trial against the notorious Khmer Rouge torture center head, widely known as Duch, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) (Reftel). This report summarizes the ninth week of activities inside the cou [...] | 2009-06-22 00:56:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH469 | WHIRLWIND DEFAMATION CASE DISMISSAL SHOWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A new defamation/incitement case filed July 8 against leading opposition party newspaper publisher Dam Sith was quickly negotiated into the withdrawal of the complaint when Dam Sith publicly apologized to Prime Minister Hun Sen. Parliamentarian and Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) leader [...] | 2009-07-09 12:17:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH472 | Khmer Rouge Tribunal: The Trial of S-21 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy staff routinely observes the proceedings of the trial against the notorious Khmer Rouge torture center head, widely known as Duch, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) (Reftel). This report summarizes the eleventh week of activities inside the [...] | 2009-07-10 09:54:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH489 | WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE HARD-EARNED POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The wider political space seen in Cambodia during the run-up to the 2008 National Assembly elections last July is undergoing an autocratic nip-and-tuck as the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) exerts one of its periodic reining-in exercises in the name of greater social orde [...] | 2009-07-14 11:44:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH493 | CRITIC OF ANGKOR LIGHTING CONVICTED IN ABSTENTIA ON DISINFORMATION CHARGE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-15 10:54:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS KDEM CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH497 | Khmer Rouge Tribunal: The Trial of S-21 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy staff routinely observes the proceedings of the trial against the notorious Khmer Rouge torture center head, widely known as Duch, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) (Reftel). This report summarizes the twelfth week of activities inside the [...] | 2009-07-17 10:12:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH505 | CAMBODIA SEEKS SUPPORT FOR BID TO JOIN UNESCO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary of State Long Visalo July 20 appealed for United States support of the bid by the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) to join the UNESCO World Heritage Committee (WHC). Cambodia will stand in an election for the one open East Asia and Pacifi [...] | 2009-07-21 13:01:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KTIA SCUL UNESCO CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH513 | Khmer Rouge Tribunal: The Trial of S-21 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy staff routinely observes the proceedings of the trial against the notorious Khmer Rouge torture center head, widely known as Duch, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) (Reftel). This report summarizes the thirteenth week of activities inside t [...] | 2009-07-24 09:46:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH514 | MU SOCHUA DEFENDS HERSELF; NO VERDICT UNTIL AUGUST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mu Sochua appeared July 24 before the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to defend herself against the Prime Minister's defamation allegations. Over 100 observers packed the small court room, including the Ambassador and representatives of several Embassies, Cambodian human rights NG [...] | 2009-07-24 11:16:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS KWMN CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH521 | US-FUNDED YOUTH DEMOCRACY FESTIVAL DRAWS THOUSANDS TO [...] SUMMARY: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the International Republican Institute (IRI) held an annual Youth Festival in Kampong Cham July 18 - 19 drawing thousands of participants. The festival, a combination of seminars, performances and information booths, [...] | 2009-07-27 09:30:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH539 | Khmer Rouge Tribunal: The Trial of S-21 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy staff routinely observes the proceedings of the trial against the notorious Khmer Rouge torture center head, widely known as Duch, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) (Reftel). This report summarizes the fourteenth week of activities inside t [...] | 2009-08-03 01:58:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH547 | CAMBODIA: 2009 2ND QUARTER REPORT ON TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) Summary: During the second quarter of 2009, Cambodian police arrested seven persons on human trafficking charges. Police also arrested six persons on procurement of prostitution charges in connection with two cases involving two victims who were minors. Police reported arresting four f [...] | 2009-08-04 11:33:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KWMN KTIP SOCI CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH555 | MINISTER OF COMMERCE DENIES DEFAMATION SUITS ARE [...] SUMMARY: During an August 4 meeting with Senior Minister and Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh, the Ambassador expressed serious USG concerns about the recent attacks on freedom of speech and the constricting of political space in Cambodia, highlighting the resulting damage to Cambodia's int [...] | 2009-08-05 10:57:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH564 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL: SOK AN SIGNS AGREEMENT ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Using modern-day electronic shuttle diplomacy along with the classic variety, Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson persuaded Deputy Prime Minister Sok An to sign an agreement with the United Nations on an anti-corruption mechanism at the Extraordinary Chambe [...] | 2009-08-07 11:16:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH573 | Khmer Rouge Tribunal: The Trial of S-21 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy staff routinely observes the proceedings of the trial against the notorious Khmer Rouge torture center head, widely known as Duch, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) (Reftel). This report summarizes the 15th week of activities inside the cou [...] | 2009-08-11 00:43:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH576 | PUBLISHER HONG CHAKRA'S APPEAL FAILS; JAILED UNTIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After an hour-long hearing, the Appeals Court reaffirmed the June 26 conviction for disinformation of Khmer Machas Srok publisher Hong Chakra, and ordered him to continue serving a 12-month jail sentence. While presiding judge Seng Sivutha asked fair questions, the accused's [...] | 2009-08-11 11:55:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS PHUM CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH577 | SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR JIM WEBB VISIT TO PHNOM [...] (SBU) Senator Webb: We warmly welcome your August 18 visit to Cambodia. Your visit comes as the tempo quickens in the conduct of U.S.-Cambodian bilateral relations, which exemplifies a broader and growing USG interest in Cambodia. There have been positive developments in several key areas: p [...] | 2009-08-11 12:11:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS PREF CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH579 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH DPM AND FM HOR NAMHONG [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 10 meeting, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong expressed to the Ambassador Cambodia's deep appreciation for recent initiatives with the USG such as the Lower Mekong Ministerial, concurred that an anti-corruption mechanism for the Khm [...] | 2009-08-12 09:09:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH58 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL: RESULTS OF PUBLIC PERCEPTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A September 2008 survey of 1,000 adult Cambodians indicates that there is a general lack of knowledge about the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT) among the Cambodian population, with 39 percent of surveyed respondents stating they had no knowledge of the KRT, and 46 percent stating t [...] | 2009-01-23 09:48:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS ABUD EAID PHUM PREL CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH596 | Khmer Rouge Tribunal: The Trial of S-21 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy staff routinely observes the proceedings of the trial against the notorious Khmer Rouge torture center head, widely known as Duch, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) (Reftel). This report summarizes the 16th week of activities inside the cour [...] | 2009-08-17 09:04:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH602 | SENATOR WEBB MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER HUN SEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senator Jim Webb concluded a successful one-day visit to Cambodia August 18 on a positive note during a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen in which there was general agreement on new ways to approach Burma. Webb detailed his interest in the region and in stronger relations with [...] | 2009-08-19 11:23:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD EAID PTER MASS KJUS PHUM BM CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH626 | Khmer Rouge Tribunal: The Trial of S-21 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy staff routinely observes the proceedings of the trial against the notorious Khmer Rouge torture center head, widely known as Duch, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) (Reftel). This report summarizes the 17th week of activities inside the cour [...] | 2009-08-25 06:47:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH645 | Khmer Rouge Tribunal: The Trial of S-21 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy staff routinely observes the proceedings of the trial against the notorious Khmer Rouge (KR) torture center head, widely known as Duch, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) (Reftel). This report summarizes the 18th week of activities inside the [...] | 2009-09-01 08:31:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH646 | Khmer