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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02FRANKFURT10952 |
BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG GREEN PARTY EXPRESSES [...] (U) Summary: On November 23, the Baden-Wuerttemberg (B- W) Greens held their first state convention since the September national elections to discuss policy. Leading B-W party leaders such as caucus chief Winfried Kretschmann and Freiburg Lord Mayor Dieter Salomon are concerned about the via [...] |
2002-11-26 16:24:00 | Consulate Frankfurt | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV GM |
| 05ISTANBUL1729 |
Steering Group for Middle East and North Africa [...] (SBU) Summary: The steering group of the MENA OECD program met on October 3-4 in Istanbul. Key developments included advancing work on a ministerial declaration, discussing individual national reform agendas that would be presented at the ministerial, reviewing funding needs for the program [...] |
2005-10-05 14:03:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV TU OECD |
| 05MANAMA1385 |
OECD-MENA INVESTMENT PROGRAM: BAHRAIN MEETING OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Working Groups 1 (Open and Transparent Investment Policies - WG 1) and 2 (Investment Promotion Agencies and Business Associations as Drivers of Reform - WG 2) of the OECD-MENA Investment initiative met in Bahrain September 12-14 to review and approve their contributions to a sto [...] |
2005-09-26 08:41:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD BA OECD |
| 05OTTAWA1504 |
FY 2006 International Visitor Leadership Program [...] SUMMARY: This cable transmits the Mission's FY 2006 International Visitor Leadership Program slate. END SUMMARY. 2. The Mission Canada International Visitor Committee, composed of principal officers of Canada's seven constituent posts and Embassy Minister-Counselors for political, eco [...] |
2005-05-19 11:57:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
| 05OTTAWA1664 |
FY 2006 IVLP Individual Program - Allan Scholz [...] Post nominates Allan Scholz, President, A.N. Scholz and Associates, Calgary as an alternate candidate for a 21-day individual or ITT project on U.S. water policy and management. Mr. Scholz has full country team approval. EVDB nomination follows. 2. START FIXED-FORMAT TEXT (PLEASE DO NO [...] |
2005-06-03 12:04:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV |
| 05PARIS5961 |
GOF LEAKS STRATEGIC SECTORS TO BE PROTECTED FROM [...] (U) Summary. The French Government is slowly unveiling the contents of an upcoming decree listing the specific strategic sectors to be shielded from foreign takeover (per reftel). The State Council, France's highest administrative body, is currently reviewing the decree before its signature [...] |
2005-09-01 16:43:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON FR EUN |
| 05PARIS6570 |
FRANCE TO IMPLEMENT EU TAKEOVER DIRECTIVE; DECREE [...] (SBU) The Council of Ministers has adopted a draft bill implementing the EU Takeover Directive, which will allow targeted French companies to adopt anti-takeover defenses permitted in a potential bidder's own country. This bill comes on top of a draft decree to create a list of ten "sensitiv [...] |
2005-09-26 14:22:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON FR EUN |
| 05PARIS6995 |
FOREIGN INVESTMENT & NATIONAL SECURITY CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) A parliamentary conference on foreign investment and national security on October 10 has helped to inject some market sense into Prime Minister Villepin's "economic patriotism" agenda, although it also highlighted shortcomings in the French approach to protecting firms from foreign inve [...] |
2005-10-12 10:32:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON FR EUN |
| 05PARIS8311 |
NEW FRENCH ANTI-TERRORISM MEASURES ON THE WAY, [...] (SBU) French Interior Minister Sarkozy's anti-terrorism bill, approved by France's National Assembly on November 29, has moved to the Senate for final approval with surprising speed. The Bill will authorize video surveillance of more public places and give the government increased powers to [...] |
2005-12-07 16:51:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON KTFN FR |
| 06BERLIN2546 |
SPD IN DRIVER'S SEAT FOR BERLIN ELECTION [...] (U) Summary. With three weeks to go, opinion polls and political commentators and contacts all say Berlin's September 17 election of a new parliament is the SPD's to lose. The Social Democrats lead the Christian Democrats by over ten percent in all polls and the ratings gap between the two parties' [...] |
2006-08-30 15:38:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV GM |
| 06ISTANBUL1387 |
