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06KUWAIT286 | GOK OFFICIALS AND ACADEMICS CONCERNED ABOUT [...] (C) During a January 28 meeting, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah told the Ambassador the GOK was "very worried" about the "very critical" regional impact of Hamas' election victory, particularly the possibility that Hamas would deepen relations with Hezbollah, Ira [...] | 2006-01-28 15:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS KU |
06KUWAIT306 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: REPORTING IRAN TO THE [...] (C) Summary. In a January 28 meeting, the Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah. Al-Jarallah reacted by asking what more the GCC could do, and expressed willingess to pursue the matter further. The Ambassador queried promine [...] | 2006-01-29 14:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
06KUWAIT362 | REGIONAL MARINE ENVIRONMENT HEAD TALKS WATER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 30, Ambassador met with the Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment (ROPME) Executive Secretary Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Awadhi to discuss his organization's work. ROPME is funded by the six GCC countries plus Iraq and Iran, and is responsible [...] | 2006-02-01 10:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KU IR |
06KUWAIT3620 | KUWAIT-SAUDI FRICTION OVER SAUDI ARABIAN TEXACO [...] (C) In a 6 September meeting with CDA, Saudi Arabian Texaco (SAT) President Ahmed Al-Omer expressed concern that despite the KSA's formal objection, the GOK appeared to be proceeding with plans to build its new mega-refinery right on the doorstep of SAT's compound in the Mina Al-Zour area wit [...] | 2006-09-09 13:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON BEXP KU |
06KUWAIT3640 | TRIPARTITE COMMISSION TECHNICAL SUBCOMMITTEE 51ST [...] Summary: Kuwait hosted the 51st session of the Tripartitite Commission's Technical Subcommittee (TSC) on September 5, 2006 with representatives from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, France, Britain, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC),and Embassy Kuwait in attendance. The session [...] | 2006-09-10 14:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR IZ SA KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
06KUWAIT3645 | KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - 9/11 AND DETAINEE POLICY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-11 10:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION |
06KUWAIT3733 | SENIOR KUWAITI SHI'A CLERIC ON HIZBALLAH, IRAQ, [...] (C/NF) Summary: In a September 13 meeting with PolOff, senior Kuwaiti Shi'a cleric Sayed Mohammed Baqer Al-Mohri shared his views on regional developments and Shi'a-Sunni relations in Kuwait. Al-Mohri said Hizballah was more popular among Kuwaiti Shi'a than before the recent Israel-Hizballah [...] | 2006-09-17 13:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KTFN IR IZ KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
06KUWAIT3741 | KUWAIT TAKES ACTION ON KEY TIP ACTION PLAN ITEMS: [...] (C/NF) Summary. The GOK has made progress on a number of key items on the Kuwait TIP Tier 2 Watchlist Action Plan. The Ministry of Interior announced the implementation of a standardized domestic worker contract beginning October 1. Post will monitor implementation closely. GOK contacts hav [...] | 2006-09-18 07:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ELAB PHUM KU TIP |
06KUWAIT3756 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES LEGISLATIVE AGENDA, REGIONAL [...] (C/NF) Summary: Acting National Assembly Speaker and Islamic Constitutional Movement MP Mohammed al-Bousairi told Ambassador September 17 that opposition MPs are ready to move ahead with their agenda, but need to look for pragmatic ways to work with the GOK. Opposition representatives are now [...] | 2006-09-19 12:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IZ IR KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
06KUWAIT3830 | FORMER GCC SECRETARY GENERAL: "NO COMMON GCC [...] (C/NF) Summary: Former Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council Ambassador Abdullah Bishara told PolOff September 19 the GCC had "no common strategy on Iran," a problem he attributed largely to friction between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. He believed an effective GCC strategy should sup [...] | 2006-09-24 13:56:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
06KUWAIT3877 | MINISTER OF ISLAMIC AFFAIRS ON FOSTERING MODERATION [...] (C/NF) Summary: The Ambassador called on Dr. Abdullah Al-Maatouq, who serves as both Minister of Justice and Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs (MAIA),on September 27. They discussed the MAIA's upcoming Moderation conference in Washington, which the Minister said had been in some jeopardy of c [...] | 2006-09-28 06:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KIRF SA KU |
06KUWAIT3936 | KUWAITI ENERGY MINISTER ON BROWNOUTS, PROJECT [...] (C/NF) In a 2 October call on the new and somewhat embattled Energy Minister Shaykh Ali Jarrah Sabah Al-Sabah, the Ambassador asked about the Ministry's priorities, the summer power outages, gas production, and Project Kuwait (the $8.5 billion project for international oil companies to devel [...] | 2006-10-02 13:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ENRG EPET KU OIL SECTOR |
06KUWAIT397 | GCC STRATEGY ON IRAN: "HOPING FOR A MIRACLE" [...] (C) Summary and comment: Former Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary General Ambassador Abdullah Bishara told Poloff in a February 1 meeting that while the GCC "has no other option than to comply with any UNSC resolution," it would not publicly support such a step. GCC countries had exp [...] | 2006-02-05 14:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL SENV IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
06KUWAIT398 | MFA GCC OFFICE DIRECTOR PREDICTS MORE ACTIVE [...] (C) During a February 5 meeting, the Ambassador and Abdullah Al-Ghanim, Director of the GCC Office at the Ministry of Affairs, discussed GCC involvement with Iran, counterterrorism, regional defense, and other issues affecting the Gulf states. Al-Ghanim said that Saudi King Abdullah has an " [...] | 2006-02-05 14:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL ZP |
06KUWAIT4071 | GCC ADVISOR: VISIT TO ISFAHAN NUCLEAR FACILITY [...] (C/NF) Summary: In an October 9 meeting with PolChief, Advisor to the GCC Secretary General Dr. Sami Al-Faraj shared his impressions of a two-day conference sponsored by the Expediency Council he attended in April that included a visit to the Isfahan nuclear facility. Al-Faraj, who regularly [...] | 2006-10-11 13:49:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
06KUWAIT4147 | REFINERY DISPUTE WITH SAUDI ARABIAN TEXACO [...] (C/NF) Post concurs with Embassy Riyadh's points in ref. A, but would add that further delay of Kuwaiti plans to build a new 615,000 bpd refinery could adversely affect U.S. companies considering participation in the project including Fluor, Parsons, GE, and Bechtel. In addition, the start o [...] | 2006-10-17 12:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG EINV PREL KU SA OIL SECTOR |
06KUWAIT4220 | SCENESETTER: APHSCT TOWNSEND VISIT TO KUWAIT, [...] (S/NF) Embassy Kuwait welcomes your visit, which comes in the general framework of a longstanding and productive CT relationship between Kuwait and the United States, and continued close, effective cooperation on the ground across a range of issues. During your visit, you will meet with sev [...] | 2006-10-26 09:40:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER EFIN KTFN PGOV PREL KU TERRORISM |
06KUWAIT4291 | KUWAIT FINANCE MINISTER URGES DISCRETION ON IRAQI [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 31, Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt met with Kuwaiti Finance Minister Bader Al-Humaidhi to discuss the Iraq Compact, Iraqi debt relief, Lebanon's debt situation, oversight of Kuwaiti charities, and Kuwaiti investments in the United States. Kimmitt provided an update [...] | 2006-10-31 21:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID ECON EFIN ETRD EINV LE IZ KU |
06KUWAIT4309 | INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ: OCT 31 PG MEETING STRESSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. At the Oct. 31 meeting of the Preparatory Group (PG) for the International Compact with Iraq (ICI),the PG achieved broad consensus that the current iteration was satisfactory, and that critical next steps include reaching out to a broader range of countries for participation in [...] | 2006-11-01 14:31:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ECON EFIN ETRD EINV IZ KU |
06KUWAIT4315 | IRAQ COMPACT: TREASURY DEPUTY SECRETARY MEETING [...] (C) Summary: Treasury D/S Kimmitt met with Iraqi NSA Rubaie in Kuwait City on November 1, the day following the Preparatory Group meeting on the International Compact for Iraq (ICI). They had a wide ranging discussion regarding the ICI, Iraq-Saudi relations, the Iraqi insurgency and Iraq's [...] | 2006-11-03 11:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL EAID ECON EFIN ETRD EINV LE IZ KU |
06KUWAIT4510 | APHSCT TOWNSEND'S 11/13 MEETING WITH KUWAIT NSB [...] (S/NF) Summary: APHSCT Frances Fragos Townsend met November 13 with Kuwait National Security Bureau President Shaykh Ahmed Al-Fahd to discuss counterterrorism cooperation, energy security, and regional developments. Shaykh Ahmed sought reassurances on U.S. policy in Iraq. He encouraged the U. [...] | 2006-11-25 11:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV EFIN IZ KU TERRORISM |
06KUWAIT4514 | KUWAIT'S BIDOON (STATELESS RESIDENTS): BACKGROUND [...] (C/NF) Summary: The "Bidoon" are people living in Kuwait who assert rights to Kuwaiti citizenship and who deny that they have a right to citizenship in any other country. It is the highest profile human rights issue in Kuwaiti domestic politics. The GOK argues that most of the approximatel [...] | 2006-11-26 06:49:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KU |
06KUWAIT4536 | 29TH MEETING OF THE TRIPARTITE COMMISSION AND THE [...] Summary. The 29th Meeting of the Tripartite Commission on Gulf War Missing met in Geneva on November 15, 2006. The Commission announced the closure of 12 cases. The Commission agreed on a plan of action to address the inability of the Commission's Technical Subcommittee to conduct any field [...] | 2006-11-29 13:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM AORC MARR IZ SA KU |
06KUWAIT4557 | NATO ISTANBUL COOPERATION INITIATIVE MEETING IN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-04 04:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NATO PREL PTER KU |
06KUWAIT4562 | CRITICAL ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE: NEXT STEPS ON USG [...] (S/NF) On 29 November, Econoff met with Ali Al-Obaid, Deputy Chairman of Kuwait's Oil Sector Services Company (OSSCo) to discuss opportunities to expand USG-GOK cooperation to enhance the security of Kuwait's critical energy infrastructure. OSSCo is a new subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corpo [...] | 2006-12-04 08:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | ENRG PTER EPET KU OIL SECTOR |
06KUWAIT4612 | SPEAKER AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS CHAIRMAN ON IRAQ, [...] (C/NF) Summary: During separate meetings December 6 with the Ambassador, Speaker of Parliament Jassem Al-Khorafi and the Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, Mohammed Al-Sager, shared their views on regional and domestic political issues. Al-Khorafi welcomed the President's recent meetings wit [...] | 2006-12-10 13:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM LE IZ IR KU |
06KUWAIT4625 | KUWAITIS TELL NEA PDAS JEFFREY INCREASED [...] (C/NF) Summary: During his December 9 visit to Kuwait, PDAS Jeffrey met with a number of prominent Kuwaitis to discuss Iraq and Iran. The Kuwaitis expressed concern about rising Iranian influence in the region and emphasized the need for international cooperation. They agreed that the GCC s [...] | 2006-12-11 15:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL IZ IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
06KUWAIT464 | SECURITY BUREAU CHIEF SAYS KUWAIT TO BE EXAMPLE OF [...] (C) Summary: National Security Bureau President Shaykh Sabah Al-Khaled, responding to the Ambassador's concerns that the GOK was not as focused as before on CT efforts, reviewed a five-year plan developed by the Ministry of Awqaf to promote moderation and exert control over Kuwaiti mosques. [...] | 2006-02-08 14:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL KU |
06KUWAIT465 | JANUARY 17 VICE PRESIDENT MEETING WITH KUWAITI [...] (U) PARTICIPANTS: U.S. ---- The Vice President Ambassador Richard LeBaron NEA/PDAS Elizabeth Cheney OVP Chief of Staff David Addington National Security Advisor to the VP John Hannah Deputy Assistant to the VP for NSA Samantha Ravich Gamal Helal (interpreter) DCM Tueller (notetaker) [...] | 2006-02-08 14:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP KU |
06KUWAIT4652 | NATO ICI MEETING: KUWAIT SEEKS "STRATEGIC [...] (C/NF) Summary. In a briefing for NATO resident ambassadors, NATO Secretary General Scheffer praised the atmosphere surrounding NATO-GOK meetings, and noted Kuwait's interest in expanding NATO's relationship with Kuwait and the GCC as a "political-military alliance." Scheffer believes Kuwait [...] | 2006-12-13 14:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO IR IZ KU |
06KUWAIT4678 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-19 13:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL UNGA AORC KU DEMARCHES |
06KUWAIT4688 | GLOBAL PURSUIT OF TERRORIST INFORMATION EXCHANGE: [...] (U) Post's response to Department inquiries in State 190832 follows. 2. (C/NF) Immigration Databases ------------------------------- - The Government of Kuwait (GOK) Ministry of the Interior has a computerized immigration database. Information for all entries and exits are entered into [...] | 2006-12-20 13:14:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KVPR KHLS KU |
06KUWAIT490 | NEW KUWAITI MINISTERS PLEDGE TO FIGHT TERROR, [...] In public statements on February 11, the day of the swearing in of the new cabinet, three senior Kuwaiti Ministers made comments about specific aspects of the fight against terrorism. During courtesy calls on the new cabinet members in the coming weeks, Ambassador will be reinforcing the U.S [...] | 2006-02-12 08:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER KU TERRORISM |
06KUWAIT615 | KUWAIT CURRENT ON ARAB LEAGUE COMMITMENTS FOR [...] (U) According to a February 20 Arab Times (local English daily) article, the Arab League issued a report on Sunday, February 19 identifying Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, and Egypt as the only four Arab states to have fulfilled Arab League payment commitments in support of the Palestinian Aut [...] | 2006-02-21 15:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON EAID EFIN WE GZ KU |
06KUWAIT630 | SENIOR KUWAITI SHI'A CLERIC SAYS IRANIAN [...] (C) Summary and comment: Senior Kuwaiti Shi'a cleric Sayed Mohammed Baqer Al-Mohri told Poloff in a February 21 meeting that Iranian "reformers" had been politically marginalized by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and exercised little restraint on the President's conservative policies. He disco [...] | 2006-02-22 14:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
06KUWAIT71 | KUWAIT'S COUNTRY-WIDE RADIATION MONITORING SYSTEM [...] (SBU) Summary: A U.S. businessman told Ambassador on January 8 that the Kuwaiti company he works for had just been awarded a contract by Kuwait's Ministry of Health to install fifteen radiation monitoring systems throughout Kuwait. He said that these systems could be used to monitor for any [...] | 2006-01-08 13:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ENRG MNUC TRGY KRAD IR KU |
06KUWAIT746 | FREEDOM AGENDA: WIVES OF STATELESS MEN FOCUS ON [...] Summary and Comment: A March 4 meeting of Kuwaiti women married to "bidoon" (stateless Arabs) serves as a positive indicator that MEPI programs are reaching and influencing targeted audiences in Kuwait. Echoing themes researched by a recent MEPI small grant recipient for a project on how Kuw [...] | 2006-03-05 11:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KU |
06KUWAIT848 | KPC CEO ON GAS PROJECTS, FOREIGN PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) Summary: KPC CEO Hani Hussain told Ambassador on March 12 that Kuwait's recently announced discoveries included "very respectable amounts of gas," and expected usable production of the new gas resources within "three to four years." Hussain said that this gas discovery would not elimina [...] | 2006-03-13 12:29:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON BEXP KU OIL SECTOR |
06KUWAIT86 | SOMETIME STRATEGIC ADVISOR TO GOK SAYS IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Dr. Sami Al-Faraj, the director of the Kuwait Center for Strategic Studies (KCSS) and a regularly contracted advisor to various government ministries in Kuwait on national security issues, told Poloff January 8 that the GOK views Iran as a threat. According to Al-Faraj, the Gov [...] | 2006-01-09 14:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR IR KU KUWAIT IRAN RELATIONS |
06KUWAIT881 | TRIPARTITE COMMISSION'S TECHNICAL SUBCOMMITTEE'S [...] Summary: Kuwait hosted the 50th session of the Tripartitite Commission's Technical Subcommittee (TSC) on March 14, 2006 with representatives from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, France, Britain, the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC),and Embassies Kuwait and Baghdad in attendance. [...] | 2006-03-15 10:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MARR IZ SA KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
06KUWAIT889 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON CHARITIES AND MENA/FATF [...] (SBU) On March 15, Econoff delivered reftel points to Naser Al-Ammar, Director of Charitable Organizations at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor (GOK lead on charity oversight) and one of the principal authors of the MENA/FATF paper on "Best Practices Concerning Charities." Al-Ammar po [...] | 2006-03-15 13:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KU KTFN |
06KUWAIT894 | MEDIA REACTION: Kuwait March 15, 2006 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-16 04:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO PREL KDEM PGOV KU |
06KUWAIT908 | KPC CEO ON GAS PROJECTS, FOREIGN PARTICIPATION IN [...] (C) Summary: KPC CEO Hani Hussain told Ambassador on March 12 that Kuwait's recently announced discoveries included "very respectable amounts of gas," and expected usable production of the new gas resources within "three to four years." Hussain said that this gas discovery would not elimina [...] | 2006-03-16 08:04:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECON BEXP KU OIL SECTOR |
06KUWAIT913 | REGIONAL CT STRATEGY FOR IRAQ AND ITS NEIGHBORS: [...] (S REL AUS UK) Summary: U.S. Chiefs of Mission and Embassy representatives from Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Turkey met in Kuwait, March 7-8, as a first step to develop a regional counterterrorism strategy. Ambassador for Counterterrorism Henry Crumpton and U.S. interagency repres [...] | 2006-03-18 04:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | PTER PREL IZ KU SY JO TU SA |
06KUWAIT974 | FREEDOM AGENDA: LIBERAL MP ORGANIZES HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) The Human Rights Committee of the National Assembly held March 13 - 14 a conference to mark International Women's Day entitled "Women and Challenging Reality." The conference sought to broaden the growth of a culture of respect for human rights, to highlight human rights problems and sol [...] | 2006-03-20 12:08:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN KU |
06KUWAIT998 | NATO'S ICI VISIT BRINGS MISUNDERSTANDINGS TO A HEAD [...] (C) Summary and Comment: NATO's Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) delegation to Kuwait briefed over a dozen NATO member country mission chiefs on its March 19 meetings with GOK officials. According to the head of the six-person delegation, Rear Admiral Dr. Deniz Kutluk of Turkey, the Kuw [...] | 2006-03-21 13:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NATO PREL PTER IR IZ KU |
06LJUBLJANA774 | SLOVENIAN PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO IRAQ A BIG [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-04 14:33:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SI |
06LONDON8361 | (U) BLAIR INTERVIEWED BY POLICE IN "LOANS FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: PM Blair was interviewed by the Police December 14 as part of the investigation into the so-called "loans for peerages" or "cash for honors" affair (reftel). This had been widely expected - indeed it was all but inevitable given Blair's personal involvement both in approving [...] | 2006-12-15 12:58:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR UK |
06LUANDA1241 | ANGOLA TO JOIN OPEC [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 29, Angola's Council of Ministers approved full membership for Angola in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting States (OPEC). The Council's public announcement said Angola's increase in oil production to more than 1.4 million barrels per day drove its decision. [...] | 2006-12-04 14:17:00 | Embassy Luanda | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ETRD ECON AO |
06MAAMA2067 | SENATOR NELON AND CROWN PRINCE DISCUSS REGIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-26 07:15:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BA REGION OFFICIALS OREP PTER |
06MADRID2685 | TREASURY DEPSEC'S MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Foreign Minister Moratinos told Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt October 19 that Spain strongly supports the SIPDIS Iraq Compact and that Madrid would transfer the 22 million dollars it had pledged for the Basra Children's Hospital within about one month. He also pledged Spanish supp [...] | 2006-10-23 15:13:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET//NOFORN | EAID EINV EFIN PREL PARM ETTC KIPR SP |
06MADRID2942 | SPAIN ON MEPP: WE SUPPORT QUARTET, NEED TO PUSH [...] (C) Summary. DCM called Javier Sancho Velazquez, Chief of Staff to Foreign Minister Moratinos, on November 22 to discuss reftel points and Spain's proposed Middle East initiative in advance of the November 24 Quintet meeting in Rome. DCM went over the demarche with Velazquez point by point [...] | 2006-11-22 18:34:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SP IS SY |
06MANAGUA1145 | NICARAGUA: SEEKING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR IRAQI [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-26 22:51:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KPAO IZ NU |
06MANAMA1084 | CITIBANK MOVES REGIONAL OFFICE FROM BAHRAIN TO [...] (C) Summary. Citibank earlier this month transferred its regional headquarters from Bahrain to Dubai. Although the move received little attention here, Citibank Middle East Managing Director Mohammed Al-Shroogi, a prominent Bahraini and Shura Council member, told the Ambassador that the move [...] | 2006-06-18 11:57:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD BA ECTRD REGION |
06MANAMA1221 | BAHRAIN'S STOCK MARKET PERFORMANCE [...] (U) Like its GCC neighbors, Bahrain's stock market has declined amid the regional market's plummet, but has withstood the ordeal better than most. The Bahrain Stock Exchange (BSE) did not have as far to fall, having seen little of the surge in equity share prices evidenced elsewhere in the re [...] | 2006-07-08 07:19:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON BA ECTRD REGION |
06MANAMA1288 | TFLE01: ISRAEL-LEBANON: KING'S STATEMENT AND [...] (C) Developments in Lebanon dominate the news in Bahrain, with focus on Bahrainis in Lebanon, statements by Hezbollah leader Nasrallah, and high-level diplomacy with the visit of Jordan's King Abdullah. King Hamad issued a statement July 14 urging an avoidance of risks and actions that affect [...] | 2006-07-15 13:22:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BA REGION |
06MANAMA1354 | BAHRAIN: P5+1 INCENTIVE PACKAGE FOR IRAN [...] (C) PolOff July 24 delivered reftel demarche on the Iran P5 1 incentive package to MFA Director for Bilateral Affairs Dr. Dhafer Al Umran. Al Umran's initial reaction was that the package is quite extensive and includes many concrete benefits for Iran. He then asked about the inclusion of p [...] | 2006-07-26 09:42:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL BA IR EU AORC REGION OFFICIALS |
06MANAMA138 | BAHRAIN: 2005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED [...] (U) SUMMARY: In contrast with its size, Bahrain makes an invaluable contribution to U.S. security objectives in the Gulf region by hosting and providing support to the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/Fifth Fleet and the Naval Support Activity. In 2004 Bahrain was an important coalition partn [...] | 2006-01-30 14:37:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MCAP PREL BA ECTRD BILAT |
06MANAMA1391 | TFLE01: GOB CONDEMNS QANA BOMBING, PUBLIC ACTIVE [...] (C) The PM's Cabinet expressed July 30 its strong condemnation of the Qana bombing and urged the international community to intervene to stop the bloodshed of innocent civilians. While still relatively low-key and orderly, the number of public events has increased, including plans by leading [...] | 2006-07-31 13:43:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC PTER BA REGION POL |
06MANAMA1392 | BAHRAIN TO ADOPT FRIDAY-SATURDAY WEEKEND [...] (U) The cabinet July 30 approved a measure to abandon Bahrain's official Thursday-Friday weekend in favor of a Friday-Saturday weekend beginning September 1. The endorsement came in response to demands raised by the Parliament and the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) to boost e [...] | 2006-07-31 14:52:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD BA POL REGION ECTRD ROW |
06MANAMA1473 | TFLE01: BAHRAINIS RALLY, RAISE MONEY IN SUPPORT [...] (C) The conflict in Lebanon continues to move Bahraini citizens and political, religious, and civil society organizations into action in support of the people of Lebanon and Hizballah. With the notable exception of some hard-line Salafis, most segments of Bahraini society are united in their [...] | 2006-08-09 09:30:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEC EAID BA LE REGION POL |
06MANAMA1599 | KING STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF U.S. ROLE IN REGIONAL [...] (S) Summary. Bahrain's King Hamad, during an August 29 discussion with the Ambassador, repeatedly stressed the value he placed on the U.S. relationship, and the importance of the U.S. role in maintaining peace and security in the region. He expected Bahrain to initiate discussions shortly with [...] | 2006-08-31 09:27:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PREL PGOV BA OFFICIALS REGION BILAT |
06MANAMA1637 | SHIA EDITOR DISCUSSES DEMOCRATIC REFORM/ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Prominent Shia Editor Mansour Al-Jamry told the Ambassador September 7 that the upcoming parliamentary elections, although flawed, would offer an opportunity for leading Shia opposition society Al-Wifaq to demonstrate that it can ably represent Shias and to build a psychological b [...] | 2006-09-07 15:48:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM BA POL HUMRIT REFORM |
06MANAMA1680 | BAHRAIN MONETARY AGENCE BECOMES CENTRAL BANK [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-20 13:50:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON OFFICIALS BA ECTRD |
06MANAMA1806 | DEFENSE MINISTER AND GENERAL ABIZAID DISCUSS [...] (C) CENTCOM Commander General Abizaid October 11 met with Defense Minister GEN Shaikh Khalifa and discussed Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, bilateral military cooperation, and counter-terrorism. Shaikh Khalifa said that Iran's behavior in the region is growing worse and Iran's nuclear program must [...] | 2006-10-19 10:15:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS MASS BA IR IZ REGION BILAT |
06MANAMA1814 | ELECTION HIGHLIGHTS NO. 3: CAMPAIGN KICKS OFF, [...] (C) SUMMARY: By the conclusion of the official registration period for parliamentary candidates, a total of 221 have registered, 18 of whom are women. The official campaign period opens October 20. In his Friday sermon on October 13, Shaikh Isa Qassem, chairman of the Islamic Scholars Coun [...] | 2006-10-19 16:34:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM BA POL |
06MANAMA1828 | CROWN PRINCE OUTLINES REGIONAL CHALLENGES WITH [...] (C) CENTCOM Commander General Abizaid October 11 met with Crown Prince Shaikh Salman and discussed Iraq, Iran, the war of ideas in the Middle East, and Bahrain's upcoming elections. On Iraq, the CP said that the United States should adopt a "less forward-leaning position" and allow Iraqi for [...] | 2006-10-24 11:33:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS MASS BA IR IZ REGION BILAT |
06MANAMA1849 | KING HAMAD SUPPORTS GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] (S) King Hamad October 18 told the interagency Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) delegation that he wants to work with the U.S. on creating a new comprehensive defense strategy for the region in light of recent developments. He commended the U.S.'s bilateral approach to each of the GCC states and [...] | 2006-11-01 07:51:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PREL MARR PARM BA IR REGION BILAT OFFICIALS |
06MANAMA1850 | CROWN PRINCE TELLS GSD DELEGATION THAT U.S., GCC [...] (S) Crown Prince Salman told the interagency Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) delegation that the U.S. and its GCC allies need to send a strong message to Iran, and suggested holding a major military exercise in the region. He thought it would be "a great motivator" for the other GCC countries f [...] | 2006-11-01 07:51:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PREL MARR PARM BA IR REGION BILAT OFFICIALS |
06MANAMA1851 | MFA PLEASED WITH SUBSTANCE OF GSD INITIATIVE [...] (S) MFA Assistant Under Secretary Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak told the interagency Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) delegation October 18 that the Dialogue is a serious effort with "substance, not just ideas" to deal with regional security. He sees U.S. proposals to improve bilateral military [...] | 2006-11-01 07:52:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PREL MARR PARM BA IR REGION BILAT OFFICIALS |
06MANAMA1866 | KING UNMOVED BY NDI EFFORT TO RETURN TO BAHRAIN [...] (C) Summary. National Democratic Institute (NDI) Chairman Madeleine Albright visited Bahrain October 28 in an effort to find a way for NDI to resume its activities in Bahrain. She received a warm welcome -- both officially and unofficially -- but was unable to achieve a breakthrough on a retur [...] | 2006-11-02 08:32:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL BA BILAT POL REFORM |
06MANAMA1903 | BAHRAINI ENGAGEMENT ON IRAQ: WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO? [...] (S) As the only Arab country other than Iraq that has a Shia majority population, Bahrain is very worried about the situation in Iraq and watches closely for signs that increased sectarian tensions and violence in Iraq could spill over into Bahrain. To become more actively engaged with Iraq, [...] | 2006-11-08 09:20:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PREL MARR MOPS BA IZ REGION |
06MANAMA1915 | FOREIGN MINISTER CITES MILITARY COOPERATION AS [...] (C) Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa told the Ambassador November 6 that Bahrain's participation in the late October Proliferation Security Initiative Leading Edge was a sign of the strength of the U.S.-Bahrain relationship. He noted that Iranian Foreign Minister Motakki h [...] | 2006-11-13 12:13:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS PHUM KDEM ETRD BEXP BA REGION |
06MANAMA1942 | ELECTION HIGHLIGHTS 7: GENERAL POLLING STATIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leading Shi'a cleric Shaikh Isa Qassem encouraged candidates and the public November 10 to lobby the government to eliminate the ten general polling centers. Members of the three-person High Commission for Elections said that it would be impossible to do away with the general ce [...] | 2006-11-16 15:35:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM BA POL |
06MANAMA1953 | CANDIDATES FOCUS ON LOCAL ISSUES WHILE SPECTER OF [...] (C) Two hundred seven candidates are contesting Bahrain's parliamentary elections to be held November 25 and December 2. In the run-up to the elections, campaign tents, posters and billboards have blossomed around the country and candidates host events nightly for constituents to get to kno [...] | 2006-11-22 13:08:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM KISL BA POL REFORM |
06MANAMA1988 | SECRETARY OF THE NAVY DISCUSSES MILITARY [...] (S) Minister of Defense General Shaikh Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Khalifa told Secretary of the Navy Winter November 26 that the long standing presence of the US Navy in Bahrain and the warm relationship between Bahrain and the US is a stabilizing force given Bahrain's "unpredictable neighbors." He [...] | 2006-12-03 11:59:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PREL MARR MOPS BA REGION BILAT OFFICIALS |
06MANAMA2024 | CROWN PRINCE AND A/S HILLEN DISCUSS SECURITY [...] (C) In their December 8 meeting on the eve of the opening of the IISS Manama Dialogue conference, Crown Prince Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa told a U.S. delegation led by State A/S Hillen, CENTCOM Vice Admiral Nichols, and NSC Senior Director Doran that the stronger the U.S. message is o [...] | 2006-12-11 12:45:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PREL MARR BA BILAT REGION |
06MANAMA2031 | MINOR RESHUFFLE BRINGS SOME NEW BLOOD INTO CABINET [...] (C) The new Cabinet announced by Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa December 11 brings in five new ministers, changes the portfolio of four existing ministers, and drops three others. Of the 23 ministers, 11 are from the ruling Al Khalifa family with the remaining twelve evenly split between Sunni [...] | 2006-12-12 15:10:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BA POL |
06MANAMA2046 | U.S.-BAHRAIN FTA: TRADE, INVESTMENT BOOMING, BUT [...] (SBU) The U.S. - Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA) entered into force on August 1, 2006 amid a period of booming U.S. trade with the region. A number of U.S. companies, including Tactics Middle East, Microsoft, Westpoint Home, Kraft, and others have announced substantial new ventures, many o [...] | 2006-12-14 13:29:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PREL BEXP BA BILAT ECTRD |
06MANAMA2049 | BAHRAINI FM, A/S HILLEN, AND A/S RODMAN EXPLORE [...] (C) Meeting with the U.S. delegation to the IISS Manama Dialogue conference December 8, Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid said that Iranian FM Mottaki had told him earlier in the day that Iran did not want nuclear weapons, saying they would be of no benefit to Iran. Shaikh Khalid said he was pe [...] | 2006-12-19 07:00:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR BA BILAT REGION |
06MANAMA2060 | FOREIGN MINISTER COVERS REGIONAL ISSUES WITH [...] (C) Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid told the Ambassador December 14 that Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki had used "typically harsh" language in his speech at the December 8-10 IISS conference in Bahrain. When asked why the King had met with Mottaki, Shaikh Khalid said that the GOB had not re [...] | 2006-12-20 11:12:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BA REGION BILAT OFFICIALS |
06MANAMA2067 | SENATOR NELSON AND CROWN PRINCE DISCUSS REGIONAL [...] (C) In their December 18 meeting, Crown Prince Salman told Senator Nelson that Bahrain is 100 percent committed to the bilateral relationship and credited the United States with protecting the stability and security of the region. The Senator briefed Shaikh Salman on his recent meeting with S [...] | 2006-12-26 07:15:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER OREP BA REGION OFFICIALS |
06MANAMA2085 | FOREIGN MINISTER TELLS AMBASSADOR THAT GCC PLUS [...] (C) Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid and the Ambassador December 28 discussed next steps in the GCC Plus Two mechanism, Iraq, Omani Minister Bin Alawi's visit to Bahrain, Somalia, the status of U.S. Navy dependents, and Guantanamo, among other issues. Shaikh Khalid urged that the GCC Plus Two [...] | 2006-12-29 07:04:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL BA REGION OFFICIALS |
06MANAMA243 | AMBASSADOR AND CROWN PRINCE DISCUSS FTA AND IRAN [...] (C) In their February 19 meeting, Crown Prince Shaikh Salman told the Ambassador that he would deliver a speech at the February 27 conference on the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA),at which Commerce Secretary Gutierrez also will speak. The CP said the government was still considerin [...] | 2006-02-20 10:34:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD OVIP BA IR ECTRD REGION OFFICIALS BILAT |
06MANAMA245 | TREASURY UNDERSECRETARY STUART LEVEY VISITS [...] (C) Summary. On January 23, 2006 Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey visited Bahrain and met with Rasheed Al-Maraj, Governor of the Bahrain Monetary Agency (BMA),Sheikh Ebrahim Al Khalifah, Undersecretary for the Ministry of Finance, Adel Qulish, Middle East and North African Financial [...] | 2006-02-20 11:15:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KTFN EFIN PTER PREL CVIS KVPR BA KSEP REGION OFFICIALS ECTRD |
06MANAMA305 | SECRETARY DISCUSSES FTA WITH MINISTER OF INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) Summary. Minister of Industry and Commerce Hassan Fakhro told visiting Commerce Secretary Gutierrez February 27 that the Cabinet would forward most IPR implementing legislation for the FTA to the National Assembly in the coming days, and that the copyright legislation should follow soon [...] | 2006-03-01 10:11:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL OVIP SECRETARY OF COMMERCE GUTIERREZ REGION OFFICIALS ECTRD BILAT |
06MANAMA314 | COMMERCE SECRETARY GUTIERREZ MEETINGS WITH PRIME [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa welcomed Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez February 27, voicing SIPDIS appreciation for his visit and the Secretary's support for the U.S.-Bahrain FTA. The PM stressed the importance of stability in the region for development and urged the U [...] | 2006-03-01 14:59:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL PGOV BEXP BA REGION OFFICIALS ECTRD BILAT |
06MANAMA339 | POLITICAL ISLAM IN BAHRAIN (PART I): SHARED [...] (C) Bahrain's three leading Islamic political societies mirror major trends in the country's religious life: Al Minbar, associated with the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood; Al Asala, a Sunni Salafi group; and Al Wifaq, representing the country's Shia community. These three societies represent the [...] | 2006-03-06 15:28:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM SCUL BA POL |
06MANAMA389 | BAHRAIN ANTI-TRAFFICKING RESPONSES 2006 [...] (SBU) Post's response to reftel follows. Answers are keyed to reftel questions. Please note that during the reporting period the Ministry of Social Affairs, which has the lead in establishing a shelter for victims of trafficking and abuse, was renamed the Ministry of Social Development. [...] | 2006-03-14 04:35:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF BA HUMRIT |
06MANAMA4 | GCC SUMMIT: BAHRAIN FOCUSES ON IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Bahrain Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid told the Ambassador that GCC FM Rashid Abdullah's post-GCC Summit comments about Iran's nuclear program reflected GCC concerns more than the watered-down language in the Summit's final statement. GCC members were not happy with Amre Moussa's [...] | 2006-01-02 11:35:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD PGOV KNNP BA IR OFFICIALS REGION |
06MANAMA409 | LUNCHEON WITH KING HAMAD [...] (C) King Hamad, during a March 13 luncheon, had high praise for the U.S. and its positive role in maintaining stability in the Gulf. "Without you," he stated, "we'd be squashed." He made clear his concern for Iran, both as a regional power and as a meddling force inside Bahrain. Iran can be expecte [...] | 2006-03-15 13:42:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM BA IR REGION OFFICIALS POL BILAT |
06MANAMA442 | DEPUTY PM, FOREIGN MINISTER AGREE TO COUNSELOR [...] (S) State Department Counselor Zelikow met separately with Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa and Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa March 12 to initiate a strategic dialogue on regional security, including concerns about Iran. They agreed with the [...] | 2006-03-20 05:45:00 | Embassy Manama | SECRET | PREL PARM PTER MARR EFIN KISL KNNP BA IR REGION BILAT OFFICIALS |
06MANAMA443 | COUNSELOR ZELIKOW DISCUSSES IRAN AND IRAQ WITH [...] (C) Summary: State Department Counselor Zelikow met March 12 with Shura Council members Dr. Khalid Bin Khalifa Al Khalifa and Ibrahim Mohamed Bashmi, both of whom are on the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and National Security Committee, to discuss Iraq, Iran and domestic issues in Bahrain. Dr. [...] | 2006-03-20 05:52:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PTER MARR EFIN KISL KNNP BA IR IZ BILAT OFFICIALS REGION |
06MANAMA516 | POLITICAL ISLAM IN BAHRAIN (PART III): THE [...] (C) Twenty-nine NGOs formed the "Lana Haq" (We Have a Right) movement in December 2005 and issued a public declaration calling for the defense of individual and civil liberties. The declaration says that the signatories took this step because "the liberal and patriotic forces in Bahraini soc [...] | 2006-03-28 09:16:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL KDEM SCUL BA POL REFORM |
06MANAMA568 | BAHRAIN: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-08 12:17:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC PGOV USTR |
06MANAMA907 | BAHRAINI POLITICAL SCENE PART II: ROYAL FAMILY [...] (C) At a time when the Bahrain's King and ruling family should be congratulating themselves for having successfully maneuvered major opposition society Al Wifaq into deciding to end its boycott and participate in this year's parliamentary elections, recent developments suggest that at least so [...] | 2006-05-24 11:23:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KMPI BA BILAT POL REFORM |
06MANAMA937 | SUPREME COUNCIL FOR DEFENSE SECGEN REQUESTS U.S. [...] (C) The Ambassador called on the Secretary General for the recently-formed Supreme Council for Defense, Shaikh Ahmed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, on May 28. Shaikh Ahmed said King Hamad meets daily with the Council, which is composed of the King, Crown Prince, Ministers of Defense, Foreign Affairs [...] | 2006-05-30 06:13:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR KDEM KMPI BA REGION OFFICIALS POL |
06MANAMA977 | PRIME MINISTER, AMBASSADOR DISCUSS IRAN, GCC, FTA [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa June 3 and discussed the U.S. initiative on Iran, the GCC, and the U.S.-Bahrain Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Accompanying the PM was Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, Foreign Minister S [...] | 2006-06-04 14:24:00 | Embassy Manama | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ETRD BA OFFICIALS BILAT |
06MANAMA989 | "The Sapphire Trio: American Women in the Arts" [...] The all-women American chamber ensemble The Sapphire Trio performed American and classical music in Bahrain from May 15th through May 17th, providing Bahraini audiences with a glimpse of the diversity of expression and talent in the American musical arts community. Partially funded by a Perf [...] | 2006-06-06 07:41:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM OEXC SCUL KPAO PREL BA BILAT |
06MANILA1982 | AMBASSADOR'S MAY 5 MEETING WITH FOREIGN SECRETARY [...] (C) Summary. In a May 5 meeting, the Ambassador thanked Secretary of Foreign Affairs Romulo for the Philippine SIPDIS government's support for efforts to keep Iran off the UNHRC. She urged the GRP to pursue concerns about terrorist financing when President Arroyo visits Saudi Arabia on May [...] | 2006-05-09 07:56:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PHUM PTER RP BM IR SA |
06MANILA2136 | AMBASSADOR'S MAY 18 MEETING WITH NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (S) The Ambassador, accompanied by the DCM and Regional Affairs Chief, visited National Security Advisor Norberto "Bert" Gonzales on May 18. Gonzales said he had useful side meetings with his Saudi counterpart during President Arroyo's May 7-10 visit to Saudi Arabia. He asked Saudi National [...] | 2006-05-19 08:56:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | PGOV PTER PHUM PREL SA RP |
06MANILA2319 | THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH AGRICULTURE [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met with Agriculture Secretary Panganiban on May 31 to discuss the status of the PL 480 agreement, continuing USG support for agricultural development in Mindanao, and the GRP's response plan for avian influenza. Panganiban confirmed the GRP had approved the PL 480 agree [...] | 2006-06-02 11:46:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SENV EAGR EAID PREL RP |
06MANILA3817 | NUR MISUARI ATTENDS TENTH ANNIVERSARY CEREMONY OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Moro National Liberation Front Chairman Nur Misuari criticized the GRP for failing to implement fully the provisions of the 1996 peace agreement during a September 2 commemoration ceremony in Davao to mark the signing of the accord. To "resuscitate" the ten year old agreement, [...] | 2006-09-11 09:11:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PINS KISL RP |
06MANILA4252 | TERRORISM FINANCE: OCTOBER 5 UPDATE ON RSM [...] (C) U.S. Embassy team continued on October 3 its series of meetings with Philippine government counterparts on UN 1267 Committee designation of the Rajah Solaiman Movement (RSM) as an al-Qaida linked terrorist organization. U.S. Treasury's David Meisner joined the discussions in his role as [...] | 2006-10-06 03:15:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER RP |
06MANILA695 | OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKERS AS A POLITICAL FORCE [...] (C) Summary: The over eight million Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) already have an important and growing role as an economic force, sending roughly USD 10 billion worth of remittances home each year. On the political side, however, OFWs were not granted the right to vote in absentia until [...] | 2006-02-15 07:06:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ELAB ECON SOCI PINR RP |
06MINSK148 | Suspicious Belarusian Trade [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent years, Minsk has actively sought to increase trade and relations with pariah states as a counterbalance to Western pressures to democratize and as evidence that Lukashenko's rule is accepted abroad. Despite these efforts, trade with these Outposts of Tyranny and State [...] | 2006-02-13 10:14:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL USTR BO |
06MOSCOW11698 | MOSCOW EXPERTS ON DPRK NUCLEAR TEST [...] (C) Summary. Despite the GOR's strongly negative reaction to the reported nuclear test and its cooperation on UNSC 1718, Moscow's Korea watchers were for the large part critical of U.S. policies, arguing that the impasse over the DPRK program could have been avoided had the U.S. acted differ [...] | 2006-10-19 06:40:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MNUC KNNP UNSC KN RS |
06MOSCOW13171 | RUSSIA AND IRAN: AFTER THE SANCTIONS RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: Russia has repeatedly told us that when it comes to preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, it shares our strategic goal but differs with us over tactics. Moscow's reluctance to agree to coercive measures was on full display during consideration of UNSCR 1737, but in th [...] | 2006-12-29 12:42:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ETRD KNNP MASS IR RS |
06MOSCOW5645 | CHECHNYA: THE ONCE AND FUTURE WAR [...] (C) Introduction: Chechnya has been less in the glare of constant international attention in recent years. However, the Chechnya conflict remains unresolved, and the suffering of the Chechen people and the threat of instability throughout the region remain. This message reinterprets the history of [...] | 2006-05-30 09:27:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS |
06MOSUL36 | KURDS IN NORTHERN IRAQ: PUK REP CLAIMS NINEWA "HANGS IN THE [...] (C) According to the Western Ninewa director of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Mustafa Khokhe, Ninewa province "hangs in the balance." Ethnic tensions and the flow of terrorism from Iraq's neighbors are all contributing to a potentially combustible situation, he claims. He says Tal Afar, [...] | 2006-03-30 14:04:00 | REO Mosul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR |
06MUMBAI1506 | STILL NO BREAKTHROUGH IN MUMBAI TRAIN BOMBING INVESTIGATION, POLICE SAY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-11 18:17:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC IN KISL PGOV PK PREL PTER |
06MUMBAI1755 | (C) LOCAL MUSLIMS AND PAKISTAN NATIONALS PLANTED BOMBS ON [...] (C) Three local Muslims and four Pakistanis planted the bombs that killed 187 persons on seven Mumbai commuter trains in July, the Mumbai police chief told the Consul General on September 26. A.N. Roy said the police had detained two of the local men who had planted bombs. One of the two men [...] | 2006-09-27 12:09:00 | Consulate Mumbai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KISL CASC ASEC PK IN |
06MUSCAT103 | IPR SEMINAR RAISES AWARENESS, BUILDS BRIDGES [...] The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO),with MEPI funding, held a successful intellectual property rights (IPR) seminar for Arab prosecutors in Muscat from January 22-24. Following a similar program for judges in Dubai (reftel),the event drew over 45 participants from the MEPI region. [...] | 2006-01-26 12:20:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EIND PREL KIPR KMPI KPAO MU |
06MUSCAT1384 | SUCCESSFUL EPA WORKSHOP CONCLUDES [...] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),in association with the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, the Omani Ministry of Regional Municipalities, Environment, and Water Resources, and Petroleum Development Oman (PDO),concluded a successful four-day Pri [...] | 2006-09-20 12:04:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SENV KMPI MU |
06MUSCAT148 | OMAN CALLS FOR IMPROVED INTERNATIONAL POLIO [...] According to local media, four cases of polio were reported in Oman in 2004 and 2005. Two Yemeni brothers, aged 9 and 10, were treated for symptoms of poliomyelitis, while visiting the Sultanate during the summer of 2005. The Omani Ministry Of Health also reported two cases of polio were "i [...] | 2006-02-06 11:57:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO PREL SA MU ESTH |
06MUSCAT1558 | OMAN'S FM ON RECENT VISIT OF IRANIAN FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi November 4 to review the October 31 visit to Oman of Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Motaki. Motaki, who stayed for only a few hours, told the Omani Minister that the Iranians had reached an u [...] | 2006-11-06 07:52:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MU IR |
06MUSCAT1600 | SCENESETTER FOR CENTCOM COMMANDER GENERAL JOHN P. [...] (S) Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your return to Oman. Oman remains a strong friend and ally in the Global War on Terrorism, but prefers to maintain a low profile and is reluctant to deploy its forces in support of OIF or OEF. Our continued engagement with the Omani security forces cont [...] | 2006-11-15 14:11:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL PTER KNNP MARR MASS MNUC MOPS OVIP |
06MUSCAT1670 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF NEA A/S WELCH TO MUSCAT [...] (C) Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome your visit to Oman. Oman remains a dependable friend and ally and cooperates with us on a wide range of subjects, although it prefers to maintain a low profile. Regional threat issues are a prominent concern for the Omani leadership; however, Oman's p [...] | 2006-12-06 14:22:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PREL PTER KDEM KMPI KNNP KWMN SMIG ECON |
06MUSCAT1690 | SCENESETTER: VISIT OF TREASURY A/S PATRICK O'BRIEN [...] (C) Greetings and welcome to Oman. My team and I look forward to your arrival on December 18 to discuss with government and private sector officials Oman's current anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing efforts. Your visit will provide an excellent opportunity to press for Oma [...] | 2006-12-13 13:49:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN ETRD PTER OTRA MU |
06MUSCAT1707 | NEA A/S WELCH MEETING WITH OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) NEA A/S Welch met December 12 with Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi in Muscat. Bin Alawi personally drove A/S Welch and the Ambassador to a meeting with Sultan Qaboos (septel),and then hosted a working lunch for them with participation from Foreign Ministry [...] | 2006-12-20 07:21:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER KPAL IR IZ SY MU |
06MUSCAT1728 | SAUDI KING ABDULLAH'S VISIT TO MUSCAT [...] (C) During a December 24 meeting with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi to discuss a range of regional issues (septels),Ambassador inquired about the visit of Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud to Oman. Bin Alawi stated that King Abdullah, who arrived to a red [...] | 2006-12-26 12:12:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SA MU |