Rouge Tribunal: The Trial of S-21 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy staff routinely observes the proceedings of the trial against the notorious Khmer Rouge (KR) torture center head, widely known as Duch, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) (Reftel). This report summarizes the 18th week of activities inside the [...] | 2009-09-01 08:31:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH648 | KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL: FIVE MORE FOR PROSECUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Pre-Trial Chamber at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT) will announce this week that five more high-level Khmer Rouge cadres will be prosecuted, although a small number of the proposed charges against some of the accused may be set aside for lack of evidence. The decision on an [...] | 2009-09-01 10:44:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KJUS PHUM KTIA PINR PGOV CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH654 | UPDATE ON LAND ISSUES IN CAMBODIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The combination of a lax land titling system and the Royal Government of Cambodia's (RGC) push to develop the country through land concessions has led to widespread land disputes. Due process rights related to land management, including ownership disputes and evictions, remains [...] | 2009-09-02 08:52:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAGR SENV KDEM CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH682 | Khmer Rouge Tribunal: The Trial of S-21 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy staff routinely observes the proceedings of the trial against the notorious Khmer Rouge (KR) torture center head, widely known as Duch, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) (Reftel). This report summarizes the 19th week of activities inside the [...] | 2009-09-08 02:13:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH707 | G/TIP AMBASSADOR CDEBACA'S VISIT TO CAMBODIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a Septmeber 1-4 visit to Cambodia, G/TIP Ambassador Luis CdeBaca discussed recent efforts to combat human trafficking. Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Sar Kheng reaffirmed Cambodia's commitment to fighting human trafficking, while acknowledging that the battle is an uneven [...] | 2009-09-17 10:56:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KTIP CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH71 | 2009 Investment Climate Statement - Cambodia [...] Cambodia, a developing country, began the transformation from a command economy to the free market in the late 1980s. It is now integrating into the regional and world trading framework. In 1999, Cambodia joined the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and in September 2004, became [...] | 2009-01-28 10:02:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD KIPR OPIC KTDB USTR CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH712 | Khmer Rouge Tribunal: The Trial of S-21 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy staff routinely observes the proceedings of the trial against the notorious Khmer Rouge (KR) torture center head, widely known as Duch, at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) (Reftel). This report summarizes the 20th week of activities inside the [...] | 2009-09-22 08:45:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH716 | COURT ACQUITS SRP PARLIAMENTARIAN HO VANN OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a surprise verdict September 22, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court acquitted opposition Parliamentarian Ho Vann of defamation charges, but fined Cambodia Daily editor-in-chief Kevin Doyle and journalist Nou Vannarinn for violating the Press Law on publishing retractions. The p [...] | 2009-09-23 11:35:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH721 | EXPERIENCE ENGAGING DIASPORA COMMUNITIES [...] This cable provides input requested in reftel for the Secretary's Global Partnership Initiative. 2. Between the years of 1975-1985, approximately 130,000 Cambodian refuges were resettled in the United States after fleeing the Khmer Rouge regime. Since then, it is estimated that the numbe [...] | 2009-09-25 09:21:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL EINV EAID SCUL SMIG OIIP |
| 09PHNOMPENH745 | CAMBODIA'S SUMMER OF DEFAMATION SUITS WINDS DOWN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The summer of defamation lawsuits appears to be winding to a close in Cambodia. The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) prevailed in most cases, though defamation actions were either dismissed or never initiated in two high-profile cases. While some appeals and smaller lawsuits [...] | 2009-10-07 10:46:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH765 | FRIENDS OF THE ECCC DISCUSS STAFFING CHALLENGES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The "Friends of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)" met October 7 to discuss the judicial and administrative progress and challenges of the court. The judicial proceedings were reported to be running smoothly, with the substantive portion of the first tria [...] | 2009-10-16 08:17:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH79 | AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL MEETING WITH CAMBODIAN PRIME [...] (C) Summary: In the Ambassador's first call on Prime Minister Hun Sen since presenting credentials, the PM took the opportunity to renew his personal relationship with the Ambassador and review the evolution of U.S.