OECD/OSCE CONFERENCE ON INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN [...] Summary: OECD and OSCE jointly sponsored, and the Government of Turkey hosted, a meeting July 11-12 to assess interest of the countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus in an investment and development initiative similar to regional initiatives that OECD has undertaken with USG support in South [...] |
2006-08-08 13:10:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN TU |
| 06ISTANBUL1618 |
OECD/OSCE CONFERENCE ON INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN [...] Summary: OECD and OSCE jointly sponsored, and the Government of Turkey hosted, a meeting July 11-12 to assess interest of the countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus in an investment and development initiative similar to regional initiatives that OECD has undertaken with USG support in South [...] |
2006-09-08 08:13:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EFIN TU |
| 06ISTANBUL2095 |
STABILITY VS. THE CANCER OF INFORMALITY [...] Summary: On November 6, at the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Global Forum on Investment, an OECD Country Roundtable examined Turkey's recent experience with strategies to enhance the investment environment and the dramatic improvement in foreign investment in Tu [...] |
2006-11-20 13:31:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV BEXP ECON ECIN OECD TU |
| 06KHARTOUM2589 |
SUDAN: EDUCATION MINISTER ON POTENTIAL COOPERATION [...] (U) Summary: Sudan's Minister of General Education, Dr. Hamid Mohammed Ibrahim, told PAO during an Oct. 31 courtesy call at the Ministry that he favored greater cooperation between the United States and Sudan on educational issues. The Education Minister, who oversees the K-12 system in Sudan, [...] |
2006-10-31 14:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO SCUL PREL PGOV SU |
| 06PARIS3497 |
UPDATE ON UNESCO ETHICS DIVISION [...] Summary and comment-U.S. Mission Health Attache met May 19 with Henk Ten Have, director of the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology, which is located in UNESCO's Social and Human Sciences sector. Along with Ten Have were two of his staff, Sabina Colombo (bioethics) and Simone Scholze [...] |
2006-05-24 14:20:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO UNESCO |
| 06PARIS357 |
" ECONOMIC PATRIOTISM " TAKES SHAPE IN FRANCE [...] (C) As reported reftels, the GOF continues to enact elements of Parliamentarian Bernard Carayon,s &economic intelligence8 recommendations, as outlined in his 2003 report. The GOF issued a decree on December 31, 2005, to define which sectors merit protection from foreign control for &national [...] |
2006-01-19 15:56:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ETRD ECON EUN PREL FR |
| 06PARIS798 |
DEPSEC ZOELLICK REVIEWS INVESTMENT BARRIERS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Deputy Secretary Zoellick reviewed French economic reforms, new GoF restrictive investment rules, and the current state of the Doha Round trade negotiations with Christine Lagarde, France's Minister-delegate for Foreign Trade. Lagarde said France was "open for business", and [...] |
2006-02-08 11:49:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL OTRA ETRD EINV EFIN EUN FR |
| 06VIENNA157 |
FORMER GOVERNOR KLASNIC TO CHAIR FUTURE FUND [...] On January 13, the Board of Trustees of the Future Fund, charged with disbursing 20 million Euro in surplus monies from the Reconciliation Fund for Nazi-era forced and slave laborers, elected former Styrian Governor Waltraud Klasnic as its chairwoman. The Future Fund will finance projects to [...] |
2006-01-18 15:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
| 07AMMAN3881 |
MENA OECD STEERING GROUP MEETS IN AMMAN TO PLAN FOR [...] (SBU) The Steering Group of the MENA OECD Investment Program met in Amman, Jordan on September 5 to review progress and prepare for its ministerial meeting. The Egyptian Prime Minister will open the November 28 Ministerial and its Investment Minister will chair the meeting. The initiative, n [...] |
2007-09-18 14:19:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV XF |
| 07BERLIN1253 |
OFFICIAL DEBUT OF GERMANY'S LEFT PARTY [...] (U) Summary. At a Berlin convention on June 16, the long-awaited and painfully negotiated merger of Germany's eastern-based Left Party.PDS and western-based Electoral Alternative for Social Justice (WASG) into a single national "Left Party" was officially consummated. Delegates to the conven [...] |
2007-06-22 15:58:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV GM |
| 07BERLIN2060 |
MUENTEFERING RESIGNS; STEINMEIER BECOMES [...] (C) Summary: In a surprise move, one of the Social Democratic Party's (SPD) top politicians and ministers, Franz Muentefering, announced his resignation as Vice-Chancellor and Labor Minister November 13, citing personal reasons. Later in the day, SPD Chairman Kurt Beck announced that Foreign [...] |