06MUSCAT176 | EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 02/08/2006 [...] (SBU) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on February 8 to review the Embassy's security posture prior to the local weekend. Members noted no substantive changes in the local security environment since the last meeting, and agreed that the Embassy's [...] | 2006-02-11 06:15:00 | Embassy Muscat | SECRET//NOFORN | AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KSAC KHLS MU EAC |
06MUSCAT229 | SMALL STEP IN NATO-OMAN RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) In a February 18 meeting, MFA Chief of International Organizations Ambassador Talib bin Miran al-Raisi shared an update on Oman-NATO relations with Pol/Econ Chief. (Note: Oman and Saudi Arabia are the only two GCC states not to have joined the NATO Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI). E [...] | 2006-02-19 12:44:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR XF MU |
06MUSCAT298 | TAIWAN REP ON WHO, OMAN TIES [...] (U) See bio notes in para 4. 2. (C) In a February 28 meeting in a neutral location, Paul Yung-feng Hsu, head of the local "Taipei Economic and Cultural Office," solicited Pol/Econ Chief's help to encourage Oman to support Taiwan's bid for observer status at the World Health Assembly in May [...] | 2006-03-01 15:39:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR EFIS EPET TW MU |
06MUSCAT50 | MEDIA REACTION: AMERICAN PRESSURE ON IRAN, ARAB MEDIA AS [...] The government-owned daily "Oman" published an editorial on January 8th under the title "Nuclear Weapons and Attacks Against Iran": "American threats from Secretary of State Rice to refer the Iranian nuclear file to the [U.N.] Security Council come in the framework of the unnecessary Americ [...] | 2006-01-08 13:46:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KMDR OIIP MU |
06MUSCAT667 | MEDIA REACTION: SUPPORTING PALESTINE; DEMOCRACY AND HAMAS; THE AMERICAN EMPIRE; BIN LADEN AND DAHAB [...] Privately owned Arabic daily "Al-Watan" (circulation 42,000) published an editorial April 21 under the headline "The Sultanate and the Commitment to Supporting the Palestinian Issue": "The Sultanate tirelessly dedicates itself to reaffirming its support for Arab and Islamic issues, chief amon [...] | 2006-04-26 12:31:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED | MU NOTAG |
06MUSCAT687 | SOMALI MIGRANTS: SMALL PROBLEM, BUT INCREASING [...] (U) Somali migrants infiltrating Oman from Yemen or by sea, often engaged in unskilled labor but sometimes accused of theft and confrontations with police, have sparked calls for government action from angry local residents and farmers in Southern Oman. Army patrols and police checkpoints have [...] | 2006-05-02 05:27:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SMIG PREF PGOV PREL PINR SO MU |
06MUSCAT841 | OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER: TIME NOT RIGHT FOR GCC [...] (C) The timing is not right for an Oman-led GCC mission to Tehran, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi told the Ambassador in a late evening meeting May 26. He predicted that such a mission, if not properly planned and timed, would entangle GCC governments in unproductive [...] | 2006-05-29 12:33:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM PREF IR IZ LY MU |
06NAIROBI1951 | CHINA'S PRESIDENT HU VISITS KENYA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese President Hu Jintao's late April visit to Nairobi further strengthens the bilateral economic relationship between the two countries through several economic, technical, and financial assistance agreements. While the balance of the economic relationship is heavily tipped i [...] | 2006-05-05 05:23:00 | Embassy Nairobi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EAIR ECIN ECON EFIN ELAB EINV ETRD PREL |
06NAIROBI2414 | HORN OF AFRICA, STATE - USAID HUMANITARIAN [...] Water availability has improved due to the recent rainfall, but rains were below average to poor in some pastoralist districts. Livestock conditions are improving and prices of livestock have increased. However, full recovery will require several consecutive seasons of good rains. In additio [...] | 2006-06-02 09:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PHUM PREF PREL IGAD CENTCOM KE |
06NAIROBI2501 | HORN OF AFRICA, STATE - USAID HUMANITARIAN [...] Water availability has improved due to the recent rainfall, but rains were below average to poor in some pastoralist districts. Livestock conditions are improving and prices of livestock have increased. However, full recovery will require several consecutive seasons of good rains. In additio [...] | 2006-06-07 11:53:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PHUM PREF PREL IGAD CENTCOM KE |
06NAIROBI2532 | HORN OF AFRICA, STATE - USAID HUMANITARIAN [...] Water availability has improved due to the recent rainfall, but rains were below average to poor in some pastoralist districts. Livestock conditions are improving and prices of livestock have increased. However, full recovery will require several consecutive seasons of good rains. In additio [...] | 2006-06-09 06:17:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PHUM PREF PREL IGAD CENTCOM KE |
06NAIROBI3256 | Chinese Make Only Concessional Loans to Kenya [...] Summary: China has extended or agreed to extend to the GOK a total of Ksh3.54 billion ($45.5 million) in concessional loans since 2002 for road and hospital projects. Non-concessional foreign borrowing by the GOK fell 5.5% from 2004 to 2005, and the GOK appears to be relying on domestic lendi [...] | 2006-07-27 13:38:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID KE |
06NAIROBI3441 | HORN OF AFRICA, STATE - USAID HUMANITARIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-08 14:40:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PHUM PREF PREL IGAD CENTCOM KE |
06NAIROBI4841 | KENYA: TIP WATCH LIST INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] Summary: Kenya has made minimal progress in its efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP),but there are ambitious plans for the near future. Senior GOK officials acknowledge the gravity of the TIP problem in Kenya, and have expressed support for the establishment of a Steering Commit [...] | 2006-11-13 11:51:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN PGOV SMIG KE |
06NAIROBI5304 | UNICEF LAUNCHES SHOCKING STUDY ON CHILD SEX TOURISM [...] Summary: On December 19, 2006, UNICEF and the Ministry of Home Affairs launched their long-awaited joint research report on child sex tourism (CST) in four of Kenya's main beach resorts. Surveys and research indicate that up to 30% of all 12-18 year old girls living in these areas are involved [...] | 2006-12-20 06:59:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PHUM KCRM ECON PGOV KE |
06NAIROBI566 | (S/NF) NEW DEFENSE MINISTER WELCOMES U.S. [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's initial courtesy call, Kenya's new Defense Minister asked the Ambassador to help find a way out of the Article 98 impasse and for approval of Kenya's plan to purchase Saudi F5s. Minister Karume was appreciative of U.S. efforts to stop piracy of Somalia [...] | 2006-02-08 12:34:00 | Embassy Nairobi | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PREL MASS PTER KE SO |
06NAIROBI920 | KENYA SUBMISSION FOR THE SIXTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING [...] (U) The following is Embassy Nairobi's submission for the Department's annual Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP). Information is keyed to the format provided in reftel. 2. (SBU) STATUS AND EXTENT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN KENYA I. Overview A. Origin, Transit, and Destination Origin [...] | 2006-03-01 10:28:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB KE |
06NDJAMENA1343 | CHADIAN REBEL GROUP UFDD ESTABLISHES POLITBURO [...] In a communique dated November 12, 2006, the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD) named its politburo. An informal translation follows: Quote Republic of Chad Political Military Opposition Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD) After consultations amon [...] | 2006-11-21 08:22:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINR CD |
06NDJAMENA1368 | CHADIAN FM ACCUSES SAUDIS OF AIDING REBELS [...] (U) Chadian Foreign Minister Allam-Mi called in the Ambassador this morning, 11/27, to discuss the current rebel attacks in Chad and the GOC's public allegation that Saudi Arabia is supporting the rebellion. The FM was meeting with each Chief of Mission individually. 2. (C) The FM stat [...] | 2006-11-27 16:04:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PREF CD SU SA LY |
06NDJAMENA1381 | CHAD 11/30 UPDATE [...] (C) Summary. The Government of Chad remains jumpy about rumors of rebel activities. It appears that rebel forces have not withdrawn to Sudan. At a convocation of ambassadors on 11/28, Chad's Foreign Minister issued a statement about the state of war that exists between Chad and Sudan. Pre [...] | 2006-11-30 18:07:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PREF CD |
06NDJAMENA337 | CHAD: 2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT (PART I) [...] Summary. Despite severe resource constraints, the Government of Chad is taking steps to address problems of child trafficking which are commensurate with the scope and magnitude of the problem. Government officials are working on each of the elements of the Trafficking in Persons workplan t [...] | 2006-03-01 16:23:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KWMN KCRM SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB |
06NDJAMENA338 | CHAD: 2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT (PART II) [...] Summary: This cable represents a continuation of Embassy N,Djamena,s responses to reftel regarding Chad,s prosecution and protection efforts. End Summary. - - - - - - - - - - PROSECUTION EFFORTS - - - - - - - - - - 2. (23. A) Trafficking cases are generally prosecuted using charges [...] | 2006-03-01 16:23:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF CD |
06NDJAMENA482 | CHAD: DEBY ON DARFUR, DEMOCRACY, AND OIL [...] (C) Summary: President Deby, in a meeting with Ambassador Wall March 30, said that Islamic fundamentalism and the deteriorating situation in Darfur threatened the stability of the entire Sahel region, and he asked for more forceful action from the international community. He reacted equably [...] | 2006-03-31 10:30:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM KDEM CD SU |
06NDJAMENA775 | CHAD: FRANCE CITES CHADIAN INVOLVEMENT IN [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting May 29, French Ambassador Jean-Pierre Bercot made a pitch to Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Yamamoto for USG efforts in the UN Security Council for sanctions against individual Chadian political and armed opposition leaders whom he called directly engaged in activit [...] | 2006-06-01 14:13:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM CD |
06NEWDELHI161 | D/NSA SUPPORTS INTEL SHARING ON TERRORISM; SAYS [...] (C) Summary: In a January 9 meeting with the DCM (other topics reported Septel),Deputy NSA Vijay Nambiar pledged to seek the NSA's approval for greater intelligence sharing on terrorism threats within India, particularly as the upswing in USG official visits and US investment increases the p [...] | 2006-01-09 13:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV EFIN OVIP PINR ASEC ENRG MNUC |
06NEWDELHI166 | SYRIAN OIL DEAL DEMARCHE: INDIAN RESPONSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to Ref-A demarche points, Additional Secretary Ahmad of India's Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas told CDA that he had had concerns about the economic benefit of the joint India-China purchase of equity in a Syrian oil field, and that -- had he known there would be [...] | 2006-01-10 01:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EPET ENRG ETRD PGOV IN SY CH IS LE |
06NEWDELHI3199 | INDIAN MUSLIMS AND CONGRESS NERVOUS OVER U.S. IRAN [...] (C) Summary: A cross-section of Indian Muslims have told Poloff in recent weeks that Indian Muslim opinion, both Sunni and Shia, is opposed to Washington's policy on Iran's nuclear program and that Indian Muslims would --as they did for Iraq in 2003-- likely peacefully take to the streets in l [...] | 2006-05-09 11:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KISL PGOV PINR PREL SCUL IN IR |
06NEWDELHI3506 | AN INDIAN ROGUE'S GALLERY ENTERTAINS A PAKISTANI TALIBAN APOLOGIST [...] (C) Pakistani hard-liner and Taliban advocate Fazlur Rahman visited India from May 15-19. During his visit, he was guest of honor at a Delhi reception hosted by the Deobandi Political organization Jamiat-i-Ulama-i-Hind (JuH),that we steered well clear of. The JuH failed to convince most promine [...] | 2006-05-19 13:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM KISL PGOV PINR PTER SCUL IN PK AF |
06NEWDELHI356 | LUCKNOW'S SHIAS UPBEAT ON U.S. OPPOSE TERRORISM, [...] (C) Summary: Sunni and Shia Muslim leaders emphasized to Poloff during his January 14-16 visit to Lucknow that the overwhelming majority of India's Shias oppose Islamic terrorism (much of which has been directed against Shias) and want India to cultivate close relations with the US. Leaders [...] | 2006-01-18 11:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER SCUL IN IZ PK |
06NEWDELHI369 | LUCKNOW'S SHIAS UPBEAT ON U.S., OPPOSE TERRORISM, [...] (C) Summary: Sunni and Shia Muslim leaders emphasized to Poloff during his January 14-16 visit to Lucknow that the overwhelming majority of India's Shias oppose Islamic terrorism (much of which has been directed against Shias) and want India to cultivate close relations with the US. Leaders [...] | 2006-01-18 13:19:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER SCUL IN IZ PK |
06NEWDELHI4169 | FS SARAN BRIEFS ON NEPAL PM VISIT [...] (C) Summary: The most important outcome from the June 5-9 visit of Nepalese Prime Minister G.P. Koirala to New Delhi was the GOI's expression of unconditional political support for the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) and the announcement of an economic aid package worth USD 210 million, in finite t [...] | 2006-06-14 11:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO ECON ENRG MASS IN NP |
06NEWDELHI5470 | INDIAN MUSLIM RESENTMENT SMOLDERING OVER LEBANON AND GAZA [...] (C) Summary: Events in Lebanon and Gaza have attracted considerable attention in India, but are of particular concern to the country's 130 million Muslims. The Urdu press has treated Lebanon/Gaza events in great detail. Editorial opinion --some planted by Iranian agents-- is uniformly anti-Isra [...] | 2006-08-04 09:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PTER KISL SCUL EINV IN |
06NEWDELHI8020 | NARAYANAN TELLS PISTOLE INDIA SEEKS TERRORIST [...] (S) Summary: In a frank November 27th discussion with FBI Deputy Director Pistole, National Security Advisor Narayanan explained that while the overall intelligence relationship had improved, the U.S. could only strengthen its counter-terrorism cooperation with India by sharing signals intell [...] | 2006-11-29 04:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR PK IN |
06NEWDELHI803 | UNPRECEDENTED INDIA VISIT BY SAUDI KING BOOSTS [...] (C) Summary: MEA Joint Secretary Sanjay Singh told PolCouns and Poloff on February 2 that Saudi King Abdullah's January 25-28 New Delhi visit - the first in 50 years by a Saudi monarch - was a great success, and far broader in scope than was reported in the media. The visit highlighted energy [...] | 2006-02-03 14:18:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EPET ETTC PTER UNGA IN SA PK IR IS |
06NEWDELHI8419 | HINDI BELT MUSLIMS EAGER TO COMBAT POLIO BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The persistence of polio in Western Uttar Pradesh (UP) has been the subject of considerable media speculation and analysis, with much of the focus on the Muslim community. Poloff and POL FSN traveled to the area December 11-13 to gauge Muslim views on the subject. The near-u [...] | 2006-12-19 11:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SCUL SOCI KISL IN |
06NEWDELHI948 | IRAN'S ANTI-US COLD WAR FALLS FLAT IN INDIA [...] (C) Summary. India's IAEA Iran vote, the Danish cartoons, and the POTUS visit are reverberating on the Indian political scene, provoking Indian Muslim leaders and activists to speak out. On the domestic front, however, the Congress-dominated UPA government has begun to act on the promises m [...] | 2006-02-08 13:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IAEA KNNP KISL KDEM SCUL IN IR IZ |
06NIAMEY584 | NIGER: ISLAM ANALYSIS [...] (C) Summary: Building on the excellent study of Islamic practices in Niger that the Danish Cooperation (Danida) commissioned this year, excerpts from Islamic press organs such as the monthly newspaper As-Salam and radio Bonferey and discussions with Nigeriens of various backgrounds and degree [...] | 2006-06-08 08:23:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL NG |
06NOUAKCHOTT457 | MILITARY COUNCIL RESHUFFLES DIPLOMATIC CORPS [...] (U) In late March the Military Council for Justice and Democracy replaced several of Mauritania's Ambassadors and Consuls to key African and Middle East countries. The shuffle, which had been expected since the August 3 coup d'etat, surprised many observers in that it drew largely from the fo [...] | 2006-04-19 16:49:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
06NOUAKCHOTT568 | SUMMARY OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND COALITIONS IN MAURITANIA, MAY [...] AJD: Alliance pour la Justice et la Democratie (Alliance for Justice and Democracy) -- Small Pular party making the issue of Black African deportees and refugees the centerpiece of its agenda. -- One of four political parties in the coalition "Bloc of Parties for Change," that has committe [...] | 2006-05-15 15:35:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
06NOUAKCHOTT764 | SEVERAL ARRESTED FOR COUP PLOTTING [...] (C) The Military Council for Justice and Democracy (MCJD) last night arrested several high-ranking military officers. The motivation for the arrests is unclear at this time, but is believed to be related either to a coup attempt, coup plotting, or to an effort to disrupt the coming June 25 Nat [...] | 2006-06-20 11:59:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
06NOUAKCHOTT979 | SUMMARY OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND COALITIONS IN [...] AJD: Alliance pour la Justice et la Democratie (Alliance for Justice and Democracy) -- Small Pular party making the issue of Black African deportees and refugees the centerpiece of its agenda. -- One of four political parties in the coalition "Bloc for Change," that has committed to presen [...] | 2006-08-08 08:30:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR |
06PARIS105 | MUBARAK VISIT LEAVES GOF REASSURED OF EGYPT'S [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of the January 4 Mubarak-Chirac meeting, GoF contacts described Chirac and Mubarak as on the "same line" on Syria/Lebanon, and concluded that Egypt remains firm in its commitment to press Syria to cooperate with UNIIIC. Mubarak and Chirac agreed that Bashar al-Asad mu [...] | 2006-01-06 18:55:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE EG KPAL IS IR IZ FR |
06PARIS1141 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Iraq [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-24 11:18:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1236 | 2/21 STAFFDEL TALWAR VISIT: IRAN, IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Professional Staff Members Puneet Talwar and Tomicah Tilleman met a series of senior French officials February 21, in discussions that addressed Iran, Iraq, Syria/Lebanon, NATO/Darfur, Hamas, regional reform, and counterterrorism. On Iran, Chirac's Mi [...] | 2006-02-28 11:43:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR PARM IZ SY LE KPAL IS KDEM PTER SU |
06PARIS128 | PRESIDENCY MIDDLE EAST ADVISOR ON SYRIA/LEBANON [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Middle East/Americas advisor Dominique Boche previewed the upcoming visit of Presidential Diplomatic Advisor Gourdault-Montagne to Washington, stressing the need to reassess U.S.-GoF efforts to pressure Damascus, without suggesting that such pressure be eased. Boche d [...] | 2006-01-09 17:16:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE EG SA FR |
06PARIS1295 | UNESCO: CARTOON ISSUE THREATENS TO HIJACK UPCOMING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This is a guidance request, see para 7. On February 15 the UNESCO Ambassadors of the Member States of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) released a statement in response to the Danish cartoons. Among other things, the statement calls for the creation of a normativ [...] | 2006-03-01 17:56:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL AORC KISL UNESCO |
06PARIS1296 | (C) MFA RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE TO EU-3 ON [...] (C) Summary: In a preliminary reaction to the U.S. white paper on Syria/Lebanon (ref A),MFA A/S-equivalent for NEA Thibault sought to emphasize the positive, while offering a variety of legalistic arguments on why EU sanctions on Syria were inadvisable or unachievable at this juncture. Thiba [...] | 2006-03-01 18:58:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE FR |
06PARIS1387 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - GWOT - Moussaoui Trial - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-06 11:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1428 | PARIS-BASED HARIRI ADVISOR ON LEBANON INTERNAL [...] (C) Summary: During a recent discussion, Basile Yared, a leading Paris-based advisor to Sa'ad Hariri, praised the Secretary for delivering the right message in Beirut on the SIPDIS need for a peaceful, constitutional presidential transition in Lebanon. Yared speculated that it would take t [...] | 2006-03-07 10:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY LE EG SA FR |
06PARIS147 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Middle East - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-10 13:26:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS1588 | MARCH 4-6 CHIRAC VISIT TO SAUDI ARABIA: FOCUS ON [...] (C) Summary: Syria/Lebanon were the primary topics of President Chirac's March 4 and 5 meetings with Saudi King Abdullah, with Iran, Hamas/PA, and Iraq discussed to a lesser degree. Elysee contacts described the Saudi monarch as bitter over rejection of the Saudi initiative on Syria-Lebanon [...] | 2006-03-13 14:37:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SA LE SY IR IZ ECON FR |
06PARIS1637 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Israeli [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-15 11:13:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS169 | FRANCE: ENERGY SECTOR UPDATE [...] This is the fifth in a series of occasional updates on the French energy sector. Feedback is welcome to help us make this product as useful as possible for our inter-agency USG audience. Contents: -- France to develop fourth-generation nuclear reactor (See Para 2); -- Peugeot Citroen to [...] | 2006-01-11 10:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET EIND EINV PREL PGOV FR |
06PARIS1719 | (C) FRENCH MFA ON POLITICAL CONSULTATIONS WITH [...] (C) On the margins of a March 15 discussion on human rights in Syria (reftel),MFA DAS-equivalent for Egypt/Levant Herve Besancenot commented briefly on March 8-9 political consultations in Cairo between France and Egypt, for which the French delegation was led by MFA Political Director Stanis [...] | 2006-03-17 15:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE SY EG KISL UNSC FR |
06PARIS1924 | CHIRAC'S DIPLOMATIC ADVISOR ON SYRIA/LEBANON, IRAN [...] (C) Amb Stapleton took the occasion of a meeting March 23 with President Chirac's Diplomatic Advisor Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) on another subject (septel),to discuss Middle East issues, focusing on Syria/Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq. Concerning Syria/Lebanon, MGM said the GOF continues t [...] | 2006-03-24 18:14:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL FR SY LE SP UNSC |
06PARIS3114 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Russia Versus the U.S. - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-11 12:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS3783 | (C) MUSLIM LEADERS IN LYON STRESS UNITY AT [...] (C) Summary: Leaders of the regional Muslim Council (CRCM) in Rhone-Alpes stressed a message of unity and moderation during a joint meeting with poloff in Lyon May 31. The CRCM leaders, who represent three rival factions within the national French Council for the Muslim Faith (CFCM),stresse [...] | 2006-06-06 12:30:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL PINR SOCI MO AG TU FR |
06PARIS40 | MFA ON JANUARY 4 CHIRAC-MUBARAK DISCUSSIONS ON [...] (C) Summary: MFA DAS-equivalent for Egypt/Levant Herve Besancenot previewed the January 4 Mubarak-Chirac working lunch, expected to focus on Syria/Lebanon. Mubarak will brief Chirac on his January 3 discussions in Riyadh, during which the Egyptian president was expected to press King Abdallah [...] | 2006-01-04 16:27:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY LE EG SA FR |
06PARIS4175 | (C) HARIRI ADVISOR ON RISING IRANIAN INFLUENCE IN [...] (C) Summary: During a June 13 discussion, longtime Hariri family advisor Basile Yared put a positive spin on the recent Brammertz report, which he viewed as compounding pressure on Syria. Yared viewed the SARG as seeking to destabilize the GoL, via arms and money transfers to Palestinian mili [...] | 2006-06-16 17:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE SY IR PINR PTER EAID FR |
06PARIS4225 | (C) PESSIMISTIC ELYSEE LINE ON LEBANON/SYRIA [...] (C) Summary: Chirac's Middle East advisor Dominique Boche recently shared a pessimistic assessment of Lebanon/Syria developments, criticizing UNSYG Annan's passivity on the issue, and citing the potential for the Lebanese government to collapse, amid internal divisions and active undermining [...] | 2006-06-20 10:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL LE SY IR PTER FR |
06PARIS4360 | (C) MFA OFFICIAL ASSAILS EU LACK OF SOLIDARITY ON [...] (C) Summary and comment: MFA DAS-equivalent for Egypt/Levant Herve Besancenot (protect throughout),during a June 22 farewell chat with poloff, criticized other EU members -- Spain and Austria in particular -- for going soft on Syria, and offered similar criticism of the Elysee for its more a [...] | 2006-06-23 14:41:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SY IS PGOV FR |
06PARIS4966 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-21 11:10:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS4979 | FRENCH VIEWS ON IRAQ COMPACT [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Robert Kimmitt and Counselor Zelikow briefed French MFA Political Director Stanislas de Laboulaye on planning for the Iraq Compact on July 18. Laboulaye welcomed the initiative for an Iraq Compact as "encouraging", calling it a good [...] | 2006-07-21 15:33:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM IZ FR |
06PARIS4986 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-24 11:07:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5080 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-27 10:50:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5183 | UNESCO: SESAME CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON CONTINUED MID EAST [...] INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY. The Council of the Synchrotron Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) convened for its eighth meeting at UNESCO Headquarters on July 10-11, 2006. The centerpiece of the program is a synchrotron light source, to be installed in Jor [...] | 2006-08-01 09:45:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | UNESCO TPHY TSPA KISL SOCI XF JO |
06PARIS5216 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Lebanese Crisis - Iran and [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-02 10:54:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS526 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Palestinian Elections [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-26 14:28:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5360 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Lebanon Cuba [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-08 11:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5386 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - U.S. Policy - [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-09 10:27:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS5657 | FRENCH SUPPORT FOR IRAQ COMPACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt led a delegation to France August 16-17 to discuss the Iraq Compact. French officials remained positive about the Compact's goals and were visibly engaged on the issue. Officials welcomed the briefing on USG discussions with Gulf countries, espe [...] | 2006-08-24 07:50:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EIND EAID PREL IZ FR |
06PARIS59 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Russia-Ukraine Energy War [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-05 11:57:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS6095 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - President Bush - 9/11 - Iraq Middle [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-12 11:00:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS6177 | FRANCE/DJIBOUTI: AMBASSADOR SYMINGTON'S PARIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: GOF officials at the MFA, President's office, and MOD were uniformly supportive of close and cooperative U.S.-France policies on Djibouti during their September 7-8 meetings with U.S. Ambassador to Djibouti W. Stuart Symington. They welcomed U.S. engagement in Djibouti, despit [...] | 2006-09-14 13:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EAID MARR PINS ER ET SO DJ FR |
06PARIS685 | MEDIA REACTION REPORT - State of the Union [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-02 12:05:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR FR |
06PARIS7108 | MFA SEES LITTLE CHANCE OF TALKS BETWEEN POLISARIO [...] (C) Summary: The MFA DAS-equivalent for the Maghreb, Christian Testo, assessed there was little likelihood either Morocco or Algeria would agree to direct Moroccan-Polisario talks in the near future. In Testo's analysis, both Algeria and Tunisia were obsessed with their respective presidential [...] | 2006-10-30 11:57:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AG FR MO PGOV |
06PARIS7242 | MFA POLICY PLANNER SEES YEARS OF VIOLENCE AHEAD IN [...] (C) Christian Nakhle, head of the Middle East and North Africa cell at the Centre d'Analyse et de Prevision (i.e., the "CAP," the Quai's S/P-equivalent),shared his views of Lebanon and Iraq with NEA Watcher on 11/3. Nakhle, whose analyses are distributed within the MFA but do not constitute [...] | 2006-11-06 16:18:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR KDEM PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7322 | FRENCH PRESIDENCY VIEWS ON IRAQ, LEBANON, AND [...] (C) Summary: A/DCM met 11/8 with Dominique Boche, President Chirac's foreign policy advisor for the Middle East and North Africa and received a short readout of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's visit to France November 1-2. Boche noted that Talabani did not raise France's long-standing offer t [...] | 2006-11-09 11:28:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | FR IZ KDEM PGOV PREL SY |
06PARIS7491 | PARIS CLUB - NOVEMBER 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (U) At the November 15 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors decided on an initial response to Argentine Finance Secretary MacLaughlin's letter to the Club expressing the GOA's desire to restart a dialogue and normalize relations as soon as possible. Creditors agreed that Paris Club Chairman Mu [...] | 2006-11-21 15:14:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR |
06PARIS7642 | PARIS III UPDATE FROM JOUYET [...] (C) Summary: Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Chirac's Special Envoy for the Lebanon Donors' Conference (i.e., Paris III),told us on November 30 that he anticipates holding a Core Group meeting in Paris between January 8 and 10, prior to the conference on January 25. Chirac issued invitations on November [...] | 2006-12-04 05:07:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN FR KDEM LE PGOV PREL |
06PARIS7684 | DOD U/S EDELMAN'S DECEMBER 1 MEETING WITH CHIRAC'S [...] (S) Summary: In a December 1 meeting with DoD U/S Edelman devoted primarily to Syria/Lebanon, French NSA-equivalent Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) assessed that Syria was the weakest link in the Hizballah-Syria-Iran axis and wondered whether Israel could apply more pressure on Syria, a questi [...] | 2006-12-06 13:08:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | FR IS KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY |
06PHNOMPENH998 | CAMBODIAN LABOR REACTION TO NEW LABOR MINISTER [...] (U) SUMMARY: Cambodia's newly appointed Minister of Labor and Vocational Training (MOLVT),Vorng Sotr (CPP),replaces Nhep Bunchin (FUNCINPEC),who was removed from office pending a corruption investigation. The few labor observers who know Vorng Sotr from his previous position as MOLVT Sec [...] | 2006-05-25 08:08:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV ECON CB |
06PORTOFSPAIN767 | CARIBBEAN MUSLIM FORUM IN T&T [...] (U) The 2006 Caribbean Muslim Forum took place at the Trinidad campus of the University of the West Indies on June 18-19. Pol intern attended forum. Approximately 40-50 people attended, most from Trinidad but with a handful from throughout the region. The crowd was made up of about 2/3 East [...] | 2006-06-22 18:56:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PTER KISL TD |
06PRETORIA1158 | SOUTH AFRICA: MOELETSI MBEKI SAYS DONORS HOLD THE [...] (U) Summary. Donors hold the key to economic reform in Africa, says Moeletsi Mbeki, businessman, political analyst, and brother of South African President Thabo Mbeki. In a recent address, Mbeki said that donors leverage more power than Africa's military or political elite. Mbeki explained t [...] | 2006-03-22 10:27:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN PGOV EAID PINR SF |
06PRETORIA171 | SOUTH AFRICA: 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE [...] (U) In response to Ref A, this cable presents post's 2006 Investment Climate Statement for South Africa. This is also Chapter 6 of the 2006 Country Commercial Guide for South Africa. 2. (U) BEGIN TEXT Chapter 6 Investment Climate Statement FY 2006 6.1 Openness to Foreign Investment [...] | 2006-01-17 14:42:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB OPIC USTR PGOV SF |
06RABAT1011 | CHINESE AMBASSADOR ON HU VISIT, WESTERN SAHARA, [...] (C) Summary: During a 75-minute meeting May 22, Chinese Ambassador Cheng Tao downplayed the significance of the April 23-25 visit to Morocco of Chinese President Hu Jintao, noting that the Chinese leadership visits Africa annually. Nevertheless Cheng said Morocco-China relations are good, and [...] | 2006-05-25 16:20:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD MO PBTS PGOV PREL |
06RABAT1063 | INCREASING FOCUS ON PRISON REFORM [...] (C) Summary: A number of activities are coming together in Morocco to give impetus to prison reform, an area for improvement which is highlighted in the annual human rights report. The Government of Morocco (GOM) through the Ministry of Justice (MOJ),Directorate of Prisons, recognizes the ma [...] | 2006-06-02 16:18:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MO PHUM PREL |
06RABAT1285 | DAS GRAY DISCUSSES GAZA EVENTS AND LIBYAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting June 29 with visiting DAS Gordon Gray, Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs Taieb Fassi Fihri expressed Morocco's concern over recent events in Gaza, explaining that Israeli actions were "too strong and extreme" and have complicated Morocco's position. Fassi Fihri [...] | 2006-07-05 08:25:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM MO |
06RABAT1412 | SUMMER UNIVERSITY EVALUATES REFORMS IN MOROCCO [...] (U) Summary: From July 13 to 15 the Moroccan Center for Social Studies organized a summer university, i.e., a conference, in Tetouan to discuss and assess the reform process. Polfsn political specialist attended the conference. The participants, who were university professors, political ana [...] | 2006-07-26 11:44:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM MO |
06RABAT1471 | MEPI UPDATE FOR MOROCCO [...] Summary: This cable highlights MEPI programs and initiatives in Morocco from April 1-June 30. Activities included visits by representatives from MEPI Washington, the Ambassador's visit to Oujda, his meeting with the International Republican Institute (IRI),judicial reform, a regional confer [...] | 2006-08-02 07:56:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PGOV ETRD EINV KMPI MO |
06RABAT1497 | DEPUTY MINISTER FASSI FIHRI MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: On August 3, Taieb Fassi Fihri, the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),met with Ambassador Riley and the US Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, for a courtesy call. Ambassador Khalilzad was in Morocco for other meetings with UAE officials. The conversat [...] | 2006-08-08 11:24:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM PBTS MO |
06RABAT1677 | DONOR COMMUNITY PROGRAMS IN MOROCCO [...] (U) This is the third part of a three part series on international donor activities in Morocco. Part 1 (ref A) covered the World Bank while part 2 (ref B) discussed the European Union's Barcelona Process. 2. (U) Summary. A wide variety of international donor organizations are present in [...] | 2006-09-08 17:09:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN KMCA MO |
06RABAT48 | PJD'S OTHMANI ON PARTY SPLIT, WESTERN SAHARA, 2007 [...] (C) Summary: During a January 6 meeting with Emboffs, Islamist Party for Justice and Development (PJD) Secretary General Saad Eddin Othmani Othmani downplayed the reported split within the PJD describing it as a handful of individuals the party wanted to get rid of. He highlighted the party [...] | 2006-01-10 15:50:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PREL MO |
06RABAT50 | REP. LANTOS DISCUSSES IRAQ, IRAN, AND SYRIA WITH [...] (C) Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) met with FM Benaissa for 90 minutes on January 4 at the MFA. Benaissa lauded US-Morocco relations and outlined many of the accomplishments of King Mohammed in the area of womens rights, equity and reconciliation, and press freedom. Benaissa was gloomy about Iraq, [...] | 2006-01-10 17:58:00 | Embassy Rabat | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD MO PGOV PREL PTER |
06RABAT73 | MOROCCO 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-18 07:44:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD EFIN ELAB OPIC KTDB PGOV MO |
06RANGOON235 | BURMA'S VAST INTERNMENT CAMP: NORTHERN RAKHINE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a country where everyone is oppressed by the military, some are treated worse than others. In general, the ethnic minorities are treated worse than the ethnic Burman majority, and non-Buddhists face more restrictions on their religious practices. Charge visited Northern [...] | 2006-02-17 09:23:00 | Embassy Rangoon | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREF PREL EAID BM |
06RIYADH1377 | SHI'A "INDEPENDENTS" DISCUSS NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR [...] (C) A group of Shi'a independents again stressed to ConOffs their community's national identity, desire for reform in the Kingdom, and lack of political ties to Iran. They noted that the SAG is allowing the Shi'a community to build an active but small-scale and unofficial civil society, cente [...] | 2006-03-06 06:45:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SA |
06RIYADH1380 | FEMALE SHI'A ACTIVIST: PRESSURE FOR REFORM MUST [...] (C) Summary: Aliya Al-Fareed (protect),longtime Shi'a political activist, discussed the state of reform in Saudi Arabia with PAO and PolOff in her home in Al-Safwa near Qatif. Al-Fareed was recently appointed to the National Society for Human Rights; she is the only woman among the five memb [...] | 2006-03-06 11:24:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PINR KIRF KWMN SA |
06RIYADH1461 | SHI'A ACTIVIST SAYS SHIRAZIS ARE MODERATING [...] (C) Shi'ite political activist Mohammed Al-Shoyoukh told PolOff that Saudi Hezbollah countenances only "peaceful" means to achieve its social and political goals. He said that the "Shirazis," who include the most politically active Shi'a such as Hassan Al-Saffar and Jafar Al-Shayeb, have been [...] | 2006-03-08 08:10:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR SA |
06RIYADH1542 | POST-ABQAIQ MINISTER OF INTERIOR FORMALLY REQUESTS [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (S) Summary and Action Request: Post requests Department's prompt review and guidance in responding to the Saudi government's formal request for helicopter support and security consultations, for the security of oil facilities in the Kingdom. Foreign Mini [...] | 2006-03-12 15:23:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PTER MASS MARR ASEC PREL EPET ETRD SA |
06RIYADH1706 | SHI'A CIVIL SOCIETY, LOOKING TO THE STARS [...] (C) Summary: A meeting with the Qatif Astronomy Society on March 13th 2006 provided a snapshot of how civil society can operate in the Shi'a areas of Saudi Arabia. The Qatif Astronomy Society was begun locally with 12 founding members in February 2003, and has no license or official authoriza [...] | 2006-03-15 13:40:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KMPI KPAO KIRF SA |
06RIYADH175 | CULTURAL AND SPORTS PROGRAMMING IN SAUDI ARABIA [...] (U) Summary: Cultural and sports programming in Saudi Arabia can effectively support MPP objectives and USG interests. Cultural programming has been especially useful in providing access to the 'hard to reach' groups of women and youth, and in challenging negative stereotypes of the United Sta [...] | 2006-01-16 10:14:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL SA |
06RIYADH186 | FEMALE CONSULATE STAFF PARTICIPATE IN EID CALLS [...] (C) For the first time in Consulate history, two female Mission staff members participated in most of the Consulate's calls over the recent Eid Al-Adha. Consulate staff traditionally call on the Emir of the Eastern Province (EP),the EP head of the Saudi Arabia National Guard (SANG),and a n [...] | 2006-01-18 10:04:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SCUL KWMN SA |
06RIYADH1920 | 'CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY' IS OFF-LIMITS FOR A [...] (C) Nawal Al Yousif (protect),a Shi'a journalist and founder of www.saudiyat.net, noted in a meeting with the PAO on March 17, 2006 that mentioning a constitutional democracy in her writing crossed a red line with the Saudi Ministry of Interior. "The Mubahith (Investigative Police) came to s [...] | 2006-03-21 09:03:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KMPI KIRF KPAO SA |
06RIYADH1982 | DHAHRAN DIGEST 5 [...] (SBU) During a recent lunch with PolOff, an appointed member of the Al-Ahsa municipal council who is also an American-educated professor of plant physiology fielded two phone calls from students. The first was from a female graduate student who needed help on some laboratory research she was [...] | 2006-03-22 10:59:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI PREL SA |
06RIYADH2146 | SAUDI LEADERS UPBEAT ON U.S.-SAUDI MILITARY [...] (S) Summary and Comment: During separate meetings on March 22 with visiting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace, Saudi leaders spoke favorably of the U.S.-Saudi military relationship. King Abdullah, although deeply unhappy about Iraq and the issue of helicopter support fo [...] | 2006-03-29 14:32:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL PTER SA |
06RIYADH2542 | Avian Flu: Saudi Arabia Closing Small Poultry [...] (U) Summary: Meetings with the WHO representative, Ministry of Agriculture (MOA),and Ministry of Health (MOH) revealed that the SAG has established necessary preparations for avian flu, including action plans, an emergency "hotline" number, monitoring and testing sites for migratory birds, a [...] | 2006-04-09 13:43:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAGR SA |
06RIYADH2544 | Cultural Norms and Non-Transparency Hamstring [...] (SBU) Summary: Meetings with public health officials during the visit of regional ESTH officer to Saudi Arabia provided a snapshot of Saudi health issues: a population increasingly afflicted with costly illnesses of the wealthy - obesity, diabetes, and heart disease - and a health system tha [...] | 2006-04-10 04:26:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KHIV SA |
06RIYADH2560 | Saudi Science Research - Gathering Strength [...] Summary: Academic and scientific researchers in Saudi Arabia are hungry for more contact with American counterparts and believe that the Saudi research system is increasingly operating up to international standards. Improved education and upcoming research opportunities fQ women, including the [...] | 2006-04-10 12:27:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPL TBIO SENV KHIV CVIS SA |
06RIYADH2563 | Environmentalism Slowly Comes to Saudi Arabia [...] Summary: Saudi environmental and natural resource institutions were late in getting established and remain small in size and influence. Meetings with the Presidency of Meteorology and Environment (PME) and the National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development highlighted that pub [...] | 2006-04-10 13:43:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KFLU SA |
06RIYADH2682 | EP CORPORATE BANKER UPBEAT ABOUT IMPACT OF WTO [...] (SBU) Zaki Al-Yahya, Eastern Province-based Assistant General Manager in Samba's Corporate & Investment Banking Group, painted an upbeat picture about recent developments in the banking sector in a conversation with EconOff April 10. As a lender to many of the major EP businesses who serve as [...] | 2006-04-12 08:25:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV SA |
06RIYADH2683 | VISITING PRIEST DETAINED BY SAG IN DAMMAM, [...] (C) According to two sources in the Eastern Province's (EP's) expatriate Indian Roman Catholic community, a Catholic priest was detained by the SAG on April 5 while presiding over an evening service at a large compound or farm in Dammam. The priest, an Indian national from Kerala who was vis [...] | 2006-04-12 12:46:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KIRF SA |
06RIYADH275 | ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE ON THE SHI'A "SHIRAZIS" [...] (C) Kamal Al-Khattee, son of a former Shi'a judge in Qaif, discussed with PolOff the evolution of the Shi'a faction known as the "Shirazis," who include Hassan Al-Saffar, Jafar Al-Shayeb, Tawfiq Al-Sayf, and others. According to Al-Khattee, they moved from Iran to Syria and elsewhere in the 1 [...] | 2006-01-23 07:38:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KIRF SA |
06RIYADH2893 | GULF WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: CIVIL SOCIETY, SAUDI [...] (SBU) Summary: Jameyat Fatat al Khaleej is one of the oldest women's charitable societies in Saudi Arabia, and provides an example of a civil society organization welcomed by the government. Founded and run by women from the Eastern Province's most prominent business families, and with close [...] | 2006-04-19 14:23:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI KPAO KMPI SA |
06RIYADH3147 | ARAMCO VP THINKS KARAN GAS DISCOVERY WILL PROVE "A [...] (C) Summary: Yousef Rafie, Saudi Aramco's Senior VP for Gas Operations, expanded on press reports of Aramco's recent discovery of gas in the Karan field, saying that the exploratory well was drilled into the first layer of the deep Khuff formation and was producing dry gas. He estimated res [...] | 2006-04-27 10:48:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PREL SA |
06RIYADH3301 | CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE EP: THE ICE IS SLOWLY [...] (C) Government influence and oversight pervade the Eastern Province's (EP's) older civil society organizations. The SAG provides part of their funding, appoints or approves board members, and regulates their by-laws. Yet the ice is slowly breaking. The government is beginning to relinquish [...] | 2006-05-02 08:54:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KMPI KDEM SA |
06RIYADH3312 | THE SAUDI SHI'A: WHERE DO THEIR LOYALTIES LIE? [...] (S) Some Sunni Arab leaders, including Egypt's President Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah, have recently publicly questioned the loyalties of Arab Shi'a populations in the Middle East. Privately, senior Saudi officials raise similar concerns. Given the ongoing sectarian conflict in Iraq, [...] | 2006-05-02 14:55:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINS SA |
06RIYADH3315 | HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE EASTERN PROVINCE: LIMITED [...] (C) Summary: Higher education in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia offers limited opportunities for students, particularly women and Shi'a. What is available is of questionable quality, suffering from centralized and religious control, poor student preparation, and difficulty in recruitin [...] | 2006-05-02 15:28:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PGOV KMPI KPAO KIRF KWMN SA |
06RIYADH3346 | BUILDING CIVIL SOCIETY, ONE DISCUSSION AT A TIME [...] (C) Summary: In the past year, Consulate officers have observed increasing numbers of small civil society groups forming in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Also notable is that many of the groups have started to cooperate and interact with each other in pursuit of larger goals. As an [...] | 2006-05-02 16:06:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PGOV KPAO KMPI SA |
06RIYADH3491 | SAUDI-U.K. RELATIONS IMPROVING [...] (C) Summary. During a May 1 dinner, a British Polof who coordinated U.K. Embassy Riyadh,s recent high-level visits commented on the significant improvement in Saudi-U.K. relations over the past two years. He said that Saudi Arabia,s imprisonment and torture of five Britons from December 2 [...] | 2006-05-07 15:44:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SA |
06RIYADH3589 | SHI'A CLERIC DISCUSSES SLOW BUT SIGNIFICANT [...] (C) In a meeting with PolOff on April 28, Shi'a cleric Faisal Al-Awami gave a broadly positive account of changes in Saudi Arabia over the past 10 to 15 years. Al-Awami, who, like many of his politically and religiously active Shi'a colleagues, studied in Iran and Syria starting in the early [...] | 2006-05-10 08:30:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SCUL KIRF SA |
06RIYADH3720 | SAG DETAINS HARD-LINE SHI'A CLERIC RETURNING FROM [...] (C) Post contacts and the Saudi Shi'a-run Rasid News Network (www.rasid.org) report that the Saudi Mubahith detained Shi'a cleric Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr on the evening of May 11 as he was entering Saudi Arabia from Bahrain over the King Fahd Causeway. Al-Nimr is from Awamiya, a small oasis town [...] | 2006-05-15 12:35:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA |
06RIYADH390 | REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY [...] (C) Ambassador met with SAG U/S for Political Affairs Prince Turki Saud al-Kabir on January 28 to deliver reftel points and paper. (Note: FM Prince Saud al-Faisal was accompanying King Abdullah on four-country Asian travel and is not expected back in the Kingdom until 2/5.) Ambassador stress [...] | 2006-01-29 10:48:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PARM PREL AORC SA IR |
06RIYADH3974 | BETWEEN OIL WELLS AND THE SEA: A POLITICIAN SHOWS [...] (SBU) "Over there you can see one of Aramco's wells," Nabih Al-Ibrahim, a Saudi Aramco engineer and an elected member of Qatif's municipal council, told PolOff and PAO, gesturing to his left as the group drove down the main access road into his home town of Awamiya off the Dhahran-Jubail high [...] | 2006-05-22 10:09:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PINR SA |
06RIYADH4180 | DHAHRAN DIGEST 6 [...] (C/NF) In the course of a day trip to Jubail on May 28, the CG learned that Bechtel, which has the management contract for Jubail, has decided to allow families of its expatriate workers to return. As a result, there will be forty new American children joining school in Jubail in the fall. [...] | 2006-05-29 13:25:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ECON EINV PHUM SA |
06RIYADH42 | AL-HASA SHI'A WELCOME U.S. INTERVENTION IN IRAQ, [...] (C) Members of the Shi'a community in Al-Hasa welcomed U.S. intervention in Iraq, saying an almost unqualified "thank you" during lunch with Acting CG and PolOff. Although noting some progress in the SAG's campaign against home-grown terrorism, they said that the government's campaign for to [...] | 2006-01-03 11:16:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER KISL SA KIFR |
06RIYADH4539 | EP SANG COMMANDER DISCUSSES IRAN, IRAQ [...] (C) Prince Mishari bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) in the Eastern Province (EP),told the CG on June 5 that he did not think the "problem between the world and Iran," as he described it, would come to war. The Iranians are "merchants," he [...] | 2006-06-07 12:09:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PINS SA |
06RIYADH4543 | A POSSIBLE RETREAT ON SAUDIZATION? [...] (C) At a lunch hosted by senior EP businessman Yusuf Al-Dossary and his brothers, Al-Dossary told the CG that he expected an imminent but quietly implemented retreat on Saudization employment policies. Al-Dossary, a member of the Eastern Province Chamber of Commerce & Industry (EPCCI) board, [...] | 2006-06-07 13:05:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ECON EINV SA |
