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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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00HARARE5677BLEAK WORLD BANK ASSESSMENT OF PROSPECTS FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: DESK OFFICER, IN HARARE ON AN ORIENTATION TRIP, AND ECONOFF MET WITH ROGIER VAN DEN BRINK, WORLD BANK DEPUTY RESIDENT REPRESENTATIVE AND SENIOR ECONOMIST IN HARARE ON OCTOBER 5 TO OBTAIN HIS PERSPECTIVE ON THE ECONOMIC SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE. VAN DEN BRINK MADE CLEAR DURING THE M [...]
2000-10-09 12:55:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM EAGR PREL EAID ZI
01ABUJA1006 Nigeria: Obasanjo Foreign Policy
[...] (C) Summary. President Olusegun Obasanjo is his own Foreign Minister. To understand how he has redirected Nigeria relations with the rest of the world, we examine his personal character and policy agenda. Obasanjo military career, his term as interim Head of State in the 1970s, and his y [...]
2001-05-07 10:25:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PINS ECON NI
01ABUJA1048OBASANJO ON LIBERIA SANCTIONS, CONTE AND THE RUF
[...] (C) President Obasanjo told Ambassador Jeter May 5 that he was increasingly optimistic that the GOSL and the RUF could reach an accommodation. At the conclusion of their visit to Abuja (reftel),the two sides had decided to return to Sierra Leone on the same aircraft. Obasanjo opined that t [...]
2001-05-09 15:19:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS MASS SL GV NI
01ABUJA1244In Depth Discussion on ECOWAS Capacity Building
[...] (C) SUMMARY: AF/RA LTC Mike Bittrick discussed ECOWAS' capacity-building plans with newly arrived Deputy Executive Secretary Diarra and ECOWAS Military Advisor Dikio on May SIPDIS 14. Diarra outlined his vision and the responsibilities of his newly formed department. He identified areas w [...]
2001-06-01 06:18:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO MARR MASS NI
01ABUJA1383EUCOM BRIEFS DONORS AND ECOWAS ON ASSISTANCE
[...] (SBU) Summary. On June 12, EUCOM POLAD Ambassador Peter Chaveas addressed a meeting of Diplomatic Missions in Abuja interested in assisting ECOWAS in its peace-keeping and conflict resolution activities. Ambassador Chaveas briefed the representatives on EUCOM's three pillars for ECOWAS enga [...]
2001-06-19 11:18:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV NI ECOWAS
01ABUJA1437ECOWAS: KOUYATE ASKS ADVICE ON TAYLOR -- ANY GOOD
[...] (C) This is an action message; see paragraph 11. 2. (C) Summary. ECOWAS Executive Secretary Kouyate invited Ambassador to his office June 18 to discuss President Taylor of Liberia and the regional response to Taylor's government. Kouyate suggested either an attempt at an "internal dial [...]
2001-06-22 06:41:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL NI SL LI ECOWAS
01ABUJA1439ECOWAS: KOUYATE'S OAU CANDIDACY (ROUND TWO)
[...] (C) Ambassador Jeter met with ECOWAS Executive Secretary Lansana Kouyate on June 18. Regional issues, particularly Liberia, were the focus of their exchange (septel). Kouyate, in a private sidebar, also asked once again for USG support for his candidacy for Secretary General of the OAU, as [...]
2001-06-22 09:25:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL NI ECOWAS OAU
01ABUJA1587NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NSA ON REGIONAL AND OTHER ISSUES
[...] (C) Ambassador Jeter met July 2 with National Security Advisor (NSA) Aliyu Mohammed. Regional issues dominated discussions. The NSA noted GON support for "internal dialogue" outside Liberia. He indicated the GON would host an Abuja-based John Garang/Sadiq Al-Mahdi meeting on Sudan, and vo [...]
2001-07-05 15:37:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS MARR KCRM SNAR ETRD NI
01ABUJA1926KOUYATE ON LIBERIA AND SIERRA LEONE
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with ECOWAS Executive Secretary Kouyate on July 27. Kouyate indicated that the SIPDIS effort to organize Liberian opposition and civil society leaders continues, and is intended as a precursor to a meeting with Charles Taylor. Careful steps need to be taken t [...]
2001-08-02 10:10:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL LI SL NI ECOWAS
01ABUJA2113NIGERIA: NSA MOHAMMED DISCUSSES AFRICA ISSUES
[...] (C) Ambassador Jeter, accompanied by PolMilOff, called on NSA Aliyu Mohammed on August 22. LTC Idris, the NSA's Military Advisor also attended. In addition to security assistance, UNAMSIL troop rotations, the WCAR and counter-narcotics (septels),the Ambassador and NSA discussed Nigeria's pe [...]
2001-08-28 09:05:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL SL IV SU ZI LY CG LI NI
01ABUJA2117NIGERIA: BREAKFAST WITH PRESIDENT OBASANJO
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Ambassador Jeter and President Obasanjo discussed a smorgasbord of issues over a lengthy breakfast on August 24. The President said he would do everything possible to meet the counter-narcotics benchmarks, but he admitted that the Nigerian judiciary was broken and offered to r [...]
2001-08-28 12:47:00Embassy AbujaSECRETPREL SNAR ETRD BEXP MASS ECOWAS WCAR XF NI
01ABUJA2709DRAFT 2001 COUNTRY HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT FOR NIGERIA
[...] No summary [...]
2001-10-24 21:17:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KSEP NI PHUM
01ABUJA2827NIGERIA: BENUE UPDATE FROM SSS DIRECTOR GENERAL
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: During a November 2 meeting, SSS DG Are briefed the CDA on the recent violence in Benue. It was a mystery to Are how the 19 murdered soldiers had let themselves be disarmed. Are insisted the Army was investigating the alleged reprisals against villagers and planned to punish [...]
2001-11-06 10:18:00Embassy AbujaSECRET//NOFORNPINS MOPS PREF PGOV NI
01ABUJA3082NIGERIA: NEW DEFENSE ADVISOR APPOINTED
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 3. 2. (SBU) Mission received Note S1540/2001 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dated November 12. The text of the note is below. Please advise. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria presents its complime [...]
2001-12-06 09:57:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NI OFPD
01ABUJA3162NIGERIA: ESF PROPOSALS FOR FY 2002
[...] The following is Embassy Abuja's ESF funding proposals for FY 2002 FY 2002 ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUNDS U.S. Mission Nigeria Proposals Program Overview Nigeria has significant strategic value to the United States. The world's eighth largest oil producer, Nigeria ranks as the fifth la [...]
2001-12-11 16:11:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PHUM PREL NI
01ABUJA3219ECOWAS: KOUYATE TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a December 7 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, ECOWAS Executive Secretary Lansana Kouyate provided a tour d'horizon of sub-regional issues, including Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the upcoming ECOWAS Summit. While noting recent hiccups on disarmament, Kouyate was optimistic about [...]
2001-12-14 15:23:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS NI ECOWAS
01ABUJA873Operation FOCUS RELIEF Roundtable
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 23. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Nigerian Minister of Defense Danjuma chaired an Operation FOCUS RELIEF(OFR) round-table meeting on April 19. The Minister took the role of facilitator in the almost-two hour meeting, restating and clarifying various conc [...]
2001-04-25 14:54:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR NI SL
01ABUJA959Agreement on Strengthened Cease-fire in Sierra
[...] (SBU) Summary. On May 2 the ECOWAS Committee of Six, the UN, and the Sierra Leone Government reached a reaffirmation of the November 10, 2000 cease-fire agreement in Sierra Leone with RUF representatives lead by Omrie Golley. According to sources at ECOWAS, The RUF committed itself to the di [...]
2001-05-03 15:24:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS NI ECOWAS
01ABUJA962COURTESY CALL ON NIGERIAN SSS CHIEF ARE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Jeter called on the Director General of the Nigerian State Security Service (SSS),Kayode Are, on April 23 at SSS Headquarters. The Ambassador was accompanied by Embassy Counselor for Regional Affairs. Afas Gadzama, the SSS Deputy Director for Intelligence, also parti [...]
2001-05-04 09:25:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPINS PINR NI
01ABUJA964NSA MOHAMMED AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS PRESIDENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Jeter called on NSA Mohammed on May 3 to discuss President Obasanjo's visit to Washington. Police reform, some sub-regional issues, and Nigeria's voting record in the Commission on Human Rights (covered septel) were also discussed. The NSA expressed interest in an OFR [...]
2001-05-04 09:50:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALOVIP SNAR CJAN MASS NI ECOWAS
01BANJUL327THE GAMBIA -- JAMMEH'S WEST AFRICA POLICY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: ALTHOUGH HE HAS NOT DEVELOPED A COHERENT STRATEGY FOR WEST AFRICAN REGIONAL SECURITY, PRESIDENT JAMMEH WANTS TO BE A MORE VISIBLE PLAYER IN SUB-REGIONAL DIPLOMACY. NEVERTHELESS, JAMMEH IS KEEN ON DEVELOPING A REPUTATION AS AN INFLUENTIAL PEACE BROKER. WITH EFFORTS IN THE CASAMAN [...]
2001-05-29 15:21:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM LI SN GA
02ABUJA1191ECOWAS TO ARGUE FOR EASED LIBERIAN SANCTIONS
[...] (C) During April 12 discussions on USG support for ECOWAS (septel) and plans for the future of peace support programs for Africa (reftel),ECOWAS Deputy Executive Secretary Chiekh Diarra told the visiting team that ECOWAS was working hard to reduce tensions in Liberia. The Secretariat was tryi [...]
2002-04-16 14:37:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL LI NI ECOWAS
02ABUJA1346NIGERIA: A PARTICIPANT'S PERSPECTIVE ON NEPAD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PolMilOff met on April 9 with Egyptian First Secretary Gamal Metwally for a read-out on the NEPAD meeting SIPDIS in Abuja March 26. While the achievements of the young organization have been more rhetorical than real, some progress has thus far apparently been achieved in defin [...]
2002-05-02 14:17:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN ECIN ECON EAID PGOV NI
02ABUJA1407NIGERIA: LIBERIAN SANCTIONS
[...] (C) In the absence of Foreign Minister Lamido, Ambassador Jeter delivered talking points to Special Presidential Advisor Ad'obe Obe. The Ambassador stressed the importance of keeping pressure on Taylor who remained unrepentant in practice notwithstanding the nice sounds he made in public. Inst [...]
2002-05-06 18:34:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS PREL LI SL NI
02ABUJA1594NIGERIA: OBASANJO SAYS BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP
[...] (C) Summary: During a late evening May 18 conversation with Ambassador Jeter, an animated President Obasanjo claimed the bilateral relationship was too one-sided. While we dun him with multiple demands to reform at home and hew our line on foreign policy issues abroad (Zimbabwe and Cuba),we w [...]
2002-05-23 19:13:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN EAID NI
02ABUJA1725NIGERIA: ECOWAS EXECSEC CHAMBAS'S VIEWS ON
[...] (C) Summary: During two recent conversations with Ambassador Jeter, the last on May 24, ECOWAS ExeSec Chambas outlined the game-plan for Liberia developed at the May 17 Heads of State meeting in Yamoussoukro. Presidents Obasanjo and Wade were appointed to broker political reconciliation and a [...]
2002-06-07 12:03:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS XY LI NI
02ABUJA1727NIGERIA: PARTIAL TEXT OF 6/2/02 GEN MALU INTERVIEW
[...] Para 2 contains an excerpt from a June 2, 2002 interview given by dismissed Chief of Army Staff Samuel Victor Leo Malu to "This Day" newspaper. His May 27 testimony before the Commission investigating last October's violence in Benue (to which Malu family members and property fell victim) h [...]
2002-06-07 17:08:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL NI
02ABUJA1805NIGERIA: DIVERGENT GON VIEWS ON LIBERIA
[...] (C) Summary: Recent discussions with two senior GON officials reveal GON ambivalence on Liberia. Vacillating between two divergent philosophical approaches, Nigeria's position on Liberia is fluid and not fixed to any coherent strategy. One contending belief, championed by Special Advisor on Co [...]
2002-06-17 16:09:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS XY LI NI
02ABUJA1809 WEST AFRICAN TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS STRATEGY
[...] This final draft regional strategy to address Trafficking in Persons in West Africa is presented to Department's African Affairs Bureau for endorsement. This strategy was reflects a consensus among nine embassies and several Washington agencies and bureaus (DRL, G/TIP, USAID/WID) represented a [...]
2002-06-18 16:04:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KCRM KWMN NI TO GH BF IV XX GN
02ABUJA1849NIGERIA RESPONDS TO MADAGASCAR DEMARCHE
[...] (C) Summary: Nigeria dislikes the way Ravalomanana came to power but likely will not oppose acceptance of his rule. Nigeria is not a member of the OAU Central Organ. End Summary. 2. (C) Because all GON officials (Presidency and MFA) able to discuss Madagascar were unavailable June 20, [...]
2002-06-21 15:33:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MA NI LI OAU
02ABUJA2016NIGERIA: ECOWAS REPORT WILL NOT CONTAIN FALSE
[...] (C) During a July 3 meeting, Ambassador Jeter raised reftel points with ECOWAS Acting Executive Secretary (Deputy Executive Secretary for Economic SIPDIS Integration) Mame Sen, and Colonel Dixon Dikio, Military Advisor to the Executive Secretary. Both Executive Secretary Chambas and Deputy [...]
2002-07-03 17:11:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS XY LI NI
02ABUJA252ECOWAS: DIARRA ON DAKAR, LIBERIA, NIGER/ACRI, EUCOM
[...] (U) This is an action message; see para 12. 2. (C) SUMMARY: During a January 24 call on the Ambassador, ECOWAS Deputy Executive Secretary Diarra gave a brief read-out from the ECOWAS Summit in Dakar, positively describing additional funding and staffing for the Peace and Security Departme [...]
2002-01-28 13:28:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS NI ECOWAS
02ABUJA2565ECOWAS: LIBERIA CONTACT GROUP MEETING
[...] (SBU) I managed to reach ECOWAS Executive Secretary Mohammed Chambas before he left Sweden on August 31. Chambas will be traveling in Europe for the rest of this week and returns to Abuja over the weekend. 2. (SBU) The Executive Secretary confirms that ECOWAS is proposing a meeting of th [...]
2002-09-03 13:55:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL XY LI ECOWAS UN
02ABUJA2566CORRECTED COPY: NIGERIA: EMBASSY REVISITS ISSUE OF
[...] This is an action message; see paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary. Ambassador again raised allegations of U.S./ UK support for Lurd in Liberia with ECOWAS Deputy Executive Secretary, General Cheick Diarra. After reiterating that the SIPDIS U.S. and UK do not support Lurd rebels in any way, the [...]
2002-09-03 14:24:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS XY LI IV NI ECOWAS
02ABUJA2629NIGERIA: EMBASSY DELIVERS LETTER OF PROTEST TO
[...] (C) On September 6, the Ambassador wrote to ECOWAS Executive Secretary Mohammed Chambas regarding the circulation by the Liberian Government of an unauthorized ECOWAS military mission report alleging U.S./UK complicity and military support for the LURD. Dr. Chambas is scheduled to return to A [...]
2002-09-12 08:40:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS XY LI NI
02ABUJA2817MGIV01: ALLEGATION OF BURKINABE INVOLVEMENT
[...] (C) Summary: Former Nigerian FM Kingibe alleges that the September 19 coup plot was hatched in Ouagadougou by Guei and Burkina's Interior Minister. Kingibe has good connections across the region, but his version of events might be influenced by his role as a political consultant to the GOCI. [...]
2002-10-10 10:29:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR PINS IV NI UV
02ABUJA2835NIGERIA: IVOIRIEN CEASE-FIRE WILL TAKE MORE WORK
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 9 conversation with Ambassador Jeter, ECOWAS Executive Secretary Chambas summarized his visit to Cote d'Ivoire, stating Gbagbo's insistence that the mutineers relinquish their weapons and his reluctance to "legitimize" the rebels were the main hurdles to a cease [...]
2002-10-11 17:07:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MASS KPKO NI IV
02ABUJA2856NIGERIA: ECOWAS SECURITY ASSESSMENT REPORT: NEED
[...] (C) During an October 9 conversation on Cote d'Voire (REF A),Ambassador Jeter reminded ECOWAS ExecSec Chambas of our request for a public statement clarifying ECOWAS' position on allegations in the draft military assessment team's report on Liberia. More specifically, he asked ECOWAS to con [...]
2002-10-15 16:29:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NI LI
02ABUJA3100NIGERIA: POLITICAL PEER REVIEW ENDORSED AT NEPAD'S
[...] (SBU) Summary. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo hosted a NEPAD Head of State Implementation Committee (HSIC) meeting November 3. Nigeria's NEPAD coordinator, Ambassador Aluko-Olokun, briefed Abuja-resident G-8 diplomats November 4, that the HSIC endorsed voluntary peer review as "critical [...]
2002-11-14 07:24:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID PGOV XA NI
02ABUJA3140DOMESTIC SECURITY CONCERNS AND BUDGET WOES
[...] (C) During a November 15 meeting, Ambassador Jeter and Minister of State for Defense (Army) Malam Lawal Batagarawa discussed possible deployment of Nigerian forces in the ECOWAS monitoring force for Cote d'Ivoire. Citing Nigeria's role in peacekeeping operations in Sierra Leone and Liberia, [...]
2002-11-15 18:00:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KPKO NI IV
02ABUJA3163NIGERIA: ECOWAS EXECSEC CHAMBAS PROPOSES MEETING
[...] (C) During a November 11 conversation on Cote d'Ivoire with Ambassador Jeter, ECOWAS ExecSec Chambas proposed a meeting of the Liberia contact group in Dakar on December 2. 2. (C) Chambas also said Senegalese President Wade would travel to Liberia on November 23 and that Wade hoped to [...]
2002-11-21 18:19:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NI LI ECOWAS
02ABUJA3341YEAR-END ECONOMIC POTPOURRI
[...] This cable covers: -- Ambassador's Meets with World Bank and IMF prior to Article Four Consultation Meetings in Washington -- Central Bank is Optimistic about Near Term -- CBN and IMF Statistics on GDP Differ -- GON Not Worried About Drop in FOREX Reserves -- CBN Claims States Continue to [...]
2002-12-19 14:43:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON EPET EAID PGOV NI
02ABUJA426NIGERIA: AN ARMY COLONEL ON DEMOCRACY AND THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an unusually frank discussion, Nigerian Colonel and ECOWAS staff member M. Dixon Dikio (please strictly protect) told PolMilOff that a major breakdown of command led to reprisal attacks in Benue, and those attacks were unjustifiable. In his view, LTG Malu's response to the Ben [...]
2002-02-08 09:43:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR NI
02ABUJA462NIGERIA: POST'S RESPONSE TO V1 OF NIGERIAN HRR
[...] No summary [...]
2002-02-08 16:17:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB NI PGOV PHUM PREL
02ABUJA622LIBERIA: JOHNSON SIRLEAF BELIEVES LURD THREAT IS
[...] (C) Summary. During a February 22 meeting at my residence, Liberian opposition leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (EJS) told me the security situation in Liberia was difficult to read. While acknowledging the LURD's ability to disrupt and raid areas closer to Monrovia, she did not think the rebel gro [...]
2002-02-26 14:05:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS LI NI ECOWAS
02ABUJA695NIGERIA: NSA MOHAMMED ON NIGERIAN FOREIGN POLICY
[...] (U) This message was delayed in transmission, but contains information that may be of value to end-users. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Jeter and NSA Mohammed February 6 discussed the Ikeja cantonment tragedy and Nigeria's request for large-scale EOD assistance. Mohammed also briefed the Am [...]
2002-03-05 13:18:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS MASS MOPS CG SU BY ZI NI
02ABUJA788ECOWAS: LEGAL DIRECTOR LALOUPO GIVES A LIBERIA
[...] (U) PolMilOff and OIG Inspector Paul Tyson March 6 met ECOWAS Director of Legal Affairs Roger Laloupo. DAS Perry, accompanied by PolMilOff, also met Laloupo and his Deputy, Halima Ahmed, on March 7. 2. (C) Laloupo said the ECOWAS-sponsored Liberia meeting was still set for March 14-16, bu [...]
2002-03-12 17:28:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL LI NI ECOWAS
02ABUJA926NIGERIA: LIBERIAN RECONCILIATION CONFERENCE YIELDS
[...] (C) Summary: Initially set for March 14, the Liberian reconciliation meeting finally opened March 15. The delay was due to an unsuccessful eleventh hour attempt by ECOWAS ExecSec Chambas to convince President Taylor to attend. Taylor declined but sent a 27-person delegation led by Agricultural [...]
2002-03-20 16:38:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL ECOWAS MOPS MASS PHUM LI NI
02ALGIERS2423AU COUNTERTERRORISM CONFERENCE RESULTS
[...] No summary [...]
2002-09-21 09:15:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL AG
02ROME1011 LIBERIA: INSECURITY COUPLED WITH FOOD
[...] USAID STAFF FROM THE U.S. MISSION IN ROME AND FOOD FOR PEACE/WASHINGTON TRAVELED TO GUINEA, SIERRA LEONE, AND LIBERIA JANUARY 27 THROUGH FEBRUARY 7 TO REVIEW THE FOOD SECURITY SITUATION FOR REFUGEES, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS (IDPS),AND RESIDENTS OF THESE COMMUNITIES HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY [...]
2002-02-26 16:27:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR AORC PREF EU WFP UN
02ROME1182 SIERRA LEONE: A BRIGHTER FUTURE IN FOOD
[...] USAID STAFF FROM THE U.S. MISSION IN ROME AND FOOD UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 03 ROME 01182 01 OF 13 070642Z FOR PEACE/WASHINGTON TRAVELED TO GUINEA, SIERRA LEONE, AND LIBERIA JANUARY 27 THROUGH FEBRUARY 7 TO REVIEW THE FOOD SECURITY SITUATION FOR REFUGEES, INTERNALL [...]
2002-03-07 06:07:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR AORC PREF WFP UN
02ROME2382 REPORT OF SEVENTY-FIFTH SESSION OF IFAD'S
[...] SUMMARY: THE SEVENTY-FIFTH SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (IFAD) MET IN ROME CONDUCTED THEIR SEVENTY-FIFTH SESSION IN ROME, APRIL 22-23, 2002. MARK JASKOWIAK (DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF SPECIALIZED DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTIONS, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF T [...]
2002-05-15 14:54:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDAORC EAID IFAD
02ROME5236 DEEPENING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN COTE
[...] ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, THE U.N. WORLD FOOD PROGRAMS PLANS TO LAUNCH A REGIONAL EMERGENCY OPERATION (EMOP) TO ADDRESS THE CURRENT AND POSSIBLE FUTURE NEEDS DEVELOPING AS A RESULT OF THE DEEPENING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN COTE D'IVOIRE. THE EMOP WILL COVER THE PERIOD NOVEMBER 1, 2002 THROUGH JAN [...]
2002-10-25 13:33:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR AORC PREF EU WFP UN
02ROME5421 LIBERIA: WFP ADDRESSES A GROWING NUMBER OF
[...] USAID STAFF FROM THE U.S. MISSION IN ROME AND FOOD FOR PEACE/WASHINGTON TRAVELED TO GUINEA, LIBERIA, AND SENEGAL SEPTEMBER 29 THROUGH OCTOBER 9 TO REVIEW THE FOOD SECURITY SITUATION FOR REFUGEES, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS (IDPS),AND RESIDENTS UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 03 [...]
2002-11-06 15:23:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR AORC PREF EU WFP UN
02ROME5454 REFUGEE NUMBERS IN GUINEA'S FOREST REGION
[...] USAID STAFF FROM THE U.S. MISSION IN ROME AND FOOD FOR PEACE/WASHINGTON TRAVELED TO GUINEA, LIBERIA, AND SENEGAL SEPTEMBER 29 THROUGH OCTOBER 9 UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 03 ROME 05454 01 OF 10 071545Z TO REVIEW THE FOOD SECURITY SITUATION FOR REFUGEES, INTERNALLY D [...]
2002-11-07 14:35:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR AORC PREF EU WFP UN
02ROME5778WFP EXECUTIVE BOARD APPROVAL OF PROTRACTED RELIEF
[...] AT ITS THIRD REGULAR SESSION (OCTOBER 21-25),THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM EXECUTIVE BOARD APPROVED A PROTRACTED RELIEF AND RECOVERY OPERATION (PRRO) FOR THE WEST AFRICA COASTAL REGION - ONE YEAR (JANUARY- DECEMBER 2003),VALUED AT USD 56.81 MILLION, TO ASSIST 789,430 (INCLUDING 50,000 CONTINGENCY C [...]
2002-11-29 15:11:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR AORC PREF EU WFP UN EUEAID
02ROME5788 WFP'S WEST AFRICA REGIONAL AIRCRAFT EXPANDS
[...] THE U.N. WORLD FOOD PROGRAM (WFP) HAS ISSUED A NEW SPECIAL OPERATION (SO) FOR ITS WEST AFRICA PASSENGER UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 03 ROME 05788 01 OF 03 021338Z AIRCRAFT SERVICE AND LAST WEEK ISSUED A DONOR'S ALERT FOR THE SO. THE NEW SO REQUESTS 1.2 MILLION USD FOR [...]
2002-12-02 12:11:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR AORC PREF EU WFP UN
03ABUJA1078NIGERIA: OBASANJO ON LIBERIA: TAYLOR IS FINISHED;
[...] (C) In two meetings on other issues during the past week, Ambassador raised developments in Liberia with President Obasanjo. Obasanjo said Taylor was "finished" as President of Liberia. Obasanjo said he, Ghanaian President Kufuor and others at the Accra talks had leaned hard on Taylor to ac [...]
2003-06-19 11:48:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS LI SL NI ECOWAS
03ABUJA1084NIGERIA: OBASANJO SEEKING U.S. APPROVAL FOR GON
[...] (C) On the afternoon of June 19, President Obasanjo summoned me and acting British High Commissioner, Charles Bird to the Statehouse for a discussion on Liberia. Also present were National Security Advisor LTG (ret.) Aliyu Mohammed and Presidential Advisor for International Affairs Ad'Obe Ob [...]
2003-06-19 18:16:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PHUM LI SL NI ECOWAS
03ABUJA1134NIGERIA SIGNS ARTICLE 98 AGREEMENT
[...] (U) On June 30, during a private signing ceremony at the Ministry of Justice, Solicitor-General I.A. Ayua signed the Article 98 Agreement on behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Ambassador Jeter signed on behalf of the United States. Signed original has been sent to L/T via registered [...]
2003-06-30 19:02:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MOPS KTIA NI KICC
03ABUJA1202NIGERIA -- PRESIDENT OBASANJO CONFIRMS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a July 5 afternoon meeting with Ambassador Jeter, President Obasanjo stated that, despite the concerns of his security staff, he was committed to travelling to Monrovia to confer with Charles Taylor. He saw Taylor's extraction from Monrovia as an essential cog in the evolvi [...]
2003-07-09 15:47:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV MASS MOPS LI
03ABUJA124NIGERIA: CHAMBAS SAYS DISCORD AND LETHARGY HINDERS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a January 8 conversation with Ambassador Jeter, ECOWAS Executive Secretary Chambas acknowledged ECOWAS diplomatic efforts in Cote d'Ivoire had lost steam due to ECOWAS Chairman Wade's erratic statesmanship, the lethargy of President Gbagbo and lack of focus of Togolese lea [...]
2003-01-21 17:15:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MASS KPKO NI IV
03ABUJA1240NIGERIA: LIBERIA DEMARCHE
[...] (C) A/DCM delivered reftel demarche July 18 to Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Daniel Hart. Ambassador Hart said the USG position that the Nigerian contingent to be deployed to Liberia should be comprised of battalions trained under Operation Focus Relief (OFR) made "good sense." A/DCM [...]
2003-07-19 11:50:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MASS LI NI ECOWAS
03ABUJA1246NIGERIA: ABUBAKAR ON ECOWAS LIBERIA FORCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a July 12 meeting with Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Kansteiner, former Nigerian Head of State General Abdulsalaam Abubakar discussed the proposed deployment of an ECOWAS force and the establishment of a transitional government in Liberia. Abubakar said Nigerian [...]
2003-07-22 16:41:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MASS LI NI ECOWAS
03ABUJA1247ECOWAS EXSEC CHAMBAS DISCUSSES NEXT STEPS ON
[...] (C) Summary. In a July 12 side-bar meeting during President Bush's visit to Nigeria, A/S Kansteiner told ECOWAS Executive Secretary Chambas that the United States was still considering its policy options in Liberia. Chambas asserted United States troops were essential to the success of a sta [...]
2003-07-22 16:44:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MOPS PHUM NI LI
03ABUJA1272NIGERIA:-TWO BATTALIONS CAN DEPLOY QUICKLY TO
[...] (C) Summary. During a late evening July 19 discussion with Ambassador Jeter, President Obasanjo decided Nigeria would deploy two OFR-trained battalions to Liberia. Obasanjo gave the green light to deploying one of the battalions currently in Sierra Leone and also a battalion currently in Nig [...]
2003-07-25 09:17:00Embassy AbujaSECRETPREL MASS MOPS PHUM NI LI
03ABUJA1302NIGERIA: VETTING OF NIGERIAN BATTALIONS FOR
[...] (U) Post has requested the name of the current commander of the 26th Infantry battalion as well as other key officers in the battalion. The Nigerian military has yet to respond to the request, thus we have not been able to vet the names of the battalion commander and his core officers. Howe [...]
2003-07-30 17:20:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL MARR MASS SL NI
03ABUJA1303NIGERIA: PLANNING FOR LIBERIA
[...] (C) According to current GON planning, the 19th Motorized Infantry battalion (i.e. NIBATT 15 in UNAMSIL) and the 26th Infantry battalion from Sokoto will deploy to Monrovia. Combined manpower of the two battalions is 1,375 men. The GON had indicated a willingness to deploy OFR- trained NIBA [...]
2003-07-30 17:20:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MASS LI NI ECOWAS
03ABUJA1327NIGERIA: OBASANJO'S LIBERIA POLICY GETS MIXED
[...] (S) President Obasanjo's policy of active diplomatic engagement on and military troop deployment to Liberia has the support of the many Nigerians who believe that their country's status as the sub- regional power requires an activist foreign policy. However, most Nigerians probably either oppo [...]
2003-08-01 17:14:00Embassy AbujaSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV MASS MOPS LI NI
03ABUJA1332NIGERIA: CHAMBAS BRIEFING ON LIBERIA
[...] On August 6, ECOWAS ExecSec Chambas briefed the diplomatic corps on the developments in the deployment of ECOMIL forces. Chambas informed the group that an open account had been established with ECOBANK in Accra, and that the account number would be circulated shortly. Paralleling ECOMICI, C [...]
2003-08-06 15:50:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MOPS LI NI
03ABUJA1355NIGERIA: GON STILL UNCERTAIN ABOUT TAYLOR'S
[...] (C) During an August 7 conversation with A/DCM, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs expressed concern that Charles Taylor may try to renege on his implied promise to leave Liberia on August 11. The Minister realized that Taylor had only expressly stated that he would step down on that date [...]
2003-08-08 17:07:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MOPS PHUM LI
03ABUJA1356NIGERIA: ECOWAS EXSEC CHAMBAS SAYS OBASANJO
[...] (C) Summary. During an August 5 conversation with Charge, ECOWAS Executive Secretary Mohammed Chambas said President Obasanjo affirmed that Charles Taylor would be evicted from Liberia if he refused to leave willingly. However, Chambas characterized Taylor as conflicted, pulled by his expans [...]
2003-08-08 18:42:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MOPS PHUM LI
03ABUJA1358NIGERIA: ECOWAS EXSEC CHAMBAS SAYS OBASANJO
[...] (C) Summary. During an August 5 conversation with Charge, ECOWAS Executive Secretary Mohammed Chambas said President Obasanjo affirmed that Charles Taylor would be evicted from Liberia if he refused to leave willingly. However, Chambas characterized Taylor as conflicted, pulled by his expans [...]
2003-08-08 18:47:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MOPS PHUM LI
03ABUJA1367MEETING WITH PRESIDENT OBASANJO
[...] No summary [...]
2003-08-12 07:28:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MOPS PHUM LI
03ABUJA1374NIGERIA: TAYLOR ARRIVES
[...] (C) Former President Charles Taylor arrived in Abuja Monday evening August 11 at 2125 local time. He traveled with President Kufuor of Ghana and President Chissano of Mozambique, and was greeted by President Obasanjo. After spending several hours in Abuja, he and his entire contingent conti [...]
2003-08-12 17:25:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM LI
03ABUJA1410ECOWAS 505 FAA AGREEMENT FOR LIBERIA
[...] (U) Post transmitted reftel Note to ECOWAS on July 30 and received in reply a Note of agreement dated August 4. Text of ECOWAS Note is as follows: (BEGIN TEXT) The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) presents its compliments to the Embassy of the United [...]
2003-08-19 17:29:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL NI
03ABUJA1497MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER: APCS, WARRI, MPRI
[...] (S/NF) CDA delivered REF A demarche on APCs for ECOMIL to Minister of Defense Kwankwaso on 29 August. Kwankwaso said he had not heard of Ghana's request that the GON provide APCs for the Ghanaian ECOMIL battalion. Kwankwaso and MOD PermSec Kaigama indicated the GON would consider the Ghanaia [...]
2003-08-29 18:32:00Embassy AbujaSECRET//NOFORNMARR MCAP LI ML SG GH NI
03ABUJA1529NIGERIA SUFFERING CONTINUED BUDGET SHORTFALLS
[...] (U) Nigeria continues to suffer from budgetary shortfalls to fund current expenditures, severely limiting government operations. According to the Minister of State for Finance, Nenadi Usman, the GON had only Naira 145.9 billion available for its August obligations totaling Naira 183.1 billi [...]
2003-09-05 10:00:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALEFIN PGOV NI
03ABUJA1558MFA MINISTER OF STATE ON TRADE AND LIBERIA
[...] (U) When then CDA Roberts delivered the Najaf demarche (REF B) to MFA Minister of State Samaila on September 2, the MinState raised agricultural subsidies and Liberia. The Najaf part of the conversation was reported Ref A. --------------------------------------------- ------------ U.S./EU [...]
2003-09-05 15:36:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MARR ETRD ECON
03ABUJA1559PUBLIC REACTION TO TAYLOR ASYLUM AND LIBERIA
[...] (U) The Nigerian press headlined President Bush's recent commendation of President Obasanjo's efforts in Liberia, and the Nigerian President, received a heroic welcome in Liberia early this week. Nevertheless, Obasanjo is still facing criticism at home for granting political asylum to Charle [...]
2003-09-05 16:37:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MARR LI NI
03ABUJA1576MFA PERMSEC ON TAYLOR'S EXILE
[...] (C) I took the opportunity of a September 9 courtesy call on Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Permanent Secretary Amb. Daniel Hart to convey USG concerns regarding Taylor's exile per reftel. I conveyed appreciation for Nigeria's leadership role to find a solution to the Liberian crisis, but o [...]
2003-09-09 17:42:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL LI NI
03ABUJA1613NIGERIAN STATEMENT ON GUINEA-BISSAU COUP
[...] (SBU) ECOWAS sent a fact-finding team to discuss the coup with coup leaders, and the press reports the team returned and sent a report to ECOWAS member states September 16 for their action. The British High Commission tells us Nigerian MFA MinState Samaila went, but they did not know whether h [...]
2003-09-16 17:06:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL GZ NI
03ABUJA1630NIGERIAN PRESIDENCY STATEMENT ON TAYLOR
[...] (SBU) According to press reports, the Nigerian Presidential Spokesman, Mrs. Remi Oyo, told the press Tuesday evening September 26 that the GON was displeased with Charles Taylor. She is quoted as saying, "The GON has made it clear to Mr. Taylor that it will not tolerate any breach of these co [...]
2003-09-19 07:09:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL LI NI
03ABUJA1639ECOWAS EXECSEC CHAMBAS ON GUINEA BISSAU
[...] (C) CDA called on ECOWAS Executive Secretary Mohammed Ibn Chambas on September 19 to deliver demarche (REF B). Chambas shared his thoughts on recent developments in Guinea-Bissau and Liberia (reported septel). Characterizing GEN Seabra's September 14 takeover as a coup d'etat, Chambas said EC [...]
2003-09-19 17:36:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALKDEM NI PGOV PHUM PINR PREL XY GZ
03ABUJA1649CHAMBAS: BLUE HAT ECOMIL; MODEL COOPERATING;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: ECOWAS ExecSec Chambas advocated to the Charge September 19 and in a meeting of COMs September 22 that ECOMIL should become part of the UN's peacekeeping force after the October 1 handover. Chambas also commented that recent conversations with MODEL leaders led him to believe the [...]
2003-09-23 16:22:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL LI NI
03ABUJA1654NIGERIA: CONCERNED ABOUT TAYLOR, WANTS MISBEHAVIOR
[...] (C) President Obasanjo is still out of the country and FM Adeniji will not return to Nigeria from the U.S. until after October 1, so CDA used a courtesy call on MFA MinState Samaila to reiterate our concerns about Charles Taylor (Ref A). The discussion also covered Guinea-Bissau (septel). CDA [...]
2003-09-24 15:04:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL KAWC KJUS LI NI
03ABUJA1655NIGERIA: NO MILITARY GOVERNMENT ACCEPTABLE IN
[...] (C) In a courtesy call largely devoted to Liberia (reftel),MFA MinState Samaila brought up Guinea-Bissau and stated that Nigeria would not accept any military government there. Specifically, as long as there were military men in the government at any level, no new government would be accepte [...]
2003-09-24 15:09:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL GZ NI
03ABUJA1730NIGERIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON TAYLOR
[...] (C) CDA took the opportunity of a meeting with Foreign Minister Adeniji October 7 to express appreciation for Nigeria's leadership efforts on Liberia and Guinea-Bissau, but also to express continuing concern over Charles Taylor's interference in Liberian affairs. Noting the GON's interest in [...]
2003-10-08 17:29:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL LI NI
03ABUJA1937TAYLOR TO SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT STRATEGY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GON believes it has performed a major service by taking a leadership role in arranging Taylor's departure from Liberia, and committing its own troops to participate in needed related follow-up peacekeeping efforts. Both have involved significant domestic political risk. Niger [...]
2003-11-12 05:05:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV LI NI
03ABUJA1996TAYLOR: MIXED SIGNALS BREEDS PROBLEMS
[...] (C) Summary: MFA Permanent Secretary Hart told the CDA November 20 that the GON appreciated USG clarifications regarding Charles Taylor and the recent measure authorizing $2 million related to the SLSC indictment against him. Nonetheless, Hart observed the issue is getting a good deal of ongoi [...]
2003-11-21 11:35:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL LI NI
03ABUJA279NIGERIA: JANUARY 25 MEETING WITH OBASANJO
[...] (C) Summary: During a one-hour January 25 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, President Obasanjo spoke optimistically, though briefly, about his electoral chances. In the lead- up to the election, the President predicted his opponents would try to exploit Iraq and the perception of the USG as ant [...]
2003-02-07 12:14:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MASS IV NI
03ABUJA503NIGERIA: RELOCATING LIBERIAN REFUGEES
[...] I.A.D. Nuhu of MFA's Department of Consular and Legal Affairs March 6 confirmed to Poloff that he had met often with UNHCR representative Eusebe Hounsokou and that the GON was interested in accepting refugees from Cote D,Ivoire. 2. Nuhu referred to Nigeria,s existing refugee camps, poin [...]
2003-03-14 13:52:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PGOV NI IV LI
03ABUJA650NIGERIA - OPPOSITION PARTIES IN MARCH MEETING
[...] (C) Begin Summary: During a March 10 meeting with numerous opposition political party leaders, Ambassador implored the group to do their utmost to conduct fair and credible elections in April, to eschew violence, and not to condemn and compromise the process before it is started. He cautioned [...]
2003-04-07 23:07:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL EAID NI
03ABUJA662NIGERIA: CHAMBAS BRIEFING ON ECOWAS MINISTERIAL
[...] On April 9, ECOWAS ExecSec Chambas briefed the diplomatic corps on the April 7 ECOWAS Ministerial in Abidjan. The briefing was similar to the one he gave in Abijdan (REF B). Stressing the need for immediate funding to ensure ECOMICI's continued viability, Chambas stated that he would join a [...]
2003-04-10 17:05:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS PINS IV LI NI
03ABUJA716NIGERIA -- SSS DIRECTOR PREDICTS ENFORCEMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During an April 11 meeting with Ambassador Jeter, the Director General of the State Security Service, Kayode Are, (SSS) predicted a post- election "enforcement action" against Ijaw militants in the Warri area. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Are contended there was more to the current [...]
2003-04-17 20:42:00Embassy AbujaSECRETPREL PGOV EPET MOPS NI
03ABUJA720NIGERIA: POLICY CONSIDERATIONS IN THE
[...] (C) Summary. The April 19 election will test the tensile strength of Nigerian democracy and its supporting institutions. While many will play important roles in this national drama, the primary antagonists are President Obasanjo and Muhammed Buhari. Not only is this election a litmus test of [...]
2003-04-18 14:36:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM EFIN ECON PINS PTER PHUM PGOV NI
03ACCRA2208GHANA: 2003 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2003-11-13 16:37:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL GH
03ACCRA570PRM/DAS KELLY RYAN'S MEETINGS WITH OPE STAFF
[...] Summary: PRM/DAS Kelly Ryan visited Accra, Ghana on February 28 - March 4 to review U.S. Resettlement Program (USRP) operations in West Africa. This cable is one in a series of cables outlining meetings, discussions and impressions gleaned from the visit. Provided with various opportunities [...]
2003-03-20 15:26:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDPREF IO GH UNHCR
03ACCRA719UNHCR/ACCRA READOUT ON POSSIBLE P-2 GROUP IN GUINEA
[...] No summary [...]
2003-04-14 13:54:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDGV IO PREF
03AMMAN5377LIBERIA: SUPPORTING UN REQUEST TO JORDAN FOR
[...] Charge and PolCouns covered ref points on ECOMIL August 24 with Ali al-Ayed, Director of Foreign Minister Muasher's Private Office. Charge asked that Jordan carefully consider the UN's request for participation of a Jordanian hospital in ECOMIL. Ayed said that Jordan would give the UN's requ [...]
2003-08-25 12:10:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDKPKO MARR PREL JO UN
03AMMAN7401JORDAN: IRAQI ASSETS TEAM
[...] (S) Post understands that Washington and CPA may be preparing to send a team to Jordan over the coming weekend to follow-up on the various issues related to Iraqi assets frozen in Jordan. We fully support this approach, which has been requested by the Jordanians and which we have argued for [...]
2003-11-13 16:38:00Embassy AmmanSECRETEFIN ETTC IZ JO
03ANKARA4911ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2003-08-05 13:53:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR TU
03ANKARA76492004 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON TURKEY'S CONTRIBUTION
[...] (U) This is Embassy Ankara's submission to the 2004 Report to Congress on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense. = = = = = = = = = = General Assessment = = = = = = = = = = 2. (SBU) In aiming to accelerate democratization, pursue its EU candidacy, revive the economy and tackle ch [...]
2003-12-15 08:21:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMCAP PREL TU
03HARARE1319MEDIA REACTION POWELL OP-ED ON ZIM UNDER FIRE;
[...] Under headline "Powell is a slow learner" the government-controlled daily "The Herald" dedicated its June 27 editorial to criticizing Secretary of State Colin Powell for penning a critical op-ed in the "New York Times" on Robert Mugabe's government. Excerpts fol [...]
2003-06-27 08:51:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO KMDR ZI
03HARARE1370MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA;
[...] President George W. Bush's visit to Africa remains the top issue for discussion in lengthy editorials being carried in the mainstream newspapers ahead of the July 7 - 12 visit. Excerpts follow: 2. Under headline "Bush must respect African leadership" the gover [...]
2003-07-08 09:38:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO KMDR ZI
03HARARE1389MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; HARARE
[...] Under headline "Bush must demand that Mbeki act on Zimbabwe" the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its July 9 editorial to calling on President George W. Bush "to use his immense influence to pressure" South African President Thabo Mbeki to stand up [...]
2003-07-09 07:50:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO KMDR ZI
03HARARE1390MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA; HARARE
[...] Under headline "Bush must demand that Mbeki act on Zimbabwe" the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its July 9 editorial to calling on President George W. Bush "to use his immense influence to pressure" South African President Thabo Mbeki to stand up [...]
2003-07-09 07:51:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO KMDR ZI
03HARARE1404MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH;S VISIT TO AFRICA;
[...] Under headline "Tsvangirai exhibits inferiority complex" the government-controlled daily "The Herald" dedicated its July 10 editorial to hailing President George W. Bush and his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki for coming up with a shared position on how to [...]
2003-07-10 08:24:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO KMDR ZI
03HARARE1409MEDIA REACTION PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO AFRICA;
[...] Under headline "Bush putting up a faade" the July 10 edition of the independent weekly "The Financial Gazette" carried the following opinion piece by Taungana Ndoro under his regular column "Inside Politics" on page 13, in which he bemoans the exclusion of Zimbabwe from President Bush's itine [...]
2003-07-10 12:52:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO KMDR ZI
03HARARE1607MEDIA REACTION MUGABE/TAYLOR ARROGANT; HARARE
[...] Under headline "Alternative to dialogue" the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its August 13 editorial to urging Robert Mugabe to be sincere in finding a durable solution to the current political impasse in Zimbabwe, adding that Mugabe's "demand that [...]
2003-08-13 13:56:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO KMDR ZI
03HARARE1614MEDIA REACTION MUGABE/TAYLOR HOLD POLITICAL
[...] Under headline "Africa must now bear on Mugabe to step down" the independent daily "The Daily News" dedicated its August 14 editorial to calling on African leaders to "use their influence" to encourage Robert Mugabe, blamed for the "deepening political and economic ana [...]
2003-08-14 09:18:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO KMDR ZI
03HARARE1643MEDIA REACTION TAYLOR/MUGABE; HARARE
[...] Under headline "Curse of quiet diplomacy" the independent weekly "The Daily News On Sunday" dedicated its August 17 editorial to criticizing South African President Thabo Mbeki's "quiet diplomacy" towards Robert Mugabe, arguing, "It was not quiet diplomacy which [...]
2003-08-19 06:26:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO KMDR ZI
03KATHMANDU2367NEPAL: THE COST OF THE MAOIST INSURGENCY
[...] (U) The seven-year Maoist insurgency in Nepal has taken a tremendous toll on the already impoverished Nepalese economy. The impact of the conflict is obvious in the floundering tourist sector, the depressed foreign investment climate, stalled economic development projects, crippled infrastruc [...]
2003-12-04 02:18:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER ECON EAID EFIN NP
03KATHMANDU2469NEPAL: A/S ROCCA AND CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF DISCUSS
[...] (C) On December 17, Christina Rocca, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, met with Nepal's Chief of Army Staff, General Pyar Jung Thapa, to discuss the army's counter-insurgency efforts and human rights. The two also touched upon the possibility of Nepal providing peacekeepers in Iraq [...]
2003-12-19 07:05:00Embassy KathmanduSECRET//NOFORNPARM PHUM PGOV NP
03LAGOS519NIGERIA: UNHCR SEEKS USG HELP WITH NIGERIA ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Eusebe Hounsokou, UNHCR representative in Nigeria, updated Poloff on his efforts to relocate 5,000 Liberian refugees from Cote d'Ivoire to Nigeria (Ref B). Per UNHCR Geneva's information, Hounsokou advised the GON that, since the USG may take up to 10,000 Liberian refugees for [...]