2007-11-13 18:11:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GM |
| 07BRUSSELS3037 |
AMB WOOD DISCUSSES EU,S WORK IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan William Wood met with EU Council Secretariat and Commission officials September 17 and 18 in Brussels to discuss U.S. and EU efforts in Afghanistan. Topics included the EUPOL police training mission, European Commission assistance programs, and coun [...] |
2007-10-01 14:07:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EU EAID SNAR PTER |
| 07BUENOSAIRES1058 |
NEW GOA INVESTMENT PROMOTION AGENCY TO FOCUS ON HIGH TECH [...] (SBU) Beatriz Nofal, head of the GoA's recently established investment promotion agency, Prosper-Ar, will focus her organization's efforts on attracting investment in the high tech and creative content sectors. In a May 18 meeting with Ambassador, Nofal said she would also like to be become in [...] |
2007-05-29 20:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON KIPR PREL OECD AR |
| 07BUENOSAIRES1128 |
2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION [...] (U) The following report outlines new and ongoing investment disputes between the GOA and US investors, following an action request cable (Ref A), and updating Post's 2004 Investment Disputes Report (Ref B), and its subsequent 2005 and 2006 updates (Refs C and D). There were no new disputes f [...] |
2007-06-07 20:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV KIDE PREL OPIC AR |
| 07BUENOSAIRES119 |
ARGENTINA INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2007 [...] This cable transmits the text of the Argentina Investment Climate Statement for 2007 OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT Argentina remains open to foreign investment. Four consecutive years of real GDP growth over 8 percent have attracted considerable U.S. and other international investor int [...] |
2007-01-24 13:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV OPIC USTR AR |
| 07BUENOSAIRES1718 |
ARGENTINA: OECD NATIONAL CONTACT POINT [...] (U) SUMMARY. On August 8, Argentina MFA official Ambassador Enrique Julio De La Torre briefed Economic Counselor and Investment Officer on recent GOA efforts involving its National Contact Point (NCP) office. The GoA's NCP seeks to raise awareness of the Organization for Economic Cooperation [...] |
2007-08-30 13:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PREL PGOV OECD AR |
| 07BUENOSAIRES1795 |
ARGENTINE TAX AUTHORITY SEEKS CLOSER TIES WITH IRS AND [...] This is an Action Request for the Department of Treasury/IRS. See paragraphs 2 and 8. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The Argentine revenue authority, AFIP, wants to negotiate a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with the IRS. Responding to earlier U.S. Treasury guidance that [...] |
2007-09-10 12:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KTFN AR |
| 07BUENOSAIRES1800 |
ARGENTINE TAX AUTHORITY ON CSI, 9/11 ACT, MEGAPORT, AND [...] (SBU) The Argentine customs and revenue authority, AFIP, is pleased with the development of its Container Security Initiative (CSI) pilot program and hopes to expand pre-clearance cargo examinations to two additional port terminals in the Buenos Aires region. With this expansion, AFIP's Direct [...] |
2007-09-10 15:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EIPR KTFN AR |
| 07BUENOSAIRES2241 |
ARGENTINE TAX AUTHORITY'S ABAD ON CRISTINA GOVERNMENT, TAX [...] (SBU) Alberto Abad, head of Argentina's customs and revenue authority, AFIP, sees key economic challenges facing the incoming Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) administration as re-inserting Argentina into global capital markets, dealing with inflation, reducing the heavy burden of state sub [...] |
2007-11-20 15:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AR ETRD ECON KTFN |
| 07BUENOSAIRES311 |
PRESIDENT KIRCHNER'S FEB 21 VISIT TO VENEZUELA: ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) President Kirchner travels February 21 to Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela with an agenda that is principally economic: He will seek to confirm GoV assistance in placing up to $2 billion in new Argentine sovereign debt; finalize $135 million GoV rescue funding for SanCor, an emblematic Argentine d [...] |
2007-02-16 16:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ENRG EPET AR |
| 07BUENOSAIRES360 |
ARGENTINE PERSPECTIVE ON KIRCHNER'S VENEZUELA VISIT [...] (SBU) Deliverables from President Kirchner's February 21-22 visit to Venezuela included $750 million in bond financing, a $135 million rescue package for emblematic Argentine dairy cooperative SanCor, a raft of largely symbolic bilateral MOUs that included creation of a regional development ban [...] |
2007-02-23 20:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ENRG EPET AR VZ |