06RIYADH4723 | SHI'A CLERIC ASKS U.S. TO EXERT MORE INFLUENCE [...] (C) Sheikh Mohammed Hassan, introduced by a post contact as a leading Saudi follower of Karbala-based Ayatollah Mohammed Taqi Al-Mudarassi, told PolOff in a June 11 meeting that the U.S. should play a more active role in calling for reform in Saudi Arabia. "All reform in the Kingdom is taking [...] | 2006-06-13 08:37:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SA |
06RIYADH4854 | TRIPARTITE DEMARCHE -- SAUDI ARABIA [...] (U) PolOff, in coordination with the New Zealand and Australian Embassies, delivered reftel demarche May 31 to Abdulrahman Al-Rassj, First Secretary, International Organizations Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Al-Rassj responded that the SAG had not yet formed a position on the [...] | 2006-06-18 13:26:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SA |
06RIYADH4914 | SAUDI HEZBOLLAH FIGURE OFFERS A SLIGHTLY TOUGHER [...] (C) In a May 28 meeting with PolOff and PolFSN, Ahmed Al-Nimr (Ahmed),brother and office manager of Shi'a cleric Sheikh Hassan Al-Nimr (Hassan),explained that Hassan would not meet with American diplomats because "he would lose the respect of people on the street, who would ask why he met w [...] | 2006-06-19 12:46:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM SA |
06RIYADH4919 | REMAINS RETURNED, FAMILIES OF GTMO DETAINEES CALL [...] (U) Following the deaths of the three GTMO detainees, Abdulaziz Suleiman al-Rubaish, whose brother is currently detained at GTMO, contacted the Embassy and asked to meet with the Ambassador. PolMilOff met al-Rubaish at the Embassy front gate and accepted a letter addressed to President Bush f [...] | 2006-06-19 14:34:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KPAO PGOV PREL MOPS PTER KAWC SA XF |
06RIYADH4961 | SAG NOTIFIED OF PSI WARSAW MEETING PARTICIPANTS [...] (C) On June 14 A/PolCouns gave Abdulrahman al-Rassi, Office Director for MFA's International Organizations Department, a list of Middle Eastern states the USG expects will participate in the June 23 Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) High Level Political Meeting in Warsaw, Poland. A/Pol [...] | 2006-06-20 11:30:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP XF |
06RIYADH4997 | HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST ACCEPTS FORMAL ROLE ON HUMAN [...] (C) Ibrahim Al-Mugaiteeb, President of the unregistered Human Rights First Society, told the CG on June 17 that he had accepted a formal role with the government-affiliated Human Rights Commission (HRC) run by Dr. Turki Al-Sudairy. Al-Mugaiteeb said that Al-Sudairy had offered him a position [...] | 2006-06-21 04:41:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR PREL SA |
06RIYADH5042 | USD EDELMAN'S MEETINGS WITH THE KING AND CROWN [...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman discussed the U.S.-Saudi defense relationship, regional security, helicopters, Iran, Iraq, and visas during separate meetings with King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan on June 6. Both the King and Crown Prince were supportive of [...] | 2006-06-24 14:03:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | MARR MASS MCAP SA PTER PREL PARM PINR |
06RIYADH5079 | USD EDELMAN'S MEETING WITH ASSISTANT MOI PRINCE [...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman discussed detainees, helicopters, infrastructure security, Iraq, and border security during a June 6 meeting with Assistant Minister of Interior for Security Affairs Prince Muhammad bin Naif. Prince Muhammad confirmed that the SA [...] | 2006-06-25 04:36:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | SA MARR PBTS PGOV PINR PINS PTER ENRG |
06RIYADH5082 | U/S EDELMAN'S MEETING WITH ASST MINISTER OF [...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman discussed the U.S.-Saudi defense relationship, Iran, and regional security during his June 6 meeting with Prince Khalid bin Sultan, Assistant Minister of Defense and Aviation for Security Affairs. The overall tone of the meeting [...] | 2006-06-25 08:36:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PARM PGOV PREL PINR PTER |
06RIYADH5105 | SAUDIS NAME NEW IRAQ BORDER LIAISON OFFICER [...] (S) General Saleh bin Ali al-Muhayya, Chief of General Staff of the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense and Aviation (MODA) sent a letter (classified "secret/urgent") to CHUSMTM May 30 on the appointment of a new Saudi-Iraq border liaison officer. The new officer is LTC Khalid bin Mohamed al-S [...] | 2006-06-25 15:57:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PBTS PGOV PREL PINR SA IZ MARR MOPS |
06RIYADH5106 | SCENESETTER FOR THE JUNE 27 VISIT OF AMBASSADOR [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia warmly welcomes your visit to Jeddah June 27. Ambassador Oberwetter and Consul General Tatiana Gfoeller look forward to meeting you and will accompany you on a number of your calls on Saudi leaders. Per your request, appointments are being requested in Jedd [...] | 2006-06-25 16:02:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PREL PGOV OVIP PTER IZ SA |
06RIYADH5111 | TRIBAL LEADER PLAYS POLITICS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE [...] (C) In a June 21 meeting with Consulate Dhahran and Embassy Manama PolOffs, Essa Al-Dossary, self-styled deputy sheikh of the Al-Dossary tribe in the Eastern Province (EP) and the Kingdom of Bahrain, described to PolOffs the nature of his influence on both sides of the causeway. Al-Dossary e [...] | 2006-06-26 12:59:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA BA |
06RIYADH5136 | SAUDI CONSERVATIVES LAUNCH COUNTER-REFORMATION [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Following a series of reforms seen as challenging the prominence of the religious establishment in Saudi Arabia, 61 religious scholars published an open letter, called "A Warning and a Statement," to the Kingdom's rulers. This manifesto warned the SAG against a 'gang' of people [...] | 2006-06-27 14:22:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PGOV SA KISL PINR PREL |
06RIYADH5220 | 14 GUANTANAMO DETAINEES TRANSFERED TO SAUDI [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On June 25, 14 Guantanamo detainees were transferred to Saudi authority, including a non-Saudi citizen, Ahmad Sadik Turkestani. The Ministry of Interior (MOI) has told EmbOffs that all of the detainees will be further incarcerated in the Kingdom until the SAG rules [...] | 2006-07-02 13:28:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KPAO PGOV PREL KAWC MOPS PTER SA XF |
06RIYADH5264 | SAG REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR FOREIGN MINISTER'S [...] (C) On July 2, Post received via diplomatic note a request from the Saudi Foreign Ministry seeking USG assistance to secure a temporary license from the Treasury Dept's Office of Financial Assets Control (OFAC) to allow Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal to fly aboard a private, corporate [...] | 2006-07-02 15:57:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SA |
06RIYADH5266 | POST SEEKING CLARITY ON GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE [...] (S/NF) Post is seeking the Department's clarification of the relationship between the proposed Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) (Ref A) and other bilateral and regional security initiatives that have been previously proposed to the SAG. We have identified no less than 13 security-related initiativ [...] | 2006-07-02 16:01:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER MOPS SA |
06RIYADH5277 | MIXED SAUDI REACTION TO KUWAITI ELECTIONS [...] (U) On June 29, the Kuwaiti Parliament held elections, in which women were allowed to run as candidates and vote for the first time. There were twenty-seven women candidates, but none were elected. Saudi media reported mixed reactions to the results. Most Saudi media reported that the electi [...] | 2006-07-03 13:48:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA |
06RIYADH5278 | RIYADH RECORD: JUNE 21-30 2006 [...] (U) This cable serves as the inaugural edition of the Riyadh Record, which will provide weekly summaries of key political events in the Kingdom. 2. (S) SUMMARY: During the course of the past few weeks, there has been an increase in the dialogue between supporters of King Abdullah,s reforms [...] | 2006-07-03 13:55:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PGOV PREL SA PINR |
06RIYADH5314 | DHAHRAN DIGEST 7 [...] (SBU) Dr. Abdullah Al-Kadi, director of Al Bir, the largest charitable organization in the Eastern Province (EP),estimated to the CG that there were 3.7 million residents in the EP, of whom 20 percent (740,000) were expatriates. Al-Kadi, a U.S.-trained architect and urban planner, has constr [...] | 2006-07-05 05:51:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET SOCI PINR PGOV SA |
06RIYADH5315 | DISCUSSION GROUPS GROW, CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPS [...] (C) Summary: Shi'a journalist Merza Al Khuwaildi discussed the range of new discussion groups in Saudi Arabia, in a June 28 meeting with the Consul General. Considered the vanguard of civil society in Saudi Arabia, these home-based, informal, grass-roots groups have enjoyed more freedom over [...] | 2006-07-05 06:12:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KIRF SA |
06RIYADH5322 | IRAQI PRIME MINISTER VISITS KINGDOM ON FIRST TRIP [...] (C) Traveling on his first trip abroad as Prime Minister, Iraqi PM Nouri Al-Maliki visited Saudi Arabia July 1-2 seeking Saudi support for economic development, reconciliation, and improving security to stabilize Iraq. Saudi news sources reported that PM Maliki was received by the Crown Prin [...] | 2006-07-05 12:28:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IZ SA |
06RIYADH5513 | SHI'A TRADITIONALIST LAMENTS SHIRAZI ASCENDANCY IN [...] (C) Kamal Al-Khatti, a Riyadh-based social researcher formerly employed by Prince Abdulaziz bin Fahd and son of Qatif's late and revered Judge Abdulhamid Al-Khatti, told the CG and ConOffs that the Shirazis (ref A) now dominated Qatif and the Saudi Shi'a community politically, but that a laten [...] | 2006-07-11 11:51:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL SA |
06RIYADH5516 | RIYADH RECORD: JUNE 30-JULY 7 2006 [...] (S) SUMMARY: Majlis al-Shoura rejects an appeal to revote on the religious police funding proposal, while at the same time rejecting a proposal for them to wear publicly-identifiable uniforms. Six women were added as part-time consultants on women's issues to the Shoura Council, bringing the [...] | 2006-07-11 12:54:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR SA |
06RIYADH5546 | KING EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT IRANIAN INFLUENCE IN [...] (S) During Ambassador Khalilzad's recent visit to the Kingdom (reftels),King Abdullah talked at length about SAG concerns about the influence exerted by Iran and its surrogates in Iraq and the region. King Abdullah told his guests that "justice is missing" in Iraq, and that there is "no eq [...] | 2006-07-12 06:42:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV IZ SA |
06RIYADH5547 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for the visit of Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt and his delegation to Saudi Arabia on July 23. Due to recent severe budget cuts, the Mission must direct charge all visit support costs. Country cl [...] | 2006-07-12 08:23:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ SA |
06RIYADH5548 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF DEPUTY TREASURY [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia warmly welcomes your visit to Jeddah July 23. Ambassador Oberwetter and Consul General Tatiana Gfoeller look forward to meeting you and will accompany you on a number of your calls on Saudi leaders. Per your request, appointments are being requested in Jedd [...] | 2006-07-12 09:05:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | OVIP EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ SA |
06RIYADH5601 | SAUDI ARABIA ISSUES STATEMENT ON SECURITY [...] (U) NIACT precedence justified due to urgency of the message conveyed by the Government of Saudi Arabia. 2. (SBU) On July 14, the Saudi Foreign Ministry urgently contacted and delivered to the Ambassador the following official Saudi statement expressing its views on the situation in Palestine and [...] | 2006-07-14 00:19:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS KPAL KWBG SA |
06RIYADH5707 | SAUDI HUMAN RIGHTS SOCIETY CALLS FOR CLOSURE OF [...] (U) This is an action request. See Para 4. 2. (U) On July 15 and 16, several Saudi newspapers published a letter to President Bush from the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) calling for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. A member of the NSHR gave the Ambassador a [...] | 2006-07-18 07:30:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PHUM SA |
06RIYADH5904 | TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY IN THE EP: [...] (C) Opportunities abound in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province (EP) for ConGen Dhahran to expand its work with EP residents to help them transform Saudi Arabia's future. Since September 11, EP residents have claimed, and the SAG has tolerated, much greater latitude to discuss the country's and p [...] | 2006-07-25 08:50:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KDEM SA |
06RIYADH5907 | CROWN PRINCE SIGNS TWO DEFENSE AGREEMENTS IN [...] (C) Crown Prince Sultan, who is also the Saudi Minister of Defense and Aviation, reportedly signed two defense agreements with France during his July 20 visit to Paris. Media reports have suggested that these agreements could lead to Saudi purchase of French tanker aircraft, helicopters, and [...] | 2006-07-25 12:18:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | MARR MASS BEXP SA |
06RIYADH5952 | KING ABDULLAH AND PRESIDENT MUBARAK DISCUSS [...] (C) King Abdullah and Egyptian President Mubarak met July 25 to consult on the Lebanon crisis. Stating that Saudi Arabia and Egypt hold identical views on the situation in Lebanon, both leaders called for an immediate cease-fire, warning that continued Israeli aggression could engulf the entire reg [...] | 2006-07-26 14:00:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SENV LE SA |
06RIYADH6003 | SAUDI RED CRESCENT TO SEND HUMANITARIAN CONVOY TO [...] (U) NIACT precedence justified by urgent operational information and alternate work week. This message responds to Lebanon Task Force and Embassy Tel Aviv requests for assurances and information, to be shared with the IDF, concerning the planned travel of a Saudi relief convoy to Lebanon. [...] | 2006-07-29 13:52:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LE EAID SA |
06RIYADH6005 | SAG RESPONSE: NEW YORK FORCE GENERATION MEETING [...] (C) Ambassador spoke with Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal July 29 by telephone to discuss reftel demarche, which Post had earlier transmitted via diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Foreign Minister responded that the Saudis would not provide troops for peacekeeping effor [...] | 2006-07-29 15:20:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SA LE |
06RIYADH6038 | CONSERVATIVE SAUDI CLERICS DEBATE SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Last week, three revered Wahhabi sheikhs issued advisory opinions in their own capacity on the question of support for Hizballah. On July 17, prominent Wahhabi Sheikh Abdullah bin Jabreen issued an advisory opinion, reported as a fatwa declaring it impermissible for Muslims to s [...] | 2006-07-30 07:15:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA |
06RIYADH6153 | SAG STATEMENT TALKS OF UNIFYING ARAB POSITION [...] (S) SUMMARY: The SAG cabinet issued a statement on the Lebanese and Palestinian crisis July 31 following a meeting chaired by King Abdullah. The statement called for a joint Arab and Islamic stand against Israel and reiterated the need for an immediate cease fire. It also urged collaboration [...] | 2006-08-02 11:15:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PGOV PTER PREL LE SA |
06RIYADH6335 | TRIBAL LEADERS MAKE AMENDS THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Saudi press this week covered what is likely a regular, but nonetheless rarely reported event, the traditional process of reconciliation between two tribes engaged in a potentially violent dispute. Though such events are usually far from the local headlines and almost never the [...] | 2006-08-08 07:43:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA |
06RIYADH6339 | SAUDI CONSERVATIVES CALL FOR BOYCOTT ON US [...] (C) SUMMARY: Beginning July 31, two prominent conservative websites posted articles calling for a boycott on U.S. consumer goods and services, ranging from fast-food franchises to shampoo brands, to begin on August 4. There was already an ongoing cellular telephone text messaging campaign. [...] | 2006-08-08 13:44:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON ETRD SA LE |
06RIYADH6343 | SAUDI ACADEMIC WARNS THAT LEBANON FOMENTS EXTREMISM [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On August 6 a politically mainstream Saudi academic and journalist, Dr. Ali Sa'ad al-Musa, published an open letter to President Bush in the widely-read al-Watan newspaper, warning that he and millions of other moderates in the Middle East are becoming extremists as [...] | 2006-08-08 14:52:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SA |
06RIYADH6372 | SAUDI OPPOSITION GROUP CALLS FOR FRIDAY PROTESTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The London-based, Saudi opposition group accused of having links to al-Qaeda, the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia ('MIRA'),called for political gatherings to be held Kingdom-wide at 44 specified mosques beginning this Friday, August 11. MIRA, composed of religious conserva [...] | 2006-08-09 14:52:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA |
06RIYADH6440 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for a delegation led by Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt and Principal Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Ambassador James SIPDIS Jeffrey to visit the Kingdom August 14-15 to dis [...] | 2006-08-13 11:28:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ SA |
06RIYADH6467 | TERRORISM FINANCE: SAUDI RESPONSE OF IIRO'S [...] (C) Summary: As a result of the August 3 UN 1267 designation of Abd Al-Hamid Sulaiman Al-Mua'jjil (AKA Abdul Hamid Sulaiman Al-Mujil),the Saudi Arabian Government (SAG) has confirmed its prior actions to freeze his assets and restrict his travel. End Summary. 2. (S/NF) The Ministry of [...] | 2006-08-14 07:41:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN KTFN PTER PREL ETTC SA |
06RIYADH6472 | RENEWED STIRRINGS OF POLITICAL OPPOSITION ACTIVITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 9, Dr. Saad al-Faqih, leader of the London-based, Saudi opposition group, Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia (MIRA),called for Kingdom-wide political demonstrations to be held on Friday August 11 immediately prior to Friday prayers (Ref A). Al-Faqih, a Saudi dissid [...] | 2006-08-14 13:18:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PGOV PREL KISL SA |
06RIYADH6473 | RIYADH RECORD: JULY 30-AUGUST 4 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The SAG provided humanitarian assistance to victims of the crisis in Lebanon through air and land convoys as well as increased financial assistance. The Saudi public's discontent increased with the SAG's perceived support for U.S. policy in Lebanon, and protesters of U.S. suppor [...] | 2006-08-14 13:41:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SA |
06RIYADH6477 | WEBSITE REPORTS LEBANON CRISIS CAUSING SPLIT IN [...] (S) The Saudi website "Al-Haramayn," citing various media sources, has claimed that the SAG's reaction to the Lebanon crisis has sparked tension among senior members of the royal family. Specifically, it alleges the existence of a split between King Abdullah on the one hand, and Crown Prince [...] | 2006-08-14 14:33:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR SA |
06RIYADH6520 | ANTI-BUSH POEM EPITOMIZES CURRENT SAUDI PUBLIC MOOD [...] (C) BACKGROUND: Poetry runs in the blood of the Saudi people. They have historically utilized poetry to express public opinion over social, political, and cultural issues. They also use poetry to curry favor with their rulers, local and regional, as well as share their criticisms in an open forum. [...] | 2006-08-16 12:29:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SCUL SA |
06RIYADH6571 | SAUDI COUNCIL OF MINISTERS WARNS TERRORISM HAS NO [...] (C) Summary: A headline on the front page of the August 15 edition of the English language Arab News read, "Kingdom Warns Against Linking Islam With Fascism," referring directly to President Bush's August 11 statement on the foiled terrorist plot in the U.K. President Bush's comment, that th [...] | 2006-08-19 13:03:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA |
06RIYADH6574 | SAUDI COUNCIL OF MINISTERS WARNS TERRORISM HAS NO [...] (C) Summary: A headline on the front page of the August 15 edition of the English language Arab News read, "Kingdom Warns Against Linking Islam With Fascism," referring directly to President Bush's August 11 statement on the foiled terrorist plot in the U.K. The Arab News article reported th [...] | 2006-08-19 16:02:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR KISL SA |
06RIYADH6581 | TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF SAJID MOHAMED [...] (SBU) On May 30, 2006, Post received the following diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the addition of Sajid Mohamed Badat to the UN 1267 Sanctions list of individuals/entities associated with Usama bin Laden, the Taliban or Al Qaida. Complimentary opening -- T [...] | 2006-08-20 14:24:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN ETTC PTER CVIS KVPR SA |
06RIYADH6727 | THE YEAR IN REVIEW: KING ABDULLAH MARKS FIRST YEAR [...] (C) August 1 marked the one year anniversary of King Abdullah's ascension to the throne. The King has generated considerable popularity by delivering political, economic, and social programs intended to improve the welfare of Saudi citizens. Utilizing the windfall from surging oil prices, [...] | 2006-08-24 18:29:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER PINS PINR ECON EFIN ETRD |
06RIYADH6737 | RIYADH RECORD: AUGUST 5-11, 2006 [...] (C) SUMMARY: One hundred seventy Muslim scholars, including 29 Saudis, called for unity in the Islamic Nation and condemned the Israeli 'aggression' in Lebanon and Palestine. Saudi opposition activity continues to stir in the Diaspora with a revitalization of the London-based Movement for Is [...] | 2006-08-26 08:07:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR SA |
06RIYADH6813 | US/SAUDI REGULATORY TRAINING: SAUDI'S CAPITAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Saudi equivalent of our U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),the Capital Market Authority (CMA),is in its third year of existence, and focused on educating its young, technocratic Saudi workforce. The CMA's main goal for 2007 is to utilize U.S. schools and inst [...] | 2006-08-27 12:00:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ECIN PREL CVIS SA |
06RIYADH6814 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR SEC OFFICIALS TO [...] The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for Mr. Ethiopis Tafara, Dr. Robert M. Fisher, Mr. Timothy Warren and Mr. Ester Saverson Jr. for a training seminar for Saudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority from September 9-15, 2006. 2. Due to recent se [...] | 2006-08-27 12:00:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN OTRA SA SEC |
06RIYADH6818 | WEBSITE REPORTS MEETING OF THIRD GENERATION ROYALS [...] (C) A moderate Saudi-based and owned website reported on August 15 that Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz held a meeting with key princes of the royal family's third generation in his Riyadh palace earlier this month. Notable attendees were his son Prince al-Waleed, one of the wealthiest businessm [...] | 2006-08-27 15:19:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR SA |
06RIYADH6925 | RADIO SILENCE FROM NEW SAUDI OPPOSITION GROUP IN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Several media outlets reported a statement on August 7 issued by Prince Talal Muhammad Al-Rasheed, a deposed royal and Saudi dissident residing in Paris, which announced the formation of the Saudi Democratic Opposition Front. The group, which is reportedly both secular and triba [...] | 2006-08-30 10:29:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA |
06RIYADH6926 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL -- SAG SAYS SAME OLD, SAME [...] (C) Summary. Government of Saudi Arabia (SAG) MFA Human Rights POC Torki Al-Madi told Acting Political Counselor and PolOff during an August 16 courtesy call that the UN Human Rights Council is not an improvement on its predecessor, the UN Human Rights Commission, especially since the U.S. i [...] | 2006-08-30 11:12:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL SA |
06RIYADH6927 | AL-MUA'JJIL'S TRAVEL BAN IN FULL EFFECT & IIRO [...] (U) This is joint Riyadh and Consulate Dhahran cable. 2. (C) Summary: A press report and a Consulate visit to the closed offices of IIRO's Eastern Province Branch indicated that the Saudi Arabian Government (SAG) has kept its word on actions against recent designee, Abd Al-Hamid Sulaiman [...] | 2006-08-30 12:01:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN KFTN PREL PTER ETTC SA |
06RIYADH6933 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR U.S. TREASURY [...] The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for Mr. Ahmed Elbashari for an on-site review of Saudi Arabia's Financial Intelligence Unit from September 15-20, 2006. 2. Due to recent severe budget cuts, the Mission must direct charge all visit support [...] | 2006-08-31 11:52:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC EFIN PREL PTER KCRM ETTC KTFN SA |
06RIYADH6940 | KING ABDULLAH AND FOREIGN MINISTER PRESS COMMENTS [...] (S) SUMMARY. Recent statements to the press by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal appear to be a concerted effort by the SAG to address strong public criticism of its position on the Lebanon crisis and ties to the U.S., as well as accusat [...] | 2006-09-03 11:02:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER PINR KISL SA |
06RIYADH6976 | POLITICAL POETRY PRAISES HEZBOLLAH [...] (C) Al Hayat newspaper published on August 26 a political poem entitled "Lebanon," which was written by Dr. Ghazi Al-Qusaibee, Minister of Labor and key advisor to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah. Al-Qusaibee, a famous poet and writer in the Arab world, is commonly known as a [...] | 2006-09-04 06:38:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR KISL SA PHUM |
06RIYADH6980 | CONVERSATION WITH NEO-TRIBALIST WOMEN'S ACTIVIST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent media reporting about the rise in the number of official and unofficial female proselytizers in the Kingdom has generated much debate. The number of "unsanctioned" female preachers is increasing, and their lack of supervision by authorities breeds uncertainty about the me [...] | 2006-09-04 13:26:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PCUL PHUM KISL KWMN SA |
06RIYADH7 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD SEEKS POST-IRAQI ELECTIONS [...] (S/NF) Summary: U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Khalilzad met with King Abdullah, Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, and General Intelligence Presidency director Prince Muqrin bin Abd al-Aziz on December 27, to seek Saudi support in Iraq for building an Arab Sunni-Kurdish-Alawi coalition to engage the [...] | 2006-01-02 12:55:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER IZ SA |
06RIYADH7058 | TERRORIST FINANCE: SAG ON ABOUSOFIAN, YASSIN [...] (U) This contains an action request at paragraph 6. 2. (C) Summary: MFA's counselor for counterterrorism, Abdulrahman Al-Ahmed, told us August 29 that it will take appropriate action on the 1267 Designation of Abousofian Abdelrazik. He asked for updates on the closing of the IIRO branch [...] | 2006-09-06 07:10:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KFTN PREL PTER ETTC SA ID RP |
06RIYADH7097 | SAUDI REACTION TO SENTENCING OF HOMAIDAN AL-TURKI [...] (S/NF) The August 31, 2006, sentencing by a Colorado court of Homaidan Al-Turki to 28 years to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his Indonesian maid has provoked calls for a boycott of U.S. products and the return of Saudis studying in the U.S. Some Saudi contacts even fear that this [...] | 2006-09-10 11:29:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | AORC ELAB FBI KCRM PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SA |
06RIYADH7191 | RIYADH RECORD: AUGUST 19-31 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Youth summer camps in the Kingdom elicited controversy from one of their lectures on the negative aspects of the West and how Saudi journalists act as the West's "agents." The Ministry of Commerce licensed the first female engineer in Saudi Arabia; the hope is that many more wi [...] | 2006-09-12 13:44:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KWMN SA |
06RIYADH7211 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD - SUCCESSFUL 9/12 MEETING [...] (S/NF) BEGIN SUMMARY. Ambassador Oberwetter and Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad called on the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud on September 12 to seek support on a range of issues relating to Iraq. The King expressed his concern about Iranian influen [...] | 2006-09-16 09:43:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER KISL PINR SA |
06RIYADH7447 | RIYADH RECORD: SEPTEMBER 1-15 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Saudi Court of Grievances postponed a hearing on the novel "Girls of Riyadh" after the news of the proposed hearing sparked robust debate in the media. The proposal to shift the women's prayer area in Mecca has been rejected. The SAG demands clarification from the Vatican follo [...] | 2006-09-24 14:05:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KWMN KISL SA |
06RIYADH7501 | SAUDIS SHOW HIGH LEVEL OF INTEREST IN MEGAPORTS [...] (S) Summary and Comment: The SAG appears to be seriously considering implementing the Megaports Initiative (MI) to provide radiological/nuclear materials detection equipment in the Kingdom's two largest ports of Jeddah and Dammam. During their September 8-13 Megaports outreach visit to the Ki [...] | 2006-09-26 14:07:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | KNNP ENRG PARM OTRA PREL PGOV SA |
06RIYADH7629 | DRL DAS ERICA BARKS-RUGGLES DISCUSSES POLITICS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Erica Barks-Ruggles met with dozens of Saudi women representing a broad spectrum of opinions and backgrounds during her September 12-14 visit to Saudi Arabia. The Saudi women unanimously agreed that Saudi [...] | 2006-09-28 15:24:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KWMN SA |
06RIYADH7834 | TERRORISM FINANCE: TALIBAN [...] (S/NF) Post has reviewed the draft strategy to counter both Taliban and funding sources outside of Afghanistan and the mechanisms used to transfer the funds into Afghanistan. Post is aware of donors located in the Kingdom who contribute to the Taliban, however Post has no evidence of deep-pock [...] | 2006-10-04 11:27:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC SA AF XF |
06RIYADH7837 | SAUDI ARABIA OFFERS POSITION PAPER ON THE PEACE [...] (C) During Secretary Rice's October 2 visit to Jeddah, Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal provided the following position paper on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process to NEA Assistant Secretary Welch. 2. (C) Begin Text: Position Paper On the Peace Process October 2006 The danger [...] | 2006-10-04 16:29:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS SA |
06RIYADH7838 | USG ASSESSMENTS OF TERRORIST/INSURGENT FINANCE [...] (C) INTRODUCTION: This cable provides the assessment of Embassy Riyadh's country team of the terrorist/insurgent financing environment in Saudi Arabia. As instructed in reftel, post's response is divided into separate sections providing background information on the terrorist/insurgent operat [...] | 2006-10-05 14:06:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN PREL PTER KTFN ETTC SA IZ |
06RIYADH7987 | RIYADH RECORD: SEPTEMBER 16-30 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The case against the controversial novel "Girls of Riyadh" has been dismissed. The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice met for three-days, rejecting alleged calls from the West to dismantle the organization. The Ministries of Interior and Foreign Affai [...] | 2006-10-10 14:14:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PGOV PREL KWMN KISL SA |
06RIYADH7990 | IRAQI DELEGATION VISITS KSA TO DISCUSS IRAQ [...] The Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Finance confirmed to us on October 9 that an Iraqi technical delegation came to Saudi Arabia on October 7 to discuss Iraqi debt to Saudi Arabia. 2. According to Deputy Minister of Finance Al-Bazi'y, three Iraqi delegates from the Ministry of Finance v [...] | 2006-10-11 10:47:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN ECON IZ SA |
06RIYADH8003 | WAMY SECRETARY-GENERAL PREACHES NEED FOR INCREASED [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) Secretary-General Dr. Saleh al-Wohaibi told PolOffs in an SIPDIS August 27 meeting that, despite negative publicity surrounding Islamic charities, WAMY has nothing to hide. Al-Wohaibi talked about WAMY's international programs, but focu [...] | 2006-10-11 16:03:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PGOV PINR PREL PTER EFIN KTFN ETTC KISL SA |
06RIYADH82 | AL-HASA BUSINESSMEN SEEKING GREATER INVESTMENT, [...] (SBU) Businessmen in Al-Hasa, a governorate in the Eastern Province (EP) that comprises a large oasis and extensive, oil-rich desert areas, told Acting CG and PolOff repeatedly over the course of a day-long visit on December 27 that Al-Hasa needs new investment, especially in infrastructure. [...] | 2006-01-04 15:35:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV EINV SA |
06RIYADH8233 | USG DISCUSSION WITH MINISTER OF COMMERCE [...] (C) Summary: On 20 September 2006, Ambassador James Oberwetter, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Trade and Director General of the U.S. Commercial Service (DG),Israel Hernandez, and Commercial Counselor, Nasir Abbasi met with Saudi Minister of Commerce and Industry, Hashim [...] | 2006-10-16 07:10:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON KIPR SA |
06RIYADH8234 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVOCACY LETTER DELIVERED TO KING [...] (C) Summary: On September 19, Department of Commerce Assistant Secretary for Trade Promotion, Israel Hernandez, delivered the President's letter advocating for two U.S. companies, Boeing and General Electric (GE),bid for the upgrade of Saudi Arabian Airline (Saudia) and the Royal fleet, to [...] | 2006-10-16 07:14:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR ETRD BEXP PREL PTER MOPS SA |
06RIYADH8252 | SAUDI ARAMCO TRIMS CRUDE ALLOCATIONS AS IT CUTS PRODUCTION [...] (S) Saudi Aramco has cut some allocations to major oil company customers, per a contact in a position to know who has reported consistently and reliably in the past. For November, Aramco has provided crude allocations to customers consistent with an approximate five percent reduction in pro [...] | 2006-10-16 15:46:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | NOTAG SA |
06RIYADH8253 | ARABIAN CHEVRON,S VIEWS ON THE REFINERY DISPUTE [...] (C) This is a response to an action request, Ref B, for additional background for a 17 October meeting between P and Chevron CEO Reilly regarding a SAG disagreement with Kuwaiti plans to construct a refinery in the Partitioned Neutral Zone (PNZ) shared by the two countries. Executives from A [...] | 2006-10-16 16:03:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV PREL KU SA |
06RIYADH8314 | TERRORISM FINANCE: UNSC 1267 DESIGNEE, SULIMAN [...] (U) United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1267 Designee, Suliman H. Al-Buthe (aka Solaiman Al-Buthi) was featured in an article published in the Saudi Gazette, a mainstream Saudi publication censored by the Saudi Arabian Government (SAG). Al-Buthe, the Assistant General Manager [...] | 2006-10-17 15:34:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC PREL SA |
06RIYADH8384 | TERRORISM FINANCE: POST REPONSE ON SOUTH AFRICAN [...] (S/NF) Mission Saudi Arabia has information linking the proposed South African designees to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. However, there are no special sensitivities regarding these proposed designees. We believe Saudi Arabia will take the necessary actions, once the UN 1267 Committee adopts [...] | 2006-10-18 13:56:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC SF PK SA |
06RIYADH8395 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FRANCES FRAGOS [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT),Homeland Security Council, Ms. Frances Fragos Townsend; Senior Director for Combating Terrorism Strategy, National Security [...] | 2006-10-21 10:37:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC PREL PGOV ECON SA |
06RIYADH8401 | THE SAUDI FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT I: STAB AT [...] (U) Summary: From September 16-19, Ahmed Elbashari, representative of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN),and EconOff, met with senior management of the Saudi Arabia Financial Investigation Unit (SA FIU) to conduct a final on-site assessment [...] | 2006-10-22 09:56:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC SA |
06RIYADH8404 | THE SAUDI FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT II: POWER [...] (U) Summary: From September 16-19, Ahmed Elbashari, representative of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN),and EconOff, met with senior management of the Saudi Arabia Financial Investigation Unit (SA FIU) to assess the SA FIU for membership in [...] | 2006-10-22 11:25:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC SA |
06RIYADH8406 | THE SAUDI FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT III: [...] (U) Summary: From September 16-19, Ahmed Elbashari, representative of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN),and EconOff, met with senior management of the Saudi Arabia Financial Investigation Unit (SA FIU) to assess the SA FIU for membership in [...] | 2006-10-22 11:32:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC SA |
06RIYADH8407 | THE SAUDI FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT IV: [...] (U) Summary: From September 16-19, Ahmed Elbashari, representative of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN),and EconOff, met with senior management of the Saudi Arabia Financial Investigation Unit (SA FIU) to assess the SA FIU for membership in [...] | 2006-10-22 11:36:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC SA |
06RIYADH8415 | SCENESETTER: APHSCT TOWNSEND VISIT TO SAUDI [...] (S) Ambassador Oberwetter and the entire US Mission in Saudi Arabia warmly welcomes your visit to Riyadh. Your visit to the Kingdom comes in the general context of improving U.S.- SAG relations. Saudi leaders have warmly welcomed a large number of senior USG visitors recently, and have confi [...] | 2006-10-24 20:14:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC CVIS PGOV PREL SA |
06RIYADH8416 | SCENESETTER: APHSCT TOWNSEND VISIT TO SAUDI [...] (S) Ambassador Oberwetter and the entire US Mission in Saudi Arabia warmly welcomes your visit to Riyadh. Your visit to the Kingdom comes in the general context of improving U.S.- SAG relations. Saudi leaders have warmly welcomed a large number of senior USG visitors recently, and have confi [...] | 2006-10-24 20:15:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC CVIS PGOV PREL SA |
06RIYADH8432 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR SECRET SERVICE [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for U.S. Secret Service Special Agents: Advance Team Christopher Caruso, Faisal Alshami and Ross Yerger; midnight shift team Gillian Penswick and Scott Keenan; and working shift James Brian Dunlop, Andrew Ad [...] | 2006-10-28 13:28:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER EFIN KTFN ETTC PREL SA |
06RIYADH8492 | REVISED COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FRANCES [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT),Homeland Security Council, Ms. Frances Fragos Townsend; Director for Combating Terrorism Strategy, National Security Counci [...] | 2006-10-29 12:31:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC ECON SA |
06RIYADH8634 | CONCURRENCE - NON-PRO COURIER TO/FROM RIYADH O/A [...] (S) CHIEF OF MISSION RIYADH HAS BEEN BRIEFED AND APPROVES JOHN H. BURNS JR, OFFICIAL PASSPORT NUMBER 802064694, AS A NON-PROFESSIONAL COURIER. HIS ARRIVAL HAS BEEN COORDINATED AT POST. CHIEF OF MISSION AUTHORIZES THE TRANSPORT OF CLASSIFIED MATERIAL IN DIPLOMATIC POUCH 2. (U) THE EMBASSY [...] | 2006-11-01 14:08:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | ADEP ASEC PTER |
06RIYADH8723 | RIYADH RECORD: OCTOBER 16-31 (C-NE6-01865) [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi religious leaders signed the Makkah Declaration on October 20, which forbids Sunnis and Shi'a from killing each other. King Abdullah issued a new succession law on October 20, which formalizes the succession process through the establishment of the Allegiance Committee. P [...] | 2006-11-06 13:05:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR KISL KWMN SA |
06RIYADH8787 | SAUDI ARABIA RESPONSE TO WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT [...] (U) Post delivered reftel Fact Sheet on Summary Recommendations of the Women's Empowerment Working Session to Talal Barri at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 6. He indicated interest in the follow up activities to the Working Session. Post also delivered reftel Fact Sheet via dip [...] | 2006-11-07 12:52:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KWMN UNGA SA |
06RIYADH8808 | UPDATE ON HADI AL-MUTIF [...] (S) PolOffs met on November 6 with Human Rights First Society (HRFS) President Ibrahim Al-Mugaiteeb to discuss the October 31 and November 1 visit of King Abdullah to Najran and his pardon of Ismaili prisoners, ostensibly including Hadi Al-Mutif. Al-Mugaiteeb said that Al-Mutif has not been [...] | 2006-11-08 14:48:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PHUM PGOV PREL KISL KIRF SA |
06RIYADH8811 | UNPRECEDENTED MEETING BETWEEN USG AND SAG ON [...] (S/NF) In light of recent threats to petroleum infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, on 31 October Vice Admiral Walsh, Commander U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/Commander, U.S. Fifth Fleet, and Dhahran Consul General Kincannon met Saudi Arabian representatives from the Royal Saudi Naval Forces [...] | 2006-11-12 04:38:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC EPET PTER ENERG SA |
06RIYADH8813 | UNPRECEDENTED MEETING BETWEEN USG AND SAG ON [...] (S/NF) In light of recent threats to petroleum infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, on 31 October Vice Admiral Walsh, Commander U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/Commander, U.S. Fifth Fleet, and Dhahran Consul General Kincannon met Saudi Arabian representatives from the Royal Saudi Naval Forces [...] | 2006-11-12 04:41:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | EPET ENERG PTER SA |
06RIYADH8815 | PETITION SUPPORTS MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Culture and Information received a petition signed by 160 reform-minded scholars supporting Minister of Information Iyad bin Amin Madany. The signatories constituted a broad cross-section of Saudi society, including men and women, Sunni and Shi'a. The statement [...] | 2006-11-12 10:56:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR PKISL SA |
06RIYADH8825 | TERRORISM FINANCE: POST'S RESPONSE ON THE RADICAL [...] (S/NF) Mission Saudi Arabia supports the aim of the Radical Ideologue Initiative to sanction individuals and entities that provide both monetary/material support and ideological support to terror organizations (ref a). This initiative underlines the international community's need to counter t [...] | 2006-11-13 06:33:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL ETTC SA |
06RIYADH8826 | TERRORISM FINANCE: POST'S RESPONSE ON THE RADICAL [...] (S/NF) Mission Saudi Arabia supports the aim of the Radical Ideologue Initiative to sanction individuals and entities that provide both monetary/material support and ideological support to terror organizations (ref a). This initiative underlines the international community's need to counter t [...] | 2006-11-13 06:33:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL ETTC SA |
06RIYADH8835 | FACILITATING GREATER SAG ENGAGEMENT ON IRAQ - A [...] (S) This constitutes Post's response to Ref A. The situation in Iraq remains of great concern to Saudis across the political, economic, and social spectrum. The press reported on November 13 that Saudi Minister of Interior Prince Naif called Iraq a "major base for terrorism," adding that the [...] | 2006-11-13 13:34:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR ECON IZ SA |
06RIYADH8836 | SAUDIS BOLSTER TROOP NUMBERS FOR ENERGY SECURITY, [...] (S/NF) In a series of meetings with the Saudi Ministry of Interior (MOI) from November 10-11, a joint State/Energy visiting delegation learned that the Saudis have made progress in improving security at critical energy facilities. A force of more than 35,000 soldiers, temporarily drawn from [...] | 2006-11-13 13:46:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC ENRG EPET PGOV PINR PREL PTER SA |
06RIYADH8840 | DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES MEETING WITH SAUDI MFA, MOJ, [...] (C) Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Erica Barks-Ruggles met on September 12-13 with the Majlis Al-Shoura (MAS) and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Justice (MoJ). These meetings were follow-up to the July 25 - 27, 2006, meeting of [...] | 2006-11-14 05:34:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KDEM OTRA PINR SA |
06RIYADH8841 | DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES MEETING WITH SAUDI HUMAN [...] (SBU) DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles met the National Society for Human Rights, the Human Rights Commission, and the Human Rights First Society during her September 12-14 visit to Riyadh. Participants in all three meetings raised U.S. treatment of Homaidan Al-Turki (reftel)and Guantanamo Bay deta [...] | 2006-11-14 05:34:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM OTRA PGOV PHUM SA |
06RIYADH8858 | SCENESETTER: APHSCT TOWNSEND VISIT TO SAUDI [...] (S) Ambassador Oberwetter and the entire US Mission in Saudi Arabia warmly welcomes your visit to Riyadh. Your visit to the Kingdom comes in the general context of improving U.S.- SAG relations. Saudi leaders have warmly welcomed a large number of senior USG visitors recently, and have confi [...] | 2006-11-15 11:39:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC CVIS PGOV PREL SA |
06RIYADH8860 | SAUDI MFA DEMARCHED ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS, CPC [...] (C) Deputy PolCouns demarched Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of International Organizations, human rights lead, Abdulrahman Al-Rassj, on November 15 regarding Afghan Hajj flights (Ref A),Saudi Arabia's November 13 redesignation as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) (Ref B),and UN [...] | 2006-11-15 16:09:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL EAIR ECON KIRF UNHRC AF SA |
06RIYADH8861 | SAUDI ARABIA WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE MATHESON [...] MFA human rights point of contact Talal Berri told PolOff on November 15 that the SAG will support U.S. candidate Matheson for re-election to the UN International Law Commission (reftel). OBERWETTER [...] | 2006-11-15 16:19:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | ILC UNGA PGOV PHUM PREL SA |
06RIYADH8900 | A SAUDI'S VIEWS ON THE U.S. AND RULE OF LAW IN KSA [...] (S) Echoing several other commentators and analyses, Saudi commercial lawyer and diplomat Dr. Waleed Nasser Al-Nuwaiser (strictly protect) told PolOff on November 8 that the heart of most problems in Saudi Arabia is the absence of rule of law. He stressed that the USG should emphasize the n [...] | 2006-11-21 07:27:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PHUM PGOV KISL EPET SA IZ |
06RIYADH8921 | THE NEW SUCCESSION LAW PRESERVES THE MONARCHY [...] (C) SUMMARY: A SUCCESSION STRUGGLE AMONG THE AL SAUD FAMILY HAS LONG BEEN ONE OF THE GREATEST THREATS TO SAUDI ARABIA'S STABILITY. THE FIRST TWO SAUDI STATES COLLAPSED PARTIALLY AS A RESULT OF SUCCESSION PROBLEMS. FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF KING ABDULAZIZ IN 1953, A FIERCE POWER STRUGGLE AMON [...] | 2006-11-22 04:02:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR SA |
06RIYADH8926 | TRANSLATED TEXT OF NEW SAUDI SUCCESSION LAW [...] (U) KING ABDULLAH ISSUED A NEW SUCCESSION LAW ON OCTOBER 20 TO FORMALIZE THE PROCESS OF SELECTING A CROWN PRINCE THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ALLEGIANCE COMMISSION (REFTEL). THE BASIC LAW OF 1992 -- ESSENTIALLY THE CONSTITUTION -- WAS AMENDED TO REFLECT THE ESTABLISHMENT AND AUTHORITY OF [...] | 2006-11-22 15:04:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR SA |
06RIYADH8987 | THE SAUDI ARABIAN FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT'S [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 6 and 9. 2. (U) Summary. EconOff met with the Saudi Arabian Financial Intelligence Unit (SA FIU) on November 5 and December 4, 2006 to discuss the status of their Egmont application and technical assistance. In attendance at the m [...] | 2006-12-04 12:50:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN PTER EFIN ETTC SA |
06RIYADH8989 | MOI UNDERSCORES NEED FOR BROAD AND FLEXIBLE ENERGY [...] (S) Economic Counselor Silverman and Energy Attache Ross met with Dr. Saad al-Jabri, Advisor to the Assistant Minister of Interior, on November 26 to discuss the draft Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on cooperation to improve security at critical infrastructure facilities. Dr. al-Jabri und [...] | 2006-12-04 13:38:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | EPET PGOV PINR PREL PTER SA |
06RIYADH8990 | MOI UNDERSCORES NEED FOR BROAD AND FLEXIBLE ENERGY [...] (S) Economic Counselor Silverman and Energy Attache Ross met with Dr. Saad al-Jabri, Advisor to the Assistant Minister of Interior, on November 26 to discuss the draft Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on cooperation to improve security at critical infrastructure facilities. Dr. al-Jabri und [...] | 2006-12-04 14:35:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | EPET PGOV PINR PREL PTER SA |
06RIYADH9 | SAUDI VIEWS ON IRANIAN AND SYRIAN ACTIVITIES IN [...] (S/NF) Summary: Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal and General Intelligence Presidency (GIP) director Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz sought and shared views on Iran and Syria during a December 27 meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Khalilzad. They told the Ambassador that while it was possible t [...] | 2006-01-02 14:10:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER PINR IR SA SY IZ |
06RIYADH9031 | COLORADO ATTORNEY GENERAL MEETS WITH SAG REGARDING [...] (C) SUMMARY: At Post's invitation, Colorado Attorney General (AG) John Suthers visited the Kingdom from November 14-17 to explain the Homaidan Al-Turki case to King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Saudi government officials, and the Al-Turki family. The very successful visit highlighted the [...] | 2006-12-09 14:47:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KPAO PINR KISL SA |
06RIYADH9056 | THE CAPITAL MARKET AUTHORITY'S NEED FOR ASSISTANCE [...] (U) Summary. From September 11-14, experts from the U.S. Securities and Exchange (SEC) provided a three-day technical assistance seminar on market oversight and enforcement strategies to Saudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority (CMA). The CMA freely shared information and actively engaged wit [...] | 2006-12-12 10:01:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON SA |
06RIYADH9065 | TERRORIST LISTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-13 05:34:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN PTER ETTC EFIN SA |
06RIYADH9066 | TERRORISM FINANCE: SAG'S RESPONSE TO ABOUSOFIAN [...] (SBU) On December 4, Post received the following diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the addition of Abousofian Abdelrazik (AKA Abu Sufian Abdulraziq) to the UN 1267 Sanctions list of individuals/entities associated with Usama bin Laden, the Taliban or Al Qaida. [...] | 2006-12-13 07:30:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN ETTC PTER SA |
06RIYADH9067 | SAUDI ARABIA'S WAR ON TERROR -- NOT OVER YET [...] (C) While the SAG continues to make progress on its counterterrorism efforts (Ref A),recent events in the Kingdom clearly illustrate that the war on terror is far from over. On December 7, armed men opened fire on a guard post at Jeddah's maximum-security Al-Ruwais prison, killing two secur [...] | 2006-12-13 11:31:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA |
06RIYADH9068 | THE REHABILITATION OF KING SAUD AND HIS TRIBAL [...] (C) Saud bin Abudulaziz was the eldest surviving son of the Kingdom's founder Abudulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al Saud. He became Crown Prince and Viceroy of the Nejd in 1933. Upon his father's death in 1953, he became King. He was deposed by his brothers in 1964 and died in exile a few years lat [...] | 2006-12-13 13:01:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA IZ |