2003-03-12 06:37:00Consulate LagosCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV IV LI NI
03OTTAWA2104 MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ; AFRICA; ICC
[...] "Fallout from Iraq" The centrist Winnipeg Free Press observed (7/8): "...Mr. Bush's reasons for going to war may be questioned more and more sharply, as next year's presidential election approaches, if popular support for the Iraq invasion ebbs and poor performance of the U.S. economy saps [...]
2003-07-23 18:12:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KMDR OIIP OPRC CA
03OTTAWA2128 MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ; MIDDLE EAST; AFRICA;
[...] "Two down, one to go" Under the sub-heading, "The good news from Iraq: There's food in the markets, a new governing council and Saddam's sons are dead," columnist Margaret Wente wrote in the leading Globe and Mail (7/24): "As for the situation in Iraq, I have a hunch it's going better than [...]
2003-07-25 14:25:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KMDR OIIP OPRC CA
03OTTAWA2181FORCES FOR LIBERIA: CANADA WOULD LIKE TO HELP,
[...] No summary [...]
2003-07-31 21:02:00Embassy OttawaSECRETCD LI ML MR NG PGOV PHUM PREL XY CA UNSC
03OTTAWA2236 MEDIA REACTION: LIBERIA
[...] "Share the burden" The conservative National Post opined (8/1): "Liberia's 14-year-old civil war may finally be ending. Last Wednesday, the country's giant neighbour, Nigeria, agreed to send 1,300 peacekeepers to help end hostilities.... On Monday, the European Union voiced support for a mu [...]
2003-08-07 18:11:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KMDR OIIP OPRC CA
03OTTAWA2306 MEDIA REACTION: AFRICA; NATO; IRAQ; NORTH
[...] "Taylor's odious exit' The liberal Toronto Star opined (8/12): "Charles Taylor has finally been pried from power in Liberia, and that's a relief. It offers hope, however faint, for the 3.3 million people who have endured 14 blood-spattered years under his kleptocratic reign of terror first a [...]
2003-08-12 20:33:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KMDR OIIP OPRC CA
03OTTAWA2385 MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ; MIDDLE EAST; LIBERIA;
[...] "Terrorists sproutinq under nose of American troops?" Under the sub-headinq, "Americans don't quite know what they are talkinq about when it comes to where the resistance is cominq from," editorial paqe editor emeritus Haroon Siddiqui wrote in the liberal Toronto Star (8/14): "...The Baqhda [...]
2003-08-21 18:20:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KMDR OIIP OPRC CA
03OTTAWA2388 MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ; AFRICA
[...] "Rebuilding Iraq remains crucial" The leading Globe and Mail opined (8/21): "Horrific as Tuesday's bomb attack was on Iraq's United Nations headquarters, no one who has followed events in that country can be surprised that matters have taken a turn for the worse. From the moment the United S [...]
2003-08-21 19:17:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KMDR OIIP OPRC CA
03ROME1105BEPPO SAX FALLING DOWN
[...] FOLLOWING IS THE TEXT OF A NOTE VERBALE RECEIVED MARCH 13 FROM THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. 2. BEGIN TEXT: THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF ITALY PRESENTS ITS COMPLIMENTS TO THE EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES AND HAS THE HONOR TO INFORM ON THE FOLLOWING. ON APRIL 30, 2002, AT THE END [...]
2003-03-18 10:39:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDTSPA IT
03ROME3212 WFP/LIBERIA'S CURRENT OPERATIONS AND PLANS
[...] Per ref A, US Mission queried WFP's Deputy Director for West Africa Arnold Verken who described both present and planned World Food Program operational steps which are described below. WFP is in the process of chartering a supply ship to be used as a mobile floating office off the coast of Mo [...]
2003-07-14 15:14:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR AORC PREF EU WFP UN
03ROME3399LIBERIA/ECOWAS MISSION: ITALY SUPPORTIVE,
[...] (C) SUMMARY. MFA DIRECTOR-GENERAL FOR SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA CABRAS SAID ITALY BACKS OUR CALL FOR EU SUPPORT OF AN ECOWAS MISSION IN LIBERIA, AND IS CIRCULATING A FUNDING REQUEST WITHIN THE EU. ITALY'S EU CORRESPONDENT IS ALSO ENGAGED. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) A/POLITICAL MINISTER-COUNSELOR AND [...]
2003-07-25 18:39:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL MASS XY IT UNSC
03ROME3463LIBERIA: SETAF SUPPORT FOR ECOWAS MISSION
[...] (U) THIS IS AN URGENT ACTION REQUEST. See para 6. 2. (SBU) Italian officials are supportive of US assistance for stabilization efforts in Liberia. As reported ref A, A/Pol Minister-Counselor met on July 24 with DG for Africa Cabras to secure Italy's lead in requesting EU funding for assis [...]
2003-07-30 15:13:00Embassy RomeSECRET//NOFORNMOPS PREL IT EUN
03ROME4431 A HUMANITARIAN LOOK AT COTE D'IVOIRE PAINTS A
[...] The food security and nutritional situation in the northern and western areas of Cote d'Ivoire has been adversely affected by the events of the past year. The lack of civil administration, breakdown in health services, and fighting in the west has had a serious negative impact on the affecte [...]
2003-09-26 14:59:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF IZ LI PHUM WFP
03ROME4603 WFP APPEAL FOR WEST AFRICA COASTAL SPECIAL
[...] THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM (WFP) HAS FOUR SPECIAL OPERATIONS (SO) WHICH ADDRESS RECENT THREATS TO ITS PROTRACTED RELIEF AND RECOVERY OPERATION FOR REFUGEES, RETURNEES, AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN GUINEA, SIERRA LEONE, AND LIBERIA. TOTAL REQUIRED FUNDING IS U.S. DOLLARS (USD) 6.8 MILLION, [...]
2003-10-08 09:57:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR PREF WFP UN
03ROME5073 WFP EXECUTIVE BOARD APPROVES WEST AFRICA
[...] The U.S. Delegation (USDEL) provided a number of comments to the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) regarding its new Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) for West Africa during WFP's Executive Board (EB) meeting the week of October 20. The USDEL expressed support for the activation of [...]
2003-11-07 14:39:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR AORC PREF WFP UN
03TEGUCIGALPA1667 MEDIA REACTION ON LIBERIA, JULY 14, 2003
[...] Op-ed by Carlos Alberto Montaner in Tegucigalpa-based moderate daily "El Heraldo" on 7/12 entitled "Yankee, come home!". "The international public opinion wasn't prepared to witness the show put by countless demonstrators asking for a US military intervention in Liberia, to end the civil war th [...]
2003-07-14 21:53:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PREL KPAO PGOV IZ HO
03THEHAGUE1920LIBERIA: DUTCH WILL CONTRIBUTE EURO 500,000 FOR
[...] (S) Summary: The GoNL plans to contribute euro 500,000 via ECOWAS to Mali to support Mali's military contribution to an ECOWAS force in Liberia. Such financial support will be dependent upon a "believable arrangement" that Taylor will leave country and will not be absolved of his war crimes [...]
2003-07-30 14:40:00Embassy The HagueSECRETPGOV PHUM PREL CD LI ML MR NG XY NL UNSC
03THEHAGUE2299DUTCH ON SUPPORTING THE UN'S REQUEST FOR LIBERIA
[...] No summary [...]
2003-09-12 15:24:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPKO PREL MOPS LI NL
03THEHAGUE2597DUTCH PUSH FOR TAYLOR TO FACE SPECIAL COURT FOR
[...] (C) Dutch Prime Minister Jan Balkenende approached Nigerian President Obasanjo on the margins of the UNGA in New York. The GoNL strongly maintains that former Liberian President Charles Taylor must face his indictment at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and Balkenende encouraged Obasanjo to [...]
2003-10-10 08:10:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL KAWC LI NL
03THEHAGUE2726STATUS OF DUTCH MILITARY DEPLOYMENTS: LIBERIA,
[...] (S) Summary: Acting PolCouns met with the Dutch MFA Security Policy Bureau Operations Chief Rob Gabrielse (protect throughout) on October 29 to review the status of current and planned Dutch participation in international military operations in Liberia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Bosnia. On Liber [...]
2003-10-29 15:19:00Embassy The HagueSECRETMOPS MARR KPKO PREL PGOV NL LI AF IZ BK
03THEHAGUE3150THE NETHERLANDS: 2004 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON
[...] (U) Point of Contact is Pol-Mil Officer Nathaniel Dean, (31) (70) 310-9346, email DeanNP@state.gov. Average exchange rate is one Euro equals 1.22 USD. ------------------ GENERAL ASSESSMENT ------------------ 2. (U) The Netherlands made significant contributions to allied goals in 200 [...]
2003-12-19 15:40:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MOPS MCAP PREL PGOV NL NATO
03VATICAN1694 REINVIGORATED POPE WELCOMES END OF WAR, CONDEMNS
[...] (U) A VIGOROUS POPE JOHN PAUL II PRESIDED OVER THE VATICAN'S EASTER WEEK SERVICES, USING HIS HOMILIES AND EASTER MESSAGE TO FOCUS GLOBAL ATTENTION ON THE HOLY SEE'S TOP INTERNATIONAL CONCERNS: RECONSTRUCTION IN IRAQ, PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, CONDEMNATION OF TERRORISM AND RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE, [...]
2003-04-22 13:44:00Embassy VaticanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM IS WE IZ VT VTPREL
03VATICAN4289SANT EGIDIO CONFERENCE PROMOTES IRAQ, RELIGIOUS
[...] (U) At Vatican-sanctioned NGO Sant'Egidio's annual conference on peace and interreligious dialogue September 7-9 in Aachen, Germany, religious and civic leaders from around the world discussed and debated global and regional issues in which religious groups are involved and could be part of a [...]
2003-09-22 12:17:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALIZ PREL VT
03ZAGREB1854LIBERIA: CROATIAN SUPPORT FOR UN PEACEKEEPING
[...] (U) POLOFF DELIVERED REFTEL DEMARCHE TO ACTING NORTH AMERICA DESK DIRECTOR ANDREA BEKIC ON AUGUST 21. BEKIC COMMENTED THAT THE GOC WAS REVIEWING HOW IT COULD CONTRIBUTE TO THE NEW MISSION TO LIBERIA. SHE CAUTIONED THAT DEPENDING ON THE FINAL SCOPE OF THE GOC CONTRIBUTION, PARLIAMENTARY A [...]
2003-08-25 12:21:00Embassy ZagrebCONFIDENTIALKPKO MARR PREL LI HR UN
04ABUDHABI1000 UAEG OFFICIALS AND PRIVATE SECTOR DISCUSS ANTI-
[...] (U) Classified by DCM Richard A. Albright for reasons 1.5 (B) and (C). 2. (C) Summary and comment. The UAE Central Bank welcomed the visit of the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Director Bill Fox to the UAE, March 29. The Central Bank Governor pledged [...]
2004-04-05 12:16:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC PREL PGOV TC
04ABUJA101OFFER TO KIDNAP CHARLES TAYLOR
[...] (S/NF) A recently retired Nigerian special forces Colonel asked poloff January 16 about exiled Liberian warlord Charles Taylor, his whereabouts and the purported reward for his delivery to the Sierra Leone War Crimes Tribunal. 2. (S/NF) Poloff explained that there is no such reward, that a [...]
2004-01-21 07:07:00Embassy AbujaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREL PTER
04ABUJA1049CHARLES TAYLOR AND THE SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT
[...] (C) Charles Taylor's status in Nigeria is unlikely to be affected in the short term by the recent Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) ruling that it has jurisdiction to try him for war crimes in Sierra Leone. As President Obasanjo told us in March (Ref B),he plans to allow Taylor to stay i [...]
2004-06-11 13:25:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM LI NI
04ABUJA1126NIGERIA: ALIYU MOHAMMED COMES TO DINNER
[...] No summary [...]
2004-06-23 15:44:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALNI PGOV PREL US
04ABUJA1141NIGERIA: U.S. AMBASSADOR MEET WITH PRESIDENT
[...] (U) Classified by Ambassador John Campbell. Reason(s): 1.5 (b),(d 2. (C) Summary: In a conversation following my June 25 presentation of five years, Nigeria in on "the right track." He said that debt forgive expressed satisfaction with the current U.S. stance. He referred at le their d [...]
2004-06-25 13:23:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL NI US
04ABUJA1152AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ECOWAS EXECSEC, DISCUSSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: June 28, Ambassador Campbell called on ECOWAS Executive Secretary Mohammed Ibn Chambas. Chambas believed the political process in Liberia was on track and thought the continued engagement of the ECOWAS Secretariat and member states would keep the process moving in the right dire [...]
2004-06-29 11:49:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL LI NI
04ABUJA1158NIGERIA LABOUR CONGRESS RHETORIC KNOCKS GON ON
[...] (U) June 30, local print media reported that during a June 29 address to union leaders in Calabar, Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) President Adams Oshiomole threatened that union members would hold a "mass rally" in Calabar to protest the GON's failure to extradite former Liberian President Cha [...]
2004-06-30 11:45:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KAWC ELAB LI NI
04ABUJA1159HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON MEETING
[...] (U) Summary: Human Rights Watch (HRW) representatives briefed the Ambassador about a meeting with President Obasanjo and various ministers. They said Obasanjo did not engage HRW on the GON's inadequate response to violence in Nigeria, and refused to budge on the issue of Charles Taylor's ex [...]
2004-06-30 12:13:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV ASEC NI
04ABUJA1396NIGERIA: BRITISH WOES WITH DARFUR DEPLOYMENT
[...] (C) The British High Commission told us August 16 that they are having considerable difficulty bringing the GON to action on transporting the Nigerian force protection unit to Darfur. Since the handoff to the UK (reftel),the British High Commissioner has met with President Obasanjo, the Nige [...]
2004-08-16 13:52:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS SU NI DARFUR
04ABUJA144NIGERIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO HEAD DELEGATION TO
[...] The Foreign Ministry informed us today that Foreign Minister Adeniji will lead the Nigerian delegation to the Liberia Reconstruction Conference and associated meetings at the UN in New York February 5-6. Roberts [...]
2004-01-28 12:49:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID LI NI
04ABUJA1472NIGERIA: PRESIDENT OBASANJO MEETS WITH SENATOR
[...] (C) Summary. At a meeting with Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, President Olusegun Obasanjo described a regional security initiative, the Gulf of Guinea Commission. Obasanjo also described negotiations with the Cameroonian President over the Bakassi peninsula without mentioning a previous c [...]
2004-08-27 12:48:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR ECON PINR NI
04ABUJA1555RECOMMEND POTUS MEET WITH PRESIDENT OBASANJO
[...] (C) U.S. Mission recommends POTUS, or the Secretary, meet with Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo during his September 21-24 trip to the United States, to thank and encourage Obasanjo on Darfur, Liberia and Nigeria's domestic reforms, and to raise the level of our bilateral dialogue on oil a [...]
2004-09-08 12:33:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NI
04ABUJA1598U.S./NIGERIA BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP: OBASANJO LAYS
[...] (C) Summary: In a public speech given at a Nigeria-U.S. investment conference sponsored by the Corporate Council on Africa/The Nigerian Economic Summit Group on September 16, President Obasanjo departed from his previously prepared text to lay down markers on the U.S./Nigeria bilateral relat [...]
2004-09-17 10:56:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EFIN KDEM NI
04ABUJA1801NIGERIAN ARMY 6BN DEPLOYMENT TO DARFUR
[...] (C) Summary. On October 22, a senior Nigerian military officer told Post that Nigeria intended to deploy the 6th Battalion from Abak to Darfur on October 28. This is a change from the GON's preferred unit, 72d Para Battalion, in response to USG concerns over that unit's human rights record. [...]
2004-10-23 17:26:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PINR SU NI
04ABUJA1813PEACEKEEPING AND THE NIGERIAN ARMY'S OPERATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: Meetings with senior Nigerian defense staff involved in peacekeeping revealed Nigeria has recently changed its PKO rotation schedule from one year to six months. Given current and future commitments, this will require the deployment of 24 units per year, and a reduction in the [...]
2004-10-26 12:34:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS NI
04ABUJA312SHARING INFO ON CHARLES TAYLOR'S ACTIVITIES IN
[...] (S/NF) February 23, CDA delivered reftel demarche on Charles Taylor's continuing efforts to influence events in Liberia to Minister of Foreign Affairs Olu Adeniji. Adeniji reiterated the GON's commitment to preventing Taylor from influencing events in Liberia, noting that the GON had warned [...]
2004-02-24 08:11:00Embassy AbujaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREL IO LI SL NI
04ABUJA445PRESIDENT OBASANJO ON CHARLES TAYLOR
[...] (S) Summary: President Obasanjo told Ambassador at Large Prosper March 12 that Charles Taylor's stay in Nigeria was temporary, and would end when a "democratically elected Liberian Government" asked publicly for Taylor to go to the Special Court in Sierra Leone, or to Liberia, or anywhere els [...]
2004-03-15 03:54:00Embassy AbujaSECRETPREL PHUM LI SL NI
04ACCRA1199SUGGESTED POINTS FOR POWELL/KUFUOR MEETING
[...] (C) Mission proposes the following points for use by Secretary Powell in his June 11 meeting with President SIPDIS Kufuor. We recommend a supportive message, which acknowledges the Kufuor government's leading role in working toward peace in the sub-region, particularly Cote d'Ivoire and [...]
2004-06-07 17:27:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GH
04ACCRA1271PRM A/S DEWEY'S DISCUSSIONS WITH UNHCR AND
[...] Summary: PRM A/S Gene Dewey met with UNHCR branch office and regional resettlement personnel while in Ghana on a mission to review resettlement operations. Duly impressed by the efforts of the Accra branch office as illustrated through two camp visits, Dewey came away with a sound appreciatio [...]
2004-06-16 12:25:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALGH PREF
04ACCRA1556FOREIGN MINISTER ON ACCRA III AND LIBERIA TALKS
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Yates met with Foreign Minister Akufo-Addo July 27, and spoke on the upcoming Accra III peace talks on Cote d'Ivoire, and the convocation of Liberian signatories to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of last summer. The minister's comments focused largely on the mecha [...]
2004-07-27 17:24:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALGH PAREL ECOWAS
04ACCRA1560CHAMBAS ON ACCRA III, LIBERIA, SUDAN
[...] (C) Summary. According to ECOWAS Executive Secretary Ibn Chambas, the Accra III talks will focus on four main points: return of dismissed ministers, resumption of the government of "national unity", passage of LMA legislation, and DDR. Legislation will be the most difficult issue, with Articl [...]
2004-07-28 12:28:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALPREL GH ECOWAS
04ACCRA1581ACCRA III MARCHES ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS - LIBERIA
[...] (U) There was slow progress on the first day of the Accra III talks on Cote d'Ivoire. Led by President Kufuor and UN Secretary General Annan, all the key parties were in SIPDIS attendance as well as several (mainly West) African heads of state, UN, ECOWAS, AU, and Francophone representatives [...]
2004-07-30 13:43:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL GH ECOWAS
04ACCRA1591ACCRA III: AGREEMENT REACHED ON COTE D'IVOIRE;
[...] (SBU) Ivoirien parties reached late-night agreement July 30 to revive the Linas-Marcoussis Accords (LMA). The Agreement sets forth four main components: use of presidential powers to revise eligibility for the presidency; a new DDR timetable; delegation of powers to the prime minister; and re [...]
2004-08-02 11:20:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALPREL GH ECOWAS
04ACCRA1644UPDATE ON GHANA AIRWAYS CRISIS AND FAA SAFETY
[...] (U) Ghana Air's management has finally gained some measure of control over the crisis that stranded up to 5,000 passengers in Ghana, the U.S. and The Gambia (see reftels A, C, D, E for background). The third repatriation flight, on wet-leased World Air, left August 9 for Baltimore (BWI). The [...]
2004-08-10 17:05:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR GH
04ACCRA1921 UNHCR SIGNS REPATRIATON AGREEMENT FOR LIBERIAN REFUGEES IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR),the GOG, and the Government of Liberia signed a landmark agreement on September 22 in Accra, providing for the voluntary repatriation of Liberian refugees living in Ghana. Unlike the flawed repatriation attempted during t [...]
2004-09-23 16:47:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM GH LI
04ACCRA1934GHANA'S ELECTION: THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
[...] (C) Summary: On September 22, Charge and Poloffs hosted a lunch for National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate Atta Mills and several senior party lieutenants to discuss the upcoming election. Mills was predictably critical of the ruling National Patriotic Party (NPP)'s perfo [...]
2004-09-27 17:44:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL GH
04ACCRA1960ECOWAS DEFENSE MEETING IN ACCRA: AGREEMENT ON
[...] (U) Summary: On September 29-30 the Chiefs of Defense Staff of fourteen ECOWAS countries met in Accra for the tenth Ordinary ECOWAS Defense and Security Commission meeting. Participants pledged a total of 6,500 military personnel to form an ECOWAS standby force. Participants discussed deve [...]
2004-10-01 15:25:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC GH MARR MCAP MOPS PREF PREL MAS ECOWAS
04ACCRA2039A VISIT TO GHANA'S BUDUMBURAM REFUGEE CAMP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ref Coord's visit on October 6 to the Budumburam refugee camp near Accra revealed an atmosphere of utter calm that debunked some press claims that its residents were huddled in a state of fear under "martial law." Most Liberian residents, who by all appearances are adequately [...]
2004-10-15 09:46:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL GH LI
04ACCRA2168ECOWAS/West African Security Conference in Accra
[...] (SBU) Summary: The International Peace Academy (IPA),in association with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),held a conference on West Africa conflict management and prevention in Accra on October 17-19. Among the specific themes discussed were: the need for ECOWAS to p [...]
2004-11-03 13:50:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MOPS MARR GH ECOWAS
04ACCRA2241 REFUGEE SITUATION IN GHANA
[...] Per reftel, Emboff met with the head of the political department at MFA. GOG officials assured him that Ghana would not object if there were to be a flood of Ivorian refugees entering Ghana. Large numbers could cause logistical problems, but the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) had the lead o [...]
2004-11-16 07:19:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM IV GH
04ACCRA2340INTERNATIONAL CONTACT GROUP ON LIBERIA - GHANA
[...] (C) On November 24, PolChief met with Mr. G.A.A. Saame, Ghana's Acting Director for African Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and his Acting Deputy, Mrs. Abadoo, to deliver reftel points on the need for better local coordination and consensus within the International Contact Group [...]
2004-11-30 17:27:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALGH LI PREL
04ACCRA63SCENESETTER FOR HHS DEPUTY SECRETARY ALLEN: GHANA
[...] Your visit to Ghana provides an opportunity to encourage further momentum to Ghana's efforts to build capacity to address basic health concerns on infant, child and maternal mortality and morbidity, and help prevent HIV/AIDS transmission and mitigate its impact on Ghana's population. Ghana's [...]
2004-01-12 18:21:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO OTRA PGOV AMGT ECON GH
04AMMAN391INVITING JORDAN TO LIBERIA RECONSTRUCTION
[...] PolCouns January 14 cover ref points with Basheer Zoubi, Officer in Charge of UN affairs in FonMin Mausher's Private Office. PolCouns encouraged Jordan, and a troop contributing country, to attend the Liberia reconstruction conference February 5-6. Zoubi said that Jordan would most likely a [...]
2004-01-16 10:35:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON EAID EFIN AORC LI JO
04ANKARA5751TIP IN TURKEY: MEDIA ATTENTION, OCTOBER 1-7, 2004
[...] No summary [...]
2004-10-07 10:18:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDIN KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF PREL SMIG TIP TU
04BOGOTA3486AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ICRC HEAD OF DELEGATION
[...] No summary [...]
2004-04-02 22:46:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PHUM PREF CO FARC ELN AUC
04BRUSSELS1274TRANSATLANTIC CONSULTATIONS ON AFRICA HIGHLIGHT
[...] (U) Summary. Major topics of discussion at the transatlantic consultations on Africa (COAFR),held March 10 in Brussels, included: support to peacekeeping and conflict prevention activities, including the EU's proposed Africa Peace Facility and U.S. support to ECOWAS through EUCOM; political [...]
2004-03-25 10:54:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF EAID PHUM XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS1655JOINT U.S.-EC MONITORING TRIP IMPROVES DONOR
[...] (SBU) Summary. In order to improve donor coordination and to bring international attention to the humanitarian needs in Burundi, the U.S. and the European Commission (EC) undertook a joint monitoring mission from March 29-April 2 to assess post-conflict needs and to monitor the work of impleme [...]
2004-04-16 13:59:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF EAID PHUM PGOV BU TZ EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS2086EC MOVING FORWARD WITH AUDITORS FOR LIBERIA
[...] Following receipt of reftel, USEU contacted DG Development Liberia Desk Officer Arend Biesenbroek for a status report on their funding of auditors to assist in the review of financial controls at six key government agencies. Biesenbroek reported that the terms of reference for this program ha [...]
2004-05-13 15:33:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN PGOV LI EUN IMF USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS2211BRUSSELS VIEW OF IRELAND'S EU PRESIDENCY: A
[...] No summary [...]
2004-05-25 11:07:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EI EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS2354EU-FUNDED AFRICA PEACE FACILITY TO STRENGTHEN AU,
[...] (SBU) Summary. The European Union (EU) formally announced the establishment of the Africa Peace Facility (APF),and funds are now available to support peacekeeping and peace-enforcing operations in Africa. The EU aims to strengthen the role of the African Union (AU),particularly the Peace [...]
2004-06-02 14:41:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID MOPS PGOV PREL PREF UX USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS3358EXPERT PANEL MEETING ON DEVELOPING A
[...] SUMMARY: THE G-8 ACTION PLAN FOR AFRICA FAMINE INITIATIVE INCLUDES SUPPORT FOR IMPROVED WORLDWIDE EMERGENCY ASSESSMENT AND RESPONSE SYSTEMS. THE MULTI-DONOR STANDARDIZED MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT OF RELIEF AND TRANSITIONS (SMART) INITIATIVE IS THE CENTRAL FOCUS OF G-8 MEMBER SUPPORT. AN EXPE [...]
2004-08-06 15:17:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PHUM PREL SMIG EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS3989TRANSATLANTIC CONSULTATIONS ON AFRICA: EU AND U.S.
[...] (U) Summary. The September 8 transatlantic consultations on Africa (COAFR) addressed priorities in the Great Lakes (strengthening MONUC, protecting refugees, supporting internal and regional dialogues),Sudan (calibrating pressure on the government, strengthening the AU role, meeting humanita [...]
2004-09-20 09:38:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV EAID PHUM XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
04BRUSSELS5221ENGAGING THE EU ON DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN
[...] (SBU) Summary. The 25 EU member states have a GDP roughly equal to the United States, but spend twice as much on development assistance. One fifth of EU assistance is funneled through the European Commission (EC),making the Commission the third largest single donor in the world and an import [...]
2004-12-10 09:58:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PREF PREL EUN UN USEU BRUSSELS
04DUBLIN1721SCENESETTER FOR SENATORS MCCAIN AND GRAHAM'S
[...] (SBU) A background paper follows, describing key political concerns. We would also note that the Northern Ireland peace process is at a critical juncture, and the final results of the process begun at Leeds Castle might be announced during your visit. -------------------- Political Backgr [...]
2004-11-24 17:08:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC CVIS EAIR ETRD MARR OREP PGOV PHUM PREL PTER EUN
04DUBLIN1790AMBASSADOR KENNY'S CALL ON NEW DEFENSE MINISTER
[...] (C) On December 9, Amb. Kenny met with Willie O'Dea in O'Dea's new capacity as Ireland's Minister of Defense. The ambassador underscored the value of close U.S.-Irish cooperation, especially in peacekeeping and information exchange. The Ambassador urged Ireland to extend its mission in Afgha [...]
2004-12-14 07:56:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS
04DUBLIN784IRELAND WILL ATTEND MAY 25 LIBERIA SSR MEETING IN
[...] No summary [...]
2004-05-24 17:15:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDEAID MASS PREL
04DUBLIN867SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S TRIP TO IRELAND
[...] (C) Summary: Irish President Mary McAleese and Prime Minister Bertie Ahern are looking forward to welcoming the President to Dromoland Castle in the west of Ireland for the U.S.-EU Summit June 26. Ahern can be justly proud of his management of the EU Presidency to date, including his lead [...]
2004-06-08 16:45:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM ETRD EAIR MASS MARR CASC CVIS EUN
04DUBLIN926HAITI DEMARCHE FOR BUDGET SUPPORT - IRISH RESPONSE
[...] (U) We shared reftel points with Jonathan Conlon, in the DFA's Latin American and Caribbean office, and Bronagh Carr, development specialist at the DFA's Development Cooperation Ireland office. Conlon said that Ireland had already contributed EUR 500,000 to Haiti through UNICEF, OCHA, and t [...]
2004-06-17 10:04:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN PREL
04KATHMANDU1288NEPAL: AMBASSADOR CALLS ON FOREIGN SECRETARY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Moriarty made his first official call on Foreign Secretary Madhu Acharya on July 8. Acharya stated that the UN offer to mediate with the Maoists was appreciated, but third-party mediation from any quarters would not be accepted for the time being. Meanwhile, India's [...]
2004-07-09 07:05:00Embassy KathmanduCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PHUM IN BH NP UN
04KUWAIT811(C) U.S. FUNDING REQUESTS PUSHING HARD CHOICES ON
[...] (S/NF) The GOK has been the most stalwart supporter of U.S. actions in Iraq anywhere in the Arab world. As a result of our close partnership, the Kuwaitis have given us tremendous support. The large number of pending U.S. requests for additional support, however, is beginning to pinch, and [...]
2004-03-11 04:04:00Embassy KuwaitSECRET//NOFORNMARR PREL IZ KU
04LAGOS1494C-CN4-00499 AND C-CN4-00503: NIGER DELTA
[...] (S/NF) The Mission thanks its colleagues in INR for their kind encouragement of continued reporting efforts on the Niger Delta. Per your request, we have an update on reftels. 2. (S/NF) Captain Ogunjumi, former Commanding Officer (CO) of the Nigerian Naval Station (NNS) in Warri, left his po [...]
2004-07-21 14:24:00Consulate LagosSECRET//NOFORNPINR NI
04LAGOS469CROSS RIVER AND AKWA IBOM: WAITING PEACEFULLY FOR
[...] (U) Summary. On a recent familiarization visit to the southeastern States of Cross River and Akwa Ibom, PolOffs found officials with many plans for economic development in the region. All are targeting agriculture and tourism as a way to diversify and lessen dependence on income from oil. Pr [...]
2004-03-03 13:19:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM KWMN EINV ECON PINR NI
04LILONGWE404FREER, BUT POORER: MALAWI AFTER TEN YEARS OF
[...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: This month's presidential and parliamentary elections will mark ten years since Malawi's first democratic elections and the transition away from Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda's thirty-year dictatorship. Much has changed, for better and for worse, since the advent o [...]
2004-05-14 11:44:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM ECON PINR MI
04MADRID3600A MID-TERM LOOK AT SPAIN'S SECURITY COUNCIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff discussed Spain's Security Council September presidency with Juan Manuel Gonzalez de Linares, MFA Deputy Director of United Nations Affairs, and Enrique de Yturriaga Saldanha, MFA head of UNSC Issues. Both stressed that Spain has tried to be an "honest broker" as the hea [...]
2004-09-21 06:09:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP UNSC UN
04MADRID3605A MID-TERM LOOK AT SPAIN'S SECURITY COUNCIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff discussed Spain's Security Council September presidency with Juan Manuel Gonzalez de Linares, MFA Deputy Director of United Nations Affairs, and Enrique de Yturriaga Saldanha, MFA head of UNSC Issues. Both stressed that Spain has tried to be an "honest broker" as the hea [...]
2004-09-21 08:22:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP UNSC
04MADRID650REQUEST FOR SECURITY SECTOR ASSISTANCE IN LIBERIA:
[...] No summary [...]
2004-02-25 16:28:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID EFIN PGOV PREL LI SP
04MAPUTO197LETTER FROM PRESIDENT CHISSANO
[...] No summary [...]
2004-02-13 08:27:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL SL IV LI MZ ECOWAS
04MAPUTO945HELPING MOZAMBIQUE BECOME AN EFFECTIVE
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: Mozambique continues to seek a more active role in peacekeeping, especially in Africa. Despite very limited resources, the Mozambican Armed Forces have worked effectively at reinforced company strength in the Africa Union's P [...]
2004-07-15 05:23:00Embassy MaputoCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR PREL KPKO BY MZ ACOTA
04PRETORIA4545PERSPECTIVES ON NEPAD, ISLAM AND THE USA IN SOUTH
[...] (SBU) Summary: S/P consultations in South Africa October 6-10, 2004 confirmed strong public and private sector support for NEPAD, due largely to Presidents Mbeki and Obasanjo's strong leadership. Expecting legal status as an African Union (AU) entity, the NEPAD Secretariat was optimistic, [...]
2004-10-12 14:59:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON ETRD KDEM PHUM PINR SOCI SF
04ROME1370 FAO'S EMERGENCY PROGRAMS: OVERVIEW
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IN 2003, FAO DELIVERED $211 MILLION IN EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE IN THE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SECURITY SECTOR TO CRISIS AREAS AROUND THE GLOBE. FAO PROVIDES SEEDS, TOOLS, FERTILIZER AND FISHING GEAR; ASSISTS IN CROP PROTECTION AND LIVESTOCK REPLENISHMENT; REACTIVATES VETERINARY AN [...]
2004-04-07 10:36:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID AORC EAGR KUNR FAO
04ROME2243 SECOND REGULAR SESSION OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM
[...] In an abbreviated Board session (one and a half days),the Executive Board approved country programs for Sierra Leone and Madagascar, a budget increase for WFP's development efforts in Uganda, and protracted relief and recovery operations for Myanmar (Returnees and vulnerable groups in norther [...]
2004-06-10 15:13:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UN
04ROME2935UNHCR/WFP JOINT DONOR BRIEFING
[...] Summary. UNHCR and WFP held a joint donor briefing in Rome on July 22, 2004. UN staff discussed troubling funding problems that limit WFP's ability to deliver food aid to refugees in Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Chad, Eritrea, Georgia, Kenya, Nepal, and elsewhere; provided an update [...]
2004-07-29 07:41:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR PREF AO AF CD CG SU WFP UNHCR
04ROME815FIRST REGULAR SESSION OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM
[...] The WFP Board first regular session for 2004 took place against the backdrop of an unprecedented level of emergency needs. In 2003, WFP received U.S. dollars (USD) 2.6 billion in donor contributions in support of its operations worldwide (plus an additional USD 1.2 billion from the Oil- for-Fo [...]
2004-03-03 10:53:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR KHIV WFP UNHCR
04THEHAGUE1142DUTCH CANNOT FUND SSR IN LIBERIA
[...] (SBU) As reported in ref b, the Dutch are unable to provide any funding for security sector reform (SSR) due to political and financial commitments elsewhere in Africa. The Netherlands previously supported efforts in Liberia by stationing the Dutch Navy's LPD HrMs Rotterdam off the coast of [...]
2004-05-10 11:57:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EAID MASS ASEC LI NL
04THEHAGUE1200LIBERIA SSR - DUTCH TO MEET U.S. OFFICIALS IN
[...] No summary [...]
2004-05-14 16:00:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EAID MASS ASEC LI NL
04THEHAGUE1828CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WEEKLY WRAP-UP
[...] (U) The co-facilitators Gordon Eckersly/Australia and Ian Mundell/Canada held four sessions on 13-14 July 2004 to discuss Executive Management, Policymaking Organs, and Administration. The DDG made a brief introduction to the elements covered by the Executive Management section. Delegations [...]
2004-07-20 13:54:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL CWC
04THEHAGUE248DUTCH MILITARY DEPLOYMENTS: IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
[...] (S) Summary: In anticipation of new Dutch FM Ben Bot's travel to Washington February 9 for meetings with the Secretary and at NSC and DOD we offer a snapshot of several SIPDIS aspects of Dutch military participation in the Global War on Terrorism presently under discussion in the Netherlands. The G [...]
2004-01-30 13:17:00Embassy The HagueSECRETMOPS MARR PREL PTER IZ AF NL
04THEHAGUE719 DUTCH PRESS ON PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO THE US
[...] Summary. The visit of Prime Minister Balkenende to the US received broad attention in the Dutch media. The fallout from the Madrid terrorist attacks and discussion of the opposition Labor Party's desire not to renew the Dutch military deployment in Iraq overshadowed his March 15 [...]
2004-03-18 15:52:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO NL PREL
04THEHAGUE92LIBERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (U) On January 13, EconOff delivered ref demarche regarding the Feb. 5-6 Liberia reconstruction conference to Roel van den Veen of the MFA's West Africa Division. Van den Veen will share the points with colleagues from the MFA Directorate of Peacebuilding/Human Rights (which oversees the D [...]
2004-01-14 16:04:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALAORC EAID ECON LI NL PREL
04VATICAN2892SUDAN: SANT'EGIDIO OFFERS ROME MEDIATION VENUE
[...] (C) SUMMARY and ACTION REQUEST: The Rome-based Sant'Egidio Community, which specializes in conflict mediation and has ties with both the Sudanese government and main rebel groups, conveyed its interest in hosting informal discussions at its Rome-based headquarters to establish a political dia [...]
2004-07-26 13:56:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALPREL SU VT
04WELLINGTON911CONVICTIONS IN NEW ZEALAND'S LARGEST PASSPORT
[...] (U) In what media reports have called the largest passport forgery case of its kind in New Zealand, two refugees to New Zealand, Iraqi Fahad Jaber AJEIL (age 29) and Kuwaiti Riyad Hamied SULTAN (age 29),were found guilty October 21 of conspiring to commit forgery. The prosecution accused the [...]
2004-11-01 02:43:00Embassy WellingtonCONFIDENTIALASEC SENV TSPL NZ
04YEREVAN2565CIVAV: ARMENIA REGISTERS AIRLINES OPERATING
[...] (C) The November 26, 2004 sentencing of six Armenians (a pilot and crew) in Equatorial Guinea for aiding the overthrow of President Obiang's government (reftel) is a reminder about the business-end of Armenia's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on airline registration. Armenia's Directorate of C [...]
2004-11-30 10:00:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON PREL AM EK
05ABUJA1119NIGERIAN LEGISLATORS THREATEN PRESIDENT OBASANJO
[...] (U) On May 3, members of Nigeria's lower house initiated steps to impeach President Olusegun Obasanjo, listing 19 impeachable offenses against the president, generally related to the Obasanjo's altering or ignoring decisions of the National Assembly. The impeachment's prime movers say about [...]
2005-06-23 09:48:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM NI
05ABUJA114CHARLES TAYLOR DEMARCHE
[...] (C) Ambassador presented reftel demarche and talking points to MFA PermSec N.U.O. Nadibia-Anyanwu on January 19, and also sent a copy to National Security Advisor Aliyu Mohammed. The PermSec responded that such fears of Taylor's influence had been investigated in the past and proved overblown [...]
2005-01-26 14:46:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL SL LI NI
05ABUJA1532ACOTA PROGRAM MOVES FORWARD IN NIGERIA
[...] SUMMARY. During 8-11 August 2005, an African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) Program team met with officials of the Nigerian Army to jointly plan the future of the ACOTA program in Nigeria. The meetings resulted in decisive progress in terms of a concept and schedule f [...]
2005-08-19 11:35:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV MASS MCAP PHUM KPKO NI
05ABUJA1829NIGERIA'S SOBERING SOCIAL INDICATORS
[...] (SBU) Summary: USAID provided technical assistance to analyze and publish data from Nigeria's 2003 Demographic and Health survey. The data analysis from that survey demonstrates two startling facts. In many areas, Nigeria has social indicators significantly worse than its poorer neighbors, [...]
2005-09-26 15:59:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID SOCI TBIO PHUM NI
05ABUJA1862NIGERIA:LIBERIA DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO ECOWAS
[...] (C) Summary. Despite sensitivities about the need in principle to support the legal structures of Liberia, the Executive Secretary of ECOWAS agreed with U.S. concerns about the Liberian Supreme Court rulings. He said that the U.S. and ECOWAS share a common position on how to respond to those [...]
2005-09-29 15:50:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL LI NI ECOWAS
05ABUJA1873NIGERIA/LIBERIA:GENERAL ABUBAKAR ON ECOWAS AND THE
[...] (C) The Ambassador, with PolMilOff, met with CPA Mediator and former Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar the evening of September 29 to deliver Ref A points, which were left as a nonpaper. Abubakar accepted the U.S. position and said that it is "in the line of our thinking." His response di [...]
2005-09-30 11:21:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL LI NI ECOWAS
05ABUJA1891ECOWAS SUMMIT ON COTE D'IVOIRE AND OTHER REGIONAL
[...] (C) Summary. The ECOWAS Heads of State and Government met in Abuja for an Extraordinary Summit on September 30 to discuss the situation in Cote d'Ivoire. Liberia was a late addition to the agenda. The leaders created a list of recommendations, which they have not made public, which will be [...]
2005-10-04 15:25:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PBTS XY ECOWAS
05ABUJA2073A/S FRAZER MEETING WITH NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR
[...] (C) Summary: On 24 October, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer met with Nigerian National Security Advisor Aliyu Mohammed. They discussed the Sudan Peace Process, recent Liberian elections, Cote D'Ivoire, the Bakassi dispute with Cameroon, upcoming Nigerian elections, the s [...]
2005-10-27 11:55:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM NI XY XW
05ABUJA2075A/S FRAZER,S MEETING WITH NIGERIAN MFA RE
[...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer met with Nigeria's Foreign Minister Oluyemi Adeniji on 24 October to discuss the Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire (CDI),and other issues. During the meeting, Adeniji was vague on many issues, but spoke generally about the need to push the Southern Sudan [...]
2005-10-28 08:00:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PTER MARR PHUM XW XY NI
05ABUJA2188ECOWAS ON LIBERIA AND TOGO
[...] In response to reftel, Charge met with National Security Advisor (NSA) Aliyu Mohammed Gusau on Friday, November 11. NSA said he would personally convey the contents of the message to President Obasanjo on the afternoon of November 11 on his return to Abuja. 2. PolMilOff called ECOWAS Exec [...]
2005-11-15 06:57:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KDEM NI LI ECOWAS
05ABUJA743OBASANJO AND CHARLES TAYLOR
[...] (S) Summary: In our May 13 meeting, President Obasanjo reiterated his familiar arguments against turning Taylor over to the Special Court in Sierra Leone. He showed no sense of urgency and made it clear that he did not want to engage. However, he agreed on the importance of continued dialog [...]
2005-05-13 16:59:00Embassy AbujaSECRETPGOV PREL SU NI LI
05ABUJA953NIGERIA'S MILITARY: PART I OF THE SERIES
[...] (S) Summary. Nigeria's military is the largest in West Africa, but is significantly less capable than its size and equipment inventory would indicate. A large percentage of the Army is capable of little more than basic defensive operations, and most of Nigeria's ships and aircraft are inop [...]
2005-06-02 07:14:00Embassy AbujaSECRETMCAP MASS PGOV PINR KDEM KPKO NI POLMIL
05ACCRA1051SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT KUFUOR'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Ghana is a democratic, market-oriented, pro-American country in a region marked by conflict and authoritarian rule. It has one of the best human rights records in Africa and has made significant efforts to combat trafficking in persons. President John Kufuor is five months into his secon [...]
2005-05-27 16:34:00Embassy AccraSECRETEAIR ECON EFIN ELAB GH KWMN PGOV PREL PTER MAS
05ACCRA151ECOWAS MEETINGS IN ACCRA: NIGER NEW ECOWAS CHAIR
[...] Summary: A round of ECOWAS statutory meetings in Accra January 10-19 culminated in the 28th Summit of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government. ECOWAS heads of state unanimously selected President Mamdou Tadja of Niger as the new ECOWAS Chairman. There was candid discussion of regional conflict [...]
2005-01-21 16:15:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDAORC EAGR EAID ECON GH PGOV PREL ECOWAS
05ACCRA1679THE U.S. - GHANA RELATIONSHIP: THE AMBASSADOR'S
[...] (C) Summary: The U.S.-Ghana relationship is strong and broad-based. In this message, I offer my parting thoughts on how the relationship has changed during my nearly three-year tenure as Ambassador, and identify some of the main challenges ahead. I leave very optimistic about Ghana. The Go [...]
2005-08-22 07:34:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON GH
05ACCRA1812GHANA ECON HIGHLIGHTS AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2005
[...] (U) This report covers noteworthy economic events and activities in Ghana for August and September 2005. The issues covered are: -- ExxonMobil Exits Ghana, Thirteen other African Countries -- Visit of US Coast Guard Port Security Liaison Officers -- MCC gives $3 million to Develop GoG Compa [...]
2005-09-08 12:25:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD ECPS KMCA GH
05ACCRA2036SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRAZER
[...] (C) Ghana is a democratic, market-oriented, and pro-American country. It has one of the best human rights records in Africa and has made significant efforts to combat trafficking in persons. President John Kufuor is nine months into his second term, which has been marked by intra-party tensi [...]
2005-10-04 18:05:00Embassy AccraSECRETEAIR ECON EFIN ELAB KWMN PGOV PREL PTER GH MAS
05ACCRA2311VIOLENCE AT GHANA'S KRISAN REFUGEE CAMP
[...] (SBU) Summary: On November 8, refugees at Krisan camp in the Western Region of Ghana torched houses, and destroyed offices and vehicles, including from UNHCR. UNHCR's Senior Protection Officer in Ghana told PolChief and visiting RefCoord from Abidjan on November 10 that the violence was sp [...]
2005-11-10 17:10:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYGH IV PREF PREL TO
05ACCRA2315PALESTINIAN AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES GHANA
[...] (C) Summary: During a November 2 courtesy call, outgoing Palestinian Ambassador and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps Ibrahim Omar told the Ambassador that U.S. government efforts to gain allies among West African Muslims and stabilize the region will only succeed if the Israeli-Palestinian conflict [...]
2005-11-11 16:24:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL GH IS
05ACCRA2548POLICE EXCESSES IN CRACKDOWN AT KRISAN REFUGEE CAMP
[...] (C) Summary: On December 8, RefCoords from Accra and Abidjan and AF/W Desk Officer for Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire visited Krisan refugee camp in Ghana's Western Region to investigate reports that police had beaten camp residents from November 8 - 11. Emboffs saw first-hand scars on the forehea [...]
2005-12-15 11:33:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM CASC GH
05ACCRA2563AMBASSADOR MEETS GHANA'S MINISTER OF FOREIGN
[...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Minister of Foreign Affairs Nana Akufo-Addo on December 7 and discussed the Millenium Challenge Account (MCA) proposal, regional issues, the WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong, the Iraqi elections and Ghana's new seat on the UN Security Council. En [...]
2005-12-19 10:49:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN GH PGOV PREL WTO MCA
05ACCRA49GHANA'S PRESIDENT AND PARLIAMENT SWORN IN
[...] (C) Summary: President John Kufuor was sworn in for a second term on January 7. His inauguration was delayed by several hours because of a tug-of-war over the selection of the new Speaker of Parliament, Ebenezer Sekyi Hughes. This showdown could sour relations for some time between the two [...]
2005-01-11 14:23:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALGH PGOV GOG
05ACCRA549GHANA'S RESPONSE TO SECRETARY RICE'S ECOWAS MESSAGE
[...] (C) Summary: D.K. Osei, Secretary to the President, told Emboffs that Ghana would support the U.S. on bringing Charles Taylor to justice, as addressed in Secretary Rice's recent letter to President Kufuor. However, the support "would not be very loud." The GOG is concerned that seeking ju [...]
2005-03-18 12:45:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALGH LI OPDC PHUM PREL TO
05ACCRA634SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY COMMANDER, EUCOM, GENERAL
[...] (SBU) U.S. interests center on support for Ghana's fifteen-year-old democracy and promotion of open markets. The long-term success of Ghana's constitutional democracy is not guaranteed. Government institutions are still evolving, and economic challenges, left unresolved, could erode popular [...]
