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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02KATHMANDU680 |
HIMALAYAN TOURISM HEADED DOWNHILL [...] SUMMARY: Nepal's tourism industry, one of the country's top sources of foreign exchange, has been facing tough times in recent months, and the prolonged slump has negatively affected every sector of the tourism economy, from hotels and airlines to trekking agencies. International arrivals at [...] |
2002-04-04 09:01:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PREL CASC NP |
| 05KATHMANDU2849 |
EMBASSY KATHMANDU PANDEMIC INFLUENZA TRIPWIRES AND [...] (SBU) The Embassy has established an ad hoc interagency working group on avian influenza (AI) that meets regularly to discuss the Post Emergency Action Plan (EAP) specific to AI. The working group has recommended the following: to develop a section for Post's general EAP specific to a Pandemic [...] |
2005-12-19 10:05:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO AEMR NP |
| 06KATHMANDU141 |
2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] (SBU) This is Post's 2006 Investment Climate Statement, per reftel. Post has also sent the Investment Climate Statement by unclassified email, per reftel. Begin Text. INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT -- OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT Although the Government of Nepal (GON) is open to fore [...] |
2006-01-13 11:25:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR NP |
| 06KATHMANDU1665 |
COMMERCIAL TURBO PROP AIRCRAFT CRASHES, NO [...] (C) On June 21, a Yeti Airlines DeHavilland DH-6 Twin Otter aircraft crashed in a failed landing attempt at the remote Jumla airport in western Nepal killing all nine Nepalis on board. Mohan Adhikari, Officiating Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), explained to E [...] |
2006-06-23 12:43:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAIR CASC NP |
| 06KATHMANDU2491 |
MAOISTS FLEX THEIR MUSCLES [...] (C) On September 13, the Maoists called a nationwide traffic strike to protest an alleged shipment of weapons from India to the Nepal Army in violation of the government-Maoist cease-fire Code of Conduct. The Government of Nepal (GON) denied these allegations. It said that no weapons had ent [...] |
2006-09-13 12:22:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER NP |
| 06KATHMANDU2660 |
RETAINING THE KATHMANDU AMERICAN CENTER [...] During consultations October 12-13, the Ambassador looks forward to learning Washington?s reaction to our recommendation that the American Center Library remain in its present location and not/not be relocated to the New Embassy Compound. Reftel spells out in detail our reason for recommendin [...] |
2006-10-06 09:43:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL ABLD AMGT ASEC ACOA OPRC KPAO |
| 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 |
| 07MUSCAT638 |
C-NE7-01141: OMAN MOVES FORWARD ON POST-CYCLONE [...] (C) The government of Oman is working diligently to restore roads and public services impacted by tropical cyclone Gonu. Notable progress has been achieved, but thousands of individuals in the Muscat area alone remain displaced and the cost of infrastructure damage is currently estimated at [...] |
2007-06-20 12:46:00 | Embassy Muscat | CONFIDENTIAL | AMER AMGT ASEC CASC KSAC KHLS MOPS PINR MU |
| 08ANKARA2158 |
OSMANLI CUMHURIYETI: A TURKEY WITHOUT ATATURK [...] (SBU) Summary: "Osmanli Cumhuriyeti," a recently released comedy film hypothesizes what Turkey would look like today had its founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, not lived past the age of eight. Its vision is bleak, a combination of anti-Westernism and nostalgia for a largely-imagined golden age [...] |
2008-12-23 08:41:00 | Embassy Ankara | CONFIDENTIAL | EU OSCE PGOV TU |
| 08ASHGABAT513 |
TURKMENISTAN: TURKISH CONSTRUCTION COMPANY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Selakhattin Yetim (please strictly protect throughout), Deputy General Director of the third-largest Turkish construction company in Turkmenistan, Sehil Inshaat, said that President Berdimuhamedov was justified in his comments criticizing the work of some Turkish construction co [...] |
2008-04-24 13:50:00 | Embassy Ashgabat | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON TX |
| 08HARARE1016 |
REGIME ELITES LOOTING DEADLY DIAMOND FIELD [...] (C) The CEO of a British mining company described to us how high-ranking Zimbabwean government officials and well-connected elites are generating millions of dollars in personal income by hiring teams of diggers to hand-extract diamonds from the Chiadzwa mine in eastern Zimbabwe. They are sell [...] |