06RIYADH9078 | APHSCT TOWNSEND'S NOVEMBER 15 MEETING WITH SAUDI [...] (S/NF) Summary: In a meeting with Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT) Frances Fragos Townsend at his farm outside Riyadh November 15, the King focused on the multiple threats from Iran. He said he had sent strong messages to President Putin and Presi [...] | 2006-12-13 15:21:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER ECON IR SA |
06RIYADH9079 | APHSCT TOWNSEND NOVEMBER 15 MEETING WITH SAUDI [...] (C) Summary: On November 15, 2006, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT) Frances Fragos Townsend met with SAG Islamic Affairs Minister Sheikh Saleh bin Abdul Aziz bin Mohammed Al al-Sheikh to discuss SAG re-education of imams and mosque speakers bot [...] | 2006-12-13 15:22:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KISL KIRF PREL PTER SA |
06RIYADH9083 | APHSCT TOWNSEND NOVEMBER 15 MEETING WITH CROWN [...] (S) Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT) Fran Townsend met on November 15 with Crown Prince Sultan, who immediately steered the conversation to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. He noted the ongoing violence and raised the Arab Peace Plan proposed by [...] | 2006-12-14 13:34:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV EFIN KTFN SA |
06RIYADH9085 | DHAHRAN DIGEST 8 [...] (U) This cable is a continuation of a regular series of updates from the Eastern Province (EP) designed to capture some of the EP's local color and items of USG interest that are not necessarily appropriate for a topical cable. ---------------------------------------- PRINCE MOHAMMED BIN FA [...] | 2006-12-15 09:06:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET KIRF PA PGOV PHUM PREL SA |
06RIYADH9089 | APHSCT TOWNSEND NOVEMBER 15 MEETING WITH CROWN [...] (S) Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT) Fran Townsend met on November 15 with Crown Prince Sultan, who immediately steered the conversation to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. He noted the ongoing violence and raised the Arab Peace Plan proposed by [...] | 2006-12-16 07:50:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV EFIN KTFN SA |
06RIYADH9093 | APHSCT TOWNSEND'S NOVEMBER 15 MEETING WITH SAUDI [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-16 13:25:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER ECON IR SA |
06RIYADH9095 | xxxxxxxxxxxx ON IRANIAN THREATS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-16 14:18:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL EFIN PTER IZ IR SA |
06RIYADH9106 | PLANS FOR THE FEBRUARY JOINT WORKING GROUP ON [...] (S) On 16 December, Economic Counselor Silverman and Energy Attache Ross met with Dr. Saud al-Semari, Director of the Ministry of Interior's (MOI) modernization program, and Khaled al-Ageel, Manager of the MOI's Industrial Security Directorate, to discuss plans for a February 2007 meeting of [...] | 2006-12-18 13:44:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | EPET PGOV PREL PTER SA |
06RIYADH9173 | ENTHUSIASTIC SHOURA COUNCIL ASKS SENATOR NELSON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Enthusiastic Majlis Al Shoura members acknowledged the positive U.S. - Saudi bilateral relationship but asked Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) during a meeting on December 17 for increased engagement by members of Congress with the Council. Meeting participants agreed that any enhance [...] | 2006-12-26 11:54:00 | Embassy Riyadh | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KISL IZ SA |
06RIYADH9174 | CROWN PRINCE REITERATES SAUDI NONINTERFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-26 11:54:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR KISL IZ SA |
06RIYADH9175 | SAUDI MOI HEAD SAYS IF U.S. LEAVES IRAQ, SAUDI [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-26 11:54:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR PTER KISL IZ SA |
06RIYADH9179 | DEPUTY MOI TO SENATOR NELSON:THE KEY TO WINNING [...] (S) SUMMARY. Deputy Minister of Interior Mohamed bin Naif told Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) that the key to winning the war on terror is defeating the terrorists' ideology. He echoed the senator's other interlocutors in supporting Iraqi unity and the SAG's noninterference policy. The Deputy M [...] | 2006-12-26 12:18:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KISL IZ SA |
06RIYADH9183 | TERRORISM FINANCE: SAG'S RESPONSE TO UN 1267 [...] (SBU) On December 4, Post received the following diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the addition of twenty names to the UN 1267 Sanctions list of individuals/entities associated with Usama bin Laden, the Taliban or Al Qaeda. Complimentary opening -- The Minist [...] | 2006-12-26 13:35:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN ETTC PTER SA |
06ROME1025 | ITALY'S FLEDGLING ISLAMIC CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: Interior Minister Pisanu's hand-picked Muslim Consultative Council continues to be controversial after its first two meetings. Criticism by both the right-wing Northern League Party and some members of the Muslim community convinced Pisanu to cancel the next meeting until afte [...] | 2006-04-05 08:49:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PREL PGOV PTER IT HUMAN RIGHTS |
06ROME2061 | ISRAEL SEES IMPROVEMENT ON THE ITALIAN LEFT [...] (C/NF) Summary. Israel sees an improving attitude by much of the Italian left toward Israel, according to an Israeli Embassy official in Rome. In a July 18 address to Parliament, FM D'Alema said Israel's reaction to Hezbollah in Lebanon was legitimate, but "went beyond all reasonable proport [...] | 2006-07-19 13:59:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR LE IS IT PGOV |
06ROME2335 | LEBANON: ITALY READY TO HELP WITH TROOPS, BRIDGE [...] (S) Italy is prepared to deploy up to 1,000 troops quickly to UNIFIL and up to 3,000 overall. The Foreign Minister told NEA A/S Welch the cabinet unanimously approved Italy's participation in UNIFIL during its August 18 meeting. Italy is persuaded, based on its own high-level consultations wi [...] | 2006-08-18 17:34:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS EAID PHUM IS LE IT |
06ROME263 | INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] Summary. Italy continues to court foreign investors by actively seeking to implement the 2003 legal reforms designed to lift the Italian economy out of its malaise. In 2003 Italy successfully reformed its civil code and made important modifications to its Unified Rules on Financial Intermed [...] | 2006-01-30 08:52:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV IT OPIC USTR |
06ROME2984 | ITALY SEES NK UNSCR POSSIBLE PRELUDE TO UNSC [...] (C) SUMMARY. Senator Gordon Smith met with MFA Political Affairs Director General Terzi October 16. The Italians noted the UNSCR on North Korea, though not as robust as ideally desired, left hope the UNSC might reach similar consensus on Iran. Terzi stressed the goal of UNSC action must be [...] | 2006-10-27 16:28:00 | Embassy Rome | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL IT IZ LE NP XF IR UN KNNP |
06ROME465 | UN REFORM: INDEPENDENT EXTERNAL EVALUATION OF [...] (U) Summary: A Committee of the FAO Council charged with oversight of the comprehensive Independent External Evaluation (IEE) of FAO has just approved the selection of a high-caliber core team of evaluators and decided that the IEE would formally begin on March 13, subject to firm assurance [...] | 2006-02-15 16:53:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAGR EAID KUNR FAO |
06ROME834 | SCENESETTER FOR EUR DAS BRYZA'S MARCH 17 VISIT TO [...] (C) Embassy Rome welcomes the visit of EUR DAS Matthew Bryza to Rome March 17. DAS Bryza's visit comes in the midst of a natural gas shortage here in Italy that has caused gas delivery interruptions to industrial customers and highlighted the inadequacies of Italy's energy infrastructure; an [...] | 2006-03-16 13:14:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD IT |
06SANAA1343 | YEMEN IMPLEMENTATION OF BOYCOTT STATUTES [...] In response to the Department's request for updated information on Republic of Yemen (ROYG) adherence to the Arab League Boycott of Israel, post conducted a review of ROYG enforcement and compliance practices in place regarding the boycott. The results of that review are as follows, and are ke [...] | 2006-05-16 12:12:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | KBCT ABLD PHUM |
06SANAA1833 | YEMENIS TELL GEN ABIZAID ABOUT IRANIAN [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: President Saleh and Minister of Interior Rashad al-Alimi told CENTCOM Commander GEN John Abizaid on June 18 that, while Iran's Revolutionary Guards have been active in Yemen since 1983, their recent support for insurgents in Yemen's Saada region was unacceptable and, along wi [...] | 2006-06-24 13:16:00 | Embassy Sanaa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MNUC PINR IR YE |
06SANAA2255 | SANAA ATMOSPHERICS: LOCAL IMAMS CALL FOR JIHAD, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 30, President Saleh suggested in a televised interview with Al-Jazeera that Yemen and other Muslim countries should send volunteer fighters, as well as financial and material support, to the "resistance" against Israel in Lebanon and Palestine. Average Yemenis were stron [...] | 2006-08-07 08:41:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER EPET PINR KPAL KISL YM |
06SANAA330 | OPPOSITION TESTS LIMITS OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Parliament is preparing for its next session with a highly anticipated leadership race. Sheikh Abdullah al-Ahmar is widely expected to win re-election as Speaker, but reformers are looking to defeat President Saleh's candidates for the Deputy positions. Such a rebellion could r [...] | 2006-02-11 12:36:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM KMPI YM DOMESTIC POLITICS |
06SANAA348 | MEDIA REACTION - CARICATURES OF [...] SUMMARY. Recent caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, which appeared in European newspapers, have angered Yemenis, who have responded with protests, boycotts, and calls for diplomatic measures. Yemeni protests, however, have been peaceful. END SUMMARY. 2. EDITORIAL COMMENTARY: A. O [...] | 2006-02-13 07:36:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM KMPI PGOV PHUM PREL YM |
06SANAA3618 | AMBASSADOR AND FONMIN DISCUSS ZINDANI, KIDNAPPINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 2 meeting, FonMin Abubakr al-Qirbi told Ambassador that the ROYG had made a conscious decision to include UN-designated terrorist financier Abdul Majid Zindani in its official delegation to the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting in Saudi Arabia, claimin [...] | 2006-01-03 09:32:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER YE COUNTER TERRORISM TERFIN |
06SANAA392 | SALEH ASSERTS CONTROL OVER PARLIAMENT: LEADERSHIP [...] (C) After months of maneuvering by reform-minded parliamentarians, President Saleh drew a line in the sand on February 15 and demanded loyalty. MPs re-elected Sheikh Abdullah al-Ahmar to a two-year term as Speaker with 240 yes votes and 12 blank ballots, and re-elected all three Deputy Spea [...] | 2006-02-15 13:06:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM YM DOMESTIC POLITICS |
06SANAA91 | AMBASSADOR DELIVERS ZINDANI DEMARCHE TO FONMIN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-18 12:56:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EFIN ETTC SA YM DEMARCHE TERFIN |
06SANAA954 | CORRUPTION KEEPS UNITEL ON TOP IN GSM TENDER [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 3, DCM met with Deputy Minister of Telecommunications, Abdullah Al-Hamami, to discuss the status of the ongoing GSM tender drama. (Ref A) In a candid discussion, the Deputy Minister stated that the law requires that the GSM license go to Unitel or to no one, despite Unit [...] | 2006-04-09 10:17:00 | Embassy Sanaa | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECPS EINV KMPI PGOV PINR YM |
06SANTIAGO664 | MEDIA REACTION - HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-30 19:02:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO PHUM CI |
06SAOPAULO1234 | MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: SOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA [...] "In Bad Company" Liberal, largest circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo editorialized (12/3): "Third world leaning is an aspect that the Lula administration's foreign policy explores ad nauseam. It is part of the rational with which the administration feeds ideological groups as a way to symbo [...] | 2006-12-04 12:30:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO1248 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ STUDY GROUP REPORT; WESTERN [...] "Exit Door" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo editorialized (12/10): "The Iraq Study Group report clearly says that the situation is bad and that there is not much one can do to improve it.... The document is an opportunity for the White House to change the focus [...] | 2006-12-11 12:21:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO545 | MEDIA REACTION: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL; WESTERN [...] "Provincial Machiavellis" International affairs analyst Demetrio Magnoli commented in liberal Folha de S. Paulo (5/18): "The good news is that Brazil was the nation that received more votes among those who will represent Latin America in the recently created UN Human Rights Council. The bad [...] | 2006-05-18 14:55:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO556 | MEDIA REACTION: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL; SAO PAULO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-19 18:18:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO649 | MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, US TALKS OFFER, NUCLEAR PROGRAM; SAO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-08 18:32:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR |
06SARAJEVO1852 | BOSNIA - OPERATION STORM STIRS UP A TEMPEST [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The airing of two videos allegedly documenting war crimes committed against Serbs during Operation Storm in 1995 has set off a political firestorm in Bosnia. The intensity of the political firestorm has been fueled in part by Serb accusations against a prominent Bosniak war he [...] | 2006-08-14 09:54:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KAWC KJUS PGOV PINR PREL |
06SEOUL2392 | "YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY BABY:" THE RISING STATUS [...] (U) Korean women are better educated then ever before and are working in greater numbers outside the home, joining management, becoming professionals, and entering politics. The entry of women into the public arena suggests that the ROK is slowly breaking away from its Confucian male-centered [...] | 2006-07-18 08:09:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI ECON PGOV PREL KS |
06SEOUL3858 | IRAQ DEPUTY COORDINATOR STEPHENSON VISIT TO SEOUL: [...] (C) A U.S. delegation headed by Barbara Stephenson, Deputy Coordinator for Iraq (S/I),visited Seoul November 2-3 to express appreciation for the important role South Korea has played in Iraq, discuss plans for troops, and thank the ROKG for its willingness to lead a Regional Reconstruction T [...] | 2006-11-08 09:02:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PARM PREL IZ KS |
06SINGAPORE1467 | C-NE6-00584 SINGAPORE HOSTS SAUDI CROWN PRINCE [...] (U) Summary: As part of its effort to promote business ties with the Middle East, Singapore hosted Saudi Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud and a high-level Saudi delegation April 10-15, 2006. During the six-day visit, the two nations signed an investment guarantee agreement and a mem [...] | 2006-05-05 09:37:00 | Embassy Singapore | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD KISL PREL SA SN |
06STATE196230 | IRAQ STUDY GROUP REPORT GUIDANCE [...] This cable provides initial guidance for posts to use in responding to inquiries about the report of the Iraq Study Group, led by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and former Representative Lee Hamilton. 2. BACKGROUND: The Iraq Study Group (ISG) was created on March 15, 2006 at t [...] | 2006-12-07 02:56:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ IR SY XF |
06STATE25359 | NON-PAPER ON REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC HERITAGE SOCIETY [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraphs four and five. 2. (S) The Department is concerned about reports in other channels that link several foreign branches of the Kuwaiti NGO, Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) to terrorist organizations. The Department requests that [...] | 2006-02-16 03:47:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | KTFN PGOV PTER KU |
06STATE86446 | DEMARCHE: ATTENDING IRAN-HOSTED CONFERENCE OF [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) Summary and Action request. Iran plans to host an "Iraq and its Neighbors" conference - to include Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, and Bahrain, as well as a UNAMI representative - proposed May 31- [...] | 2006-05-26 23:26:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
06STATE93016 | (U) ISLAMIC FINANCE (C-TN6-00207) [...] (C) AS POSTS ARE AWARE, POLICY MAKERS ARE INTERESTED IN THE GROWTH AND IMPLICATIONS OF ISLAMIC FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, WHICH OFFER PRODUCTS AND SERVICES DESIGNED TO COMPLY WITH ISLAMIC LAW, WHICH FORBIDS PAYING OR RECEIVING INTEREST, MANDATES THAT FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS BE BASED ON REAL ECON [...] | 2006-06-07 23:17:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR ECIN EFIN AL BA BK EG ID KU MU MY PK QA SA |
06STATE99426 | TERRORISM FINANCE: INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC RELIEF [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs six and seven. 2. (S) During Homeland Security Advisor Frances Townsend, s June 20 visit to Saudi Arabia, Townsend will reinforce the need for SAG actions to properly oversee the activities of charitable and non-profit organizations b [...] | 2006-06-16 22:25:00 | Secretary of State | SECRET | EFIN ETTC ID KTFN PREL PTER RP SA |
06STOCKHOLM1452 | LEBANON DONORS CONFERENCE IN STOCKHOLM AUGUST 31 [...] (SBU) Donors pledged 942 million USD in early recovery and humanitarian aid at the August 31 Stockholm Conference for Lebanon,s Early Recovery, nearly double the 500 million target set by the Government of Sweden, which hosted the event. Representatives from 50 countries as well as UN agenci [...] | 2006-09-12 13:15:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREL LE SW |
06STOCKHOLM1922 | SWEDEN'S GOALS FOR POST-KYOTO CLIMATE COOPERATION [...] Summary: Ambassador Wood met with Sweden's new Minister of Environment, Mr. Andreas Carlgren, for the first time December 6. Topics of discussion included Sweden's desire to play a leadership role in setting the stage for a post-Kyoto international agreement to combat global warming, Ambassad [...] | 2006-12-08 16:23:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG KSCA SW |
06STOCKHOLM1924 | IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO SWEDEN CALLS ON AMBASSADOR WOOD [...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi Ambassador to Sweden, Ahmad Bamarni, visited Ambassador Wood and DCM on December 11 and provided a frank reaction to the Baker/Hamilton report, personal views on the interests of Iran and Syria in Iraq, comments on the sectarian violence, the role of U.S. forces, and the [...] | 2006-12-11 14:09:00 | Embassy Stockholm | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL SW |
06TAIPEI103 | Taiwan: 2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] The following is the Taiwan Investment Climate Statement for 2005, as requested reftel. A copy has been transmitted by e-mail to EB/IFD/OIA. ---------------------------------- A.1 Openness to Foreign Investment ---------------------------------- 2. Taiwan officially welcomes foreign di [...] | 2006-01-12 06:52:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON OPIC KTDB USTR TW |
06TAIPEI243 | UNEXPECTED Q4 TAIWAN TRADE SURPLUS PUSHES UP GDP [...] As recently as November, Taiwan's official data projected a sharp decline in the overall trade surplus. However, an unexpected expansion of Taiwan's 2005 trade surplus will likely push up real GDP for 2005 and lays the basis for growth in 2006. Exports enjoyed accelerated growth as developed [...] | 2006-01-24 21:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW |
06TAIPEI3993 | Trade Performance Better Than Expected [...] Taiwan's trade in Q3 this year was better than predicted, with both exports and imports growing faster than previously estimated by think tanks. Higher export growth and a larger trade surplus should lead to upward adjustment of Taiwan's 2006 economic growth. High-tech industries, the backbone [...] | 2006-11-29 08:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW |
06TAIPEI514 | Export Boom Continues in January 2006 [...] In January 2006, Taiwan began using new UN guidelines to compile its trade statistics and to revise its trade data for past years. Seasonally adjusted, Taiwan continued to enjoy an export boom in January 2006, particularly in its electrical and electronics industries. Greater China (mainlan [...] | 2006-02-17 00:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW |
06TEGUCIGALPA1375 | HONDURAS: RECA DENIES HE'S BEHIND CARIBBEAN [...] (S) Summary: Adrien Reca Salaburu denied he is involved with or in any way related to U.S. firm Caribbean Petrochemical Company -- a firm created in Miami on June 13 and which claimed on July 21 to have purchased DIPPSA. Reca admitted, however, that he continues seeking to purchase DIPPSA, [...] | 2006-08-03 14:17:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET//NOFORN | EPET ENRG PGOV PREL PINR HO |
06TELAVIV1009 | U.S.-ISRAEL JPMG FOLLOW-UP: ISRAELI RESPONSE TO [...] (C) On March 2, Israeli MOD POL-MIL Bureau Senior Coordinator for Strategic Dialogues and Defense Cooperation Rami Yungman passed poloff the nonpaper in paragraph six -- Israel's response to a U.S. presentation on proposed defense sales to the Middle East that was made at the January 11 U.S.-Israel [...] | 2006-03-13 15:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL MARR MASS US XF IR IS MILITARY RELATIONS ISRAEL |
06TELAVIV102 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-09 13:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV1083 | JCG: ISRAEL NSC'S 2/23 SESSION WITH S/CT AMB. [...] (C) On February 23, S/CT Coordinator Henry Crumpton was hosted by National Security Adviser Giora Eiland at Israel's NSC in Ramat HaSharon. (NOTE: The February 22 meeting of the U.S.-Israel Joint Counterterrorism Group is covered in reftel. END NOTE.) A panel discussion involving experts from Israe [...] | 2006-03-17 14:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR PINS ASEC IS COUNTERTERRORISM ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL |
06TELAVIV1319 | ISRAELI DEFMIN TELLS A/S WELCH ISRAEL WILL TAKE NO [...] (S) Summary: Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told NEA Assistant Secretary Welch and DAPNSA Elliott Abrams on March 30 that Israel will not communicate with or assist a HAMAS-led Palestinian Authority (PA). Mofaz said that he personally believes PA President Abu Mazen will become increas [...] | 2006-04-04 04:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PINS PTER KPAL KWBG IS LE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS COUNTERTERRORISM |
06TELAVIV1324 | GILAD ON HAMAS'S RELATIONS WITH JORDAN, EGYPT, AND [...] (C) Summary: MOD Pol-Mil Bureau Head Amos Gilad told A/S Welch and DAPNSA Abrams on March 31 that Hamas' close relationship to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Jordan would negatively impact Jordan's security. While he had raised the issue with GOJ officials, he claimed that they are "afraid t [...] | 2006-04-04 07:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL |
06TELAVIV1362 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-05 11:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV1402 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Global War on Terror ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz and Israel Radio reported on seemingly moderate gestures and pronouncements from Hamas vis-a- vis Israel. Ha'aretz reported that Hamas has been sending go-between [...] | 2006-04-07 11:32:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV145 | PERES TELLS CODEL BAYH THAT OLMERT WILL BE NEXT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 6 meeting, former Vice Premier Shimon Peres told Senator Evan Bayh, that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's chances of returning to political power are ""nil,"" and that Alternate Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will be the next Prime Minister of Israel. Peres discussed the fu [...] | 2006-01-11 08:35:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV IR IS KPAL PINR ELECTIONS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS EXTERNAL |
06TELAVIV1473 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program 3. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media cited President Bush's Passover message, which was issued on Wednesday and centered on the notion of freedom. Major media repor [...] | 2006-04-14 10:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV1523 | SENATOR LIEBERMAN MEETS LIEBERMAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Senator Joseph Lieberman met with Yisrael Beiteinu Party chairman Avigdor Lieberman on April 14 to discuss the political landscape in Israel. Avigdor, fresh from a negotiating session with the lead Kadima Party negotiator, Yoram Turbovitz, expressed confidence that his party [...] | 2006-04-18 14:58:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM PINS KPAL IS JO IR IZ LE ISRAEL RELATIONS GOI INTERNAL |
06TELAVIV1533 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Lebanese-Syrian Track ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that FM Tzipi Livni, who successfully proposed revoking the Jerusalem residency of the Hamas legislators, persuaded a governmental foru [...] | 2006-04-20 11:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV1669 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Welch as saying that Hamas might have found ways to circumvent the boycott imposed on fund transfers to the [...] | 2006-04-28 11:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV1754 | DAGAN AND CODEL LIEBERMAN DISCUSS HAMAS-LED PA AND [...] (C) Summary: Meir Dagan, director of the Mossad, told Codel Lieberman on April 20 that Hamas won the Palestinian elections because it was more united and organized than Fatah. He said that Palestinians mainly voted for Hamas to protest Fatah corruption, but added that 60 percent "still back [...] | 2006-05-05 07:43:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL |
06TELAVIV2072 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Hizbullah-IDF Clashes 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Maariv and Israel Radio reported that last night, for the first time since the disengagement, the IDF made an incursion into the Beit Lahiya area of the northern Gaza Stri [...] | 2006-05-30 11:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV2140 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Anti-Semitism ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media quoted PM Ehud Olmert as saying Sunday, at a news conference with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Sharm el-Sheikh, that he will meet PA Chairman [Pr [...] | 2006-06-05 14:46:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV2239 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-12 12:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV2451 | PLANS FOR NEGEV/GALILEE DEVELOPMENT MOVING SLOWLY; [...] (C) Summary: Although a plan for Negev development approved last year included significant funding levels, the current budget included no new funds. Current Negev initiatives include encouraging industry and the military to shift operations there, using solar power to generate electricity, d [...] | 2006-06-22 09:03:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG SENV IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI SOCIETY |
06TELAVIV2789 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-14 12:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV2879 | MOSSAD CHIEF DAGAN ON LEBANON, HEZBOLLAH AND IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mossad Director Meir Dagan briefed CODEL Hoekstra on the Israeli campaign against Hizballah and the greater long term threat posed by Iran. Dagan stated that the initial aims of the Israeli campaign in Lebanon were focused on eliminating strategic weapons held by Hizballah and symbolic [...] | 2006-07-24 15:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PTER KPAL KWBG IS LE |
06TELAVIV2915 | PERETZ CALLS FOR MNF ABLE TO BLOCK HIZBALLAH [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Defense Amir Peretz told U.S. Representatives Peter Hoekstra, Jane Harman, Rick Renzi, and Darrell Issa, and the Ambassador July 23 that the GOI's goals in Lebanon are to secure the release of the two kidnapped IDF soldiers, see the implementation of UNSCR 1559, and give a [...] | 2006-07-27 06:12:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER EG IS IR LE |
06TELAVIV3040 | ADVISOR TELLS PERETZ: IT'S SYRIA, SYRIA, SYRIA! [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pini Medan, an unofficial advisor to Defense Minister Peretz, told POL/C August 2 that he is advising Peretz at every opportunity that "recruiting Syria" is critical to achieving success against Hizballah and saving Israel's position vis a vis Lebanon. Syrian involvement is equally cri [...] | 2006-08-03 15:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KWBG IS SY LE |
06TELAVIV3245 | ISRAELI MOD PRESSED TO TAKE QUICK STEPS TO HELP [...] (C) Responding to the Charge's urgings that Israel act quickly to end the sea blockade of Lebanon, re-open Beirut International Airport, and allow mobile bridges to be erected in southern Lebanon to facilitate shipments of outside assistance to needy Lebanese, Israeli MOD POL-MIL Bureau Head Amos G [...] | 2006-08-16 10:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PHUM PTER KPAL KWBG MASS LE SY IL |
06TELAVIV366 | ISRAELI NSC SAYS CLARITY NEEDED ON HAMAS IN NEW [...] (C) During their January 25 meeting at Israel's National Security Council, NSC Director MGEN (Ret.) Giora Eiland and his deputy, Eran Etzion, told NEA DAS Robert Danin the following: -- USG, GOI and Quartet statements on a HAMAS presence in the new Palestinian government need to be clear and [...] | 2006-01-26 14:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KPAL KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL PEACE PROCESS |
06TELAVIV3671 | ISRAELI MFA DG'S VISIT TO ABU DHABI [...] (C) MFA Deputy DG for Political Research (the Israeli equivalent to INR) Nimrod Barkan informed newly arrived Polcouns Sept. 13 that MFA Director General Aharon Abramovitch, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's close confidant, had just returned from a visit to Abu Dhabi, where he discussed the Ira [...] | 2006-09-15 04:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL IS IR TC |
06TELAVIV3732 | ISRAELI CT OFFICIALS DISCUSS ISRAEL-HIZBALLAH WAR, U.S.-ISRAEL CT COOPERATION [...] (S) Israeli counterterrorism (CT) officials were anxious to convince visiting S/CT Deputy Coordinator Virginia Palmer that Israel´s 34-day war with Hizballah in July and August had weakened the terrorist group and given Lebanese PM Siniora greater political will to take on Hizballah, but Israeli [...] | 2006-09-19 13:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PTER PREL SY LE IS |
06TELAVIV3843 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH BIBI NETANYAHU [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Likud Party leader Bibi Netanyahu September 26, Netanyahu told the Ambassador he was pleased with his recent visits to Washington and London, and appeared confident that he and his party would make a political comeback as a result of the Israeli public's swing [...] | 2006-09-28 08:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON IS IR XF |
06TELAVIV3909 | PM OLMERT TO CODEL WARNER: ISRAEL READY TO SUPPORT [...] (S) Summary. CODEL Warner met with Prime Minister Olmert at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on October 3. (Septels to report the CODEL's meetings with Foreign Minister Livni and Defense Minister Peretz.) Olmert provided his assessment of the results of the war with Hizballah. He i [...] | 2006-10-04 14:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV OVIP IS IR LE KPAL |
06TELAVIV407 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-30 12:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV4306 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. US Israeli Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that the police will begin an initial examination to determine whether to open a criminal investigation against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on his role i [...] | 2006-10-30 10:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR |
06TELAVIV4474 | MK SCNELLER'S PLAN TO EVACUATE WEST BANK SETTLER [...] (C) Summary: Econoff and Deputy PolCouns met with member of Knesset (MK) Otneil Schneller to discuss efforts by Prime Minister Olmert's office to negotiate the evacuation of West Bank settlements and outposts with settler leaders. In press reports, Schneller -- settler of the Mikhmas settlem [...] | 2006-11-09 10:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS |
06TELAVIV4508 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Global War on Terror ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media (lead story in Ha'aretz) reported that President Bush, speaking after a meeting at that White House with PM Ehud Olmert, called Monday for the world to unite in [...] | 2006-11-14 11:31:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR |
06TELAVIV4521 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Lebanon ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted PM Ehud Olmert as saying last night in Los Angeles that the moment of truth has arrived regarding Iran's nuclear program. Olmert was quoted as saying that "no longer ca [...] | 2006-11-15 10:46:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR |
06TELAVIV4713 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Lebanon 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that on Sunday the diplomatic-security cabinet adopted PM Ehud Olmert's view that the cease-fire must be reinforced. Ha'aretz cited the cabinet's decision that the [...] | 2006-12-04 10:27:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
06TELAVIV4752 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iraq Study Group Report 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media (banner in Ha'aretz) cited the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group (a.k.a. Baker-Hamilton committee),which were made public at the US Senate on Wednesday. [...] | 2006-12-07 10:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
06TELAVIV486 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-02 11:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV4892 | CODEL NELSON AND ISRAEL DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE [...] (S) SUMMARY: On December 12, Colonel Amit Aviram of Israeli Defense Intelligence (IDI) briefed Senator Bill Nelson (FL) on regional security threats facing Israel. Aviram described the Middle East as caught in a struggle between moderates and Iranian-backed extremists, and said the growing Iranian [...] | 2006-12-20 10:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR KPAL IR SY LE IS |
06TELAVIV4914 | OLMERT TELLS CODEL DODD/KERRY HE IS READY TO MEET [...] (C) SUMMARY: SENATORS CHRISTOPHER DODD (CT) AND JOHN KERRY (MA) DISCUSSED THE CHALLENGE FACED BY THE U.S. AND ISRAEL IN DEALING WITH EXTREMISTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST WITH ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER EHUD OLMERT ON DECEMBER 21. AT THE TOP OF THEIR MEETING, SENATORS DODD AND KERRY AND PRIME MINISTER [...] | 2006-12-22 11:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR IS KPAL IR SY LE IZ |
06TELAVIV4929 | SENATOR NELSON'S MEETING WITH LIKUD LEADER [...] (C) Summary: Senator Bill Nelson (FL) and his senior staff met with former prime minister (PM) and current Likud Party leader Binyamin Netanyahu on December 12 to discuss the Iranian nuclear threat. Netanyahu urged the U.S. to mobilize all its diplomatic and national efforts against Iran. [...] | 2006-12-26 09:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR PTER IS IR IZ SY KPAL US |
06TELAVIV506 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program 3. Muhammad Cartoon Controversy ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that early next week, FM Tzipi Livni will leave for a visit to the U.S. In its lead story, Maariv reported that [...] | 2006-02-03 12:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV576 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-08 11:03:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV642 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-13 11:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV662 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-14 11:16:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV683 | ISRAELI MOD DG TOREN FORCEFULLY OBJECTS TO U.S. [...] (S) Responding to ref A points, MOD DG Jacob Toren told the Ambassador on February 8 that: -- He cannot agree with the U.S. position and urges the U.S. to re-examine its objections. Agreeing to the U.S. position on the ELTA radar transfer to Russia sets another precedent that Israel cannot [...] | 2006-02-15 15:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL MASS MARR RS IS IN MILITARY RELATIONS ISRAEL |
06TELAVIV716 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-21 09:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV877 | ABBAS AND HAMAS: LEFT-OF-CENTER ISRAELI LEADERS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In a February 28 discussion hosted by the Ambassador, left-of-center Israeli politicians and advisers advocated support for Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and criticized the GOI's refusal to deal with him. The group generally agreed that the GOI should take a "wa [...] | 2006-03-02 09:18:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KWBG KPAL IR IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
06TELAVIV922 | U.S.-ISRAEL JOINT COUNTERTERRORISM GROUP (JCG) [...] (C) On February 22, the Israeli MFA hosted the latest session of the U.S.-Israel Joint Counterterrorism Group (JCG) -- the prior one having occurred over a year and a half earlier. The Israeli side stressed the importance it placed on the JCG's resumption (following the January meeting of the [...] | 2006-03-07 05:59:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PINR PINS PGOV KPAL KWBG ASEC EG JO IS COUNTERTERRORISM GOI EXTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
06TELAVIV930 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that five Palestinians -- senior Islamic Jihad commander Munir Abu Sukker and another militant of the group, two children, and another bystander -- were [...] | 2006-03-07 10:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV960 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program 3. Sudan: Darfur ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Acting PM Ehud Olmert was quoted as saying Wednesday in an interview with The Jerusalem Post that Israel's permanent borders will be set within the ne [...] | 2006-03-09 11:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06TELAVIV997 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- On Sunday, Ha'aretz reported that Acting PM Ehud Olmert briefed the US administration last week on the main thrust of his political plan before he delivered it to the loca [...] | 2006-03-13 12:03:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT |
06THEHAGUE1167 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) The U.S. achieved its primary goal at EC-45: discussion of the U.S. request for an extension of its 100% destruction deadline was serious and somber. Delegations were clearly disappointed that it did not appear likely the U.S. would complete destruction by 2012, but there was virtually n [...] | 2006-05-23 14:48:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
06THEHAGUE257 | DUTCH REACTIONS TO CARTOON CONTROVERSY [...] (SBU) Summary: As of 6 February, there has been no violence in the Netherlands in response to the controversial cartoons, though daily newspaper "De Volkskrant" received a bomb threat for having reprinted the Danish cartoons. The Prime Minister emphasized the primacy of law in resolving dispu [...] | 2006-02-07 06:27:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO NL |
06THEHAGUE2602 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) The Conference approved the U.S. request for an extension of its 100% destruction deadline to April 29, 2012. It also approved the Russian 100% destruction deadline request to 2012 and an accompanying decision regarding site visits that concerns the U.S. and Russia. Iran dragged the pro [...] | 2006-12-13 15:36:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
06THEHAGUE267 | DUTCH SUPPORT FRENCH AL MANAR BAN; FOCUS NOW ON AL [...] (S) On January 27, the Dutch press reported that Minister of Justice Donner had informed parliament that the French, at Donner's request, had agreed to block the transmission to the Netherlands of Lebanese Al Manar and Iranian Sahar TV1 satellite broadcasters after their programs were found [...] | 2006-02-07 14:56:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ANET PREL LE NL |
06THEHAGUE269 | DUTCH REACTIONS TO CARTOON CONTROVERSY [...] (SBU) Summary: As of 6 February, there has been no violence in the Netherlands in response to the controversial cartoons, though daily newspaper "De Volkskrant" received a bomb threat for having reprinted the Danish cartoons. The Prime Minister emphasized the primacy of law in resolving dispu [...] | 2006-02-07 15:24:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO NL |
06THEHAGUE314 | UPDATE ON DUTCH REACTIONS TO CARTOON CONTROVERSY [...] (U) Summary: The Danish cartoons remain a hot topic in the Netherlands. So far, there have been no violent reactions here, but officials are watching closely a planned "peaceful demonstration" in Amsterdam on February 11. PM Balkenende and other government officials have expressed support f [...] | 2006-02-10 17:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KISL PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KPAO NL |
06THEHAGUE357 | NETHERLANDS/ISLAM: MORE ON CARTOON CONTROVERSY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Danish cartoon controversy continues to resonate in the Netherlands. Two small, generally peaceful demonstrations were held February 10 in Maastricht and February 11 in Amsterdam. Two well-known Muslim Amsterdam officials have attempted to downplay the issue in an effort t [...] | 2006-02-16 15:34:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KISL PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KPAO NL |
06THEHAGUE368 | RADICAL IMAMS EXPELLED FROM THE NETHERLANDS [...] (S) SUMMARY: The last of the three radical Eindhoven-based Muslim clerics that Immigration and Integration Minister Verdonk ordered deported in June 2005 had left the country by year's end. Verdonk accused all three of tolerating the recruitment of terrorists within a mosque and inciting vi [...] | 2006-02-17 13:08:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PTER PINR PINS PGOV NL |
06TOKYO1039 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/27/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-27 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO1048 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/28/06 [...] Date of submission 2. Proponents 3. Reasons 4. Result  [...] | 2006-02-28 06:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO1085 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/01/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-01 06:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO1090 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/01/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-01 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO1415 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/17/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-17 00:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO1521 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/23/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-23 07:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO1831 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04//06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-06 01:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO1859 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/07/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-07 01:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO1978 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/12/06-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-12 08:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO1990 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/13/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-13 00:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO2040 | JAPAN: SAUDI CROWN PRINCE SULTAN'S APRIL VISIT [...] (S) Saudi Crown Prince Sultan's April 5-6 visit to Tokyo was considered a "success" by both sides, according to MOFA Second Middle East Saudi Desk Officer Asako and Iran Desk Officer Nakao. Asako suggested the most thorough briefing material available was the joint statement from the visit, a [...] | 2006-04-14 07:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR ECIN MARR PREL SA JA |
06TOKYO2048 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/17/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-17 00:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO2724 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/18/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-18 01:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO3072 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/05/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-05 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO3711 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/03/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-04 22:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO3955 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/14/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-16 01:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO3998 | MEDIA REACTION Q MIDDLE EAST - TOKYO [...] "Lebanon Crisis: Syria's Isolation Deepening" The liberal Asahi's Cairo correspondent Tachino commented (7/19): "The deepening crisis in Lebanon has driven Syria into a tight corner. Syria has drawn criticism not just from the US but also from neighboring Arab countries for its role in support [...] | 2006-07-19 04:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
06TOKYO4891 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/25/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-25 08:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO5988 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/13/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-13 08:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO6274 | MEDIA REACTION Q NORTH KOREA - TOKYO [...] "North Korean Nuclear Test: NPT Heading Toward Collapse" An editorial in the top-circulation, moderate Yomiuri commented (10/29): "The DPRK's nuclear test could lead to a collapse of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) framework, which aims to prevent the emergence of further nuclear we [...] | 2006-10-30 04:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
06TOKYO6294 | The Japan Economic Scope Q- Economic News At- [...] (SBU) Table of Contents 3. Keidanran Signals Renewed Opposition to Foreign Triangular Merger 4. Japan Ag: More Talk About Reform? 5. Unblocking Beef in Japan's Pipeline 6. Japan's Annual Southern Bluefin Tuna Catch Halved 7. Azadegan: EMIN Calls on METI, MOFA to Discuss Contract Chan [...] | 2006-10-30 22:45:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON JA ZO EAGR |
06TOKYO820 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/15/06 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-15 08:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO907 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/21/06 [...] Azadegan oil field: 260,000 barrels a day 2. Sakhalin 1 (Russia): 250,000 barrels a day 3. Sakhalin 2 (Russia): 160,000 barrels a day 4. Rang Dong oil field (Vietnam): 50,000 barrels a day 5. Mubarras oil field (United Arab Emirates): 20,000 barrels a day (5) Political comment [...] | 2006-02-21 23:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TOKYO923 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/22/06 [...] Promote a strategy for growth in the Japanese economy, including the conclusion of a Japan-China economic partnership agreement 2. Urge China to become a democratic nation slowly by 2030 by expanding its middle class. Japan will share its experience with China. 3. Establish a trouble- [...] | 2006-02-22 08:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
06TRIPOLI453 | CONGRESSMAN LANTOS STRESSES BILATERAL ACHIEVEMENTS AND [...] (SBU) In a series of meetings with senior Libyan officials during his August 22-24 trip to Libya, Congressman Tom Lantos, ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Relations Committee, reviewed bilateral achievements since his first visit to the country in January, 2004 and set new goals for enhanc [...] | 2006-08-31 15:02:00 | Embassy Tripoli | SECRET | OREP PREL PTER PGOV LY |
06TRIPOLI454 | SENATOR SPECTER REVIEWS BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP WITH SENIOR [...] (SBU) In a series of meetings with senior Libyan officials during his August 21-24 trip to Libya, Senator Arlen Spector, Chairman of the Senate Justice Committee, reviewed the bilateral relationship with senior Libyan officials and inquired about prospects for developing a "Libya model" that co [...] | 2006-08-31 15:03:00 | Embassy Tripoli | SECRET | OREP PREL PTER PGOV LY |
06TUNIS1674 | ARAB SECURITY OFFICIALS DISCUSS PRISON [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to press reports, during a recent preparatory meeting for an upcoming Arab Interior Ministers meeting, Arab prison, judicial and security officials discussed plans to increase prison privatization. The discussions covered the full or partial participation of the private [...] | 2006-07-05 12:27:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV ECON TS |
06TUNIS223 | ARAB INTERIOR MINISTERS JANUARY 30-31 MEETING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The 23rd session of the Arab League Interior Ministers took place in Tunisia on January 30 and 31. According to press reports, ministers examined the security situations in Arab countries and discussed ways of combating terrorism, extremism, violence and organized crimes. Par [...] | 2006-02-03 13:58:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC PTER TS |
06TUNIS2957 | THE BUSINESS OF HAJJ IN TUNISIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. DESPITE THEIR GOVERNMENT'S SECULAR LEANINGS, THE NUMBER OF TUNISIANS WISHING TO PERFORM THE ANNUAL HAJJ PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA IS INCREASING IN PARALLEL WITH TUNISIANS GENERALLY BECOMING MORE RELIGIOUS. WHILE TUNISIAN AUTHORITIES, LIKE MOST MUSLIM GOVERNMENTS, UNDERTAKE SIGNIFICANT [...] | 2006-12-22 10:32:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PREL TS |
06TUNIS629 | LARGER THAN EXPECTED BIDS FOR TUNISIA'S LARGEST [...] (SBU) The larger-than-expected bids (ranging from USD 1.76 to 1.92 billion) for the partial-privatization of Tunisia's telecommunications giant - Tunisie Telecom - continues to be welcome economic news. Local media announced March 15 that the initial slate of six bidders on Tunisie Telecom had [...] | 2006-03-17 15:04:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | ECPS EINV ECON TS |
06TUNIS816 | HOW THE GOT INTIMIDATES CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVISTS [...] (C) INTRO: Tunisian officials adhere closely to President Ben Ali's claim that Tunisia is making great advances towards becoming a modern, democratic state (Ref C),but it is no secret that authorities continue to monitor, intimidate, and SIPDIS seek to discredit civil society activists of a [...] | 2006-04-06 14:38:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KDEM PGOV TS |
06ULAANBAATAR683 | SAUDI ARABIA MAY SOON ESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-13 01:48:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID MG SA ZR |
06USUNNEWYORK1040 | COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY - WHERE ARE THE [...] (SBU) Summary. Discussion of the Secretary General's counter-terrorism strategy (ref A) continued May 15-18 in General Assembly informal consultations. Delegations were divided among those who urged the Assembly to craft a strategy from the elements on which all could agree and those who s [...] | 2006-05-23 13:27:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNGA |
06USUNNEWYORK1077 | UN HOST COUNTRY COMMITTEE DISCUSSES DIPLOMATIC [...] (SBU/NOFORN) Summary. The UN Committee on Relations with the Host Country held its 228th meeting on May 17, 2006. USUN Minister Counselor for Host Country Affairs represented the United States. In keeping with past practice, the New York City Commissioner for the United Nations, Consular Corps [...] | 2006-05-26 16:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OFDP UN |