2005-03-31 17:44:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYGH OVIP
05ACCRA770REFUGEES IN THE GAMBIA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Refugees in The Gambia comprise a disparate assortment of illiterate Senegalese farmers, Sierra Leonean professionals, and Liberians. While UNHCR provides for almost every imaginable need for the residents of Bambali Camp, urban refugees in Banjul struggle to eke out a meager [...]
2005-04-21 16:26:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYGA SL SE LI PREF
05ACCRA943GHANA REFUGEE ROUNDUP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Liberian refugees in Ghana recently pelted the camp manager's car with stones, causing UNHCR to withdraw all services to the Budumburam settlement for one week. Of the 224 newly arrived Sudanese refugees, 40% have now been interviewed and 3% have been favorably adjudicated. N [...]
2005-05-12 17:09:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF GH LI SU TO
05ADANA132SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 29, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-07-11 14:23:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
05ANKARA1174OFFICIAL RECEPTION IN SE TURKEY: WARM AND
[...] (C) Summary: While traveling through the region February 22-25, poloff was greeted warmly by government officials who all brought up, in one way or another, the recent media scrutiny of the bilateral relationship. Underlining that allies with fifty years of partnership under their collective [...]
2005-03-07 08:36:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU
05BAGHDAD4779INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS APPLY TO REPRESENT SADAAM
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Issam al-Ghazzawi (Jordan),and Dr. Najeeb Al- Noaimi (Qatar) are seeking to join the defense team of Saddam Hussein in the Ad Dujayl trial now in front of the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT). The principal Iraqi attorney for Saddam Hussein, K [...]
2005-11-29 17:19:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KJUS KCRM KDEM IZ
05BEIRUT2285 MGLE01: BIOGRAPHY OF POTENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR
[...] WE have learned that Prime Minister-designate Fouad Siniora has agreed with the two main Shiite political forces to name Fawzi Salloukh as Minister for Foreign Affairs. Salloukh is a retired diplomat and a moderate Shia figure with national standing as an independent intellectual. He is 74 y [...]
2005-07-12 12:55:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR ECON SOCI LE
05BEIRUT2425MGLE01--AMBASSADOR'S FIRST MEETING WITH FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary: In his first meeting with the Ambassador, Fawzi Salloukh on 7/25 highlighted his long friendship with the United States, promised an open dialogue between the two countries, and tried to put a good face on future Lebanon-Syrian relations. Salloukh, a Shia from southern Lebanon, [...]
2005-07-25 16:04:00Embassy BeirutSECRETLE PGOV PREL PTER SY
05BRUSSELS1441HUMANITARIAN CONSULTATIONS HOSTED BY ECHO
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a full day of consultations hosted by the European Commission's Office of Humanitarian Aid (ECHO) in Brussels on February 17, participants outlined their respective program priorities for 2005; agreed that the time had come to move the "Good Humanitarian Donorship" from the [...]
2005-04-12 13:15:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF EAID PHUM EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS1734TRANSATLANTIC CONSULTATIONS ON AFRICA
[...] (U) Summary. The April 20 transatlantic consultations on Africa (COAFR) addressed priorities in the Great Lakes (ensuring democratic governance, supporting security sector reform and fostering regional stability),Somalia (consolidating the peace process),Sudan (Darfur and North-South); West [...]
2005-05-04 05:12:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV MOPS PHUM EAID XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS2668DRC ELECTIONS: INCREASED FUNDING AND MONUC SUPPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary. At a July 11 conference to rally support for elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),donors pledged an additional 74 million euros to largely cover one of the critical funding gaps. However, UN Security Council (UNSC) agreement for the MONUC peacekeeping operation [...]
2005-07-13 12:33:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PHUM MOPS CG EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BRUSSELS4300TRANSATLANTIC CONSULTATIONS ON AFRICA
[...] (SBU) Summary. The October 19 transatlantic consultations on Africa included a variety of big picture themes -- the EU strategy for Africa, peacekeeping, development, political Islam and extremism, China in Africa -- as well as discussion about key political issues in the Great Lakes, Uganda, [...]
2005-12-06 11:07:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV PHUM EAID MOPS XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
05BUCHAREST258ROMANIAN SUPPORT FOR LIBERIAN MILITARY REFORM
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request for State Department. See paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Major General Alexandru Grecu delivered January 26 to DAO a letter expressing GOR willingness to provide material assistance to the Liberian armed forces (Reftel). Grecu also provided a detailed list [...]
2005-01-27 15:23:00Embassy BucharestUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID MARR MASS PREL LI RO
05DAKAR3213SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR CODEL KOLBE
[...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, Senegal is on the verge of entering a year-long election campaign leading up to the 2007 elections. The Senegalese are proud to be a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the U [...]
2005-12-29 12:57:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL ECON EINV PGOV PHUM KMCA KPKO SG
05DJIBOUTI924TRANSFER OF MOBIL DJIBOUTI TO TOTAL COMMENCES
[...] (C) ExxonMobil corporation has begun the process in Djibouti of transferring shares in Mobil Djibouti to French oil giant Total, following ExxonMobil's official announcement September 5 in Brussels that it had sold to Total shares of fuels and lubricants' affiliates in 14 African countries. Th [...]
2005-09-15 12:03:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD DJ
05DUBLIN1517BIG HELP FOR WORKING FAMILIES: IRELAND'S 2006
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 7, Finance Minister Brian Cowen unveiled the 2006 Government budget, a televised event that annually serves as Ireland's financial state-of-the-union address and a window on the governing Fianna Fail party's political strategy. With a robust economy and a euro four [...]
2005-12-13 16:39:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV PREL EI
05DUBLIN361IRELAND: LIBERIAN MILITARY REFORM
[...] On March 22, Emboff delivered ref A points to Pauline Conway, Counselor, Africa Desk at the Department of Foreign Affairs. According to Conway, Ireland appreciates the importance of security sector reform (SSR),but by Irish regulation, SSR does not qualify as Overseas Development Assistance [...]
2005-03-24 09:35:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDEAID MARR MASS PREL
05DUBLIN598IRISH RESPONSE TO PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE
[...] (C) Summary: On May 18, Post delivered ref A talking points to Gerard Keown, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) EU correspondent. Keown noted that Ireland viewed the China arms embargo in terms of the EU's opportunity to send a major political signal encouraging China to play a constructive [...]
2005-05-20 10:36:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS EUN
05GENEVA1320 MEETING OF THE WTO GENERAL COUNCIL - MAY 26, 2005
[...] Begin Summary. The meeting of the WTO General Council on May 26, 2005 was punctuated by two significant decisions - 1) a decision to create a working party on the accession of Iran to the WTO, and 2) formal approval of Pascal Lamy to be the next WTO Director-General. Lamy's term will [...]
2005-05-31 12:52:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD WTRO USTR
05GENEVA1605UNHCR: REGIONAL ISSUES AND IDPS DISCUSSED DURING
[...] (U) Summary: Donor government representatives and NGOs were in full attendance at UNHCR,s May 18-19 informal consultations. Then-acting High Commissioner Wendy Chamberlin led the meeting, flanked for the regional sessions by Assistant High Commissioner Kamel Morjane and the entire senior man [...]
2005-06-29 05:42:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF UNHCR
05GENEVA2493UNHCR: EXCOM CABLE #2: PRM ACTING A/S GREENE,S
[...] (U) Summary: On the margins of the 56th Session of the UNHCR Executive Committee (EXCOM),PRM Acting A/S Greene previewed our priorities for the week-long session with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Guterres. They included improving UNHCR's approach to durable solutions, management refor [...]
2005-10-14 11:43:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF UNHCR
05GENEVA2494UNHCR: EXCOM CABLE #3: IDP OVERVIEW
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-14 11:53:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF UNHCR
05KINSHASA655CIAT MEETING WITH THE ESPACE PRESIDENTIEL APRIL 14
[...] (C) Summary: The International Committee to Accompany the Transition (CIAT) met April 14 with President Kabila and three of DRC's four Vice Presidents; VP Ruberwa was absent. The first two discussion points centered on progress being seen to disarm militias in DRC's northeastern Ituri District, [...]
2005-04-18 13:25:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KPKO CG
05LAGOS1677NIGERIA: LATRINE PROJECT AT ORU REFUGEE CAMP STALLS
[...] Summary. Construction of latrines at the Oru Refugee Camp has been delayed by about two months. Recent inspection of the camp revealed the delays were caused by disagreements on the use of refugee labor, disputes over location of latrines, and a restructuring of the Nigerian Red Cross (NRC) [...]
2005-10-27 12:13:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PGOV CVIS SMIG NI
05LAGOS1876SOSOLISO AIRPLANE CRASH/ENUGU BUS ACCIDENT
[...] (SBU) Consular Response Team (CRT) reported Doctor's Without Borders (DWB) collected Amcit Hawa Kamara's remains and are in contact with Ms. Kamara's parents to arrange for transport of her remains and personal effects to Monrovia, Liberia (Ms. Kamara was a DWB employee). Post has tried to rea [...]
2005-12-12 18:07:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR CASC ASEC AMGT NI PREL
05LAGOS1877NIGERIA'S OANDO GROUP LISTS ON SA STOCK EXCHANGE
[...] (U) Oando Group, an integrated energy firm and Nigeria's leading downstream petroleum marketer, was listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) on November 25, the first Nigerian firm approved to do so. Oando announced 4 percent of its shares would be listed on the JSE; Oando forecasts [...]
2005-12-13 06:56:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDEPET EINV NI ENERG
05LAGOS1883ENUGU BUS CRASH AMCITS SAFELY MEDEVACED;SOSOLISO
[...] This is an action request. Please see para 6. -------------------------------------- Enugu Bus Crash Amcits Safely Medevaced --------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Last night, Amcit Erin Cothran was medevaced to Accra and AmCit Rebecca Carter was medevaced to Johannesburg. [...]
2005-12-13 16:20:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR CASC ASEC AMGT NI PREL
05LAGOS435OBASANJO'S NEMESIS: LAGOS STATE GOVERNOR TINUBU
[...] (SBU) Summary. On February 23, the Ambassador met Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu who said that the federal government's withholding of approximately USD 135 million of accrued local government allocations for Lagos still has disproportionately affected children, health care delivery, transp [...]
2005-03-18 07:36:00Consulate LagosCONFIDENTIALKDEM KJUS NI PGOV PINS PREL
05LAGOS722AMBASSADORS' FUND FOR REFUGEES: NIGERIA
[...] The Oru Refugee Camp in Ogun State, Nigeria, has a critical need for latrines. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) minimum standard is one latrine per 20 people; at one latrine per nearly 70 people, Oru Camp falls below this standard. Mission proposes a grant of $20,000 [...]
2005-05-16 06:42:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDPREF NI
05LAGOS765 SUBSTANDARD CONDITIONS PROVOKE PLEAS FROM
[...] Summary: On a visit to Oru Refugee Camp, PRM regional refugee coordinator, PRM admissions program officer, and Lagos pol-off were greeted by a large crowd. The refugees complained of substandard housing and sanitation, both evident on a tour of the camp. They explained the barriers to local [...]
2005-05-23 16:05:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF PREL LI NI
05LAGOS782AMBASSADORS' FUND FOR REFUGEES: NIGERIA
[...] This is a revision of the proposal submitted in reftel B. As requested in ref C, this revised submission proposes the Nigerian Red Cross (NRC) rather than the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as the grant recipient. ---------------- Proposal Summary ---------------- [...]
2005-05-27 13:02:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDPREF NI
05MADRID649SPAIN: GROWING PAINS IN LIBERALIZED NATURAL GAS
[...] SUMMARY: Rapid growth in domestic consumption has made Spain the world's fifth largest natural gas market. Market liberalization, combined with growing demand and environmental concerns, has given rise to potential supply problems that could jeopardize Spain's energy grid. Spain is strengthe [...]
2005-02-18 12:22:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEPET ENRG PGOV SP
05NEWDELHI1554US-INDIA PEACEKEEPING JOINT WORKING GROUP MEETING
[...] (C) Summary: At the fourth US-India Joint Working Group on Peacekeeping on February 14, IO PDAS Swigert underscored US concerns about sexual exploitation committed within UN peacekeeping ranks and asked India, a main troop contributor, to play a leading role to ensure that the problem is deal [...]
2005-03-01 12:49:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM KPKO XA IN
05OTTAWA1368CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR LIBERIAN SECURITY REFORM
[...] (SBU) In response to ref a, poloff followed up with Andrew Armstrong, Manager of Fleet Policies and Standards at Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) Headquarters. Armstrong stated that he would advise CCG management of our interest in using these boats as part of a nascent Liberian Coast Guard, but a [...]
2005-05-06 12:00:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL MARR EAID LI CA FAC
05OTTAWA952CANADA: DEMARCHE ON SUPPORT FOR LIBERIAN MILITARY
[...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche concerning support for Liberian military reform to Louis Hamel, Director of the West/Central Africa Division at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),and Simon Snoxell, FAC Desk Officer for Liberia, on March 23. Snoxell subsequently advised poloff on March 31 that Lib [...]
2005-03-31 19:30:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID MARR MASS PREL CA
05PARIS2517PARIS CLUB - APRIL 2005 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (U) Following are summaries of country discussions during the April 5, 2005 Paris Club session. The Paris Club's President, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, chaired the session. Secretary General (SecGen) Emmanuel Moulin represented the Secretariat. Representatives of non- Paris Club members Brazil, Isr [...]
2005-04-13 16:10:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
05PARIS2579PARIS CLUB - MARCH 2005 TOUR D'HORIZON, PART I
[...] (U) Following are summaries of country discussions during the March 9-10, 2005 Paris Club session. The Paris Club's President, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, chaired the session. Secretary General (SecGen) Emmanuel Moulin represented the Secretariat. Representatives of non- Paris Club members Brazil, [...]
2005-04-15 11:10:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
05PARIS3088FRANCE FAVORS RATIONALIZING WEST AFRICA UN
[...] (C) Embassy Africa watcher raised ref B points on authorizing the UNSYG to transfer peacekeeping units among existing missions in West Africa with MFA AF PDAS-equivalent Elisabeth Barbier and MFA IO DAS-equivalent Jean Pierre Lacroix on May 6. 2. (C) Barbier, while noting that IO had the le [...]
2005-05-06 16:28:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKPKO SL LI IV UK FR UNSC
05PARIS349FRANCE 2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] Investment Climate Statement Contents A. French Investment Regime A1. Openness to Foreign Investment A2. Conversion and Transfer Policies A3. Expropriation and Compensation A4. Dispute Settlement A5. Performance Requirements and Incentives A6. Right to Private Ownership and Establis [...]
2005-01-19 15:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ELAB PGOV KTDB FR OPIC USTR
05PARIS3871AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. AFRICA DEVELOPMENT 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. SENEGAL 5. TOGO 6. CHAD 7. SUDAN 8. SOUTH AFRICA 9. DROC 10. LIBERIA Â [...]
2005-06-03 15:02:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS4152FRENCH DISCUSS UN REFORM ISSUES WITH NEWT GINGRICH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Former House Speaker Gingrich's May 31-June 1 visit to France, in his capacity as Co-Chair of the U.S. Institute for Peace's Task Force on the UN, offered an opportunity for GOF officials to provide views on UN reform issues. On the issue of Security Council enlargement, the F [...]
2005-06-14 08:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC PHUM FR UNSC
05PARIS439FRANCE AND WEST AFRICA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the last of a series of messages (reftels) briefly summarizing French relations with African nations. For the last two years, France's Africa policy has, of necessity, been focused on the crisis in Cote d'Ivoire. Two years after France hosted the Linas-Marcoussis and Kleb [...]
2005-01-25 13:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BN UV CV GA GH GV PU IV LI ML MR NG NI SG SL TO XY FR
05PARIS5824FRANCE PUBLISHES AVIATION BLACKLIST
[...] (U) In response to highly publicized recent plane accidents, on August 28 the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC) published via internet its "blacklist" of companies that are forbidden to operate in France, as transportation minister Dominique Perben promised last week. The companies on th [...]
2005-08-30 08:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR FR
05PARIS6938PDAS VOLKER HEARS FRENCH VIEWS ON AFRICA
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTS: EUR PDAS Volker met AF PDAS-Equivalent Barbier and DAS-Equivalent Le Gal October 6 to discuss areas of converging interest in Africa. Barbier struck a positive note of appreciation for ongoing cooperation and consultations. France shared U.S. views on Sudan [...]
2005-10-11 06:28:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ASEC KPKO PINR IV ZI LI SU FR
05PARIS7062AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. LIBERIA 3. GABON 4. COTE D'IVOIRE 5. TOGO 6. MALI 7. SOUTH AFRICA Â [...]
2005-10-14 13:54:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS7230 USUNESCO: UNESCO VOTES TO ADOPT CULTURAL
[...] (U) Summary. On October 20, by a vote of 148 in favor, 2 (U.S. and Israel) opposed, and 4 (Australia, Honduras, Liberia, and Nicaragua) abstentions, the UNESCO General Conference, meeting in plenary session, adopted the highly controversial Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Di [...]
2005-10-21 15:31:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDETRD PREL SCUL FR UNESCO
05PARIS7236AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. LIBERIA 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. NIGER 5. CHAD 6. ZIMBABWE 7. WTO/COTTON Â [...]
2005-10-24 06:52:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS7873AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. LIBERIA 3. CHAD 4. GABON 5. BURKINA FASO 6. COTE D'IVOIRE 7. ETHIOPIA 8. NIGERIA Â [...]
2005-11-18 15:53:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS8454FRANCE FAVORS LIBERIAN SANCTIONS RENEWAL
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-14 15:44:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAID PREL ETRD ETTC LI FR UNSC
05PRETORIA1099 SOUTH AFRICA: MINERALS AND ENERGY NEWSLETTER "THE
[...] (U) Introduction: In January 2004, the Economic Section of Embassy/Pretoria produced the first issue of a new monthly newsletter called "The Assay". The purpose of this monthly newsletter is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as [...]
2005-03-15 13:10:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDEPET ENRG EINV EIND ETRD ECON SF
05ROME1521FAO FORESTRY COMMITTEE 2005 AND MINISTERIAL
[...] Summary. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Ministerial Meeting on Forests, which immediately preceded the Committee on Forestry, resulted in a ministerial statement calling on FAO to maintain its leadership role in the Collaborative Partnership on Forests and to report to the Un [...]
2005-05-04 10:27:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR AORC EAID FAO
05ROME3855 SECOND REGULAR SESSION OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM
[...] The Second Regular Session of the WFP Executive Board (EB) concluded with the approval of a host of administrative and programmatic matters, including: the WFP Biennial Management Plan for 2006-2007; special relief operations and projects totaling US$ 812 million; and a pilot weather insurance [...]
2005-11-22 14:55:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID AORC PREF WFP
05ROME4005RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON "CLUSTER LEADS" STRATEGY
[...] Summary. This message responds to reftel query of UN agencies regarding a strategy for more effective division of labor among these agencies in the field in meeting the needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs). USUN-Rome transmitted to the World Food Program (WFP) as the sectoral lead on [...]
2005-12-06 17:06:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF EAGR AORC UN WFP FAO
05ROME715WFP EMERGENCY NEEDS ASSESSMENT UPDATE
[...] Summary. At its third regular Executive Board session in October 2004, WFP presented an update on actions already taken and activities to be implemented in a 30-month timeframe that will enable it to strengthen "its competencies and capacities to ensure the quality, credibility, comparability [...]
2005-03-03 13:59:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR PREF AORC WFP
05SANJOSE1995SENATOR SPECTER BRIEFED ON COUNTER-DRUG EFFORTS,
[...] Summary: Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) visited the Guanacaste Province of Northern Costa Rica from August 18-20. The Charge and other Embassy Officers briefed the Senator in advance of a meeting with the Director of Costa Rica's Counter-Drug Police. On August 19, the Senator discussed NIH-fu [...]
2005-08-24 15:11:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SNAR CS
05SANJOSE2882AMBASSADOR'S POST MEMORANDUM: SAN JOSE
[...] (C) Relations between the United States and Costa Rica are very friendly. Our countries share a strong commitment to democracy and human rights. Costa Rica is the longest continuous democracy in Latin America and serves as an important example of how a long-term commitment to democracy benef [...]
2005-12-16 23:52:00Embassy San JoseCONFIDENTIALASIG AMGT CS
05SANSALVADOR2033EL SALVADOR: WILLING GLOBAL PEACE OPS INITIATIVE (GPOI) PARTNER
[...] (SBU) Reftel demarche was delivered to Foreign Minister by Ambassador and to Minister of Defense (MOD) by MILGP Commander on July 13. On July 14, Ambassador also hand delivered to FM, who is in Washington with Ambassador for the Saca/Bush meeting, a non-paper summarizing Ref B background on G [...]
2005-07-15 18:30:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDKPKO MARR MASS PREL ES UNGA
05SANSALVADOR3480EL SALVADOR: 2005 TERRORISM REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-15 13:43:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC KCRM EFIN AA KHLS KPAO ES
05SANTODOMINGO3524DOMINICAN POLITICS #33: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC -- AS A
[...] (SBU) The following is number 33 in our series on the first year of Leonel Fernandez's administration. Does the sum of the parts add up? Or has the journal "Foreign Policy" lost its mind? A comment from an Embassy colleague, July 5: I arrived home last night after two weeks of leave. O [...]
2005-07-07 18:49:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDDR PGOV
05SANTODOMINGO3556CORRECTED COPY: DOMINICAN POLITICS #33: DOMINICAN
[...] (SBU) The following is number 33 in our series on the first year of Leonel Fernandez's administration. Does the sum of the parts add up? Or has the journal "Foreign Policy" lost its mind? A comment from an Embassy colleague, July 5: I arrived home last night after two weeks of leave. O [...]
2005-07-11 13:05:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDDR PGOV
05SOFIA1033CLASSIFIED BULGARIAN ARMS EXPORT REPORT REVEALS
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In a classified government report passed to us by a reputable NGO, the GOB summarizes the amounts and locations of all authorized Bulgarian arms exports for the period 2002-2003. The report has not been officially released yet and remains secret even though EU regulations requir [...]
2005-06-09 08:16:00Embassy SofiaSECRET//NOFORNETTC BU
05TAIPEI153Taiwan: 2004 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] The following is the Taiwan Investment Climate Statement for 2004, as requested reftel. A copy has been transmitted by e-mail to EB/OIA. ---------------------------------- A.1 Openness to Foreign Investment ---------------------------------- 2. Taiwan officially welcomes foreign direct [...]
2005-01-14 06:12:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON TW
05TAIPEI3262CHINA OUTMANEUVERING TAIWAN IN AFRICA
[...] (C) Summary: The PRC is promoting an economic and political campaign in Africa to expand its regional influence, secure natural resources, and pressure Taiwan's diplomatic partners. Taiwan officials and African diplomats resident in Taipei state Beijing is offering economic incentives to gove [...]
2005-08-08 01:21:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC TW
05TAIPEI3309 Taiwan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Tries to
[...] Summary: Taiwan's Minister of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) (Mark) Chen Tan-sun led a delegation to Chad and Burkina Faso July 8-14 to reinforce Taiwan's interest in further developing diplomatic relations with Africa. Taiwanese businessmen have established small operations in the two African countr [...]
2005-08-09 08:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
05THEHAGUE2446THE DUTCH IN AFRICA: SECURITY, AIDS AND WATER
[...] Summary: The Dutch are among the world's most generous aid donors, giving about 0.8 percent of GDP or $4.2 billion in 2004. Roughly half of Dutch aid goes to 18 countries in Africa, making the Netherlands the fourth largest donor of bilateral aid to Africa. Dutch aid to Africa focuses on h [...]
2005-09-08 14:17:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL KHIV NL XA
05VATICAN447DARFUR: SANT EGIDIO READY TO ENGAGE
[...] (C) Community of Sant'Egidio representatives told the Charge February 24 that they were willing to work with the Darfur rebels to help them become better prepared for the Abuja negotiations. In confidential talks that could be held at its Rome headquarters, Sant'Egidio proposed a preparatory [...]
2005-02-24 17:12:00Embassy VaticanCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL SU VT
05VATICAN553SANT EGIDIO ASSEMBLES AFRICAN JUSTICE MINISTERS
[...] (SBU) The Rome-based Sant'Egidio Community brought together justice ministers from several African states in November to consider their respective governments' positions on the death penalty and other issues involving their penal systems. Sant'Egidio's Mario Giro told us that the participation [...]
2005-12-13 16:03:00Embassy VaticanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV VT
06ABIDJAN1212LIBERIAN REFUGEE REPATRIATION ENTERS NEW PHASE
[...] (U) Summary: Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa traveled to Liberia from October 10-19 to discuss ongoing Liberian refugee repatriation efforts. UNHCR figures show that a total of 80,617 Liberian refugees returned between November 2004 and September 28, 2006 and th [...]
2006-10-31 15:12:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PHUM LI IV
06ABIDJAN1300 COTE D'IVOIRE: AMBASSADOR'S DECLARATION FOR
[...] During the last year, both disarmament of former combatants from the 2002 rebellion and the identification and registration of voters failed to materialize. As such, Cote d'Ivoire remains divided into three parts: the government-held south, the rebel- held north, and the UN controlled Zone o [...]
2006-11-24 10:37:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREF IV
06ABIDJAN1303COTE D'IVOIRE: AMBIGUOUS ROLE OF THE SECURITY
[...] (C) Summary. The armed forces are playing a very ambiguous role in Cote d'Ivoire's political process. No one trusts the security forces: not President Gbagbo, not Prime Minister Banny, and not the public. FANCI (Armed Forces of Cote d'Ivoire) Chief of Staff Mangou's loyalty to Gbagbo goes w [...]
2006-11-24 14:36:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PREL ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN136MORE ON VIOLENCE IN GUIGLO AND VULNERABILITY OF
[...] (C) The humanitarian community is still reeling from the violent attacks that took place mid-January in Guiglo against their offices and staff. Providing basic emergency assistance to the camps of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Guiglo is the top priority, but security ov [...]
2006-02-08 16:30:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEAID PREF PHUM WFP IV LI
06ABIDJAN1400COTE D'IVOIRE - UPDATE ON THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-20 11:20:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID IV
06ABIDJAN226COTE D'IVOIRE: 2006 TIP REPORT
[...] (SBU) Since a September 2002 coup attempt that evolved into a civil war, Cote d'Ivoire has been partitioned in two with the government maintaining control of the south and the ex-rebel New Forces controlling the north. Tensions between the two sides have lessened since the appointment of a new [...]
2006-03-01 16:49:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB IV
06ABIDJAN227COTE D'IVOIRE: ILO-UNHCR TO PUBLISH REPORT ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: ILO and UNHCR will publish a report on the exploitation of refugee and displaced children in Cote d'Ivoire almost two years after its completion. ILO-UNHCR identified labor and sexual exploitation as the two main forms of exploitation for refugee and displaced children in Cot [...]
2006-03-01 16:50:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PREL EAID SOCI IV
06ABIDJAN60COTE D'IVOIRE: THIRD MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary. The subject that came in for the most discussion at the January 15 meeting of the International Working Group (IWG) was the future of the National Assembly, whose mandate expired December 16. Heads of delegation reached an initial consensus to recommend that the Assembly remain [...]
2006-01-20 16:34:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN723UNHCR CLOSES TABOU TRANSIT CENTER
[...] SUMMARY: RefCoord traveled to Tabou, Cote d'Ivoire, on June 27-30 to meet with UNHCR officials regarding their repatriation efforts and the pending closure of the Tabou Transit Center (TC). RefCoord also traveled to several surrounding villages and met with refugee representatives. Although [...]
2006-07-07 12:49:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM PREL IV
06ABIDJAN838NEW UNHCR REPRESENTATIVE TAKES UP DUTIES IN COTE
[...] (C) Summary: Saber Azam, UNHCR's new Representative to Cote d'Ivoire, met with Ambassador Hooks on July 21. Azam stated his main objective will be to complete the Liberian repatriation process by June 2007. Ambassador Hooks affirmed U.S. support for the humanitarian community in Cote d'Ivo [...]
2006-07-28 15:21:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALREF PHUM PREL IV
06ABIDJAN885COTE D'IVOIRE: UN SUSPENDS DISMANTLEMENT OF
[...] (C) Summary: The UN confirms reports that it has halted the dismantlement of militias in Guiglo over the weekend. A UN official told us that tension in Guiglo remained high as some 1000 militia members from other towns continued their protests over the weekend. Although officially the UN cl [...]
2006-08-08 18:19:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN906HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL FOR LIBERIAN REFUGEES IN
[...] (U) Summary: Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) visited Guiglo from August 1-3 to meet with UNHCR field representatives and visit the Nicla Refugee Camp for Liberian refugees. There are approximately 10,500 Liberian refugees in the northern Refugee Welcome Zone (ZAR),of which 5,987 [...]
2006-08-11 15:16:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PREL IV
06ABUJA1218SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL ULRICH'S MAY 2006 VISIT TO
[...] (U) Your visit to Nigeria comes at a critical time in the country's political evolution. Increasing instability in the lower Niger River Delta threatens the nation's oil production, the government's primary source of income; continuing outbreaks of avian influenza threaten the nation's poult [...]
2006-05-23 15:31:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON KDEM MASS NI
06ABUJA1240ECOWAS ON GUINEA
[...] (C) The recently concluded meetings between ECOWAS and the EU troika in Vienna included significant discussion about the coming political transition in Guinea. The EU expressed concern about civil society's preparation for transition, thinking that without organized civilian structures, there [...]
2006-05-25 15:00:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS KDEM GV XG XY ECOWAS
06ABUJA1593ECONOMIC LIFE BUDS IN NIGERIA'S CROSS RIVER STATE
[...] Summary: Economic officer and REO visited Cross River State to examine its economic infrastructure and potential for ecotourism. Officers had a wide range of meetings with local figures, including Cross River Governor Donald Duke. Duke emphasized his plans to develop the state's agricultural [...]
2006-06-26 10:49:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV EAID EIND PGOV NI CM
06ABUJA2226SCENESETTER FOR RADM GREENE'S AUGUST 2006 VISIT TO
[...] (U) Your visit to Nigeria comes at a critical time in the country's political evolution. Increasing instability in the lower Niger River Delta threatens the nation's oil production, the government's primary source of income; continuing outbreaks of avian influenza threaten the nation's poult [...]
2006-08-25 11:26:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON MASS KDEM PREL NI
06ABUJA2948SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD'S NOVEMBER 2006 VISIT
[...] (C) Your visit to Nigeria comes at a critical, though tumultuous time in the country's political evolution. Increasing instability in the Niger Delta threatens the nation's oil production, the government's primary source of income; continuing outbreaks of avian influenza threaten the nation's [...]
2006-11-13 12:17:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL ECON MASS KDEM NI
06ABUJA3154IRI TEAM SAYS ELECTIONS PREPARATION "DEFICIENT"
[...] (U) Summary: The International Republican Institute sent a 9-member delegation to Abuja to assess the overall readiness of Nigeria for the 2007 election. The delegation, led by former Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper, concluded that "while the government has expressed its intention to condu [...]
2006-12-08 10:54:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM NI ELECTIONS
06ABUJA3200THE WEST AFRICAN PEER EXCHANGE ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING
[...] Summary. At the West African Peer Exchange conference on Affordable Housing, Nigerian representatives discussed plans for increasing the number of affordable homes in Nigeria and presented an action plan. Most of the West African countries in attendance face similar problems on land tenure ti [...]
2006-12-14 17:39:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV EAID SOCI NI
06ABUJA491OBASANJO TAYLOR MEETING CONFIRMED
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador on Feb. 28 in Abuja asked Nigerian presidential spokesman Femi Fani Kayode about reports the President Met with Charles Taylor on Fberuary 26. The Ambassador said the USG wanted Taylor brought to justice and noted Obasanjo's repeated statements that Nigeria would ext [...]
2006-02-28 16:27:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NI LI
06ABUJA962ECOWAS: STUMBLING TOWARD CONVERGENCE
[...] Summary. After years of false starts, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is taking concrete steps toward a customs and monetary union. The former French colonies minus Guinea already have both, and the others are trying to follow suit. The customs union and common extern [...]
2006-04-27 17:03:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECIN EFIN NI
06ACCRA1141SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO GHANA OF GENERAL JONES
[...] (SBU) Ghana is democratic, market-oriented, pro-American, and has one of the best human rights records in Africa. President John Kufuor is in his second term. Ghana is on the UN Security Council and the IAEA Board of Governors this year. As the first sub-Saharan country to achieve independen [...]
2006-05-16 16:57:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON GH MARR MCAP PGOV PREL
06ACCRA143FIRST LADY VISITS GHANA
[...] Summary: First Lady Laura Bush visited Ghana on January 15-17 in what will be remembered as a highlight in U.S.-Ghana relations. Accompanied by daughter Barbara, she launched the Africa Education Initiative Textbooks and Learning Materials Program in Africa, visited an HIV/AIDS clinic in a l [...]
2006-01-18 17:53:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEAID GH KPAO OVIP PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI
06ACCRA1796KRISAN CAMP SHOWING SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Morale at Krisan Refugee Camp has improved considerably since the previous Embassy visit eight months ago. While refugees exhibited renewed confidence in UNHCR and have apparently repudiated the camp's violent past, some problems with sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV),l [...]
2006-08-03 14:23:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM GH
06ACCRA1855ILLEGAL SMALL ARMS IN GHANA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ghana has an estimated 150,000 illegal arms. Most are crude locally made guns, but there is an unknown quantity of arms trafficking from elsewhere in West Africa. Ghana,s Small Arms Commission has worked with the UNDP and civil society on the issue since 2003 through the Ghana [...]
2006-08-14 12:11:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM MOPS ASEC GH
06ACCRA217SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL ULRICHT,S VISIT TO GHANA,
[...] (SBU) Introduction/Summary: Ghana is a democratic, market-oriented, pro-American country in a region marked by conflict and authoritarian rule. It has one of the best human rights records in Africa and has made significant efforts to combat trafficking in persons. President John Kufuor just [...]
2006-01-26 14:33:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON EFIN ELAB GH MAS PGOV PREL
06ACCRA248REFUGEES IN GHANA: STRENGTHENING UNHCR AND GOG
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 23 meeting with Embassy officers, UNHCR Representative Luc Stevens welcomed USG support for his various refugee programs in 2006 and accepted our encouragement to work more closely with the GOG. Beyond money and staffing, his primary concern was the GOG wild card: [...]
2006-01-30 14:38:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYGH LI PREF PREL TO
06ACCRA2808SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO GHANA OF HUD SECRETARY
[...] (SBU) Ghana is a democratic, market-oriented, pro-American country in a region marked by conflict and authoritarian rule. In 2007, Ghana will celebrate 50 years of independence. President John Kufuor is nearly two years into his second four-year term, which has so far been marked by solid ec [...]
2006-11-22 16:19:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON GH OTRA PGOV PREL
06ACCRA3005GHANA HOSTS REGIONAL SEMINAR ON UNSCR 1540
[...] SUMMARY: Ghana hosted Africa's first outreach activity on United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540, the UN Regional Seminar on Implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) in Africa, in Accra on November 9-10, 2006. Representatives from 23 African countries attended [...]
2006-12-18 17:35:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP ETTC PARM PREL PTER AORC XA GH
06ACCRA3057BELGIAN AMBASSADOR ON GHANA AND COTE D'IVOIRE
[...] (U) On December 21, Belgium's Ambassador to Ghana (based in Cote d'Ivoire) Dirk Verheyen paid a courtesy call on CDA Brown. He noted that Belgium's Embassy in Ghana was burned down 45 years ago in a local reaction to the murder of Congo's Patrice Lumumba. Belgium has never rebuilt the Emba [...]
2006-12-29 08:45:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBE CI EMIN GH PREL
06ACCRA439SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO GHANA OF CODEL PELOSI
[...] (SBU) Ghana is a democratic, market-oriented, pro-American country in a region marked by conflict and authoritarian rule. It has one of the best human rights records in Africa and has made significant efforts to combat trafficking in persons. President John Kufuor just completed the first yea [...]
2006-02-17 14:51:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT ECON GH OREP OTRA PGOV PREL
06ACCRA547EMBASSY ENGAGES ON LIBERIAN REFUGEE REPATRIATION
[...] (U) Summary: In a February 14 meeting with Liberian Ambassador to Ghana von Ballmoos, Ambassador expressed USG support for the new GOL and for repatriation of Liberian refugees. Ref Coord echoed these themes in a speech to graduates of a skills training program at Budumburam Refugee Camp. [...]
2006-03-08 14:34:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL GH LI
06ACCRA75AMBASSADOR HOSTS HUMAN RIGHTS DAY EVENT IN GHANA
[...] Summary: On December 9 the Ambassador hosted a Human Rights Day celebration at her residence for 80 human rights activists, journalists and Government of Ghana officials. As part of the ceremony, the Ambassador awarded six Democracy and Human Rights Fund (DHRF) grants totaling $55,000 to local [...]
2006-01-11 08:03:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDGH KDEM PHUM PREL
06ACCRA839AMBASSADOR EMPHASIZES US-GHANAIAN PARTNERSHIPS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On March 26-29, Ambassador traveled to Ghana's Western Region to meet the Regional Minister, visit USAID-funded projects, observe Peace Corp programs, highlight USG and GOG maritime partnerships, and discuss refugee, Amcit, economic, and political issues with local contacts. Th [...]
2006-04-11 15:05:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF KPAO GH
06ADDISABABA2389SOMALIA: KENYAN AMBASSADOR TO AU BRIEFS CHARGE ON
[...] (C) Summary: Kenyan Ambassador to the African Union Franklin Esipila told the Charge Aug. 30 that IGAD member states were fully committed to deployment of a peace support mission to Somalia (IGASOM) beginning Sept. 28. Esipila added that member states hoped high-level negotiations in the comi [...]
2006-08-31 10:07:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO MARR AU UNSC SO
06ADDISABABA2524DARFUR: SEPTEMBER 7 AU DITF BRIEFING REPORTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On September 7, African Union officials reported to AU partners that recent cash contributions would allow the AU Mission in Sudan to continue operations beyond September 30, but that any decision on either extending or strengthening AMIS by two additional battalions would have [...]
2006-09-15 13:35:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS KPKO SU AU
06ADDISABABA2763PM MELES: ETHIOPIA WILL CONTAIN THE ISLAMIC COURTS
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Theresa Whelan met with Prime Minister Meles, Minister of State Tekeda and Defense Chief of Staff Samora on October 10. Whelan was accompanied by DATT Col. Zedler, OSD Rep Lt. Col. Atallah and myself. Meles argued that the best way to conta [...]
2006-10-12 13:02:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALET MOPS PREL PTER
06ADDISABABA323AU SUMMIT KHARTOUM WRAP-UP
[...] (SBU) Summary: The African Union (AU) Summit held January 23 and 24 in Khartoum highlighted the AU Commission's efforts to "do the right thing" in terms of promoting continental good governance and human rights, as well as social progress, but also produced member state division. Long negotia [...]
2006-02-02 12:22:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ETRD SU AU
06AMMAN1261SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO JORDAN OF LIEUTENANT
[...] (C) EMBASSY AMMAN IS LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR VISIT ON 22-24 FEBRUARY 2006. JORDAN REMAINS ONE OF OUR STRONGEST SUPPORTERS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT. YOUR VISIT WILL ALLOW YOU TO REITERATE TO THE JORDANIANS OUR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO OUR JOINT EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORISM AND MAI [...]
2006-02-21 12:25:00Embassy AmmanSECRETPREL MARR JO
06AMMAN1657SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO JORDAN OF LIEUTENANT
[...] (S) EMBASSY AMMAN IS LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR VISIT ON 8-9 MARCH 2006. JORDAN REMAINS ONE OF OUR STRONGEST SUPPORTERS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT. YOUR VISIT WILL ALLOW YOU TO REITERATE TO THE JORDANIANS OUR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO OUR JOINT EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORISM AND MAINTAIN [...]
2006-03-07 05:29:00Embassy AmmanSECRETJO MARR PREL
06AMMAN2234SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO JORDAN OF GENERAL
[...] (S) EMBASSY AMMAN IS LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR VISIT ON 28-29 MARCH 2006. JORDAN REMAINS ONE OF OUR STRONGEST SUPPORTERS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT. YOUR VISIT WILL ALLOW YOU TO REITERATE TO THE JORDANIANS OUR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO OUR JOINT EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORISM AND MAINTA [...]
2006-03-28 12:05:00Embassy AmmanSECRETJO MARR PREF
06AMMAN234SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO JORDAN OF LIEUTENANT
[...] (C) EMBASSY AMMAN IS LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR VISIT 16-17 JANUARY 2006. JORDAN REMAINS ONE OF OUR STRONGEST SUPPORTERS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT. YOUR VISIT WILL ALLOW YOU TO REITERATE TO THE JORDANIANS OUR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO OUR JOINT EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORISM AND MAINTAI [...]
2006-01-12 18:09:00Embassy AmmanSECRETJO MARR PREL
06AMMAN3180SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO JORDAN OF LIEUTENANT
[...] (S) EMBASSY AMMAN IS LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR VISIT ON 6-7 MAY 2006. JORDAN REMAINS ONE OF OUR STRONGEST SUPPORTERS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT. YOUR VISIT WILL ALLOW YOU TO REITERATE TO THE JORDANIANS OUR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO OUR JOINT EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORISM AND MAINTAIN RE [...]
2006-05-04 14:34:00Embassy AmmanSECRETJO MARR PREL
06AMMAN4124SCENESETTER FOR THE CONUS VISIT OF GENERAL KHALID
[...] (S) GENERAL KHALID JAMIL SARAYREH WILL VISIT THE UNITED STATES AT THE INVITATION OF GENERAL PETER PACE, CJCS, 15-24 JUN 2006 UNDER THE COUNTERPARTS' VISIT PROGRAM. JORDAN REMAINS ONE OF OUR STRONGEST SUPPORTERS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT. THIS VISIT WILL ALLOW US TO FURTHER ENHANC [...]
2006-06-08 09:19:00Embassy AmmanSECRETJO MARR PREL
06AMMAN863SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT TO JORDAN LIEUTENANT
[...] (C) EMBASSY AMMAN IS LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR VISIT ON 8 FEBURARY 2006. JORDAN REMAINS ONE OF OUR STRONGEST SUPPORTERS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT. YOUR VISIT WILL ALLOW YOU TO REITERATE TO THE JORDANIANS OUR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO OUR JOINT EFFORTS TO COMBAT TERRORISM AND MAINTAI [...]
2006-02-06 15:23:00Embassy AmmanSECRETJO MARR PREL
06ANKARA1440PSI: TURKISH EXERCISE ANATOLIAN SUN
[...] The Government of Turkey held a planning conference on March 15, 2006 in Ankara for the upcoming PSI exercise Anatolian Sun. (Originally named Anatolian Deer, in late January the name was change to Anatolian Sun; TGS tells us this was to better match the operating area and objectives of the [...]
2006-03-20 11:18:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL TU
06ANKARA16052005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON TURKEY'S
[...] (U) This is Mission Turkey's contribution to the 2005/2006 Report to Congress on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense. We follow reftel's format. General Assessment ------------------- 2. (U) A. Turkey has NATO's second-largest military after the United States. It has taken on an [...]
2006-03-27 08:00:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMCAP PREL NATO US TU
06ANKARA3416PSI; TURKISH HOSTS MAJOR PSI EXERCISE; ANATOLIAN
[...] Summary: Turkey hosted a major PSI exercise, Anatolian Sun '06, from May 24-26, 2006. This exercise was the first multidimensional PSI exercise, which combined land, maritime and air interdiction components. The aim of Anatolian Sun-06 exercise was to test and develop the information and int [...]
2006-06-09 11:46:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL TU
06BANJUL233THE GAMBIA: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEAKER REMOVED,
[...] (C) The National Assembly Speaker, Sheriff Dibba, suspected of involvement in the failed coup plot, was released from detention April 15, but removed from the National Assembly by President Jammeh. A senior National Intelligence Agency official, Keemo Balajo, was also released and his job res [...]
2006-04-18 14:07:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS CASC ASEC PHUM KMCA GA SG
06BANJUL31THE GAMBIA: PROSPECTS FOR THE BILATERAL
[...] (C) Our assessment of prospects in 2006 for our overall Gambian relationship is guarded, as the recent slippage in the GOTG's record on human rights and democracy has reinforced President Jammeh's reputation for erratic behavior and overshadowed his government's achievements. Given the import [...]
2006-01-17 12:04:00Embassy BanjulSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PTER PINS PHUM KPKO EPET EINV ETRD
06BANJUL444THE GAMBIA: DAS THOMAS-GREENFIELD DISCUSSES HUMAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. While visiting The Gambia to attend the African Union (AU) Summit, Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield met with government and civil society leaders to discuss concerns over the negative trend in their country's human rights record (see reftel f [...]
2006-07-14 05:37:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALKMCA PGOV PHUM PREL AU GA
06BANJUL450THE GAMBIA: TAIWANESE AMBASSADOR'S LIBERIAN
[...] (C) We note reftel report of possible GOL contacts with Taiwan amidst the PRC's growing engagement in Liberia. We also note reporting in other channels of recent contacts between Liberian House Speaker Snowe and The Gambia-based Taiwanese Ambassador, Patrick Chang,who served as Ambassador to [...]
2006-07-15 12:25:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GA LI CH
06BANJUL620THE GAMBIA: JAMMEH'S RE-ELECTION AND OUR BILATERAL
[...] (C) Following President Jammeh's re-election September 22, there are no indications as yet of any major policy or personnel changes in the offing, but he seemed as volatile and rough-hewn as ever in his post-election press conference. The shortcomings in the electoral process highlighted the [...]
2006-10-04 16:39:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PINS PHUM KPKO EPET EINV ETRD
06BEIJING10104PRC/UN: MFA BRIEFS ON UNSYG ANNAN VISIT
[...] (C) UN SYG Annan asked President Hu Jintao what opinions or advice the UN can offer to help break the current Six-Party Talks impasse, MFA International Organizations Department Officer Guo Xuejun told Poloff on May 23. Hu said China continues to work with the other Partiesto resume the Six-P [...]
2006-05-24 10:50:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID PGOV UN CH
06BEIJING22370PRC/AFRICA: AFRICAN HEADS OF STATE HEADING TO
[...] (C) More than forty African Heads of State or Government are expected to travel to China for the Beijing Summit of the triennial Forum for China-Africa Cooperation ("The Beijing Summit")(Reftels A and B),November 3-5. Egypt President Mubarak, Nigerian President Obasanjo, South African Preside [...]
2006-10-23 10:19:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL AGOA ECON EAID CH
06BEIJING22919PRC/AFRICA: CHINA-AFRICA FORUM GOALS: POLITICS,
[...] (C) Politics remains the cornerstone of Sino-African relations even though the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC)(Ref A) will tout extensive economic ties, including burgeoning two-way trade and as many as 2,500 bilateral agreements, Chinese scholars have told us. As China increasingly [...]
2006-10-30 13:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AGOA ECON EAID CH
06BEIJING23548PRC/AFRICA: PRC SEEKS NEW STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
[...] (C) Representatives from 48 African countries, including 41 Heads of State or Government, converged on Beijing for the November 3-5 Beijing Summit and Third Ministerial of the Forum for China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC)(Ref A). The PRC played up its desire to forge a "new strategic partnership" [...]