| 07BUENOSAIRES540 |
U.S. INVESTORS ON ARGENTINA: BOOM CONTINUING BUT [...] (SBU) U.S. executives predicted Argentina's economic boom would continue through 2007 and 2008, during the Ambassador's March 7 lunch for Hector Morales, USED to the IDB. Representatives of major U.S. financial, energy, and agroindustrial companies operating in Argentina agreed that the growth [...] |
2007-03-21 17:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ENRG EPET AR |
| 07BUENOSAIRES549 |
IDB's ARGENTINA STRATEGY [...] (SBU) With $8 billion in approved credits, Argentina is the IDB's single largest creditor. IDB Argentine Country Director Daniel Oliveira told the Ambassador during a March 20 meeting that this Argentine portfolio concentration will likely increase in the short term given Argentina's temporari [...] |
2007-03-21 20:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
| 07BUENOSAIRES550 |
CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT REDRADO PRIVATELY WARNS GOA [...] (C) During a March 16 meeting, Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado (STRICTLY PROTECT) told the Ambassador that GoA officials had not/not formally approached him to discuss the prospect of using BCRA reserves to capitalize the Banco del Sur, the Venezuelan proposed regional d [...] |
2007-03-22 10:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EAID ENRG EAGR ETRD AR VZ |
| 07BUENOSAIRES618 |
CAPABLE ARGENTINE TAX AUTHORITY COOPERATING ON CSI, TRADE [...] This is an Action Request -- See Paras 2, 4, 8 and 17. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The Argentine revenue authority (AFIP) seeks to expand cooperation with the U.S. on a range of important areas, according to its Director Alberto Abad. Argentina is a Latin American leader in Conta [...] |
2007-03-30 20:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KTFN AR |
| 07BUENOSAIRES619 |
CAPABLE ARGENTINE TAX AUTHORITY COOPERATING ON CSI, TRADE [...] This is an Action Request for the Departments of Energy (Paras. 2, 8) and Treasury (Paras. 4, 17). ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The Argentine revenue authority (AFIP) seeks to expand cooperation with the U.S. on a range of important areas, according to its Director Alberto Abad. A [...] |
2007-03-30 20:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KTFN AR |
| 07BUENOSAIRES634 |
AMBASSADOR'S IT SECTOR ROUNDTABLE [...] (U) Contains business-sensitive information. Not for internet distribution ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Ambassador hosted an information technology (IT) roundtable for Argentine country managers of IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Oracle, Intel, Avaya, Dell, AMD, and Cisco. [...] |
2007-04-04 20:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ECPS AR |
| 07BUENOSAIRES639 |
AMBASSADOR'S IT SECTOR ROUNDTABLE [...] (U) Contains business-sensitive information. Not for internet distribution --------- Summary --------- 2. (SBU) Ambassador hosted an information technology (IT) roundtable for the Argentine country managers of IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Oracle, Intel, Avaya, Dell, AMD, a [...] |
2007-04-05 10:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ECPS AR |
| 07BUENOSAIRES65 |
ARGENTINA'S ECONOMIC CRISIS LEGACY: FIRST IN ICSID [...] (SBU) Now, five years after Argentina,s December 2001 economic implosion and the largest sovereign default in world history, considerable attention remains focused on over $20 billion in outstanding claims by holders of defaulted Argentine bonds. Less well appreciated is the over $13 billion [...] |
2007-01-12 20:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON EFIN AR |
| 07BUENOSAIRES727 |
AMBASSADOR WAYNE HOSTS ROUNDTABLE FOR IBM CEO, AND VISITS [...] (U) Contains business-sensitive information. Not for internet distribution ---------- Summary ---------- 2. (SBU) Ambassador hosted a roundtable discussion on April 3 for IBM CEO Sam Palmisano who traveled to Argentina to visit the company's rapidly growing subsidiary, which is expandi [...] |
2007-04-13 21:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ECPS BEXP AR |
| 07BUENOSAIRES85 |
EMBASSY ADVOCACY WITH MINISTER DE VIDO ON BEHALF OF U.S. [...] As part of ongoing Embassy efforts to advocate on behalf of U.S. companies in Argentina, the Ambassador asked Planning Minister De Vido to participate in investor roundtables for U.S. electricity/gas and civil aviation sector players. Ambassador also noted (1) Turner Broadcasting's recent $23 [...] |
2007-01-18 19:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ENRG EPET AR |
| 07HAMBURG67 |
MUCH AT STAKE FOR SPD IN NORTHERN GERMANY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) celebrated its return to traditional party values and strengthened its forces during its national convention October 26-28 in Hamburg. Privately, however, SPD members have noted to Poloffs that the real test for party chairman Kurt Beck as [...] |