06USUNNEWYORK1137 | UN/COUNTERTERRORISM: 1267, CTC, AND 1540 COMMITTEE [...] SUMMARY: The Chairs of the UN Security Council's three subsidiary counterterrorism committees (the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC),the 1267 or Al-Qaida/ Taliban Sanctions Committee, and the 1540 Committee on nonproliferation) briefed the Council for the fifth time on their committees' a [...] | 2006-06-05 15:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC ETTC PGOV PTER |
06USUNNEWYORK1297 | UNGA: JUNE 28-30 INFORMAL CONSULTATIONS ON THE UN [...] Summary: General Assembly members gathered for informal consultations on the draft UN Global Counter-Terrorism strategy from June 28-30. Many had detailed line-in, line-out comments while reserving the right to provide additional comments separately to the co-chairs of the discussion. The [...] | 2006-07-03 18:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PTER |
06USUNNEWYORK1428 | 1540: RUSSIA BLOCKS ADOPTION OF WORK PROGRAM [...] (U) Summary: The Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) met informally July 27 to discuss the status of reporting, outreach activities, and the adoption of a new 12-month program. After no delegation commented on the draft work program during the informal m [...] | 2006-07-31 12:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PARM UNSC AORC KNNP |
06USUNNEWYORK1435 | AL-QAIDA SANCTIONS: INCREASING TRANSPARENCY [...] SUMMARY. The Chairman of the UN Security Council's 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban) Sanctions Committee, Argentine Ambassador Cesar Mayoral, held an open briefing and question and answer session for the general UN membership on July 26. This was the first such session conducted by Mayoral. The goal w [...] | 2006-08-01 14:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC EFIN UNSC PREL PGOV |
06USUNNEWYORK1599 | STATE OF PLAY ON NEGOTIATIONS ON UK-US DARFUR [...] (U) This is an action request. See Paragraph 3. 2. (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. This cable outlines the views of key Security Council delegations on the UK-U.S. draft resolution authorizing the transition from an African Union (AU)-led to a UN-led force in Darfur. Russia, China and Fr [...] | 2006-08-22 00:02:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
06USUNNEWYORK1976 | US/UK/UN TRILATERAL ON UN ACTIVITIES IN IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: The UN met with the UK and U.S. missions October 12 to discuss the UN Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI),the Iraq Compact and related issues. UNAMI has temporarily withdrawn most staff from its Basrah office after MNF-I withdrew assets, although it plans on returning once their [...] | 2006-10-13 23:29:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC IZ PINS |
06USUNNEWYORK2179 | CTC CONTINUES FOLLOW-UP ON VISITS [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: The Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) held its 175th meeting November 16, followed by an informal meeting to discuss the list of states the Committee's Executive Directorate (CTED) proposes to visit in 2007. The agenda focused on reports on CTED's state vis [...] | 2006-11-22 15:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PTER PREL |
06USUNNEWYORK2289 | ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS REPORT DISCUSSED IN UNGA [...] Summary: On December 18, the General Assembly (GA) held an "informal" discussion on the Alliance of Civilization High-Level Group Report. Speaking at the GA were PM of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, PM of Spain Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, UN Secretary General (SYG) Kofi Annan, President of t [...] | 2006-12-26 17:10:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UNGA |
06USUNNEWYORK2290 | FINAL UNGA PLENARY ACTION ON RESOLUTIONS OF THE [...] (U) Summary: The UN General Assembly took final action December 19-22 on all the resolutions of the Third Committee, including human rights resolution on Belarus, Iran, DPRK and Burma (Burma further reported septel). As is customary, final action in the Plenary was virtually identical to that [...] | 2006-12-26 18:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM AORC UNGA XX |
06USUNNEWYORK2291 | CONDEMNATORY HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTION ON BURMA [...] (U) A strong and unambiguous resolution deploring the situation of human rights in Burma gathered momentum and passed by a significant margin of 57 votes in a late-night session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on December 22. The final vote count was 82 in favor (U.S.) - 25 opposed - 45 ab [...] | 2006-12-26 20:24:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM AORC UNGA BM XC |
06USUNNEWYORK468 | ELIASSON AND OTHERS CONSIDER HRC TEXT FINAL; [...] (C) Summary: We continue to encounter strong opposition to making any changes in the text of the draft Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution. Key PermReps are urging the U.S. to seek satisfaction outside the text, even if they acknowledge that core U.S. positions are not likely achievable th [...] | 2006-03-13 13:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PHUM PREL UNGA |
06USUNNEWYORK503 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: UN OUTLINES EXPANDED FORMAT FOR [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Wolff made reftel points in a meeting with UN Assistant Secretary-General (A/SYG) for Peacekeeping Hedi Annabi and other Department of Peacekeeping Officials (DPKO) officials on March 10. He urged the Secretariat to ensure the UN Assistance Mission in SIPDIS Afgh [...] | 2006-03-14 19:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV AF |
06USUNNEWYORK573 | SAUDI ARABIA: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CANDIDACY [...] Mission received a note from the Permanent Mission of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations requesting USG support for its candidature to the Human Rights Council. The elections will be held in New York in May 2006. 2. Mission will respond that careful consideration will be given by the Uni [...] | 2006-03-23 15:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PHUM UN SA |
06USUNNEWYORK590 | HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: WHY THE U.S. SHOULD NOT SEEK [...] (C) Summary and Comment: After having voted "no" on the resolution establishing the Human Rights Council due to its inadequate provisions to prevent human rights violators from becoming members, USUN believes U.S. interests are best served by sitting out the first election for membership. A [...] | 2006-03-24 00:14:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR PHUM PREL UNGA |
06USUNNEWYORK610 | USUN/IRAQ: AL-KHOEI BENEVOLENT FOUNDATION [...] (SBU) USUN Deputy PolCouns and PolOff met March 23 with Syed Meesam Razvi, the UN representative of the AlKhoei Benevolent Foundation, and three of his colleagues. AlKhoei Foundation is the only Shia NGO to have consultative status at the UN. The meeting -- the first initiated by the founda [...] | 2006-03-27 17:29:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UN AORC KISL KDEM IZ SA |
06USUNNEWYORK756 | UN: FIFTH COMMITTEE UNABLE TO AGREE ON A SCALE OF [...] Summary. Following weeks of discussion and then negotiation on a draft resolution, the Fifth Committee had agreed to all paragraphs except operative paragraph (OP) 5, which included eight proposals to be forwarded to the Committee on Contributions (CoC) for its consideration this June. In the [...] | 2006-04-11 13:59:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR UNGA |
06USUNNEWYORK946 | HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: FIRST MEMBERS ELECTED [...] SUMMARY: In May 9 elections, the General Assembly elected the 47 members of the newly-created UN Human Rights Council. While most seats were filled in only one round of balloting, three rounds were required to fill the six contested seats allocated to the Eastern European Group. Iran's cand [...] | 2006-05-11 14:53:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UNGA UNHRC KUNR |
06USUNNEWYORK977 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY COMMENTS ON SYG'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: In informal consultations of the General Assembly (closed to press and public) May 11 and 12, 36 delegations commented on the Secretary-General's recently released counterterrorism strategy. (UN Doc A/60/825 "Uniting against terrorism: recommendations for a global counter-terro [...] | 2006-05-15 15:15:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER UNGA |
06USUNNEWYORK993 | UN REFORM: U/S BURNS SEES GA PRESIDENT ELIASSON [...] (C) Summary. U/S Burns called on GA President Eliasson during a break in the HRC voting on Tuesday, May 9. Eliasson was clearly energized by the results of the voting and expressed his hope that the U.S. would be "encouraged" by the process. Both agreed that the proof of positive change woul [...] | 2006-05-16 14:52:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KUNR AORC UNGA UN IR |
06VATICAN156 | HOLY SEE: USCIRF'S BISHOP RAMIREZ DISCUSSES RELIGIOUS [...] (C) Visiting Bishop Ramirez of the USCIRF discussed religious freedom and human rights around the globe with Holy See foreign minister Lajolo and the desk officer for that issue. Saudi Arabia and North Korea are the top concerns for the Holy See with regard to religious freedom, with China and [...] | 2006-07-31 16:01:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KIRF VT |
06VATICAN210 | INDONESIAN-VATICAN RELATIONS: A BUMP IN THE ROAD [...] (C) Indonesian Ambassador Prayitno told Ambassador Rooney recently that he was optimistic about Indonesian - Holy See relations despite the recent papal flap and the execution of three Catholics there. He said that despite numerous entreaties by the Vatican, there was never any chance that [...] | 2006-10-03 13:23:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PTER PHUM SOCI ID VT |
06VATICAN216 | VATICAN: SCENE SETTER FOR CODEL SMITH [...] (U) Below please find background information to serve as a scene setter for the upcoming CODEL SMITH. ------------ The Holy See ------------ 2. (SBU) The Holy See is the composite of the authority, jurisdiction, and sovereignty vested in the Pope and his advisors to direct the Roman Cat [...] | 2006-10-12 12:44:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP VT SOCI PHUM |
06VATICAN67 | VATICAN HARDENING LINE ON ISLAM [...] (C) Relations with Islam and the issue of reciprocity for worship have taken center stage recently at the Holy See. Pope Benedict took the initial step in this direction in February with strong comments when he welcomed Morocco's new ambassador. Since then successive Vatican officials hav [...] | 2006-04-20 14:34:00 | Embassy Vatican | CONFIDENTIAL | VT KIRF PTER PHUM SOCI |
06VATICAN7 | DIP CORPS ADDRESS: POPE HIGHLIGHTS TERRORISM, TIP, ISRAEL [...] (SBU) Pope Benedict XVI reinforced once again his denunciation of terrorism and linked the ideal of truth to peace, freedom, justice, reconciliation and other vital aspects of a just society in his annual audience with diplomats accredited to the Holy See January 9. The pope offered notable [...] | 2006-01-13 15:09:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF IS VT PHUM PTER SU KPAL |
06VIENNA3373 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: November 20, 2006 [...] Austrian media speculate that Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel may be planning a continuation of the OeVP-FPOe coalition. Following his "amicable" talks with Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache last week, the Conservatives could be exploring the possibility of forming a three-party govern [...] | 2006-11-20 15:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
06VIENNA3475 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: December 04, 2006 [...] The next round of talks between representatives from the SPOe and the OeVP to form a grand coalition begins today. At the top of the agenda are issues including government and administrative reforms, as well as social affairs, such as the details and financing of the proposed basic security pay [...] | 2006-12-04 15:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
06VIENNA3584 | AUSTRIA: 2006 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] Per reftel, Post is submitting the 2006 Country Report on Terrorism for Austria. Embassy POC for this report is Economic-Political Officer Dayna R. Robison, office phone: 43-1-31339-2196 and email: RobisonDR(at sign)state.gov. Post emailed the updated Intellipedia version of this report to [...] | 2006-12-20 13:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC KCRM KPAO KHLS AEMR EFIN AU |
06VIENNA3588 | AUSTRIA'S STEYR COMPANIES: WHO OWNS WHAT AND WHO DOES WHAT [...] There are several independent Austrian companies with the name "Steyr." All of them originally formed one company, Steyr-Daimler-Puch (SDP). However, in the 1980s, SDP, one of Austria's largest industrial conglomerates, encountered major financial problems that resulted in the company's brea [...] | 2006-12-21 10:57:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND EINV ETRD ETTC AU |
06VIENNA462 | 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR AUSTRIA [...] Following is 2006 Investment Climate Statement for Austria, keyed to reftel instructions: 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT -- AUSTRIA -------------------------------------------- Introduction ------------ With the European Union's (EU) enlargement in May 2004, Austria's location beca [...] | 2006-02-15 14:59:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ELAB ETRD PGOV KTDB OPIC USTR AU |
06WARSAW2323 | READOUT OF CENTCOM,S IRAQ CONFERENCE IN WARSAW 3-5 [...] (U) SUMMARY. CENTCOM,s Coalition conference in Warsaw 3-5 Oct 2006 successfully gathered both military and civilian participants from current and prospective Coalition countries to provide an overview of Coalition planning for the next 12-18 months. All presentations and some keynote speeches [...] | 2006-11-03 15:23:00 | Embassy Warsaw | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS IZ PL |
06WELLINGTON155 | CDR CENTCOM VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND [...] (C) Summary: General Abizaid's February 23-25 visit to New Zealand came one month after Admiral Fallon's visit amid high media interest in the bilateral relationship. The General met with Prime Minister Clark, Defense Minister Goff and Foreign Minister Winston Peters, as well as with Chief of [...] | 2006-02-28 01:37:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC NZ |
06WELLINGTON470 | PRESENCE OF 9/11 HIJACKER CRONY IN NEW ZEALAND [...] (SBU) The New Zealand Government announced on June 11 that it had two weeks earlier deported Rayed Mohammed Abdullah Ali, a Saudi national of Yemeni background. When Ali had lived in the United States some years ago, he studied flying and roomed in Phoenix with 9/11 hijacker Hani Hanjour, wh [...] | 2006-06-20 22:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER NZ |
07ABIDJAN169 | COTE D'IVOIRE'S GOVERNMENT ON PALESTINIAN NATIONAL [...] (C) EmbOff spoke to Ambassador Boutchoue, Director of the Office of International Organizations and United Nations, as well as a frequent Embassy interlocutor on a wide range of international relations concerns regarding points in reftel. Although he expressed some uncertainty as to whether th [...] | 2007-02-16 09:54:00 | Embassy Abidjan | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL KPAL KWBG PREL IV |
07ABIDJAN959 | (U) ACTION COMPLETED: IDENTIFYING "CREDIBLE [...] (SBU) Embassy Abidjan completed action requested in reftel. Here is the biographic information on three influential Ivoirian Muslim leaders who have favorable views of the United States and offer an alternative view to Islamic extremism. 2. (SBU) El Hadj Aboubacar FOFANA Gender: Male DOB [...] | 2007-09-12 18:50:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PK PO QA RP RS RW SA SF SG SL SN SO SP |
07ABUDHABI1119 | FM SHEIKH ABDULLAH ON SYRIA, IRAQ, FOREIGN [...] (S) SUMMARY. Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah (AbZ) on July 2 to urge UAEG measures to stem the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq and to persuade the Syrian government to do more on this matter. AbZ undertook to engage Bashar al Assad on taking action against the travel o [...] | 2007-07-03 11:32:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER KNNP MCAP PINS PARM CJAN ETRD ETTC KPAO |
07ABUDHABI1161 | U.S.-UAE GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE AND JOINT MILITARY [...] (S) Summary: Since the May 2007 Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD),and earlier meetings of the Joint Military Committee (JMC) working groups and Air and Missile Defense working group, we have seen progress in our bilateral mil-to-mil and security relationship in the areas of defense cooperation and [...] | 2007-07-12 09:07:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PARM MOPS MASS KNNP IR AE |
07ABUDHABI1257 | PRESSING FOR UNIVERSAL ADOPTION OF THE [...] (SBU) On July 25 Emboff met with Anwar Barout, MFA Deputy Director for International Organizations, to urge UAEG adoption of the Nuclear Terrorism Convention (NTC) at its earliest opportunity. Emboff noted that other states in the Gulf region including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar (also Eg [...] | 2007-07-26 13:22:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL AE |
07ABUDHABI1273 | UAE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HAZZA DISCUSSES [...] (S/NF) Summary: On July 29, UAE National Security Advisor Sheikh Hazza and USSC LtG Dayton discussed efforts to support the Palestinian Authority. USSC Dayton urged the UAE to coordinate its security assistance efforts with the USG and stated that he would be coordinating Palestinian security [...] | 2007-07-30 10:16:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | KPAL MASS MARR PTER IS IR AE |
07ABUDHABI1292 | SCENE SETTER FOR VISIT TO UAE BY U/S BURNS AND U/S [...] (S) U/S Burns and U/S Levey: Embassy Abu Dhabi looks forward to your upcoming visit to the UAE. Your meetings with UAE's leaders come at a time when their attention is focused on U.S. policy in the Middle East and what this might mean to the UAE in the context of the violence in Iraq and Ira [...] | 2007-08-01 13:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PARM MOPS MARR IR LE AE |
07ABUDHABI1377 | ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE SENIOR ADVISOR REVIEWS [...] (C) CODEL Graham (Sen. Lindsey Graham, Rep. Henry Wood, and Rep. Robert Ingilis -- all R-SC) discussed Iran, Iraq, and economic issues August 12 with Yousef al-Otaiba, International Affairs Director for Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ). Citing the mutual benefits of UAE invest [...] | 2007-08-16 15:00:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF ETRD IZ AE |
07ABUDHABI1567 | UAE DISMISSES ACADEMICS WITH PRESUMED ISLAMIST [...] (C) Summary: Reports of educators removed from the classroom for alleged "Islamist" tendencies are circulating in the UAE, with estimates of the number of those dismissed reaching as high as 92. One English teacher well known to the PA Section was told not to report to work when the new sem [...] | 2007-09-20 05:51:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SCUL AE |
07ABUDHABI1854 | UAE APPRECIATES AMBASSADOR CROCKER'S ENGAGEMENT ON [...] (S) Ambassador Crocker met November 1 with UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) and Deputy Prime Minister Hamdan bin Zayed al-Nahyan. Both expressed appreciation for USG engagement on Iraq and the Ambassador's visit to consult with them. Crocker told the UAE leaders he had come not [...] | 2007-11-06 15:30:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PTER PARM MOPS IR IZ AE |
07ABUDHABI1865 | UAE DRAFT 2008 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] (U) The following is our draft text for the 2008 National Trade Estimate Report. As instructed, a word document has been e-mailed directly to USTR. Begin Text UNITED ARAB EMIRATES TRADE SUMMARY The U.S. goods trade surplus with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was $6.21 billion thro [...] | 2007-11-08 07:16:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EAGR AE |
07ABUDHABI1898 | UAE SKEPTICISM ON SOVEREIGN WEALTH INITIATIVES; [...] (C) Summary. UAE government and finance officials remain skeptical over U.S. and international sovereign wealth fund initiatives, but eagerly await additional details to further evaluate. UAE-based investment firms cite increased political risk surrounding foreign investment in the U.S., and ar [...] | 2007-11-19 11:53:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | AE ECON EFIN KTFN PREL PTER EINV |
07ABUDHABI1899 | ADIA APPROVES SWF TRILATERAL GROUP; NO DECISION [...] (C) Summary. Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) Managing Director Sheikh Ahmed bin Zayed al Nahyan green lighted UAE's participation in a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) trilateral group proposed by Treasury U/S McCormick (ref). The proposed consultative group will include ADIA, the Government [...] | 2007-11-19 12:16:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | AE ECON |
07ABUDHABI193 | Abu Dhabi Company Buys CMS Subsidiary [...] On February 6, CMS Energy (based in Jackson, Michigan) and the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) announced that Taqa would buy CMS' businesses in the Middle East, Africa, and India for $900 million. CMS announced that the sale would accelerate its financial recovery and allow an increas [...] | 2007-02-07 10:49:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD AE |
07ABUDHABI1939 | MBZ LOOKS TO U.S. MARINE CORPS FOR TACTICAL TRAINING [...] (S) Summary: Over lunch in Abu Dhabi November 21, Commandant of the Marine Corps General James T. Conway and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) discussed the dynamics of terrorism, the need to root extremism out of education, and the proper role of the mosque. MbZ said the UAE w [...] | 2007-11-27 13:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PTER PARM MOPS MARR AF PK AE |
07ABUDHABI1999 | UAE Foreign Minister on Paris Donors' Conference, Iran, and [...] (C) In a one-on-one meeting with Ambassador December 13 afternoon, Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) covered regional issues, including support for the Palestinian Authority, the Iranian President's appearance at the recent GCC Summit, the NIE, and the need to encourage rapid Lebanese p [...] | 2007-12-13 13:40:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG KPAL PARM MNUC KNNP IS IR AE |
07ABUDHABI294 | MEDIA REACTION: LEBANON/RICE MEETING/IRAQ [...] Summary: The editorial in "Al-Khaleej" wondered how Bush could expect to win Arabs' or Iraqis' trust when he is not able to win the trust of U.S. Senators. The editorial in "Al-Khaleej" opines that all that the United States does in the region is for Israel. The editorial in "Al-Bayan" views [...] | 2007-02-20 12:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | IIP KMDR TC |
07ABUDHABI368 | UAE 2007 TIP REPORT [...] (U) Following is Post's submission of the 2007 Trafficking in Persons Report for the United Arab Emirates, covering the reporting period of April 2006 through March 2007. Responses under each section heading are keyed to the relevant sections of reftel paragraphs 27-30. Embassy TIP point o [...] | 2007-03-05 15:27:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC AE |
07ABUDHABI387 | UAE OFFICIALS DISCUSS GCC MONETARY UNION WITH [...] (C) Summary. On January 21 and 22, UAEG officials and local economists discussed perspective on challenges to the planned 2010 GCC currency union and the peg to the dollar. UAEG officials, while acknowledging the difficulties facing the currency union argued that its benefits outweighed the c [...] | 2007-03-08 10:42:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV ETRD ECON AE |
07ABUDHABI474 | UAE AGREES IN PRINCIPLE TO VISIT BY USG ASSESSMENT [...] (S) Summary: The commander of UAE's Critical National Infrastructure Force told Ambassador and visiting Department Senior Coordinator for Critical Energy Infrastructure Policy that he -- in principle -- welcomed a visit from a U.S. assessment team. He said that the UAE was creating a unified [...] | 2007-03-20 08:31:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | EPET ENRG EINV PTER KCIP AE |
07ABUDHABI606 | CWC - UAE/U.S. HOST COUNTRY AGREEMENT - NOT YET [...] (C/NF) On April 10, Econchief met with MFA Director of International Organizations (and MFA representative the UAE's Non-Proliferation committee) Yacoub Al-Hosani to ask about the status of the host country agreement on the conduct of Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) Inspections. Al-Hosani wa [...] | 2007-04-12 13:18:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KTIA PARM PREL CWC AE |
07ABUDHABI683 | INTERNATIONAL COMPACT ON IRAQ (ICI) - UAE ATTENDANCE AND [...] (C) On April 19 Ambassador spoke to UAE FM Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) to press for high level attendance at the May 3 International Compact on Iraq, preferably AbZ himself. Ambassador also raised the issue of UAE's forgiveness of Iraqi debt (Paris Club terms, following Saudi Arabia's April 17 ann [...] | 2007-04-24 15:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID EFIN IR PGOV PREL IZ AE |
07ABUDHABI876 | FOLLOW-UP ON UAE RESPONSE TO LEBANESE REQUEST FOR [...] (U) Action request. Please see paras 9 and 10. 2. (C) On May 24, Col. Jack McGuinness (Ret.),Military Advisor to Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ),provided Embassy with the text of a message he sent to UAE Director Military Intelligence Brigadier Eissa Saif al Mazrouie an [...] | 2007-05-24 14:03:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS LE AE |
07ABUDHABI910 | ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE MEETS WITH SENATOR LIEBERMAN [...] (S) Summary. Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ) received U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman at his Palace in Abu Dhabi on May 29. MbZ encouraged increased communication and planning in face of a "resurgent" Persian Empire [...] | 2007-06-03 10:39:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PREL PTER IR IZ SA AE |
07ABUDHABI956 | AFGHAN DEFMIN WARDAK MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (S) Summary: On June 8, Afghan Minister of Defense General Wardak told Ambassador that Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan has informed President Karzai that the UAE would donate nine Mi-19 helicopters to Afghanistan. General Wardak has passed the UAE and other donor c [...] | 2007-06-10 12:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | MASS MOPS MCAP PREL AF AE |
07ABUDHABI97 | U/S BURNS' JANUARY 22 MEETING WITH ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE [...] (S) Summary. UAE FM Abdullah bin Zayed (AbZ) sketched for U/S Burns his impressions during a January 9 visit to Tehran. Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed (MbZ) in a wide-ranging discussion expressed strong reservations about free elections in the Middle East, stating that greater democra [...] | 2007-01-24 12:50:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER KPAL ETTC IZ IR IS SY LE AE |
07ABUJA2007 | (S/NF) NIGERIA: IDENTIFYING "CREDIBLE VOICES" [...] (S//NF) Per Ref A request, names follow of "credible voices" in Nigeria's Muslim communities. 2. (S//NF) Shaykh Sharif Ibrahim Saleh AL-HUSSAINI (See Ref B) (A) INFLUENCE: Al-Hussaini enjoys popularity throughout Nigeria, particularly in the North-East, and is viewed as an authority on I [...] | 2007-09-14 12:58:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | KISL PINR NI |
07ABUJA215 | INSIDER'S VIEW OF ABUJA MUSLIM COMMUNITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 31, PolOff met with Abuja-based Imam and 2005 International Visitor Program grantee Fouad Adeyemi, founder and director of al-Habibiyyah Islamic Society. Imam Fouad disclosed that he is presently teaching a course on the fundamentals of Islamic worship and belief to m [...] | 2007-02-02 08:42:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KISL KDEM SOCI SCUL OEXC NI ELECTIONS |
07ABUJA2178 | COMMERCE MINISTER PROPOSE DECEMBER TIFA; SEEKS INCREASED US [...] (SBU) Summary. Minister of Commerce and Industry Charles Ugwuh proposed December 10-11 as possible dates for the Trade Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) 2007 Council meeting in Abuja. He said the Nigeria government (GON) is enthusiastic, but has yet to discuss an inter-agency approved age [...] | 2007-10-10 15:24:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV EAID NI |
07ABUJA2230 | NIGERIA: SHARIA, STILL POLITICALLY RELEVANT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nafiu Ahmed, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria (SCSN),excoriated former Zamfara governor Ahmed Yerima for manipulating the sentiments of average northern Nigerians in his 2000 bid to re-introduce Sharia criminal law across 12 northern states. However, [...] | 2007-10-19 15:15:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM KISL NI |
07ABUJA2320 | NIGERIA: GOVT. PRACTICES - INFO COLLECTION, [...] (C) Below are responses to reftel information request on GON information collecting, screening and sharing. A. Watchlisting (C) The government of Nigeria (GON) maintains a watchlist which consists of binders with names and photographs of individuals of interest, coded by threat (terrorist [...] | 2007-11-01 10:40:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS SNAR |
07ABUJA2632 | NIGERIA: ASARI BELIEVES CONVERSION OF YOUTH TO [...] (S//NF) Maitama Sule (strictly protect) told PolOff on December 19 that Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, leader of the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF),has paid several visits to him in Kano since Asari's June 14 release from prison (Ref B). Former Nigerian ambassador to the United Nations [...] | 2007-12-31 15:57:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINR NI |
07ABUJA270 | SULTAN PLEDGES TO TARGET POLIO, HIV/AIDS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador paid a February 4 courtesy call on the newly appointed Sultan of Sokoto, Mohammadu Sa'ad Abubakar. The Sultan praised USG efforts to reach out to the Muslim community in northern Nigeria and pledged to use his time in office to call on Muslims to combat the spread [...] | 2007-02-12 16:00:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KISL NI |
07ABUJA484 | AMIN CHAIRMAN WARNS OF EXTREMISM, PLEDGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 6, Poloff met with Sheikh Sharif Ibrahim Saleh Al-Hussaini, Chairman of the Assembly of Muslims in Nigeria (AMIN),at his Abuja residence. Sheikh Al-Hussaini is also Chairman of the Fatwa Committee of both the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs in Nigeria and the Jama'a [...] | 2007-03-13 13:45:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KISL PTER SOCI NI |
07ABUJA869 | PRESIDENT-ELECT YAR'ADUA: BIO INFORMATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. Nigeria's president-elect Umaru Musa Yar'adua is relatively unknown both within and outside the country. Yar'adua (a soft-spoken, introvert) is now faced with the daunting task of uniting the country following elections termed as the worst in Nigerian history and disproving the po [...] | 2007-05-04 09:17:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR NI ELECTIONS |
07ABUJA968 | SHAYKH MINIMIZES MILITANCY PROSPECTS IN NORTH, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 10, PolOffs met with Kano State Government Senior Adviser on Religious Affairs and respected Islamic scholar Shaykh Aminudeed Abubakar who provided insight into the religious landscape of Kano. He minimized the potential for militancy in northern Nigeria, claiming that Ni [...] | 2007-05-18 12:10:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KISL NI |
07ACCRA483 | GHANA AT 50: A WORLD VIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: This is the seventh and final in a series of scene setter cables looking at Ghana at 50 and the third looking at Ghana's external relations. Throughout its history Ghana has been independent and vocal on the international stage. It has preferred multilateral solutions, espe [...] | 2007-03-01 18:05:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BR CH ECON GH IN PGOV PHUM PREL RS |
07ADANA123 | TURKEY: ADANA'S STAGNANT ECONOMY STILL AWAITING BTC-FUELED [...] (U) SUMMARY. Adana's business leaders are starting to develop alternatives to the big business-driven model that characterized the city's early growth. While an overvalued lira, financial mismanagement and removal of textile quotas in 2005 have led to closures of several large textile busin [...] | 2007-10-31 10:16:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET PREL ENRG TU |
07ADDISABABA104 | ETHIOPIA: SEN. BROWNBACK CONFERS WITH PM MELES ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Meles briefed Sen. Brownback and his staff on Ethiopia's military operation in Somalia during a Jan. 12 meeting. Meles said that the GOE had learned from U.S. interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan that it was essential to place the burden for establishing security and political [...] | 2007-01-16 07:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL MOPS ET |
07ADDISABABA1079 | SOMALIA: TFG REACHES OUT TO HAWIYE, BUT PLANS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Somalia's Ambassador to Ethiopia and PermRep to the African Union, Abdulkarim Farah, disputed reports of inter-clan tensions between the Darood (President Abdullahi Yusuf's clan) and Hawiye who control Mogadishu, asserting they were exaggerated by disenchanted Hawiye/Habr-Gedir/Ay [...] | 2007-04-11 08:02:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS EAID KDEM ET SO QA CA |
07ADDISABABA1234 | SOMALIA: TFG PRESIDENT YUSUF HIGHLIGHTS ROLE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an April 20 meeting with Ambassador, visiting Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) President Abdullahi Yusuf said the security situation in Somalia was improving, but that Council of Islamic Court (CIC) remnants in Mogadishu continued to provoke the TFG. While the [...] | 2007-04-20 13:27:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO SO ET DJ QA EG IR |
07ADDISABABA1381 | ETHIOPIA: GOE ADDRESSES RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN JIMA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a three-day visit to the Jima area in Ethiopia's Oromiya Region, Poloff and FSN met with local government and religious leaders to better understand the causes of recurrent religious conflicts, including an October 2006 machete attack by Muslims that killed or injured 36 Chr [...] | 2007-05-08 04:53:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PTER KISL KIRF ET |
07ADDISABABA1456 | AF DAS SWAN CONSULTATIONS ON SOMALIA WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. In May 11 consultations with AF DAS Swan and Ambassador Yates, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Tekeda Alemu agreed that the current success of military operations in Somalia afforded a short-term opportunity for Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) President Abdull [...] | 2007-05-15 05:29:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SO ET EG |
07ADDISABABA1457 | AF DAS SWAN CONSULTATIONS ON SOMALIA WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. In May 11 consultations with AF DAS Swan and Ambassador Yates, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Tekeda Alemu agreed that the current success of military operations in Somalia afforded a short-term opportunity for Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) President Abdull [...] | 2007-05-15 05:29:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER SO ET EG |
07ADDISABABA1531 | SOMALIA: ETHIOPIAN STATE MINISTER TEKEDA DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a follow-up to May 11 consultations with AF DAS Swan, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Tekeda presented a GOE non-paper on May 15 to visiting Ambassador John Yates and Ambassador, expressing Ethiopia's shared concerns about the need for Transitional Federal Government of Som [...] | 2007-05-21 13:52:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KPKO SO ET |
07ADDISABABA1549 | SOMALIA: AF DAS SWAN CONSULTATIONS WITH EU ENVOY [...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 11, Jean-Christophe Belliard, Personal Envoy for Somalia of EU High Representative for Foreign and Defense Policy Javier Solana, informed visiting AF DAS Jim Swan and Special Envoy to Somalia-designate Ambassador John Yates of recent consultations held separately with Ethi [...] | 2007-05-22 14:24:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KISL ET SO |
07ADDISABABA181 | SOMALIA: TFG AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE TO GERMANY [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a January 22 meeting with deputy pol-econ counselor and German DCM, Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG) Embassy counselor Abdisalam Warsame Hassan reviewed recent developments in Somalia. TFG President Yusuf had not been harmed by the January 19 mortar attack on the [...] | 2007-01-23 14:37:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS SO ET |
07ADDISABABA2185 | SOMALI TFG AMBASSADOR REVIEWS SOMALILAND, AMISOM, [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to Ambassador Abdulkarim Farah, the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia's (TFG) Ambassador to Ethiopia and PermRep to the African Union, African foreign ministers meeting in Accra unanimously rejected a Ghanaian motion to establish an AU committee to examine Soma [...] | 2007-07-13 08:18:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS KPKO SO ET ER AU BN |
07ADDISABABA2392 | SOMALI TFG PRIME MINISTER GHEDI OPTIMISTIC ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi, accompanied by TFG Foreign Minister Hussein Elabe Fahiye, informed Ambassador on July 27 that earlier meetings with AU Commission Chairperson Konare and French FM Kouchner "went well," with Kouchne [...] | 2007-07-30 15:50:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KPKO SO EG QA |
07ADDISABABA2472 | ETHIOPIA: GIRLS LEAVING ORPHANAGES: A VULNERABLE [...] SUMMARY: A conversation with girls in a government-run children's home in Addis Ababa indicates limited economic options exist for this vulnerable population. Government support after age 18 is minimal, and the girls are not prepared for an independent life. One of the potential livelihoods [...] | 2007-08-07 10:21:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM ECON ELAB ET KWMN SOCI |
07ADDISABABA2710 | MELES DISCUSSES REGIONAL EVENTS WITH CJTF-HOA [...] (S/NF) Prime Minister Meles thanked Admiral Hart August 30 for Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa's (CJTF-HOA) civil affairs projects, logistical support, and training for the Ethiopian military. The Prime Minister lamented that Ethiopia bears the primary burden in Somalia for providing [...] | 2007-09-01 07:56:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MOPS SO ET SU ER |
07ADDISABABA2737 | SHEIK AL AMOUDI DISCUSSES BUSINESS AND POLITICAL CLIMATE [...] Sheik Mohammed Hussein Ali Al-Amoudi is Ethiopia's most prominent business leader. Born in Ethiopia to an Ethiopian mother and Yemeni father, he moved to Saudi Arabia in 1963. His holdings are vast and multinational, ranging from the two largest refineries in northern Europe to Sheraton Hotel [...] | 2007-09-06 14:24:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ENRG EAGR EINV PGOV PINR BIOS ET |
07ADDISABABA2945 | IFTAR with Addis Ababa's poorest [...] Ambassador and Political Specialist have quietly and without publicity visited three mosques during the past two weeks, meeting with clerics and distributing food to some of Addis Ababa's poorest people during the Iftar breaking of the fast at sunset. While these "Iftars for the Poor" have bee [...] | 2007-10-01 14:19:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KISL PREL ET |
07ADDISABABA302 | ETHIOPIA'S MUSLIM COMMUNITY: FIGHTING TO PRESERVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ethiopia's recent military incursion into Muslim Somalia, combined with several widely-reported earlier incidents of Christian-Muslim violence in the rural areas, have prompted quiet discussions among Muslims and Christians alike about whether or not Ethiopia's much vaunted religi [...] | 2007-01-31 13:57:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | KISL PGOV PREL ET |
07ADDISABABA327 | AU SUMMIT: ETHIOPIA FOREIGN MINISTER HIGHLIGHTS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum advised Assistant Secretary Frazer on the imperative nature of the international community to commit resources to help Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) stabilize Somalia. He stressed the urgency and the importance of ensuring a suc [...] | 2007-02-03 09:52:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET | PREL EAID MOPS SO ET ER IT SA AU |
07ADDISABABA3334 | USAID FIELD ASSESSMENT IN THE OGADEN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A small USAID team traveled to conflict-affected areas of the Ogaden November 4-8, 2007 to try to obtain some ground truth on humanitarian, conflict and commercial trade conditions. Following the field assessment, USAID confirms the situation to be very serious and a continued ca [...] | 2007-11-15 14:15:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
07ADDISABABA3368 | ETHIOPIA: MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW FOR OCTOBER 2007 [...] SUMMARY -- Joseph Stiglitz cites Ethiopia's impressive economic growth. -- Consumer Price Index (CPI) continues to rise: General inflation reached 19.3% and food inflation 29.2% in October. -- The Birr continues to depreciate: the official exchange rate continues a slow crawl, but the pa [...] | 2007-11-21 12:10:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
07ADDISABABA557 | ETHIOPIA: PRIME MINISTER MELES ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: Ambassador and Prime Minister Meles discussed on February 21 the return of NDI and other USG sponsored programs to build the capacity of the anticipated new National Electoral Board as the nation prepares for local elections. The PM also remarked that it is important not to impo [...] | 2007-02-26 05:42:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET | PGOV PHUM KREL ET ER |
07ADDISABABA812 | ETHIOPIA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT (PART 2 - [...] (U) Per reftel, Post provides the following input on trafficking in persons issues in Ethiopia. (Due to length of information reported, responses are being reported in two complementary cables.) 2. (U) Responses are keyed to questions in paragraphs 27-30 of reftel. 3. (SBU) QUESTION 29 [...] | 2007-03-16 06:53:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF ET |
07ADDISABABA813 | ETHIOPIA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT (PART 1 - OVERVIEW [...] (U) Per reftel, Post provides the following input on trafficking in persons issues in Ethiopia. (Due to length of information reported, responses are being reported in two complementary cables.) 2. (U) Embassy point of contact: Pol/Econ Officer Kimberly E. Wright, office: +251 (11) 517-41 [...] | 2007-03-16 06:53:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF ET |
07AITTAIPEI1269 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-06 08:58:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
07AITTAIPEI712 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, IRAN [...] Summary: As the 2008 presidential elections and the alleged scandal involving the privatization of the Taiwan Television Enterprise continued to receive considerable coverage in the Taiwan media on March 28, news coverage also focused on Legislative Yuan Speaker Wang Jin-pyng's planned trip to [...] | 2007-03-28 08:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
07AITTAIPEI98 | MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT BUSH'S IRAQ SECURITY PLAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to give extensive reporting and editorial coverage January 12 to the alleged violation of securities transaction regulations of the Rebar Asia Pacific Group. News coverage also focused on President Chen Shui-bian's trip to Nicaragua a [...] | 2007-01-15 22:40:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
07ALGIERS1140 | AHMADINEJAD VISITS ALGIERS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad's August 6-7 visit to Algiers generated significant noise, but apparently little of substance. The press, responding to a pre-visit public relations effort by the Iranian embassy here, obligingly described the Ahmadinejad visit as part the "r [...] | 2007-08-13 08:17:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER OPEC ENRG ETRD KISL KNNP IR AG |
07ALGIERS931 | CONTINUING TO ENGAGE NGOS AND MFA ON TIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the June 12 release of the 2007 Trafficking in Persons report, we are continuing to engage NGOs and the Algerian government on TIP. The GOA feels it has been unfairly lumped into Tier 3 status with countries whose TIP problem it considers to be more severe. The GOA in [...] | 2007-07-02 08:00:00 | Embassy Algiers | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KWMN PREL AG |
07AMMAN1005 | NEA DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY BUTLER,S MEETINGS [...] (C) In separate meetings in Amman with the Jordanian Foreign Minister and the Amman-based Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, DAS Butler discussed perceptions of the Iraqi government, the Baghdad Security Plan, the International Compact for Iraq, and displaced Iraqis. [...] | 2007-03-06 06:24:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PREF JO IZ |
07AMMAN1150 | JORDANIAN VIEWS ON JAPAN'S "CORRIDOR OF PEACE AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jordan has been discussing a number of Jordan Valley projects with the Israelis over the past several years. Several would be contingent upon financial support from Japan. All are likely to be discussed in the four-party talks between Japan, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian T [...] | 2007-03-13 14:45:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EAGR ELTN PREL KPAL IS JO JP |
07AMMAN1479 | LIBERALIZATION OF FUEL PRICES POSTPONED [...] (C) Summary: As it prepares for municipal and parliamentary elections in the summer and fall of this year, the GOJ has deferred its earlier plan to completely eliminate oil subsidies and liberalize all fuel prices by March 2007. The Secretary General of the Finance Ministry privately lamented [...] | 2007-04-04 14:54:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EFIN ECON PGOV SOCI JO |
07AMMAN1541 | SCENESETTER FOR SECDEF GATES' VISIT TO JORDAN [...] (C) King Abdullah and the Jordanian government are looking forward to your visit here. The Jordanian government plays a key role in the administration's top priorities in the region, including the effort in Iraq, reviving progress toward a Palestinian-Israeli settlement and broader Arab-Isr [...] | 2007-04-11 14:42:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR JO |
07AMMAN1697 | 5TH MENA-FATF PLENARY [...] (U) Summary: Jordan hosted and presided over the fifth plenary of the Middle East North Africa Financial Action Task Force (MENA-FATF) from April2-4 at the Dead Sea. Over the course of the plenary, delegates endorsed a World Bank anti-money laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (A [...] | 2007-04-19 12:48:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN PTER PREL XF JO |
07AMMAN2464 | KING AND SENIOR OFFICIALS WELCOME CODEL LEAHY [...] (S) Summary: King Abdullah told Codel Leahy that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the key issue facing Jordan, time was running out to make progress, and soon a two-state solution may not be perceived as feasible. The King urged Democrats and Republicans to present a unified position on [...] | 2007-06-10 06:36:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL KPAL IS JO IZ IR SY |
07AMMAN3043 | GENERALLY POSITIVE JORDANIAN REACTION TO POTUS [...] (C) Summary. Jordanian reaction to the President,s speech among political contacts has been generally positive, with a strong emphasis on the call for an international conference. Those we canvassed were hopeful, although with a definite "wait-and-see" approach on the parts of some and outri [...] | 2007-07-17 13:55:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL JO |
07AMMAN3057 | IRAQ/IRAN: AMMAN MEETING WITH IRAQI SHI'A CLERIC [...] (S) Iraqi Shi'a clerical insider Jawad al-Khoe'i (strictly protect),outlined to Emboff his views on the current situation in Iraq and Iran (where he has been studying for ten of the last twelve years),political developments in the Hawza, and ongoing Iranian interference in Iraq. Jawad a [...] | 2007-07-18 12:13:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ IR JO |
07AMMAN3162 | JORDANIAN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS: THE ISLAMIST - [...] (SBU) Municipal election campaigning is in full swing across Jordan with an explosion of posters, rallies, and spontaneous political salons throughout the country. (The political environment in Amman itself, by contrast, remains subdued, given that the mayor and half the municipal council are [...] | 2007-07-26 07:33:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KISL JO |
07AMMAN3286 | CHANGE IS IN THE AIR: JORDAN'S AVIATION PRIVATIZATION [...] (U) Summary: Several privatization and restructuring efforts continue in Jordan's aviation sector with the support of the King and Parliament (ref A). The Cabinet approved privatization of 74% of Royal Jordanian's stock shares. A contract has been signed for the expansion and private manageme [...] | 2007-08-02 13:54:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EINV KPRV JO |
07AMMAN3472 | JORDAN SEES SLIGHT INCREASE IN TRADE DEFICIT AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Jordan saw its trade deficit widen slightly to USD 3.4 billion during the first half of 2007, due to imports that more than doubled rising exports. Despite an overall increase in total national exports, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) reported that apparel exports to [...] | 2007-08-19 13:17:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ELAB EAID IS IZ JO |
07AMMAN3582 | IRAQIS IN JORDAN TELL CODEL LEVIN - DUMP MALIKI, [...] (C) In multiple meetings with prominent Iraqis living or transiting Jordan, CODEL Levin was told that the U.S. should stop supporting the Maliki government and should support a parliamentary move by moderate, non-sectarian forces in the Iraqi parliament to bring about a new government, likely t [...] | 2007-08-26 14:55:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER JO IZ |
07AMMAN3583 | IRAQIS IN JORDAN TELL CODEL LEVIN - DUMP MALIKI, [...] (C) In multiple meetings with prominent Iraqis living or transiting Jordan, CODEL Levin was told that the U.S. should stop supporting the Maliki government and should support a parliamentary move by moderate, non-sectarian forces in the Iraqi parliament to bring about a new government, likely t [...] | 2007-08-26 15:23:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER JO IZ |
07AMMAN3806 | The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Balancing Development and [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) manages the city of Aqaba and its surrounding 26 kilometers of Jordanian coastline. Roughly 30 percent of this strategic and precious real estate is a protected marine habitat. During meetings regarding environmental issues in [...] | 2007-09-13 11:24:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ETRD EAID PGOV JO |
07AMMAN3812 | PRIVATIZATION IN JORDAN: MOVING TO PUBLIC-PRIVATE [...] (U) Summary: Having begun privatization of its significant assets in 1999, the Government of Jordan (GOJ) currently has projects underway in energy, grain storage, and water. The nature of these efforts has begun changing from privatization to "public-private partnerships (PPP)" due to a decli [...] | 2007-09-13 14:41:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EINV KPRV JO |
07AMMAN3909 | Jordan's Economic Zones Aim to Attract Investment and [...] Summary: Jordan has taken an approach of developing geographically delineated, policy-favored commercial zones to attract investment and promote economic development. In addition to industrial estates and free zones, King Abdullah recently announced the launch of a fourth economic developmen [...] | 2007-09-23 04:51:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PGOV JO |
07AMMAN4015 | FIRST UNSCR 1540 OUTREACH IN ARAB REGION PROMOTES [...] (U) Summary. The Regional Seminar, "Implementing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) for Arab States," took place on 4-5 September 2007 in Amman, Jordan. Jordan hosted the workshop jointly with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UN ODA) in close cooperation w [...] | 2007-09-27 13:36:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP EU OSCE ARF |
07AMMAN4074 | GULF TRAVELERS CONTRIBUTE TO A SUCCESSFUL SUMMER TOURISM [...] (U) Summary: As of the end of August 2007, the number of Gulf state-based tourists visiting Jordan had increased 3.4% compared to the same 8-month period in 2006. Gulf tourists visit Jordan primarily in the summer for the relatively temperate weather, family entertainment, and common culture. [...] | 2007-10-03 11:59:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EIND JO |
07AMMAN4207 | REMITTANCES EQUAL ONE-FIFTH OF JORDAN'S GDP [...] (U) Summary: An estimated 260,000 Jordanians currently work abroad, many in information technology (IT) in the Gulf due to more opportunities and higher salaries. In 2006, remittances totaled $2.54 billion, equaling 19.6% of Jordan's gross domestic product, more than any single industry, and a [...] | 2007-10-17 11:01:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI JO |