2006-11-06 12:04:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AGOA ECON EAID CH
06BEIJING24646CHINA OPPOSES LIBERIA RESOLUTION BECAUSE OF
[...] (C) China's recent concerns about UNSC Resolution 1521 (2003) involving the renewal of Liberia sanctions are tied directly to Taiwan's participation in the Kimberley Process, Director General for International Organizations Wu Hailong told the DCM December 19. Based on refs, DCM took advantage [...]
2006-12-19 12:01:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC LI TW CH
06BEIJING7835PRC/AFRICA: PREPARATIONS FOR NOVEMBER CHINA-AFRICA
[...] (C) China has invited the heads of state, foreign ministers and commerce ministers of 47 African countries to Beijing for the triennial Forum on China- Africa Cooperation (FOCAC),to be held November 1-5, according to an MFA Deputy Division Director. The MFA is already grappling with the logi [...]
2006-04-25 10:41:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AGOA ECON EAID TW CH
06BERLIN700AMBASSADOR TAHIR-KHELI'S MEETINGS WITH GERMAN
[...] (C) (Summary) Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli visited Berlin and discussed UN reform with National Security Advisor Christoph Heusgen, Ministry of Foreign Affairs State Secretary Georg Boomgaarden, Director General for UN Affairs SIPDIS Hans-Joachim Daerr and other Ministry officials on March [...]
2006-03-10 19:06:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALPREL KUNR UN GM
06BRUSSELS508EUROPEAN COMMISION AND U.S. WORK TOWARD PROGRESS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary Jendayi Fraser met in Brussels on January 26 with European Commission (EC) Director General for DG Development Stefano Manservisi to discuss the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),Sudan, Chad and the Horn of Africa. Mutual perspectives and targeted assist [...]
2006-02-15 07:30:00Embassy BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID XA EUN USEU BRUSSELS
06BRUSSELS791LEVERAGING EU ASSISTANCE FOR US FOREIGN POLICY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Bush's historic visit to Brussels in February 2005 has been followed by increased US-European cooperation on a range of political and security issues. An important component of that cooperation is greater synergy between US and EU approaches to development and humani [...]
2006-03-08 10:55:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON KDEM PREF PREL KMCA EUN UN USEU BRUSSELS
06BUENOSAIRES1340MEDIA REACTION AL ZARQAWI'S DEATH US-CUBAN TIES FARM
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international stories include the implications of Al Zarqawi's death; an escalation in the US-Cuban confrontation; agricultural liberalization as the main demand of developing countries; the progress made by the International Criminal Court; internati [...]
2006-06-13 20:10:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06BUENOSAIRES754MEDIA REACTION IRAN US-INDIAN NUCLEAR DEAL
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories today cover Iran rejecting UN ultimatum; a US reporter being set free by Iraqi kidnappers; the Financial Action Task Force asking Argentine legislators to label terrorism as a crime; the US "criticizing Argentina's suspension of meat exports;" the [...]
2006-04-03 12:51:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL MEDIA REACTION
06CAIRO1144EGYPT AND AFRICA: BACKGROUND NOTES FOR U.S.-EGYPT
[...] (U) Assistant Secretary Frazer, your bilateral discussions February 24 with Egyptian MFA Assistant Minister for African Affairs Mohamed Higazy in Washington will offer an excellent chance to determine how Egypt and the U.S. may be able to cooperate to address regional conflicts like Darfur an [...]
2006-02-23 12:46:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD ECON EG SU
06CONAKRY101GUINEAN MILITARY SEES BROAD SECURITY MANDATE;
[...] (S) On January 24, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense (DASD) Theresa Whelan met with Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo and then with senior military officers to discuss regional stability and bilateral military cooperation. 2. (S) DASD Whelan delivered a strong message to Guinean m [...]
2006-01-30 12:55:00Embassy ConakrySECRETPREL PGOV MASS KDEM GV
06CONAKRY1711 Mano River Union Conference: Consolidating Peace and
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On November 16-17, Guinea hosted the Conference for the Consolidation of Peace and Security in the Mano River Region. The event brought together delegations from Liberia and Sierra Leone with officials from various United Nations agencies, foreign governments, and diplomatic mi [...]
2006-11-21 07:24:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF PREL PBTS EAID GV LI SL IV
06CONAKRY93DASD WHELAN SCORES RARE ENCOUNTER WITH GUINEAN
[...] (S) SUMMARY. In a surprise development, Guinean President Lansana Conte received Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs Theresa Whelan at the Presidential Palace on January 25. Plagued by poor health, Conte has not to our knowledge held any meetings with persons outside h [...]
2006-01-27 12:58:00Embassy ConakrySECRETPGOV PREL MASS KDEM PINS GV
06CONAKRY94GUINEAN MILITARY SEES BROAD SECURITY MANDATE;
[...] (S) On January 24, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense (DASD) Theresa Whelan met with Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo and then with senior military officers to discuss regional stability and bilateral military cooperation. 2. (S) DASD Whelan delivered a strong message to Guinean m [...]
2006-01-27 12:59:00Embassy ConakrySECRETPREL KDEM PGOV MASS GV
06DAKAR1279SEVENTH HIGH LEVEL MEETING OF HEADS OF UN PEACE
[...] (C) On May 29, UNSYG Special Representative for West Africa Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah told the Ambassador that he is traveling to Yaounde this week to try to broker a summit on demarcating the border between Cameroon and Nigeria on the Bakassi Peninsula. He also provided a summary of his May 12 [...]
2006-05-31 12:31:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPINS PBTS SOCI KFLU XY CM
06DAKAR154GUINEA-BISSAU: THE LIGHTS ARE BACK ON, BUT WHERE'S
[...] (C) The Vieira/Aristides Gomes Government continues to develop its program, and neither the Popular National Assembly (ANP) nor the Supreme Court seems anxious to bring the Government down. The African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) continues to argue for [...]
2006-01-23 14:05:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPINS PGOV PREL KDEM BR FR GV SG PU
06DAKAR1623SENEGAL: SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD
[...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal prepare to host you, Senegal is preparing for presidential and parliamentary elections in February 2007. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United States in prom [...]
2006-07-07 15:22:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP ECON PHUM EAID MASS PGOV PREL SOCI KMCA
06DAKAR2276WADE MEETS WITH IRANIAN PRESIDENT AND OFFERS
[...] Before departing for the UNGA, President Wade met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad in Dakar on September 13 and offered peacekeepers for the UN force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on September 14. Following the Iranian President,s visit, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade insisted that dial [...]
2006-09-19 17:33:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPKO IR LE SG
06DAKAR2473AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW - SENEGAL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-13 12:38:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON PHUM AGOA SG
06DAKAR2477SENEGAL: G8 COUNTER-TERRORISM ACTION GROUP FOCUSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The October 10 G8 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) meeting focused on the recent wave of clandestine migrants from Senegal to the Canary Islands, rather than ideological extremism. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the UN Office for West Africa (UNOWA) both partici [...]
2006-10-13 13:56:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPTER SNAR CVIS SMIG KCRM KISL PU SG
06DAKAR2588LOOKING AT ELECTIONS AND OIL, UN SEES UNEMPLOYMENT AS
[...] (SBU) On October 19, the six UN special representatives (UNSRs) in West Africa gathered in Dakar for their eighth meeting under the chairmanship of Ambassador Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN Secretary General's Special Representative for West Africa. They focused on Cote d'Ivoire and Guinea alt [...]
2006-10-26 08:42:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECIN EPET PINS SNAR SG
06DAKAR2703SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR A/S HARTY
[...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, Senegal is preparing for presidential and parliamentary elections in February 2007. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United States in [...]
2006-11-08 18:01:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP CMGT SMIG ECON EAID PGOV PREL KMCA SG
06DAKAR528SENEGAL: ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: After being upgraded last year from Tier 2 Watch List to Tier 2 status, Senegal has continued to devote significant time and attention to the issue of trafficking in persons. The most important achievement of the past year was passage of its first trafficking-in- persons (TIP) l [...]
2006-03-02 07:47:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SG
06DAKAR766SENEGAL: DEMARCHE ON CHARLES TAYLOR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-29 08:26:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREL KWAC UNSC LI NI SG
06DAKAR940AF/W DIRECTOR CARTER DISCUSSES SUDAN AND WEST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: AF/W Director Phillip Carter discussed peacekeeping and Darfur with Armed Forces Chief of Staff LTG P.K. Fall early in his visit. Carter concluded his successful visit to Senegal with a tour d,horizon of African issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where Ambassador Mankeur [...]
2006-04-18 19:01:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO SU GA GV IV MR PU SG US
06DARESSALAAM498TANZANIA: PRESIDENT KIKWETE ASSURES AMBASSADOR OF
[...] (C) Taking time out from chairing a six-day working retreat for ministers and deputy ministers, President Jakaya Kikwete met with Ambassador Retzer in Arusha March 15 to discuss peacekeeping, Zanzibar, the MCC compact process, and his upcoming visit to the United States in May 2006. President [...]
2006-03-21 10:32:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID ECON PHUM TZ
06DUBAI4122EMIRATES SHIPPING LINES INFORMATION
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-05 14:48:00Consulate DubaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT EIND ETRD AE HK
06DUBLIN206IRELAND/UN: VENEZUELA, THE PEACEBUILDING
[...] (C) Like the United States, Ireland believes that Venezuela would bring neither strength nor diplomatic credentials to the 2007-2008 Latin America non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, according to John Deady and Brian Cahalane, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Counselor and First [...]
2006-02-28 09:14:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO UNSC GT VE EI
06DUBLIN235SCENE-SETTER FOR IRISH PRIME MINISTER AHERN'S
[...] (SBU) Recent intensive efforts by the Irish and British Governments to jump-start the stalled Northern Ireland peace process will frame this year's St. Patrick's Day visit to Washington by Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach, TEE-SHUCK) Bertie Ahern. In mid-2005, the IRA's historic decision to a [...]
2006-03-07 11:59:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON EINV ETRD CASC CJAN CPAS CFED KCRM
06DUBLIN277PRE-GAERC RESPONSE: IRELAND NOT CONSIDERING BALKAN
[...] (C) Summary: On March 15, Post delivered ref A and B demarche points to Jim Kelly, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) EU Correspondent. Regarding the Balkans, Kelly said that Member States would respect the electorate's chosen outcome in the Montenegrin referendum, but had not begun to deve [...]
2006-03-16 17:20:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD EUN YI MW SR BK BO IR
06DUBLIN313IRELAND CONSIDERING REDEPLOYMENT OF PEACEKEEPERS
[...] (C) Summary and Action Request. On March 23, the DCM met with Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Deputy Political Director Colm O'Floinn and UN/Terrorism and Illicit Drugs Director John Deady regarding GOI plans for the potential redistribution of its peacekeeping forces by the end o [...]
2006-03-28 07:01:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALMARR KPKO PGOV PREL EI SU XY
06DUBLIN401IRELAND PLANNING A REDUCTION OF THE QRF IN
[...] (C) Summary. On April 12th, POL/ECON Chief and DATT met with Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) UN/Terrorism and Illicit Drugs Director John Deady and Deputy Director Brian Cahalane and separately with Deputy Political Director Colm O'Floinn and Desk Officer Louise Hartigan regarding t [...]
2006-04-13 18:34:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO MARR NATO UN LI EI SW
06DUBLIN530PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE: GOI EXPECTS PRELIMINARY
[...] (C) Summary: On May 11, Post delivered ref A pre-GAERC demarche to Jim Kelly, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) EU correspondent, and, on May 12, further discussed ref A's Iran points with Stephen Dawson, DFA First Secretary for the Middle East and North Africa. Dawson expected GAERC minis [...]
2006-05-12 15:21:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM UN EUN MW SR BO IR IZ CG SU LI
06FREETOWN1018SIERRA LEONE'S NEW HUMAN RIGHT COMMISSION SWORN IN
[...] (U) Sierra Leone achieved another milestone in its post-conflict recovery on December 11 with the inauguration of the new Human Rights Commission (HRC). The five commissioners, who were proposed by civil society organizations, were sworn-in on International Human Rights Day in the presence o [...]
2006-12-12 19:46:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM SL
06FREETOWN1028SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE: NEW SPECIAL
[...] (C) The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) recently announced the appointment of Stephen Rapp as the new Special Prosecutor. Mr. Rapp called on the Ambassador December 14. In separate visits by AF/W Director Phil Carter on November 15 and Special Advisor to the Ambassador-at-Large for [...]
2006-12-18 17:22:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALKJUS PREL PGOV PHUM SL
06FREETOWN1054DEMARCHE: 2007 LIBERIA PARTNERS' FORUM
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-28 16:25:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON PREL SL
06FREETOWN25UN PEACEKEEPERS LEAVE SIERRA LEONE, BUT FRAGILITY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-11 17:33:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALKPKO PGOV PREL SL
06FREETOWN321MEDIA PLACEMENTS FOR MARCH 2006
[...] Post and Mission Activities/Press Releases: A. Post issued a press release on the Nationwide HIV/AIDS education tour. The US Government, through the US Department of Defense, sponsored the tour. Sierra Leone's internationally acclaimed musician Steady Bongo and the Republic of Sierra Leon [...]
2006-04-19 15:57:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO SL
06FREETOWN360AMCIT DETAINED FOR PHOTOGRAPHING SPECIAL COURT, NO
[...] (C) On May 2, AmCit Michael Chemidlin was arrested for taking photographs of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (reftel) where war crimes indictee former Liberian President Charles Taylor is incarcerated awaiting trial. Chemidlin was accompanied by two Sierra Leoneans who he said told him to [...]
2006-05-05 17:13:00Embassy FreetownSECRETASEC CASC PREL SL LI
06FREETOWN409RE-ARRESTED: AMCIT ACCUSED OF TREASON
[...] (C) On May 16, one day after a magistrate judge released American Citizen Michael Chemidlin and three Sierra Leoneans held on charges of conspiracy and treason for taking photographs of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, police re-arrested Chemidlin and two of the three Sierra Leoneans. The m [...]
2006-05-24 10:07:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALCASC PINS KCRM PREL PHUM KDEM KAWC SL
06FREETOWN460NEW SPECIAL COURT PRESIDENT FAVORS TAYLOR
[...] (C) On June 5, Ambassador and PolOff met with the new presiding judge of the Special Court for Sierra Leone Appeals Chamber (and President of the Special Court),Justice George Gelaga King, who just took up a one-year term of office. King thanked the Ambassador for the U.S. financial contribut [...]
2006-06-05 17:46:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPREL KAWC SL NL
06FREETOWN496Liberians Riot At Freetown UNHCR Office
[...] On June 12, a small contingent of disgruntled Liberian refugees, including ex-combatants who were recently refused refugee status, led an assault on the Freetown UNHCR office. Police arrested 61 people, but only after approximately $50,000 worth of damage was done to UNHCR vehicles and ground [...]
2006-06-19 17:01:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PINS ASEC SL LI
06FREETOWN499SIERRA LEONE PREPARES FOR 2007 ELECTIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-19 18:46:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM SL
06FREETOWN500CHARLES TAYLOR DEPARTS FREETOWN FOR THE HAGUE
[...] (C) At 0941 on June 20, a UN-chartered Airbus departed Lungi International Airport in Freetown with former Liberian President Charles Taylor onboard. 2. (C) Taylor departed the Special Court compound via helicoptor at 0900 enroute to Lungi under heavy security. Armored vehicles and UNMIL Ir [...]
2006-06-20 10:11:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC KAWC SL NL
06FREETOWN530LIBERIAN REFUGEES VOICE COMPLAINTS AT UNHCR WORLD
[...] The June 12 riot at UNHCR offices in Freetown was addressed by several panelists at the World Refugee Day event on June 20. GoSL officials condemned the action and chastised supporters of the urban refugees that led the riot. An urban refugee representative responded to these comments with [...]
2006-06-30 09:18:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PINS ASEC SL LI
06FREETOWN617SPECIAL COURT REGISTRAR DISCUSSES COMPLETION OF
[...] (U) Special Court for Sierra Leone Registrar Lovemore Munlo met with Ambassador and PolOff on July 26 to discuss a number of issues the Court faces, including its completion strategy (discussed in reftel). Munlo stood by the draft completion calendar forwarded to the Management Committee that [...]
2006-07-31 14:40:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPREL KAWC SL SG
06GENEVA2169DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES' GENEVA HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles held a series of bilateral meetings in Geneva August 31 and September 1 with select missions to discuss the upcoming Human Rights Council (HRC) session. The meetings are summarized below. United Kingdom -------------- 2. (C) DAS Barks-Ruggles discussed w [...]
2006-09-06 15:31:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA58236TH UNHCR STANDING COMMITTEE - PROGRAM BUDGETS
[...] (U ) Summary. The Deputy High Commissioner, the Controller and the head of External Relations provided a briefing to member states on UNHCR strategies to meet the current budget crisis. Member states were frank in their remarks to UNHCR, sometimes highlighting the organization's shortcoming [...]
2006-03-14 16:10:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL UNHCR
06GENEVA59736TH UNHCR STANDING COMMITTEE: AFRICA DISCUSSIONS
[...] (U) Summary: Africa Bureau Director Marjon Kamara and Director of Operations for the Sudan Situation Jean-Marie Fakhouri addressed participants in the 36th Meeting of the Standing Committee (SC) of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on March 8. Both highlighted the di [...]
2006-03-16 13:07:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF PREL SMIG XA
06ISLAMABAD5931DEMARCHE DELIVERED: POSSIBLE GOP TROOP
[...] (C) On April 5, poloff presented reftel demarche points to MFA (UN) Director Imran Siddiqui. Siddiqui said that the Government of Pakistan (GOP) was aware of the text of UNSCR 1663, but had not yet received a request from UN/DPKO to contribute troops or logistical support for a Darfur peacek [...]
2006-04-07 04:59:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PK KPKO UN MASS
06ISTANBUL223DANGER IN BOSPHORUS
[...] (U) A major catastrophe in Istanbul's narrow Bosphorus Straits was narrowly averted on February 21 when a Liberian- flagged tanker carrying 86,000 tons of kerosene lost steerage way and nearly ran aground at Istanbul's historic Dolmabahce Palace. The out-of-control ship came to a stop some 20 [...]
2006-02-22 13:17:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDEPET ENRG EWWT TU
06KHARTOUM1230MEETING WITH UN SPECIAL ENVOY LAKHDAR BRAHIMI
[...] (C) Summary: On May 25 CDA Hume at his request met with UN Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to discuss prospects of transition to a UN peace-keeping force in Darfur. Brahimi was accompanied by A/SYG for peacekeeping, Hedi Annabi. During the 90 minute meeting Brahimi sought USG views on the viab [...]
2006-05-24 12:47:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO UN AU SU
06KHARTOUM1775SANT'EGIDIO ANALYSIS OF LRA/GOU TALKS
[...] (C) Summary: Representatives of the Community of Sant'Egidio (CSE) assisting with the mediation of talks between the Lord's Resistance Army/Movement (LRA/LRM) and the Government of Uganda (GOU) have provided a detailed readout on where the talks now stand. After long discussions, the groups [...]
2006-07-24 12:35:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PTER PREL UG SU
06KHARTOUM1778SANT'EGIDIO ANALYSIS OF LRA/GOU TALKS
[...] (C) Summary: Representatives of the Community of Sant'Egidio (CSE) assisting with the mediation of talks between the Lord's Resistance Army/Movement (LRA/LRM) and the Government of Uganda (GOU) have provided a detailed readout on where the talks now stand. After long discussions, the groups [...]
2006-07-24 12:35:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PTER PREL UG SU
06KHARTOUM1858 SUDAN/DARFUR: August 3 CFC Meeting in El Fasher
[...] (SBU) Summary: On August 3, the Darfur Ceasefire Commission (CFC) met in El Fasher, North Darfur. Para 2 presents the notes of the U.S. CFC representative. Noteworthy is the resumption of SLM/M participation and the CFC decision to launch an immediate investigation into the fighting in Jebel [...]
2006-08-06 09:13:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO PREF SOCI UN AU SU
06KHARTOUM2045A/S FRAZER MEETINGS IN KHARTOUM: DARFUR VERDICT
[...] (C) Summary: After a hostile welcome at the airport, Assistant Secretary Frazer fought to advance the three overarching goals of her visit to Khartoum: the U.S. seeks to address the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, to support implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA),and to foster an [...]
2006-08-29 15:23:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PHUM SU AU
06KHARTOUM2489DARFUR: NEW AU FORCE COMMANDER: GENERAL APREZI
[...] (U) Summary: New African Union Force Commander in El Fasher, General Luke (or LKF) Aprezi, laid out his views on major challenges to the AMIS mission in an October 9 meeting with DCM Roberto Powers and Acting Defense Liaison officer Richard Shirley. Aprezi is originally from the Niger River De [...]
2006-10-11 15:25:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SU
06KHARTOUM2812 CDA Addresses Darfur Crisis in Local Press
[...] (U) In an interview with Arabic daily "Al-Sudani," the Charge d'Affaires addressed the Sudanese security apparatus' failure to stem the violence in Darfur, while also noting slight improvement in the humanitarian situation. The Charge noted that UN Security Council resolutions, such as Resolut [...]
2006-12-07 15:48:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF KPAO PHUM SOCI UN SU
06KHARTOUM2863DARFUR - VISIT OF THE USAID-OFDA DEPUTY DIRECTOR
[...] From November 30 to December 2, USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) Deputy Director Greg Gottlieb and a team of USAID Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) field staff visited Nyala, South Darfur, to assess humanitarian conditions an [...]
2006-12-18 07:45:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU AU
06KHARTOUM313 IMF COMMENTS ON SUDANESE ECONOMY
[...] (U) Summary: Visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) Deputy Director Lorenzo Perez noted that the country faces challenges of large arrears, decentralization, lack of transparency, and the creation of a dual banking system mandated by the CPA. Perez said, however, that the Central Bank has [...]
2006-02-09 11:21:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON EFIN EAID SU
06KIEV1127UKRAINE: GOU REQUEST FOR SUPPORT/UNDERSTANDING ON
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) During a March 13 meeting between EUR DAS Kramer and Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko, and in a follow-up discussion between DATT and Deputy Defense Minister Leonid Polyakov March 17, the MoD officials requested U.S. assistance [...]
2006-03-23 15:38:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM MOPS
06KINGSTON542AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 15 MEETING WITH PRIME
[...] (C) On March 15, the Ambassador called on a visibly weary Portia Simpson Miller (PSM),at Jamaica House. Minister of Commerce, Science, Technology, and Energy Phillip Paulwell and former Foreign Trade Minister Tony Hylton were also present. In their first formal meeting since the latter's tr [...]
2006-03-17 20:22:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR PINR JM
06KINSHASA1033DRC ELECTIONS: CAMPAIGN OFFICIALLY BEGINS
[...] (U) The official campaign period for the DRC's presidential and legislative elections commenced June 29, marking the beginning of the final electoral phase before the country's July 30 elections. In total, 33 presidential candidates are running for office, as well as 9,709 candidates (from 213 [...]
2006-06-29 13:27:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA963UNIVERSITY STUDENTS SKEPTICAL ABOUT UPCOMING
[...] (SBU) Summary: Many Congolese university students, particularly in the capital, have little faith in the elections or the transparency of the electoral process. Many say they see scant benefit in voting in an election when the outcome is assumed to be already set. Others say they have littl [...]
2006-06-19 10:12:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KPAO KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KUALALUMPUR1874INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION KUALA LUMPUR MEETING ON
[...] Malaysia hosted the second International Maritime Organization (IMO)-sponsored meeting on "The Straits of Malacca and Singapore: Enhancing Safety, Security and Environmental Protection," held September 18-20, 2006, in Kuala Lumpur. Delegations from the three littoral States (Indonesia, Malays [...]
2006-10-06 06:16:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER MARR MASS EWWT IMO MY
06KUWAIT4514KUWAIT'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 06:49:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KU
06LAGOS12ALLEGATIONS INVOLVING LIBERIAN DIPLOMATIC
[...] (C) Summary: Over the past several months, DEA CA Sam Gaye received information from reliable sources regarding diplomatic personnel assigned to the Liberian Embassy in Nigeria. According to sources, Liberian diplomats are involved in a wide range of improper activities, including the use of [...]
2006-01-05 14:33:00Consulate LagosCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR SNAR NI
06LAGOS1256ITSEKIRI CHIEF AWAITING DEVELOPMENT DESPITE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Prominent Itsekiri Chief Hope Harriman told the Consul General on September 18 that the State and Federal government had done little to revitalize Warri, the economic center of Delta State and traditional home of the Itsekiri. Harriman inveighed against Chevron for failing to hon [...]
2006-10-05 08:24:00Consulate LagosCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NI
06LAGOS1297OBASANJO DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY IN EKITI
[...] (U) Summary: President Obasanjo declared a state of emergency in Ekiti State, citing potential violence between the State House of Assembly and supporters of Governor Ayo Fayose. Obasanjo appointed Brigadier General Tunji Olurin as Administrator. Post has heard of no instances of violence. [...]
2006-10-20 17:44:00Consulate LagosCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NI
06LAGOS563AMBASSADOR'S FUND FOR REFUGEES: NIGERIA PROPOSAL
[...] Refugees at the Oru Camp in Ogun State, Nigeria, especially women, face serious difficulties acquiring the skills necessary for successful reintegration in their home countries or for successful participation in the Nigerian local economy while they are here. The UNHCR currently partners wit [...]
2006-04-26 11:17:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PGOV CVIS SMIG NI
06LAGOS653SOUTHERN NIGERIA HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE JAN TO APR
[...] This is a roundup of various recent incidents representative of the human rights situation in southern Nigeria. This summary is organized according to the sections of the annual Human Right Report. These incidents have not been reported in other cables or are updates of previously reported [...]
2006-05-15 08:38:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL ELAB KIRF NI
06LONDON4033(U) LIBERIAN PRESIDENT JOHNSON SIRLEAF VISITS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's visit to London May 29-31 reflects the UK's increased commitment to Liberia as a key to stability in the sub-region. She met with the Queen, Secretary of State for International Development Hilary Benn and FCO Minister for Africa Lor [...]
2006-06-07 11:11:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID EFIN LI UK
06LONDON4221(C/NF) LIBERIA/SIERRA LEONE: UK CONSIDERING
[...] (C/NF) FCO West Africa Section Head Jason Moore told Poloff under questioning June 12 that HMG is considering UN Secretary General Annan's request that it agree to SIPDIS incarcerate former Liberian president Charles Taylor if he is convicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). M [...]
2006-06-13 15:39:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM KAWC LI SL UK
06LONDON4336(U) UK AGREES TO TAKE CHARLES TAYLOR IF CONVICTED
[...] (U) Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett announced June 15 that, subject to Parliament passing the necessary legislation, the UK would allow the former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor, to serve his sentence in the UK should he be convicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). Thi [...]
2006-06-16 09:53:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL
06LONDON5615 INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE
[...] ROUTING OF SHIPS, SHIP REPORTING AND RELATED MATTERS: The S/C approved all proposals on the agenda, with amendments as appropriate. The S/C noted, at Ecuador's request, but did not consider or approve two traffic separation schemes (TSS) because the U.S. intervened to clarify that these TSS's [...]
2006-08-01 15:10:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDIMO PSHA SENV PBTS KSCA UK
06LONDON6053 INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE
[...] SUMMARY: The thirty-third session of the IMO FAL met in London from 3-7 July 2006, under the chairmanship of Mr. C. Abela (Malta). The session was attended by delegations from sixty-six Member Governments, two Associate Member Governments, three Intergovernmental Organizations, and fourteen N [...]
2006-08-17 14:13:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDIMO AORC ASEC UK
06LONDON7695INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE
[...] SUMMARY: The 55th Session of IMO's MEPC convened 9-13 October 2006 under the chairmanship of Mr. A. Chrysostomou (Cyprus). The meeting was attended by 86 members, one associate member, one country not a member of IMO (Cook Islands),six United Nations agencies, eight intergovernmental organi [...]
2006-10-31 16:45:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDIMO AORC UK EWWT PHSA SENV KTIA ASEC
06LONDON7916INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO) REPORT OF THE
[...] SUMMARY: The International Maritime Organization (IMO) Legal Committee held its 92nd session in Paris, France at UNESCO, October 16-20 (LEG 92),under the chairmanship of Professor Lee-Sik Chai (Republic Of Korea). The Legal Committee discussed, among other issues, the Draft Wreck Removal Co [...]
2006-11-13 11:50:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDIMO EWWT AORC ASEC UK PTER
06LONDON8438 INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO):
[...] SUMMARY: The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) held its 82nd session at the Polat Renaissance Istanbul Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey from 29 Nov ? 8 Dec 2006. The meeting was chaired by MSC vice chairman Mr. N. Ferrar (Philippines) as the Acting Ch [...]
2006-12-21 08:52:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDAORC IMO UK EWWT PHSA SENV KTIA ASEC ORTA
06MAPUTO428UNHCR IMPATIENT WITH MOZAMBIQUE'S REFUGEE PROGRAM
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-12 13:27:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PREF PHUM KWMN SMIG ELAB KFRD MZ
06MASERU156FORMER LIBERIAN PRESIDENT CHARLES TAYLOR
[...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered reftel points on former Liberian President Charles Taylor March 28 to Acting Foreign Minister Mrs. Mpeo Mahase (Employment/Labor Minister). We emphasized the United States' and international community's desire for Charles Taylor to face the Special Court on Sierra L [...]
2006-03-28 09:02:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV UNSC KAWC LI LT
06MOSCOW3362P-5 HOLD UN CONSULTATIONS MARCH 2 IN MOSCOW
[...] (C) Summary: Russia hosted a meeting of P-5 IO Directors March 2 in Moscow to discuss UN Security Council and management reforms, the proposed Human Rights Council, the Peacebuilding Commission, and other issues related to implementation of the World Summit Outcome Document, as well as appoin [...]
2006-03-31 12:31:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC RS
06NDJAMENA296CHAD: INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS DISCUSS ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary: The French Ambassador in Chad gave vent to a gloomy view of the Chadian political scene to the EU and U.S. Ambassadors and UN resrep February 24. Meeting the day before the announcement that presidential elections will take place May 3, he acknowledged that Deby was unacceptable [...]
2006-02-26 18:33:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM CD
06NICOSIA433DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON MARCH 20 EU FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary. Post delivered reftel demarche on March 13 to relevant action officers at MFA. On Iraq, Charlambos Hadjisavvas agreed with the US position that the international community's first priority should be to encourage Iraqi political leaders to move ahead in forming a unified govern [...]
2006-03-22 07:27:00Embassy NicosiaCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON ETRD
06NOUAKCHOTT621THREE WEST AFRICAN PROTESTANT PASTORS ARRESTED
[...] (C) Three West African Protestant pastors were arrested in Nouakchott on May 18. According to an American elder in the local Protestant church who meets with the three regularly, authorities arrested the men, searched and seized religious materials from each of their churches, then padlocked t [...]
2006-05-23 11:40:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06NOUAKCHOTT745NDI NEEDS HELP AS ELECTION CLOCK TICKS DOWN
[...] (U) On June 9, National Democratic Institute (NDI) Senior Program Officer for the Middle East and North Africa Jeffrey England briefed Ambassador on the status of NDI's efforts to help Mauritania transition to democracy. ------------------- WAITING FOR FUNDING ------------------- 2. (C) [...]
2006-06-14 16:18:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR EAID KPAO MR
06PARIS1656FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES COTE D'IVOIRE, TOGO,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 13 meeting devoted to Liberia (septel),MFA DAS-equivalent for West Africa Bruno Foucher offered brief comments on Cote d'Ivoire (February clash between French and Ivoirian forces in western Cote d'Ivoire was deliberately instigated by the Ivoirian side),Togo (Faure [...]
2006-03-16 08:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL IV TO CT FR
06PARIS1706LIBERIAN PRESIDENT ELLEN JOHNSON-SIRLEAF VISITS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent for West Africa Bruno Foucher on March 13 described Liberia President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's March 7-10 official visit to France as a success. France's primary interest in supporting Johnson-Sirleaf and stability in Liberia is to promote stability in neighb [...]
2006-03-17 09:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV LI FR
06PARIS1713AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. BENIN 4. CHAD 5. RWANDA 6. NIGER 7. DROC 8. MAURITANIA 9. UGANDA 10. KENYA 11. LIBERIA 12. SUDAN Â [...]
2006-03-17 13:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS2067DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Secretary Zoellick on March 10 discussed Sudan, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Benin, and the possible transfer of Charles Taylor from Nigeria to the Netherlands via Sierra Leone, with the French Presidency's Africa advisor, Michel de Bonnecorse. On Sudan, the two sides expressed [...]
2006-03-30 13:13:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR SU CD IV BN LI NI FR
06PARIS2083FRENCH MFA OBJECTS TO CURTAILING NIGERIAN UNOCI
[...] (C) Africa Watcher shared current U.S. thinking on how to reinforce the UN presence in both Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire during a March 29 meeting with AF Acting DAS-Equivalent Isabel Guisnel. Guisnel objected strongly to recalling the Nigerian mechanized company on loan from UNMIL to UNOCI. SC [...]
2006-03-30 16:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KPKO LI IV FR
06PARIS2259FRENCH PRESIDENTIAL AFRICA ADVISOR OFFERS OVERVIEW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential Advisor for Africa Jacques Champagne de Labriolle on April 3 provided a broad overview of French Africa policy during a meeting with AF/W Director Phillip Carter. He made the following observations: -- Chad and Cote d'Ivoire were France's main concerns at prese [...]
2006-04-06 12:52:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL XA IV FR
06PARIS2260FRANCE/WEST AFRICA: AF/W DIRECTOR CARTER'S MFA
[...] (C) Summary: AF/W Director Carter clarified U.S. views on addressing security needs in Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire in an April 3 meeting with MFA Acting A/S-Equivalent for Africa Affairs Barbier and DAS-Equivalent Foucher. Carter explained the significance in Monrovia of the Nigerian UNMIL com [...]
2006-04-06 13:25:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KFLU GV NI IV LI FR
06PARIS2300AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. FAMINE IN AFRICA 3. SENEGAL 4. TAYLOR 5. DROC 6. COTE D'IVOIRE Â [...]
2006-04-07 14:55:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS2348TOGO: APRIL 5 MEETING WITH EX-MINISTER BOKO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Togo's ex-Interior Minister Francois Boko said during an April 5 meeting that the regime in Togo feared active U.S. intervention in Togo's affairs and that the U.S. could readily influence events in Togo if it chose to do so, and even compel the leadership to step down, as in Ha [...]
2006-04-10 14:29:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM TO FR
06PARIS2362PARIS CLUB - APRIL 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (SBU) At the April 5 Paris Club meeting, creditors accepted in principle Algeria's offer to prepay at face value its previously rescheduled Paris Club debt. The US is the third largest creditor with $1.2 billion in claims, just over half of which are pre-payable without penalty. The US stre [...]
2006-04-11 10:02:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS2422 FRENCH RESPOND WARMLY TO MCC CEO DANILOVICH'S
[...] Summary. Senior French officials enthusiastically welcomed updates on Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) activities presented by MCC CEO Danilovich. They applauded MCC's focus on accountability, support for democratic institutions, and reducing poverty. The French officials urged Danilo [...]
2006-04-12 14:33:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV FR
06PARIS296MEDIA REACTION REPORT - New Chilean President - Iran
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-17 11:37:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS332FRANCE 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] Investment Climate Statement Contents A. French Investment Regime A1. Openness to Foreign Investment A2. Conversion and Transfer Policies A3. Expropriation and Compensation A4. Dispute Settlement A5. Performance Requirements and Incentives A6. Right to Private Ownership and Establis [...]
2006-01-18 17:12:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ELAB PGOV KTDB FR OPIC USTR
06PARIS3471U.S.-FRENCH CONSULTATIONS ON UN ISSUES: UN REFORM,
[...] (C) Summary: IO PDAS Jim Warlick's May 19 meeting with MFA IO A/S-equivalent Sylvie Bermann focused primarily on UN reform issues -- namely the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC),Human Rights Council (HRC),and management reform -- with SYG elections, Darfur, Cote d'Ivoire, and UNSC elections dis [...]
2006-05-23 13:11:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA UNSC AORC SU IV FR
06PARIS416AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS
[...] ATTENTION 2. COTE D'IVOIRE 3. AFRICAN UNION 4. MALI/SOCIAL FORUM 5. DROC 6. LIBERIA 7. SOUTH AFRICA 8. SUDAN Â [...]
2006-01-23 13:04:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO XA
06PARIS4650CAUTIOUS FRENCH INTEREST IN PARNERSHIP FOR BETTER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Policy Planning (S/P) Director Dr. Stephen Krasner met with French officials and MFA consultants June 23-24 to discuss the nascent initiative for a "Partnership for Better Governance Group" (PBGG). Krasner explained the PBGG would be a multilateral effort with interested deve [...]
2006-07-07 09:27:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM EAID UNGA FR
06PARIS6753FRANCE/COTE D'IVOIRE: ECOWAS MEETING FAILS TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Cote d'Ivoire desk officer Montel on October 10 expressed frustration that the October 6 ECOWAS summit accomplished little in moving the peace process forward, although she identified a number of points made by ECOWAS that were helpful (condemnation of Afi N'guessan, affirm [...]
2006-10-13 11:22:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR KDEM UNSC IV SF FR
06PARIS7094 UNESCO -- EDUCATION ISSUES AT THE 175TH EXECUTIVE BOARD
[...] (SBU) EDUCATION SECTOR REFORMS In September, the First Lady hosted her highly successful Literacy Conference in New York City, attended by the President and UNESCO's Director General Matsuura. Despite the goodwill generated by the conference and interventions by most members of the Executive [...]
2006-10-27 16:50:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNESCO SCUL KPAO
06PARIS7139MINISTER CONVOKES AMBASSADOR OVER COTE D'IVOIRE
[...] (C) Summary: Cabinet Minister Girardin convoked the Ambassador October 31 to urge U.S. support for the French draft Security Council resolution on Cote d'Ivoire, pleading that France was in a very difficult situation. After taking into account core U.S. objections, the draft now represented [...]
2006-10-31 14:20:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC IV FR KPKO
06PARIS715EMBASSY PARIS SUBMISSION TO THE 2005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMON DEFENSE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-03 07:04:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDFR MARR MCAP PREL
06PARIS718EMBASSY PARIS SUBMISSION TO THE 2005/2006 REPORT
[...] (U) Summary: This telegram constitutes Embassy Paris's country submission for the 2005/2006 Report to Congress on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense (requested Ref A). We report on developments that took place during calendar years 2004 and 2005 and offer cost sharing information fo [...]
2006-02-03 10:20:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MCAP FR
06PARIS720EMBASSY PARIS SUBMISSION TO THE 2005/2006 REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-03 10:20:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MCAP FR
06PARIS738S/CRS DELEGATION FINDS FRENCH IN LISTENING MODE
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: French interlocutors were in active listening mode during 24-25 January briefings by Acting Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) Marcia Wong and NSC Director for Stabilization Clint Williamson. Wong and Williamson invited feedback on the non-pa [...]
2006-02-03 14:41:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UNGA CT FR
06PARIS7705 EXPORT CONTROL BILATS BETWEEN FRANCE AND DOC ASSISTANT
[...] (C) Summary. On November 30, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration Christopher Padilla met with a GOF interagency group to discuss a wide variety of export control issues and strategic trade issues. The two sides addressed the U.S. Government's proposed China Licensing Pol [...]
2006-12-07 14:28:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALETTC EINV FR
06PARIS846DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETINGS WITH SENIOR GOF
[...] (C) Summary: The Deputy Secretary met separately on February 3 with Presidential Counselor for African Affairs Michel de Bonnecorse and Chief of Defense General Henri Bentegeat for exchanges on Sudan and Chad. French interlocutors concurred AMIS should transition into a UN mission, while em [...]
2006-02-09 15:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PREF IV CD SU FR
06PRAGUE508CZECHS ON MAY 15 GAERC
[...] (C) Summary. At the May 15 GAERC, Czechs expect the focus will be on the Balkans, the Middle East, and Africa. On Serbia, the Czechs agree with the EU decision to suspend accession talks for failure to comply fully with ICTY. They urge Montenegro to use the Czech-Slovak "Velvet Divorce" as a m [...]
2006-05-12 08:41:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM UN EUN MW SR BO IR IZ CG SU LI
06PRETORIA960SOUTH AFRICA: PROGRESS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF
[...] (SBU) Summary. The United States and South Africa have made significant progress in implementing the June 10, 2005 Presidential Joint Statement. The two countries signed the ACOTA agreement in August 2005 to enhance South Africa's peacekeeping capacity, and training programs will begin this [...]
2006-03-08 13:02:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON ETRD MASS PHUM SF
06RABAT2348DEMARCHE: 2007 LIBERIA PARTNERS FORUM
[...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified - protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On December 28, econoff passed points coveyed in reftel to Abdellatif Bendahane, Director of African Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Bendahane was unaware of the Liberia forum, but spoke very positively abou [...]
2006-12-29 08:53:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN MO
06RIYADH8840DRL 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 05:34:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KDEM OTRA PINR SA
06ROME315 FAO EMERGENCY PROGRAMS: INFORMAL DONORS'
[...] Summary and Background. On January 25, 2006, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division (TCE) held an informal donors' meeting to provide an overview of 2005 activities and special requirements for 2006. Recently appointed TCE Assistant Direc [...]
2006-02-03 11:07:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR ECON SENV UN FAO
06ROME766 AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES
[...] Summary: During three days of high-level and technical level discussions with FAO on March 7-9, a consensus was reached that a more robust global response was needed, with FAO, in coordination with OIE, as the global coordinator. FAO hosted the series of meetings relating to improving emerge [...]
2006-03-10 17:11:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06SANJOSE1622Costa Rica to Construct Plasma-Propelled Space Rocket
[...] Summary: Costa Rican national hero Franklin Chang, a former NASA astronaut and dual U.S.-Costa Rican national, recently opened a local branch of his Ad Astra Technologies Company in Liberia, Guanacaste, one of the country's poorest regions. The laboratory is the first of its kind in Central A [...]
2006-07-24 22:14:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV NASA CS
06SANTIAGO1449MEDIA REACTION - INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC)
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-07 12:09:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC CI
06SANTIAGO402MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY RICE VISIT
[...] On February 26, conservative, independent "La Tercera" (circ. 102,000) ran an editorial entitled, "U.S. Secretary of State Visit." Quotes: 2. "Although not officially confirmed...the U.S. secretary of State's visit to Chile...is a clear sign of good Chile-U.S. relations.... The secretary' [...]
2006-02-27 20:54:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO CI
06SEOUL4102005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ROK CONTRIBUTIONS
[...] (U) The Republic of Korea made significant contributions to the common defense of the Korean peninsula in 2004 and 2005. The ROKG demonstrated a strong commitment to the U.S.-ROK alliance, working closely with the U.S. to address the DPRK nuclear issue and making important contributions to t [...]
2006-02-06 08:20:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDMCAP PREL PGOV PARM MARR ECON KS
06STOCKHOLM1632SWEDEN'S NEW GOVERNMENT IS NAMED, MAKES POLICY
[...] (c) Fredrick Reinfeldt, who was formally elected Prime Minister by the Swedish parliament on October 5, named his cabinet and gave the new government's statement of policy on October 6. Ministers from Reinfeldt's Moderate Party will lead about half the ministries, including many of the key o [...]
2006-10-06 14:41:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR SW
06SUVA352FIJI AND PKO PARTICIPATION: CURRENT PROSPECTS FOR
[...] (C) Fiji's Home Affairs Minister and CEO informed us that Fiji's Cabinet has approved deployment of 34 more troops to UNAMI in Iraq and 2 officers to East Timor. A request for Fiji to join the Coalition of the Willing in Iraq is before Cabinet, but no decision appears imminent. The Minister s [...]
2006-08-30 00:26:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALMARR KPKO MCAP PREL FJ
06TAIPEI103Taiwan: 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 06:52:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON OPIC KTDB USTR TW
06TELAVIV1376ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. US-Israel Relations 3. Trial of Former Liberian President Charles Taylor ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The electronic media reported that today, President Moshe Katsav invited Acting PM Ehud Olmert today to form a gover [...]
2006-04-06 12:00:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV2140ISRAEL 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 14:46:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06TELAVIV2339ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Darfur ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media quoted PM Ehud Olmert as saying in Paris Wednesday that realignment is unstoppable. The Jerusalem Post wrote that Olmert left his meeting with French President Jacques Chira [...]
2006-06-15 13:15:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDIS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
06THEHAGUE1080NETHERLANDS: APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche May 10 to Deputy European Correspondent Bahia Tahzib-Lie and attended subsequent diplomatic community pre-GAERC briefing with European Correspondent Desiree Kopmels. The MFA does not expect significant progress on enlargement during this GAERC but does exp [...]
2006-05-12 13:57:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM UNAUS EUN MW SR BO IR IZ CG SU
06THEHAGUE1486CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE
[...] (U) Facilitator Maarten Lak (Netherlands) held two informal consultations on 23 and 26 June to discuss Executive Council 46 report language. On Monday, delegations were asked to choose between two texts, the draft EC-45 text and a new facilitator's proposal. Mexico intervened to relay its in [...]
2006-07-04 16:16:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL CWC
06THEHAGUE1739NETHERLANDS/JSF/C-17/LEBANON/AFGHANISTAN: MEETING
[...] (C) Summary: Defense Minister Henk Kamp said the GONL is committed to the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program, and hopes to sign the follow-on MOU prior to the parliamentary elections on November 22. He said the GONL remains interested in the NATO C-17 consortium, and is actively reviewing funding o [...]
2006-08-09 14:00:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PREL NL LE AF
06THEHAGUE2048CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR
[...] (U) Budget consultations were held on September 12 and 14. The consultations covered the International Cooperation and Assistance Division (ICA),the Secretariat for the Policy Making Organs (PMO),the External Relations Division (ERD),and the Executive Management (EM) sections of the budget [...]
2006-09-20 06:48:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL CWC
06THEHAGUE806CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR
[...] (U) Del confirmed that, during the proposed week of the U.S. extension request submission and briefing, EC Chair Dastis, DG Pfirter, most senior Verification staff, Amb. Onate, and Amb. Khodakov will be available in The Hague. Del continues to field questions concerning U.S. intent (both timi [...]
2006-04-11 15:02:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL CWC
06THEHAGUE909CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE
[...] (U) Facilitator Maarten Lak (Netherlands),assisted by International Cooperation and Assistance chief John Makhubalo and Legal Advisor Santiago Onate, held a April 20 informal consultation on Article VII. Onate began with an update for delegations on developments in the National Authority (NA [...]
2006-04-25 15:22:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL CWC
06TOKYO2663U.S.-JAPAN-ROK POLICY PLANNING TRILATERAL, SESSION
[...] (C) Summary. In the May 11 U.S.-ROK-Japan Policy Planning Session meeting between S/P Director Stephen D. Krasner, Japanese Deputy Vice-Minister for Foreign Policy Masaharu Kohno and Korean Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and International Organizations Park In-Kook, the three delegates o [...]
2006-05-15 09:05:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEAN EAID MARR UNSC IR IZ KS CH JA
06TOKYO5820EB DAS MOORE COVERS ECONOMIC AGENDA AT FINANCE
[...] (C) Summary: EB DAS Chris Moore covered a range of issues with Ministry of Finance Senior Deputy Director General Rintaro Tamaki, including Central Asia, the recent G-7 and IMF meetings, the economic priorities of the new Abe administration, and possibilities for ongoing U.S.- Japan dialogue o [...]
2006-10-06 04:25:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEAGR ECON EFIN JA PK KZ LI
06USUNNEWYORK10781267 COMMITTEE: FRENCH REACTION TO U.S. PAPER ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French Mission stressed its desire to work closely with the USUN to reach agreement on how to revise listing and de-listing procedures in the UN Security Council's 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban) Committee. French Mission officials met with USUN on May 22 to respond to our April 27 d [...]