2007-11-14 15:06:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV GM |
| 07HAMBURG68 |
MUCH AT STAKE FOR SPD IN NORTHERN GERMANY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) celebrated its return to traditional party values and strengthened its forces during its national convention October 26-28 in Hamburg. Privately, however, SPD members have noted to Poloffs that the real test for party chairman Kurt Beck as [...] |
2007-11-14 15:17:00 | Consulate Hamburg | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV GM |
| 07USEUBRUSSELS3511 |
U.S. COORDINATOR FOR COUNTERNARCOTICS AND JUSTICE [...] (C) Summary. The EU Police Mission in Afghanistan is deeply interested in working closely with the U.S. The EUPOL mission was delayed in its deployment by internal procurement difficulties, but these have been resolved and vehicles and equipment should be delivered by January. The EUPOL mis [...] |
2007-12-14 16:15:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EUN AF |
| 08BEIJING3775 |
Coca-Cola's Huiyuan Bid Illustrates BIT Challenges, AML [...] (C) Summary. Coca-Cola Pacific Deputy Group President Paul Etchells briefed Acting Economic Minister-Counselor 9/17 on Coke's proposed acquisition of a leading Chinese juice maker for US$2.4 billion. Coke, which agreed to the meeting at our request, emphasized that it is not seeking U.S. Gove [...] |
2008-09-29 06:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN CH |
| 08BEIJING3855 |
Bilateral Investment Treaty Negotiations: Deliberate Pace in [...] (C) SUMMARY: The United States and China held the first round of bilateral investment treaty (BIT) negotiations in Beijing, September 2-5, 2008. China concurred with the U.S. view that an agreement would be significant given the two countries' importance to the global economy as major investme [...] |
2008-10-08 09:40:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN CH |
| 08BEIJING3856 |
CORRECTED VERSION OF BEIJING 3855 -- Bilateral Investment [...] (C) SUMMARY: The United States and China held the first round of bilateral investment treaty (BIT) negotiations in Beijing, September 2-5, 2008. China concurred with the U.S. view that an agreement would be significant given the two countries' importance to the global economy as major investme [...] |
2008-10-08 09:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN CH |
| 08BEIJING4611 |
Korea-China BIT Talks Stall Over Pre-Establishment [...] (C) Summary: In a December 18 meeting, Korean Embassy officials told Econoff that China and Korea continued to discuss in two forums the prospects for strong bilateral and trilateral (with Japan) investment agreements after signing a more limited "Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement" [...] |
2008-12-19 09:46:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV EAID ETRD WTRO PREL CH |
| 08BEIJING4612 |
Canada-China BIT Talks Slowed by U.S.-China Negotiations [...] (C) Summary: Twice this week, separate Canadian Embassy officials approached Embassy to express Canada's concern that China is holding off on making concessions in long-running bilateral investment treaty (BIT) negotiations with Canada on topics that China expects to surface in the U.S.-China [...] |
2008-12-19 10:00:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV EAID ETRD WTRO PREL CH |
| 08BEIJING4623 |
MOFCOM Spills the Beans on "Industrial Security" [...] (SBU) Summary: In a frank and spirited discussion October 28 with Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for Investment Security Nova Daly and Deputy Assistant United States Trade Representative for Investment Jonathan Kallmer, Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) Industrial Injury Investigation B [...] |
2008-12-22 07:31:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EINV WTRO EFIN CH |
| 08BERLIN122 |
WELCOME TO BERLIN [...] (C) NSA Hadley: Mission Germany looks forward to welcoming you to Berlin January 31 to February 1. Germany is currently consumed by the aftermath of bitterly fought state elections that took place on January 27 in Hesse and Lower Saxony. They are being seen as barometers for next year's nat [...] |
2008-01-29 16:25:00 | Embassy Berlin | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL GM |
| 08BRUSSELS1679 |
NEW EUPOL HOM WOULD LIKE TO DEPLOY THROUGHOUT [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 24 the new EUPOL Head of Mission, Police Commissioner Kai Vittrup, met with USEU Ambassador to discuss his mission, now that the PSC has approved the doubling of personnel and reassessed the mandate. Vittrup said that EUPOL would like to deploy to the Czech PRT in [...] |
2008-10-30 15:50:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | AF BO EUN GG MARR MOPS PARM PGOV PREL RS |