07AMMAN4338 | DESPITE INCREASED REVENUES, SECOND BUDGET SUPPLEMENT NEEDED [...] (U) Summary: Jordan's 2007 budget and initial supplementary annex estimated USD 5.6 billion in total revenues, including foreign grants, and USD 6.1 billion in expenditures. While the GOJ's revenue projections are on-track, skyrocketing fuel subsidy costs have necessitated an additional USD 7 [...] | 2007-10-25 11:59:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECON ENRG PGOV JO |
07AMMAN4369 | KING ABDULLAH DISCUSSES IRAQ AND REGIONAL ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: King Abdullah said October 28 that Jordan sought strategic consultations and close coordination with the USG in the effort to help to restore stability to Iraq. He told visiting Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker that Jordan would continue to work with PM Maliki and planned to send [...] | 2007-10-29 16:17:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET | PREL PGOV JO IZ |
07AMMAN4379 | FY08 PRIORITIES AND WORK-ITEMS FOR AMMAN ESTH HUB [...] The Amman ESTH Hub for the NEA Bureau was established in 1997. The current incumbent (Manu Bhalla) is the fourth Hub officer. He is supported by regional environmental specialist Rana Safadi, who has served with the Hub for eight years. Key Priorities and Work Items ----------------------- [...] | 2007-10-30 09:49:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TSPL TBIO ETRD EAID PGOV JO |
07AMMAN4444 | DESPITE CONCERNS, SENIOR OFFICIALS TELL AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a series of meetings with senior Jordanian government officials on October 28, Ambassador Crocker noted that the surge had been successful, stressed that opportunities remain to constrain Iran, and emphasized the importance and potential impact of an Arab diplomatic presence [...] | 2007-11-01 18:13:00 | Embassy Amman | SECRET//NOFORN | IZ JO PGOV PREL |
07AMMAN4599 | USPTO PROGRAM IN JORDAN BUILDS IPR AWARENESS AND NETWORKS [...] The United States Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA) conducted successful training on Law and Policy for Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Enforcement from November 5-8 in Jordan with the assistance of the Embassy and USAID. Over 100 representa [...] | 2007-11-18 09:56:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR PGOV JO IPR |
07AMMAN4663 | ON ANNAPOLIS, FLEETING HOPE LEAVENS LOW [...] (C) Summary: As the Annapolis conference approaches, we have been pulsing our Jordanian contacts on their expectations for the event, speaking to a broad range of Palestinians and East Bankers. While few of our contacts evinced optimism about the meeting, neither complaints about its expecte [...] | 2007-11-21 16:20:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL JO IS |
07AMMAN4676 | JORDAN'S NEW FOREIGN MINISTER: SALAH BASHIR [...] (C) Summary. Jordan's new, young, U.S.-educated Foreign Minister, Salah Bashir, is one of Jordan's leading reformists, and therefore a controversial figure among traditionalists threatened by change. As a dynamic, reforming Justice Minister, Bashir suffered a backlash against his merit-based [...] | 2007-11-25 14:00:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR JO |
07AMMAN4678 | U.S. Remains Jordan's Top Trading Partner as Jordan Builds [...] Summary: Jordan's trade deficit increased 12.3 percent to JD 3.807 billion (USD 5.377 billion) during the first nine months of 2007. Although exports to the United States have slightly decreased in 2007, Jordan has increased imports of American goods by approximately 8.1%, yielding an overa [...] | 2007-11-25 14:03:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EAGR WTRO JO |
07AMMAN4692 | JORDAN'S NEW KAMIKAZE CABINET [...] (C) Summary. Jordan's new, technocratic cabinet is led by a Prime Minister with a track record of delivering on the King's economic reform agenda. His cabinet colleagues include some of Jordan's best-known reformists, among them four women. The poor showing of the King's main opposition, t [...] | 2007-11-26 16:50:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR JO |
07AMMAN4717 | WIMAX ROLLS OUT IN JORDAN WITH GOAL OF HIGHER BROADBAND [...] (U) Summary: Telecommunications companies Umniah and Batelco Jordan jointly launched Jordan's first WiMAX Internet service (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) on November 12. Service is now available in Amman and Aqaba, with plans to expand to two other cities. A second WiMAX eff [...] | 2007-11-28 09:43:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINT ECPS EINV TINT JO |
07AMMAN4737 | JORDAN'S OLD NEW PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Summary: As Jordan's new parliament convenes, early indications are that experienced members will at least initially guide the large numbers of newcomers. Five members will return as key players in the new parliament, and the race for speaker is not quite a done deal, but previous speake [...] | 2007-11-29 17:02:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV JO |
07AMMAN4773 | View That Iraqis in Jordan Are Only a Burden on the Economy [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The prevailing view shared by the Jordanian public and government officials is that the Iraqi presence has further strained Jordan's already stretched budget, with a significant negative impact on the education and health systems, and an inflationary impact on prices. After rev [...] | 2007-12-05 06:01:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREF PGOV JO IZ |
07AMMAN4961 | GOVERNMENT GETS RESOUNDING VOTE OF CONFIDENCE AS [...] (C) Summary. After presenting its platform to the newly elected parliament, the Dahabi government had its vote of confidence - by a historically high margin. Pledged to phase-out fuel and fodder subsidies early in 2008, the government is already facing skepticism in some quarters about its [...] | 2007-12-17 15:52:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM ECON JO |
07AMMAN4962 | Jordan's Pharmaceutical Industry Increasing Exports 50 [...] Summary: Pharmaceuticals continue to play a key role in bolstering Jordan's economy, particularly exports. During the first ten months of 2007, pharmaceutical exports increased almost 50 percent, reaching JD 253 million ($358 million). With over 40 years experience in the region and growing [...] | 2007-12-18 05:58:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD BTIO EINV KIPR JO |
07AMMAN5012 | Jordan at Maximum Alert for Avian Influenza Monitoring [...] Despite press reports suggesting an outbreak, Jordan has been at a maximum alert for monitoring avian influenza since late October. The alert level was activated with the onset of the annual wild-bird migratory season and also as a precaution to avert a possible spillover of bird flu from neig [...] | 2007-12-26 05:42:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU XF JO |
07AMMAN701 | FURTHER RESPONSE FROM GOJ ON UNSCR 1727, IRAN AND [...] (C) Elaborating on the GOJ's response (ref a) to ref B demarche, Bassem Awadallah, the director of the King's office, told Ambassador February 14 that the King made it "quite clear" to visiting Russian President Putin that Iran was a threat to the region and not to be trusted. Putin reportedl [...] | 2007-02-14 13:53:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR RU JO |
07AMMAN898 | SCENESETTER FOR JORDANIAN KING ABDULLAH'S VISIT [...] (C) King Abdullah left Amman February 27 for London. He will arrive in Boston February 28, and in Washington March 4. He is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress March 7. He met with Secretary Rice February 20. 2. (C) The Israeli-Palestinian conflict will again be at the top [...] | 2007-02-27 13:42:00 | Embassy Amman | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL IS IR IZ JO |
07ANKARA1229 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-21 13:46:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA1345 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-01 11:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA137 | TURKEY PROPOSES IRAQI RECONCILIATION CONFERENCE, [...] (C) Summary: Turkey supports the U.S.'s strategy for Iraq but remains deeply concerned about the lack of political consensus in Baghdad or the PKK and Kirkuk issues, GOT Special Envoy for Iraq Celikkol told visiting PDAS James Jeffrey on Jan. 19. Jeffrey explained the thinking behind the Pres [...] | 2007-01-24 12:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER TU IZ IR |
07ANKARA1556 | TURKISH MFA CONSULTATIONS WITH IRAN [...] (C) Summary: MFA Deputy Undersecretary for the Middle East and South Asia Feridun Sinirlioglu used his consultations in Tehran June 10-14 to review developments in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon. In debriefing Ambassador June 15, Sinirlioglu said he pressed for but did not get an explanation [...] | 2007-06-18 15:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PGOV IZ AF IR TX TU |
07ANKARA1620 | TURKEY: POL-MIL ROUND-UP, May 2007 [...] The 8th International Defense Industry Fair (IDEF - the biennial Turkish defense fair) was held on May 22-25 in Ankara. 494 companies (333 foreign and 161 Turkish firms) from 48 countries participated in the fair, including 42 American companies. Many high level officials from different count [...] | 2007-06-25 13:11:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PREL GG MK BK AF GR EG AJ QA BA SA LE |
07ANKARA1952 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-31 08:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA1958 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-31 11:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA1960 | STAFFDEL GROVE'S MEETINGS WITH TURKISH MFA [...] (C) SUMMARY. A Senate Appropriations Committee staffdel led by Paul Grove discussed Russia, Iraq and Iran with Turkish MFA officials on July 26. Emphasizing the importance of Turkey's strategic partnership with the United States, the Turks stressed the damage to bilateral relations if the Ho [...] | 2007-07-31 13:07:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER OREP AJ AM IZ IR RS TU |
07ANKARA20 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-05 14:35:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA2067 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-13 14:39:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA2168 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-21 12:28:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA2207 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-27 15:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA2315 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-11 13:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA2460 | TURKEY PREPARING FOR IRAQ NEIGHBORS MINISTERIAL [...] (S) Summary: Turkish MFA Iraq Coordinator Oguz Celikkol met October 2 with Ambassador to outline Turkey's plans for the upcoming Iraq Neighbors Ministerial in Istanbul, November 2-3. Participants will finalize the statement during sub-ministerial planning sessions on November 1-2. MFA is c [...] | 2007-10-03 12:21:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL IZ TU |
07ANKARA2587 | TURKEY: INTENSIVE MIDDLE EAST OUTREACH [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY. Turkish FM Babacan embarked on the second leg of an intensive period of Middle East and regional outreach this week. His October 17-19 visit to Egypt and Lebanon follows closely on the heels of his recent tour of Syria, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territories. As a [...] | 2007-10-19 08:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL IS IZ SA SY TU XF |
07ANKARA2640 | TURKEY: FM BABACAN CONTINUES REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Turkish FM Babacan continued his intensive outreach to Middle East neighbors with trips to Egypt and Lebanon while, concurrently, Syrian President Asad and FM Mualem visited Ankara. GOT officials continue to urge the SARG to stem the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq and to play [...] | 2007-10-25 08:58:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IS IZ LE SY TU XF |
07ANKARA2719 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-05 14:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA2749 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-09 13:43:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA2781 | GOT LAYS ANNAPOLIS MARKER WITH PERES, ABBAS [...] (SBU) Summary: As the first Israeli leader ever to speak before a predominantly Muslim parliament, President Shimon Peres joined Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in addressing the Turkish Grand National Assembly on November 13. In consecutive speeches, the two leaders expressed [...] | 2007-11-15 15:30:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KMDR TU IS |
07ANKARA279 | TURKEY: PAKISTANI PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF'S NEW [...] (C) Pakistani President Musharraf visited Ankara February 6, meeting wit President Sezer and Prime Minister Erdogan over the course of his one-day stay. According to MFA Deputy Director General for the Middle East Omer Onhon, Musharraf's meetings focused solely on what Onhon described as "Pak [...] | 2007-02-09 11:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PK TU |
07ANKARA2818 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-23 13:57:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA2826 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-26 14:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA2856 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-29 14:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA2985 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-17 14:48:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA3020 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-26 07:55:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA351 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-16 14:50:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA386 | IRAQI VP ABDEL MAHDI ASKS FOR TURKEY'S SUPPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-22 15:49:00 | Embassy Ankara | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV TU IZ |
07ANKARA418 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-26 15:29:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA493 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-05 15:23:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA519 | "MODERATE ISLAMIC" SUMMIT STILL UP IN THE AIR [...] (C) Summary: Timing for a follow-on summit to the February 24 Islamabad foreign ministers meeting on Middle East Peace remains unclear, according to Turkish MFA. Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkey are concerned that the effort not be perceived as an anti-Iran initiative. Saudi Arabia wa [...] | 2007-03-07 16:19:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU |
07ANKARA529 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-08 15:03:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA55 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-11 15:02:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA624 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-19 15:27:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA648 | THE TRUTH BEHIND THE AKP'S "SECRET ISLAMIC AGENDA" [...] (C) Summary. Ever since its victory in the 2002 general elections, rumours and suspicion have swirled around the ruling Justice and Development Party's (AKP) "secret" Islamist agenda. After more than four years in power, some doubters are relieved to find an AKP that appears conservative, We [...] | 2007-03-21 15:33:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON TU |
07ANKARA83 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-17 14:34:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
07ANKARA832 | TURKISH ANGER CONTINUES OVER SHIFT OF [...] (C) Summary: Turkish officials remain persuaded that the Iraqi Kurds, then the Egyptian and Iraqi governments, essentially conspired to shift the "neighbors-plus" ministerial from Istanbul to Egypt. They have serious doubts as to whether all neighbors will attend the meeting, though Turkey wi [...] | 2007-04-10 14:16:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU IZ EG |
07ANTANANARIVO109 | UPDATE ON THE MURDER OF MOHAMMED JAMAL KHALIFA [...] (U) Post is providing an update on the Mohammad Jamal Khalifa murder from a security and political standpoint. Below is an assessment by the Regional Security Officer (RSO) and the Political Office. 2. (S) On the security front, RSO continues to engage local Law Enforcement Officials concer [...] | 2007-02-05 13:54:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | SECRET | ASEC PTER MA |
07ANTANANARIVO1236 | BRINGING COMOROS INTO THE FOLD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As we look at the question of AGOA eligibility for Comoros, the two key interlocking issues are security and opportunity - and how each could be strengthened by AGOA. The Comoran people have a tragic history and few economic endowments; their most famous native son is infamous - [...] | 2007-12-12 13:23:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD ECON EAID KDEM CN |
07ANTANANARIVO128 | BUILDING A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE COMOROS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The U.S. Government is missing the opportunity to build a strong relationship with the Union of the Comoros. In light of the recently-completed Operational Plan process for the Comoros, Post considers that USD 100,000 in security assistance is inadequate to seriously advance tran [...] | 2007-02-08 14:09:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PTER PREL IR CN |
07ANTANANARIVO175 | Malagasy Gendarmes Arrest Three in Khalifa Murder [...] (SBU) Gendarmerie contacts confirmed to the RSO February 20 that three Malagasy men suspected in the murder of Jamal Khalifa were arrested in the southern part of Madagascar (reftels). A fourth suspect who attempted to flee was shot and killed. Police did not recover any of the stolen items a [...] | 2007-02-21 08:22:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER MA |
07ANTANANARIVO757 | COMOROS, THE COUNTRY DEBT-RELIEF LEFT BEHIND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: One of the world's poorest Muslim democracies, the Union of the Comoros has a stock of debt equal to 70 percent of GDP. If not for an annual influx of over USD 12 million in remittances from Comorans living abroad, the tiny country of 700,000 mostly subsistence farmers would f [...] | 2007-07-30 11:11:00 | Embassy Antananarivo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN IBRD IMF ECON EAID PREL CN |
07ASHGABAT1257 | TURKEMNISTAN'S PRESIDENT BERDIMUHAMEDOV AND SCA [...] (U) U.S. PARTICIPANTS: SCA PDAS Steven Mann Charge d,affaires Richard Hoagland TURKMENISTAN PARTICIPANTS: President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Rashit Meredov 2. (C) SUMMARY: President Berdimuhamedov continues to ask for cooperation in educati [...] | 2007-11-21 10:11:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AMGT SCUL TX |
07ASHGABAT1335 | "DUBAI ON THE CASPIAN" LIKELY TO STILL BE "LAKE ERIE ON A [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A December 3 business forum showcased multi-billion dollar, world-class plans for the Avaza Tourism Zone. World-renowned design companies, architectural firms, and developers are involved in the project, guaranteeing [...] | 2007-12-10 11:42:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EPET ECON ETRD TX |
07ASHGABAT408 | RUSSIA FIGHTS BACK: TURKMENISTAN'S BERDIMUHAMMEDOV [...] (C) President Berdimuhammedov's upcoming April 23-24 visit to Moscow, reported yesterday in Russian press, comes amidst growing signs that Russia is pushing hard to preserve its influence -* politically, economically, and in the cultural sphere -* in post-Niyazov Turkmenistan. Berdimuhammedov [...] | 2007-04-20 14:24:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV PINR PREL RS TX US |
07ASHGABAT430 | BERDIMUHAMMEDOV AND PUTIN DISCUSS INCREASED GAS [...] (C) Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov's April 23-24 working visit to Moscow, described by local press as "a political sensation," resulted in no written agreements but represented a step forward in the bilateral relationship. Energy discussions topped the Russian agenda, with R [...] | 2007-04-27 13:44:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET PGOV PREL RS SCUL TX |
07ASHGABAT501 | SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR NEUMANN: [...] (C) Ambassador Neumann, Embassy Ashgabat warmly welcomes your visit here, which offers us an opportunity to engage the Government of Turkmenistan on a more substantive level on the issue of assistance to Afghanistan. Turkmenistan's President Berdimuhammedov, after just a few months on the job, [...] | 2007-05-16 10:59:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SNAR TX AF US |
07ASHGABAT504 | TURKMENISTAN'S EMINENCE GRISE RELEASED FROM [...] (C) Rumors of shadowy Chief of the Presidential Security Service Akmurat Rejepov's expected departure from the government were confirmed by a May 15 presidential decree announcing his assignment to "other work." An additional -- and more surprising change in Turkmenistan's security structu [...] | 2007-05-16 11:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR PO TX |
07ASHGABAT845 | TURKMENISTAN: PRESIDENT TO USCIRF: "DID I PASS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The USCIRC meeting with President Berdimuhamedov was an honest give and take. The president told the delegation, "Take your time to meet whomever you want in Turkmenistan. Learn all you can. You'll probably fi [...] | 2007-08-20 10:37:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TX |
07ASHGABAT863 | MEREDOV DESCRIBES TURKMENISTAN'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] USCIRF Chairman Michael Cromartie kicked off the session by asking Meredov about the right of Muslim citizens to go on the Hajj, given recent reports that some applicants are refused exit visas. Meredov responded that there are no restrictions for those seeking to go, especially if they have [...] | 2007-08-22 12:29:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KDEM KIRF TX |
07ASMARA158 | REMITTANCES AND HARD CURRENCY: ERITREA'S LIFELINE [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: As the Government of Eritrea (GSE) and its sole political party, the PFDJ, continue to hold the Eritrean economy in a strangle-hold, the economy continues to circle the drain, making hard currency and remittances the critical factors for Eritrea's on-going economic survival. Th [...] | 2007-02-16 08:04:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PINR ECON EFIN ER |
07ASMARA316 | SOMALI MPS IN ERITREA DISCUSS VIEWS AND FUTURE [...] (C) Summary: On March 17, Poloff met with Abdikadir Dakane and Abdirahma "Ibbi" Haji Adan, both supporters of the former Somali Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan and one of the 42 members of parliament (MPs) of the Transitional Federal Government that fled Somalia in recent months. Calling th [...] | 2007-03-20 13:54:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR MOPS KPKO UNSC ER ET SO |
07ASMARA736 | MEETING WITH UNMEE DEPUTY CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER [...] (S) SUMMARY: RSO and UK Deputy Head of Mission (DHM) met September 6 with the UNMEE Deputy Chief Security Officer (DCSO) to discuss the security situation in Eritrea. DCSO, RSO and UK DHM agreed to start a Security Officer's Working Group that would meet on a monthly/as needed basis. This fi [...] | 2007-09-18 08:54:00 | Embassy Asmara | SECRET | ASEC PTER PINR PREL PGOV ER |
07ASMARA762 | ERITREA: TEXTILES AND APPAREL SECTOR [...] In response to reftel, post provides the short narrative below. The Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE) strictly controls the economy of Eritrea and nearly all of the industries. The GSE shares almost no information on the textile industry, (or other industries) publicly. To the best of p [...] | 2007-09-27 14:37:00 | Embassy Asmara | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KTEX ER |
07ASMARA892 | MEETING WITH THE SOMAIL EX-MPS: WHAT NEXT FOR THE [...] (C) Following the resignation of Prime Minister Gedi, Poloff met on November 6 with members of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS),ex-Parliamentarian Yusuf Hassan Ibrahim and Mohammed Sheikh, assistant to former Speaker of Parliament Sheik Aden. Yusuf, charged with the respon [...] | 2007-11-23 07:09:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC ER ET SO |
07ASMARA954 | ERITREA'S THREADBARE ECONOMY [...] (C) Summary: As Eritrea's exports total less than USD 20 million per year, how does the government fund one of the largest standing armies in Africa and keep the threadbare, statist economy from collapsing completely? A fairly modest amount of revenue accrues from the two percent diaspora ta [...] | 2007-12-18 12:04:00 | Embassy Asmara | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL MASS ER |
07ASTANA613 | KAZAKHSTAN SUBMISSIONS FOR 2007 TIP REPORT [...] SUMMARY: Post is pleased to submit the following information in response to reftel request. ------------------- OVERVIEW (PARA. 27) ------------------- 2. (SBU) (27A) Kazakhstan is a destination, transit, and source country for people trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexu [...] | 2007-03-07 12:05:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB |
07ASTANA614 | KAZAKHSTAN SUBMISSIONS FOR 2007 TIP REPORT [...] SUMMARY: Post is pleased to submit the following information in response to reftel request. ------------------- OVERVIEW (PARA. 27) ------------------- 2. (SBU) (27A) Kazakhstan is a destination, transit, and source country for people traffQked for the purposes of forced labor and sexua [...] | 2007-03-07 12:06:00 | Embassy Astana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB |
07BAGHDAD1009 | IRAQI PM DISCUSSES EXPANDED MINISTERIAL [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on March 23, PM Nuri al-Maliki confirmed that he wanted the expanded neighbors ministerial conference, which would include Iraq's neighboring countries, the G5, and the P8, to happen in conjunction with the next International Compact for Iraq (ICI) meeting. [...] | 2007-03-23 19:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1043 | POTENTIAL POLICY PLANNING INITIATIVE WITH IRAQI MFA [...] (U) The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has expressed an interest in establishing ties to the Department's Policy Planning staff and receiving training on strategic planning and dealing with longer term issues. Labid Abawi heads the MFA's policy planning staff and has reached out to t [...] | 2007-03-26 18:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1117 | AMBASSADOR WITH FM ZEBARI DISCUSS RIYADH SUMMIT, [...] (C) Summary: On March 30, the Foreign Minister warmly welcomed Ambassador Crocker to Iraq, accepted copies of his credentials, and discussed at some length the recent Arab League Summit in Riyadh. The GoI countered Saudi comments about an "illegal occupation" by noting Iraqi concurrence with [...] | 2007-03-31 15:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1157 | TALABANI WELCOMES AMBASSADOR, DISCUSSES ARAB [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari March 31 to present his credentials. They discussed Talabani's trip to Riyadh for the Arab Summit and the side meetings he held with other Arab leaders, including a discussion on Kirkuk and the P [...] | 2007-04-04 09:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SA IR SY IZ |
07BAGHDAD1162 | AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER [...] (S) Summary: During his introductory meeting with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Ambassador Crocker emphasized full U.S. support for the PM an his government. Maliki expressed concern about a lack of international support of Iraqi democracy, except from the U.S. He had not decided on a date [...] | 2007-04-04 12:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1164 | GOI PERSPECTIVES ON NEIGHBORS' CONFERENCE [...] (C) Summary: Subsequent to his April 1 discussion with the Foreign Minister (septel),the DCM engaged a number of GoI officials on the neighbors' conference. Continued skepticism of the potential gains of the conference, and fears of outside intervention, leave many in the GoI lukewarm about [...] | 2007-04-04 12:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1189 | INTERNATIONAL COMPACT FOR IRAQ/EXPANDED NEIGHBORS [...] (C) Summary: Following the Ambassador's intervention with Prime Minister Maliki late afternoon April 4, the Iraqis quickly finalized their internal agreement to pursue back-to-back conferences for the International Compact for Iraq (ICI) and Expanded Neighbors meeting, preferably in Egypt. [...] | 2007-04-06 17:43:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1226 | INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ: AMBASSADOR'S [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with UN Iraq Special Representative Gambari on April 7 to discuss the way ahead on the International Compact with Iraq (ICI). The following day Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih and Gambari co-chaired a meeting with ambassadors of the expanded prep group to announ [...] | 2007-04-09 10:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1365 | IRAQI FORCES' CHIEF SAYS U.S. SUPPORT VITAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 15 meeting, Commander General of the Iraqi Joint Headquarters Babakr Baderkhan Zibari told Senator Hagel and Representative Sestak that the Iraqi armed forces are growing in competence, loyalty, and numbers. Babakr said militia influence on the force was minimal and, c [...] | 2007-04-22 09:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PTER PREL PINS IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD1399 | KURDISTAN ISLAMIC UNION IN SULAIMANIYAH, IRAQI KURDISTAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The small Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) party has established a platform in favor of reform of the political party system in the Kurdistan Region to promote openness, a stronger economy, and broader political participation, according to several of its members. As a marginal par [...] | 2007-04-24 14:21:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD1430 | AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 25 MEETING WITH BULGARIAN [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: During an April 25 meeting with Ambassador Crocker, Valeri Ratchev, the Bulgarian Ambassador to Iraq, discussed Iraq-related issues that might be raised during President Bush's planned trip to Bulgaria in June and the upcoming International Compact Ministerial meeting at Sharm [...] | 2007-04-26 16:24:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS MARR ECON PTER PREL PGOV IZ BU AF |
07BAGHDAD1464 | DPM SALIH REVIEWS COMPACT DEALS [...] (SBU) Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih described to Treasury Attache on April 29 the results of a number of GOI efforts to engage the international community in advance of the launch of the International Compact on May 3 in Sharm el-Sheikh. These efforts have produced good progress securin [...] | 2007-04-30 15:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD1475 | INTERNATIONAL COMPACT, UPDATE FROM BAGHDAD [...] (SBU) Summary: Against the backdrop of intense diplomacy on the Neighbors' Conference and a difficult political environment, the Government of Iraq (GOI) has done a good job of getting international support for the Compact lined up. Given the relatively short lead time following the decision [...] | 2007-05-01 19:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD1620 | DEPUTY FM ON WORKING GROUPS: PARTICIPANTS [...] (C) Summary. In a May 14 meeting with PolCouns, Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abbawi updated on the status of working groups discussed at the March 10 Neighbors Conference and formalized at the May 4 Ministerial conference in Sharm el-Sheikh. The working groups will focus on border and secur [...] | 2007-05-19 11:44:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1646 | ADMIRAL FALLON URGES SIIC LEADER TO FOCUS ON [...] (C) Summary: In a May 12 meeting with Abdelaziz al-Hakim, leader of the newly renamed Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC),CENTCOM Commander Admiral William J. Fallon urged al-Hakim to use his leadership position to work toward reconciliation. Al-Hakim promised to do so, but noted that Iraq' [...] | 2007-05-20 16:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD1666 | MALIKI SAYS NEIGHBORS AND JAM ARE SERIOUS THREATS [...] (C/REL MNF-I) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told General Petraeus and the Ambassador May 17 that he was frustrated with his neighbors' continued treachery against him and Iraq. Maliki also expressed distress over Jaysh al-Mahdi and said he intended to act more aggressively against t [...] | 2007-05-22 01:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS MCAP PTER MARR PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD1696 | PM OF IRAQI KURDISTAN DISCOUNTS NATIONAL [...] (C) On May 17 outgoing Kurdistan Regional Coordinator Yellin, accompanied by incoming Acting Regional Coordinator Patterson, paid a farewell call on Nechirvan Barzani, the Prime Minister of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Barzani said that Iraqi Sunni and Shia Arabs will never [...] | 2007-05-23 01:41:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PINR ECON PREL US IR SY IZ |
07BAGHDAD1700 | KURDISH LEADERS DISCUSS POLITICAL PROGRESS, [...] (C) Summary: In a May 21 meeting with the Ambassador, DCM and Econ Counselor, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh, KRG PM Nechirvan Barzani, and former DPM Rowsch Shaways discussed the mood in Washington and the need for political progress in Iraq. The meeting was also attended by several KRG [...] | 2007-05-23 09:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD1795 | VOTE ON MINISTERIAL NOMINEES DELAYED -- AGAIN [...] (C) Summary: The Prime Minister's poorly coordinated effort to gain parliamentary approval for a new slate of six ministers -- five of which are different from those proposed May 10 (reftel) -- has yet to reach fruition. The proposed Ministers of Health, Agriculture, and Transportation; along [...] | 2007-05-30 01:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD1973 | GOI REQUESTS HELP TO CONVENE DISPLACED IRAQIS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-15 17:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF IZ JO |
07BAGHDAD201 | HASHIMI WARNS AGAINST WITHDRAWAL, ADVOCATES SUNNI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashimi told CODEL Brownback on January 9 that a withdrawal of coalition forces would send the wrong message to Iraqis and to the world. He called for a compact for Sunni engagement and pushed for the call-up of former Iraqi Army reserves as a way to [...] | 2007-01-18 17:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD2019 | SHIA CLERIC BAHR AL-ALOOM DISCUSSES SAMARRA [...] (C) Summary. Highly respected Shia cleric from Najaf and former Iraqi Governing Council member Seyyid Muhammed Bahr al-Aloom met with the Ambassador June 15. Bahr al-Aloom shared the Ambassador's optimism concerning the positive stance taken by Iraqi political and religious leaders following [...] | 2007-06-19 11:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ KISL PGOV PREL |
07BAGHDAD2021 | DEPUTY SECRETARY EMPHASIZES LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES [...] (C) Prime Minister Maliki told the Deputy Secretary that the hydrocarbon law and the de-Baathification reform law would be sent to the Council of Representatives this week and passed this month. He expressed doubt, however, that progress on legislative priorities would lead to a reduction in [...] | 2007-06-19 11:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ PGOV PINS PREL SY XF |
07BAGHDAD2262 | KURDISTAN ISLAMIC UNION (KIU) LEADER DENIES [...] (U) This is a Kurdistan Regional Reconstruction Team (RRT) cable 2. (C) Summary. KIU Secretary General Salahaddin Bahaaddin told RRTOFFs that Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani had approved in advance KIU attendance at the April meeting in Cairo where Sun [...] | 2007-07-08 13:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR EG IZ |
07BAGHDAD2334 | PUK POLITBURO MEMBER DISCUSSES PARTY REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: A high-ranking member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) politburo said the PUK will undergo further internal debate until its next general congress in January 2008. He will head a new committee created to strengthen popular participation and improve the provision of bas [...] | 2007-07-15 02:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD2361 | SUNNI INDEPENDENT MP CLAIMS IRAN BEHIND ALL EVLI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Independent Sunni Arab parliamentarian Mithal Alusi told Poloff on July 14 that in his view, Iran was funding all sides in the Iraq conflict, saying a premature U.S. withdrawal will mean the U.S. will have to fight Iran in Bahrain. He alleged that Saudi Arabia and Iran were behin [...] | 2007-07-16 08:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PHUM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2363 | ACTING COR SPEAKER OPTIMISTIC ON LEGISLATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 15 Council of Representatives Deputy Speaker al-Attiya told us he was optimistic about making progress on the framework Hydrocarbon Law and Provincial Powers Law before the August recess, provided there was quorum during the next two weeks. He said that in a recent conve [...] | 2007-07-16 10:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ENRG EPET IZ |
07BAGHDAD2372 | EMBASSY ECONOMIC MINISTER DISCUSSES HYDROCARBON [...] (C) Summary: On July 15, Minister of Oil Husayn Shahristani met with MIN Charles Ries, ECONCOUNS Dan Weygandt and econoff to discuss hydrocarbon legislation, Daura refinery, fuel supplies from Kuwait and crude exports via fuel swaps with Iran. Sharistani said that there are two major issues t [...] | 2007-07-17 02:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET IR IZ KU |
07BAGHDAD2451 | PREPARATIONS FOR REFUGEES & BORDER SECURITY [...] (C/REL ACGU) Summary: The Government of Iraq (GOI) is engaged in preparations for two of the three Neighbors' Working Group meetings which had been agreed upon at the Sharm al Sheikh conference in May. Deputy Foreign Minister Hamoud will lead the Iraqi delegation to the July 26th Refugees Wo [...] | 2007-07-25 02:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IR IZ JO KU PREF PREL SA |
07BAGHDAD2453 | CODEL BURGESS MEETING WITH MINISTER OF OIL HUSAYN [...] (C). SUMMARY. On July 22, Congressmen Michael Burgess (R-TX),Steve King (R-IA),Jim Jordan (R-OH),John Carter (R-TX),Kevin Brady (R-TX),and David Davis (R-TN) met with Minister of Oil Husayn al-Shahristani to discuss issues related to the state of Iraq,s petroleum infrastructure, plans [...] | 2007-07-25 05:57:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG IZ PREL |
07BAGHDAD2464 | THE NEW JOINT CAMPAIGN PLAN FOR IRAQ [...] (S/REL MCFI) Ambassador Crocker and MNF-I Commanding General Petraeus have agreed upon a new Joint Campaign Plan (JCP) for Operation Iraq Freedom. It says that the Coalition, in partnership with the Government of Iraq, will employ an integrated set of actions to help Iraq achieve sustainable [...] | 2007-07-25 16:52:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV MOPS PINS PINR ECON PREL ASEC KDEM PTER |
07BAGHDAD2529 | TALABANI PROPOSES A WAY FORWARD ON THE TAWAFUQ [...] (C) This is an action message - see paragraph 5. 2. (C) After the Ambassador's meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh July 30, it is clear that Tawafuq and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki are further apart than when the Ambassador spoke with Maliki [...] | 2007-07-30 15:47:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV |
07BAGHDAD2530 | CHARGE'S JULY 29 MEETING WITH NSA RUBAIE [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a July 29 introductory call, National Security Advisor Rubaie told Charge Butenis that he expected MNF-I Commanding General Petraeus would have an easier time in September identifying progress on the security-related benchmarks than Ambassador Crocker would have with regard to [...] | 2007-07-30 17:22:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IR IZ JO MOPS PGOV PREL PTER SA SY TU |
07BAGHDAD2553 | GOI REACHES OUT TO NEIGHBORS ON BORDER SECURITY [...] (S/REL ACGU) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Abbawi, head of the Iraqi delegation to the upcoming Border Security Working Group, met with Pol-Mil Counselor July 30 to provide an update on GOI preparations, to preview their strategy, and to solicit assistance. Abbawi provided the text of a le [...] | 2007-08-01 09:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IR IZ JO KU PGOV PREL PTER SA |
07BAGHDAD2582 | BORDER SECURITY: U.S. OBSERVER STATUS, GOI [...] (S/REL ACGU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Pol-Mil Counselor August 2, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbawi related that Syria was resisting granting observer status to the U.S. at the upcoming Border Security Working Group in Damascus August 8-9. He agreed to continue advocating the matter with his S [...] | 2007-08-03 14:15:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IR IZ JO PGOV PREL PTER SA SY |
07BAGHDAD2583 | BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN EXECUTIVE STEERING [...] (C) Summary: In the absence of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Deputy Prime Minister Barhim Salih chaired the 27 July 2007 Baghdad Security Plan (Fardh al Qanoon - FAQ) Executive Steering Committee (I-ESC) of the Government of Iraq (GoI). The meeting featured a wide ranging discussion of secu [...] | 2007-08-03 14:46:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON IZ MOPS PGOV |
07BAGHDAD267 | PM MALIKI DISCUSSES THE COR, IRAN AND SYRIA, AND [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador on January 23, Prime Minister Maliki said he would deliver a speech to the Council of Representatives (CoR) on January 25 encouraging the members to reduce or delay their recess. (Note: The CoR voted on January 23 to extend their sessions until Feb [...] | 2007-01-25 20:23:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ IR SA |
07BAGHDAD2671 | BAGHDAD EPRT: SUNNIS CONTINUE RECONCILIATION [...] (U) This is a Baghdad 2 BCT E-PRT reporting cable. 2. (C) Summary: This July 31 meeting followed one of July 24 (septel); the main thrust was for Human Rights Advisor to the Vice President Al-Jaboori and his team to get to know BCT battalion commanders and thereafter engage with them in we [...] | 2007-08-12 09:32:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER SOCI SCUL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD2683 | AUGUST 8-9 BORDER SECURITY WORKING GROUP MEETING: [...] (S) SUMMARY: GOI and neighboring country delegations plus P5, UN, EU, and Arab League observers met in Damascus August 8-9 to develop steps to be taken by participants to stem the flow of foreign terrorists and arms fueling the violence in Iraq. While all neighboring countries were unanimous [...] | 2007-08-13 03:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PTER IZ SY |
07BAGHDAD2802 | FOREIGN MINISTER SCHEDULES EXPERT-LEVEL NEIGHBORS [...] (C) In a letter delivered on August 19, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari invited Ambassador Crocker to an experts-level meeting the GOI plans to host September 8-9 in Baghdad. The gathering is intended to set the groundwork for the expanded Neighbors ministerial scheduled for October in [...] | 2007-08-21 16:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD2820 | GOI AUCTIONS TELECOMS LICENSES FOR USD 3.75 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI auctioned three 15-year mobile telecommunications licenses, each one fetching USD 1.25 billion up front, plus 18.5 percent of monthly gross revenues and 15 percent of net profits. Two of three incumbents--Asiacell and MTC Atheer--won new licenses, and Korek Telecom won th [...] | 2007-08-23 06:26:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ANET ECPS PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD2838 | VP ABDEL MEHDI TO CODEL VOINOVICH: PATIENCE, PLEASE [...] (C) Summary: Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told CODEL Voinovich (Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH),Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN),Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) and Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)) August 20 that an improved security environment and a change in the Sunni "mood" indicate that Iraq is making slow b [...] | 2007-08-24 16:38:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS KDEM IZ |
07BAGHDAD2873 | GOI HEARS NEW TONE IN DAMASCUS, AWAITS ANSWER ON [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: PolMil Counselor met with DFM Abbawi August 26 to discuss PM Maliki,s recent visit to Damascus (reftels),outcomes from the visit, and the prospects for cooperation between Syria, Iraq, and the U.S. in addressing terrorism in Iraq and the region. Abbawi described the positive [...] | 2007-08-27 10:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PREF PREL PTER EG IZ JO KU SA SY |
07BAGHDAD2930 | MALIKI PREDICTS IMPROVED SECURITY CONDITIONS [...] (S) SUMMARY: An optimistic Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki predicted improved security conditions in Iraq due to Moqtada al-Sadr,s pledge to stand down his Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) militia and to very positive signals from his trips to Iran and Syria where he claimed to secure agreements to stop in [...] | 2007-09-01 13:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | MARR MOPS MCAP PGOV PTER PINS PNAT IZ |
07BAGHDAD3060 | FOLLOWING GOI "CONCESSIONS," NATIONAL DIALOGUE [...] (C) Dr. Mustapha Al Hiti, a senior parliamentarian in the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue Bloc (or, Hewar party led by Sunni politician Salah al Mutlaq),confirmed to poloffs on September 10 that Hewar had ended its two-month boycott of the Council of Representatives (CoR) after the governme [...] | 2007-09-11 17:03:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ECON PINR KBIO IZ |
07BAGHDAD3064 | EXPANDED NEIGHBORS PREPCON [...] C) SUMMARY. At the September 9 Expanded Neighbors preparatory conference in Baghdad, participants agreed to hold the next Neighbors Ministerial October 31-November 1 in Istanbul. Arab neighbors greeted the GOI proposal to establish a standing secretariat with skepticism, but with supportiv [...] | 2007-09-12 02:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3125 | DAWA LEGISLATOR: JAM IS "THE NEW BA'ATH," MORE [...] (C) Summary: Senior Da'wa Party CoR member Haider al-Abadi told us September 13 that non-Sadrist Shi'a increasingly refer to Moqtada al-Sadr's followers as "The New Ba'athists" due to their use of violence and intimidation. Al-Abadi maintained that "moderate" Sadrists are afraid to speak out [...] | 2007-09-17 11:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3249 | AYAD ALLAWI RETURNS TO BAGHDAD, UNCERTAIN FOR HOW [...] (S/NF) Summary: Ayad Allawi, joined by CoR and Iraqiyya member Adnan Pachachi and his cousin Muhammad Tawif Allawi (the "resigned" Minister of Communications),told PolCouns and PolOffs on September 25 he is working to build a non-sectarian, moderate coalition among many parties, to include al [...] | 2007-09-27 19:06:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3287 | AMBASSADOR AND AMAR AL-HAKIM DISCUSS SECURITY, [...] (C) Summary: Amar al-Hakim, heir apparent to the leadership position of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI),told the Ambassador on September 29 that his recent visit to Kuwait and discussions with other Gulf state officials revealed a new and reasonable attitude toward Iraq from Kuwait [...] | 2007-10-01 15:16:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
07BAGHDAD3311 | PRT ANBAR: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ANBAR TRIBAL [...] (C) On October 1 the Ambassador met with Sheikh Ahmad Bezia Ftaykhan al-Rishawi, the new leader of the Anbar-based anti-insurgency movement Sahawa al-Iraq, or Awakening Council of Iraq (SAI). Ahmad urged a continued U.S. military presence in Anbar Province, saying that AQI could still make a [...] | 2007-10-05 11:28:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3367 | VP ABDEL MEHDI ON LONG-TERM STRATEGIC [...] (C) Summary: Just back from an extended visit to neighboring Arab states and Iran, Vice President Adel Abdel Mehdi told the Ambassador on October 6 that his soundings among Iraq's political leaders provide grounds for optimism that a bilateral long-term strategic relationship agreement can be [...] | 2007-10-08 14:51:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ IR |
07BAGHDAD3416 | KRG PRESIDENT BARZANI ON NATIONAL RECONCILIATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senior Adviser to Ambassador pressed KDP Leader Barzani on need for cooperation on key national issues like hydrocarbons and national political accommodation. He also laid down a marker on Kurdish expansion in the Sinjar area south of Mosul. Barzani struck a pessimistic note abo [...] | 2007-10-12 18:31:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PTER PBTS PGOV IZ SY |
07BAGHDAD3526 | BAGHDAD PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CONNECTS NATIONAL AND [...] (U) This is a PRT Baghdad reporting cable. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Baghdad Provincial Council passed a major milestone October 10 when it completed a Provincial Development Strategy and presented it to the Ministry of Planning. Provincial officials describe the Provincial Development Stra [...] | 2007-10-24 09:13:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PINR PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3528 | IRAQ 2008 OIL PRODUCTION LIKELY TO GROW MARGINALLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Iraq oil production and export levels (in volume) for the first half of this year were below forecast levels, but assuming no major interdictions, should grow marginally over the next year, from 1.6 million barrels per day (mmbd) in 2007 to around 1.8 mmbd in 2008, mainly thanks [...] | 2007-10-24 10:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3547 | COR MEMBER MEHDI HAFEDH DISCUSSES POLITICAL AND [...] (C) Summary. Council of Representatives (CoR) member Dr. Mehdi Hafedh (Independent, former Iraqiyya) told the Ambassador on October 23 the political situation in Iraq is "alarming." He highlighted the endemic corruption, infighting within many political parties, and the lack of transparency [...] | 2007-10-26 09:12:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN IZ |
07BAGHDAD362 | IRAQI PRESIDENT AGREES TO FACILITATE HYDROCARBON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador on January 29, President Jalal Talabani agreed to go to Kurdistan with the Ambassador on February 3 to discuss the final details of the hydrocarbon law with KRG President Masud Barzani. The Ambassador said he would send Talabani a reasonable draft [...] | 2007-02-03 13:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL IZ IR SY EG SA |
07BAGHDAD3626 | BILLETS, BULLETS AND BENZENE: THE BLACK MARKET IN [...] (U) This is a PRT Muthanna Reporting Cable. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Corruption has flourished in Muthanna since 1990, leading to bustling black markets in billets with the security services, guns and ammunition pilfered from official sources, and fuel. The Commission on Public Integrity (CPI [...] | 2007-11-01 13:54:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3633 | BAGHDAD'S SCENESETTER FOR THE ISTANBUL MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Secretary Rice: After Ambassador Crocker's September testimony, the widespread feeling within the GOI was that the Maliki government had shown just enough political progress to ensure 3-6 additional months of United States support. We are now close to the two-month anniversary of the h [...] | 2007-11-02 02:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD3697 | DFM ABBAWI DISCUSSES ISTANBUL, PKK, AND IRAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Pol-Mil M/C called on Deputy Foreign Minister Abbawi November 6 to discuss his impressions of the Istanbul Neighbors Ministerial, progress on dealing with the PKK, and setting up trilateral talks with Iran. Abbawi was pleased with Istanbul and praised Turkish cooperation at the m [...] | 2007-11-08 11:58:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER IR IZ SA |
07BAGHDAD3729 | TALABANI ON THE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP, DE-BAATH, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi President Talabani told Ambassadors Crocker and Satterfield on November 7 that Maliki wanted to delay the strategic partnership and was negatively affecting the possibility of reconciliation by his dismissal of the Tawafuq ministers. The PM was willing to submit the leaders' [...] | 2007-11-13 08:55:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3771 | EXPANDING TAILORED NATO-IRAQ COOPERATION [...] (S) Summary: USNATO forwarded an Italian non-paper (ref A) for Embassy Baghdad and Department consideration about the future role of the NATO Training Mission - Iraq (NTM-I) in a post-UNSCR environment. NTM-I fills a critical niche in the training and mentoring of mid-level leadership of the I [...] | 2007-11-16 03:11:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IZ MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PINS PREL |