2006-05-26 18:20:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALETTC KTFN EFIN UNSC PREL PGOV
06USUNNEWYORK1093UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT
[...] SUMMARY: Members of the Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee communicated May 25 via videoconference with Court Registrar Lovemore Munlo and other Court officials to discuss the proposed $26.8 million budget projected for July 2006-June 2007, progress in the three trials now underw [...]
2006-05-31 18:51:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA
06USUNNEWYORK1142LESSONS LEARNED FROM UNMEE'S 'RIGHTSIZING'
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 31, after almost seven hours of continuous, mostly ambassadorial-level negotiations, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted as a Presidential text resolution 1681, which reduced the military component of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) [...]
2006-06-05 21:14:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALER ET PGOV PREL UNSC KPKO
06USUNNEWYORK1196UN SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS UNSCR 1683 ON LIBERIA
[...] On June 13, 2006, the Security Council unanimously adopted UNSCR 1683, which amends the arms embargo in Liberia. The new resolution allows the Government of Liberia to procure a limited number of weapons for vetted and trained security personnel. 2. BEGIN TEXT: The Security Council, [...]
2006-06-13 22:15:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDETTC UNSC PREL PGOV LI
06USUNNEWYORK1227PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION:
[...] (U) This is an action cable. Guidance requested in para below. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) The 31 members of the newly-formed UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC)(reftel),agreed informally on June 16 that Angola will serve as the first Chair of the PBC, paving the way for the formal inaugural [...]
2006-06-16 21:28:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID UN
06USUNNEWYORK1229PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION:
[...] (U) This is an action cable. Guidance requested in para below. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) The 31 members of the newly-formed UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC)(reftel),agreed informally on June 16 that Angola will serve as the first Chair of the PBC, paving the way for the formal inaugural [...]
2006-06-16 21:48:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID UN
06USUNNEWYORK1244UN SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS UNSCR 1689 ON LIBERIA
[...] On June 20, 2006, the Security Council unanimously adopted UNSCR 1689, which lifts timber sanctions in Liberia. If the Liberian Congress fails to pass necessary forestry legislation within 90 days, resolution 1689 expresses the Council's determination to reinstate the timber ban. The new res [...]
2006-06-20 21:31:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDETTC UNSC PREL PGOV LI
06USUNNEWYORK1248UNSC/SOMALIA: MOST MEMBERS ANXIOUS FOR ACTION ON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. At June 19 United Nations Security Council (UNSC) consultations on Somalia, Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) Fall discussed humanitarian, political and security aspects of the current crisis, outlining five possible scenarios that could result from the powe [...]
2006-06-21 16:56:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER SO UNSC IGAD
06USUNNEWYORK1340UN: FIFTH COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF ALL
[...] Summary. The Fifth Committee considered over 60 reports related to the budgetary, administrative and policy issues for UN peacekeeping at its second resumed 60th session from May 22 to June 30, 2006. By the end of the session, the Committee had agreed to financing resolutions for all 13 acti [...]
2006-07-11 19:55:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KUNR PREL UNGA
06USUNNEWYORK1416UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR
[...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/PSC-Charles Casper and IO/EX/OB-Alice Green) a copy of a note and four related annexes from the SYG dated July 26, 2006 concerning the financing of 13 peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as follows: Ope [...]
2006-07-26 20:55:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDAORC AFIN UN
06USUNNEWYORK1845UN SCALE OF ASSESSMENT: REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE ON
[...] Among its first actions to be taken in the 61st General Assembly, the Fifth Committee is expected to consider requests by Member States for exemption to Article 19 of the UN charter. Exemptions to Article 19 (loss of vote) are considered in light of requests of individual delegations and any [...]
2006-09-20 18:14:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KUNR UNGA
06USUNNEWYORK1975SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS: ARTICLE 19 EXEMPTIONS
[...] On October 12, the Fifth Committee and the General Assembly Plenary adopted Article 19 exemptions in document A/61/512 for the following nine member states: the Central African Republic, the Comoros, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, the Niger, Sao Tome and Principe, Somalia, and Tajikistan. Ac [...]
2006-10-13 22:21:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KUNR UNGA
06USUNNEWYORK2032UN SECURITY COUNCIL REVIEWS LIBERIA SANCTIONS
[...] The UN Security Council, per resolution 1689, reviewed Liberia sanctions during a closed meeting October 20. Danish PermRep Ellen Loj (Chairman of the Liberia Sanctions Committee) delivered a summary of committee discussions and the views of the Panel of Experts, which monitors sanctions impl [...]
2006-10-23 21:59:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDETTC UNSC PREL PGOV LI
06USUNNEWYORK2075UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR FIVE
[...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/PSC-Charles Casper and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated October 31, 2006 concerning the financing of five peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as foll [...]
2006-11-01 22:04:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDAORC AFIN UN
06USUNNEWYORK2147UN SECOND COMMITTEE ADOPTS THREE RESOLUTIONS BY
[...] (U) The United Nations General Assembly Second Committee (Economic and Financial Affairs) adopted three resolutions by consensus on November 7. Prior to adoption, the Committee Chair read out a statement that there were no program budget implications (PBIs) associated with these resolutions. [...]
2006-11-13 23:33:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECIN EFIN ETRD UNGA
06USUNNEWYORK2260UNGA: REPORT ON AFRICAN DELEGATIONS AT THE 61ST GA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-18 17:45:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINR PINS ECON XW XY ZF ZU
06USUNNEWYORK2294UN SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS UNSCR 1731 ON LIBERIA
[...] On December 20, 2006, the Security Council unanimously adopted UNSCR 1731, which extends diamond sanctions, the arms embargo, and the travel ban. The new resolution also amends the arms embargo to make it easier for Liberia to procure non-lethal military equipment. UNSCR 1731 highlights the [...]
2006-12-27 21:06:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDETTC UNSC PREL PGOV LI
06USUNNEWYORK597PEACE BUILDING COMMISSION: P-3 ADVANCE PREPARATION
[...] (u) This is an action request. See para 6. 2. (c) Summary: In a March 22 meeting of the P-3 convened by French DPR Duclos, France and the UK emphasized to Ambassador Wolff the importance of advance preparation for the first meeting of the Organizational Committee (OC) of the Peacebuilding [...]
2006-03-24 21:08:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALKUNR PREL UNGA UNSC KPKO
06USUNNEWYORK622UNMIL RESOLUTION: EXPERTS MEETING
[...] Summary: In expert level discussions on March 28, Security Council members expressed general support for extending UNMIL's mandate for six months as proposed by the U.S. However, all members, other than the U.S., also expressed strong backing for a French amendment that would authorize an e [...]
2006-03-28 23:56:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL LI IV
06USUNNEWYORK764HIRC DELEGATION DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, UN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A House International Relations Committee (HIRC) delegation led by Chairman Henry Hyde met the GA President's Chef de Cabinet and subsequently with six key G77 ambassadors March 27 to discuss a range of issues. Key topics of discussion centered on the recently created UN Human [...]
2006-04-11 18:36:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKUNR PHUM EAID KPKO UNSC
06USUNNEWYORK788UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR FOUR
[...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/PSC-Charles Casper and IO/EX/OB-Alice Green a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated April 13, 2006 concerning the financing of four peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as follows: [...]
2006-04-13 19:59:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDAORC AFIN UN
06USUNNEWYORK833LIBERIA COMMITTEE CHAIR'S TRIP AND FUTURE OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following her recent visit to Monrovia, the Permanent Representative of Denmark to the UN and Chairman of the Liberia Sanctions Committee Ellen Loj concluded the Security Council should send a positive signal to the new Liberian government during the Council's scheduled June revie [...]
2006-04-24 13:13:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALETTC UNSC PREL PGOV LI
06USUNNEWYORK894UN: FIFTH COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER SG'S REPORT ON
[...] Summary. The report of the Secretary-General (SYG) on disarmament, demobilization, and integration (A/60/705) notes an increased engagement of the United Nations in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) processes in complex peacekeeping and non-peacekeeping operations over the [...]
2006-05-01 17:42:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KUNR PREL UNGA
06USUNNEWYORK942UN: FIFTH COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER PEACEKEEPING
[...] Summary. At its second resumed session, beginning May 22, the Fifth Committee is scheduled to consider all 13 peacekeeping budgets for the period 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007. In addition, the Committee will also consider the budgets for the Support Account and the UN Logistics Base in Brind [...]
2006-05-10 17:42:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KUNR PREL UNGA
06USUNNEWYORK973PRESS REPORTS AMERICAN ARRESTED IN SIERRA LEONE
[...] (SBU) UN LEGAL OFFICE INFORMED USUN MAY 11 THAT THEY HAVE RECEIVED REPORTS FROM THE SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT REGISTRAR, LOVEMORE MANLO,THAT AMERICAN CITIZEN MICHAEL CHEMIDLINE HAS BEEN ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH "CONSPIRACY TO ENGAGE IN A PURPOSE PREJUDICIAL TO THE STATE OF SIERRA LEONE" UN [...]
2006-05-12 20:58:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL KJUS SL
06VIENNA3622DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: 2007 LIBERIA PARTNERS FORUM
[...] A/DCM presented reftel demarche on December 27 to Carolina Gudenus, the Austrian MFA's DAS-level Africa Director. We stressed the need for high-level engagement in the February 2007 Liberia Partners' Forum, pointing out that Secretary Rice, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and SIPD [...]
2006-12-27 15:18:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON PPOL AU
06VIENNA573DEMARCHE ON MULTILATERAL APPROACH TO CHARLES
[...] (C) Post conveyed reftel talking points to Ralph Scheide, the Austrian MFA's Assistant Secretary-level Director for the Middle East and Africa; to Caroline Gudenus, Head of the MFA's Sub-Saharan Africa Division; and to Klaus Famira-Parcsetich, the MFA's Acting European Political Correspondent [...]
2006-02-24 15:39:00Embassy ViennaCONFIDENTIALPREL KAWC XY AU
06VIENNA788DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA -- MARCH 20 EU FOREIGN
[...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on March 14 to Austrian MFA European Correspondent Andreas Riecken. Riecken made the following substantive comments 2. (C) MEPP -- In light of the day's developments in Gaza, there might be more discussion of the situation in the Middle East. [...]
2006-03-15 15:05:00Embassy ViennaCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON ETRD AU EUN
07ABIDJAN1018COTE D IVOIRE 2007 AGOA ELIGIBILITY RECOMMENDATION
[...] Below is the text of Post's Eligibility Recommendation Input as emailed to EEB Janet Potash and USTR Connie Hamilton October 2nd: Country: COTE D'IVOIRE Current AGOA Status: Ineligible, Benefits Withdrawn January 1, 2005 Country Background Summary: Cote d'Ivoire's economy has struggled [...]
2007-10-03 16:57:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD XA IV
07ABIDJAN187TFGV01: UNHCR CONFIRMS REFUGEES IN GUINEA CAMPS
[...] (SBU) Prior to the current crisis in Guinea, UNHCR had predicted that large-scale population displacements would not result from civil disturbances in Guinea. However, the dynamics of the crisis have UNHCR officials on edge and they remain vigilant should the situation change. UNHCR offices [...]
2007-02-21 17:05:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PREL USAID GV LI CI
07ABIDJAN263MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR CVT LIBERIA:
[...] Summary: This monitoring and evaluation (M&E) report is based on Refugee Coordinator's (RefCoord) visits to the Center for Victims of Torture's (CVT) field offices in Liberia in October 2006 and January 2007. CVT is on target to meet its objectives in the PRM-funded program, "Promoting Com [...]
2007-03-12 17:13:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM USAID UNHCR CI LI
07ABIDJAN293COTE D'IVOIRE: UNHCR PREPARING FOR JUNE DEADLINE
[...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa traveled with Lou Mazel, DCM Monrovia, and Mohamud Osman, USAID/FFP Dakar, from February 25 to March 3 to visit WFP and UNHCR offices in Cote d'Ivoire (Tabou, Guiglo) and Liberia (Harper) and to meet with refugees and [...]
2007-03-19 09:57:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM EAID UNHCR SOCI LI IV
07ABIDJAN326COTE D'IVOIRE: THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD TO THE
[...] (C) Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) and Regina Davis, USAID/OFDA's Principal Regional Advisor for West Africa (PRA),met in Abidjan with UN-OCHA, other UN agencies, NGOs, and donor Embassies to discuss opinions on UNHCR's handling of its Protection Cluster responsib [...]
2007-03-27 10:24:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREF EAID PHUM UNHCR IV
07ABIDJAN490COTE D'IVOIRE GOV'T, UNHCR LAUNCH SURPRISE REQUEST
[...] (SBU) On May 4, Foreign Minister Bakayoko, along with UNHCR country representative Saber Azam, convened a hastily planned meeting of principal UNHCR donor countries (including the European Union's country representative) to request additional funding to keep the Guiglo region's Nicla refugee [...]
2007-05-11 16:55:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PREL IV
07ABIDJAN555MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR IRC COTE
[...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa conducted a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) assessment of the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) PRM-funded project, "Durable Solutions for Liberian Refugees in Cote d'Ivoire" in February and May 2007. RefCoord wa [...]
2007-05-24 18:18:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM IV
07ABIDJAN557MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR CCF LIBERIA:
[...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa conducted a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) assessment of the PRM-funded NGO, Christian Children's Fund (CCF) during a visit to Liberia from May 4-11. RefCoord visited their offices in Monrovia and Zorzor and a CCF pr [...]
2007-05-25 16:42:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM IV LI
07ABIDJAN560COTE D'IVOIRE ELECTRICITY GENERATION FALTERS,
[...] (SBU) Summary. Privately-owned national electricity distribution company CIE and the Ministry of Energy and Mines continue to squabble over who is to blame for shortfalls in investments needed to boost natural gas production to meet national and regional energy needs. CIE, owned by French f [...]
2007-05-29 13:19:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON IV PGOV PREL
07ABIDJAN566MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR SEARCH FOR
[...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) conducted a monitoring and evaluation assessment of the PRM-funded Search For Common Ground (SFCG) project, "Mass Information in Support of Liberian Refugee Repatriation and Reintegration." SFCG's activities seem well conceived and f [...]
2007-05-30 10:07:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM IV LI
07ABIDJAN600THE ROCKY ROAD TO UNHCR'S JUNE 30 RETURN DEADLINE
[...] (U) Summary: The Abijan-based Refugee Coordinator for West Africa (RefCoord),traveled by road from Monrovia to Abidjan from May 1 to May 17. RefCoord passed through Gbarnga, Voinjama, Macenta, Nzerekore, Danane, Duekoue/Guiglo, and Tabou during the trip. RefCoord visited a number of villa [...]
2007-06-07 09:35:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM IV LI GU
07ABIDJAN621MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR THE AMERICAN
[...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa traveled to Liberia from May 1-11 to conduct a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) assessment of the American Refugee Committee's (ARC) PRM-funded project, "Supporting Sustainable Return, Reintegration and Stabilization of [...]
2007-06-14 08:49:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM IV LI
07ABIDJAN669MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR IRC LIBERIA:
[...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa conducted a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) assessment of the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) PRM-funded project, "Integrated Protection and Assistance to Support the Reintegration of Displaced Liberian." RefCo [...]
2007-06-25 12:40:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM IV LI
07ABIDJAN6762007 COTE D'IVOIRE REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND
[...] (SBU) Embassy Abidjan is aware of no new investment disputes or expropriation claims involving U.S. persons against the Government of Cote d'Ivoire. 2. (SBU) Post is pleased to report the end of the sole outstanding investment dispute reported from Cote d'Ivoire, the Cora de Comstar matter [...]
2007-06-26 11:36:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEINV KIDE OPIC PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN677MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR IRC GUINEA:
[...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa traveled to Guinea from May 11-14 to conduct a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) report of the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) PRM-funded project, "Facilitating Durable Solutions: Protection, Integration Assistanc [...]
2007-06-26 12:43:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM IV GU
07ABIDJAN719WHO TRIED TO KILL SORO? THE SPECULATION IS WELL
[...] (C) Summary. Since the June 29 attack on Prime Minister Soro, the rumor mill has gone into overdrive. The facts remain scarce, adding fuel to the unending speculation. The suspects are numerous, ranging from the most obvious (disaffected members of the Forces Nouvelles) to the absurd (ONU [...]
2007-07-03 11:01:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO IV
07ABIDJAN865COTE D'IVOIRE: UNHCR REPRESENTATIVE'S OVERVIEW
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-17 16:25:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF IV LI
07ABIDJAN91COTE D'IVOIRE'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON LIBERIA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-25 16:42:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON LI IV
07ABUDHABI190UAE FOLLOW-UP ACTION: URGING SUPPORT FOR LIBERIA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-07 07:54:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN PREL LI AE
07ABUDHABI248UAE REPRESENTATIVE AT THE LIBERIA PARTNERS, FORUM
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-14 08:47:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN PREL LI AE
07ABUDHABI731UAE RED CRESCENT HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO AFRICA
[...] SUMMARY: During January 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007, the UAE Red Crescent Society (RCS),the main quasi-government charity, provided USD 13.36 million in humanitarian assistance to Africa, according to official figures received from the RCS. This assistance included: miscellaneous relief USD 3.5 [...]
2007-05-03 07:27:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM MOPS PREL XF SO IZ AF AE
07ABUJA1081 NIGERIAN REQUEST FOR A MEETING BY PRESIDENT YAR'ADUA WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Nigeria's Ambassador to the U.S., George Obiozor and President Yar'Adua's Special Advisor Benjamin Ademola "Danny" Adebiyi meet with the Ambassador at their request on May 31. They asked that President Bush meet with President Yar'Adua, "if only for two minutes" on the margins [...]
2007-06-01 08:33:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL KDEM NI
07ABUJA1158ECOWAS: PROGRESS ON AGRICULTURAL HARMONIZATION
[...] Summary: Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) member states met on May 16-18 to discuss harmonization of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) regulations for ECOWAS non- West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). Participants agreed that the signed UEMOA regulation should be [...]
2007-06-08 10:52:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECIN ETRD EAGR ECON EAID NI ECOWAS
07ABUJA1265AF A/S FRAZER'S MAY 29 MEETING WITH NIGERIA PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 29 meeting with A/S Frazer, newly inaugurated President Yar'Adua said he would reform Nigeria's flawed electoral system and continue his predecessor's economic reforms. He has established peace and security in the Delta as a first priority of his administration. He in [...]
2007-06-18 11:30:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON PTER NI
07ABUJA1828NIGERIA: BANKING CONSOLIDATION SECOND WAVE
[...] Summary. The second wave of banking consolidation is underway with a large portion of the banking community under-banked. By the end of 2007 at least 7 banks will have share capital in excess of $1 billion and ten with over $2 billion. Banks are raising additional capital in both the domest [...]
2007-08-23 09:25:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON PGOV NI
07ABUJA1973GON WILL CONSIDER DEBT RELIEF FOR LIBERIA
[...] (SBU) Summary. On September 12, 2007 Ambassador Gribbin, accompanied by EconCouns and EconOff, delivered reftel demarche to the Minister of State for Finance, Aderemi Babalola. Babalola said the GON would consider the USG request that Nigeria forgive $44 million in arrears that Liberia owes t [...]
2007-09-12 14:51:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EPET LI NI PREL
07ABUJA2395NIGERIA: DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH SPEAKER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 13 meeting with the Deputy Secretary and AF A/S Frazer, Speaker of the House of SIPDIS Representatives, Dimeji Bankole (People's Democratic Party, PDP - Ogun State),said the members of the House are trying to build public confidence in the legislature by exam [...]
2007-11-16 08:06:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL NI
07ABUJA2399SNAPSHOT: NIGERIA ON AFRICOM
[...] (C) During a November 15 meeting, Air Vice Marshal Christian Marizu of the Chief of Defense Staff's Policy and Planning Staff told Poloff that GON officials used Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's November 12-13 visit to Abuja to pressure her to no longer negotiate with the U.S. bilate [...]
2007-11-16 12:35:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PMIL NI
07ABUJA2428ABUJA SCENESETTER FOR AMB. YATES AND VICE ADMIRAL
[...] (C) U.S. Mission Nigeria warmly welcomes your November 27-29 visit to Abuja. Your visit comes at a pivotal time in West Africa's engagement with Africom. Popular and official misunderstanding of the Africom concept, regional pride, and colonial baggage have made Nigeria and other regional c [...]
2007-11-21 16:56:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PMIL KPKO NI
07ABUJA667PLANS FOR INTERNATIONAL OBSERVATION OF NIGERIAN
[...] (U) Summary: In addition to this Mission's own plans to to field over 80 observers for the forthcoming Nigerian elections (ref. A),a number of multilateral organizations, other embassies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are planning to have observer teams in the field during the April [...]
2007-04-10 16:08:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM NI
07ABUJA786AMBASSADOR'S ASSESSMENT OF THE 2007 NIGERIA ELECTIONS
[...] (S) Summary: Nigeria's April 14 (governors and state legislators) and April 21 (the Presidency and the National Assembly) elections were characterized by logistical and procedural shortcomings and by fraud. The announced results of the presidential, gubernatorial and Assembly races cannot be [...]
2007-04-25 15:34:00Embassy AbujaSECRETPGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
07ACCRA1033UPDATE ON KRISAN REFUGEE CAMP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a May 4 visit to Krisan Camp, Ref Coord noted relatively good morale, better access to potable water, and no incidents of sexual- or gender-based violence. There was still no lighting at night and the Camp Clinic has experienced occasional shortages of medication. Reset [...]
2007-05-09 17:41:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM GH
07ACCRA1341Affidavit of Relationship (AOR) for Thomas
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-19 18:06:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM
07ACCRA1391EMBASSY REFERRAL FOR UNACCOMPANIED MINORS ALPHA AND MALLAM
[...] (SBU) Embassy Accra hereby refers Alpha Amadu Fofanah, who was born on September 8, 1997, in Kabala, Sierra Leone. Alpha was only two years old when the family fled Sierra Leone. The boy's maternal grandfather was a prominent imam and active member of the UNPP political party. Because of th [...]
2007-06-22 11:17:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF
07ACCRA1455PDAS THOMAS-GREENFIELD MEETS WITH AFRICAN LEADERS
[...] (SBU) Summary: PDAS Linda Thomas-Greenfield, head of the U.S. delegation to the 28-July 2 African Union Summit in Accra, held bilateral meetings on the margins of the Summit with the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Botswana, as well as with the Presidents of Lib [...]
2007-07-03 16:02:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALBF BO ER ET GH JA LI PREL RW SO SU TZ UG
07ACCRA1523LIBERIAN REFUGEES IN GHANA FACE MAJOR CHANGES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The mood at Budumburam Refugee Camp, 25 miles west of Accra, is somewhat tense, as the June 30 deadline for repatriating to Liberia with UNHCR assistance has passed. A last-minute surge resulted in over 1,000 refugees signing up to repatriate, but change is coming even for tho [...]
2007-07-11 21:05:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF GH LI TO
07ACCRA1818GENERAL WARD'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT KUFUOR
[...] (C) Summary: On August 6, President Kufuor told General William E. Ward, Deputy Commander of European Command and the nominee to command Africa Command (AFRICOM) and Ambassador that the U.S. needs to conduct &lots of diplomacy8 concerning AFRICOM. Kufuor reiterated points reported in ref A say [...]
2007-08-29 16:44:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS MASS GH
07ACCRA2577CODEL INHOFE'S MEETINGS WITH PRESIDENT KUFUOR AND MINISTRY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 26, President Kufuor and Ghana's Defense Minister told CODEL Inhofe that Ghanaian peacekeepers for Somalia and Darfur must be properly equipped before a deployment. Otherwise, he said, it would be akin to "sending them to the slaughter." Kufuor and Ghana's military l [...]
2007-12-20 10:08:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV KWMN MARR MOPS GH
07ACCRA485GHANA ON GUINEA: OSEI SAYS MUST FIND FACE-SAVING
[...] (C) On February 22, Ambassador had a lengthy discussion with Secretary to the President Ambassador D.K. Osei about Guinea. Osei underscored the need to get trade unions into the negotiations to select a list of 3-4 potential candidates for prime minister that President Conte could accept. S [...]
2007-03-01 19:04:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALGH GV PGOV PREL
07ACCRA569WEST AFRICAN REFUGEES ON HOLD FOR MATERIAL SUPPORT
[...] (SBU) Embassy Accra is home base for the Regional Refugee Coordinator Office, which has responsibility for refugee resettlement in 21 countries in West and Central Africa, one of only two such offices in sub-Saharan Africa. We take refugee resettlement issues very seriously and appreciate the [...]
2007-03-13 17:59:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF GH SL LI
07ACCRA593GHANA CELEBRATES 50 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE
[...] Summary: On March 6, Ghanaians celebrated 50 years of independence with a colorful parade and other events attended by delegations from all over the world. The GOG appreciated the presence of the U.S. Presidential delegation, headed by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Alphonso Jack [...]
2007-03-14 17:37:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL GH
07ACCRA654REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR LIBERIAN REFUGEES WILMAH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Accra hereby refers Tetee Janjayamars Wilson and Wilmah Martha Jacobs to the U.S. Resettlement Program, together with Wilmah's son, Tetee's daughter, and four foster children whose mother was brutally murdered in June 2006. They have presented evidence of fear of persecu [...]
2007-03-22 17:05:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM GH LI
07ACCRA708REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR SUSIE WEAH
[...] (C) Embassy Accra hereby refers Susie Weah (DPOB: 15 JUL 1985, Harper, Liberia) to the U.S. resettlement program. In Liberia, Weah's father worked as a chauffeur for the school superintendent for Maryland County. After rebels threatened to kill Weah's entire family, Weah fled from Liberia to [...]
2007-03-29 16:53:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM GH LI
07ACCRA709THE FUTURE OF LIBERIAN REFUGEES IN GHANA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNHCR Representative Aida Haile Mariam told Ref Coord on March 14 that refugees were becoming more serious about repatriation, with the deadline for returning to Liberia with UNHCR assistance only 3-1/2 months away. A preliminary headcount at Budumburam Camp completed on March [...]
2007-03-29 18:49:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF GH LI TO
07ACCRA838THIRD ECOWAS MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON
[...] THE ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS) AND THE GOVERNMENT OF GHANA HOSTED THE THIRD ECOWAS MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON BIOTECHNOLOGY: ADOPTION OF THE 2006-2010 ACTION PLAN (ACTION PLAN) FOR MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOSAFETY, FROM MARCH 27-30 IN ACCRA, GHANA. T [...]
2007-04-17 18:29:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON GH TBIO SENV
07ACCRA850LIBERIAN GRACE MINOR WANTS OFF THE SANCTIONS LIST
[...] (U) This is an action message - see para 5. 2. (C) On April 12, Ambassador met with former Liberian Senator and alleged former handler of Charles Taylor's investments Grace Minor at her request. Minor said she had come to Ghana four years ago because of an illness that could not be treated [...]
2007-04-19 12:49:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL GH LI
07ADDISABABA1531SOMALIA: 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 13:52:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KPKO SO ET
07ADDISABABA1535ETHIOPIA: BROKEN PROMISES, UNMET EXPECTATIONS --
[...] (S/NF) U.S.-Ethiopian mil-to-mil relations, specifically security assistance, are currently facing their most difficult challenges in the eleven years the Ambassador has observed U.S.-Ethiopian relations. The deterioration is an accumulation of missteps, misunderstandings, and misreadings of [...]
2007-05-21 16:02:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRET//NOFORNPREL MARR MASS ET US SO
07ADDISABABA1551DEMARCHES ON DARFUR AND UN HYBRID FORCE
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points on May 22 to MFA desk officer for the United States, Third Secretary Adam Tesfaye. Tesfaye inquired about the status of discussions with other AU member states, and asked whether any additional internal disagreements on the reinforcement efforts had occurred. [...]
2007-05-22 15:16:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO SU ET AU
07ADDISABABA2825Codel Jackson-Lee Advocates Agricultural Technology and
[...] Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee advocated for U.S. Technology as well as the need for Ethiopia to adopt land reform and liberalization of the fertilizer and seed markets to help Ethiopia's farmers enhance agricultural yields during a very cordial meeting with Prime Minister Meles on August 31. [...]
2007-09-18 06:12:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAGR PHUM ET SO
07ADDISABABA3355USAU: AFRICOM COMMANDER WARD MEETING WITH AFRICAN
[...] This cable is from U.S. Mission to the African Union (USAU) Ambassador Dr. Cindy L. Courville. 2. (C) SUMMARY: AFRICOM Commander, General William Ward met with African Union Commission Chairman Alpha Oumar Konare on November 8. Their discussion focused on the status of standing up AFRIC [...]
2007-11-20 05:57:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL MARR MASS
07ADDISABABA3528PRIME MINISTER MELES ON NORTH KOREAN ARMS
[...] (S/NF) Ambassador and ORA chief met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles on December 10 in follow-up to prior meetings on North Korean relations. The Ambassador expressed appreciation for opening up Ethiopia's munitions factory in Ambo, which operates in connection with North Korea, to a visit [...]
2007-12-13 05:29:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRET//NOFORNPREL PARM MARR MASS MCAP KN ET
07ADDISABABA852SECTION 1206 PROPOSAL FINAL COORDINATION
[...] (S) Per reftel, Post has reviewed the proposal to provide USD 15 million in Section 1206 funds for Ethiopia, Djibouti, Yemen, Kenya, and Tanzania, as part of the East Africa Regional Security Initiative (EARSI). Post supports funding the proposal in FY07, with the following observations (see [...]
2007-03-19 14:20:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRET//NOFORNMASS PREL PTER EAID KPKO ET SO
07ANKARA469TURKEY: RACE FOR UNSC SEAT BRINGS RENEWED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As Turkey gears up its campaign for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for 2009-2010, the GOT is taking a renewed interest in Africa, reflected in part by PM Erdogan's recent visit to Addis Ababa for the African Union Summit. Never a key focus of Turkey's foreign pol [...]
2007-03-01 16:53:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON AORC UN XA TU
07ASUNCION101PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE FEBRUARY 3
[...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Pucheta New Supreme Court Chief Justice -- Senator Morinigo in Intensive Care; Driver Dead -- Senate Approves Peacekeepers for Cyprus -- Paraguay Second-Least Competitive Country in Americas -- IPR Unit Attacked in Press PUCHETA NEW SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE 2. (C) S [...]
2007-02-09 18:24:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL ECON EINV MCAP MOPS PA
07BAKU1239AZERBAIJAN DOING BUSINESS EASIER; TRANSPARENCY NOT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Azerbaijan's ranking in the 2008 World Bank/IFC "Doing Business" report improved five positions, to 96 of 178, due primarily to the April 2007 Presidential decree instructing government ministries and agencies to develop a plan to improve the business climate, including developing [...]
2007-10-16 06:24:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL KCOR EAID AJ
07BANJUL332THE U.S./GAMBIAN RELATIONSHIP: DEPARTING
[...] (C) The U.S./Gambian relationship remains strained,due primarily to President Jammeh's increasingly authoritarian leadership and consequent decline in the human rights environment here -- a decline that figured prominently in the June 2006 suspension of The Gambia's eligibility for the Milleni [...]
2007-06-25 15:41:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PINS PHUM KPKO KPAO EINV ETRD
07BANJUL34THE GAMBIA: JOURNALIST ON U.S, IRANIAN TIES
[...] (C) President Jammeh remains deeply resentful over the suspension of MCA eligibility and holds Ambassador personally responsible, but advisers are quietly warning Jammeh to avoid going too far in antagonizing the U.S., according to well-informed journalist and Embassy contact. He said Jammeh h [...]
2007-01-22 11:16:00Embassy BanjulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS KMCA GA IR
07BANJUL589ETHNICITY IN THE GAMBIA: THE RISE OF THE JOLAS
[...] (SBU) The Gambia is lauded by its government, people, and visitors for its ethnic diversity and the apparent harmony among its many tribes. The lack of civil conflict along ethnic lines in an often-troubled region is prized by Gambians. Freedom from tribalism is also touted at the political [...]
2007-11-29 15:03:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI GA
07BEIJING3292PRC/ETHIOPIA: MFA DETAILS PRC RESPONSE TO APRIL 24
[...] (C) China was shocked "top to bottom" by the April 24 dawn attack by some 200 Ogden National Liberation Front (ONLF) rebels o a Chinese oil facility near the Somali border in the Ogaden region, MFA Deputy Division Director Zhou Haihong told us on May 16. Describing the incident as "totally un [...]
2007-05-16 11:12:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ASEC PREF CH ET
07BEIJING499JANUARY 23 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: ANTI-SATELLITE
[...] Key points made at the January 23 MFA press conference were: -- The MFA Spokesman confirmed the test of an anti- satellite missile earlier this month, said the test did not target any country and reaffirmed that China opposes the weaponization of space and will not participate in a space ar [...]
2007-01-23 11:38:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KIRF PREF CH KN JA XA LE PK
07BEIJING569PRC/AFRICA: MFA PRESS BRIEFING ON HU JINTAO'S
[...] Key points made by Assistant Foreign Minister Zhai Jun at the January 24 MFA press briefing on President Hu's upcoming visit to Africa were: -- Hu will visit Africa from January 30 to February 10, including stops in Cameroon (Jan. 30-Feb. 1),Liberia (Feb. 1),Sudan (Feb. 2-3),Zambia (Feb. [...]
2007-01-25 10:07:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV XA SU CH
07BELGRADE1376 ENERGY MINISTER POPOVIC TELLS AMBASSADOR SERBIA NEEDS MORE
[...] (U) Serbian Energy Minister Popovic told the Ambassador on October 4 that Serbia's single source of gas from Hungary, and domestic electricity production could not meet peak demand during winter cold snaps. Popovic compared Serbia's energy relationship with Russia as "business, not friends." [...]
2007-10-10 07:34:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG SR
07BERLIN1007SCENESETTER FOR G-8 AFRICA PARTNERSHIP
[...] (SBU) Summary. Chancellor Merkel will open the Eighth Africa Partnership Forum (APF) in Berlin immediately following the G-8 Finance MinistersQ Meeting in Potsdam May 19-20 and the German-World Bank Forum on May 21. Hosted by the German Development Minister, the APF will set out the key co [...]
2007-05-18 09:17:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON ECIN EMIN ETRD PREL GM
07BERLIN219EXPORT CONTROL BILATERAL TALKS BETWEEN GERMANY AND
[...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security Christopher Padilla met a range of German export control officials and industry representatives December 1, 2006, to discuss export control issues. Assistant Secretary Padilla and his German interlocutors discussed 1) the U [...]
2007-02-02 17:56:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALETTC EINV GM
07BERLIN605SCENESETTER FOR G-8 DEVELOPMENT MINISTERS MEETING,
[...] (SBU) Your visit to Germany, in addition to an occasion to engage G-8 counterparts, is an opportunity to advance our bilateral cooperation on development issues with Germany, the world's fourth largest bilateral aid donor, the largest contributor to EU development aid coffers, and a donor wit [...]
2007-03-23 18:19:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL GM
07BRASILIA1351UNDER SECRETARY DOBRIANSKY 'S VISIT TO BRAZIL SPARKS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Under Secretary Dobriansky's visit to Brazil May 16-17, 2007, not only fulfilled the request by President Bush and Brazilian President Lula to elevate the Common Agenda for the Environment (CAE) dialogue, but helped the U.S. Mission in Brazil move forward on a number of key issu [...]
2007-07-18 09:42:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTRGY ENRG SENV EAGR ETRD KSCA US BR
07BRASILIA1813 BRAZIL: UNDER SECRETARY JEFFERY'S MEETINGS WITH GoB
[...] (SBU) Summary: Under Secretary Reuben Jeffery and delegation met with Acting Minister of Mines and Energy, Nelson Hubner; Vice President Jose Alencar; and senior Ministry of Finance officials during his August 20 visit to Brasilia. Hubner said he saw an immediate need to showcase a biofuels p [...]
2007-09-24 13:17:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENGR ETRD ECIN EAIR ECPS TSPA SENV BR
07BRASILIA2171BIOFUELS IN BRAZIL
[...] (SBU) Summary: In response to reftel request, and pursuant to request for extension to Oct. 19 response date, Post submits the following information regarding the development and adoption of bio-based chemical products and liquid biofuels in Brazil, including research and reports available, [...]
2007-11-23 10:45:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV PREL EINV ECON PGOV OTRA BR
07BUENOSAIRES1785ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTRY OFFICIALS AGREE TO
[...] (C) Econoff delivered reftel demarche on supporting plans to clear Liberia's IMF arrears to new Economy Ministry Chief of Advisors Javier Alvaredo and new Undersecretary of Finance Juan Carlos Barboza on September 5. Econoff also outlined issue in general terms over the telephone to Secretary [...]
2007-09-07 15:57:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EINV AR
07BUENOSAIRES2059REDUCED EXPECTATIONS: ARGENTINA SEEKS LOW PROFILE
[...] (C) The GoA delegation to the annual IMF/World Bank meetings, led by Economy Minister Miguel Peirano and Central Bank President Martin Redrado, will arrive in Washington under instructions from President Kirchner not to say or do anything controversial, given the proximity of Argentina's Octob [...]
2007-10-17 20:29:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EINV AR
07BUENOSAIRES2091MEDIA REACTION; TURKS AND KURDS; IMF GENERAL ASSEMBLY;
[...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Major international stories today include implications of Turkey's plan in Northern Iraq and its parallel with Israel's formula in Lebanon; and the outcome of the IMF General Assembly with an alleged IMF crisis. 2. OPINION PIECES AND EDITORIALS - "A Lebanese-styled so [...]
2007-10-23 21:28:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC KMDR PREL
07BUENOSAIRES2138ARGENTINE ECONOMY MINISTRY OFFICIALS SEE
[...] (C) Economy Minister Peirano told Ambassador he will hold off discussing bilateral or multilateral issues until the dust settles from the October 28 elections. He called his participation in the IMF/World Bank meetings a success, and he expects improved cooperation and coordination with those [...]
2007-10-30 09:16:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EINV AR
07CONAKRY1004BOOMING MINING SECTOR MAY BRING NEW RAILROAD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Long-time bauxite and iron ore mining investors are stepping up operations in Guinea, while Chinese and Brazilian companies are looking to carve out niches for themselves. Meanwhile, one company is looking to build a multi-billion dollar tran-Guinea railroad in order to transpo [...]
2007-09-06 07:12:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN ECON ETRD PGOV GV
07CONAKRY1136UNION LEADER SAYS NO STRIKES PLANNED, BUT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The leader of Guinea,s largest labor union painted a grim picture of the country,s political and economic situation in a meeting with poloff, but said that the unions are not planning any strikes in the near future. She added that the international community can play an import [...]
2007-10-11 14:29:00Embassy ConakryCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ELAB ASEC GV
07CONAKRY1243GROWTH OF RESOURCE NATIONALISM IN GUINEA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The information and analysis provided herein is in response to reftel request regarding resource nationalism in Guinea. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Over the last year, resource nationalism has become increasingly evident in Guinea since the country,s new consensus government declar [...]
2007-11-15 11:28:00Embassy ConakryCONFIDENTIALPGOV EPET GV
07CONAKRY127PRESIDENT CONTE LIVES IN ANOTHER WORLD
[...] (C) On February 1, I met for nearly an hour with Guinean President Lansana Conte. The conversation was disjointed, with Conte frequently digressing and going off on tangents. He minimized the importance of the recent general strike, including the use of lethal force against civilian protester [...]
2007-02-02 10:01:00Embassy ConakryCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINS KDEM GV
07CONAKRY160PLAUSIBLE REPORTS OF FOREMR ULIMO/LURD MILITIA
[...] (S) Post has been working to verify persistent rumors in Conakry that former ULIMO and/or LURD fighters have been recruited by Conte confidante Aicha Conneh, widow of LURD leader Sekou Conneh, to combat direct threats to Conte and his regime. Poloff spoke with Marguerite Guilavogui (strictl [...]
2007-02-09 12:47:00Embassy ConakrySECRETPGOV ELAB ASEC CASC PINS GV
07CONAKRY171SITREP NO. 36: GUINEA UNREST, FEB. 12, 1530 GMT
[...] (S) Military-on-military violence appears to have subsided, though the situation remains very fluid. 2. (C) According to opposition leader Sidya Toure, tensions persist inside Camp Alpha Yaya between soldiers who want to side with the civilian population and those who do not. He said two [...]
2007-02-12 15:21:00Embassy ConakrySECRET//NOFORNPGOV ELAB ASEC CASC PINS AEMR GV
07CONAKRY182TFGV01: HOW CAN WE NEGOTIATE UNDER A STATE OF
[...] (C) On February 14, Poloff met with labor union leader Rabiatou Serah Diallo and political party leaders Sidya Toure, President of UFR, and Ousmane Bah, President of UPR. In separate meetings, each deplored the extensive powers granted to Guinea's military under the state of siege. All alleg [...]
2007-02-15 13:20:00Embassy ConakryCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC CASC ELAB PINS AEMR GV
07CONAKRY183TFGV01: SITREP 42: GUINEA UNREST, FEB. 15, 2007,
[...] (SBU) The streets are calm downtown this afternoon. There are fewer gun shots heard in the neighborhoods than there have been in recent days, but there is still occasional random gunfire, largely firing in the air by military forces in an effort to keep the population quiescent. There is more [...]
2007-02-15 16:31:00Embassy ConakryCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC CASC ELAB PINS AEMR GV
07CONAKRY201TFGV01: SITREP 46: GUINEA UNREST, FEB. 20, 2007,
[...] (SBU) With extended non-curfew hours, we are seeing increased vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Many Guineans are using the opportunity to restock, with moderate activity in markets, gas stations, and other small shops. Most large stores remained closed, as they have been since January 10. [...]
2007-02-20 13:31:00Embassy ConakryCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC CASC ELAB PINS AEMR GV
07CONAKRY215TFGV01: SITREP 47: GUINEA UNREST, FEB. 21, 2007,
[...] (SBU) Conakry is calm, with moderate traffic, and no security incidents reported today. There is limited public transportation. Some small shops have tentatively opened their doors halfway. Most of the larger food markets continue to extend "backdoor" service. Apart from this informal mar [...]
2007-02-21 15:13:00Embassy ConakryCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC CASC ELAB PINS AEMR GV
07CONAKRY267GUINEA 2007 TIP REPORT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over the past year, the Government of Guinea has made concentrated efforts to address trafficking in persons. Most importantly, it has successfully investigated and prosecuted a trafficking case, sentencing the perpetrator to time in prison. The judicial sector is plagued by [...]
2007-03-02 12:31:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF GV
07CONAKRY277 NEW GUINEAN PRIME MINISTER MUST STRIKE THE RIGHT
[...] (C) On March 2, the Ambassador met for the first time with newly appointed Prime Minister Lansana Kouyate. He said the U.S. will be as supportive as possible, if the new government is broad based and if it represents a distinct break with the corruption and cronyism of the past. He encourag [...]
2007-03-05 13:09:00Embassy ConakrySECRETPGOV PINS PREL GV
07CONAKRY40 Liberia Partners Forum -- Guinea
[...] On January 9, Poloff delivered demarche on the Liberia Partners Forum (Ref A) to Ambassador Mamady Traore, Political Counselor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Traore saluted the U.S. efforts to support rebuilding Liberia but cautioned that any instability in the region would stymie progre [...]
2007-01-10 10:08:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON PPOL PREL PBTS EAID GV LI SL
07CONAKRY480Mano River Union Summit Unites Presidents But Produces No
[...] (SBU) Summary. From April 27-30, Guinea hosted the Summit of Chiefs of State and Governments of the Mano River Union (MRU). The primary stated goals of the meeting were to consolidate peace, security, and stability in the MRU; resolve border issues; and revitalize the Secretariat of the MRU [...]
2007-05-02 14:06:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ASEC PINS GV LI SL IV
07DAKAR1026AFRICOM DELEGATION RECEIVES SENEGALESE INPUT
[...] (C) The interagency AFRICOM delegation visited Dakar in April, meeting with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, Senior Minister for Foreign Affairs Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, Minister of Armed Forces Becaye Diop and Chief of Defense Major General Abdoulaye Fall on April 21. There was a marked co [...]
2007-05-10 17:58:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS OVIP SG
07DAKAR1039SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR VICE ADMIRALS STUFFLEBEEM AND
[...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, Senegal is preparing for legislative elections on June 3, 2007. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United States in promoting peace and [...]
2007-05-14 12:10:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP MARR PGOV ECON EAID PREL KMCA SG
07DAKAR113SENEGAL WILL PROBABLY PLEDGE AT LIBERIA PARTNERS'
[...] (U) On January 11, Acting Senegalese Minister of Foreign Affairs Claude Absa Diallo told Charge that Senegal will participate in the Liberia Partners' Forum (reftel) and plans to make at least a symbolic pledge to underscore Senegal's support for President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's government. [...]
2007-01-12 16:43:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAID PREL IV LI PU SG
07DAKAR1323SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR FIRST LADY (FLOTUS)
[...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, President Abdoulaye Wade has just changed Prime Ministers and reshuffled his cabinet. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United States [...]
2007-06-21 08:05:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PGOV ECON EAID PREL KMCA SG
07DAKAR1577Time for the Mauritanians to go Home
[...] (SBU) In a meeting with Charge d'Affaires, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees' (UNHCR) Regional Representative, Rosaline Idowu, was upbeat that a large percentage of the 20,000 Mauritanian refugees remaining in the Senegal River Valley would return home. She confirmed President W [...]
2007-07-30 07:50:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PINS PREF SG
07DAKAR457TERRORIST FINANCE: SENEGAL'S RESPONSE TO USG CONCERN OVER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Per Ref A request, Econ Counselor met separately with Senegal's Financial Intelligence Unit (CENTIF),Senegal's Department of Customs, and ECOWAS' Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA),to exchange views on the capacity and willingness [...]
2007-02-28 12:53:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PTER ECON EAID SG
07DAKAR501SENEGAL: ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] SUMMARY: After being upgraded last year from Tier 2 Watch List to Tier 2 status, Senegal has continued to devote significant time and attention to the issue of trafficking in persons. Following passage of its first trafficking-in-persons (TIP) law in April 2005, police now maintain a compute [...]
2007-03-05 12:13:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC PREF SG
07DAKAR547SENEGAL: REFLECTIONS ON THE THREAT AND THE
[...] (S/NF) With a population of approximately 12 million, democratic, pro-Western Senegal should remain stable for the foreseeable future. Despite its predominately Islamic population and high levels of unemployment, there is no evidence, and indeed little chance, that Jihadist ideologies have t [...]
2007-03-08 12:54:00Embassy DakarSECRET//NOFORNPTER ASEC EAID PREL KISL SG
07DAKAR696SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION ATTENDING
[...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, Senegal is preparing for President Abdoulaye Wade's second inauguration on April 3, 2007. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United Sta [...]
2007-03-27 14:12:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP ELAB PGOV ECON EAID PREL KMCA SG
07DAKAR82SENEGAL TO INCREASE TROOPS IN DARFUR
[...] (SBU) During a 12 December meeting at the Senegalese Armed Forces Headquarters, Senegalese Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations Colonel Cherif Mbodj informed Embassy Dakar Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) Chief that Senegal would be increasing the size of its troop contribution for the A [...]
2007-01-10 11:54:00Embassy DakarCONFIDENTIALPREL SG SU MOPS
07DAKAR823LABOR 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 06:59:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OVIP ELAB EAIR PGOV KMCA SG
07DAKAR940SENEGAL CURRENTLY HAS 2,681 SOLDIERS AND CIVPOL IN SIX
[...] Eighty Senegalese peacekeepers who have been serving as civilian police (CIVPOL) in Haiti returned last week. With Senegal benefiting from the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) and Centers of Excellence for Stability Police Units (COESPU) programs, the Mission has [...]