-Cambodian relations over the past several years, highlighting several areas [...] | 2009-01-30 10:07:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM ECON EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH811 | EAP/MLS DEPUTY DIRECTOR PALMER SEES UP CLOSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EAP/MLS Deputy Director Matthew Palmer visited Cambodia October 20-26 to take part in a Conference on the Lower Mekong Initiative (septel),meet key counterparts in the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC),address human rights issues, visit bilateral assistance program sites, a [...] | 2009-10-30 05:59:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM EAID CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH816 | ENCOURAGING CENTRAL GOVERNMENT BUDGET TRANSPARENCY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Pol/Econ Chief October 22 delivered reftel demarche to the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MoEF),reiterating that improvements in budget transparency would be a key focus in future years. The MoEF highlighted the ministry's diligent implementation of the Public Financial Ma [...] | 2009-10-30 09:21:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EFIN EAID ECON CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH831 | CAMBODIA RECALLS AMBASSADOR TO THAILAND BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) recalled its Ambassador to Thailand You Ay on November 5, emphasizing reciprocity in response to Thailand's earlier removal of the Thai Ambassador to Cambodia -- noting specifically that Cambodia was willing to restore full relations as soo [...] | 2009-11-06 10:57:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KTIA MOPS ELAB CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH840 | UPDATE ON FREE SPEECH PROSECUTIONS IN CAMBODIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two new convictions - one on defamation and one on disinformation charges - have again increased attention on the free speech debate in Cambodia. Both cases involve disputes between private parties. Separately, Minister of Information Khieu Khanarith said November 9 that the f [...] | 2009-11-13 11:36:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH883 | EMBASSY PHNOM PENH'S NOMINATION FOR THE [...] Embassy Phnom Penh is proud to nominate Chen Reaksmey for the 2010 International Woman of Courage Award. There are a number of Cambodian women who demonstrate courage and leadership in the pursuit of women's human rights and advancement. Reaksmey stood out from the crowd due to her recent a [...] | 2009-12-01 00:15:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KWMN PHUM PREL |
| 09PHNOMPENH920 | POLL SHOWS POWER OF HAVING A CONCRETE PARTY MESSAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On December 11, the International Republican Institute (IRI) presented the results of its August 2009 Cambodian Public Opinion survey. The USAID-funded survey found solid public confidence in the general direction of the country and the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP). Q [...] | 2009-12-15 10:03:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS SOCI CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH958 | CAMBODIAN ABOUT FACE ON UIGHUR ASYLUM SEEKERS PORTRAYED IN [...] SUMMARY: The Cambodian press has been following the plight of the Uighur asylum seekers since their presence in Cambodia became widely known on December 4. The media excerpts tell an extraordinary story in itself, and offer a revealing picture of the Cambodian government's reversal from origi [...] | 2009-12-22 10:21:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH959 | CAMBODIAN ABOUT FACE ON UIGHUR ASYLUM SEEKERS PORTRAYED IN [...] SUMMARY: The Cambodian press has been following the plight of the Uighur asylum seekers since their presence in Cambodia became widely known on December 4. The media excerpts tell an extraordinary story in itself, and offer a revealing picture of the Cambodian government's reversal from origi [...] | 2009-12-22 10:41:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL CB |
| 09PHNOMPENH969 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CODEL FALEOMAVAEGA TO [...] (SBU) Embassy Phnom Penh warmly welcomes CODEL Faleomavaega's visit to Cambodia. Yours is the first Congressional visit since Senator Jim Webb's in mid-August, and you will find a Cambodia seeking to take full advantage of its first real period of stability in more than a generation. Althoug [...] | 2009-12-31 08:33:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KJUS ECON MARR CB |
| 09STATE29154 | GUIDANCE TO USUN ON KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL [...] (C) Summary and Action Request: The UN's Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) and the Cambodian government have significantly different interpretations of the February 23 Joint Statement outlining the structure of an anti-corruption mechanism in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT). UN/OLA has solicited U. [...] | 2009-03-26 15:35:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KJUS KTIA PGOV PREL UN CB |