07BAGHDAD3841 | IRAQI FINANCE MINISTER UPBEAT ON 2008 BUDGET, DEBT [...] (C) Begin Summary: During a 21 November working dinner, Finance Minister Bayan Jabr told EMIN and TreasAtt that he does not anticipate any problems getting the 2008 draft budget passed by the Council of Representatives (CoR). He highlighted four key concessions made by the Kurdistan Regional G [...] | 2007-11-25 14:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EAID PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD3849 | TALABANI BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON TOUR OF ARAB STATES [...] (C) Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on November 20 briefed the Ambassador on his recent trip to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, saying he received a warm welcome in each and made some progress towards improved diplomatic and economic relations. Turning to other issues du jour, Talabani pledge [...] | 2007-11-26 10:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3874 | MCNS NOVEMBER 25, 2007 ADDRESSES SPD, CLCS, AQI, [...] (C) Summary: The November 25 meeting of the Ministerial Council for National Security (MCNS) reviewed the situation of Concerned Local Citizen (CLC) groups' evolution and future, success to date against Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI),protection of Iraqi refugees returning to Baghdad, dealing with Fo [...] | 2007-11-28 15:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3878 | ISCI COR LEADER HAMOUDI ON REGIONAL TRAVEL [...] (C) Summary: In a wide-ranging discussion 11/25, influential Council of Representatives (CoR) Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Humam Hamoudi (ISCI bloc leader, Shia) expressed optimism about bilateral relations with Kuwait and Egypt, while noting several obstacles to further improving ties [...] | 2007-11-28 17:49:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KU SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD3903 | BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO IRAN: IRAN SEES U.S. AS ITS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-30 16:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER IR IQ |
07BAGHDAD3913 | TALABANI BLASTS MALIKI BUT IS OPTIMISTIC ON [...] (C) Deputy Secretary Negroponte, S/I Satterfield, and CDA Butenis met November 30 with Iraqi President Talabani. Talabani endorsed Washington,s efforts to renew the UNSCR resolution authorizing the presence of U.S. and other Coalition forces and expressed serious impatience with Prime Ministe [...] | 2007-12-02 17:01:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PINR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3933 | AMMAR HAKIM TO SATTERFIELD: CRISIS OF TRUST IN [...] (C) Summary: In a December 2 meeting with S/I David Satterfield and Polcouns, Ammar al-Hakim expressed support for a strategic U.S.-Iraq relationship, shared his concern over U.S. policy on tribal engagement and a crisis of trust in the Iraqi government, and outlined a non-sectarian vision of [...] | 2007-12-04 09:20:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD3946 | NINEWA: HAJJ FLIGHT INAUGURATES MOSUL'S FIRST [...] (U) In Mosul's first commercial passenger flight operation since 1993, Iraqi Airways Flight 020 departed Mosul Airport for Baghdad International Airport at 2230 December 2 with approximately 150 Hajj pilgrims. A second Iraqi Airways flight departed Mosul Airport December 3 with approximately [...] | 2007-12-05 08:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EAIR EAID IZ |
07BAGHDAD3959 | ANBAR PROVINCIAL LEADER INFORMS DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (U) This is an Anbar PRT reporting cable. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Anbar Provincial Council Chairman Abdulsalam told Deputy Secretary Negroponte during a November 28 meeting in Ramadi that Anbar leaders had reversed their previous opposition to national hydrocarbon revenue-sharing legisla [...] | 2007-12-05 20:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER PINS IZ |
07BAGHDAD3974 | DEPUTY SECRETARY MEETING WITH AYATOLLAH HUSSEIN [...] (C) Summary: On December 1 Ayatollah Hussein Ismail al-Sadr, Baghdad's senior Shi'ite cleric, hosted Deputy Secretary Negroponte at his residence attached to the SIPDIS Khadimiya mosque complex. Al-Sadr spoke with commitment about his vision of shared U.S.-Iraqi efforts to build a democra [...] | 2007-12-07 16:08:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KISL IZ |
07BAGHDAD4125 | MOI ON FOREIGN TERRORISTS AND BORDER SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a December 12 meeting, Pol-Mil M/C discussed foreign terrorists, border security, and the PKK with Interior Minister Jawad al-Bulani. While Syria had taken some actions and there had been a reduction in the number of foreign terrorists entering Iraq, Syria was hampered in its [...] | 2007-12-19 10:56:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PINS PREL PTER IZ SA SY |
07BAGHDAD4184 | TROUBLE AMONG MAYSAN'S SADRISTS [...] (U) This is a PRT Maysan reporting cable. 2. (S/NF) Summary: Maysan,s Sadrists are challenged by a splintering within the Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) and mounting public discontent over poor governance, according to a US-based Maysani businessman. He said the criminal and former Baathist members [...] | 2007-12-27 11:25:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | IR IZ PGOV |
07BAGHDAD439 | DAILY LIFE IN MUTHANNA PROVINCE: ASSORTED [...] This is a PRT Muthanna cable. ------- Summary ------- 2. In many important ways, daily life in Muthanna Province differs little from that of life in 18th and 19th century Islamic society in Iraq. Religious dominance in daily life, rampant unemployment and persistent security concerns [...] | 2007-02-09 08:10:00 | Embassy Baghdad | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SCUL ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD441 | COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES APPROVES 2007 BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: The Council of Representatives approved the 2007 budget at 18:30 on February 8, just before going into recess. Negotiations between the Kurds and the central government were tentatively concluded late afternoon on February 8, with an agreement to 'reach an agreement between the [...] | 2007-02-09 15:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD460 | SUNNI HEWAR BLOC REP HOLDS THE FORT, TAKES ON BLOC [...] (C) Summary: Kirkuk native and Sunni Hewar bloc CoR member Mohammed Tamimi has never missed a session of Iraq's Council of Representatives (CoR). The rest of Hewar's attendance at the CoR is sparse at best; remaining bloc members shuttle back and forth between Amman and Baghdad. Bloc leader [...] | 2007-02-12 02:09:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD490 | FM ON REGIONAL CONFERENCE, TURKEY, IRAN, AND [...] (S) Summary: During a February 6 meeting, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hoshyar al-Zebari and the Ambassador discussed an upcoming regional conference the MFA intends to host; current issues the GOI has with Turkey, Iran and Syria; and the FM's recent travels to Italy and Davos. The FM reiterat [...] | 2007-02-13 08:35:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD498 | IRAQI SUNNI ENDOWMENT HEAD PLANS NEW RELIGIOUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarraie, head of the Sunni Endowment, told Poloffs on February 12 that he plans to start a new Sunni religious organization that will be a moderate alternative to the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS). He predicts that approximately ninety perce [...] | 2007-02-13 14:33:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER IZ JO QA SA |
07BAGHDAD536 | WORLD BANK MANAGING DIRECTOR STRESSES COMMITMENT [...] (C) Summary. World Bank Managing Director Dr. Juan Jose Daboub visited Baghdad Feb. 12 for a one-day visit that included a call on the Charge and his senior economic team. Daboub reaffirmed that Iraq,s development remains a top priority for the Bank, striking an unexpectedly positive note on [...] | 2007-02-15 07:45:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID IZ |
07BAGHDAD565 | TALABANI DISCUSSES LATEST ON MODERATE FRONT, PM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani discussed the latest efforts on a moderate front in a February 11 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih and Minister of Water Latif Rashid. He gave the Ambassador a readout of his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-M [...] | 2007-02-18 11:36:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PREL SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD567 | FM STILL HOPING TO BRING MINISTERS TO BAGHDAD; HAD [...] (C) Summary. CDA Speckhard and PolCouns met with Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari February 15 to discuss the FM's trip to Saudi Arabia and the upcoming neighbors' conference the Iraqis hope to host in Baghdad in mid-March. Zebari described his trip to Saudi Arabia to reopen the Iraqi Embassy a [...] | 2007-02-18 16:30:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SA IZ |
07BAGHDAD615 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES CHECKPOINT INCIDENTS, [...] (S) Summary: At a February 18 luncheon at Ambassador Khalilzad's residence, he and Turkish Ambassador Derya Kanbay discussed recent checkpoint incidents involving Kanbay and other Turkish Embassy personnel. Kanbay expressed understanding for the difficult circumstances under which U.S. soldie [...] | 2007-02-20 13:37:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER TU IZ |
07BAGHDAD616 | FEBRUARY 16 BAGHDAD SECURITY PLAN EXECUTIVE [...] (C) Summary: At the February 16 Baghdad Security Plan (BSP) Executive Steering Committee (ESC) meeting, Iraqi General Abboud reported that BSP had begun successfully February 14. MNF-I Commanding General (CG) Petraeus cautioned that BSP is still in the early stages and that public expectation [...] | 2007-02-20 13:53:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS ECON IZ |
07BAGHDAD620 | MAYSAN GOVERNOR DISCUSSES SECURITY SITUATION, [...] (U//REL USA, MCFI) This is a PRT Maysan cable. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C//REL USA, MCFI) In a January 22 meeting with the new head of Multinational Forces Division (Southeast),Maysan Governor Adil Al-Maliki focused on his province's upcoming transition to Provincial Iraqi Control [...] | 2007-02-20 18:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PGOV PINS PREL IR IZ |
07BAGHDAD821 | MINISTER OF TRADE SUPPORT FOR WORLD TRADE [...] (C) Summary: On March 4, Minister of Trade Abdul Falah Al Sudani told emboffs that Iraq's accession to the World Trade Organization has his full support and that he will attend the April 19 opening of the Working Group. Minister Al Sudani (Shi'a - Da'wa Tanzim) was appreciative of USAID-fun [...] | 2007-03-07 16:14:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD827 | SCIRI DEPUTY SEEKS CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE FROM ARAB [...] (C) In a March 7 meeting with PolCouns, SCIRI CoR member and chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee Humam Hamoudi expressed his optimism about the March 10 Neighbors Conference, saying that if approached in the right way it could be an important step in confirming the new role of Iraq in [...] | 2007-03-08 14:59:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD831 | AMBASSADOR AND PM: NEIGHBORS CONFERENCE, SAUDI [...] (S) SUMMARY. In a March 6 meeting, the Ambassador and PM discussed the March 10 Neighbor's Conference, including expected outcomes and working groups focusing on border security, fuel and electricity imports, and Iraqi refugees. The Ambassador suggested reaching out to participating countries [...] | 2007-03-08 22:18:00 | Embassy Baghdad | SECRET | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAGHDAD864 | BAGHDAD HOSTS FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SINCE [...] (C) Summary: Key U.S. and Iraqi objectives were fulfilled, albeit imperfectly, at the March 10 expanded neighbors' conference in Baghdad. All of Iraq's neighbors expressed their support for Iraq's security and stability and pledged cooperation; all attended at respectably senior levels; and [...] | 2007-03-11 18:07:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IZ |
07BAGHDAD891 | FORMER PROVINCIAL COUNCIL CHAIRMAN SAYS PROVINCIAL [...] (C) Summary: Provincial Council (PC) member Mazen Makiya (Shia, Independent) told PRToffs March 9 that party politics, poor leadership and lack of organization plague Baghdad's provincial government. Makiya, who was PC Chairman from March 2005 to December 2005, said current PC Chairman Mueen [...] | 2007-03-13 15:04:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS IZ PINR |
07BAGHDAD927 | IRAQI PM CHIEF OF STAFF DISCUSSES MINISTERIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 12 meeting with PM Chief of Staff Tariq Abdullah, the Charge urged the PM's office to continue to press for de-Baathification reform and movement on the hydrocarbons law. He congratulated the PM's office on the successful Neighbors Conference and stressed the importa [...] | 2007-03-16 08:02:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | IZ PGOV PREL |
07BAGHDAD941 | TALK OF NEW IRAQI POLITICAL PARTY COALITIONS [...] (C) Summary. Reports about negotiations among Iraqi political parties to break up the current sectarian blocs and form new alliances have intensified following secular nationalist Iraqiyya,s March 1 announcement that it would withdraw from the GOI and Shia Fadhila's March 7 withdrawal from t [...] | 2007-03-17 06:40:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER IZ |
07BAGHDAD981 | FM ON UPCOMING MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE: NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary. In a March 19 meeting with PolCouns, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari reported he has been in contact with his counterparts of those countries who attended the March 10 Neighbors Conference. Plans for the upcoming April Ministerial have stalled due to the Prime Minister's insisten [...] | 2007-03-20 14:34:00 | Embassy Baghdad | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ |
07BAKU106 | A/S LOWENKRON'S LUNCH WITH RELIGIOUS ANALYSTS [...] (C) Summary: At a December 19 lunch hosted by A/S Lowenkron and the Ambassador, independent religious analysts argued that several foreign Islamic ideas and practices -- specifically from Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia -- are influencing the traditionally tolerant variant of Islam within Azer [...] | 2007-01-24 07:41:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM KISL IR AJ |
07BAKU1326 | BAKU EAC MEETING - 11/2/07 [...] (S/NF) The DCM convened a meeting of EAC members (DCM, DAO, DOJ, GRPO, MSG, PD, POL/ECON, and RSO) on November 2 at 1500 to review the latest information and our current security posture in response to a specific threat against the U.S. Embassy (reftel). GRPO reported that the Azerbaijani Mi [...] | 2007-11-02 13:00:00 | Embassy Baku | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC CASC PREL PTER PINR AJ |
07BAKU1354 | A/S FRIED'S DINNER WITH AZERBAIJANI RELIGIOUS [...] (C) Summary: At a November 4 dinner in honor of visiting EUR A/S Fried, leading religious analysts agreed that religiosity was on the rise in Azerbaijan, but disagreed on whether radicalism was also on the rise. Those who argued that radicalism was on the rise attributed it to a mix of fore [...] | 2007-11-13 09:40:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM KISL IR AJ |
07BAKU410 | AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 6 MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: In an April 6 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Mammadyarov clarified recent press rumors that Iran closed the border with Azerbaijan in early April, explaining that Iranian passport machines had malfunctioned and caused a brief delay for those crossing the border. Th [...] | 2007-04-11 10:18:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM ENRG EPET AMGT ABLD CASC AJ |
07BAKU411 | PRESIDENT ALIYEV DISCUSSES RUSSIA, IRAN, ISLAM, [...] (C) Summary: In an April 3 meeting with Representative Hoekstra and the Ambassador, President Ilham Aliyev provided a tour d'horizon of Azerbaijan's foreign policy, regional geopolitics, energy policy and domestic development. Aliyev argued that Azerbaijan was unique, bordered by its former co [...] | 2007-04-11 11:44:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EPET KDEM PHUM ABLD AMGT CASC |
07BAKU535 | AZERBAIJANI DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER VAGIF SADIKOV [...] (C) Summary: Visiting EUR Senior Advisor Farah Pandith met with Deputy Foreign Minister Vagif Sadikov April 27 to discuss Azerbaijan's vision for the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)'s Foreign Ministers' Conference. Echoing what he told the Ambassador late last year, Sadikov highl [...] | 2007-05-02 09:43:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KPAL IR AJ |
07BAKU603 | NEARLY USD 1 BILLION BUDGET INCREASE WORRIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the IMF Resident Representative, the Government of Azerbaijan may be planning a huge supplemental increase to the 2007 budget totaling between USD 750 and 1 billion, a 15 percent increase over the current budget that the IMF finds "worrisome." In a subsequent convers [...] | 2007-05-18 07:04:00 | Embassy Baku | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EPET ENRG PREL AJ |
07BAKU748 | CRITICISM OF CAUCASUS MUSLIM BOARD'S HANDLING OF [...] (SBU) Prominent human rights activist Elchin Behbutov and two of his friends -- Bayram Sadikov, Hafiz Osman -- recently shared with us their views on the Hajj. The three had traveled together to Mecca, Saudi Arabia between December 21, 2006 and January 18, 2007 in order to participate in the m [...] | 2007-06-15 08:12:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KISL KCOR AJ |
07BAMAKO1223 | "WAHHABIS" AND ISLAM IN MALI [...] Summary: Some external observers have become increasingly concerned over a segment of Malian Muslims frequently described as "Wahhabi" (ref A),fearing that those so labeled are likely to advance a radical agenda. This concern stems from confusion, rooted in expedient if inaccurate labels d [...] | 2007-10-22 16:19:00 | Embassy Bamako | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL EAID SOCI PHUM IFR PTER PINR PGOV ML |
07BAMAKO1366 | TUAREG REBEL LEADER AG GHALI ASSIGNED TO SAUDI [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-29 15:06:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PINR PREL PINS ML |
07BAMAKO587 | REBEL LEADER IYAD AG GHALI ON BAHANGA, ALGIERS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-31 16:34:00 | Embassy Bamako | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM ML |
07BANJUL197 | THE GAMBIA: UPDATE ON TIES WITH IRAN, VENEZUELA [...] (U) Following February reports that The Gambia and Iran would soon exchange embassies (ref a),GOTG officials confirm the official opening April 15 of The Gambian Embassy in the Iranian capital. We are told that Gambian Foreign Minister Bala Garba Jahumpa headed the GOTG's delegation at the ev [...] | 2007-04-17 15:28:00 | Embassy Banjul | SECRET | PREL PGOV MASS GA IR VE KMCA |
07BANJUL81 | THE GAMBIA AND IRAN REPORTEDLY TO ESTABLISH [...] (C) Well-informed journalistic source told Ambassador February 14 that The Gambia and Iran would soon establish embassies, headed by Ambassadors, in the respective capitals. Our contact said an Iranian delegation was currently in Banjul to identify a suitable embassy site. He added that the G [...] | 2007-02-14 18:09:00 | Embassy Banjul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GA IR |
07BASRAH92 | BADR LEADER EXPRESSES SECURITY CONCERNS IN BASRAH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Basrah Governor and Provincial Council (PC) member Hasan al-Rashid (Badr) told REO Director October 4 that Basrah's security has worsened. Unfortunately, Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) have done little to respond, and he accused Security Chief Lieutenant General Mohan Hafith F [...] | 2007-10-08 15:40:00 | REO Basrah | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PINR PINS PGOV PREL IR IZ |
07BEIJING2250 | APRIL 5 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SIX-PARTY TALKS, [...] Key Points at the April 5 MFA Press Conference were: -- The Spokesman avoided placing blame for difficulties in the Six-Party Talks process, in response to questions by reporters about the Talks "falling apart." -- Vice Admiral Wu Shengli is visiting the United States from April 1-8 and [...] | 2007-04-05 10:08:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MNUC KPAL KN KS JA CH AO TC IS SA |
07BEIJING2712 | CHINA'S SPECIAL ENVOY DISCUSSES MIDDLE EAST TRIP [...] (SBU) China sees its role in the Middle East as one of trying to persuade all parties to continue looking for a way toward peace, China's Special Envoy on the Middle East Sun Bigan told Poloffs during a briefing on his April 9-20 visit to Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Br [...] | 2007-04-23 23:26:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL IS CH XF |
07BEIJING2802 | PAKISTAN PRIME MINISTER AZIZ'S VISIT TO CHINA [...] (C) Prime Minister Aziz's April 16-20 visit to China focused on promoting economic cooperation, stated MFA Asia Department Director for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh Zhang Yiming. China and Pakistan signed several agreements that were "firsts" for China including the China-Pakistan Joi [...] | 2007-04-26 08:16:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EAID AF PK CH |
07BEIJING2907 | U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW [...] (SBU) In response to questions posed by a United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) delegation led by USCC Chair Carolyn Bartholomew, scholars from the MFA-affiliated Chinese Institute for International Studies (CIIS) noted that China-Russia relations are enjoying the [...] | 2007-04-30 10:54:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IAEA CH IR RU |
07BEIJING3083 | CHINA/ENERGY: PETROCHINA ANNOUNCES MAJOR BOOST TO CHINA'S [...] (SBU) China's largest oil producer, PetroChina, announced a major oil discovery in the Bohai Bay (water near Beijing-Tianjin) last week. The oil is considered to be of high quality and is easily recoverable, according to our contacts. Although estimated by the company to be around 7 billion b [...] | 2007-05-09 08:57:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV EPET EFIN CH |
07BEIJING4871 | XINJIANG: AMCIT REPORTS HAJJ RESTRICTIONS, [...] (C) Chinese authorities have increased restrictions on Xinjiang's Uighur population by collecting Uighurs' passports to prevent unauthorized Hajj travel, according to an American citizen businessman in Xinjiang and other Embassy contacts. A low-ranking PLA officer reportedly told the businessma [...] | 2007-07-25 23:25:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KIF KISL SOCI CASC CH PK SA |
07BEIJING7213 | PRC/MEPP: PRC SUPPORTS ANNAPOLIS CONFERENCE, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: China's decision to send Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi to the November 26-27 Annapolis conference on the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP) demonstrates China's firm support for the international meeting, according to an MFA contact. Chinese public statements have played up the int [...] | 2007-11-23 09:41:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ENRG PTER MEPP CH IS |
07BEIJING7329 | QINGHAI MUSLIMS, PART 1: GOVERNMENT CONTROLS, [...] (C) Government controls on Islam such as Hajj restrictions, training of imams and guidelines on mosque operations, persist in northwest China's Qinghai Province. During a September 14-19 visit, PolOff read a sign in one mosque in rural Haidong Prefecture that warns worshippers that religion m [...] | 2007-12-04 10:24:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV PTER CH PK SA |
07BEIJING7330 | QINGHAI MUSLIMS, PART 2: FOREIGN LINKS GROW [...] (C) Ties between Muslims in northwest China's Qinghai Province and those in the Middle East are on the rise because of widespread satellite TV use and an increasingly mobile populace. Qinghai contacts told PolOff September 14-19 (ref A) that many Muslim communities are trying to embrace more [...] | 2007-12-04 10:52:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV PTER PK CH SA |
07BEIJING7550 | XINJIANG AUTHORITIES BLOCK UNSANCTIONED HAJJ [...] (C) Summary: A well-placed contact told Poloff December 3 that Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) officials seek to eliminate all Hajj pilgrimages other than those arranged by the Islamic Association of China (IAC). The contact said that Saudi Arabia requested China to prohibit Chinese M [...] | 2007-12-19 09:30:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF TI PK KG AF KZ CH |
07BEIJING7591 | SURPRISINGLY SMALL INCREASE IN CHINESE HAJJ [...] (C) Summary: Saudi Arabian Consul Majed Alshammary (protect) told Poloff December 13 that Saudi Arabia would admit 20,000 Chinese Hajj pilgrims annually if China permitted it, although China has stated it will allow 10,700 Hajj pilgrims in 2007. Alshammary said he is surprised that China did [...] | 2007-12-21 06:02:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF TI PK MY SA CH |
07BEIRUT1 | SAUDI AMBASSADOR ON HIZBALLAH VISIT, BERRI [...] (S) Saudi Ambassador Abdulaziz Khoja, meeting with Ambassador Feltman on 12/30, said that Hizballah members Na'im Qassim and Mohammed Fneish would not have been reassured by their 12/27 audience with King Abdullah. Abdullah rebuffed their attempts to encourage a Saudi-Syrian dialogue, insist [...] | 2007-01-03 06:57:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PTER LE SY SA |
07BEIRUT1018 | LEBANON: BERRI OFFERS GUARANTEE NOT TO TOPPLE [...] (C) According to a new proposal presented by a close aide of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, the opposition finally will provide March 14 with the long sought-after guarantee not to resign from a national unity government. In return, the opposition wants its say in who will be Lebanon's next [...] | 2007-07-09 15:40:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SY LE |
07BEIRUT1094 | COUSSERON ON LEBANON DIALOGUE INITIATIVE, REGIONAL [...] (C) Meeting with the Ambassador on 7/24, French Special Envoy Jean-Claude Cousseran discussed follow-on to the dialogue in La Celle-St. Cloud and his regional visits. He said that, although he heard "nothing new" after a day in Beirut, he favored trying to keep a French-sponsored process al [...] | 2007-07-24 15:55:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER LE SY FR |
07BEIRUT1095 | LEBANON: HARIRI WARNS OF LONG-TERM IRANIAN [...] (C) March 14 and Sunni leader Saad Hariri, back from an extended stay abroad, expressed his concerns about the new French government's Lebanon policy, Iran's long-term intentions in Lebanon (with General Michel Aoun's active participation),and the need for a tougher US policy on Syria. Hari [...] | 2007-07-24 16:04:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS LE |
07BEIRUT1153 | BERRI READY TO START DEALING ON PRESIDENCY [...] (C) Yanking the Ambassador into a private room on the margins of a larger 7/30 meeting (septel),Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, his voice lowered to a whisper, urged that the USG help to select acceptable candidates for Lebanon's presidential elections. On/about August 20, Berri will start [...] | 2007-07-31 09:54:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY |
07BEIRUT118 | LEBANON: BERRI BACKS AWAY FROM RESPONSIBILITY; [...] (C) In a 1/22 meeting, Speaker Nabih Berri confirmed estimates heard in other quarters that Hassan Nasrallah and Michel Aoun are out to prove a point in the 1/23 demonstrations and intend to use every means available to portray the general strike as effective and broadly supported. Declarin [...] | 2007-01-23 06:56:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | IS LE PGOV PREL PTER SY |
07BEIRUT1199 | LEBANON: CODEL SHAYS MEETS ACTING FM - OR DID THEY? [...] (C) Summary: During CODEL Shays's brief meeting with Acting Foreign Minister Tareq Mitri, the group discussed the August 6 re-appearance of Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh in his official office and his decision to resume "management" of foreign relations for the first time since submitting hi [...] | 2007-08-08 05:24:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SY IS LE |
07BEIRUT1209 | IRAN AND AOUN: THINKING ALIKE, ACCORDING TO [...] (S) Minister of Justice Charles Rizk, his presidential aspirant's heart beating faster than ever, told the Ambassador over an 8/8 lunch that he was delighted to receive Iranian Ambassador Mohammed Rida Chibani two days earlier. Chibani, who boycotts the Siniora cabinet in solidarity with Hiz [...] | 2007-08-09 07:46:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER LE SY IR |
07BEIRUT1249 | MARONITE PATRIARCH FOR COMPROMISE PRESIDENT; [...] (S) In a 8/14 meeting with the Ambassador focused on Lebanon's upcoming presidential elections, Maronite Patriarch Sfeir said that he opposes amending Lebanon's constitution -- a position that, if heeded by the MPs, would rule out LAF Commander Michel Sleiman's front-running presidential bid. [...] | 2007-08-15 14:36:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL KDEM PGOV LE SY |
07BEIRUT1250 | BERRI ON PRESIDENCY, NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT, [...] (S) In a 8/15 meeting with the Ambassador, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, quoting diplomatic traffic from the Lebanese Embassy in Washington, lashed out against the USG for opposing amendments to Lebanon's constitution. If for example the Lebanese want LAF Commander Sleiman as their next p [...] | 2007-08-15 15:58:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL KDEM PGOV LE SY IR |
07BEIRUT1320 | LEBANON: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HEADED FOR A [...] (C) With less than one month to go before the beginning of the two-month presidential election period, the gulf between the majority March 14 and opposition March 8 appears to be widening. The battle currently is being fought in the Christian arena, split into two opposing camps: one, represe [...] | 2007-08-28 12:34:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS LE |
07BEIRUT133 | SAUDI AMBASSADOR DOWNBEAT ON IRAN-SAUDI TALKS ON [...] (S) While acknowledging that he did not yet have a full read-out of Saudi-Iranian contacts, Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Abdulaziz Khoja told Ambassador Feltman in a 1/25 meeting that he was "very pessimistic" about developments in Lebanon. He noted that he was leaving an hour later to fly t [...] | 2007-01-25 15:19:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM LE SY IR SA |
07BEIRUT1346 | WITH NAHR AL-BARID IN LAF HANDS, DEFMIN MURR [...] (S) On 9/3, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Elias Murr called the Ambassador to report that the wife of Fatah al-Islam (FAI) leader Shakr al-Absi had positively identified the body of her husband, apparently killed on the last day of fighting on 9/2 in the Nahr al-Barid camp. Whil [...] | 2007-09-03 09:19:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PARM LE SY QA |
07BEIRUT1355 | LEBANON: FORMER PM MIKATI: PRESIDENTAL ELECTION [...] (C) Former Prime Minister Najib Mikati believes it is now possible, although difficult, for Lebanon to hold a presidential election on time. Popular sentiment demands an election, and any party seen as preventing an election will pay. To that end, Speaker Nabih Berri is working with whom Mi [...] | 2007-09-05 09:05:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER LE |
07BEIRUT1383 | LEBANON: FRENCH POSITION IS WORRYING [...] (S) The analysis in Embassy Paris' excellent reporting (reftel being the most recent) on what appears to be a dismaying shift in France's Lebanon policy corresponds with the Lebanese impression of French views. (As we will report separately, the Egyptians may also be moving in this directio [...] | 2007-09-10 15:57:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV LE FR SY IR |
07BEIRUT142 | LEBANON: NEW FOREIGN MINISTRY SECRETARY GENERAL [...] (C) In a 1/26 meeting, Ambassador Hicham Dimachkieh, the new Secretary General in the Foreign Ministry, discussed the factors which complicate Lebanon's relationship with its powerful and often obtuse neighbor. Exhibiting the caution of a diplomat who worked for many years in Syrian-dominate [...] | 2007-01-26 18:17:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER LE SY IS |
07BEIRUT1420 | LEBANON: PM WILL RECONSIDER INTERNATIONAL BORDER [...] (S/NF) During a September 15 meeting with the Ambassador, Prime Minister Siniora said that he had not been given a copy of the Spanish proposal for an EU border mission. Worried about Syria's ability to manipulate the negotiations in its own favor, the PM agreed that the GOL should be given an [...] | 2007-09-16 08:14:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PGOV PREL IS LE SY |
07BEIRUT1422 | SAAD HARIRI ON PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Meeting with the Ambassador on 9/15, MP Saad Hariri portrayed none of the proclivity to compromise on Lebanon's presidency that Walid Jumblatt darkly suspected only a few days earlier (ref a). Calling Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri "a liar," Hariri said that he was prepared to "go all th [...] | 2007-09-16 10:50:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY |
07BEIRUT144 | LEBANON: INFORMATION MINISTER ON SYRIAN, IRANIAN, [...] (C) In a 1/26 meeting, Minister of Information Ghazi Aridi (Druse, allied with Walid Jumblatt) provided details on Syrian, Iranian, and Saudi diplomacy in recent days. Based on what he claims to know, Aridi was pessimistic that the 1/25 riots marked the end to the violence. Syria, he insis [...] | 2007-01-26 18:26:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM LE SY IR SA |
07BEIRUT145 | CHATAH GRATEFUL TO USG FOR PARIS III SUCCESS [...] (C) Mohamed Chatah, Senior Advisor to Prime Minister Siniora, gushed exuberantly about U.S. leadership in achieving a successful Paris III conference. He expressed delight as well with the CEO Partnership event, saying that the GOL would now hire someone to serve as permanent liaison with t [...] | 2007-01-29 06:21:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EFIN EAID LE SY |
07BEIRUT1469 | LEBANON: IS SLEIMAN THE ACE UP BERRI'S SLEEVE? [...] (C) Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has again gone on the offensive, this time postponing parliament's presidential election for one month to allow time for March 14 and March 8 to reach a consensus candidate. In a move in which Phalange party leader Amine Gemayel appears to be the unwitting a [...] | 2007-09-25 08:09:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS LE |
07BEIRUT1485 | LEBANON: FORMER PM MIKATI CLAIMS LAF COMMANDER [...] (S) In a one-on-one meeting with the Ambassador on 9/25, former Prime Minister Najib Mikati -- once and perhaps still close to Syria's Asad family -- stated his belief that LAF Commander General Michel Sleiman remains Syria's top choice for the presidency. Because of Hizballah's need to codd [...] | 2007-09-26 13:54:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM LE SY |
07BEIRUT1512 | LEBANON: GEAGEA: WHAT IS HARIRI COOKING UP? [...] (C) Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea believes accepting Free Patriotic Movement leader General Michel Aoun's offers of detente is the best way to coopt Aoun's presidential ambitions. He dismissed concerns that March 14's support could boomerang by increasing prospects for Aoun's candidacy, [...] | 2007-09-30 12:07:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS LE |
07BEIRUT1535 | LEBANON: WORRIES ABOUT RED LINES ON UNSCR 1559 [...] (S) Four well-informed Embassy contacts -- Walid Jumblatt, Nassib Lahoud, Boutros Harb, and journalist Sarkis Naom -- all argued in separate meetings with the Ambassador that pro-Syrian forces in Lebanon are using upcoming presidential elections to bury UNSCR 1559. They (and we) see this as [...] | 2007-10-02 16:43:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER LE SY IR |
07BEIRUT1584 | LEBANON: PM SINIORA SUPPORTS CONINUED NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) During an October 10 meeting with the Ambassador, Prime Minister Siniora expressed his desire to continue discussions on the EU proposal for enhanced security on the eastern border with Syria. During Siniora's recent visits to regional capitals, he found, to his surprise, that the Emir of [...] | 2007-10-11 06:46:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MASS MCAP SY IS LE |
07BEIRUT1603 | LEBANON: PRO-SYRIANS SEE ADVANTAGES TO [...] (S) Selim Jeressaiti, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud's legal advisor, reported that LAF Commander Michel Sleiman remains the presidential candidate of choice for Hizballah and Syria. While expressing his own hope that a genuine consensus candidate would emerge instead, Jeressaiti argued th [...] | 2007-10-12 13:06:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER LE SY |
07BEIRUT1604 | LEBANON: LEBANESE RESIDENTS NEAR NAHR-AL BARID [...] (C) Summary: DCM and Emboffs met with mayors of municipalities located near the Nahr-Al Barid Palestinian refugee camp (NAB) during a trip to Tripoli October 9. The mayors praised the USG for its assistance to the local areas that were negatively affected by the 15-week battle at the camp, ad [...] | 2007-10-14 10:43:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON PGOV PREF PREL PTER |
07BEIRUT1610 | LEBANON: MARCH 14 CHRISTIANS SAY WITHOUT A MARCH [...] (C) March 14 Christian leaders Nassib Lahoud, Boutros Harb, and Nayla Mouawad are focused on obtaining a March 14 presidency, without which they say the coalition's ideals and accomplishments will be lost. All three leaders -- all of whom consider themselves presidential candidates -- noted [...] | 2007-10-15 15:14:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER LE |
07BEIRUT1625 | LEBANON: SINIORA TO USDP EDELMAN: ARMY IS KEY TO [...] (C) In an October 16 meeting with visiting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USDP) Eric S. Edelman and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) Mark T. Kimmitt, PM Siniora stressed the need to strengthen the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) as the best way to empower the Lebanese state and [...] | 2007-10-18 07:40:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS IR IZ LE |
07BEIRUT1652 | LEBANON: OPPOSING THE "STATUS QUO" DELAY OF [...] (C) Reftel discusses possible scenarios for Lebanon's upcoming presidential elections. But increasing evidence suggests that -- if the pro-Syrians can't impose their own candidate through pressure for "consensus" -- the "second government" option is no longer the pro-Syrians' weapon of choic [...] | 2007-10-22 14:37:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER LE SY |
07BEIRUT1659 | LEBANON: A QUICK GUIDE TO THE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) The list of candidates to be Lebanon's president, by tradition a Maronite Christian, is growing longer as the end of current President Emile Lahoud's term on November 23 grows nearer. With its October 23 session now cancelled, parliament is scheduled to convene on November 12 in a second [...] | 2007-10-23 14:14:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS LE |
07BEIRUT1661 | LEBANON: HARIRI RETURNS TO LEBANON, PURPORTS TO [...] (C) An alarmist Saad Hariri accused the U.S. of not doing enough to prevent Syrian interference in Lebanon, claiming the Europeans and Saudis are willing to follow a more aggressive U.S. lead. Now is the time to exert the utmost pressure to get Emile Lahoud out, Hariri argued, and March 14 ne [...] | 2007-10-23 15:02:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS LE |
07BEIRUT1678 | LEBANON: AOUN, CLAIMING THE ABILITY TO BOSS [...] (C) If Michel Aoun is thinking of realistic fall-back options to his presidential options as some of his advisors insist, he draws a line at discussing them. Yet his unusually passionless presentation differed from his sharp words, making us wonder -- especially when he threatened (or, some [...] | 2007-10-26 14:05:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER LE SY |
07BEIRUT1712 | ON LEBANON'S PRESIDENCY, NAJIB MIKATI SAYS SAUDIS [...] (S) In a 10/31 meeting with the Ambassador, former Prime Minister Najib Mikati (once and perhaps still close to the Syrian regime) mused that Damascus has two preferred options for Lebanon's presidential elections: first, extending the status quo (with Emile Lahoud remaining in Baabda Palace [...] | 2007-11-01 13:16:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER LE SY SA |
07BEIRUT1724 | LEBANON: SAUDI AMBASSADOR OPPOSED TO "HALF PLUS [...] (C) Describing Hizballah as "evil," Saudi Ambassador Abdulaziz Khoja said that Syria and Hizballah want to postpone presidential elections indefinitely. But a March 14-provoked absolute majority ("half plus one") election would also be destructive for Lebanon, he argued, and Saudi Arabia op [...] | 2007-11-05 04:52:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER LE SY SA |
07BEIRUT1737 | LEBANON: FRENCH CHARGE ADVOCATES TOUGH MESSAGE TO [...] (C) French Charge Andre Parant reported that French officials delivered tough messages to their Syrian counterparts during their November 3-4 meetings in Istanbul, warning that France would hold Syria responsible if Lebanon is unable to elect a president by November 24. Locally, a stronger Ch [...] | 2007-11-06 15:39:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS LE |
07BEIRUT1760 | LEBANON: GEAGEA WARNS OF DANGEROUS GAMES, AND IS [...] (C) Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea does not support France's efforts to convince the Patriarch to provide names of presidential candidates, fearing that, without an adequate safety net, this would lead to a weak president susceptible to Syrian and Hizballah influence. Citing Nassib Lahoud [...] | 2007-11-09 14:21:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS LE |
07BEIRUT1820 | LEBANON'S PRESIDENCY: GHANEM, EDDE, SALAMEH STILL [...] (S) Despite French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Special Envoy Jean-Claude Cousseran shuttling among the major political players, the French initiative to solve Lebanon's presidential election crisis is faltering. Only three names from the Patriarch's original list of seven potential [...] | 2007-11-20 16:50:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM LE SY FR |
07BEIRUT1860 | LEBANON: OPTIONS FOR THE PRESIDENCY [...] (S) Summary: March 14's Muslim leaders, convinced that international support (i.e., pressure on Syria) is not sufficient to guarantee the election and survival of a March 14 president, are now bent on pursuing an option that, until a few weeks ago, was an anathema to them: LAF Commander Mi [...] | 2007-11-26 13:16:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PTER KDEM PGOV LE SY |
07BEIRUT1877 | LEBANON: WHY IS MARCH 14 READY TO CRY 'UNCLE' ON [...] (S) After we have been preaching unity to our March 14 and GOL contacts over the past few days, the message is taking hold: there is a March 14 leadership meeting tonight, and we detect a convergence of views among the major March 14 players. Yet, perversely, the unity points in the directi [...] | 2007-11-27 15:54:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM LE SY FR |
07BEIRUT1884 | LEBANON: EVALUATING MICHEL SLEIMAN [...] (S) Reftel notes the reasons why March 14 leaders, after having courageously stood up against compromise with Hizballah and Syria for more than a year and despite three assassinations, are now moving forward with a plan to elect Lebanese Armed Forces Commander Michel Sleiman as Lebanon's nex [...] | 2007-11-28 08:06:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL KDEM PGOV PTER LE SY |
07BEIRUT1899 | LEBANON: TRYING TO MAKE A SLEIMAN PRESIDENCY WORK [...] (S) Despite the backing of Saad Hariri, Fouad Siniora, Walid Jumblatt, and -- less enthusiastically -- Samir Geagea, Michel Sleiman does not yet have his six-year lease on the Baabda Presidential Palace locked in. Just as Hariri et al. had hoped, March 14's backing of Sleiman caught Hizballa [...] | 2007-11-30 12:14:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM LE SY |
07BEIRUT1916 | LEBANON: INCREASING THE HEAT ON THE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (S) The pro-Syrian March 8-Aoun forces have much to gain, and March 14 forces much to lose, from the ongoing delay in filling Lebanon's presidential vacuum. Tactically, March 14 has more bargaining power on selecting the prime minister and cabinet if the normal constitutional processes are [...] | 2007-12-04 14:42:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY |
07BEIRUT193 | LEBANON: MINISTER DECRIES OPPOSITION COUP [...] (S) According to Minister Nayla Mouawad, March 14 leaders feared an opposition coup d'etat, possibly with military connivance, during the week of the January 25 Paris III donor conference. Opposition leaders' statements and actions during the January 23 demonstrations appeared to bear out the [...] | 2007-02-05 16:24:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER LE |
07BEIRUT1936 | LEBANON: SAAD HARIRI: OPPOSITION DOESN'T WANT [...] (C) Majority leader Saad Hariri believes that the opposition's continuing efforts to block the election of Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Commander Michel Sleiman reflect Syria's desire to maintain a presidential vacuum. Still disillusioned with the French and expressing frustration with US poli [...] | 2007-12-11 08:22:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS LE |
07BEIRUT1942 | LEBANON: HARIRI DETERMINED TO BE PM [...] (S) In a one-on-one meeting at the end of a larger session (reftel),MP Saad Hariri told the Ambassador that he was determined to be Prime Minister in the cabinet to be formed after presidential elections. He said that, while in Saudi Arabia a few days earlier, he had a "heart-to-heart" tal [...] | 2007-12-11 14:37:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY SA JO |
07BEIRUT1958 | LEBANON: CHRISTIAN LEADERS DISCUSS BG HAJJ [...] (C) The Charge met separately on December 13 with three Christian leaders, former president and Phalange party leader Amine Gemayel, Minister of Justice Charles Rizk, and head of National Liberal party Dory Chamoun, to discuss Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj's assassination (Ref A) and the [...] | 2007-12-14 16:29:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM PARM SY PTER LE |
07BEIRUT197 | IS SAAD HARIRI SURRENDERING TO HIZBALLAH'S DEMANDS? [...] (S) In 2/6 meetings with the Ambassador, March 14 and GOL figures expressed deep foreboding about a rumored offer that Saudi Arabia and Saad Hariri were on the verge of accepting from Iran, Syria, and Hizballah to solve Lebanon's political crisis. According to rumors, March 14 -- by accepti [...] | 2007-02-06 15:35:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL KDEM PGOV PTER LE SY SA IR |
07BEIRUT1974 | LEBANON: JUMBLATT TELL A/S WELCH MARCH 14 MORE [...] (C) NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch assured Druse leader Walid Jumblatt and other senior Druse officials of unwavering U.S. support for March 14 during his December 15-16 visit to Lebanon. Stressing the need for March 14 to remain united, he said the U.S. would support whichever course th [...] | 2007-12-18 08:38:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS LE |
07BEIRUT1982 | LEBANON: A/S WELCH AND DAPNSA ABRAMS WITH PM [...] (C) NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch and Deputy Advisor to the President and National Security Advisor (DAPNSA) Elliott Abrams updated PM Siniora on December 18 on the December 17 Paris meetings regarding the Palestinians and on Lebanon. A/S Welch informed Siniora about a potential Arab L [...] | 2007-12-21 14:52:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PARM PGOV PREL PTER FR LE SY |
07BEIRUT1986 | LEBANON: A/S WELCH AND FRENCH CHARGE EXCHANGE [...] (C) During a visit to Beirut following the December 17 Lebanon Ministerial in Paris, NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch and Deputy Advisor to the President and National Security Advisor (DAPNSA) Elliot Abrams discussed Lebanon's continuing political crisis with French Charge d'Affaires Andre [...] | 2007-12-21 16:04:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PARM SY IS LE |
07BEIRUT2008 | LEBANON: HOW TO HELP LEBANON FINANCIALLY NOW [...] (C) According to Finance Minister Jihad Azour, Lebanon's deficit situation is under control because tax revenues are up, but that the GOL faces problems paying its foreign currency debt in the first quarter of 2008. Contriubuting to Lebanon's first quarter debt crunch are the problems of red [...] | 2007-12-31 16:02:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN EINV LE PGOV PREL PTER |
07BEIRUT204 | SAUDI AMBASSADOR CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC REGARDING [...] (S) In a 2/7 meeting with the Ambassador, Saudi Ambassador Abdulaziz Khoja expressed cautious optimism that a solution to Lebanon's political crisis was starting to come together and could even be achieved quickly. While the proposed deal is similar to what we discussed yesterday in reftel [...] | 2007-02-07 16:13:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV KDEM LE SA IR |
07BEIRUT213 | HARIRI CALLS BERRI; EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE TO BE [...] (C) As a follow up to what Saudi Ambassador Khoja described as a "Berri initiative" earlier in the day (reftel),MP Saad Hariri, still in Riyadh, called Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday evening (2/7),in the first direct communication between Hariri and Berri since November. The [...] | 2007-02-08 16:32:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM LE SY SA |
07BEIRUT220 | LEBANON: AOUNIST MP EXPLAINS THE GENERAL [...] (S) FPM MP Ibrahim Kanaan shared with us his views on party leader Michel Aoun, attempting to explain (while analyzing for himself) Aoun's motivations in collaborating with pro-Syrian political leaders and movements. Kanaan shared with us that the OrangeTV venture was flagging as a reflection [...] | 2007-02-09 16:45:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER LE |
07BEIRUT227 | MIKATI SAYS SINIORA NOW AS MUCH SYRIA'S PROBLEM AS [...] (S) Former Prime Minister Najib Mikati (please protect) told the Ambassador in a 2/12 meeting that his brother Taha had recently visited Damascus. Acknowledging how peculiar it is for the GOL to negotiate the Special Tribunal with those likely to be tried, Taha told Najib that the Syrians ar [...] | 2007-02-12 16:48:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV KDEM LE SY |
07BEIRUT231 | LEBANON: HARIRI BELIEVES ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL [...] (C) In a 2/12 meeting, Future Movement leader Saad Hariri said that despite premature reports of its demise, the Saudi initiative remains alive, even though the Iranian regime may be trying to back out of its previous commitments. In essence, the resolution is comprised of three parts: expe [...] | 2007-02-13 08:06:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | IS LE PGOV PREL PTER SY |
07BEIRUT24 | LEBANON: EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR BELIEVES NASRALLAH [...] (S) The Ambassador and Polchief called on Egyptian Ambassador to Lebanon Hussein Derar January 3 to request a readout of Derar's December 29 meeting with Hassan Nasrallah, the first meeting of any Egyptian Ambassador with the Hizballah leader, and the latest on the Amr Moussa initiative. Der [...] | 2007-01-04 17:05:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER LE |
07BEIRUT265 | LEBANON: ARMENIAN PATRIARCH SEES URGENT NEED FOR [...] (C) The Patriarch of the Armenian Orthodox Church in Lebanon, Catholicos Aram I, believes that Lebanon's political situation is so polarized between pro-government and opposition forces that unless some "bold initiative" is taken to change the current course of events, the outcome will be civi [...] | 2007-02-19 08:11:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF LE |
07BEIRUT31 | LEBANON: ZAHLE MP DISSATISFIED WITH AOUN AND [...] (C) Zahle Member of Parliament Illy Skaff (allied with Michel Aoun) in early January shared with Ambassador Feltman and emboff his disatisfaction from Aoun amidst continued frustration with the Hariris. Yet, asked about Hizballah, Skaff stated that Christian fears of Sunni fundamentalism and [...] | 2007-01-05 16:24:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM LE SY |
07BEIRUT348 | LEBANON: MINISTER HAMADEH DISCUSSES HIS UN [...] (C) In a 3/5 meeting with the Ambassador, March 14 leaders Marwan Hamadeh and Ghattas Khoury described their recent meeting with UNSYG Ban Ki-Moon in New York during which they argued that Chapter VII action may be the only realistic way to establish the Special Tribunal. They promised the [...] | 2007-03-06 16:17:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER LE IS SY SA |
07BEIRUT349 | LEBANON: BERRI DESCRIBES NEW PLAN TO RESOLVE [...] (C) Nabih Berri described a "new" plan as the last opportunity for Lebanon to avoid serious civil disobedience. He said that all sides (except possibly Michel Aoun) would emerge with their non-negotiable objectives intact. Under the Berri plan, the pro-government March 14 and opposition Mar [...] | 2007-03-06 17:24:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER LE IS SY SA |
07BEIRUT371 | LEBANON: MP CLAIMS AOUN READY FOR RAPPROCHEMENT [...] (C) Michel Aoun is embarked on a program to distance himself from the Hizballah-led opposition, according Aoun Bloc MP Ibrahim Kenaan. Aoun's public statements at variance with Hizballah positions, his courting of the international community, his support for the international tribunal, his de [...] | 2007-03-09 15:43:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER LE |
07BEIRUT383 | LEBANON: GENERAL AOUN HOSTS AMBASSADOR IN [...] (C) Michel Aoun is seeking to portray himself to the USG (and possibly to Lebanon) in a new light -- not so close to Hizballah after all, skeptical of Syrian intentions and of President Lahoud, dismissive of Amal, and supportive of the international tribunal. He puts forth a vision of a nonco [...] | 2007-03-13 16:55:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER LE |