2007-04-27 12:22:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MCAP KPKO SG
07DARESSALAAM353TANZANIA: GENERAL WARD AND PRESIDENT KIKWETE
[...] (C) In a March 3, 2007 meeting with General William Ward, the Deputy Commander of the European Military Command (EUCOM),President Kikwete warmly welcomed mil-to-mil cooperation with the United States in a number of areas, including peacekeeping training under ACOTA and deployment of a U.S. Ci [...]
2007-03-13 13:52:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS TZ
07DUBLIN286SCENE-SETTER FOR THE APRIL 19-20 VISIT OF EUR PDAS
[...] (SBU) Embassy Dublin eagerly anticipates your visit and the opportunity to join your discussions with ranking Irish Government officials and others on the full range of bilateral and U.S.-EU issues. Your visit comes at an historic moment in U.S.-Irish relations, with the scheduled restoratio [...]
2007-04-13 16:37:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER MOPPS MARR ECON SENV EI
07DUBLIN532IRELAND TO CONSIDER DARFUR HYBRID OPERATION
[...] (SBU) Ireland will discuss the possibility of contributing personnel to the UN/AU Hybrid Operation for Darfur at a July 19 inter-agency meeting involving the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and the Irish Police, according to Eamonn Mc [...]
2007-07-03 13:48:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO UNSC MASS SU EI
07FREETOWN109MANU RIVER UNION BEGINS SLOW RECOVERY
[...] (C) During a February 8 meeting, Manu River Union (MRU) Secretary General Aliou Diallo told the Ambassador and DCM SIPDIS that after one year on the job, he continues to struggle to rehabilitate the MRU, but that he is cautiously optimistic about future prospects. He said that he has succes [...]
2007-02-15 16:29:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID EFIN SL
07FREETOWN112TFG01: SIERRA LEONE PRESIDENT KABBAH SAYS CONTE'S
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Sierra Leone President Kabbah on February 15. Kabbah was eager to discuss the situation in Guinea. Kabbah emphasized that the United States has great credibility in Guinea and agreed that Conte must cede power to a transitional civil authority in line with [...]
2007-02-15 20:20:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPREL SL GV LI
07FREETOWN12SIERRA LEONE: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR
[...] Per reftel instructions, Post submits the following update to its 2005 Worst Forms of Child Labor report. 2. Background: Child labor is prevalent in Sierra Leone. Many children are employed in family businesses, subsistence farming, street trading, and domestic work. Within the country, [...]
2007-01-05 12:43:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID SL
07FREETOWN122TFG01: SIERRA LEONE ISSUES STATEMENT ON GUINEA
[...] (C) Summary: Presentation of Ref A demarche requesting a Sierra Leonean statement on Guinea to President Kabbah's private secretary on February 20 and to the Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the following day was overtaken by the Sierra Leonean and Liberian Presidents' visi [...]
2007-02-21 20:32:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALGV PREL SL LI
07FREETOWN143SCSL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE REVIEWS COURTS OPERATIONS
[...] (C) The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) Management Committee (MC) traveled to Freetown February 18-22 to meet with SCSL staff to discuss the Court's Completion Strategy and budget, ongoing concerns about identifying adequate sources of voluntary contributions to sustain the Court, the s [...]
2007-03-02 12:59:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALKDEM KJUS PGOV PREL UNSC SL
07FREETOWN165SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sierra Leone continues to make progress as it recovers from a devastating decade-long civil war that destroyed much of the country's infrastructure. In a little over a year, the level of awareness of trafficking in persons has risen considerably. However, trafficking remains a s [...]
2007-03-08 17:41:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SL
07FREETOWN246SIERRA LEONE: UNHCR DELIVERS USG MESSAGE TO
[...] On April 17, Mr. Abid Mir, Deputy Representative, UNHCR Sierra Leone, informed Poloff that his office had received reftel USG announcement and had passed the information to all field offices. Mir said that repatriation is going well. He commented that as the June 30 deadline approaches, there [...]
2007-04-17 19:35:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF SL
07FREETOWN330SIERRA LEONE PASSES NEW REFUGEE ACT
[...] (U) On May 16, PolOff met with representatives from UNHCR to discuss Parliament's recent passage of a new Refugee Act and to receive an update on the current status of Liberian refugees in Sierra Leone. On May 3, Parliament passed a new Refugee Act that creates a legal framework for the GoSL to [...]
2007-05-25 16:58:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV SL
07FREETOWN387SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE DELIVERS FIRST VERDICT
[...] (U) On June 20, three judges in Trial Chamber II of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) delivered a guilty verdict against three former leaders of the renegade Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) who were on trial accused of war crimes and other serious violations of international h [...]
2007-06-20 19:38:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PHUM PINR SL
07FREETOWN422SIERRA LEONE: EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO COMBAT SEXUAL
[...] PolOff spoke with representatives from the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL),UNHCR, UNICEF, and the United Nations Integrated Office for Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL) concerning UN efforts to combat Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) and Trafficking in Persons (TIP) by UN peacekeepers and civili [...]
2007-07-16 10:17:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UN KPKO SL
07FREETOWN436BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON SIERRA LEONEAN PRESIDENTIAL AND
[...] (U) The National Electoral Commission has announced that seven political parties are registered to participate in the presidential election on August 11. The following is biographic information on the presidential and vice presidential candidates from the three main political parties, the Sierr [...]
2007-07-23 16:09:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PINR SL
07FREETOWN503NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION FINISHES NATIONAL ELECTIONS
[...] (U) On the evening of August 23, the National Electoral Commission released the official preliminary results of the August 11 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. NEC Chairperson Dr. Christiana Thorpe announced the certified results will be published on August 25. 2. (U) In the parliam [...]
2007-08-24 13:10:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PINR SL
07FREETOWN58SIERRA LEONE: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE REPORT
[...] The Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) Ministry of Trade and Industry is actively working to increase trade and investment. 2. Investment Laws: A new Investment Code went into effect in 2005. It is designed to put Sierra Leone at par with western countries concerning the protection of compa [...]
2007-01-24 17:46:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDEINV KTBD OPIC EFIN USTR ETRD SL
07FREETOWN591POST ELECTION SIERRA LEONE: VIOLENCE SUBSIDES AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The week following the announcement of Ernest Koroma as the new President of Sierra Leone had its bumps but was positive overall. Incidents of violence broke out in the immediate aftermath but soon decreased significantly as people returned to their everyday lives. The media w [...]
2007-09-28 18:31:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PINR SL
07FREETOWN615 SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT SEEKING MORE MONEY AND
[...] (C) Summary and action request: In a meeting with Ambassador and emboffs on October 10, Prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Stephen Rapp, reviewed the budget and timeline for the Special Court. Rapp expects that the court will require at least an additional $49 million to contin [...]
2007-10-11 16:19:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALKAWC KDEM PHUM PINR PREL SL
07FREETOWN640HANDOVER AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-24 18:47:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SL
07FREETOWN676SCENE SETTER FOR A/S FRAZER TRAVEL TO SIERRA LEONE
[...] (U) The inauguration of President Ernest Bai Koroma is an important milestone in the recovery of Sierra Leone from years of conflict and upheaval. Your visit to this country at the time of peaceful transition from one elected administration to another is an opportunity to underscore U.S. comm [...]
2007-11-09 17:07:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV PHUM PREL SL
07FREETOWN689BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION ON NEW SIERRA LEONEAN
[...] The initial group of cabinet Ministers in the new government has been announced by President Koroma. The process of confirmation by parliament has been completed for most nominees. Three Ministers were confirmed on October 19, and 12 more confirmed on October 24. Biographic information for 15 [...]
2007-11-19 17:17:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SL
07FREETOWN754FREETOWN MEDIA PLACEMENTS FOR NOVEMBER 2007
[...] Summary: Embassy Freetown's outreach in November 2007 included articles surrounding A/S Frazer's attendance at the inauguration of President Koroma, newly-arrived Ambassador Perry's courtesy calls on Ministers, the opening of two new American Shelves in Freetown, and the Embassy's commemoratio [...]
2007-12-21 13:43:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO SL
07GENEVA2626Human Rights Council Session Highlights Troubling
[...] Summary: The Human Rights Council's resumed Sixth Session of December 10-14 highlighted the pernicious dynamic of previous sessions in which important resolutions were held hostage to negotiations between the European Union and Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). That dynamic was e [...]
2007-12-17 16:51:00US Mission GenevaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC
07HELSINKI132007 LIBERIA PARTNERS FORUM
[...] (U) In response to reftel action request, post contacted Sirpa Maenpaa, Director for the Unit for Eastern and Western Africa in the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) urging Finland to attend the Liberia Partners Forum on February 13-14, 2007. Maenpaa said Finland would most likely not [...]
2007-01-09 13:56:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EAID PREL ECON FI LI
07ISTANBUL115TURKISH STRAITS AT CAPACITY
[...] Summary: On February 11, Capt. Salih Orakci, General Director of the Coastal Safety and Salvage Administration briefed A/S Sullivan and members of the EPC delegation on the hazards of navigating the Turkish Straits and the operation of the Vessel Traffic System (VTS) in the Bosphorous Straits. [...]
2007-02-15 09:56:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT EPET SENV TU
07JAKARTA3267INDONESIAN PEACEKEEPING -- LEBANON, DARFUR AND THE
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Indonesia is sending a fresh battalion of peacekeeping troops to the United Nations Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The 850-member battalion from the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) replaces the initial [...]
2007-11-28 09:34:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR KPKO PGOV PHUM ID
07KAMPALA1050UGANDA: SCENESETTER FOR CONGRESSIONAL STAFF DELEGATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Uganda is a productive player for U.S. policy interests in Africa, with Ugandan troops deploying to Somalia assisted by U.S. money and logistics. On the humanitarian and development side, Uganda vigorously supports a number of U.S. initiatives including Presidential initiatives [...]
2007-06-26 12:29:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PREL MOPS EAID SU UG
07KAMPALA1209UGANDA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LOWEY (August 18-23)
[...] (SBU) Summary: Uganda is a productive player for U.S. policy interests in Africa, with Ugandan troops deploying to Somalia assisted by U.S. money and logistics. On the humanitarian and development side, Uganda vigorously supports a number of U.S. initiatives including Presidential initiatives [...]
2007-07-26 04:19:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PREL MOPS EAID SU UG
07KAMPALA1310UGANDA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL FEINGOLD (AUGUST 26-30,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Uganda is a productive partner for U.S. policy interests in Africa, with Ugandan troops deploying to Somalia assisted by U.S. money and logistics. Uganda is vigorously supporting a number of U.S. initiatives including Presidential initiatives on HIV/AIDS (PEPFAR) and malaria (PM [...]
2007-08-15 10:23:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PREL MOPS EAID UG
07KAMPALA312UGANDA: SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD (FEB 27-28)
[...] (SBU) Summary: Uganda is a productive player for U.S. policy interests in Africa with Ugandan troops deploying to Somalia assisted by U.S. money, and logistics. Uganda cooperates fully in the War on Terror, and is highly receptive to U.S. training and presence. On the humanitarian and develo [...]
2007-02-23 03:10:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PREL MOPS ASEC CASC EAID UG SU
07KAMPALA345UGANDA: SCENESETTER FOR AND NSC DEPUTY ADVISOR DAVID
[...] (SBU) Summary: Uganda is a productive player for U.S. policy interests in Africa, with Ugandan troops deploying to Somalia assisted by U.S. money and logistics. On the humanitarian and development side, Uganda vigorously supports a number of US initiatives including Presidential initiatives o [...]
2007-03-01 03:50:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PREL MOPS EAID SU UG
07KHARTOUM1832SOUTHERN SUDAN - HEALTH SECTOR TRANSITION UPDATE
[...] Over the past three fiscal years, USAID has been able to steadily and responsibly decrease its non-food humanitarian budget from USD 88.3 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 to USD 69.5 million in FY 2006 and USD 61.9 million in FY 2007 in anticipation of the eventual transition from relief to dev [...]
2007-11-21 16:03:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU
07KHARTOUM303Darfur CFC: Stolen Vehicles Returned
[...] Summary: The key issue in the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) the week of February 19 was funding for faction representatives' Mission Support Allowance (MSA),which is several months in arrears. Force Commander Luke Aprezi asked the representatives to consider six options for realigning the CFC, i [...]
2007-02-28 11:15:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU
07KHARTOUM329SUDAN - IOM AND DONORS MONITOR RETURNS
[...] From January 22 to 27, the USAID Senior Humanitarian Advisor (SHA) and representatives of five European countries participated in a donor mission at the invitation of the International Organization of Migration (IOM). The group assessed registration and departure preparations in Khartoum-area [...]
2007-03-02 11:36:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU AU EAGR
07KIGALI217RWANDA: REPEAL OF ARMS NOTIFICATION, CHILD
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Charles Murigande requested Ambassador Arietti meet with him on March 2. In his office, Murigande sought U.S. support for repeal of the notification provision of UNSC resolution 1011 of 1995, which lifted the arms embargo on Rwanda, but left in place a notification pro [...]
2007-03-05 05:56:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF RW
07KIGALI633RWANDA MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-09 15:29:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON PGOV EINV ENRG ETRD EPET BTIO RW
07KIGALI73RWANDA WILL NOT SEND TROOPS TO SOMALIA
[...] (C) On 24 January State Minister for Cooperation Rosemary Museminali told Ambassador that while the GOR might be willing to support the African Union (AU) mission to Somalia with training or civilian police (civpol) support, it is "disinclined" to send Rwandan Defense Forces (RDF) soldiers. A [...]
2007-01-24 16:33:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL UNSC RW ET KE
07KINSHASA1425DRC: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SMITH
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is moving slowly as it grapples with solutions to fundamental governance, security and development challenges following the historic 2006 national elections. The promise of peace and democratization and the importance of the DRC as the [...]
2007-12-31 09:22:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV EAID ECON PREF PHUM
07KINSHASA435BELGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER AN INCOVENIENT GUEST IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Belgian Foreign Minister Karel de Gucht had frank criticism for both sides involved in the March 22-23 violence in Kinshasa during his April 10-12 visit to the DRC. He reiterated Belgium's desire for a post-CIAT mechanism for political dialogue and discussed governance issues [...]
2007-04-16 11:51:00Embassy KinshasaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM BE CG
07KUWAIT111DONOR COORDINATION CONFERENCE: WHERE IS THE USG?
[...] (C/NF) I am extremely disappointed by the lack of high-level Washington-based USG representation at the donor coordination conference the Arab Fund is hosting in Kuwait on February 4. It is difficult for me to accept that we cannot offer at least one senior representative from Washington, fr [...]
2007-01-27 10:52:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID KU XF
07KUWAIT170KUWAIT MFA "UNAWARE" OF LIBERIA PARTNERS' FORUM
[...] (SBU) On February 4, Econoff met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director for Africa and Asia Ambassador Mohammed Al-Bader to discuss the scope and purpose of the upcoming Liberia Partners' Forum (reftels) and to encourage high-level Kuwaiti attendance at the conference in Washington o [...]
2007-02-05 10:11:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN LI PREL KU
07KUWAIT21KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: 2007 LIBERIA PARTNERS'
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-08 14:11:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON EAID
07KYIV1108UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR DIA DIRECTOR LTG MAPLES
[...] (S/REL UP) General Maples: We look forward to welcoming you to Kyiv at a time of political turmoil as the President and Prime Minister search for ways to reach agreement on a date for pre-term parliamentary elections and a way forward on resolving contradictions in a newly-amended constitution [...]
2007-05-10 14:45:00Embassy KyivSECRETPGOV PREL MARR MOPS UP
07KYIV1243UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR UNDERSECRETARY SEGA
[...] (SBU) Undersecretary Sega: We look forward to welcoming you to Kyiv. For more than seven weeks Ukraine has been in political turmoil and paralysis as the President and Prime Minister search for ways to reach agreement on a date for pre-term parliamentary elections and a way forward on resol [...]
2007-05-24 14:01:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM UP
07KYIV1300UKRAINE:SCENESETTER FOR COMMANDER, U.S. ARMY
[...] (SBU) General MacKiernan: We look forward to welcoming you to Kyiv. The past couple of months have been marked by political turmoil as the President and Prime Minister search for ways to reach agreement on a date for pre-term parliamentary elections and a way forward on resolving contradictio [...]
2007-05-25 15:02:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MOPS UP
07KYIV315UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR SECDEF'S MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Secretary Gates, your meeting with President Yushchenko at Wehrkunde next week comes at a time when the struggle between Yushchenko and PM Yanukovych for political dominance and the right to define national security, defense, and foreign policy has intensified. Recent legislation [...]
2007-02-07 15:59:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR UP
07LAGOS407NIGERIA: FY 2007 AMBASSADOR'S FUND FOR REFUGEES
[...] The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNCHR) promotional phase of repatriation for Liberian refugees at the Oru Refugee Camp in southern Nigeria is set to expire on June, 2007. There are approximately 4,000 refugees remaining at the camp (3,200 Liberians and 780 Sierra Leonean) and [...]
2007-05-31 15:28:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDPREF EAID PREL NI
07LAGOS609A LOOK BACK: OBASANJO REVIEWS HIS PRESIDENCY WITH
[...] (C) Summary: In an August 21 meeting with HIRC Africa Subcommittee Chair Donald Payne, former President Olusegun Obasanjo said he would attend former President Clinton's Global Institute from September 26-28, dates which coincide with the second week of plenary sessions of the U.N. General Ass [...]
2007-09-05 10:39:00Consulate LagosCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KPKO NI
07LISBON27PORTUGAL AND THE LIBERIA PARTNERS' FORUM
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-04 17:54:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDFR EFIN ECON EAID PO
07LJUBLJANA730SLOVENIA RESPONDS POSITIVELY TO IMF'S REQUEST FOR
[...] (SBU) In a letter dated November 19, 2007, Andrej Kavcic, Head of the Ministry of Finance's International Finance Department, responded to the joint letter from U/S Jeffery and U/S McCormick (reftel) by forwarding a joint letter to the IMF from Minister of Finance Andrej Bajuk and Bank of Slo [...]
2007-11-28 12:58:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID LI SI
07LONDON1206 INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE
[...] SUMMARY: The 50th session of the IMO DE S/C met in London 5-9 March 2007, chaired by Mrs. A. Jost (Germany). The session was attended by delegations from 60 member states, one associate member, one non-member state, one intergovernmental organization, and observers from 24 non-governmental o [...]
2007-03-29 11:46:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDIMO AORC ASEC UK
07LONDON314 INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO):
[...] SUMMARY: The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) held its 82nd session at the Polat Renaissance Istanbul Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey from 29 Nov ? 8 Dec 2006. The meeting was chaired by MSC vice chairman Mr. N. Ferrar (Philippines) as the Acting Ch [...]
2007-01-25 15:18:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDAORC IMO UK EWWT PHSA SENV KTIA ASEC ORTA
07LONDON317INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO):
[...] SUMMARY: The International Maritime Organization (IMO) met at Central Hall Westminster in London, UK from 06-09 November 2006, to hold the ninety-seventh session of the Council (C97) chaired by Mr. Johann Franson (Sweden). Topics of significant interest included: Condolences for the recent pa [...]
2007-01-25 16:18:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHSA EWWT ECPS MOPS AORC IMO KTIA
07LUANDA622ANGOLAN ELECTION PREPARATIONS ON TRACK DESPITE
[...] Summary: A/S Jendayi Frazer reinforced USG interest in seeing elections occur in 2008 and 2009 according to GRA announcements and advocated that the GRA publish an electoral calendar so that all parties can fully prepare for the elections. In Caala, Huambo province, she was positively impress [...]
2007-06-21 13:45:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM OVIP AO
07LUANDA650ANGOLA CHAIRS SOUTH ATLANTIC PEACE ZONE
[...] (C) Summary. Angola hosted the sixth Ministerial Conference of the South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone from June 18-19, 2007 in Luanda, and now chairs the organization. The main outcome of the conference was approval of the Luanda Action Plan (LAP),an extremely broad paper calling for [...]
2007-06-27 16:06:00Embassy LuandaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AO
07MANAGUA1789LAND DISPUTES THREATEN TOURISM SECTOR INVESTMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: A U.S. investor reports that local FSLN members, with backing from senior FSLN official Lenin Cerna, have orchestrated a land invasion and smear campaign to derail a USD 88 million tourism development along the southwest coast of Nicaragua. In retaliation for going public with a [...]
2007-07-26 15:16:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV ECON USTR KIDE NU
07MANILA2259PHILIPPINE CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: With over 600 soldiers, police officers, and military observers currently deployed to seven countries, the Philippines remains an important contributor to international peacekeeping efforts. These deployments highlight the government's continuing policy of supporting UN peace [...]
2007-07-03 08:27:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MCAP MARR IV LI HA AF YI SU TT RP
07MEXICO146DEMARCHE: 2007 LIBERIA PARTNERS FORUM
[...] Post delivered reftel demarche to Dr. Luis Landa Fournais, Director General for Economic Relations at the Foreign Relations Secretariat. No specific response was given. Visit Mexico City's Classified Web Site at http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/mexicocity GARZA [...]
2007-01-11 21:24:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN MX
07MONROVIA1012LIBERIA: REPORTS OF ARMS CACHES - MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
[...] (U) Recently there have been a slew of headlines in Liberian papers and in some international dailies on "arms caches" being discovered in Liberia and weapons being delivered through the airport. The press accounts have also linked the discoveries of the alleged arms and weapons deliveries to [...]
2007-08-15 17:28:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV MCAP LI
07MONROVIA1033LIBERIA: REQUEST FOR AIRPORT SURVEY AND ASSISTANCE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since signing an Open Skies agreement with the United States in February 2007, the Government of Liberia (GOL) is eager to initiate direct air service between the United States and Liberia. However, the security, safety, systems, and immigration shortfalls at the Robertsfiel [...]
2007-08-22 17:01:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON PGOV FAA LI
07MONROVIA1070LIBERIA: FISHERIES SECTOR UPDATE
[...] SUMMARY: Liberia's fisheries sector is seeking to improve regulatory oversight and enhance monitoring and surveillance capacity following years of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities that have damaged the fishing industry and raided Liberia's abundant marine resources. Des [...]
2007-09-04 17:06:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIS ECON ETRD ASEC EAID PGOV LI
07MONROVIA1071LIBERIA: LEGISLATURE DELAYS RECESS TO ADDRESS CRUCIAL
[...] SUMMARY: The Liberian National Legislature has delayed its annual "agricultural break" by one month, to September 30, at the request of the President in order to deliberate several bills introduced at the end of the regular session. Bills before the Senate include acts to create a Legislative [...]
2007-09-05 09:43:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM ECON LI
07MONROVIA1085LIBERIA: FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER MATTHEWS AND TWO OTHER
[...] Veteran Liberian politician and former Foreign Minister Gabriel Bacchus Matthews died September 7, 2007 at a hospital in Monrovia. Regarded as "the father of multi-party democracy" in Liberia, he fell in and out of favor with successive Liberian leaders. The GOL is expected to announce a state [...]
2007-09-13 13:08:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDPINR PGOV PHUM LI
07MONROVIA1090LIBERIA: FORESTRY / TIMBER SECTOR UPDATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Liberian Forestry Development Authority (FDA) has missed key deadlines in the chain of deliverables necessary for the resumption of commercial logging in Liberia. Much of the legal framework for the forestry sector is in place and the FDA has made substantial strides towar [...]
2007-09-13 14:35:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR PGOV EINV EAID SENV LI
07MONROVIA1109LIBERIA - ICGL MEETING OF AUGUST 31
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-19 15:51:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL KPKO LI
07MONROVIA1135LIBERIA: RESULTS REPORT: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE KIMBERLEY
[...] SUMMARY: UN Sanctions on the Liberian diamond sector were lifted in April of this year following the Kimberley Process 3rd Expert Review Mission findings that Liberia met the minimum requirements of the KPCS. The mission report detailed further preparations necessary to ensure that internal con [...]
2007-09-27 16:36:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN ECON PGOV EAID LI
07MONROVIA1139LIBERIA: RELATIONS WITH SIERRA LEONE INCREASINGLY WARM
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sierra Leonean President Ernest Koroma used the opportunity of his first official visit to Liberia to strengthen ties between the neighboring democracies. End Summary. 2. (U) On his first foreign trip since taking office, Sierra Leone's newly-elected President Ernest Bai Ko [...]
2007-09-28 15:51:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR SL LI
07MONROVIA1181DEMARCHE: POSSIBLE AFRICOM SITE
[...] (S) As instructed in reftel, Ambassador contacted President Sirleaf on October 5 to confirm whether or not Liberia is still interested in being considered as a possible host country for AFRICOM. President Sirleaf confirmed without any hesitation that Liberia remains enthusiastically intereste [...]
2007-10-05 16:53:00Embassy MonroviaSECRETMARR PREL LI
07MONROVIA1190LIBERIA: GRAPPLING WITH THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR
[...] SUMMARY: Easing the dire shortage and addressing the cost of electricity is a top priority of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's government but balancing speed with a prudent strategy is a challenge. The GOL believes the best solution is developing Liberia's abundant hydroelectric pot [...]
2007-10-10 10:08:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EINV EAID LI
07MONROVIA1201LIBERIA: AGOA COUNTRY ELIGIBILITY RECOMMENDATIONS 2008
[...] Following is the text of Embassy Monrovia's AGOA recommendations. The text has also been e-mailed to AF/EPS and USTR. Country: LIBERIA Current AGOA Status: Eligible Country Background Summary: Liberia has a government that was democratically elected in multi-party elections in October/N [...]
2007-10-12 07:06:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD LI
07MONROVIA1210LIBERIA: IN TEST OF SEPARATION OF POWERS, AUDITOR GENERAL
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Auditor General John S. Morlu, III took the Liberian Senate to the Supreme Court over a LD$4,999.99 (less than US$100) fine the Senate imposed on him for refusing to obey an order to reinstate 78 employees dismissed by the General Auditing Commission (GAC). In response, the Supr [...]
2007-10-12 13:34:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ELAB LI
07MONROVIA1293LIBERIA: REHABILITATING A TROUBLED BUT PROPITIOUS MARITIME
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Liberian maritime sector has a unique and vibrant past, but years of war and neglect have taken a toll on the fishing industry (ref A),the port (ref B),and overall maritime control and security inside Liberia's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Although Liberia's U.S.-based [...]
2007-10-29 10:58:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EWWT EFIS PHSA SENV LI
07MONROVIA1297LIBERIA PLANS TO INCREASE MANO RIVER UNION COOPERATION
[...] SUMMARY: Liberia has assumed the chairmanship of the Mano River Union (MRU) and will promote economic integration in addition to the traditional focus on security. The GOL plans to encourage Cote d'Ivoire to become a full member of the union, and will propose a free trade zone along the MRU bo [...]
2007-10-29 16:58:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM ECON LI
07MONROVIA1302LIBERIA WILL NOT ATTEND INTERPOL GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-30 15:13:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDKJUS PTER ASEC PREL PGOV IR LI
07MONROVIA1319LIBERIA: FATF STATEMENT AND GUIDANCE ON IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-06 07:48:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL MNUC ECON EFIN LI
07MONROVIA1321LIBERIA: MOJ PLANS TO REDUCE PRISON POPULATION
[...] SUMMARY: After the mass prison break in 2006 and the riot at Monrovia Central Prison (MCP) on October 20 (reftel) the Ministry of Justice is taking a hard look at reducing the prison population to improve security. This will be done through increasing resources, having a well-trained staff and [...]
2007-11-06 15:24:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR KJUS PREL PHUM LI
07MONROVIA1322LIBERIA: FIRST ANNUAL FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS SHOW POSITIVE
[...] (U) GOL efforts to stem leakage of government revenue are showing results. In the first full-year fiscal accounting for President Sirleaf's administration, revenues increased 75 percent over the previous year to USD 148.34 million. In a significant step toward transparency, the government pub [...]
2007-11-06 16:50:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN LI
07MONROVIA1348LIBERIA: MCC SCORECARD DELIVERED; GOL EAGER FOR THRESHOLD
[...] (SBU) Summary: Econoff delivered Liberia's MCC scorecard and reftel points to Minister of Commerce and Industry Frances Johnson Morris during an introductory call. There has been press reporting here on President Sirleaf's appeal, during her recent meetings with the President and others in W [...]
2007-11-16 16:22:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON ETRD KMCA MCC PHUM LI
07MONROVIA1359LIBERIA: GOL AND UNMIL RESPOND QUICKLY TO LAC
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Executive Mansion has called the murder of Liberian Agriculture Company (LAC) General Manager Michael Bruno "unacceptable" and vowed to find and prosecute the perpetrators as soon as possible in order to protect Liberia's investment climate. The Mansion also expressed concer [...]
2007-11-21 15:35:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC AMGT EAGR PTER LI
07MONROVIA1368EMBASSY DISCUSSES INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS WITH GOL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador, DCM and Conoffs discussed problem areas in international adoptions and made recommendations to strengthen adoption procedures in Liberia during a luncheon hosted by the Ambassador for senior GOL officials and the UNICEF Officer-In-Charge. After an animated and frie [...]
2007-11-27 16:21:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKOCI CASC CVIS LI
07MONROVIA1375FORMER REBEL LEADER DENIES HARBORING FIGHTERS
[...] (C) Summary: Former MODEL rebel group leader and NTGL foreign minister Thomas Nimely Yaya rejected accusations that he was training 150 Burkinabes at his family plantation in Grand Gedeh County. He told Ambassador that he has no political designs whatsoever, and supports the Sirleaf governme [...]
2007-11-30 16:08:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM LI
07MONROVIA1393LIBERIA: LEGISLATORS KEEN ON LIBERIA HOSTING
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador briefed Senators and Representatives serving on key legislative committees on the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM),and responded to their questions. The legislators expressed overwhelming support for the initiative and reiterated President Sirleaf's request tha [...]
2007-12-06 07:59:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR AMGT ASEC PHUM LI
07MONROVIA1411FORDER CHILDREN REPATRIATION CASE:
[...] (SBU) Robert Forder, the adoptive father of the seven children repatriated from Liberia 7 December, has told conoff that he intends to remain in Liberia for, at least, several more months. 2. (SBU) Forder, who had been up country for several weeks, finally came to the embassy 11 December at [...]
2007-12-13 13:05:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC KOCI LI
07MONROVIA1417LIBERIA: IN WELL-RUN ELECTION, UNITY PARTY AND
[...] SUMMARY. Unity Party candidate J.S.B. Theodore Momo and independent candidate Armour Kanie Wesso will advance to round two of the Gbarpolu County by-election to replace the late Senator Samuel Tormetie on December 18. Two Embassy teams, along with UNMIL and several NGOs, observed round one D [...]
2007-12-17 07:36:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PGOV PREL EAID LI
07MONROVIA1423LIBERIA'S POSTAL SYSTEM GETTING BACK ON TRACK
[...] (SBU) Summary: Liberia's Postal system is struggling to reconstitute itself after being totally destroyed during the 14-year civil war. There is strong commitment by the Director General of Posts to improve service and the just-announced replacement of the Minister of Post and Telecommunicat [...]
2007-12-20 13:03:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS EAID MARR MASS MOPS PREL OTRA LI
07MONROVIA1424LIBERIA: GOL CONSULTS CITIZENS ON POVERTY
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Liberians want roads, healthcare, and education, and they still don't feel secure. The GOL held two-day consultations with stakeholders in each of Liberia's 15 counties as part of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) process. For the first time, Liberians nationwide had a chanc [...]
2007-12-20 15:26:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPRGOV PREL EAID EFIN ECON LI
07MONROVIA1431LIBERIA: UNITY PARTY GAINS SENATE SEAT IN GBARPOLU
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The Unity Party has gained a Senate seat following candidate J.S.B. Theodore Momo's win in the December 18 Gbarpolu County by-election, President Sirleaf's party now has six seats in the 30 member Senate. Two Embassy teams, along with UNMIL and several NGOs, observed the second r [...]
2007-12-26 10:45:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KDEM EAID LI
07MONROVIA1438VICE ADMIRAL MOELLER'S DECEMBER 18-19 VISIT
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a successful visit December 18-19, AFRICOM Deputy to the Commander for Military Operations (DCMO) Vice Admiral Michael T. Moeller attended the activation of the first companies of the new Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) formed since the AFL was disbanded and restructured two [...]
2007-12-28 10:50:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MARR PGOV LI
07MONROVIA1439LIBERIA - SUPREME COURT RULING ENDS FIRESTONE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Firestone employees ended their occasionally violent two-week strike and returned to work December 22 following a Supreme Court ruling that settled an internal union leadership dispute. The Court upheld the July 7 election of new leadership for the Firestone Allied Agricultural [...]
2007-12-28 11:48:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON PHUM PGOV LI
07MONROVIA221LIBERIAN LEGISLATIVE CRISIS: SPEAKER SNOWE RESIGNS
[...] (C) Summary. Edwin Snowe resigned as Speaker of the House of Representatives February 15, but retained his position as a member of the House. At a press conference announcing his resignation, Snowe urged the international community and the Council of Churches to investigate allegations of bri [...]
2007-02-16 17:56:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV LI
07MONROVIA238LIBERIA: DEMARCHE ON THE CRISIS IN GUINEA
[...] (SBU) Embassy delivered reftel demarche February 21 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Assistant Minister for African and Asian Affairs Henry Fahnbulleh. Poloff also gave Fahnbulleh a copy of Embassy Conakry's press statement (See Reftel B). Fahnbulleh said he would advise the Minister of Foreig [...]
2007-02-21 15:44:00Embassy MonroviaSECRETPGOV PREL LI GV
07MONROVIA252LIBERIA: UNITY PARTY CANDIDATE WINS NIMBA COUNTY
[...] (U) The candidate of the governing Unity Party (UP),Evans V. Koah, won the February 20 by-election runoff for the House of Representatives seat representing Nimba County's District 6. The first round of the by-election was held February 6 (See Reftel A). Koah garnered 71.4 percent of the vot [...]
2007-02-23 12:35:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM LI
07MONROVIA279LIBERIA: 60-DAY REPORT TO UNSC ON UNSCR 1737
[...] Embassy delivered reftel demarche February 28 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Assistant Minister for African and Asian Affairs Henry Fahnbulleh. Poloff provided Fahnbulleh with a copy of the U.S. 60-day report. Fahnbulleh had no substantive comment. Booth [...]
2007-03-01 09:13:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP IR UNSC AORC ETRD TRGY LI
07MONROVIA280LIBERIA: IAEA REPORT ON IRANIAN COMPLIANCE WITH
[...] Embassy delivered reftel demarche February 28 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Assistant Minister for African and Asian Affairs Henry Fahnbulleh. Fahnbulleh had no substantive comment. Booth [...]
2007-03-01 09:14:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALKNNP IR LI
07MONROVIA282LIBERIA: FEBRUARY 1 VISIT OF CHINESE PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Summary. Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Liberia for a one-day visit February 1. According to Chinese Embassy Political Counselor Gou Hao Dong, it was the first visit by a Chinese head of state to Liberia since the two countries first established diplomatic relations in 1977. Gou to [...]
2007-03-01 10:37:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL LI CH
07MONROVIA289LIBERIA: US/CHINA DIALOGUE ON AFRICA
[...] (C) In general, Chinese assistance to Liberia tends to be well-publicized one-off contributions of goods, technical assistance, infrastructure, and exchanges, rather than sustained donor engagement in strengthening specific institutions or sectors. Since 2003, China has provided peacekeepers [...]
2007-03-02 13:28:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN PREL CH LI
07MONROVIA469LIBERIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM: SUPPORT BY RADIO CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary: John Langlois, Senior Media Advisor for USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) visited Liberia from February 28 - March 21, 2007. The purpose of his visit was to follow up on OTI media-related activities and to assess OTI's media strategy in light of new Chinese involvem [...]
2007-04-20 17:19:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV SCUL PINR LI PREL CH
07MONROVIA491LIBERIA: UPDATE ON HIGH PROFILE CORRUPTION
[...] (U) The Supreme Court heard oral arguments April 24 on a motion filed by attorneys for former National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) Chairman Guyde Bryant arguing that Bryant cannot be tried for "economic sabotage" (See Reftel A) because he enjoys immunity under Article 61 of the C [...]
2007-04-26 14:36:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KCRM KJUS LI
07MONROVIA496LIBERIA STUMBLES IN EFFORT TO PASS TELECOMMUNICATIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There are indications that comprehensive but flawed legislation to regulate Liberia's telecommunications market is close to a final vote. The late inclusion of a few, but significant, anti-competitive measures raises concern that the Act may have an immediate impact on current GS [...]
2007-04-27 13:34:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS ECON PGOV ETRD EINV LI
07MONROVIA559LIBERIA: SPAIN TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE IN HEALTH AND
[...] (U) Charge d'Affaires and Poloff (notetaker) met May 14 with Cristina Diaz Fernandez-Gil, Assistant Director for Cooperation with Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Fernandez-Gil was accompanied by Spain's Honorary Consul in Liberia Manuel Cuenca, Carolina [...]
2007-05-15 08:18:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID SP LI
07MONROVIA571LIBERIA ISSUES PRESS STATEMENT ON KEY U.S.
[...] Acting Minister of Health S. Mohammed Sheriff called Poloff May 15 to alert Embassy to the Ministry of Health's issuance of a press release along the lines of the U.S. objectives at the annual World Health Assembly. The press release appeared in the May 15 "Inquirer" newspaper. 2. Text of p [...]
2007-05-15 17:29:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO AORC PREL KFLU WHO LI
07MONROVIA579LIBERIA: DEMARCHE ON HCOC "INREACH" - ENCOURAGING
[...] (SBU) Embassy delivered reftel demarche May 16 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Minister for American Affairs Moiba Fofana. Fofana said he would brief Minister of Foreign Affairs George Wallace on the demarche. 2. (SBU) Fofana requested the full text of the Hague Code of Conduct (HCOC [...]
2007-05-17 10:05:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA MTCRE LI
07MONROVIA580LIBERIA: DEMARCHE ON IMPORTANCE OF INTERNATIONAL
[...] Embassy delivered reftel demarche May 16 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Minister for American Affairs Moiba Fofana. Emboff promised to send Fofana the texts of UNSCR resolutions 1267 and 1735. Fofana said he would brief Minister of Foreign Affairs George Wallace on the demarche. Mazel [...]
2007-05-17 10:05:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER UNSC LI
07MONROVIA590LIBERIA DEMARCHE: IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1747 AND
[...] (SBU) Embassy delivered reftel demarche May 18 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Minister for American Affairs Moiba Fofana. Fofana had no substantive response. Mazel [...]
2007-05-18 15:51:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM ETTC UNSC IR LI
07MONROVIA591LIBERIA: SCENE SETTER FOR HDAC CODEL
[...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes the May 31-June 2 visit of the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC) congressional delegation. Liberia is at a critical moment in its history, emerging from 14 years of civil war under a democratically elected government that has been in office a year and a half. [...]
2007-05-18 15:53:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID ECON LI
07MONROVIA599LIBERIA'S CONTROVERSIAL LEGISLATIVE AUTONOMY ACT
[...] (SBU) The Senate introduced a bill entitled "An Act to Amend Certain Provisions of the Legislative Law to Provide Financial Autonomy to the Legislature," which it passed on April 23, 2007. The House of Representatives passed the bill on April 24, 2007. (See text of Act in paragraph 5). The j [...]
2007-05-21 18:05:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ECON LI
07MONROVIA610SHIP "STOLEN" FROM LIBERIAN WATERS NOT AN
[...] (SBU) Summary: On May 11, unknown assailants "stole" the Saint Vincent-flagged M/V "Tahoma Reefer" from its anchorage in Liberian waters and proceeded to tow the vessel towards the Ivory Coast. United Nations Police (UNPOL) and the Liberian National Police (LNP) arrested two individuals (one o [...]
2007-05-23 09:56:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EWWT LI PGOV PHSA
07MONROVIA617LIBERIA: SIGNS OF HOPE IN LOFA COUNTY
[...] SUMMARY. On a three-day trip through Lofa County, May 16-18 Poloff and UK representative visited International Rescue Committee (IRC) projects funded by the USG and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). After visiting numerous communities, villages, and towns, it became clea [...]
2007-05-24 08:05:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ELAB PHUM KWMN KDEM SOCI LI
07MONROVIA620GOL PRESENTS DRAFT BUDGET TO THE LEGISLATURE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 16, 2007, President Johnson Sirleaf presented the draft Fiscal Year 2007/08 National Budget to the National Legislature. The draft budget amounts to US$183 million and reflects a 40 percent increase in revenues compared to the 2006/07 budget. The increase in the budget refle [...]
2007-05-24 15:58:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EFIN ETRD EINV LI
07MONROVIA623LIBERIA: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION MOVES
[...] (C) Summary. Over the past two months, the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has been working with the international community to put policies and practices in place that will instill donor confidence and permit resumption of funding of the TRC's activities. Many strides have [...]
2007-05-24 17:11:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM EAID LI
07MONROVIA638LIBERIA: UPDATE ON LABOR LAW REFORM
[...] Summary. A revised version of section 1508.3 of the Liberian labor code, which regulates dismissal without cause, will go back to the Liberian legislature for debate. Passage of the amended code was stalled in October 2006 after the Ministry of Labor decided to make further revisions. The new [...]
2007-05-31 08:21:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON EINV ELAB LI
07MONROVIA665LIBERIA: DEATH OF M. MOUSSA CISSE AND RESOLUTION
[...] (SBU) M. Moussa Cisse a/k/a Mamadee KAMARA, former Chief of Presidential Protocol for former President Charles Taylor, who was an individual subject to the measures imposed by paragraph 4 of Security Council Resolution 1521 (2003) concerning Liberia, has died in Liberia. JFK Hospital Medical [...]
2007-06-06 08:19:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL LI
07MONROVIA666CODEL PRICE VISIT TO LIBERIA
[...] Summary. Members of the U.S. House of Representatives David Price (D-NC),Chairman of the House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC),Jeff Fortenberry (R-NEB),and Gwen Moore (D-WIS),visited Liberia May 31-June 2. Their visit followed up on a July 2006 visit to the Liberian Congress by U. [...]
2007-06-06 09:30:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV OREP KDEM EAID LI
07MONROVIA736USG-FUNDED PROGRAMS RAISE AWARENESS OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
[...] UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT (USG)-FUNDED PROGRAMS IN LIBERIA HAVE STRENGTHENED COORDINATION, RAISED AWARENESS, AND PROVIDED STANDARDIZED INVESTIGATIVE AND REPORTING TOOLS TO THE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE COMMUNITY IN AN EFFORT TO COMBAT SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE (SEA) IN LIBERIA. 2. USAID' [...]
2007-06-21 11:45:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM EAID KWMN UNMIL LI
07MONROVIA745LIBERIAN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PASSES ACT RESTRICTING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Liberia's House of Representatives passed the National Technical Committee (NTC) Act on June 19, and has sent it to the Senate for concurrence. According to the Act, the NTC would have the exclusive administrative authority to supervise the award of all government related constr [...]
2007-06-22 13:07:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EINV EAID LI
07MONROVIA863LIBERIA: CONVERSATION WITH GEORGE WEAH AND CDC
[...] (C) Summary: On July 6, George Weah, leader of the Coalition for Democratic Change and unsuccessful Presidential Candidate in 2005, met with the Ambassador to discuss his views of the current government led by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. He spoke at length about problems the CDC has with the Sirle [...]
2007-07-18 14:31:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPINR PREL PGOV KDEM SOCI LI
07MONROVIA864LIBERIA: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-18 16:08:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM EAID LI
07MONROVIA887LIBERIA: NEW UNION LEADERSHIP AT FIRESTONE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-23 15:31:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB EAGR PGOV KDEM PHUM LI
07MONROVIA889LIBERIA LEGISLATURE MOVES ONE STEP CLOSER TO PASSING
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On July 18 the House of Representatives passed the draft 2007/2008 National Budget and forwarded the document to the Senate for concurrence. Senate President Pro Tempore Isaac Nyanabo suggested the budget debate could continue at least another week. The budget passed by the House [...]
2007-07-23 16:40:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EINV LI
07MONROVIA896LIBERIA: INDEPENDENCE DAY TO MARK THE ECONOMIC
[...] SUMMARY: In advance of celebrations marking the 160th anniversary of Liberian Independence on July 26, Emboffs traveled to Grand Bassa county on July 6-7, visiting the capital of Buchanan, Liberia's second largest port, and the Liberian Agricultural Company (LAC),the second largest rubber pl [...]
2007-07-24 16:08:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDAID ECON LI PGOV
07MONROVIA902VISIT TO LIBERIA BY DAS TODD MOSS - JULY 11 - 17,
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Todd Moss visited Liberia July 11-17, and met with leaders from the Government of Liberia (GOL),business and banking representatives, members of the legislative opposition, UNMIL and international partners, and directors from key se [...]
2007-07-25 18:50:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALASEC EAID ECON EFIN ENRG EWWT LI MAS MCAP
07MONROVIA910LIBERIA: SCENE SETTER FOR CODEL LOWEY
[...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes the August 16, 2007 visit of the Congressional delegation led by Representative Nita Lowey, Chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations. Liberia is at a critical moment in its history, emerging from 14 years of civil war under a d [...]
2007-07-27 15:17:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PGOV PREL EAID ECON LI
07MONROVIA960LIBERIA ECONOMIC BRIEFS -- August 2007
[...] (U) Following is a summary of recent economic and commercial developments in Liberia. ---------------------- PRESIDENT SIGNS BUDGET ---------------------- 2. (U) President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf signed into law the FY2007-08 national budget on July 31. The US$199.3 million budget is ov [...]
2007-08-02 16:01:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON EPET ETRD EINV EFIN ASEC EAID LI
07MONROVIA961LIBERIA: GOVERNMENT REVOKES DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-03 10:56:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CVIS PREL PTER LI
07MOSCOW126RUSSIA: LIBERIA PARTNERS' FORUM
[...] (SBU) This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Emboffs delivered reftel points to the Foreign Ministry's Africa Department Director Igor Labuzov. He said that a Russian delegation would likely attend the Liberian Partners' Forum in Washington [...]
2007-01-17 07:05:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL RS LI XY
07MUNICH81PUTIN AND GATES DOMINATE MUNICH SECURITY
[...] (SBU) The February 9-11 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy (formerly known as "Wehrkunde") on "Global Crises - Global Responsibilities" was dominated by differing visions of the Transatlantic role in global security. Chancellor Merkel, Secretary Gates, Senators McCain and Lieberman, a [...]
2007-02-12 17:28:00Consulate MunichUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYNATO OSCE PARM PREL GM IR AF RS
07NAIROBI469GUINEA: FORMER PM FALL ON CURRENT IMPASSE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Former Guinea PM Fall sees a yawning gap between President Conte's red lines and those of the union leaders. He predicts violent conflict between "the people and the army" on one side and "Conte's armed supporters" on the other. End Summary. 2. (SBU) PolCouns met with SRSG [...]
2007-01-26 10:10:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ELAB ASEC CASC PINS AEMR EAID GV
07NDJAMENA623UNDER-AGE RECRUITMENT IN CHAD
[...] SUMMARY: International media attention to under-age recruitment in Chad, stimulated by reports from Human Rights Watch and UN, has brought an indignant rebuke from the government spokesman, but, at the working level, it appears to have resulted in enhanced cooperation from the Ministry of De [...]
2007-07-26 13:08:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MCAP KAWC PREL CD
07NEWDELHI1325INDIA FALLING SHORT OF POTENTIAL IN AFRICA,
[...] (C) Summary. Indian strategic thinkers agree that China is leading India in involvement with Africa by almost all economic and political measures. Not only does China have a greater volume of bilateral trade with Africa, but China is also pouring development aid and concessional loans into [...]