| 09STATE93358 | ACTION REQUEST: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 12TH [...] (SBU) This is an action request, please see paragraph 3. Embassy New Delhi: Please note additional action request in paragraph 8. Embassies Brasilia, Dhaka, Santiago, Kyiv and Pretoria: Please note additional action request in paragraph 9. Embassies Tokyo, The Hague, Rome, Paris, London, Bru [...] | 2009-09-09 02:29:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN UNHRC |
| 09TOKYO418 | INTEREST IN REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT GROWS IN JAPAN [...] (C) Summary: Japan's recent decision to accept some 90 Burmese refugees, makes it the first Asian nation to provide third country resettlement. This cable summarizes two recent symposia held in Japan on resettlement and the experiences of other countries in dealing with refugees. Although Jap [...] | 2009-02-24 06:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PREF PHUM PREL SMIG JA |
| 09TOKYO58 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 1/13/09 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-13 01:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 09USUNNEWYORK323 | MEETING WITH UN OFFICE OF LEGAL AFFAIRS ON KHMER [...] (SBU) On March 26, Legoffs met with U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Peter Taksoe-Jensen and U.N. Senior Officer Huw Llewellyn and delivered the points contained in Reftel. 2. (C) Taksoe-Jensen reported on the status of the negotiations on the anti-corruption mechanism fo [...] | 2009-03-27 18:23:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PREL PHUM CB |
| 10HOCHIMINHCITY38 | CHRISTIANS HOLD WIDESPREAD CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS IN [...] (C) Summary: Christians in HCMC, Hanoi and other locations held several large-scale Christmas celebrations with record- breaking turnout and without incident. In HCMC, Protestant house churches staged their largest Christmas gatherings to date -- two separate events involving 40,000 and 12,000 [...] | 2010-01-29 09:42:00 | Consulate Ho Chi Minh City | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI SCUL VM |
| 10PHNOMPENH103 | DAS MARCIEL REVIEWS U.S. POLICY WITH GOVERNMENT, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a wide range of meetings with Cambodian officials, opposition party members, NGOs and civil society, Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Scot Marciel spotlighted stepped-up engagement by the United States in Cambodia while highlighting specific issue [...] | 2010-02-12 10:19:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS MARR TH CB |
| 10PHNOMPENH113 | CAMBODIA'S BURGEONING YOUTH POPULATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent uptick in drug use, particularly ice - the crystallized form of methamphetamine preferred by Cambodia's new urban elite - has resulted in increased scrutiny of the social triggers and available treatment for Cambodia's young population. Reported increases in teens hold [...] | 2010-02-17 07:29:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PREF PREL ASEC EAID CB |
| 10PHNOMPENH138 | 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT FOR CAMBODIA [...] (U) The following is Embassy Phnom Penh's 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report for Cambodia, covering the period April 2009 - March 2010. Responses follow the questions outlined in Ref B. The entire report is Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU). 2. (SBU) CAMBODIA'S TIP SITUATION ----------- [...] | 2010-02-24 08:36:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PREF ELAB SMIG KCRM KTIP KWMN KFRD |
| 10PHNOMPENH26 | FRIENDS OF THE ECCC DISCUSS BUDGET AND JUDICIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a three-hour meeting January 11 which was both active and at times exceedingly technical, the "Friends of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)" discussed the budget request for 2010-2011 as well as the preliminary budget estimates for 2012-2015. The F [...] | 2010-01-14 09:10:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM CB |
| 10PHNOMPENH29 | 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - CAMBODIA [...] Cambodia, a developing country, began the transformation from a command economy to the free market in the late 1980s. It is now integrating into the regional and world trading framework. In 1999, Cambodia joined the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and in September 2004, became [...] | 2010-01-19 00:41:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD KIPR OPIC KTDB USTR CB |
| 10PHNOMPENH3 | CAMBODIA'S VULNERABLE MUSLIM MINORITY: EMBASSY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Cambodia is home to approximately 400,000 Muslims, known as the Cham, who are viewed as generally well integrated into society by the Cambodian government and by the Cham themselves. Cambodia's Cham live in extreme poverty and have low education levels, high illiteracy rates, and [...] | 2010-01-05 05:21:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV KPAO PREL CB |