| 08BRUSSELS348 |
PRESSING THE EU'S ROLE IN AFGHANISTAN: FACTS, [...] (C) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will soon have a political discussion about Afghanistan. We believe this is an opportune time for the USG to make a renewed effort at convincing the EU to increase its contributions. The EU institutions have participated in Afghanistan reconstruction since [...] |
2008-03-06 15:33:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID EUN PGOV PREL PTER SNAR NATO MARR AF EU |
| 08STATE55587 |
U.S. AND RUSSIA LAUNCH ECONOMIC DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) Summary: In its first formal meeting, the U.S.-Russia Economic Dialogue reviewed areas of mutual interest on investment, trade and energy. U/S Jeffery and First DFM Denisov fostered a warm and informative exchange of views on such topics as open investment, sovereign wealth funds, and e [...] |
2008-05-23 17:31:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD PREL RS |
| 08TELAVIV1994 |
STATUS ON ISRAEL'S ACCESSION TO THE OECD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ministry of Finance (MOF) Senior Deputy Director General Oded Brook noted to Econ officers during a meeting on August 27 that Israel was using the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) accession process to accomplish domestic goals on the environment, taxa [...] |
2008-09-02 14:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD OECD IS |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS872 |
CSTC-A COMMANDER DISCUSSIONS WITH EU PERMREPS: [...] (C) Summary: In a presentation to EU permrep officials in Brussels on May 23, MG Robert W. Cone, Commander of Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A), provided a wide-ranging briefing on the challenges confronting the international effort to create a modern Afghan police fo [...] |
2008-06-10 06:28:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM PGOV NATO BO EUN GG IR MARR MOPS |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS882 |
CSTC-A COMMANDER DISCUSSIONS WITH EU PERMREPS: [...] (C) Summary: In a presentation to EU permrep officials in Brussels on May 23, MG Robert W. Cone, Commander of Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A), provided a wide-ranging briefing on the challenges confronting the international effort to create a modern Afghan police fo [...] |
2008-06-11 13:15:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM PGOV NATO BO EUN GG IR MARR MOPS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK794 |
RE-ENERGIZING THE FRIENDS OF UNAMID [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 14. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Recent meetings of the &Friends of UNAMID8 (FoU), co-chaired by the United States and Canada have focused on: 1) following up on UN Under Secretary General (U/SYG) Susanna Malcorra's July 2 list of requests, especially for air [...] |
2008-09-03 21:32:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL KPKO SU |
| 09BEIJING1333 |
LESSONS FOR S&ED - SWAGGER OVER SUBSTANCE AT 2ND [...] (C) China used the second High-level Economic Dialogue (HED) with the EU in Brussels May 7-8 to secure a vague commitment to &resist protectionism8 and take a dig at the United States and missed the chance to make substantive concessions on the numerous trade and investment barriers the EU rai [...] |
2009-05-18 09:30:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV EAID ETRD WTRO PREL CH EU |
| 09BEIJING1536 |
FRANCE-CHINA TENSION OVER DALAI LAMA, AFRICA ASSISTANCE, [...] (SBU) Economic Counselor Josselin Kalifa and Financial Counselor Pierre Mongrue from the French Embassy in Beijing told Econoffs June 5 that Sino-French relations are on the mend following several months during which China gave France the cold shoulder as punishment for President Sarkozy's Dece [...] |
2009-06-08 09:56:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN EAID EINV ETRD PHUM AU CH |
| 09BEIJING1747 |
JAPANESE EMBOFFS ON ECONOMIC DIALOGUE, INVESTMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japanese Emboffs, described the June 7 China-Japan High-level Economic Dialogue (HLED) as making little progress on substantive matters but enjoying good atmospherics. The most recent meeting of Japanese, Korean, and Chinese negotiators to discuss a trilateral investment treaty w [...] |
2009-06-25 06:13:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN EAID EINV ETRD CH JA KS PK |
| 09BEIJING2398 |
SEOUL SEARCHING DURING THE ECONOMIC CRISIS:THE [...] (C) Summary. Falling China-ROK trade levels and an investment dispute between a Chinese firm and its Korean employees have put some strain on China-ROK economic relations. Regarding negotiations among China, Japan, and Korea of a trilateral investment treaty, the Koreans (who signed a bilatera [...] |