2008-11-12 11:14:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EMIN ASEC PHUM ZI |
| 08TBILISI1603 |
REQUEST FOR U.S. GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE IN GEORGIAN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) During the August 2008 conflict between Russian and Georgia, Russian air and ground forces inflicted significant damage to the military and coast guard side of the port in Poti. Several vessels were attacked by Russian air [...] |
2008-09-18 05:37:00 | Embassy Tbilisi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EWWT PARM GG |
| 09ANKARA363 |
ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] |
2009-03-10 14:53:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
| 09ANKARA367 |
ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] |
2009-03-11 15:15:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU PREL KPAO |
| 09ANKARA373 |
TURKISH GOVERNMENT CRITICIZES DECISION TO CENSOR [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Fierce reaction to the recent decision of the Turkish Scientific and Technological Studies Institution (TUBITAK) to pull a planned cover story about Charles Darwin has led GOT officials to speak out against the decision. Following a protest organized by the Universi [...] |
2009-03-12 13:59:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU |
| 09BAKU125 |
AZERBAIJAN REGISTERS ADVOCACY GROUPS FOR REFERENDUM [...] (SBU) Summary: Azerbaijan,s Central Election Commission (CEC) approved the petitions of nine organizations to function as "advocacy groups" ahead of the March 18 referendum on constitutional changes. Those approved include the President,s political party, as well as two opposition groups. F [...] |
2009-02-13 13:01:00 | Embassy Baku | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PREL KDEM PHUM AJ |
| 09HARARE24 |
MILITARY EXPANSION FUELS DIAMOND CHAOS XXXXXXXXXXXX [...] (C) XXXXXXXXXXXX, poloff met with XXXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX region that contains the diamond-rich Marange fields, to discuss violence in the region as well as recent developments in the turbulent Marange diamond trade. XXXXXXXXXXXX described how the military expansion in XXXXXXXXXXXX in late [...] |
2009-01-09 08:43:00 | Embassy Harare | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON EMIN RS ZI |
| 09TASHKENT177 |
UZBEKISTAN: REPORTS OF CRACKDOWN ON "NUR" RELIGIOUS GROUP [...] (C) Summary: Uzbek authorities appear to be significantly ratcheting up the pressure on suspected members of the banned Nur (or "Nurcilar") religious organization, which is associated with the conservative (but not extremist) religious teachings and Pan-Turkish ideology of Turkish scholar Feth [...] |
2009-02-13 09:26:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KPAO PGOV PINR PREL SOCI TU UZ |
| 09TASHKENT277 |
UZBEKISTAN: "NUR" RELIGIOUS GROUP CRACKDOWN CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary: Authorities are continuing a widespread crackdown on suspected members of "Nur," a banned conservative (but not extremist) religious organization associated with Turkish scholar Fethullah Gullen (ref A). According to reports from independent and state-controlled media, at least 1 [...] |
2009-03-13 12:31:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KPAO PGOV PINR PREL SOCI TU UZ |
| 09TASHKENT497 |
UZBEKISTAN: RECENT RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM AND TERRORISM [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting at the Embassy on March 30, independent human rights activist Ismoil Adilov handed over to poloff a collection of court documents from recent trials he had monitored involving suspected religious extremists. The documents demonstrate that at least six women were [...] |
2009-04-13 15:47:00 | Embassy Tashkent | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KIRF KISL KWMN PGOV PINR PREL PTER SOCI UZ |
| 10ANKARA175 |
Science Envoy Finds Strong Programs, Opportunities in [...] (U) SUMMARY: On a January 13-15 visit to Ankara and Istanbul, Science Envoy Dr. Ahmed Zewail met with academics, government officials, and PM Erdogan. He was impressed by the GOT's strong commitment to S&T development and the programs being implemented in academia and the private sector, all o [...] |
2010-02-03 12:32:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SENV TU |