2007-03-19 12:53:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR IN CH ECON ENRG EPET EAGR
07NEWDELHI1401AMBASSADOR TAHIR-KHELI ENCOURAGES INDO-US
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings, Senior Adviser to the Secretary Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli met with Ministry of SIPDIS External Affairs (MEA) officials March 22 to discuss a number of UN-related issues, including: - India's role on the UN Human Rights Council - Secretary General Ban [...]
2007-03-22 13:43:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IN
07NEWDELHI1749THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN INDIA - PART II
[...] (U) SUMMARY: This is the second in a two part series on the status of women in India. This cable is derived from Post's ongoing analysis of the issues facing women as well as conversations with politicians, think tanks, NGO activists, pundits, and government officials during Senior Advisor to [...]
2007-04-12 12:12:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL PINR SOCI KWMN IN
07NEWDELHI2916CONCLUSION OF THE SEVENTH US-INDIA WORKING GROUP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The seventh annual US-India Joint Working Group on Peacekeeping on June 19 focused on opportunities for the U.S. and India to work together to meet new challenges in global peacekeeping capacity. IO PDAS James Warlick led the US delegation, and Joint Secretary Sanjiv Arora of the [...]
2007-06-22 13:06:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO MARR UNGA IN
07OSLO1113NORWAY AND AFRICA, A RELATIONSHIP UNDERGOING CHANGE
[...] (U) Summary. The GON has made Africa a priority, expanding activities there beyond its long-standing development presence. One concrete example is the GON,s commitment to contribute a 200 person engineering battalion to the UN mission in Darfur. A more negative example is the recent expulsi [...]
2007-11-19 11:13:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MOPS PBTS KPKO ET ER NO
07OSLO91NORWAY OPEN TO QUICKLY CLEARING LIBERIA'S ARREARS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Norway wants to see a quick clearing of Liberia's International Financial Institution (IFIS) arrears and is open to solutions. However, Norway is concerned about custom deals setting precedents that could ultimately damage IFIS financial health. Norway is willing to compensate [...]
2007-02-01 15:32:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV LI NO
07OTTAWA16LIBERIA FORUM: CANADA MAY ATTEND AT LOW LEVEL, NO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-04 21:59:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA EAID ECON EFIN LI
07OTTAWA249CANADA: NO POSITION YET ON LIBERIA'S ARREARS, WILL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-08 22:17:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN LI
07PARIS1119PARIS CLUB - MARCH 2007 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (SBU) The March 14 meeting of the Paris Club reviewed the debt status of 24 countries, taking steps to prepare for debt treatments in the coming months for the Central African Republic (likely in April),the Gambia (in May),Sao Tome and Principe (in May),and Liberia. Creditors confirmed the [...]
2007-03-22 13:34:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
07PARIS1710FRANCE: DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT DISCUSSES G8 ISSUES,
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt met with Xavier Musca, DG for Economic Policy, April 27 to discuss G8 issues, Iraq, Iran and Liberia. Musca indicated concerns that European-led sanctions would lead to a vacuum to be filled in Iran by China and Russia. He promised to look into [...]
2007-04-27 16:46:00Embassy ParisSECRETEFIN PREL ETTC PARM IR IQ FR LI
07PARIS232FRANCE 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] Investment Climate Statement Contents A. French Investment Regime A1. Openness to Foreign Investment A2. Conversion and Transfer Policies A3. Expropriation and Compensation A4. Dispute Settlement A5. Performance Requirements and Incentives A6. Right to Private Ownership and Establis [...]
2007-01-22 12:35:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ELAB PGOV KTDB OPIC USTR FR
07PARIS3209 PARIS CLUB - JULY 2007 TOUR D'HORIZON AND GABON DEBT
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the July 17-18 meetings of the Paris Club, creditors accepted a stand-alone discounted debt buyback offer from Gabon, the first such operation by the Club. While welcoming Gabon's efforts to use USD 500 million in oil revenues toward debt management, the USG lacked legal aut [...]
2007-07-27 15:43:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
07PARIS321UNESCO: SEEKING NAMES OF INFLUENTIAL WOMEN
[...] Summary: Ref A calls for posts to supply the names of influential women to be included in a roster of women leaders worldwide. We at the U.S. Mission believe that UNESCO can act as an effective multiplier on global issues, including those involving women's empowerment. End Summary. 2. [...]
2007-01-26 16:34:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO KWMN PHUM PREL
07PARIS34FRENCH ATTENDANCE AT LIBERIA PARTNERS FORUM
[...] (U) We passed the information about the February 13-14 Liberia Partners Forum to our contacts in the French Finance and Foreign Ministries. At the MFA, our contacts lauded USG plans to host the Forum, but regretted that a timing conflict with the biennial Africa-France summit of heads of stat [...]
2007-01-05 14:03:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM EFIN PTER ECON FR
07PARIS3994PARIS CLUB - SEPTEMBER 2007 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the Paris Club's September 12 Tour d'Horizon, creditors welcomed in principle Jordan's proposal to buy back debt and generally supported the Secretariat's assessment of a 6-8 percent market discount. In a significant move, the Secretariat and creditors agreed with the U.S. [...]
2007-09-24 14:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
07PARIS400FRENCH REACTION TO LIBERIA ARREARS CLEARANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-01 11:25:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PGOV PINR FR
07PARIS4311OUTREACH TO WOMEN LEADERS IN FRANCE
[...] October 10-12, Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State for Women's Empowerment Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli conducted outreach to women leaders at the Deauville Women's Economic Forum and in Paris, reaching audiences from leaders in French politics to women social workers in underserved areas [...]
2007-10-18 15:09:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO PREL FR PHUM
07PARIS4399PARIS CLUB - OCTOBER 2007 REPORTING CABLE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 17, the Paris Club agreed to accept a buyback of previously rescheduled Jordanian debt at an average discount of 11 percent off face value. This figure is significantly above the 5-7% figure that the Paris Club Secretariat initially estimated to be a fair market disco [...]
2007-10-31 14:37:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
07PARIS4622PARIS CLUB - November 2007 TOUR D'HORIZON
[...] (U) At the November 14, 2007 Paris Club tour d'horizon, Chairman Musca urged countries to stay on message in their contacts with the government of Argentina - Argentina should clear its arrears. Iraq's recent agreement with Bulgaria was deemed roughly comparable to Iraq's Paris Club agreement, [...]
2007-12-03 15:38:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
07PARIS528FRENCH REACTION TO LIBERIA ARREARS CLEARANCE
[...] (SBU) We conveyed ref C message about Liberia's arrears to the office of Cooperation Minister Girardin on February 7, and to the MFA on February 8. According to the MFA, France is quite close to re-opening its embassy in Monrovia. The French have asked the Liberian government for agrement f [...]
2007-02-09 14:23:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV PINR FR
07PARIS688JAPAN/AFRICA: JAPANESE EMBOFF DISCUSSES WEST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chie Kinumaki, an Africa Watcher at Japan's Embassy in Paris, on February 21 discussed efforts to assist 30 Japanese nationals in leaving Guinea; the impasse in Cote d'Ivoire; concerns about China's lack of interest in promoting democracy, human rights, and sound business pract [...]
2007-02-23 09:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PINR CONS ASEC XY GV IV CH JA FR
07PRETORIA3569BRENTHURST FOUNDATION PROVIDES ADVICE TO RWANDA,
[...] (SBU) The Brenthurst Foundation, a Johannesburg-based think tank funded by the Oppenheimer family, is providing "confidential" policy advice to the Governments of Liberia, Rwanda, Lesotho, and Mozambique. Greg Mills, Director of the Foundation (see bio-note at para 6),told PolOff and visitin [...]
2007-10-10 16:12:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON EAID PINR SF
07PRETORIA3624ZUMA REASSURES FOREIGN INVESTORS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. ANC Deputy President Jacob Zuma on 26 September met with international investors at Citigroup's request, signaling that markets are preparing for the possibility of a Zuma presidency. Citigroup debriefed the Mission's Commercial Attache the following day, saying Zuma reassured t [...]
2007-10-15 13:00:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON SF
07PRETORIA3836KIMBERLEY PROCESS - STATUS QUO OR MORE?
[...] SUMMARY: The Diamonds - Source to Use 2007 Colloquium in Johannesburg offered heated discussion on whether to expand the Kimberley Process from its successful efforts combating conflict diamonds to include mitigation of illicit diamonds, artisanal mining, and lack of transparency. World Federa [...]
2007-11-01 15:10:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN ENRG ETRD SENV EINV SF
07PRETORIA3891DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER - MAYBE - MAYBE NOT
[...] SUMMARY: The Diamonds - Source to Use 2007 Colloquium in Johannesburg offered contrary views on African diamond reserves. Some pundits expect output to increase significantly from West Africa, Botswana, Angola and the DRC, but others foresee a sustained decline in world diamond production. A [...]
2007-11-07 10:53:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN ENRG EINV ETRD SENV SF
07PRETORIA4002South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" -
[...] (U) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, zin [...]
2007-11-20 11:28:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF
07PRETORIA520MBEKI EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR AU IN SOMALIA, BUT NO
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Though President Mbeki said February 9 that South Africa will "respond appropriately" to the AU request for assistance in Somalia, we believe the SAG remains skeptical about the AU operation and is content to sit back and watch the situation evolve. However, a specific request f [...]
2007-02-12 16:23:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR SO SF
07PRETORIA606AFRICA PEER REVIEW MECHANISM PRIMER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is perhaps the most developed and imaginative component of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD),but has been slow to get off the ground. Only three countries (Ghana, Rwanda, and Kenya) have completed their review, altho [...]
2007-02-21 07:04:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON EAID AU SF
07ROME264LIBERIA: ITALY EAGER TO HELP, BUT STILL CONCERNED
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Ministry of Finance (MOF) reports Italy wants to be helpful on the question of clearing Italy,s World Bank (WB) arrears using internal resources, but Italy still seeks a "framework" solution to include Liberia, Somalia, and Sudan. Italy is concerned that using internal W [...]
2007-02-08 17:09:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN PREL LI IT
07ROME307ORAL MESSAGE: CLEARING LIBERIA'S ARREARS TO
[...] (U) The Ambassador delivered the Secretary's oral message regarding Liberia's arrears to international financial institutions (ref A) to Minister of Foreign Affairs D'Alema February 8, 2007. FM D'Alema's staff acknowledged the message and stated that the FM would consider it. 2. (SBU) [...]
2007-02-13 15:48:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EAID PREL LI IT
07SANJOSE213 TOURISM LAGS IN COSTA RICA
[...] Summary: Costa Rican tourism officials recently released data for the first eight months of 2006 which suggest that tourism growth is slowing in Costa Rica despite apparent gains elsewhere in Latin America. In addition, the data indicates that tourism from North American markets to Costa Ric [...]
2007-02-05 17:07:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDEINV ETRD ECON CS
07SANSALVADOR1070EL SALVADOR: DAS COULTER VISIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Political Military Bureau's Deputy Assistant Secretary Michael Coulter visited El Salvador May 7-8 to hold bilateral discussions with the Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs. He also made a speech to the Salvadoran Armed Forces' equivalent to the War College, had dinn [...]
2007-05-31 20:48:00Embassy San SalvadorCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV PTER ES
07SANTODOMINGO2465TROPICAL STORM NOEL
[...] The latest official report by the Dominican Center of Emergency Operations (COE) regarding Tropical Storm Noel indicates that there are 11,756 displaced persons (2,502 of whom are in shelters and 9,704 who have been placed with families). There have been 16 fatalities reported and 15 people c [...]
2007-10-30 20:19:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ASEC DR
07SANTODOMINGO2466LIQUID PROPANE GAS TANKER RUNS AGROUND: THREAT OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-30 20:55:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EPET SENV KPAO DR
07SOFIA1371BULGARIA EXTENDS IRAQ MISSION; 20 MORE TROOPS FOR
[...] (C) Summary. The Bulgarian Council of Ministers voted December 12 to extend the Bulgarian mission in Iraq until April 1, 2009 and to send an additional 20 soldiers to Afghanistan to strengthen its contingent currently guarding the perimeter at Kandahar Airfield. The deployment of two milit [...]
2007-12-13 14:28:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR BU
07STATE117303LIBERIA,S ARREARS TO THE NIGERIA TRUST FUND
[...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: Post is requested to seek a meeting with Finance Minister Usman and deliver the attached letter (see para 9, PDF version will be sent to the Embassy) from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as soon as possible, preferably before close of business Tuesday, August 21. [...]
2007-08-21 16:10:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN LI NI PREL
07STATE151188(S/NF) SUBJECT: PUBLIC AFFAIRS GUIDANCE FOR
[...] (S/NF) Over the next few weeks, DOD and State will jointly visit Botswana, Gabon, and Liberia to discuss security cooperation with host countries in the context of AFRICOM. Visiting teams will also collect data on security and infrastructure parameters relevant to siting an AFRICOM element. P [...]
2007-10-31 21:24:00Secretary of StateSECRETMARR PREL BC GB LI
07STATE154497DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE'S MEETING WITH U/SYG
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Deputy Secretary Negroponte met with UN Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping Jean-Marie Guehenno on November 5 to discuss challenges to UNAMID deployment. U/SYG Guehenno pressed the Deputy Secretary for further U.S. assistance with acquiring the capabilities necessary to mak [...]
2007-11-09 01:18:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALKPKO PREL UNSC
07STATE83798Secretary Rice's June 7th, 2007, conversation
[...] (U) Classified by: AF Acting A/S Linda Thomas- Greenfield. Reasons 1.4 (b) and d) 2. (U) June 7, 2007, 10:00 am, Washington, DC. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary PA Sean McCormack AF PDAS Linda Thomas-Greenfield DRL DAS Jeff Krilla AF/W Notetaker GUINEA Prime Ministe [...]
2007-06-15 15:55:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALOVIP KOUYATE LANSANA PGOV PREL GV
07STATE86894LIBERIA: DEATH OF M. MOUSSA CISSE
[...] (SBU) Department requests that Embassy send a letter to the JFK Hospital Administrator requesting a death certificate for M. Moussa Cisse a/k/a Mamadee Kamara, former Chief of Presidential Protocol for former President Charles Taylor, who was an individual subject to the measures imposed by par [...]
2007-06-21 19:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL LI ETTC
07STATE98670DEMARCHE REQUEST: CONVEYING USG PRIORITIES FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 5 - 16. 2. (U) This year's Community of Democracies (CD) Ministerial is scheduled for November 2007 in Bamako, Mali. Based upon a set of participation criteria, countries will be invited to the ministerial as full participants, as ob [...]
2007-07-16 21:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV PREL PHUM UNGA
07STOCKHOLM77 EXPORT CONTROL BILATS BETWEEN SWEDEN AND DOC
[...] (C) Summary: On December 7, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration Christopher Padilla met with a Swedish interagency group to discuss a variety of export control and strategic trade issues. The two sides addressed the U.S. Government's proposed China licensing policy rule [...]
2007-01-23 09:36:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC EINV KSTC SW
07TAIPEI73Taiwan's 2007 Investment Climate Statement (Part II)
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-11 01:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR OPIC KTDB USTR TW
07TELAVIV3187ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-02 13:02:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07THEHAGUE1305CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE
[...] (U) On July 3, Amb. Lyn Parker (UK),the RevCon Working Group Chair, convened a meeting to discuss: the list of potential NGOs to be invited to a meeting with States Parties on 19 November; the final CWC clauses (Articles XII to XXIV); the protection of confidential information; and the functi [...]
2007-07-09 10:02:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL CWC
07THEHAGUE160CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE
[...] (U) Facilitator Maartin Lak (Netherlands) held a January 25 consultation to review 2006 accomplishments and taskings for 2007 work. Lak noted A/S Commerce Padilla's initiative and called for states to assist implementing states, focusing on those states with industries, but remain without leg [...]
2007-01-29 15:23:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL CWC
07THEHAGUE222DUTCH ON CLEARING LIBERIA'S ARREARS TO THE IFIS
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 7. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Dutch agree that a multilateral solution is needed to address Liberia's arrears to the IFIs but also stress the need to guard against negatively impacting the financial integrity of all the IFIs. They worry that a [...]
2007-02-06 12:48:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV PINR LI NL
07THEHAGUE234NETHERLANDS/LIBERIA: DUTCH ATTENDANCE AT LIBERIA
[...] (U) As requested, Post conveyed ref A message from Secretary Rice to Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation SIPDIS van Ardenne. Post also followed up with officials from the Dutch ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs to emphasize the importance of the February 13-14 Liberia Partn [...]
2007-02-07 16:18:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID PGOV PINR PREL LI NL
07THEHAGUE504CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR
[...] (SBU) What promised to be an uneventful EC-48 on March 13-16 turned into a lengthy session that previewed important, upcoming issues. Iran's tactics have focused the minds of delegations on how to keep Iran from delaying work at future EC sessions. The handling of the Albanian destruction is [...]
2007-03-21 15:21:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL CWC
07THEHAGUE70Netherlands/Liberia: Dutch Embassy will cover
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Dutch Embassy in Washington will send an officer to the February Liberia Partners' Forum. The Dutch are phasing out their humanitarian assistance to Liberia, citing lack of resources. Dutch development assistance is expected to continue at a modest level, but could increase [...]
2007-01-16 17:05:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN ECON PREL EUN LI NL
07TUNIS1261AFDB PRESIDENT AIMS TO REGAIN MEMBER CONFIDENCE
[...] (SBU) In a September 11 meeting with EEB PDAS Elizabeth Dibble, African Development Bank (AfDB) President Donald Kaberuka outlined his vision for the AfDB's future, emphasizing the need for greater selectivity and focus in Bank lending as well as strong support for the private sector. Kaberuk [...]
2007-09-18 07:09:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EINV XA
07USNATO410 NATO-UKRAINE COUNCIL MARKS TENTH ANNIVERSARY JULY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 9, the 27 members of the NATO-Ukraine Commission (NUC) met in Ambassadorial session at NATO headquarters to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Charter on a Distinctive Partnership which established the NUC. Allies commended Ukraine's contributions to [...]
2007-07-11 16:02:00Mission USNATOUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL NATO UP
07USUNNEWYORK1190UN/LIBERIA SANCTIONS: SECURITY COUNCIL REVIEWS
[...] (C) Per resolution 1731 (2006),the UN Security Council reviewed Liberia sanctions during a closed meeting on December 14. Qatari PermRep and Chairman of the Liberia Sanctions Committee Nassir al-Nasser delivered a summary of Committee discussions and the views of the Liberia Panel of Experts [...]
2007-12-20 16:09:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL ETTC UNSC PGOV LI
07USUNNEWYORK1192UN/LIBERIA SANCTIONS: SECURITY COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY
[...] On December 19 the UN Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1792 (2007) renewing the arms embargo and travel ban in Liberia until December 20, 2008 and the mandate of the Liberia Panel of Experts until June 20, 2008. Please see paragraph 2 for the text of the resolution. 2. Text [...]
2007-12-20 16:12:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDETTC UNSC PREL PGOV LI
07USUNNEWYORK1193UNGA: REPORT ON AFRICAN DELEGATIONS AT THE 62ND GA
[...] (SBU) Gerald Scott is again serving as Senior Area Advisor for Africa at USUN during the regular session of the General Assembly. These are his personal reflections on African participation as the regular session of the 62nd GA draws to a close. (Note that while in the UN context the African [...]
2007-12-20 18:02:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINR PINS ECON XW XY ZF ZU
07USUNNEWYORK1195OUTGOING MEMBERS BRIEF COUNCIL ON SUBSIDIARY BODIES
[...] SUMMARY: On December 17, outgoing Security Council members Congo, Ghana, Peru, Qatar, and Slovakia briefed the Council on the activities of the following Subsidiary Bodies under their chairmanship: the 1518(2003) Committee on Iraq; the 1132 (1997) Committee on Sierra Leone; the 1521 (2003) C [...]
2007-12-20 19:17:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL AORC KPAO PTER KNNP
07USUNNEWYORK159UN/RWANDA SANCTIONS: RWANDA SEEKS US SUPPORT FOR
[...] (U) This is a guidance request, please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) USUN Sanctions Unit Chief was approached by Rwandan First Counselor Nicholas Shalita on February 23 to request that the United States support a new resolution to modify the arms embargo on Rwanda. The Rwandans are consulting wit [...]
2007-02-28 19:18:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC ETTC RW
07USUNNEWYORK21UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT
[...] This is a guidance request - see para 7. 2. SUMMARY: In the coming weeks, the Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee will convene a series of meetings, including a day-long discussion to be hosted by the UK Mission on January 17, to consider a series of issues that will impact th [...]
2007-01-12 22:47:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA
07USUNNEWYORK22UN SEEKS BANKING INSTRUCTIONS TO DEPOSIT BALANCE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (U) The United Nations contacted the Mission to seek electronic fund transfer instructions (EFT) in order to deposit the balance of funds remaining in the Trust Fund for the Implementation of the Cotonou Accord on Liberia. Per r [...]
2007-01-12 22:49:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN AORC KUNR
07USUNNEWYORK327UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR FIVE
[...] USUN has emailed to Department (IO/PSC-Dennis Hankins) and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated April 27, 2007 concerning the financing of five peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as fol [...]
2007-04-27 22:13:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDAORC AFIN UN
07USUNNEWYORK348SECURITY COUNCIL ENDS LIBERIA DIAMOND SANCTIONS
[...] On April 27, the Security Council unanimously adopted UNSCR 1753 (text in para 4),which terminated diamond sanctions in Liberia. The Security Council concluded that Liberia had met the criteria set out in resolution 1521 (2003) to create a transparent and internationally verifiable certifica [...]
2007-05-03 13:32:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDETTC UNSC PREL PGOV LI
07USUNNEWYORK445GUIDANCE REQUEST: US FAILURE TO DEPOSIT 2003 AND
[...] GUIDANCE REQUEST: USUN is transmitting two May 23 note verbales from the Secretary-General notifying the United States that the United Nations has voided check payments to the United States from 2003 and 2004 that have not been deposited. These payments represent a full refund to the United S [...]
2007-06-05 19:02:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KUNR UNGA
07USUNNEWYORK49UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USUN M/R joined other Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee members (UK, Canada, Netherlands, Sierra Leone, Nigeria) for a day-long meeting convened January 17 at the UK Mission to assess the more than fifty recommendations to improve efficiency of the Special Court [...]
2007-01-24 15:56:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA
07USUNNEWYORK574WEST AFRICAN STATES ASK FOR HELP IN COMBATING
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) held an informal meeting on July 11 to address the technical assistance needs of West African states in fulfilling their counter-terrorism obligations under Security Council resolution 1373. Present at the meeting w [...]
2007-07-13 19:58:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER XY KFTN KCRM
07USUNNEWYORK607UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT
[...] USUN has received a letter dated July 10, 2007 (full text - para 2) from Canadian Ambassador John McNee, current Chairman of the Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee, addressed to Ambassador Khalilzad seeking additional U.S. financial support for the Special Court. The Special Cou [...]
2007-07-25 16:21:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA
07USUNNEWYORK629UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT
[...] USUN has received a letter dated July 10, 2007 (full text - para 2) from Canadian Ambassador John McNee, current Chairman of the Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee, addressed to Ambassador Khalilzad seeking additional U.S. financial support for the Special Court. The Special Cou [...]
2007-07-31 21:25:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA
07USUNNEWYORK644UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR TWELVE
[...] USUN has emailed to Department (IO/PSC-Douglas Wake and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and four related annexes from the SYG dated July 31, 2007 concerning the financing of 15 peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government for 12 operat [...]
2007-08-06 21:42:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDAORC AFIN UN
07USUNNEWYORK650MISSION CLEARANCE FOR LIBERIA SSR TEAM
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-08 21:18:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDKCRS UN YI PREL
07USUNNEWYORK731LIBERIA: SECURITY COUNCIL FOCUSES ON UNMIL DRAWDOWN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIL SRSG Doss briefed the UN Security Council on progress on political and security fronts in Liberia, focusing most of his presentation on explaining the recommendations of the Secretary-General's August 8 report (S/2007/479) for a drawdown in UNMIL operations and personnel. [...]
2007-09-07 01:11:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYLI PGOV PREL
07USUNNEWYORK79UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR 14
[...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/MPR-David Leis and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated January 31, 2007 concerning the financing of 14 peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as follows: [...]
2007-01-31 23:49:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDAORC AFIN UN
07USUNNEWYORK85UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR 14
[...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/MPR-David Leis and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated January 31, 2007 concerning the financing of 14 peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as follows: [...]
2007-01-31 23:49:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDAORC AFIN UN
07USUNNEWYORK861UNGA 62: USUAL SUSPECTS CRITICAL OF U.S. IN THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During the United Nations General Debate, several member states praised the United States on a variety of issues, including peacebuilding, reconstruction, debt relief, and democracy. Several heads of state were outspoken in their harsh criticism of the United States, primar [...]
2007-10-12 22:36:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM UNGA
07USUNNEWYORK932SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT PROSECUTOR MEETS WITH
[...] Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee met, October 25, with Court Prosecutor Stephen Rapp. Rapp, in the U.S. on home leave, had just come from meetings in Ottawa after addressing the Canadian Bar Association. He had also given a speech at UCLA. Rapp reviewed progress on ongoing c [...]
2007-10-30 21:11:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDKAWC NL PGOV PREL SL
07USUNNEWYORK952ANTI-RAPE RESOLUTION UPDATE
[...] (C) Negotiations on the text of the U.S.-initiated anti-rape resolution are heading into the end-game. Over 50 countries, including the European Union and others from various regions, have signed on as co-sponsors of a compromise text that asks for action to eliminate rape generally, "includi [...]
2007-11-01 23:36:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALSOCI PHUM KFEM UNGA
07USUNNEWYORK957LIBERIA SEEKS U.S. GUIDANCE ON MEETINGS WITH PA
[...] (U) See action request in paragraph 4. 2. (C) Liberian Permanent Representative Milton Barnes met with AMB Khalilzad on November 11 to discuss President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's mid-November state visit to Israel. AMB Barnes said that the Liberian Ministry of Foreign Affairs had instructed [...]
2007-11-05 21:19:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IS LI
07USUNNEWYORK961UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR THREE
[...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/PSC-Tammy Pomerleau and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated October 31, 2007 concerning the financing of three peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as fo [...]
2007-11-06 19:52:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDAORC AFIN UN
07VIENNA286FOLLOW UP TO AUSTRIA: FEBRUARY 13-14 LIBERIA
[...] A/DCM met on February 6 with Carolina Gudenus, the Austrian MFA's DAS-level Africa Director, to press U.S. objectives for the February 13-14 Liberia Partners Forum. We pointed out the high level of attendees, including the Secretary and President Sirleaf, and stressed Liberia's need SIPDIS [...]
2007-02-06 15:45:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN PREL LI AU
08ABIDJAN37COTE D'IVOIRE'S PORTS PLAN AMBITIOUS EXPANSION AS POLITICAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Port of Abidjan is West Africa's largest deep-water port, and the second largest port on the continent. According to Maersk officials, it is also one of the more efficient ports in the world. Cote d'Ivoire's second port, San Pedro, exports 10 percent of the country's expor [...]
2008-01-16 16:00:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON ECIN ELTN EWWT IV
08ABUJA106NIGERIA: POL/ECON UPDATES FOR JANUARY 1-15, 2008
[...] (U) Following is a joint Embassy Abuja-ConGen Lagos compilation of January 1-13, 2008 political/economic highlights, which did not feature in our other reporting, covering: -- Election Tribunals -- Corruption -- Niger Delta -- ECOWAS -- National Assembly -- Human Rights, Labor, Refugees - [...]
2008-01-16 16:41:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF EFIN ETRD EPET KCOR MASS ELAB
08ABUJA1095NIGERIA: BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON UPDATES FOR MAY 16-31,
[...] (U) Following is a joint Embassy Abuja ConGen Lagos compilation of May 16-31, 2008 political/economic highlights, which did not feature in our other reporting, covering: --Elections --National Assembly --Military Matters --Environment --Energy --Aviation --Debt --Fiscal Responsibility -- [...]
2008-06-12 11:46:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM ECON EPET ETRD KCOR MOPS NI
08ABUJA1264ECOWAS: 34TH SESSION OF THE HEADS OF STATE AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 23, 2008, ECOWAS held its Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session of Authority of Heads of State and Government in Abuja, Nigeria. Nine heads of state and six minister-level delegates attended the session, which was opened with speeches by Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, [...]
2008-06-30 13:40:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC SNAR ECON NI
08ABUJA1593NIGERIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL JOHNSON (AUGUST
[...] (SBU) U.S. Mission Nigeria warmly welcomes Congressman Henry "Hank" Johnson, Jr. and his delegation to Abuja. Your visit comes three months into President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's second year in office. Though the President came to power through deeply flawed elections, he was initially praised [...]
2008-08-11 14:38:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EAID EPET NI
08ABUJA1827NIGERIA: BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON UPDATES FOR AUGUST 16-31,
[...] (U) The following is a joint Embassy Abuja/ConGen Lagos compilation of August 16-31 political/economic highlights, which did not feature in our other reporting, covering: --Military, Security, and Bakassi --Economic and Business --Southern Political --Oil and Gas --Other News ---------- [...]
2008-09-09 13:44:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAGR ETRD KDEM ECON EPET MOPS KTIP NI
08ABUJA2201NIGERIA: ECOWAS AND INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: From October 27-29, ECOWAS and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) co-sponsored a seminar on international humanitarian law treaties in West Africa entitled "Even War Has Limits." Poloff attended the October 29 session, which was open to observers from foreign m [...]
2008-11-10 08:18:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV MASS PHUM ICRC ECOWAS NI
08ABUJA238NIGERIA: AF DAS MOSS'S MEETING WITH HOUSE SPEAKER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: AF DAS Todd Moss and the Ambassador met with Speaker of the House of Representatives Dimeji Bankole January 23. Bankole solicited USG assistance for building up the National Assembly (NASS) as a bona fide separate branch of government. Bankole said the GON is committed to the Gul [...]
2008-02-05 15:34:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ETRD EINV EAID MARR EFIN NI
08ABUJA2518ECOWAS: 35TH SUMMIT OF HEADS OF STATE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 19, the ECOWAS 35th Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government met in Abuja. The one-day summit capped off a week of ministerial-level discussions that primarily focused on limiting the effects of the global economic crisis on the region, encouraging infrastruct [...]
2008-12-23 16:27:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECOWAS NI
08ABUJA313NIGERIA: POL/ECON UPDATES FOR FEBRUARY 1-14, 2008
[...] (U) Following is a joint Embassy Abuja-ConGen Lagos compilation of February 1-14, 2008 political/economic highlights, which did not feature in our other reporting, covering: -- Elections: Tribunals, Reforms, Party Politics -- Corruption -- Niger Delta -- Military Affairs -- National Assembl [...]
2008-02-20 07:35:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EPET PHUM EFIN ETRD KCOR KDEM ELAB MOPS
08ABUJA503ECOWAS STANDBY FORCE: ITS PRESENT STATUS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF) is frequently mentioned by those in the African security community as the best developed of the African rapid-reaction brigades called for by the African Union (AU) in July 2004. Indeed, ECOWAS has come a long way from the days of the ECOWAS Monito [...]
2008-03-14 13:49:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PREL PGOV ECOWAS XY NI
08ABUJA74SPEAKER LOOKING TO BUILD HOUSE, ECONOMY
[...] (C) Summary: Nigeria's Speaker of the House, Oladimeji Bankole, expressed his determination to make the National Assembly a co-equal branch of government. He expects to visit Washington in February and will seek U.S. support for his efforts. He says his approach is to "follow the money" to [...]
2008-01-11 14:20:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EFIN EINV ETRD ENRG BEXP NI
08ABUJA785NIGERIAN PRESIDENTIAL CONSULTANT DISCUSSES PLAN
[...] (C) On April 8, Mission Poloffs met Rajakumari Jandhyala (strictly protect),a private U.S. citizen consultant with extensive experience working with the governments of Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Sudan. Jandhyala is well- and favorably known to AF/RSA due to a previous position with the [...]
2008-04-29 13:11:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV NI
08ABUJA863NIGERIA: BI-WEEKLY POL/ECON UPDATES FOR APR 16-30
[...] (U) Following is a joint Embassy Abuja-ConGen Lagos compilation of April 16-30, 2008 political/economic highlights, which did not feature in our other reporting, covering: -- Elections: Tribunals, Reforms, Re-Runs -- PDP Politics -- Corruption -- Niger Delta -- National Assembly -- Economi [...]
2008-05-12 08:58:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM ECON EPET ETRD KJUS KCOR NI
08ACCRA194GHANA: SCENE SETTER FOR SECSTATE VISIT FEBRUARY 19-21,
[...] Warmest Welcome to Ghana Madame Secretary. Your participation in the President's visit comes at the beginning of what promises to be another eventful year for Ghana. After celebrating 50 years of independence in 2007, Ghana is preparing to hold Parliamentary and presidential elections in lat [...]
2008-02-07 17:14:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA OVIP PREL PGOV ECON AMGT GH
08ACCRA220GHANA: SCENE SETTER FOR U.S. PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO GHANA
[...] (U) Mr. President: Our entire mission joins me in extending a very warm welcome to you to Ghana. We are delighted that you, Mrs. Bush and your delegation are visiting Ghana at the beginning of what promises to be another eventful year. After celebrating 50 years of independence in 2007, Gha [...]
2008-02-13 10:37:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA OVIP PREL PGOV ECON AMGT GH
08ACCRA380Interior Minister Discusses Planned Deportation of Liberian
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 18 meeting with Ambassador Bridgewater, Interior Minister Kwamena Bartels said that the GOG is collaborating closely with UNHCR, the Ghana Refugee Board, and the Government of Liberia in implementing plans to revoke the refugee status and deport 659 Liberian refugees w [...]
2008-03-19 16:41:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL LI GH
08ACCRA383Update on Plans to Deport Liberian Detainees
[...] (SBU) Following up on reftel discussions concerning the possible deportation of Liberian residents of the Buduburam refugee camp, Ambassador Bridgewater spoke March 20 with Interior Minister Kwamena Bartels. Bartels said that after consultations with UNHCR and the Liberian Government, Ghana is [...]
2008-03-20 14:13:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL LI GH
08ACCRA384Update on Plans to Deport Liberian Detainees
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-20 14:13:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL LI GH
08ACCRA395GHANA: SCENE SETTER FOR CODEL FRANK'S VISIT TO GHANA MARCH
[...] Mr. Chairman and Honorable Members of Congress: Our entire mission joins me in extending to you a very warm welcome to Ghana. We hope your visit here helps inform you and the committee members, and look forward to supporting your objectives. 2. SUMMARY: After celebrating 50 years of indepe [...]
2008-03-25 14:38:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA OVIP PREL PGOV ECON AMGT GH
08ACCRA422Liberian Refugee Update: Ambassador's Meeting with UNHCR
[...] (SBU) Summary: On March 20, the Ambassador met with UNHCR Accra Representative Aida Haile Mariam, who provided UNHCR's perspective on the current crisis, including Ghana's efforts to return some Buduburam residents to Liberia. Mariam confirmed that UNHCR is now involved in screening the Liberi [...]
2008-03-31 15:30:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL LI GH
08ACCRA474Liberian Repatriation Suspended
[...] (U) According to April 4 media reports, the Ministry of Interior has suspended temporarily the proposed repatriation of Liberian refugees until the announced Tripartite Committee (TC) establishes its procedures. Post will confirm and provide additional reports as information is available. [...]
2008-04-04 12:13:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL LI GH
08ACCRA475Liberian Refugee Update and Analysis
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 1 Minister of Interior Kwamena Bartels announced that Ghana would deport all 26,967 Liberian refugees in coordination with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR),and that in the interim they will be dispersed to various locations to mitigate their thre [...]
2008-04-04 12:14:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL LI GH
08ACCRA476GHANA POLITICAL ROUNDUP
[...] SUMMARY: Speculation continues in Ghana over possible running-mates for opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) flag bearer Professor John Atta Mills, with former First Lady Nana Rawlings publicly urging Mills to select a female candidate. With the continuing crisis over Liberian refuge [...]
2008-04-04 12:15:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL GH
08ACCRA477EMBASSY REFERRAL FOR HASHIM MOHAMED ZAKARIA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Accra hereby refers Hashim Mohamed Zakaria, a citizen of Sudan of Massalit ethnicity, born November 25, 1977, in Dofor Gadida, Darfur, Sudan, for refugee processing. Zakaria has provided convincing evidence to us that he fled Sudan due to well-founded fear of persecution [...]
2008-04-04 12:16:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF GH SU
08ACCRA480GHANA: SCENE SETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY BARRETT'S VISIT TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-07 08:10:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA OVIP PREL PGOV ECON AMGT GH
08ACCRA497Liberian Repatriation Suspended
[...] (U) Summary: Following habeus corpus lawsuits filed by two Ghanaian human rights NGOs that challenged the arrest and planned deportation of 23 Liberians, on April 8 the court of appeals has ordered the government to postpone the deportation of 23 Liberians scheduled for the same day. The cou [...]
2008-04-10 15:01:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL LI GH
08ACCRA545Court Rules that Liberians May be Deported
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 24 an Accra Court ruled that 23 unregistered Liberians detained by the Ghana Immigration Service since March 17 are living in Ghana illegally and may be deported to Liberia. The ruling could set a precedent for the treatment of the approximately 15,000 unregistered Lib [...]
2008-04-28 15:23:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM LI GH
08ACCRA723June 3 Liberian Refugee Repatriation Update: Ambassador's
[...] (SBU) Summary: On June 3, the Ambassador met with UNHCR Accra Representative Aida Haile Mariam, who provided an update on the voluntary repatriation of Liberians from Ghana. Since April, 1,200 Liberian refugees in Ghana have returned to Liberia. UNHCR is working toward facilitating the repatr [...]
2008-06-04 16:14:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL LI GH
08ACCRA798GHANA: SCENE SETTER FOR CODEL PRICE'S VISIT TO GHANA JUNE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-23 18:14:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA OVIP PREL PGOV ECON AMGT GH
08ADDISABABA1022ETHIOPIA PRIME MINISTER TO CALL ON UN SECRETARY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Ethiopian State Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Tekeda Alemu on April 11 made it clear to Ambassadors representing PermReps to the UN Security Council that Ethiopia was frustrated and dismayed with the April 8 Secretary General's report on the Eritrea-Ethiopia border. SIPDIS [...]
2008-04-14 13:32:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS MOPS KPKO ET ER
08ADDISABABA1285ETHIOPIAN FRUSTRATION WITH THE UNSC OVER THE BORDER
[...] (C) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles met with the UK, French and U.S. Ambassadors May 9 to state that Ethiopia would disengage and keep quiet on the Eritrea-Ethiopia border dispute. Meles said the Ethiopian Government (GoE) had developed a set of new proposals to break the impasse and push forw [...]
2008-05-13 14:57:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKPKO PBTS PREL MARR ET ER
08ADDISABABA2234ETHIOPIA/CHINA: DEPARTING PRC ECONOMIC COUNSELOR
[...] (C) Noting that he would soon depart for a new assignment in Monrovia, PRC Economic and Commercial Counselor in Ethiopia Liu Yunbiao told Emboffs that his office would continue to pursue opportunities for cooperation with the United States in Ethiopia, as well as Liberia. Liu observed his vie [...]
2008-08-14 04:42:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON PINR EAID ET
08ADDISABABA2561ETHIOPIA BRACES FOR AN UNCERTAIN RELATIONSHIP WITH
[...] (S/NF) Prime Minister Meles told the Ambassador during a private two hour meeting September 13 that Ethiopia is committed to U.S. relations as the cornerstone for its security and development, but many ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) party members and non-party [...]
2008-09-17 13:19:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV EAID KDEM ET
08ADDISABABA430ETHIOPIA URGES UNSC ACTION AGAINST ERITREA OVER
[...] (SBU) Ethiopian State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Tekeda Alemu, called in the Ambassadors representing the member states on the UN Security Council on February 19 to urge immediate UN action against Eritrea in response to restrictions on UNMEE troop relocation. Noting that Eritrea,s restr [...]
2008-02-20 12:40:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO MOPS ER ET
08ADDISABABA46ETHIOPIAN DEPLOYMENT PLANS FOR DARFUR
[...] (C) Defense Minister Kuma Demeksa and Chief of Military Staff, General Samora Yonus reiterated to Ambassador messages from the Ethiopian Military (ENDF) to the Embassy Defense Attache's office that as many as 1,500 Ethiopian troops will be prepared to deploy to Darfur within 15 days, but r [...]
2008-01-08 14:18:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALKPKO MARR PREL EAID ET
08ADDISABABA699PRC/ETHIOPIA: PRC OPEN TO TRADE AND AGRICULTURE
[...] (C) The Ambassador discussed with PRC Embassy counterparts opportunities for coordination and collaboration on trade and agriculture, particularly the participation of Chinese companies in the newly-formed American Chamber of Commerce in Ethiopia. PRC interlocutors explained that, despite a re [...]
2008-03-10 14:21:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON KPKO CH ET
08ADDISABABA89DEFENSE OFFICIALS REQUEST MORE MILITARY AID
[...] (C) In January 3 and 4 meetings with Ambassador, DATT, ORA Chief, and P/E Chief, Defense Minister (DefMin) Kuma Demeksa and Chief of Defense Staff (CHOD) Gen. Samora Yonus respectively argued for more U.S. military assistance to Ethiopia to focus more on in-country training to develop Ethiopia [...]
2008-01-14 08:45:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL EAID ET
08ANKARA1550TURKEY-AU SUMMIT OVERSHADOWED BY BASHIR'S
[...] (C) Summary: The GOT-hosted Turkey-African Union (AU) Cooperation Summit, August 18-21, rendered no surprises. During the sessions, the GOT focused on developing good will, expanding trade ties, and lobbying for African support of Turkey's UNSC bid. Overall, the GOT was pleased with both atte [...]
2008-08-27 13:57:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV XA TU
08ANKARA953AFRICA: TURKEY'S NEXT FRONTIER?
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: Like China and India, Turkey has joined the rush to forge relations with sub-Saharan Africa. The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has raised Turkey's political profile since coming to power in 2002 -- declaring 2005 the "Year of Africa" and announcing plans to open 1 [...]
2008-05-16 12:44:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON TU AF
08ATHENS1561GREECE: 2008-2009 INCSR PART I
[...] (U) The full text of the draft 2008-2009 INCSR Part I for Greece follows: Greece[DVM1] 2008-2009 INCSR Part I: Drugs and Chemical Control I. Summary Greece is a "gateway" country in the transit of illicit drugs and contraband. Although not a major transit country for drugs headed f [...]
2008-11-17 05:56:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM PGOV PREL GR
08BANJUL86THE GAMBIA: 2008 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (U) In accordance with Reftel, Embassy Banjul provides its submission to the 2008 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. 2. (SBU) OVERVIEW: A. The Gambia is a country of origin, transit, and destination for victims of trafficking, mainly women and children. Due to its porous borders, [...]
2008-02-29 09:15:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
08BEIJING2840JULY 22 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: OLYMPICS AND FREEDOM, KUNMING
[...] Key points at the July 22 afternoon MFA press briefing were: -- All athletes should promote friendship while in China, said the spokesmen when asked to respond to President Bush's comments that athletes should be ambassadors of freedom. -- The MFA continues to "urge all relevant department [...]
2008-07-22 23:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER KOLY PHUM KN VM ZI LI
08BEIJING3942CHINA/AFRICA: A/S FRAZER AND EVFM WANG GUANGYA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China is open to greater cooperation with the United States in assisting Africa, Executive Vice Foreign Minister Wang Guangya told Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer October 15. China agrees with the United States on the need for UN Security Council (UNSC) ac [...]
2008-10-16 07:56:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNSC CH SU SO CG
08BEIJING3996U.S.-CHINA AFRICA SUB-DIALOGUE: A/S FRAZER AND AFM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: China-Africa relations are open and transparent and do not pose a threat to other parties, Assistant Foreign Minister Zhai Jun told Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer October 14 during the U.S.-China Regional Sub-dialogue on Africa. China's priorities in Afri [...]
2008-10-20 09:35:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID UNSC MASS CH SU SO CG TW
08BEIRUT577LEBANON: ORGANIZATION OF THE MARONITE CHURCH
[...] (U) This report is a general overview of the Maronite community in Lebanon, to provide a brief understanding on who the Maronites are, how the Maronite clergy is structured, and what the responsibilities are of the clergy in Lebanon. A subsequent report will cover the succession to the Patriar [...]
2008-04-29 14:34:00Embassy BeirutUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI SCUL KIRF LE
08BRASILIA272BRAZIL: INFRASTRUCTURE AND MORE - TREAS DAS O'NEILL VISIT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In January 29 meetings with BNDES, Casa Civil, Central Bank, and Planning and Finance Ministries, Treasury Western Hemisphere DAS Brian O'Neill advanced discussion of a possible US-Brazil infrastructure initiative, further explored bilateral investment and tax treaties (see para [...]
2008-02-29 11:40:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN ECON BR
08BRATISLAVA395SLOVAKIA WILL NOT ATTEND DEVELOPMENT MINISTERS
[...] Econoff delivered reftel points to Jozef Kudela, Africa Officer, Department of Development Cooperation, MFA. Kudela confirmed the GOS received the invitation to the Development Ministers Meeting in Monrovia, Liberia from September 5-6. Kudela said the Office of MFA State Secretary Olga Algayer [...]
2008-08-26 09:07:00Embassy BratislavaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID LI GH PREL LO
08BRUSSELS180VISIT OF S/WCI AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON TO BRUSSELS
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson visited Brussels January 8 and 9 to discuss war crimes issues with EU and Belgian officials. Discussions focused on current operations of war crimes tribunals, judicial development programs in Rwanda, and the general fut [...]
2008-02-05 09:13:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL EUM
08BUENOSAIRES390ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR WAYNE AND MINISTER OF
[...] (C) Summary: On March 26, Ambassador met with Argentina,s new Interior Minister, Florencio Randazzo. The Minister spoke at some length about the ongoing rural sector strikes (reftels),stating that this is the most difficult time that either Kirchner has faced, but is an opportunity for both [...]
2008-03-28 19:31:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALEAGR PREL PGOV AR
08CONAKRY153AMBASSADOR VISITS FOREST REGION - LACKLUSTER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Carter visited N,Zerekore during the week of April 20-25 to familiarize himself with Guinea,s forest region and evaluate local progress towards legislative elections later this year. Both local government authorities and the Prefectoral Independent Electoral Commissio [...]
2008-05-02 11:40:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ELAB PHUM KDEM GV
08CONAKRY169HUMAN REMAINS UNEARTHED AT CENTRAL PRISON, EMBASSY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A Guinean prisoner advocacy NGO has reportedly unearthed human skeletal remains under a former trash heap at Conakry's central prison. Although most of the skulls and large bones were reportedly stolen in the middle of the night, Poloff saw several bone fragments sticking up out [...]
2008-05-07 11:44:00Embassy ConakryCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL ASEC GV
08CONAKRY176REGIONAL PRICE SURVEY - INSIGHTS INTO REGIONAL TRADE
[...] (U) SUMMARY. An inter-Embassy regional price survey of select necessities in Guinea and its neighboring countries shows that while there is a rough parity in prices, significant differences remain. With respect to Guinea, the data illustrates why the GOG's newly imposed export ban is bad econo [...]