| 10PHNOMPENH31 | CODEL FALEOMAVAEGA DISCUSSES DEBT, TRADE AND [...] (C) Summary: Following a day in Siem Reap and after attending festivities to mark the 31st anniversary of the January 7 Khmer Rouge "victory" commemoration, Congressman Eni Faleomavaega met with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and later with Deputy Prime Ministers Hor Namhong and Keat Chhon [...] | 2010-01-19 09:15:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EFIN ETRD PHUM SCUL KJUS KDEM EAID CH CB |
| 10PHNOMPENH82 | CAMBODIAN RESPONSE TO DISTRACTED DRIVING DEMARCHE [...] SUMMARY. ESTHOff delivered Reftel demarche to the directors of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport's (MPWT) Department of Transport and the Ministry of Interior's (MOI) Public Order Department. Text messaging and cell phone use while driving are common in Cambodia but are not viewed [...] | 2010-02-04 09:25:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI UNDP UNGA CB |
| 10STATE15565 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN SPECIAL [...] (U) This is an Action Request: see para 3. 2. (SBU) Department appreciates USUN's ongoing engagement with UN/OLA and the Steering Committee for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia aka the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (ECCC). Department notes that UN/OLA has requested donor input r [...] | 2010-02-20 01:27:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID KJUS KTIA CB |
| 10USUNNEWYORK52 | MISSION CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR S/WCI [...] Mission clearance is granted for Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp and Foreign Service Officer Todd Anderson to participate in meetings on February 1-2 with Security Council experts from the Informal Working Group on International Tribunals concerning the USG proposal to p [...] | 2010-01-29 13:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OTRA KJUS PHUM UN |
| 89BANGKOK3838 | HUN SEN'S VISIT [...] SUMMARY: HUN SEN'S PRECEDENT SETTING VISIT TO BANGKOK REVEALED NO NEW PRK FLEXIBILITY ON THE KEY ASPECTS OF AN INTERNAL SETTLEMENT. HE REMAINS OPPOSED TO AND INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING FORCE AND TO SIHANOUK'S PROPOSALS. IN THEIR DISCUSSIONS WITH HIM, THE THAI APPARENTLY FOCUSED ON THE EXTE [...] | 1989-01-26 11:32:00 | Embassy Bangkok | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL CB TH |
| 89STATE308460 | U.S. POLICY TOWARD CAMBODIA: NEXT STEPS [...] CONFIDENTIAL--ENTIRE TEXT. 2. SUMMARY: THIS CABLE PROVIDES POSTS WITH KEY THEMES TO BE USED WITH HOST GOVERNMENTS, THE PRESS, AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES REGARDING OUR ASSESSMENT OF THE CURRENT SITUATION IN CAMBODIA (SEE PARA 3) AND INFORMATION ON THE NEXT STEPS WE PLAN TO TAKE (SEE PAR [...] | 1989-09-26 16:09:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CB US |
| 92PHNOMPENH664 | CAMBODIA: MEETING WITH HOR NAMHONG [...] (C) - ENTIRE TEXT. BEGIN TEXT: SUMMARY -------- 2. SOLOMON, PIAK, AND GRIFFITHS THANKED SDC SNC MEMBER HOR NAMHONG FOR SOC COOPERATION OF THE POW/MIA ISSUE. SOLOMON STRESSED TO HOR NAMHONG THE NEED FOR ALL THE FACTIONS TO ABIDE BY THE COMMITMENTS IN THE PARIS AGREEMENT TO ENSURE THE [...] | 1992-03-28 06:52:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT |
| 93PHNOMPENH577 | HOR NAMHONG VIEWS THE FUTURE [...] (C) - ENTIRE TEXT. 2. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY. SOC FOREIGN MINISTER HOR NAMHONG TOOK ME ASIDE DURING UNTAC'S DONORS REVIEW MEETING ON REHABILITATION AND DEVELOPMENT FEBRUARY 25. AFTER ASKING ABOUT THE CORE GROUP MEETING ON CAMBODIA, HE TOOK THE INITIATIVE TO SPEAK FRANKLY ABOUT THE SITUA [...] | 1993-02-25 09:04:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM UNTAC CB |
| 95PHNOMPENH152 | VIEWS OF HOR NAMHONG, CAMBODIAN AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE [...] C - ENTIRE TEXT. 2. FORMER SOC FOREIGN MINISTER AND PRESENT RCG AMBASSADOR TO PARIS HOR NAMHONG EXCHANGED VIEWS WITH THE AMBASSADOR JANUARY 11 DURING A VISIT TO PHNOM PENH. ALTHOUGH THEORETICALLY NEUTRAL POLITICALLY, HOR NAMHONG WITH HIS IMTIMATE INVOLVEMENT WITH THE MEMBERS OF THE FORMER REGIME [...] | 1995-01-11 09:26:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CB FR TH |
| 97PHNOMPENH1339 | COMMANDER, SPECIAL OPERATION COMMAND [...] SUMMARY. ON MAY 3, 1997, VISITING MAJOR GENERAL CHARLES HOLLAND, COMMANDER, SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND PACIFIC, HAD SUBSTANTIVE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE CO-MINISTERS OF NATIONAL DEFENSE AND THE DEPUTY CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF, LTG MEAS SOPHEA, REAFFIRMING THE MILITARY-TO-MILITARY RELATIONSHIP [...] | 1997-05-20 04:07:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR MOPS CB |
| 98BANGKOK4204 | THAI MFA COMMENTS ON TEA BANH, FOC, AND THE KHMER ROUGE [...] No summary [...] | 1998-03-31 00:08:00 | Embassy Bangkok | SECRET | PREL MOPS KDEM CB TH |
| 99STATE184471 | DESIGNATION OF FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: THE 8 OCTOBER 1999 ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE DESIGNATION OF "FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS" IS LIKELY TO ATTRACT MEDIA COVERAGE AND OFFICIAL INTEREST IN SOME COUNTRIES. CHIEFS OF MISSION AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY SECTIONS SHOULD CONSIDER GOVERNMENT-TO- GOVER [...] | 1999-09-30 15:57:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER OPRC |
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