2009-08-20 03:49:00 | Embassy Beijing | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL EINV ETRD JA KS CH |
| 09BEIJING702 |
COCA-COLA,S BID FOR JUICEMAKER HUIYUAN BEATEN TO A [...] (SBU) China,s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced March 18 that it would not permit Coca-Cola,s proposed $2.4 billion acquisition of Huiyuan, China,s largest fruit juice maker. In its short public announcement on the rejection, MOFCOM cites concerns that Coca-Cola would be able to use its [...] |
2009-03-18 22:59:00 | Embassy Beijing | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EAID ETRD WTRO PREL CH |
| 09BERLIN1460 |
GERMANY'S SOCIAL DEMOCRATS REJECT PARTY'S TOP-DOWN [...] (SBU) Summary: Germany's struggling Social Democratic Party (SPD) voted in a new leadership and recommitted itself to serving as the country's center-left people's party at its November 13-15 party convention. After having suffered its worst defeat at the polls since World War II, the newly [...] |
2009-11-17 14:06:00 | Embassy Berlin | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AF GM |
| 09BERLIN759 |
GERMANY'S LEFT PARTY CONTINUES TO MARGINALIZE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Germany's radical Left Party launched its electoral campaign manifesto at its June 20-21 national party convention in Berlin with a palette of predictable pacifist foreign policy and anti-capitalist domestic appeals that almost guarantee it will continue to remain on the political [...] |
2009-06-24 14:17:00 | Embassy Berlin | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL GM |
| 09BRUSSELS1404 |
ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: The European Parliament (EP) has become increasingly influential in EU legislation and policy making; the new Lisbon Treaty, when ratified, will significantly accelerate this trend, in particular in the areas of justice and home affairs, agricultural budgets and [...] |
2009-10-21 05:30:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PGOV OVIP OEXC PINR EUN |
| 09BRUSSELS1412 |
CORRECTED VERSION: ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITION OF THE EUROPEAN [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: The European Parliament (EP) has become increasingly influential in EU legislation and policy making; the new Lisbon Treaty, when ratified, will significantly accelerate this trend, in particular in the areas of justice and home affairs, agricultural budgets and [...] |
2009-10-22 05:15:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PGOV OVIP OEXC PINR EUN |
| 09GENEVA233 |
UNCTAD: Investment for Development [...] SUMMARY: UNCTAD experts, numbering approximately 50 member country and 40 field experts, focused on the development dimension of international investment agreements (IIAs) at a recent meeting in Geneva. The experts covered many areas of current debate in the international investment community [...] |
2009-03-18 13:26:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV UNCTAD |
| 09GENEVA237 |
UNCTAD - Vietnam Investment Policy Review and Latin [...] Summary: On the margins of UNCTAD's first multi-year expert meeting on investment for development (reftel), UNCTAD showcased two pillars of its work: technical assistance through an Investment Policy Review (IPR) of Vietnam; and consensus building through an Ad-Hoc experts meeting on the Feasi [...] |
2009-03-19 17:01:00 | US Mission Geneva | UNCLASSIFIED | UNCTAD ECON EINV EFIN |
| 09REYKJAVIK23 |
ICELAND SIGNS TIFA, PUSHES FOR E VISAS [...] (SBU) Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Europe and the Middle East Christopher S. Wilson and Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs Ossur Skarphedinsson signed a Trade and Investment Cooperation Framework Agreement (TIFA) in Reykjavik on January 15. The TIFA establishes a commitment to meet [...] |
2009-01-28 09:46:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN CVIS IC |
| 09ROME1019 |
G20: ITALIANS SEE EUROPE DIVIDED ON BANKERS' [...] (SBU) Summary: A senior aide of Italy's Finance Minister told econoff August 31 that in the runup to the next G20 meeting Europeans remain divided on how to regulate compensation of financial sector executives, a point Italians expect to be high on the Pittsburgh agenda. The aide also ventured [...] |
2009-09-01 15:16:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV ECON OECD IT |
| 09USEUBRUSSELS1404 |
ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: The European Parliament (EP) has become increasingly influential in EU legislation and policy making; the new Lisbon Treaty, when ratified, will significantly accelerate this trend, in particular in the areas of justice and home affairs, agricultural budgets and [...] |
2009-10-21 05:30:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PGOV OVIP OEXC PINR EUN |