2008-05-08 12:51:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIEDECON EPET PGOV GV
08CONAKRY178 PLANT VISIT - TIMBER EXPLOITATION IN GUINEA'S FOREST
[...] (U) On April 20, Ambassador Carter visited Foret Forte facilities in the heart of Guinea's forest region, about an hour outside the provincial capital of N'Zerekore. The Taiwanese-owned company has been harshly criticized for its alleged environmentally harmful logging practices as well as its [...]
2008-05-09 10:16:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYGV EAGR ECON ETRD ELAB
08CONAKRY196CHILD TRAFFICKING IN GUINEA'S FOREST REGION
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Local NGOs tell Embassy officials that the Forest Region is a transit hub for the trafficking of children from Guinea to neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone, highlighting the need for cross-border coordination and information sharing. Specific cases provide examples of how these c [...]
2008-05-15 11:11:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL ASEC GV
08CONAKRY2LIVING ON LESS THAN $1 PER DAY - WHY ENDS DON'T MEET
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. From shoe shiners to accountants, an informal Embassy survey demonstrates just why Guinea is considered one of the poorest countries in the world. This snapshot of average salaries in both the private and public sectors illustrates all too clearly the substantial economic hards [...]
2008-01-02 09:02:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIEDECIN EFIN ECON EMIN GV
08CONAKRY211FORMER PM HOLDS MEETING ON ELECTIONS - DEMANDS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On May 13, former Prime Minister Lansana Kouyate held a three and a half hour meeting with political parties to discuss progress towards Guinea's legislative elections later this year. The discussion focused on four central issues: the need for donor community support to cov [...]
2008-03-14 12:40:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC GV
08CONAKRY317 KOUNDARA - ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND COMMENTS ON THE EXPORT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In a visit to the northern town of Koundara the week of June 2, LES Asst Econoff met with local authorities, civil society organizations, and customs agents to discuss general economic activity and Guinea's agricultural export ban. Koundara is a major agricultural producer as well [...]
2008-06-25 10:03:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV EAGR ETRD PREL GV
08CONAKRY323CHILD TRAFFICKING IN UPPER GUINEA
[...] (U) SUMMARY. While NGOs have statistics illustrating an extremely high prevalence of child trafficking on Guinea's northern border with Mali, local authorities maintain that they have not seen any child trafficking cases. Government contacts confirm previous reports that marabouts frequently cr [...]
2008-06-26 05:20:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL ASEC GV
08CONAKRY330ANALYSIS OF TRANS-BORDER CHILD TRAFFICKING IN GUINEA
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Following a series of investigative cables exploring child trafficking in Guinea (reftels),it is clear that in order to successfully address this issue, the USG and its partners must focus on three critical aspects of the problem: supply, demand, and the traffickers themselves. [...]
2008-07-01 07:42:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL ASEC GV
08CONAKRY348G8 AMBASSADORS BRIEF U.N. AND ECOWAS ON POLITICAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The G8 ambassadors painted a bleak picture of the Guinea's political outlook for the U.N. Office for West Africa (UNOWA) and ECOWAS on Monday, July 7. The Ambassadors recommended that ECOWAS set several benchmarks to track the government's progress towards elections, and that [...]
2008-07-09 15:12:00Embassy ConakryCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON SOCI ECOWAS GV
08CONAKRY47PM DENOUNCES +BULLETIN ROUGE, - OFFERS
[...] (U) On January 9, on the eve of the nationwide strike planned by Guinea,s labor unions (reftels),the Ministry of Defense announced plans to pay every soldier a flat sum of $482, which is equivalent to about four months pay for an average soldier. The military has not conducted an accurate c [...]
2008-01-18 05:51:00Embassy ConakrySECRETPGOV KDEM ELAB ASEC GV
08CONAKRY530POWER BROKERING AND INFLUENCE PEDDLING - A LOOK AT
[...] (S) SUMMARY. President Conte's wives appear to be at the center of influence within the presidential palace, with a number of other powerful players circling in the wings. There are a few individuals who may be looking to take over the presidency, but most seem to be trying to stuff their po [...]
2008-09-16 11:28:00Embassy ConakrySECRETPGOV SNAR ASEC GV
08CONAKRY584GUINEA CELEBRATES FIFTY YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Republic of Guinea marked fifty years of independence on October 2 with a relatively uneventful ceremony and parade attended by seven dignitaries from neighboring countries. President Conte did not make an official appearance, sending First Lady Henriette Conte in his ste [...]
2008-10-06 17:02:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ASEC GV
08CONAKRY600ETHNIC POLITICS IN GUINEA - GENERAL BACKGROUND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This cable is the first in a series of reports exploring the role of ethnicity in Guinean politics. Guinea has been widely seen as a violence-averse, tolerant country in which various ethnic groups have been able to live together peacefully, avoiding the inter-ethnic conflicts [...]
2008-10-14 14:29:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM ASEC GV
08CONAKRY631ETHNIC POLITICS IN GUINEA - YOUTH OF THE FOREST
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This cable is the fourth in a series of reports exploring the role of ethnicity in Guinean politics (reftels). The youths of Guinea,s Forest Region appear to be primarily focused on minor inter-tribal tensions within their own region. Forest youth leaders downplayed broader [...]
2008-10-24 14:00:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI KDEM ASEC GV
08CONAKRY783RPG OPPOSITION LEADER RETURNS TO GUINEA
[...] (SBU) Alpha Conde, president of the Rally for the Guinean People (RPG) opposition political party, returned to Guinea on December 21 after an 18 month absence. According to a high level contact within the party, the RPG is not planning any immediate political activities, but said the party w [...]
2008-12-22 16:25:00Embassy ConakryCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC GV
08CONAKRY796PUTSCHISTS ANNOUNCE MEMBERS OF TRANSITIONAL COUNCIL
[...] (S) SUMMARY. Coup organizers officially announced the formation of a transitional council on December 23, which includes 32 members. The Council is predominantly military with reported ties to drug kingpin Ousmane Conte. Mutiny leader Claude Pivi is also a member. Civilian contacts are sa [...]
2008-12-24 15:27:00Embassy ConakrySECRETPGOV PREL PHUM PMIL ASEC GV
08CONAKRY798CALM RESTORED, NEW GOVERNMENT MOVES FORWARD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Captain Moussa Dadis Camara has assumed control of the government, proclaiming himself president of the Republic of Guinea. The Council for Democracy and Development (CNDD) appears to be successfully consolidating and reinforcing its authority, although internal disagreements [...]
2008-12-29 14:07:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ASEC KDEM PHUM GV
08CONAKRY88AMBASSADOR CARTER MEETING WITH GUINEAN PRESIDENCY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In his initial meeting with Ambassador Carter, Sam Soumah, Secretary General of the Presidency, commented on Guinea's political situation, economy, legislative elections, and Hyperdynamics. Although Soumah emphasized Guinea's high esteem for the United States, he was guarded in [...]
2008-02-01 13:04:00Embassy ConakryCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL GV
08COPENHAGEN459DANES WILL NOT ATTEND MONROVIA DEVELOPMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-25 14:14:00Embassy CopenhagenUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL LI DA
08COTONOU348KHADAFI MAKES WAVES AT CEN-SAD SUMMIT IN BENIN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-20 12:49:00Embassy CotonouCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID SENV EAGR PINR XA LY BN
08DAKAR154DAKAR FRAUD SUMMARY - FIRST QUARTER FY2008
[...] Following is Embassy Dakar's quarterly fraud reporting cable for the first quarter of FY 2008. Responses are keyed to Ref A. 2. A. COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Senegal is a secular republic with a strong presidency, weak legislature, a compliant judiciary, and multiple weak political parties. The [...]
2008-02-07 13:20:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS KFRD CPAS CMGT ASEC KSTC KCOR SG
08DAKAR262SENEGAL: ANNUAL TIP REPORT
[...] (SBU) As was the case in previous years Senegal continues to devote, time, resources and attention to combat trafficking in persons. 2. (U) responses are keyed to questions in reftel Begin TIP report PARA 27: OVERVIEWS OF A COUNTRY'S ACTIVITIES TO ELIMINATE TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS A. Senega [...]
2008-03-04 14:31:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG SG
08DAKAR529DAKAR FRAUD SUMMARY - SECOND QUARTER FY2008
[...] Following is Embassy Dakar's quarterly fraud reporting cable for the second quarter of FY 2008. Responses are keyed to Ref A. 2. A. COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Senegal is a secular republic with a strong presidency, weak legislature, a compliant judiciary, and multiple weak political parties. The [...]
2008-05-08 07:35:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS KFRD CPAS CMGT ASEC KSTC KCOR SG
08DAKAR530DAKAR FRAUD SUMMARY - SECOND QUARTER FY2008
[...] Following is Embassy Dakar's quarterly fraud reporting cable for the second quarter of FY 2008. Responses are keyed to Ref A. 2. A. COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Senegal is a secular republic with a strong presidency, weak legislature, a compliant judiciary, and multiple weak political parties. The [...]
2008-05-08 07:35:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS KFRD CPAS CMGT ASEC KSTC KCOR SG
08DAKAR765SENEGAL: Journalists Beaten by Police
[...] (SBU) On June 21, 2008 two sports journalists, Boubabcar Dieng and Karamoko Thioune working for local radio stations were severely beaten by police after the conclusion of a soccer match between Liberia and Senegal. According to reports the journalists were then taken into temporary on-site c [...]
2008-06-30 16:31:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO PINR SG
08DAKAR857SENEGALESE MEDIA BLACKS OUT
[...] SUMMARY: On 21 July, private Senegalese media sources observed a news blackout as a show of solidarity in support of two Senegalese sports journalists beaten by police on 22 June (retel). Journalists are demanding the Government of Senegal (GOS) take punitive action against the officers invo [...]
2008-07-23 16:48:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP PGOV KPAO SG
08DARESSALAAM582MEDIA REACTION: Corruption in Tanzania
[...] The September 10, 2008, edition of two English language Tanzanian dailies "This Day" and "The Citizen" carried editorial commentaries positive of U.S. policy of denying safe haven to corrupt public officials and those private sector members who corrupt them. This follows a September 8 U.S. Mi [...]
2008-09-10 14:13:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KMDR KCRM KCOR TZ
08DJIBOUTI842DJIBOUTI - UNHCR RECEIVES SUPPORT FROM DONORS
[...] SUMMARY: Post awarded a USD 20,000 grant to American-led NGO LIFE International to assist refugees in Djibouti with skills training. The UNHCR mission in Djibouti received donations from donor countries and NGOs during the holy month of Ramadan, and also received non-food items originally inten [...]
2008-10-27 08:08:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDPREF EAID DJ XA
08DUBLIN43KOSOVO/CHAD HIGH ON IRISH FOREIGN AFFAIRS AGENDA
[...] (C) During a meeting with visiting Office Director Kathy Allegrone, Irish Foreign Affairs Political Director Rory Montgomery stated that Ireland is likely to quickly recognize a declaration of independence by Kosovo, though not without misgivings. Montgomery reaffirmed Ireland's commitment to [...]
2008-01-23 15:27:00Embassy DublinCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PARM KV EI
08FREETOWN102 SIERRA LEONE 2008 TIP SUBMISSION
[...] (SBU) Sierra Leone lost momentum in the fight against trafficking in 2007. The run-up to the national elections, and the elections themselves in August and September, 2007, distracted many government officials from their duties, including on the TIP front, and their interest and attention was n [...]
2008-03-07 13:27:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SL
08FREETOWN138FREETOWN MEDIA PLACEMENTS FOR FEBRUARY 2008
[...] Summary: Embassy Freetown's outreach in Freetown included articles surrounding the commemoration of Black History Month, including a discussion hosted by Ambassador Perry and film showings at the Kissy and Fourah Bay College Libraries. Ambassador Perry also opened a seminar on resources managem [...]
2008-03-25 14:06:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO SL
08FREETOWN230ON THE MFA'S RADAR SCREEN: INTERNAL GOSL DISSENT
[...] (C) Sierra Leone's Brazil-bound Minister of Foreign Affairs Bangura met with Ambassador May 2 to pronounce on the upcoming Mano River Basin Union (MRU) agenda in Monrovia. Although Cote d'Ivoire's official acceptance was on the formal agenda, the region's food crisis was The "real" topic for [...]
2008-05-16 13:07:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID SL
08FREETOWN252MANO RIVER UNION SECRETARY GENERAL ON RECENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 21, Ambassador Perry met with Abraham Boure, Secretary General of the Mano River Union (MRU). The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the recent MRU summit in Monrovia. Besides Cote d'Ivoire's accession as a full member of the Union on May 15, the most notable outcome o [...]
2008-06-02 12:29:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR SL
08FREETOWN258DEMARCHE DELIVERED, SIERRA LEONE: GLOBAL MARITIME
[...] (U) On 27 May 2008, the Defense Attache met with Brigadier Nelson-Williams, Deputy Chief Defense Staff and Commander Mansaray, Commander, Maritime Wing, Ministry of Defense to discusss the Global Maritime Partnership Initiative. Relevant talking points were provided. Both respresentatives state [...]
2008-06-02 14:40:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDEAID MARR MCAP PGOV SL
08FREETOWN344"COCAINE SAGA" TOPIC OF GOVERNMENT PRESS CONFERENCE
[...] Summary: At a press conference on July 17, members of cabinet of the GOSL as well as top-level law enforcement officers lauded their own handling of the plane that landed July 13 at Lungi airport carrying a large quantity of cocaine. The Minister of Information confirmed the detention of 17 in [...]
2008-07-17 16:07:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV OIIP KPAO SL
08FREETOWN377MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS LAYS OUT NEW PLAN FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFA),Zainab Bangura, convened a meeting of Chiefs of Missions and heads of UN agencies on July 22 to provide updates on the Government of Sierra Leone's (GoSL) activities, as well as provide a forum for the diplomatic [...]
2008-07-29 15:55:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SL
08FREETOWN401SIZE DOESN'T MATTER: SIERRA LEONE INDUSTRIES FACE
[...] SUMMARY: On August 8, CDA, Poloff, and Economic Assistant visited a textiles factory and a brewery. Though the companies differ considerably in terms of size, capital investment, and ownership, managers pointed to the same challenges impeding growth and profitability. A subsequent meeting with [...]
2008-08-13 12:52:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDEIND ECON EFIN SL
08FREETOWN519REQUEST FOR ASSESSMENT OF REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE
[...] (U) Summary: U.S. Embassy Freetown requests Department and the Office of the Secretary of Defense to conduct a feasibility assessment of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF). The assessment concerns entry into the Africa Contingency Operations Technical Assistance (ACOTA) Program. [...]
2008-10-27 16:54:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MCAP PGOV SL
08FREETOWN578SCENESETTER FOR CODEL NELSON DECEMBER 15 VISIT TO
[...] (U) Embassy Freetown looks forward to welcoming you to Sierra Leone. Your visit comes at a prescient time in our bilateral relationship with the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL),as we attempt to support its ongoing efforts to re-build and flourish. Sierra Leone is known worldwide as a countr [...]
2008-12-11 17:51:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL OREP MARR SNAR SL
08FREETOWN605QADHAFI AND WADE PULL SIERRA LEONE'S PUPPET STRINGS
[...] (C) Summary: Though rumors abounded throughout Freetown on the evening of December 29 and morning of December 30 that the reftel A visit was canceled, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi will reportedly land at Lungi Airport on a private plane at approximately 1530 local time. Following a brief stop [...]
2008-12-30 15:45:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR LY SL
08FREETOWN608A HAZY SHADE OF INTEGRITY: SIERRA LEONE WELCOMES
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) released a press report December 31, outlining President Koroma's meeting with representatives of the Guinean junta, including Vice President General Mamadouba Toto Camara on December 30. Text of the report is contained in para 2. Though, per [...]
2008-12-31 15:14:00Embassy FreetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR SL
08GABORONE994SKELEMANI: ZIM POWERSHARING DEAL IS DEAD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During an office call with Foreign Minister Phandu Skelemani November 17, Ambassador Nolan asked for Botswana's view on the status of the powersharing agreement in Zimbabwe and next steps that SADC and the wider international community should take. Skelemani declared that "the de [...]
2008-11-17 13:09:00Embassy GaboroneSECRETPREL ZI BC
08GENEVA30PROSPECTS FOR DRC MANDATE IN THE HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The mandate of the UN Independent Expert on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),whose extension the Human Rights Council postponed last year after strong resistance from African and other delegations, now appears more likely to be extended, albeit perhaps with modifications, [...]
2008-01-14 10:32:00US Mission GenevaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV CG
08HARARE197AMBASSADOR PRESSES MUGABE EXIT WITH MUGABE
[...] (C) The Ambassador on March 10 told Nicholas Goche, a Mugabe confidante who is Minister of Public Service, Labor and Social Welfare, that Zimbabwe was in a transition, and that the U.S. was willing to help Mugabe achieve a smooth exit from office. A supremely confident Goche pushed back, sta [...]
2008-03-12 14:09:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC ZI
08HARARE637ZIM NOTES 7-25-2008
[...] SUMMARY ----------- Topics of the week: - MOU Signed, Talks Started... - Over a Quarter of MDC MPs Targeted... - EU Expands Sanctions List... - SADC Tribunal Rules Against Zimbabwe on Land... - State Media Tone Down Rhetoric... - Zim Journalist Wins CNN Award... - Holding Mugabe Accou [...]
2008-07-28 06:16:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
08HELSINKI270AMBASSADOR BARRETT MEETS WITH FORMER FINNISH
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-24 05:25:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL OECD UN FI
08HONGKONG179HONG KONG'S 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] The following is the 2008 Investment Climate Statement for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. ----------------------------------- A.1 Openness to Foreign Investment ----------------------------------- 2. Hong Kong pursues a free market philosophy with minimal government interfe [...]
2008-01-28 06:34:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC MO
08KHARTOUM1198ANALYSIS OF SUDAN'S NEW ELECTION LAW REVEALS WELTER OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An analysis of Sudan's new election law reveals that the legislation contains many loose ends, some of which may be able to be repaired by the country's Ministry of Justice. However, the legislation's biggest shortcoming is probably the ambitious timeline it sets for the count [...]
2008-08-06 13:43:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM1346AEC PLENARY SESSION OF SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The 35th plenary session of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) was held at AEC headquarters in Khartoum on September 2, 2008. Most of the session was devoted to lengthy reports on the current situation in South Kordofan, and preparations for national elections in 200 [...]
2008-09-04 05:48:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM1438WHERE ARE DARFUR'S HIJACKED CARS AND TRUCKS?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Darfur's hijacking is a complex phenomenon, according to UNAMID, INGOs, and local contacts based in El-Fasher and Nyala. Most sources placed the majority of the blame on many different rebel movements, with one contact describing a transportation chain through SLM/MM and SLA/Un [...]
2008-09-23 05:31:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KHARTOUM279SE WILLIAMSON TO GHOSH: IMPROVED RELATIONS MEANS
[...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy Williamson warned NISS Director Salah Ghosh that while the U.S. is willing to explore options towards improving relations if there is demonstrable change for the better in Darfur, such a possibility could be doomed before it starts if Sudan continues to allow violenc [...]
2008-02-26 18:05:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALKPKO PGOV PREL PTER UN AU SU
08KHARTOUM324LRA PEACE TALKS CONCLUDE, AWAIT SIGNING OF FINAL AGREEMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) signed agreements on the two outstanding agenda items: the Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration and the Implementing Commitments and Mechanisms. The Government of Southern Sudan mediator, Vice President Ri [...]
2008-03-04 14:28:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF UG CG SU
08KHARTOUM94GNU STATE MINISTER DECLARES RE-ESTABLISHED SPLM-NCP
[...] (SBU) On 22 January, CDA Fernandez called on newly appointed Minister of State for the Presidency, Joseph Lual. Minister Lual, an SPLM member from the Dinka tribe and former state administrator for Bahr el Ghazal, was brought into the government when the SPLM ended its boycott of the GNU earli [...]
2008-01-23 10:19:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
08KINGSTON957JAMAICA: RESOLUTIONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN IRAN,
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-13 14:49:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL PARM SOCI MASS EFIN ECON EAID
08KINSHASA246SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF USAID ADMINISTRATOR AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is slowly grappling with fundamental governance, security and development challenges following historic 2006 national elections. The promise of peace and democratization and the importance of the DRC as the linchpin of central Africa a [...]
2008-03-12 07:50:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV EAID ECON PREF PHUM MARR ASEC
08KINSHASA560SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PRICE JULY 01-02 2008
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is slowly grappling with fundamental governance, security and development challenges following historic 2006 national elections. The promise of peace and democratization and the importance of the DRC as the linchpin of central Africa a [...]
2008-06-26 15:07:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV EAID ECON MARR PHUM CG
08KUWAIT935KUWAIT NO ATTENDING LIBERIA DEVELOPMENT MEETING
[...] (U) In an August 27 meeting with EconOff, Chairman of the Arab Fund for Economic & Social Development, Mr. Abdulatif Yousef Al-Hamad said that he had not received an invitation to the Development Ministers Meeting on September 5-6 in Liberia. 2. (U) Al-Hamad added that assistance to Liberi [...]
2008-09-02 07:08:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL LI KU
08KYIV285UKRAINE/SUDAN: UKRAINIAN HELICOPTERS FOR UNAMID
[...] (C) Summary/recommendation: Ambassador continues to raise the urgency of the UN request for military helicopters to support the UN African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID),most recently in separate February 4 meetings with DefMin Yekhanurov and FM Ohryzko. Both officials stated the Ukrainian [...]
2008-02-05 12:15:00Embassy KyivCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR KPKO SU UP
08LAGOS201NIGERIA: AFRICA FINANCE CORPORATION: DEVELOPMENT BANK OR
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Yar'Adua has ordered an investigation into the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) role in establishing the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC),which was set up in 2007 as an alternative to the African Development Bank (ADB). The AFC is owned by African banks (44 percent),i [...]
2008-06-10 06:30:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV NI
08LAGOS291NIGERIA: ONDO PEACEKEEPERS RIOT, DEMAND SALARY
[...] (C) Summary: On July 4, hundreds of soldiers previously part of the United Nations peacekeeping mission to Liberia rioted over nonpayment of the salary due them for their service. Military officials described the non-payment as an accounting mistake; soldiers say the salaries were being stol [...]
2008-07-25 05:59:00Consulate LagosCONFIDENTIALPGOV NI
08LAGOS463NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES SEAFARERS'
[...] (U) Summary: The Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has launched an initiative to increase the number of Nigerians engaged in maritime trades by training 5000 Nigerians overseas and expanding domestic training facilities. In the long term, Nigeria wants to become a net [...]
2008-11-21 07:19:00Consulate LagosCONFIDENTIALECON ETDR PGOV EWWT KCRM NI
08LIBREVILLE146GABON: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2008
[...] (U) Embassy POC for Trafficking in Persons (TIP) issues is Poloff Leslie Doumbia, Tel: 241-76-20-03, Mobile: 241-07-91-02-21, Fax: 241-74-55-07. To prepare this report, Poloff Leslie Doumbia spent 25 hours, Political Assistant Cedric Pehoua spent 15, DCM Nathan Holt spent five 5 hours, and Amb [...]
2008-03-25 11:42:00Embassy LibrevilleUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC
08LISBON595U.S.-PORTUGAL COLLABORATION IN AFRICA
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 12 for details. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) AF/RSA Office Director Louis Mazel met in Lisbon with Portuguese officials from the Ministries of Interior, Justice, and Foreign Affairs on February 20-21 to discuss ongoing trilateral assistan [...]
2008-03-10 13:15:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALPREL SNAR PHUM MASS PINR KJUS ETRD SMIG PO
08LISBON963ONDCP DIRECTOR WALTERS' VISIT: DRUG FLOWS TO EUROPE
[...] (U) In meetings with Portuguese counternarcotics officials, Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director John P. Walters noted there has been a noticeable decrease in the supply of cocaine in the U.S. market and noted that there were anecdotal reports of increased demand in Europe. [...]
2008-04-22 10:52:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL SOCI PO
08LONDON1485UK AND LIBERIA/FRANCE: UK SUPPORTIVE OF
[...] (C) The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) should be drawn down based "on conditions on the ground" and the current UN plan for a gradual down-sizing has the UK's full support, Peacekeeping Team Leader Nicola Murray said on May 28. The UK is "quietly positive" on UNMIL. While there ma [...]
2008-05-29 11:38:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KPKO UNSC XY LI FR UK
08LONDON2499WEST AFRICA: UK PRIORITIES, COUNTER-NARCOTICS AND ELECTIONS REF: A. LONDON 2487 B. FREETOWN 336 C. LONDON 1916
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-02 12:36:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL SNAR PINR KDEM PTER KCRM XY UK
08LUANDA30CHINESE AMBASSADOR REITERATES DESIRE TO COOPERATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. During a recent courtesy call by Ambassador Mozena, China's Ambassador to Angola, Zhang Beisan, said the end of Angola's civil war provided opportunities for both China and the U.S. to participate in rebuilding the nation. Recalling discussions last year with Ambassador Efir [...]
2008-01-11 14:47:00Embassy LuandaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID AO CH
08MADRID685JUNE 8-11 VISIT TO SPAIN OF COMMANDER, U.S. AFRICA
[...] (C) Summary: General William E. "Kip" Ward, Commander U.S. Africa Command, visited Spain June 8-11 for meetings with Spanish officials regarding AFRICOM. The primary purpose of the visit was to meet with Spanish leaders to discuss AFRICOM as well as listen and learn from their experiences on the co [...]
2008-06-20 06:26:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR AF SP
08MADRID883SPAIN PREPARES FOR SUMMIT WITH SUBSAHARAN AFRICA
[...] (C) Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Angel Lossada visited Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Guinea-Conakry July 22nd through the 25th to establish a frame of reference for President Zapatero's proposed Spain/West Africa summit. Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Guinea-Conakry [...]
2008-08-08 15:13:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALPREL SP PU
08MONROVIA100DRUG SMUGGLING VESSEL BROUGHT TO MONROVIA
[...] (SBU) On January 29, French navy vessel Tonnerre intercepted and boarded Liberian flagged merchant vessel Blue Atlantic in international waters approximately 500 kilometers south of Liberia. The French boarding party found the merchant vessel carried 2.4 tons of cocaine carried in 92 barrels [...]
2008-02-01 18:05:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALSNAR PRGOV ASEC LI
08MONROVIA1003LIBERIA: GOL BANS EXPORT OF UNPROCESSED RUBBER
[...] The GOL has announced a ban on export of unprocessed rubber to protect the local industry. The Ministry of Commerce says the ban, strongly supported by the rubber sector in Liberia and in the works for about two years, is intended to tackle the growing problem of rubber theft. To further sup [...]
2008-12-08 16:24:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EINV ETRD PGOV ECON LI
08MONROVIA1005LIBERIA: SOLID IPR FRAMEWORK; NO ENFORCEMENT (YET)
[...] Summary: The Liberia Copyright Office (LCO)plans to launch a national anti-piracy program and is requesting USG support. Liberia has a robust legal framework to support intellectual property protection but requires an effective law enforcement and judicial capacity to enforce it and broader p [...]
2008-12-08 16:37:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR ETRD EAID ECON LI
08MONROVIA1006LIBERIA: RECOMMENDATIONS ON COUNTER-PIRACY EFFORTS
[...] The Commissioner of Liberia's Bureau of Maritime Affairs, Binyah Kesselly, stated the GOL position on piracy at the recent session of the International Maritime Organization. He described the hijacking of the Liberian-registered SIRIUS STAR as part of "an international crisis of monumental pr [...]
2008-12-08 16:40:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDMOPS PBTS PHSA PTER ECON LI
08MONROVIA1018NSDD-38-COM APPROVAL FOR DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-10 09:20:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALAODE KMRS AMGT LI
08MONROVIA103"BLUE ATLANTIC" COCAINE DESTROYED
[...] (C) Minister of Justice Philip A.Z. Banks told Ambassador February 4 that he personally oversaw the destruction of the cocaine February 1 seized from the merchant vessel "Blue Atlantic" (reftel). While he admitted that the destruction process was initially inefficient and hazardous, he was sa [...]
2008-02-05 13:10:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALSNAR PGOV ASEC LI
08MONROVIA1032LIBERIA: Minister of Commerce embraces reform
[...] (U) Summary: Liberia's new Minister of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) is embracing reform on all fronts. The Ministry's lawyer is coordinating top-to-bottom review of all commercial legislation and moving ahead with plans to institute alternative dispute resolution for commercial cases. The GO [...]
2008-12-15 15:48:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAID EINV EAGR ECON PINR LI
08MONROVIA1034 POST REQUESTS AFRICOM ASSESSMENT ON REMOVAL OF WRECKS FROM
[...] Embassy Monrovia reaffirms its request for DoD assistance in conducting an assessment on the feasibility of removing the primary vessels blocking access to the commercial wharf in the Port of Monrovia. Two wrecks, the Torm Alexandra and an adjacent pilot tender ship, are presently blocking one [...]
2008-12-16 09:59:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDMASS MARR PREL LI
08MONROVIA1037LIBERIA: TAYLOR'S FORMER PARTY HOLDS 5000 PERSON
[...] (SBU) Former President Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Party (NPP) organized a rally in Monrovia December 13 to solidify its membership base and begin preparations for its 2011 election campaign. An enthusiastic crowd of 5000 party leaders, members, and ex-combatants from the National Pat [...]
2008-12-16 16:41:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM LI
08MONROVIA1041BAD TRAFFICKING PRESS CAUSES GOVERNMENT ACTION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent negative press in the international and local media about trafficking cases and the badly regulated adoption system has spurned government action. The Minister of Labor held a special anti-human trafficking taskforce meeting on November 29 to develop a new draft strategy, [...]
2008-12-17 11:42:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL SOCI CVIS LI
08MONROVIA1049LIBERIA: LEGISLATORS DIVIDED OVER SETTING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The International Contact Group on Liberia (ICGL) engaged the House and Senate leadership December 18 to press them to pass the legislation needed for preparations for the 2011 elections to begin (reftels). The Legislators were divided over how to choose a threshold population and [...]
2008-12-19 12:43:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID LI
08MONROVIA1059LIBERIA: SUPREME COURT REINSTATES SUSPENDED SENATE
[...] (U) The Supreme Court of Liberia issued an order December 18 calling for the immediate removal of Senator Lahai Lasannah as Acting Senate President Pro Tempore and the immediate reinstatement of Suspended Pro Tempore Isaac Nyenabo. The Senate suspended Nyenabo by simple majority vote on Augus [...]
2008-12-29 12:17:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID LI
08MONROVIA1063LIBERIA: KENDEJA CULTURAL CENTER -- NO PROGRESS
[...] (SBU) The RLJ Kendeja Hotel construction is proceeding in anticipation of a March 2009 opening. Ref C reported some of the controversy surrounding the launch of the project, and Ref B requested an update on the status of relocation of the displaced Kendeja cultural center. During a December 1 [...]
2008-12-29 17:38:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON OPIC LI
08MONROVIA1064LIBERIA: TRC SUBMITS FIRST VOLUME OF FINAL REPORT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) submitted a confidential copy of Volume I of its final report, including its key findings and recommendations, to the GOL December 19, meeting the recommended December 21 deadline to avoid potential legal complications. TRC C [...]
2008-12-29 17:58:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID LI
08MONROVIA1067LIBERIA: Encouraging Investment?
[...] (SBU) Summary: In recent meetings with the Ambassador, two top GOL officials confirmed that they expect the revised Investment Code to pass quickly after the legislature convenes in mid-January. President Sirleaf has called on her Cabinet to expedite major concession agreements, but investors [...]
2008-12-30 15:55:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON EFIN OPIC LI
08MONROVIA1072 LIBERIA: GUINEAN JUNTA DELEGATION CALLS ON PRESIDENT
[...] (U) A Guinean delegation headed by National Council for Democracy and Development (CNDD) vice president Brigadier General Mamadou Camara called on President Sirleaf in Monrovia December 30 in her capacity as chair of the Mano River Union. President Sirleaf used the occasion to press the junta [...]
2008-12-31 13:41:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM PHUM GV LI
08MONROVIA116LIBERIA: ARCELORMITTAL INITIATES INFRASTRUCTURE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The world's largest steel company, ArcelorMittal, announced in December 2007 that it is increasing its investment in Liberia by US$500 million to a total of $1.5 billion. ArcelorMittal's Liberian subsidiary, Mittal Steel Liberia (MSL),has initiated preparatory activities at it [...]
2008-02-08 10:25:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EMIN EINV LI PGOV
08MONROVIA117LIBERIA STUMBLES IN AUCTION OF TWO NEW IRON ORE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Liberia (GOL) has struggled - if not stumbled - in efforts to award the first two iron ore concessions tendered since the Contracts and Concessions Review of 2006 and the arrival of the Sirleaf administration. The President announced during her January 28 An [...]
2008-02-08 10:27:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EINV EMIN PGOV LI
08MONROVIA130LIBERIA G/TIP PROJECT PROPOSAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-13 17:58:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG LI
08MONROVIA139LIBERIA: ENERGY FROM RUBBER WOOD CHIPS?
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOL continues to pursue medium-term power sources but is stymied by indecision. Buchanan Renewable Energy (BRE, a Canadian firm) has proposed using chips from rubber trees to provide 17-34 MW of energy in Monrovia, with the possibility of similar smaller scale biomass power [...]
2008-02-19 14:05:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EAGR EAID EINV SENV ECON OPIC LI
08MONROVIA154LIBERIA: PESTS and AGOA: SPS STRUCTURE ESSENTIAL FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOL is counting on agricultural exports, including timber projects, to jump-start the economic recovery. In meetings with GOL officials, USDA and APHIS regional representatives made it clear that an effective and internationally recognized sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) s [...]
2008-02-28 10:24:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECON ETRD LI
08MONROVIA165LIBERIA: NASCENT TELECOM SECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: Most of Liberia's communications infrastructure was destroyed in the 14-year civil war. Cell phones are ubiquitous but there are no land line phones. Internet access is expensive and bandwidth is limited. All electricity in Monrovia is privately generated except 2.5 MW (soon t [...]
2008-03-03 16:15:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS ECON AORC LI
08MONROVIA242LIBERIA: GOVERNMENT RATIFIES AMENDED FIRESTONE CONCESSION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Liberian Legislature ratified March 27 the Amended and Restated Concession Agreement signed by the Government of Liberia (GOL) and Firestone Liberia on February 22. The new Agreement concludes extended negotiations between the GOL and Firestone to modify a concession extensi [...]
2008-03-31 14:30:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EIND ETRD EINV LI
08MONROVIA248LIBERIA: TRC BRINGS SOME RECONCILIATION TO COUNTIES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) recently concluded one-week public hearings in five of Liberia's fifteen counties, and will head out again to the remaining counties after a two-week break. The hearings were positively received and the traditional leaders of eac [...]
2008-04-01 16:10:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV EAID ECON PREL LI
08MONROVIA249LIBERIA: PORT SECURITY REMAINS A PROBLEM IN MONROVIA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Port Security remains deficient in Liberia and the Port of Monrovia is unlikely to reach compliance with the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code anytime soon, but technical and financial assistance could accelera [...]
2008-04-01 16:22:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM ECON LI
08MONROVIA252LIBERIA: INITIAL TIMBER CONTRACTS MARK MILESTONE BUT RAISE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Liberia has marked another step towards the resumption of legal commercial logging by awarding new timber concessions for the first time since United Nations timber sanctions were imposed in 2003. The Forestry Development Authority (FDA) held a bid opening ceremony February 29 t [...]
2008-04-02 14:12:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR PGOV EINV SENV LI
08MONROVIA255 LIBERIA: AGOA Workshop Roaring Success, but a lot to do
[...] Summary: The first-ever Africa Growth and Opportunity (AGOA) workshop held in Monrovia March 20-21 attracted strong participation by members of the business community, GOL officials, members of civil society organizations, and the press. The presentations by the inter-agency USG delegation, [...]
2008-04-03 16:40:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAID EINV ELAB EAGR EFIN ECON LI
08MONROVIA30LIBERIA: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION OPENS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The GOL Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) opened public hearings January 8 for the first time in its history. This round of hearings will continue through July 31 and carries the theme "Confronting our Difficult Past for a Better Future." President Sirleaf called on a [...]
2008-01-11 14:07:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON PHUM EAID LI
08MONROVIA32LIBERIA: 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] SUMMARY: There is growing investor interest in Liberia, particularly in agriculture, construction, the extractive industries and tourism. UN sanctions on timber exports were lifted in 2006 and on diamonds in early 2007 as Liberia became compliant with the Kimberly Process. The removal of san [...]
2008-01-14 13:02:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTBD OPIC USTR PGOV LI
08MONROVIA325LIBERIA: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/AGRICULTURAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Over 60% of Liberians are estimated to live below the poverty line and price increases hit hard. Liberia is heavily reliant on imported food, of which rice is the most important. Imported rice supplies over half of domestic consumption and prices at the retail level are up as [...]
2008-05-01 11:01:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ETRD EFIN PGOV PREL ECON LI
08MONROVIA336LIBERIA: 21 REFORMS TO IMPROVE THE BUSINESS CLIMATE MAY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL has announced 21 reforms to improve Liberia's ranking in the IFC "Doing Business" index by enhancing the business climate. The rapid progress reflects President Sirleaf's commitment and the productive collaboration between the GOL and the business community to target r [...]
2008-05-05 13:48:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV BEXP EFIN ETRD ECON KMCA LI
08MONROVIA345LIBERIA: U.S. FIRM SHOWS INTEREST IN AIRPORT INVESTMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S.-based aerospace and advanced technology firm Lockheed Martin (LM) is developing a proposal to manage civil aviation assets in Liberia. The Liberian Civil Aviation Authority (LCAA) invited an LM team to visit Liberia in February and April, 2008, to assess the scope of a po [...]
2008-05-07 09:47:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON PGOV FAA LI
08MONROVIA377LIBERIA: ONGOING POWER STRUGGLE WITHIN CDC PARTY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A month-long power struggle inside Liberia's most popular opposition party, the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC),was not resolved at National Elections Commission (NEC) hearing, and the case has been sent to the Supreme Court. If there is no solution before the CDC's 2009 [...]
2008-05-19 18:09:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EAID LI
08MONROVIA407LIBERIA: APPLICATION FOR OPIC FINANCE: KENDEJA HOTEL
[...] (U) The following response to reftel is based on information gleaned during the May 19-23 visit of OPIC officers Kenneth Angell and Barbara Gibian, on post's interaction with the Kendeja project prior to that meeting, and on information gleaned from Liberian officials and others who either supp [...]
2008-05-27 07:45:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN OPIC LI
08MONROVIA409LIBERIA: DRAFT BUDGET CONTINUES ON RIGHT TRACK
[...] (U) Liberia's $277 million draft budget for 2008-09 provides a 38.8% increase over last year, with the focus on supporting poverty reduction and specific emphasis on boosting civil service salaries and funding education. (Note: All amounts are in US dollars. End note.) It is divided into a [...]
2008-05-27 07:46:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON LI
08MONROVIA417 LIBERIA: HOME USE ONLY CD-ROM FOR LES
[...] This is to confirm that there are no local laws or regulations restricting the importation and distribution of anti-virus software to LES. 2. Information requested in para 7 of reftel is detailed below: DCM Brooks Robinson Economic-Commercial Officer Lucy Abbott IMO Lloyd Cammel Numb [...]
2008-05-27 14:15:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKVIR AADP ACOA ASEC AMGT OIIP KRIM KPAO KSEP LI
08MONROVIA427LIBERIA: APPLICATION FOR OPIC FINANCE: BUCHANAN RENEWABLES
[...] (SBU) The possibility of electricity generated from abundant locally-available fuel is tremendously appealing. The BRE/MacBain team presents a compelling case, but there are some assumptions and uncertainties that do not yet appear to have been resolved. 2. (SBU) Econoff participated in a Fe [...]
2008-05-29 16:51:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN OPIC LI
08MONROVIA430LIBERIA: 2008 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND
[...] (SBU) The United States Government is aware of one claim of United States persons that may be outstanding against the Government of Liberia (GOL; under the National Transitional Government of Liberia - NTGL). a. Claimant A b. 2004 c. In late 2003 and spring 2004, a locally incorporated [...]
2008-06-02 11:38:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON KIDE LI
08MONROVIA435LIBERIA: CELL PHONE COMPANIES FEND OFF REGULATOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: Since passage of the Telecommunications Law a year ago (ref B),the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) has demonstrated a lack of sophistication in regulating the sector. The Embassy, with other international partners, has raised concerns with the GOL regarding LTA's he [...]
2008-06-03 09:15:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS EINV ECON AORC LI
08MONROVIA446LIBERIA: CRIME RATE STEADY BUT PUBLIC'S UNEASINESS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Liberian public has grown uneasy about a rumored increase in violent crime since the beginning of 2008. While crime continues at a high rate, UN crime statistics do not indicate a sharp increase. The public perception continues, however, because of frequent media coverage [...]
2008-06-06 07:54:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC KCRM EAID LI
08MONROVIA466LIBERIA: RECENT CLASHES HIGHLIGHT NEED FOR LAND
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The rising pattern of violence over land is emerging as a serious threat to the stability of Liberia. Land disputes have been occurring since the end of the civil war, but it appears that attacks between factions are becoming more organized and more deadly. The open use of autom [...]
2008-06-17 19:03:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC ECON EAID LI
08MONROVIA476LIBERIA'S PRS: PEACE AND SECURITY PILLAR - A
[...] (C) Summary: The Liberian National Security Strategy, upon which the security section of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) is based, has not yet been made public, but the GOL is moving ahead on the basis of the strategy. The PRS process has forced the Liberians to begin to plan long-term, [...]
2008-06-20 12:42:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPRGOV ASEC MARR MASS CJAN KJUS LI
08MONROVIA477SUBJECT: LIBERIA'S PRS: GOVERANCE AND RULE OF LAW
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Sustainable peace and poverty reduction in Liberia require an unambiguous break from the poor governance and disrespect for the rule of law that led to Liberia's crippling civil war. The Governance and Rule of Law (GRL) Pillar of the GOL's Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) is ch [...]
2008-06-20 12:43:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EAID LI
08MONROVIA48LIBERIA: THIRD SESSION OF 52ND LEGISLATURE OPENS
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The Senate and House of Representatives of Liberia opened the third session of the 52nd Legislature January 14 with two separate ceremonies. Though the ceremonies were largely procedural and did not outline much regarding the 2008 legislative agenda, every speaker expressed than [...]
2008-01-16 14:57:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EAID LI
08MONROVIA487FALLOUT FROM CHUCKIE TAYLOR INVESTIGATION
[...] (S/NF) For the past 10 days a team from FBI and the AUSA have been in Liberia in connection with the prosecution in Florida on torture charges of Chuckie Taylor, the son of former Liberian head of state Charles Taylor. The team has taken photos and made measurements of several sites witnesses [...]
2008-06-25 17:36:00Embassy MonroviaSECRET//NOFORNPREL ASEC LI
08MONROVIA50LIBERIA: GIRL'S DEATH REVEALS STRAINS WITHIN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Around 150 students peacefully demonstrated outside of Embassy Monrovia January 11, calling for the USG to pressure the Government of Liberia (GOL) to reinvestigate the suicide of 13-year-old Merideh "Angel" Togba. The girl was found hanging in her guardians' bathroom November 30 [...]
2008-01-16 15:18:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ASEC KJUS LI
08MONROVIA51LIBERIA'S COMMERCE MINISTER AND TIFA/AGOA UPDATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Minister of Commerce is committed to progress under TIFA and is already planning for the AGOA workshop and an AGOA Resource Center. Plans are underway for a standards lab in Monrovia that will permit sanitary and phyto-sanitary tests. The Minister supports establishment of [...]
2008-01-16 16:11:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAID EAGR ECON EAIR OPIC USTR PGOV LI
08MONROVIA52LIBERIA'S COMMERCE MINISTER AND TIFA/AGOA UPDATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Minister of Commerce is committed to progress under TIFA and is already planning for the AGOA workshop and an AGOA Resource Center. Plans are underway for a standards lab in Monrovia that will permit sanitary and phyto-sanitary tests. The Minister supports establishment of [...]
2008-01-16 16:13:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAID EAGR ECON EAIR OPIC USTR PGOV LI
08MONROVIA528HDAC CODEL ENGAGES LIBERIAN LEGISLATURE ON ETHICS
[...] SUMMARY. In a successful visit to Liberia June 29-July 1, the U.S. House Democracy Assistance Commission (HDAC),led by U.S. Representative David Price (D-NC),held six workshops for the Liberian Legislature in the newly renovated Capitol building. The CODEL visited the port city of Buchanan, [...]
2008-07-09 12:51:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ECON KCRI LI
08MONROVIA578TRC ENTERS THEMATIC HEARINGS PHASE, REQUESTS
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) recently completed individual public hearings in all fifteen counties and has now entered its "thematic public hearings" phase. The various themes include: women, children and youth, economic crimes, religious and traditiona [...]
2008-07-28 07:39:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM ECON LI
08MONROVIA591LIBERIA: THE BUDGET, LEGISLATORS, MOF, AND GEMAP,
[...] (C) Summary: Director General of the Bureau of the Budget (BOB),Augustine Ngafuan, expects the budget to pass this week assuming the full House accepts decisions made by the relevent legislative committees. If it does not pass this week, the GOL will be "in a state of crisis." He shared c [...]
2008-07-31 17:10:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN ECON PGOV PREL EAID LI
08MONROVIA607LIBERIA: EMBASSY UNVEILS PLAQUE IN HONOR OF SLAIN AMCIT
[...] SUMMARY: The Charge unveiled a plaque July 30 at the Sacred Heart Catholic Cathedral in Monrovia in honor of five American nuns who were killed in 1992 during Liberia's civil conflict. The unveiling ceremony was attended by approximately 150 people including the Catholic Apostolic Administrat [...]
2008-08-06 12:01:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KCRM EAID ECON LI
08MONROVIA608LIBERIA: FINAL PASSAGE OF 2008-2009 BUDGET SHOWS TREMENDOUS
[...] (U) The Senate passed a $298 million 2008/2009 fiscal budget August 4, which is $21 million higher than the initial submission by the executive branch and $116 million more than last year's initial budget (REF C). However, when last year's supplemental budget and actual (rather than projected [...]
2008-08-06 14:48:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV LI
08MONROVIA612LIBERIA: PRESIDENT TURNS TO YOUNG TECHNOCRATS FOR NEW
[...] (U) President Sirleaf has promoted Liberia Reconstruction and Development Committee (LRDC) Coordinator Natty B. Davis to Minister of State Without Portfolio to oversee overall coordination of economic policy. She also has nominated two young American-educated officials to build her new economi [...]
2008-08-07 16:54:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV PINR LI
08MONROVIA613LIBERIA POLICE STRUGGLES TO REFORM, NEEDS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Liberia National Police (LNP) faces numerous challenges as the Government of Liberia (GOL) increasingly looks to its security agencies to counter internal threats, most recently via an anti-crime campaign. The LNP leadership finds itself called upon to provide an effective po [...]
2008-08-07 18:06:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALKCRM MASS PHUM PREL LI
08MONROVIA618LIBERIA: FIRESTONE LIBERIA CONCLUDES COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
[...] (U) Firestone Liberia concluded a labor agreement August 6 with the Firestone Allied Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia (FAAWUL). The Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) covers over 4,000 workers and provides wage increases of 24% for rubber tappers (from a little over US$3 to just under [...]
2008-08-11 18:40:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON PGOV LI
08MONROVIA619LIBERIAN SENATE SUSPENDS PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. President Pro Tempore of the Senate Isaac Nyenabo was suspended for six months by a simple majority motion, after a resolution calling for his removal from office failed to get the necessary two-thirds vote. He is accused of allowing the Senate to be a puppet of the Executive Br [...]
2008-08-11 19:39:00Embassy MonroviaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID LI
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