07BEIRUT384 | LEBANON: SAMIR GEAGEA HOLDS SCANT HOPE FOR [...] (C) In a 3/12 meeting, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea supported the current Berri-Hariri talks aimed at solving Lebanon's political crisis as a "useful" endeavor, but was also certain they would ultimately fail. No matter how reasonable or constructive Berri appears, he cannot compromi [...] | 2007-03-13 16:58:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER LE IS SY |
07BEIRUT395 | LEBANON: SENIOR MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT CAUTIONS [...] (C) Senior MP Robert Ghanem, a moderate Maronite member of the March 14 movement and chairman of parliament's influential Judiciary Committee, told emboff on 3/14 that for the first time in months, he sees tentativeness in the actions of March 8th opposition forces. He said that Hizballah m [...] | 2007-03-15 15:39:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | IS LE PGOV PREL PTER SY |
07BEIRUT403 | LEBANON: FINANCE MINISTER CONCERNED ABOUT GOL [...] (C) Finance Minister Jihad Azour reported to us that none of the money pledged at Paris III has yet arrived, and Lebanon's short term financial situation is difficult but still manageable. The real problem is that continued political uncertainty is derailing Lebanon's anticipated cycle of ec [...] | 2007-03-16 15:11:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL LE |
07BEIRUT42 | SINIORA PINS GOL SURVIVAL ON GENEROUS PARIS III [...] (S) In a 90-minute meeting with the Ambassador on 1/8, PM Fouad Siniora -- in crisis mode and interrupted frequently by security officers working to counter Tuesday's anticipated opposition escalation -- said that Lebanon's political and financial stability depends on a successful Paris III [...] | 2007-01-08 17:53:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL EFIN EAID ECON LE |
07BEIRUT423 | SAUDI AMBASSADOR BLAMES JUMBLATT FOR IMPASSE, AS [...] (C) Saudi Ambassador Abdulaziz Khoja used a 3/21 meeting with Ambassador Feltman to blast Walid Jumblatt. Had it not been for Jumblatt's objections, Khoja said, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and MP Saad Hariri would be able to conclude a "declaration of intent" of how to end Lebanon's poli [...] | 2007-03-22 13:28:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY SA |
07BEIRUT477 | LEBANON: SPEAKER PELOSI MEETS WITH MP SAAD HARIRI [...] (SBU) Saad Hariri told CODEL Pelosi that progress in the region, and particularly in Lebanon, requires that the international community take a firm and united stand on Syria and Iran. The Syrian regime only understands force, and is becoming emboldened by the increased number of visitors to S [...] | 2007-04-02 16:03:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER LE |
07BEIRUT569 | ELIAS MURR CLAIMS LAHOUD PREPARED TO APPOINT ISSAM [...] (S) In a 4/23 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Elias Murr added his voice to the rumors that Lebanese President Emile Lahoud plans to appoint a competing cabinet to reinforce the position that the Siniora cabinet is null and void. In Murr's version (wh [...] | 2007-04-24 13:26:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL KDEM PGOV LE SY |
07BEIRUT590 | LEBANON: MOHAMMAD SAMMAK WORRIED ABOUT EXTREMISM [...] (C) Lebanon is proud of its tradition as the only Arab democracy in the Middle East; however democracy is not the priority for the country - national unity is, according to interfaith dialogue leader Mohammad Sammak. Sunni extremism, especially in northern Lebanon, is growing and is being fi [...] | 2007-04-25 15:54:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LE |
07BEIRUT60 | LEBANON: JUMBLATT SEES HIZBALLAH AS THREAT TO [...] (S) Druze leader Walid Jumblatt described arms smuggling from Syria to Hizballah as an elusive problem, and deemed the LAF incapable of taking on an anti-smuggling role while also protecting the GOL against demonstrators in the capital. Talk of divisions among March 8 coalition partners, or of [...] | 2007-01-11 08:53:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PGOV PREL PTER LE |
07BEIRUT611 | SINIORA ON CABINET INITIATIVE, TRIBUNAL [...] (C) In a 5/1 meeting with the Ambassador, PM Siniora underscored his belief that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon must be established by the UNSC, as Lebanon's constitutional process is blocked. But he resisted sending a stronger, specific message requesting Chapter VII now. In what quickly [...] | 2007-05-01 15:04:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC PTER LE SY |
07BEIRUT645 | FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON TRIBUNAL, BRAMMERTZ, [...] (C) In a 5/7 meeting with Ambassador Feltman, French Ambassador Bernard Emie, just back from Paris, reported that France wants to move quickly toward a simple UNSCR establishing the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Emie agreed that it appears that the pro-Syrians already recognize the inevita [...] | 2007-05-07 14:46:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL UNSC LE SY |
07BEIRUT650 | LEBANON: INDEPENDENT SHIA POLITICIAN SUGGESTS [...] (SBU) Independent Shia political leader Mohammad Baydoun in early May expressed frustration that the March 14 movement continues to approach the Shia community exclusively through Nabih Berri, whom Baydoun considers an unreliable partner. The main impediment to progress in Lebanon is Hizballah [...] | 2007-05-08 16:06:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SY IS LE |
07BEIRUT651 | LEBANON: HARIRI PROMISES SINIORA WILL SEND SECOND [...] (C) Indicative of increasing momentum toward Chapter VII, March 14 parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri told the Ambassador in a 5/8 meeting that PM Siniora is about to send a second, more emphatic letter to UNSYG Ban Ki-moon. Although Chapter VII was not explicitly referred to in the d [...] | 2007-05-08 16:38:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | IS LE PGOV PREL PTER SY |
07BEIRUT66 | WHERE ARE THE DEMONSTRATORS? [...] (S) Curiously, the much ballyhooed "anti-Paris III" labor protests that the March 8-Aoun opposition promised -- from Michel Aoun's front yard -- would shake the foundations of the Siniora government this week have fizzled. After two days of lackluster turn-out, the General Labor Confederatio [...] | 2007-01-12 16:29:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PTER PGOV KDEM LE SY |
07BEIRUT704 | LEBANON: HARIRI FEELS GOOD ABOUT FRENCH AND BAD [...] (C) In a 5/15 meeting with A/S Welch, MP Saad Hariri reported with satisfaction about the start of his relationship with French President Sarkozy, which Hariri interpreted as a promising sign of continued French support. The Syrians, however, continue to worry Hariri. Having blocked the gover [...] | 2007-05-18 15:48:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER SY LE |
07BEIRUT707 | THE SEDUCTION OF THE WIDOW HARIRI: HOPES FOR [...] (C) Further to something we first mentioned in the 4/23/07 daily sitrep, beach resort owner and political gadfly Roger Edde has pursued a far-fetched plan to achieve his long-shot goal of becoming Lebanon's next president: he has dangled before the eyes of Rafiq Hariri's Paris-based widow N [...] | 2007-05-21 07:51:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY SA |
07BEIRUT732 | ELIAS MURR, APPRECIATIVE OF USG HELP, PUSHES FOR [...] (C) Back in Beirut after another medical procedure in Switzerland, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Elias Murr called the Ambassador today (5/23) with two messages. First, Murr noted that he had been fully briefed by LAF Commander Michel Sleiman and other officers on the planned US [...] | 2007-05-23 14:21:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PARM MOPS PGOV PTER LE SY |
07BEIRUT733 | LEBANON: ISF'S GENERAL RIFI SEES SYRIA BEHIND [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on May 23, Director General of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) General Ashraf Rifi added his voice to the chorus of those who assume a Syrian role in the recent violence in Lebanon. Rifi supports immediate action to eliminate Fatah al-Islam from [...] | 2007-05-23 15:28:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER LE SY |
07BEIRUT773 | LEBANON: CODEL LEAHY MEETS WITH PM SINIORA [...] (C) On 5/31, PM Siniora conveyed to CODEL Leahy his sincere gratitude for U.S. leadership in yesterday's UN Security Council vote for resolution 1757, which will establish the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. He said the June 10 sunset clause was almost irrelevant because Speaker Berri will co [...] | 2007-05-31 16:29:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | IS LE PGOV PREL PTER SY |
07BEIRUT813 | LEBANON: JUSTICE MINISTER RIZK LOOKS AHEAD ON [...] (C) Visiting Assistant Secretary for International Organizations Kristen Silverberg and the Ambassador on June 5 discussed upcoming issues regarding the Special Tribunal for Lebanon with Minister of Justice Charles Rizk. Fully supportive of A/S Silverberg's argument to make progress on making [...] | 2007-06-06 15:18:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL LE SY |
07BEIRUT831 | LEBANON: FRENCH AMBASSADOR TRIES TO DOWNPLAY [...] (C/NF) In a 6/9 meeting with French Ambassador Bernard Emie, Ambassador Feltman registered strong concern about the proposal by French Foreign Minister Kouchner to host Lebanese political and civil society figures to a national dialogue in France in late June. Emie (please protect throughout [...] | 2007-06-10 10:36:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY FR |
07BEIRUT917 | LEBANON: SINIORA INTENDS TO USE NAHR AL-BARID TO [...] (C) In a 6/21 meeting, PM Siniora conveyed to the Ambassador his conviction that the fight at Nahr al-Barid was a watershed event -- one which will enable his government to take the offensive against the numerous concentrations of militants located in the 12 Palestinian refugee camps and in [...] | 2007-06-22 14:08:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | IS LE PGOV PREL PTER SY |
07BEIRUT94 | WAITING FOR HIZBALLAH: SAUDI AMBASSADOR CLAIMS [...] (S) Summary: In a 1/18 meeting with the Ambassador, Saudi Ambassador Abdulaziz Khoja said that he has received approvals from Parliament Speaker Berri and MP Saad Hariri for the broad outlines of a political deal to resolve Lebanon's political crisis. Hizballah has not yet responded to his [...] | 2007-01-18 14:20:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER LE SY |
07BEIRUT944 | LEBANON: CONGRESSMAN ISSA VISITS BEIRUT [...] (C) Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) visited Beirut June 24-25, where he held meetings with PM Siniora (reftel),Free Patriotic Movement General Michel Aoun, Parliament Speaker Nabil Berri, Future Movement leader Saad Hariri, and March 14 MP Samir Franjieh. The visit occurred in the wake of A [...] | 2007-06-26 13:59:00 | Embassy Beirut | CONFIDENTIAL | IS LE PGOV PREL PTER SY |
07BEIRUT952 | LAHOUD'S SECOND CABINET SCENARIO: EVEN IF HE'S [...] (C) Rumors about if and when President Emile Lahoud will unilaterally form a second cabinet continue to dominate political talk in Lebanon. There are some indications that Lahoud might move far more quickly than expected to take this step to undermine Siniora's cabinet. Elias Murr, citing h [...] | 2007-06-27 16:19:00 | Embassy Beirut | SECRET | PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY |
07BERLIN1909 | U/S JEFFERY DISCUSSES IRAN SANCTIONS, ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: German Government officials in the Chancellery and MFA expressed to visiting Undersecretary Reuben Jeffery their preference for multilateral sanctions designed to prevent Iran from developing its nuclear weapons program. While willing to consider EU autonomous sanctions in the e [...] | 2007-10-19 10:24:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KNNP EFIN ENRG ETRD PREL SENV GM |
07BERLIN1943 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S CONVERSATION WITH [...] (C) EUR Assistant Secretary Dan Fried met October 23 with German National Security Adviser Christoph Heusgen. They discussed Russia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Georgia, Turkey, and the Middle East. Russia/2 2/MD/CFE: ------------------ 2. (C) Heusgen noted that the Chancellor saw Russian Pre [...] | 2007-10-24 14:22:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GM KS RS |
07BERLIN2007 | GERMANY DRYING OUT TRADE WITH IRAN THROUGH [...] (C) Summary: Due to the German government's quiet tightening of export controls and credit guarantees, increased political risk, and banks' market withdrawals, Germany's exports to Iran have markedly fallen. Iranian purges of state-owned companies and regulators and rising extortion and bure [...] | 2007-11-02 10:56:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETRD EPET ETTC KNNP PREL IR GM |
07BERLIN397 | NEA DAS SCOTT CARPENTER DISCUSSES BMENA INITIATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY. IN A FEBRUARY 20 DISCUSSION OF THE BROADER MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (BMENA) INITIATIVE, MFA BMENA COORDINATOR RENATE SCHIMKOREIT ASKED NEA DAS SCOTT CARPENTER FOR ASSISTANCE IN SECURING AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM JORDAN THAT YEMEN WILL HOST THE 2007 FORUM FOR THE FUTURE. SHE NOTED [...] | 2007-02-27 15:55:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | KMPI KDEM PHUM PREL GM JO YM |
07BERLIN547 | DEPUTY TREASURY SECRETARY MEETS WITH TOP [...] (C) Summary -- Meeting separately with Head of the Federal Chancellery/Minister without Portfolio Thomas de Maiziere and with Chancellery Director General for Economics Jens Weidmann March 19, Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt discussed Chancellor Merkel's transatlantic economic initiative, i [...] | 2007-03-20 11:11:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PREL ETTC GM IR IZ |
07BERLIN806 | REPORT OF SECOND G-8 LYON-ROMA MEETING OF GERMAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The second meeting of the G-8 Lyon-Roma Anti-Crime and Terrorism Group (LR/ACT) under the German Presidency was held in Berlin from April 16-19, 2007. The U.S. delegation was co-chaired by INL DAS Elizabeth Verville and S/CT Deputy Coordinator Virginia Palmer and included repr [...] | 2007-04-20 10:27:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KJUS OTRA PTER SNAR UNGA GM AF |
07BERLIN864 | TERRORIST FINANCE: DISRUPTING TALIBAN FINANCING: [...] (S) Global Affairs Off delivered ref demarche to Mathias Sonn, MFA Office Director for International Counterterrorism Cooperation, who said he agrees completely with the idea of German and joint approaches to Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and the UAE along the lines of reftel. Given the military [...] | 2007-04-27 18:04:00 | Embassy Berlin | SECRET | PTER EFIN KTFN KPAO AF PK GM ZU ZP |
07BERLIN912 | TERRORIST FINANCE: DISRUPTING TALIBAN FINANCING: [...] (U) This message contains an action request. See para 3. 2. (S) As previewed ref B, Pol-Mil Chief followed up on the demarche concerning Taliban financing (ref A) with Eckhart Blaurock, the Afghanistan action officer in the MFA's NATO Office May 3. Blaurock indicated that he had discussed [...] | 2007-05-04 16:55:00 | Embassy Berlin | SECRET | PTER EFIN KTFN KPAO AF GM PK ZU ZP |
07BISHKEK24 | BUS COLLISION AND MUFTI ALLEGATIONS TOP KYRGYZ [...] (C) Summary: A tragic bus accident, which claimed the lives of twenty-two Kyrgyz Hajj pilgrims in Saudi Arabia, clouded the conclusion of what many Kyrgyz had considered to be a successful year for the Hajj. Kyrgyz Muftiate and State Agency for Religious Affairs representatives consoled relat [...] | 2007-01-16 13:30:00 | Embassy Bishkek | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KIRF KISL PHUM SOCI KG |
07BRASILIA958 | BRAZIL: NEXT STEPS ON FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 24, in a joint "NAFTA" approach to the Ministry of External Relations, the Econ Counselors from the U.S. and Canadian Embassies, along with the Commercial Counselor from the Mexican Embassy, met with Evandro Didonet, the Ministry's recently-appointed Chief of its Intern [...] | 2007-05-26 19:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BR |
07BRUSSELS1254 | BELGIANS PONDER LEVEL OF PARTICIPATION AT IRAQ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Belgium will be represented at the signing of the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) on May 3 in Sharm el-Sheikh, at a minimum by its ambassador to Egypt. (Note: The Belgian political scene, including the agendas of ministers, is currently dominated by pre [...] | 2007-04-13 16:40:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID EFIN PGOV PREL BE IZ |
07BRUSSELS1315 | Belgian Regions Mastering Export Control [...] (SBU) Summary. In 2003, the Belgian federal government handed over the responsibility and final authority of licensing arms exports to the regional governments of Wallonia, Flanders, and Brussels Capital. Wallonia and Flanders, which together account for 95 percent of Belgium's exports, have [...] | 2007-04-19 10:06:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PARM PGOV BE |
07BRUSSELS1316 | Belgian Regions Mastering Export Control [...] (SBU) Summary. In 2003, the Belgian federal government handed over the responsibility and final authority of licensing arms exports to the regional governments of Wallonia, Flanders, and Brussels Capital. Wallonia and Flanders, which together account for 95 percent of Belgium's exports, have [...] | 2007-04-19 10:06:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PARM PGOV BE |
07BRUSSELS1664 | NEGROPONTE DISCUSSES SUDAN SANCTIONS, SOMALIA [...] (C) Summary: In a May 17 meeting, Deputy Secretary John D. Negroponte heard from two EU's senior experts on Africa policy that discussions of imposing European sanctions on Sudan are stalled. The EU is looking to the UN to take the lead on multilateral sanctions, but says the UN Security Coun [...] | 2007-05-21 05:00:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID EUN AF |
07BRUSSELS2298 | BELGIAN MUSLIMS: IDENTITY AND INTEGRATION AMONG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As in other western European countries, Muslims in Belgium have reached the stage where, despite years of residence, they feel - and are often perceived as -- strangers in their own, albeit adopted land. Of primarily Moroccan and Turkish origin, Belgian Muslims seek increasing [...] | 2007-07-16 12:25:00 | Embassy Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | SOCI PGOV PREL BE |
07BUENOSAIRES1367 | MEDIA REACTION; MIDDLE EAST SUMMIT; US-RUSSIA RELATIONSHIP; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today cover the international conference on the Middle East called by US President George W. Bush; the current status of the US-Russia relationship; and implications of US Treasury Secretary Paulson's trip to Latin America. 2. OPINION PIECES AND [...] | 2007-07-18 11:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL |
07BUENOSAIRES16 | NEWLY ELECTED SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE NANCY PELOSI; US-LATIN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's key international stories include Democrats taking control of both the US House of Representatives and Senate for the first time in a dozen years; Rep. Nancy Pelosi's selection as the first woman House leader in US history; Pelosi's statements about revisiting ties [...] | 2007-01-05 22:04:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION |
07BUENOSAIRES2016 | MEDIA REACTION; IRAQ; ARGENTINE-IMF TIES; ARGENTINE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend international stories include UK Gordon Brown's decision to reduce UK troops deployed in Iraq; ties between the IMF and Argentina; and the risks to be met by Argentine Presidential Candidate Cristina Kirchner if she wins the presidency. 2. OPINION PIECES AND EDIT [...] | 2007-10-10 15:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL |
07BUENOSAIRES2045 | MEDIA REACTION; ANKARA-WASHINGTON TIES; PRESS FREEDOM IN [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Major international stories today are related to the US-Turkish relationship in view of a possible attack from Turkey against Kurdish rebels in Northern Iraq, thereby destabilizing even further the situation in the country; Ankara's denial of the Armenian genocide being equ [...] | 2007-10-12 19:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL |
07BUENOSAIRES2295 | MEDIA REACTION; VENEZUELAN REFERENDUM; AFTERMATH OF [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories are focused on implications of Venezuelan Hugo Chavez's defeat last Sunday; and steps to build the 'peace construct' in the Middle East based on the Annapolis final declaration. 2. OPINION PIECES AND EDITORIALS - "Chavez in his la [...] | 2007-12-05 17:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL |
07BUENOSAIRES797 | MEDIA REACTION; IRAQ; CRISTINA KIRCHNER'S TRIP TO MEXICO; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend international stories include the war in Iraq; Argentine First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's upcoming trip to Mexico; the State of Vermont asking for the impeachment of US President Bush and VP Cheney; and the 2007 Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freed [...] | 2007-04-24 18:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION |
07CAIRO1176 | ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS STATEMENT ON ARAB [...] (U) Foreign ministers of the Arab League's committee assigned to follow up on the League's Arab Peace Initiative (API) -- or Beirut 2002 Initiative -- met in Cairo on April 18 to determine the manner in which the League will seek to market the API with Israel and the international community. [...] | 2007-04-22 11:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MEPN KPAL ARABL EG IS |
07CAIRO1188 | AMBASSADOR SATTERFIELD DISCUSSES IRAQ WITH [...] (C) Ambassador Satterfield discussed security and political developments in Iraq, as well as preparations for the International Compact on Iraq and expanded Neighbors conferences in separate April 19 meetings with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Arab League (AL) Secretary General Amre [...] | 2007-04-23 10:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPAL IZ IR EG |
07CAIRO1386 | SUDAN: EGYPT'S SLIPPERY DARFUR PLEDGE AND [...] (C) Summary: The GOE is awaiting UN response on its seemingly robust offer of troops for the AU/UN Heavy Support Package (HSP) for Darfur. However, as with past Egyptian offers for Darfur, the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) is unlikely to fully accept this offer. The GOE h [...] | 2007-05-10 16:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO EG SU |
07CAIRO1388 | SUDAN: EGYPT'S SLIPPERY DARFUR PLEDGE AND [...] (C) Summary: The GOE is awaiting UN response on its seemingly robust offer of troops for the AU/UN Heavy Support Package (HSP) for Darfur. However, as with past Egyptian offers for Darfur, the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) is unlikely to fully accept this offer. The GOE h [...] | 2007-05-13 04:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO EG SU |
07CAIRO1443 | SUDAN: NDA LEADER MIRGHANI TO RETURN TO KHARTOUM, [...] (C) Offering a read-out of his May 7 meeting in Cairo with Sudanese President Omar Bashir, National Democratic Alliance (NDA) head and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Chief Mohamed Osman Al Mirghani told emboffs that he received Bashir's support for a plan to organize a national reconciliation [...] | 2007-05-16 15:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO EG SU |
07CAIRO172 | DARFUR: ARAB LEAGUE TO CONTRIBUTE USD 15 MILLION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-24 05:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EFIN ARABL EG SU |
07CAIRO1737 | EGYPTIANS WELCOME PALESTINIAN TRADE, GAZA EXPORT [...] SUMMARY: (C) EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE-SECTOR CONTACTS SAY THEY WELCOME INCREASED TRADE WITH PALESTINIANS, INCLUDING A TRADE CORRIDOR FOR GAZA EXPORTS THROUGH EGYPT. MERCHANTS IN THE NORTH SINAI CAPITAL OF EL-ARISH ARE ALREADY DOING SMALL-SCALE BUSINESS WITH PALESTINIANS WHO MANAGE TO P [...] | 2007-06-07 15:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL KWBG KPAL IS EG |
07CAIRO1863 | ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERS CONDEMN EIDO ASSASSINATION [...] (SBU) Arab League foreign ministers, meeting late on June 15 at AL headquarters in Cairo, addressed Lebanon in addition to their previously-scheduled Hamas agenda at the request of PM Siniora. The AL statement (full text paragraph 2) condemns the assassination of Lebanese MP Walid Eido, offers [...] | 2007-06-18 14:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MEPN ARABBL KPAL IS LE EG |
07CAIRO1870 | A DIVIDED ARAB LEAGUE CONDEMNS "CRIMINAL" ACTS IN [...] (U) Arab League (AL) foreign ministers, at the request of Egypt, met on June 15 at AL headquarters in Cairo to address Hamas's take-over of the Gaza Strip, next steps by - and assistance for - PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen),and the situation in Lebabon (septel). The ministers (from 1 [...] | 2007-06-19 05:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MEPN ARABBL KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO1877 | EGYPT LABOR: STRIKES ONGOING, GOE REFUTES ILO [...] (SBU) Although no broad-based alternative worker movement has yet to coalesce, the Kefaya movement's actions in solidarity with striking textile workers in Mansoura could hint at future coordination. Strong GOE rebukes greeted the release of an ILO report that cited employment discrimination [...] | 2007-06-19 13:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM EG |
07CAIRO1887 | ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERS CONDEMN EIDO ASSASSINATION [...] Arab League foreign ministers, meeting late on June 15 at AL headquarters in Cairo, addressed Lebanon in addition to their previously-scheduled Hamas agenda at the request of PM Siniora. The AL statement (full text paragraph 2) condemns the assassination of Lebanese MP Walid Eido, offers yet- [...] | 2007-06-20 11:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MEPN ARABBL KPAL IS LE EG |
07CAIRO1890 | REMITTANCES AND THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF MIGRATION [...] (U) Remittances constitute the third largest source of hard currency income in Egypt, after Suez Canal revenues and tourism receipts. Most remittances come from the U.S., but in the last few years, a growing percentage has come from workers in Gulf countries. Workers in Gulf countries tend t [...] | 2007-06-20 14:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EG |
07CAIRO2041 | JUNE 28 DCM MEETING WITH DR. MOHAMED MATTAR REGARDING TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 28, the DCM met with Dr. Mohamed Mattar for an update on his USAID-funded research project into human trafficking in Egypt. Dr. Mattar is an internationally recognized trafficking expert and the Executive Director of the Protection Project at Johns Hopkins University. He b [...] | 2007-07-03 14:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PGOV KPAO PREL EG KWMN |
07CAIRO2769 | ARAB LEAGUE BRIEFING FOLLOWING SEPTEMBER 5 [...] Summary. In a briefing for foreign diplomats on the Arab League's (AL) annual September 5 ministerial, AL Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef said that the ministers confirmed their support for President Bush's proposed international meeting for Middle East peace and noted their strong desire to rea [...] | 2007-09-12 14:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL PREF EG SO IS IZ SU XP |
07CAIRO3115 | EGYPT AND ARAB LEAGUE ON LEBANON BORDER MISSION [...] (C) Poloff delivered points (reftel A) October 23 to Hisham Yousef, Chief of Staff to Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa, and conveyed strong USG support for Lebanese PM Siniora's proposed Arab-EU monitoring mission. Yousef agreed that Lebanese sovereignty is critical, and said that Sin [...] | 2007-10-23 16:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EG LE |
07CAIRO3209 | EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ABOU GHEIT ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-06 09:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PREL IZ LE |
07CAIRO3218 | GOE AND ARAB LEAGUE READOUTS OF LEBANON SIDE [...] (C) Nazih el Neggary, MFA Cabinet advisor on Syria-Lebanon, gave a readout to poloff of the Lebanon side meeting in Istanbul, as well as an assessment of the Lebanese political state of play, on November 5. Neggary said the GOE was pleased with the meeting and the strong statement against int [...] | 2007-11-07 11:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LE EG |
07CAIRO3385 | APPROXIMATELY 700 PALESTINIANS ENTER EGYPT AT [...] (C) MG Nagy Kamal, Chief of the Directorate of Military Intelligence Liaison Agency with International Organizations, said that approximately 700 Palestinians forcibly entered the Rafah border crossing terminal from Gaza on December 3. He said the Egyptian terminal manager quickly calmed the [...] | 2007-12-03 13:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO3400 | GOE WORRIED ABOUT MORE HAJJ PILGRIMS THROUGH [...] (C) Summary. Egyptian MFA and MOD contacts confirmed to us today that approximately 500 Palestinians entered Egypt from Gaza on December 3. The GOE maintains that only Palestinians holding valid Saudi Arabian Hajj visas were allowed to enter, and that these travelers have been bused to the [...] | 2007-12-04 17:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | SECRET | PREL PTER KPAL EG IS |
07CAIRO3422 | EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD CHANGES ITS TUNE: [...] (C) Summary: The ideological architect and former leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ),Sayid Imam al-Sharif, jailed in Egypt since 2004, recently issued an 111-page book, published in full in 15 installments in a leading Egyptian independent daily newspaper, detailing "revisions" to his pre [...] | 2007-12-06 14:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KISL PHUM EG |
07CAIRO3480 | A/S FRAZER PRESSES EGYPT ON SUDAN, SOMALIA [...] (C) Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer met ith her MFA counterpart, Assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs Shamel Nasser, on November 25, to discuss Sudan and Somalia. Nasser argued that the security situation in Somalia had been better under the Islamic Courts Unio [...] | 2007-12-13 15:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EG SU SO |
07CAIRO582 | ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS IRAQ, [...] (SBU) In anticipation of an upcoming annual Arab Summit, scheduled for late March in Saudi Arabia, foreign ministers of the Arab League (AL) met in Cairo on March 3-4 to prepare the summit agenda and discuss a variety of pressing regional issues. Among those issues were the Arab-Israeli confl [...] | 2007-03-05 11:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ARABL KPAL EG IS IZ |
07CAIRO946 | SOMALIA: ARAB LEAGUE MEETING CALLS FOR MORE [...] (SBU) Arab heads of state met in Riyadh on March 28-29 at an annual Arab League summit, where they addressed the Arab-Israeli conflict, Darfur, and Somalia, among other topics. On Somalia, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal convened on March 28 an informal meeting that included the [...] | 2007-04-02 15:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS EG ARABL SO |
07CARACAS1434 | OIL TRADING: SKELETONS IN PDVSA'S CLOSET [...] (C) SUMMARY: A senior PDVSA executive who was forced into retirement in March 2007 stated PDVSA exports 38 million barrels of oil per month excluding crude from the former Faja strategic associations. President Chavez ordered PDVSA to stop exporting to the United States before the November el [...] | 2007-07-18 15:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG EINV ECON VE |
07CARACAS2124 | LEGISLATURE PASSES CHAVEZ' CONSTITUTIONAL PACKAGE; [...] (C) Summary. The National Assembly (NA) voted overwhelmingly November 2 to approve President Chavez' proposed, sweeping constitutional changes and conveyed the approved text to the National Electoral Council (CNE) the same day. The formal 30-day referendum campign has now begun, with the CNE [...] | 2007-11-02 21:35:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2195 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM: PLAYERS AND THEIR POSITIONS [...] (C) Summary. The December 2 constitutional referendum is a highly polarized political battle between President Chavez and his extensive base on one side and opposition parties, university demonstrators, Catholic bishops, and important sectors of civil society on the other. President Chavez's [...] | 2007-11-16 19:05:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
07CARACAS2211 | PRO-CHAVEZ PPT PARTY: GRUDGING SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Summary. The small pro-Chavez party Patria Para Todos (PPT) is reluctantly supporting President Chavez's proposed, sweeping constitutional changes. PPT leaders told PolCouns that Chavez's constitutional package is a "tough sell" within Chavismo, and they predict that it will only narrowly [...] | 2007-11-20 21:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SNAR VE |
07CARACAS424 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CONDEMNS U.S. "WAR PREPARATIONS" [...] (SBU) Summary. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (BRV) anti-American foreign policy recently reached new rhetorical depths. The National Assembly unanimously passed a February 22 resolution that condemns U.S. "war preparations" against Iran (sic) and exhorts all countries to "confront t [...] | 2007-03-01 14:07:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP PTER IR VE |
07CASABLANCA42 | MOROCCO: ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) This cable responds to action request (ref A) for updated information on the Moroccan government's efforts to combat trafficking in persons from April 2006 to March 2007. --------------------------------- Morocco Remai [...] | 2007-03-07 16:52:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB MO |
07CHENGDU100 | LOCAL RELIGIOUS FIGURES ON ISLAMIC RESURGENCE IN CHINA'S [...] (C) Summary: During a series of informal discussions in southern Yunnan Province along China's borders with Vietnam and Laos, local Muslim leaders described with pride the resurgence of Islam in their communities. A recently-completed mosque and religious training school in Najiaying has attr [...] | 2007-04-12 06:00:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI PHUM KIRF CH |
07CHENGDU203 | PRESENTING CHENGDU'S COLORFUL FIRST PAKISTANI CONSUL [...] (C) Summary: Recently arrived to assume his duties in Chengdu, Pakistan's first consul general to southwest China may have been picked for his current assignment due to his experience in Burma and military background. The JF-17 fighter aircraft jointly developed and produced by China and Paki [...] | 2007-08-03 01:01:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR MASS PK CH |
07CHENGDU34 | SOUTHWEST CHINA MUSLIM POPULATION GROWING [...] (SBU) Summary: Poor environmental and living conditions where many Muslims live in China's northwest have contributed to the expansion the Muslim population in the country's southwest provinces. Almost all of Sichuan Province's 200 Imams receive both religious and Arabic language training fro [...] | 2007-02-02 07:04:00 | Consulate Chengdu | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF CH |
07CHENNAI541 | HYDERABAD TERROR GROUPS HAVE INTERNATIONAL LINKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging conversation only days before the August 25 bombings in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh's Police Intelligence Chief told post that his office closely monitors 40 to 50 Indian nationals in Hyderabad who have links to Islamic terrorist groups. He said many of these y [...] | 2007-08-29 10:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC IN KCRM KISL PGOV PREL PTER |
07COLOMBO1188 | SRI LANKA OPEN TO ENGAGEMENT ON TIP ACTION PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: DCM and Poloff called on Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona on August 23 to deliver ref A talking points and Trafficking in Persons (TIP) action plan. DCM noted that the primary reason for watchlisting Sri Lanka was insufficient evidence of Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) efforts t [...] | 2007-08-30 12:41:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
07COLOMBO135 | MALDIVES: A NEED TO STRENGTHEN DEMOCRACY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met government officials and the leader of the opposition in Male' on January 16 to discuss the lagging democratic reform process. Ambassador also promoted the Maldives' purchase of Boeing aircraft and a potential joint venture with an American wind power firm. Int [...] | 2007-01-23 10:19:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM MV |
07COLOMBO1352 | SRI LANKA: CONFLICT CONTRIBUTES TO BRAIN DRAIN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Professionals and business people are steadily migrating out of Sri Lanka in pursuit of better living conditions and a more stable business environment. Many are Tamils and Muslims fleeing the conflict and persistent harassment. The "brain drain" is depleting a local talent pool [...] | 2007-10-02 05:31:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ELAB KMCA CE |
07COLOMBO1546 | SRI LANKA: TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) After meeting with numerous officials from throughout the GSL, Post assesses that the Government acknowledges the trafficking problem in Sri Lanka and is committed to addressing it. However, resource constraints, a lack of coordination among concerned ministries, and systemic problems [...] | 2007-11-15 10:13:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN PHUM SMIG CE |
07COLOMBO1707 | SRI LANKA: IRAN REFINERY OFFER COMPLICATES PICTURE FOR US [...] (SBU) Summary: Iran's recent promise to finance a $750 million expansion of Sri Lanka's sole oil refinery complicates the ambitions of U.S. firms Global Energy and ENGlobal to secure contracts for similar refinery investments. The head of the state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation doubts Ira [...] | 2007-12-31 08:33:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ENRG PREL CE IR |
07COLOMBO289 | MALDIVES: STRATEGY FOR ENGAGING ONE OF ISLAMIC [...] (SBU) Maldives is a moderate, pro-American Islamic country that cooperates on American military objectives and is responsive to US advice on reform and openness. In a generation, it has gone from being South Asia's poorest country to that with the region's highest per-capita income. However, [...] | 2007-02-15 10:48:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MASS MARR ECON ETRD AMGT OEXC KPAO |
07COLOMBO455 | MALDIVES: DRUGS, EDUCATION, ISLAMIC EXTREMISM AND WOMEN'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This cable contains an Action Request in Paragraph 14. During Under Secretary of State for Management Fore's March 7 visit to Maldives, in addition to discussions with President Gayoom (Ref A) and female political and business leaders (Ref B),she met separately with the Forei [...] | 2007-03-20 04:21:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ELAB ETRD MARR PHUM KDEM KISL EAID MV |
07COLOMBO625 | SRI LANKA, COUNTING ON RISING REMITTANCES, TRIES TO [...] Summary: Sri Lankans abroad formally remitted a record $2.3 billion in 2006, up 21 percent from 2005. Higher salaries in the Middle East, where a majority of Sri Lankan migrant workers go, partially drove this rise. A higher share of remittances sent through formal, rather than informal, chan [...] | 2007-04-27 06:11:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB EFIN PGOV PHUM SOCI SMIG CE |
07COLOMBO629 | MALDIVES: SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your visit to Maldives comes as this moderate Islamic nation is experiencing the political strains of an indigenous push toward democracy that began in 2004. Tensions between the government and opposition have slowed the pace of constitutional reform, frustrating many. There is [...] | 2007-04-27 10:07:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER EINV MV |
07COLOMBO703 | MALDIVES: ASSISTANT SECRETARY BOUCHER URGES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On a May 7-8 trip to Maldives, Assistant Secretary Boucher, accompanied by Ambassador, met with SIPDIS President Gayoom, government officials, members of the opposition, and women active in politics and civil society. Discussions covered the need for more concrete steps on [...] | 2007-05-15 11:48:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER SNAR MARR ETRD SENV ENRG |
07COLOMBO962 | SRI LANKA: COLOMBO AIRPORT RESUMES NIGHT OPERATIONS [...] SUMMARY: Sri Lanka's Bandaranaike International Airport resumed night operations on July 1 after the airport suspended night flights in early May following a series of air attacks near the airport by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. However, only one airline operating through Colombo has [...] | 2007-07-09 10:45:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EINV ETRD PTER CE |
07COLOMBO977 | SRI LANKA: INSTABILITY IN THE EAST MAKES FREE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: After more than a year of fighting to rid the eastern province of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),the Government is making preparations to hold elections as a concrete sign that order has been restored. However, significant obstacles remain that could jeopardize th [...] | 2007-07-13 11:05:00 | Embassy Colombo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MOPS CE |
07DAKAR1400 | LUNCH WITH ARAB AMBASSADORS TO SENEGAL [...] (C) On June 18, 2007, the Ambassador hosted a lunch with Arab Ambassadors. The frank discussion focused on democracy in the Middle East, terrorism and its root causes, Islamic parties, methodologies to win elections, the Palestinian question, and water issues as a potential spark for conflict [...] | 2007-07-03 12:08:00 | Embassy Dakar | SECRET | PREL PTER KDEM KISL KPAL PINR SOCI SG |
07DAKAR1515 | SENEGAL'S DONORS AGAIN GIVE IMF MISSION AN EARFUL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the beginning of a two-week mission to negotiate a new program with Senegal, IMF officials on July 12 received a non-stop stream of complaints and concerns by the country's traditional donors over the current state of public finance and governance. Senegal very much needs a [...] | 2007-07-23 07:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECON ETRD EINV SG |
07DAKAR1987 | SENEGAL SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET FOR OIC PROJECTS, PARASTATAL, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 28, Senegal's National Assembly approved a supplemental budget for the current fiscal year, augmenting targeted expenditures by eleven percent following the successful issuances of treasury bonds in June and August 2007, recent announcements of new loans from Saudi [...] | 2007-10-04 16:04:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV SG |
07DAKAR1993 | WADE INFORMS AND MISINFORMS ON MCC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has publicly confirmed that his government will not pursue a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact to help with Dakar's toll road project. Having previously lost the opportunity for MCC funding of a new industrial platform because of [...] | 2007-10-05 07:47:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA PREL ECON SG |
07DAKAR2061 | DANCERS GETS PROBABTION FOR "OBSCENE DANCING" [...] (C) A recent obscenity case against a well-known dancer, Ndeye Gueye, has pitted social conservatives, imams, and Islamists against secularist and lawyers who say that this kind of jurisprudence poses a danger to Senegal's traditions of social and religious tolerance. Gueye was charged, tried [...] | 2007-10-18 15:01:00 | Embassy Dakar | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KISL PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI SG |
07DAKAR823 | LABOR SECRETARY CHAO LEADS PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION TO [...] SUMMARY: Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao led the presidential delegation to the second inauguration of Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, as well as the 47th anniversary celebration of Senegal's independence from France and related events. During the April 3-5 festivities, Senegal hosted [...] | 2007-04-16 06:59:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OVIP ELAB EAIR PGOV KMCA SG |
07DAMASCUS1123 | ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT MEETING BLACKLISTS MERRILL [...] (U) Summary. The semi-annual meeting of the Arab League Boycott group was held November 5-7 in Damascus. Participation and results followed expectations and closely paralleled last April,s gathering (reftel). One U.S. company, Merrill Lynch, and three unnamed European companies were official [...] | 2007-11-20 14:47:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | AL ECON KBCT PHUM SY |
07DAMASCUS131 | Syria/ Tajikistan, Syria/Oman, Syria/Germany, Syria/Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Feb. 11 reported the visit to Damascus by Tajik President Imamoli Rakhmanov on Feb. 9, and his talks with President Asad, VP Shara and FM Mouallem. The Presidents called for scheduling a withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq, reiterated the importance of a Palestin [...] | 2007-02-11 14:27:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
07DAMASCUS169 | Peace Process, Lebanon, Syria/Iran, Syria/Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Feb. 21 featured statements on the importance of achieving peace in the Middle East and boosting the peace process. The papers featured an article published by Spanish newspaper El-Pais on Feb.20 which said that Spanish PM Zapatero and Italian PM Prodi stressed the [...] | 2007-02-21 14:34:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
07DAMASCUS17 | TURKEY: THE SARG'S NEW BEST FRIEND [...] (C) SUMMARY: OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS, WITH A SERIES OF HIGH-LEVEL TURKISH DIPLOMATIC VISITS AND TURKEY'S MUCH-DELAYED RATIFICATION OF THE SYRIAN-TURKISH FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (FTA),THE SARG HAS PUBLICLY HAILED THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA OF COOPERATION BETWEEN SYRIA AND TURKEY. THE SARG BELIE [...] | 2007-01-08 13:42:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR IZ SY TU |
07DAMASCUS190 | Arab Summit, Syria/Malaysia, Seymour Hersh's Article on US [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Feb. 26 reported that President Asad received a message from Saudi King Abdallah Bin-Abd-al-Aziz on Feb. 25 inviting him to attend the 19th Arab summit, which will be held in Saudi Arabia next month. The message was delivered to President Asad by Dr. Abdallah al-Zin [...] | 2007-02-27 15:04:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
07DAMASCUS208 | Shara's "Le Monde" Interview, Mouallem's Cairo Visit, [...] Summary: Syrian papers featured VP Shara's interview with French daily "Le Monde" published March 2 in which he expressed Syria's relative optimism on the success of an international meeting in Baghdad aimed at stabilizing Iraq, saying that "much depends on the attitude of the United States; [...] | 2007-03-04 14:27:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
07DAMASCUS213 | Syria/Venezuela, Syria/Norway, Syria/Italy, Syria/Iraq, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on March 5 reported the March 4 visit to Damascus of Venezuelan FM Nicolas Maduro and his meeting with Deputy FM Faisal Miqdad. The purpose of the visit was to boost bilateral relations and carry out agreements signed during the visit of Venezuelan President Hugo Chave [...] | 2007-03-05 13:13:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
07DAMASCUS294 | NEW ISLAMIC BANKS POPULAR, BUT BOARDS REFLECT SAME [...] (C) SUMMARY. DURING A RECENT CONFERENCE ON ISLAMIC BANKING, THE SARG CONTINUED TO PROMOTE ITS ISLAMIC BANKING EFFORTS AS A SIGN OF ITS "ISLAMIC" CREDENTIALS AND TO CLAIM SOLIDARITY WITH OTHER ARAB STATES. THE FIRST TWO SYRIAN ISLAMIC BANKS, WITH FOREIGN INVESTMENT FROM QATAR, KUWAIT AND SAUD [...] | 2007-03-25 15:02:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV SY |
07DAMASCUS299 | Syria/PLO, Arab Summit, Peace Process, Iraq, Lebanon [...] Summary: Papers on Mar. 26 reported the visit to Damascus by Rouhi Fattouh, Special Envoy of Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority, and his meeting with VP Shara on Mar. 25 conveying a message from President Abbas to President Asad on the latest Palestinian development [...] | 2007-03-26 12:44:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
07DAMASCUS304 | Syria/UK, Arab Summit, Rice/Ki-Moon, Iraq (3/27) [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Mar. 27 reported President Asad's meeting on Mar. 26 with a delegation representing the British House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee headed by Deputy Chairman of the committee, John Stanley. Talks focused on regional and international developments and the poli [...] | 2007-03-27 13:46:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
07DAMASCUS312 | Arab Summit, Peace Process, Golan, Rice's Statements, Iraq [...] Summary: The Syrian press on Mar. 28 reported President Asad's summit meeting with Saudi King Abdullah on Mar. 27 on the eve of the Arab summit in Riyadh. Talks dealt with bilateral relations, horizons for consolidating and boosting such relations, and topics on the agenda of the Arab Summit [...] | 2007-03-28 12:18:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
07DAMASCUS317 | SYRIAN ELECTIONS: JOCKEYING AND BACKSTABBING START [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN IN DAMASCUS HAS GOTTEN MORE HEATED AND UGLY THAN EXPECTED THIS SPRING, WITH THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA BEING USED TO PUBLISH SCURRILOUS ATTACKS TO WEAKEN THE CANDIDACIES OF A KEY INDEPENDENTS LIST. ON MARCH 29, THE PRESSURE AGAINST THE LIST TOOK O [...] | 2007-03-29 15:12:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SY |
07DAMASCUS332 | CODEL WOLF TELLS FM MU'ALLIM TO CHANGE DIRECTION [...] (C) Summary: In a 40 minute meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mu'allim, Congressmen Wolf, Pitts, and Aderholt commented that their visit was intended to explore the possibilities for dialogue in the framework of the Baker-Hamilton report but emphasized they were not in Syria to negoti [...] | 2007-04-03 12:29:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | IS PGOV PHUM PREL SY |
07DAMASCUS383 | Arab Initiative, Syria/Iraq, Syria/ Russia, Syria/Israel, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Apr. 19 reported that an Arab League Ministerial Committee on the Arab peace initiative held a meeting in Cairo on Apr. 18 with the participation of FM Mouallem to review efforts to activate the peace initiative in light of the Riyadh Summit. The Committee called fo [...] | 2007-04-23 11:50:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
07DAMASCUS389 | CODEL PELOSI MEETS SYRIA'S PRESIDENT ASAD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-25 09:17:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SY |
07DAMASCUS390 | CODEL PELOSI'S APRIL 3-4 VISIT TO DAMASCUS: [...] (C) Summary: Visiting U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her accompanying delegation met April 4 in Damascus with Syrian FM Walid Mu'allim. They discussed Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and prospects for a renewed Middle East peace process. End Summary. 2. (C) Speaker Pelosi and 15 members of h [...] | 2007-04-25 09:20:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY |
07DAMASCUS409 | ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT MEETING: SPIELBERG DESIGNATED [...] (U) Summary. The semi-annual meeting of the Arab League Boycott group was held April 23-26 in Damascus. Participation and results followed expectations and closely paralleled last November,s gathering (reftel). No companies were dropped; the one announced addition to the blacklist of entities is fi [...] | 2007-04-30 10:58:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KBCT PHUM SY |
07DAMASCUS41 | Syria/Australia, Shara, President Bush's Iraq Strategy, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on Jan 11 reported Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Abrash's meeting on Jan. 10 with an Australian Parliamentary delegation headed by the President of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, Meredith Burgmann, focusing on prospects for bilateral cooperation. Mrs. Burg [...] | 2007-01-11 14:04:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
07DAMASCUS410 | ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT MEETING: SPIELBERG DESIGNATED [...] (U) Summary. The semi-annual meeting of the Arab League Boycott group was held April 23-26 in Damascus. Participation and results followed expectations and closely paralleled last November,s gathering (reftel). No companies were dropped; the one announced addition to the blacklist of entitie [...] | 2007-04-30 10:59:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KBCT PHUM SY |
07DAMASCUS416 | Syria/GCC, Syria/US, Syria/South Africa, Winograd Report, [...] Summary: Syrian papers on May 3 reported President Asad's meeting on May 2 with Abdul-Rahman Attiya, Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council(GCC). Talks focused on developments in Iraq, the occupied territories, and Lebanon, and on bilateral cooperation and means to activate Arab c [...] | 2007-05-03 14:30:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL KPAO OPRC SY |
07DAMASCUS439 | SYRIAN PRESIDENT DENIES PASSING ON SYRIA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A MAY 10 SPEECH BEFORE PARLIAMENT, SYRIAN PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASAD MADE A TORTURED DENIAL THAT SYRIA HAD PROVIDE COMMENTARY TO ARABS (CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD TO BE SAUDI ARABIA) ON SYRIA'S RESERVATIONS TO THE PROPOSED HARIRI TRIBUNAL. BASHAR'S COMMENTS COME IN THE CONTEXT OF RUMO [...] | 2007-05-10 15:01:00 | Embassy Damascus | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SY SA |